linux-kernel - Re: (NFS) BUG: at page-writeback.c:829 [Was: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1]

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Message-Id: <1179319922.6521.7.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 08:52:02 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (NFS) BUG: at page-writeback.c:829 [Was: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:10 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Andrew Morton napsal(a):
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc1/2.6.22-rc1-mm1/
> 
> I've got this in dmesg:
> 
> BUG: at /local/xslaby/xxx/mm/page-writeback.c:829 __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
>  [<c010531e>] dump_trace+0x1ce/0x200
>  [<c010536a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
>  [<c0106012>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
>  [<c0106086>] dump_stack+0x16/0x20
>  [<c015566d>] __set_page_dirty_nobuffers+0x11d/0x130
>  [<c0155690>] redirty_page_for_writepage+0x10/0x20
>  [<c01938fc>] __block_write_full_page+0x20c/0x330
>  [<c0193b0a>] block_write_full_page+0xea/0x100
>  [<c0196c82>] blkdev_writepage+0x12/0x20
>  [<c015539e>] __writepage+0xe/0x30
>  [<c01558c2>] write_cache_pages+0x222/0x340
>  [<c0155a03>] generic_writepages+0x23/0x30
>  [<c0155a3e>] do_writepages+0x2e/0x50
>  [<c018decb>] __writeback_single_inode+0x8b/0x470
>  [<c018e75b>] generic_sync_sb_inodes+0x24b/0x470
>  [<c018e9a7>] sync_sb_inodes+0x27/0x30
>  [<c018ec33>] writeback_inodes+0xb3/0xe0
>  [<c01560f2>] wb_kupdate+0x82/0xf0
>  [<c015660b>] pdflush+0xeb/0x1b0
>  [<c0132e72>] kthread+0x42/0x70
>  [<c0104d4b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c
>  =======================
> BUG: at /local/xslaby/xxx/mm/page-writeback.c:829 __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
>  [<c010531e>] dump_trace+0x1ce/0x200
>  [<c010536a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
>  [<c0106012>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
>  [<c0106086>] dump_stack+0x16/0x20
>  [<c015566d>] __set_page_dirty_nobuffers+0x11d/0x130
>  [<f8b1fc5b>] nfs_updatepage+0x7b/0x200 [nfs]
>  [<f8b156df>] nfs_commit_write+0x2f/0x50 [nfs]
>  [<c0150911>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x2a1/0x660
>  [<c0150f52>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x282/0x520
>  [<c0151252>] generic_file_aio_write+0x62/0xd0
>  [<f8b15def>] nfs_file_write+0xef/0x1c0 [nfs]
>  [<c01715e0>] do_sync_write+0xd0/0x110
>  [<c0171e04>] vfs_write+0x94/0x130
>  [<c017248d>] sys_write+0x3d/0x70
>  [<c01040e8>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>  [<b7eb7b3e>] 0xb7eb7b3e
>  =======================
> 
> regards,

The first Oops is not NFS: it is some block file system, however the
problem is the same. The crux of the matter would appear to be that some
task is changing the page_mapping() of random pages while the page lock
is held by another task.

Do you see the same thing in mainline?

Trond

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