Re: block allocator issue with ext4+DAX

[Jan Kara]

On Wed 30-03-16 16:01:29, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> I've hit an issue in my testing which I believe to be related to the ext4
> block allocator when using the DAX mount option.  I originally found this
> issue with the generic/102 xfstest, but have reduced it to the minimal
> reproducer at the bottom of this email.  I've been able to reproduce this with
> both BRD and with PMEM as the underlying block device.
> 
> For this test we're running in a very small filesystem, only 512 MiB.  We
> fallocate() 400 MiB of that space, unlink the file, then try and rewrite that
> 400 MiB file one chunk at a time.
> 
> What actually happens is that during the rewrite we run out of memory and the
> DAX call to get_block() in dax_io() fails with -ENOSPC.

Yes, I have already sent a fix for this bug here:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg51649.html

Ted, can you please pick it up? Thanks!

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR