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From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
To: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>,
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
	<linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v3] f2fs: fix the panic in do_checkpoint()
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:09:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53aacd2c-8e6b-91f8-b105-270502d6d6d1@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1581997747-31044-1-git-send-email-stummala@codeaurora.org>

On 2020/2/18 11:49, Sahitya Tummala wrote:
> There could be a scenario where f2fs_sync_meta_pages() will not
> ensure that all F2FS_DIRTY_META pages are submitted for IO. Thus,
> resulting in the below panic in do_checkpoint() -
> 
> f2fs_bug_on(sbi, get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_META) &&
> 				!f2fs_cp_error(sbi));
> 
> This can happen in a low-memory condition, where shrinker could
> also be doing the writepage operation (stack shown below)
> at the same time when checkpoint is running on another core.
> 
> schedule
> down_write
> f2fs_submit_page_write -> by this time, this page in page cache is tagged
> 			as PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK and PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY
> 			is cleared, due to which f2fs_sync_meta_pages()
> 			cannot sync this page in do_checkpoint() path.
> f2fs_do_write_meta_page
> __f2fs_write_meta_page
> f2fs_write_meta_page
> shrink_page_list
> shrink_inactive_list
> shrink_node_memcg
> shrink_node
> kswapd
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>

Thanks,


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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-18  3:49 [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v3] f2fs: fix the panic in do_checkpoint() Sahitya Tummala
2020-02-18  6:09 ` Chao Yu [this message]

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