From 08142579b6ca35883c1ed066a2681de6f6917062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:18:10 -0700 Subject: mm: fix assertion mapping->nrpages == 0 in end_writeback() Under heavy memory and filesystem load, users observe the assertion mapping->nrpages == 0 in end_writeback() trigger. This can be caused by page reclaim reclaiming the last page from a mapping in the following race: CPU0 CPU1 ... shrink_page_list() __remove_mapping() __delete_from_page_cache() radix_tree_delete() evict_inode() truncate_inode_pages() truncate_inode_pages_range() pagevec_lookup() - finds nothing end_writeback() mapping->nrpages != 0 -> BUG page->mapping = NULL mapping->nrpages-- Fix the problem by doing a reliable check of mapping->nrpages under mapping->tree_lock in end_writeback(). Analyzed by Jay , lost in LKML, and dug out by Miklos Szeredi . Cc: Jay Cc: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/inode.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 0f7e88a7803f..43566d17d1b8 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -423,7 +423,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_inode_hash); void end_writeback(struct inode *inode) { might_sleep(); + /* + * We have to cycle tree_lock here because reclaim can be still in the + * process of removing the last page (in __delete_from_page_cache()) + * and we must not free mapping under it. + */ + spin_lock_irq(&inode->i_data.tree_lock); BUG_ON(inode->i_data.nrpages); + spin_unlock_irq(&inode->i_data.tree_lock); BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_data.private_list)); BUG_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING)); BUG_ON(inode->i_state & I_CLEAR); -- cgit v1.2.3