Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:06:42 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: mapped pages being truncated [was Re: 2.6.5-rc2-aa5] |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 07:48:42PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > Do you have enough evidence that it's the very same bug? > > yes, see the two stack traces, they trigger in the same place and it's > the very same workload. Andrew just noticed that xfs indeed calls > truncate_inode_pages before vmtruncate. It will trigger with your > patches too.
Yes, Andrew has got it (and I agree XFS is wrong to be doing that).
> Ok I see what you mean, this should fix it, agreed?
Yes, that's exactly the fix (for when COWing a reserved page).
Hugh
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