[PATCH 102/241] tmpfs: change final i_blocks BUG to WARNING
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Thu Dec 13 13:57:47 UTC 2012
3.5.7.2 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
commit 0f3c42f522dc1ad7e27affc0a4aa8c790bce0a66 upstream.
Under a particular load on one machine, I have hit shmem_evict_inode()'s
BUG_ON(inode->i_blocks), enough times to narrow it down to a particular
race between swapout and eviction.
It comes from the "if (freed > 0)" asymmetry in shmem_recalc_inode(),
and the lack of coherent locking between mapping's nrpages and shmem's
swapped count. There's a window in shmem_writepage(), between lowering
nrpages in shmem_delete_from_page_cache() and then raising swapped
count, when the freed count appears to be +1 when it should be 0, and
then the asymmetry stops it from being corrected with -1 before hitting
the BUG.
One answer is coherent locking: using tree_lock throughout, without
info->lock; reasonable, but the raw_spin_lock in percpu_counter_add() on
used_blocks makes that messier than expected. Another answer may be a
further effort to eliminate the weird shmem_recalc_inode() altogether,
but previous attempts at that failed.
So far undecided, but for now change the BUG_ON to WARN_ON: in usual
circumstances it remains a useful consistency check.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[ herton: adjust context ]
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index c7f7a77..8d0c102 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ static void shmem_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
kfree(xattr->name);
kfree(xattr);
}
- BUG_ON(inode->i_blocks);
+ WARN_ON(inode->i_blocks);
shmem_free_inode(inode->i_sb);
clear_inode(inode);
}
--
1.7.9.5
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