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

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Jul 25 2018 - 17:03:27 EST


On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 01:44:38PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> 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?

I now have generic/340 passing. I've pushed a new version to
git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax.git xarray