Date:   Fri, 2 Apr 2021 13:24:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG_ON(!mapping_empty(&inode->i_data))

On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> OK, more competent testing, and that previous bug now detected and fixed.
> I have a reasonable amount of confidence this will solve your problem.
> If you do apply this patch, don't enable CONFIG_TEST_XARRAY as the new
> tests assume that attempting to allocate with a GFP flags of 0 will
> definitely fail, which is true for my userspace allocator, but not true
> inside the kernel.  I'll add some ifdeffery to skip these tests inside
> the kernel, as without a way to deterministically fail allocation,
> there's no way to test this code properly.

Thanks a lot for all your efforts on this, but the news from the front
is disappointing.  The lib/xarray.c you sent here is yesterday's plus
the little __xas_trim() fixup you sent this morning: I set that going
then on three machines, two of them are still good, but one is not (and
yes, I've checked several times that it is the intended kernel running).
xa_dump()s appended below, but I don't expect them to have more to tell.

I think you've been focusing on the old radix-tree -ENOMEM case, which
you'd wanted to clean up anyway, but overlooking the THP collapse_file()
case, which is the one actually hitting me.  collapse_file() does that
xas_create_range(), which Doc tells me will create all the nodes which
might be needed; and if collapse_file() has to give up and revert for
any of many plausible reasons, those nodes may be left over at the end.

There is a "Put holes back where they were" xas_store(&xas, NULL) on
the failure path, which I think we would expect to delete empty nodes.
But it only goes as far as nr_none.  Is it ok to xas_store(&xas, NULL)
where there was no non-NULL entry before?  I should try that, maybe
adjusting the !nr_none break will give a very simple fix.

Or, if you remove the "static " from xas_trim(), maybe that provides
the xas_prune_range() you proposed, or the cleanup pass I proposed.
To be called on collapse_file() failure, or when eviction finds
!mapping_empty().

[ 2927.151739] xarray: ffff888017914c80 head ffff888003a10db2 flags 21 marks 0 0 0
[ 2927.171484] 0-4095: node ffff888003a10db0 max 0 parent 0000000000000000 shift 6 count 3 values 0 array ffff888017914c80 list ffff888003a10dc8 ffff888003a10dc8 marks 0 0 0
[ 2927.213313] 1344-1407: node ffff8880055c8490 offset 21 parent ffff888003a10db0 shift 0 count 0 values 0 array ffff888017914c80 list ffff8880055c84a8 ffff8880055c84a8 marks 0 0 0
[ 2927.257924] 1408-1471: node ffff8880055c8248 offset 22 parent ffff888003a10db0 shift 0 count 0 values 0 array ffff888017914c80 list ffff8880055c8260 ffff8880055c8260 marks 0 0 0
[ 2927.305332] 1472-1535: node ffff8880055c8000 offset 23 parent ffff888003a10db0 shift 0 count 0 values 0 array ffff888017914c80 list ffff8880055c8018 ffff8880055c8018 marks 0 0 0
[ 2927.355811] s_dev 8:8 i_ino 274355 i_size 10092280

[ 3813.689018] xarray: ffff888005511408 head ffff888017624db2 flags 21 marks 0 0 0
[ 3813.716012] 0-4095: node ffff888017624db0 max 2 parent 0000000000000000 shift 6 count 3 values 0 array ffff888005511408 list ffff888017624dc8 ffff888017624dc8 marks 0 0 0
[ 3813.771966] 1344-1407: node ffff888000595b60 offset 21 parent ffff888017624db0 shift 0 count 0 values 0 array ffff888005511408 list ffff888000595b78 ffff888000595b78 marks 0 0 0
[ 3813.828102] 1408-1471: node ffff888000594b68 offset 22 parent ffff888017624db0 shift 0 count 0 values 0 array ffff888005511408 list ffff888000594b80 ffff888000594b80 marks 0 0 0
[ 3813.883603] 1472-1535: node ffff888000594248 offset 23 parent ffff888017624db0 shift 0 count 0 values 0 array ffff888005511408 list ffff888000594260 ffff888000594260 marks 0 0 0
[ 3813.939146] s_dev 8:8 i_ino 274355 i_size 10092280

[14157.780505] xarray: ffff888007c8d988 head ffff88800bccfd9a flags 21 marks 0 0 0
[14157.801557] 0-4095: node ffff88800bccfd98 max 7 parent 0000000000000000 shift 6 count 2 values 0 array ffff888007c8d988 list ffff88800bccfdb0 ffff88800bccfdb0 marks 0 0 0
[14157.845337] 896-959: node ffff8880279fdda8 offset 14 parent ffff88800bccfd98 shift 0 count 0 values 0 array ffff888007c8d988 list ffff8880279fddc0 ffff8880279fddc0 marks 0 0 0
[14157.893594] 960-1023: node ffff8880279fe238 offset 15 parent ffff88800bccfd98 shift 0 count 0 values 0 array ffff888007c8d988 list ffff8880279fe250 ffff8880279fe250 marks 0 0 0
[14157.943810] s_dev 8:8 i_ino 274355 i_size 10092280

Hugh

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