linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19.2 nfs BUG: warning at mm/truncate.c:398/invalidate_inode_pages2

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Date:	Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:06:01 -0800
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@...nkvm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux NFS mailing list <nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19.2 nfs BUG: warning at
	mm/truncate.c:398/invalidate_inode_pages2_range()

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:52 +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> FYI,
> 
> Just captured this one, I'm not sure it's NFS at fault because I saw
> at least another AIO related mm/truncate.c:398 report with a totally
> different stack trace.
> 
> The machine seems still running happily, as usual with a considerable
> load. kernel is tainted by fglrx.
> 
> kernel: BUG: warning at mm/truncate.c:398/invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
> kernel:  [<c0104897>] dump_trace+0x227/0x240
> kernel:  [<c010498f>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x2f/0x50
> kernel:  [<c01049d7>] show_trace+0x27/0x30
> kernel:  [<c0104b06>] dump_stack+0x26/0x30
> kernel:  [<c015a495>] invalidate_inode_pages2_range+0x305/0x310
> kernel:  [<c015a4c1>] invalidate_inode_pages2+0x21/0x30
> kernel:  [<c01f7aa8>] nfs_revalidate_mapping+0x98/0x180
> kernel:  [<c01f5726>] nfs_file_read+0x46/0xb0
> kernel:  [<c017441e>] do_sync_read+0xde/0x130
> kernel:  [<c0174511>] vfs_read+0xa1/0x1b0
> kernel:  [<c0174947>] sys_read+0x47/0x70
> kernel:  [<c0103387>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> kernel:  [<b7ec0cbe>] 0xb7ec0cbe
> kernel:  =======================

That is a known issue. The warning was bogus after we fixed up the NFS
client to handle the case where invalidate_inode_pages2() returns and
error, and so the warning was removed in 2.6.20.

Cheers
  Trond

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