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We hit a regression while rolling out 5.2 internally where we were
hitting the following panic
kernel BUG at mm/page-writeback.c:2659!
RIP: 0010:clear_page_dirty_for_io+0xe6/0x1f0
Call Trace:
__process_pages_contig+0x25a/0x350
? extent_clear_unlock_delalloc+0x43/0x70
submit_compressed_extents+0x359/0x4d0
normal_work_helper+0x15a/0x330
process_one_work+0x1f5/0x3f0
worker_thread+0x2d/0x3d0
? rescuer_thread+0x340/0x340
kthread+0x111/0x130
? kthread_create_on_node+0x60/0x60
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
This is happening because the page is not locked when doing
clear_page_dirty_for_io. Looking at the core dump it was because our
async_extent had a ram_size of 24576 but our async_chunk range only
spanned 20480, so we had a whole extra page in our ram_size for our
async_extent.
This happened because we try not to compress pages outside of our
i_size, however a cleanup patch changed us to do
actual_end = min_t(u64, i_size_read(inode), end + 1);
which is problematic because i_size_read() can evaluate to different
values in between checking and assigning. So either an expanding
truncate or a fallocate could increase our i_size while we're doing
writeout and actual_end would end up being past the range we have
locked.
I confirmed this was what was happening by installing a debug kernel
that had
actual_end = min_t(u64, i_size_read(inode), end + 1);
if (actual_end > end + 1) {
printk(KERN_ERR "KABOOM\n");
actual_end = end + 1;
}
and installing it onto 500 boxes of the tier that had been seeing the
problem regularly. Last night I got my debug message and no panic,
confirming what I expected.
[ dsterba: the assembly confirms a tiny race window:
mov 0x20(%rsp),%rax
cmp %rax,0x48(%r15) # read
movl $0x0,0x18(%rsp)
mov %rax,%r12
mov %r14,%rax
cmovbe 0x48(%r15),%r12 # eval
Where r15 is inode and 0x48 is offset of i_size.
The original fix was to revert
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