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

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Message-ID: <20180725210323.GB1366@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:03:23 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
        Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@....ntt.co.jp>,
        linux-nilfs@...r.kernel.org, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 00/74] Convert page cache to XArray

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