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Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2014 18:59:13 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent drop locked
 page after error

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 06:28:20PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> Testcase:
> xfstests generic/270
> MKFS_OPTIONS="-q -I 256 -O inline_data,64bit"
> 
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff81144c76>] lock_page+0x35/0x39 -------> DEADLOCK
>  [<ffffffff81145260>] pagecache_get_page+0x65/0x15a
>  [<ffffffff811507fc>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x1db/0x45c
>  [<ffffffff8120ea63>] ? ext4_da_get_block_prep+0x439/0x4b6
>  [<ffffffff811b29b7>] ? __block_write_begin+0x284/0x29c
>  [<ffffffff8120e62a>] ? ext4_change_inode_journal_flag+0x16b/0x16b
>  [<ffffffff81150af0>] truncate_inode_pages+0x12/0x14
>  [<ffffffff81247cb4>] ext4_truncate_failed_write+0x19/0x25
>  [<ffffffff812488cf>] ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin+0x196/0x31c
>  [<ffffffff81210dad>] ext4_da_write_begin+0x189/0x302
>  [<ffffffff810c07ac>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
>  [<ffffffff810ddd13>] ? read_seqcount_begin.clone.1+0x9f/0xcc
>  [<ffffffff8114309d>] generic_perform_write+0xc7/0x1c6
>  [<ffffffff810c040e>] ? mark_held_locks+0x59/0x77
>  [<ffffffff811445d1>] __generic_file_write_iter+0x17f/0x1c5
>  [<ffffffff8120726b>] ext4_file_write_iter+0x2a5/0x354
>  [<ffffffff81185656>] ? file_start_write+0x2a/0x2c
>  [<ffffffff8107bcdb>] ? bad_area_nosemaphore+0x13/0x15
>  [<ffffffff811858ce>] new_sync_write+0x8a/0xb2
>  [<ffffffff81186e7b>] vfs_write+0xb5/0x14d
>  [<ffffffff81186ffb>] SyS_write+0x5c/0x8c
>  [<ffffffff816f2529>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>

This patch makes sense but I haven't been able to duplicate the
failure.  Maybe it's sensitive to the size of the scratch device, or
some such?

						- Ted
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