Re: Potential Linux Crash: WARNING in ext4_dirty_folio in Linux kernel v6.13-rc5

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Fri Apr 04 2025 - 05:09:53 EST


On 4/3/25 19:12, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Ideas still on the table:
>
> - Convert all filesystems to use the XFS inode management scheme.
> Nobody is thrilled by this large amount of work.
> - Find a simpler version of the XFS scheme to implement for other
> filesystems.

I don't know the XFS scheme, but this situation seems like a match for the
mempool semantics? (I assume it's also a lot of work to implement)