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

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Nick Piggin napsal(a):
>
> > 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
> >
> > Do you have any messages before this one? Seems like it is probably
> > metadata,
> > but we've only caught it at the last minute...
>
>
> No other messages before that. Bazillion through-nfs stacks after this...

Does this patch fix NFS?

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Index: linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct pa
 		mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
 		if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
 			BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
-			WARN_ON(!PageUptodate(page));
+			WARN_ON(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
 			if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
 				__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
 				task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);