Re: [PATCH v14 00/74] Convert page cache to XArray

From: Ross Zwisler
Date: Wed Jun 27 2018 - 15:44:46 EST


On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 04:05:29AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:16:38AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > I think I see a bug. No idea if it's the one you're hitting ;-)
> >
> > I had been intending to not use the 'entry' to decide whether we were
> > waiting on a 2MB or 4kB page, but rather the xas. I shelved that idea,
> > but not before dropping the DAX_PMD flag being passed from the PMD
> > pagefault caller. So if I put that back ...
>
> Did you get a chance to test this?

With this patch it doesn't deadlock, but the test dies with a SIGBUS and we
hit a WARN_ON in the DAX code:

WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1678 at fs/dax.c:226 get_unlocked_entry+0xf7/0x120

I don't have a lot of time this week to debug further. The quickest path to
victory is probably for you to get this reproducing in your test setup. Does
XFS + DAX + generic/340 pass for you?