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SubjectRe: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3
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On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:32 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote:
> > >
> > > This should be fairly easy to test: just change every single ", 1" case in
> > > the patch to ", 0".
> > >
> > > What happens for you in that case?
> >
> > I have file corruption.
>
> Magic. And btw, _thanks_ for being such a great tester.
>
> So now I have one more thng for you to try, it you can bother:
>
> There's exactly two call sites that call "page_mkclean()" (an dthat is the
> only thing in turn that calls "page_mkclean_one()", which we already
> determined will cause the corruption).
>
> Both of them do
>
> if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
> ..
>
> things, although they do slightly different things inside that if in your
> patched kernel.
>
> Can you just TOTALLY DISABLE that case for the test_clear_page_dirty()
> case? Just do an "#if 0 .. #endif" around that whole if-statement, leaving
> the _only_ thing that actually calls "page_mkclean()" to be the
> "clear_page_dirty_for_io()" call.
>
> Do you still see corruption?

nope, no file corruption at all.



diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index d1f1b54..263f88e 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2834,7 +2834,7 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *pag
int ret = 0;

BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
- if (PageWriteback(page))
+ if (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page))
return 0;

if (mapping == NULL) { /* can this still happen? */
@@ -2845,22 +2845,6 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *pag
spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
ret = drop_buffers(page, &buffers_to_free);
spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
- if (ret) {
- /*
- * If the filesystem writes its buffers by hand (eg ext3)
- * then we can have clean buffers against a dirty page. We
- * clean the page here; otherwise later reattachment of buffers
- * could encounter a non-uptodate page, which is unresolvable.
- * This only applies in the rare case where try_to_free_buffers
- * succeeds but the page is not freed.
- *
- * Also, during truncate, discard_buffer will have marked all
- * the page's buffers clean. We discover that here and clean
- * the page also.
- */
- if (test_clear_page_dirty(page))
- task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
- }
out:
if (buffers_to_free) {
struct buffer_head *bh = buffers_to_free;
diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
index 0f05cab..2d8bbbb 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ retry:
wait_on_page_writeback(page);

if (PageWriteback(page) ||
- !test_clear_page_dirty(page)) {
+ !test_clear_page_dirty(page, 0)) {
unlock_page(page);
break;
}
diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
index 1387749..da2bdb1 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/file.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ static int fuse_commit_write(struct file
spin_unlock(&fc->lock);

if (offset == 0 && to == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {
- clear_page_dirty(page);
+ clear_page_dirty(page, 0);
SetPageUptodate(page);
}
}
diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index ed2c223..9f82cd0 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static int hugetlbfs_commit_write(struct

static void truncate_huge_page(struct page *page)
{
- clear_page_dirty(page);
+ clear_page_dirty(page, 0);
ClearPageUptodate(page);
remove_from_page_cache(page);
put_page(page);
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c
index b1a1c72..5e29b37 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ #if MPS_PER_PAGE == 1

/* Retest mp->count since we may have released page lock */
if (test_bit(META_discard, &mp->flag) && !mp->count) {
- clear_page_dirty(page);
+ clear_page_dirty(page, 0);
ClearPageUptodate(page);
}
#else
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/stree.c b/fs/reiserfs/stree.c
index 47e7027..a97e198 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/stree.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/stree.c
@@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ static void unmap_buffers(struct page *p
bh = next;
} while (bh != head);
if (PAGE_SIZE == bh->b_size) {
- clear_page_dirty(page);
+ clear_page_dirty(page, 0);
}
}
}
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index b56eb75..44ac434 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ xfs_start_page_writeback(
ASSERT(!PageWriteback(page));
set_page_writeback(page);
if (clear_dirty)
- clear_page_dirty(page);
+ clear_page_dirty(page, 0);
unlock_page(page);
if (!buffers) {
end_page_writeback(page);
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 4830a3b..175ab3c 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -253,13 +253,13 @@ #define ClearPageUncached(page) clear_bi

struct page; /* forward declaration */

-int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *page);
+int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *page, int must_clean_ptes);
int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page);
int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page);

-static inline void clear_page_dirty(struct page *page)
+static inline void clear_page_dirty(struct page *page, int
must_clean_ptes)
{
- test_clear_page_dirty(page);
+ test_clear_page_dirty(page, must_clean_ptes);
}

static inline void set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 237107c..f2a157d 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
* Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory
accounting.
* Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
*/
-int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *page)
+int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *page, int must_clean_ptes)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
unsigned long flags;
@@ -857,6 +857,8 @@ int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *p
return TestClearPageDirty(page);

write_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
+
+#if 0
if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
@@ -866,11 +868,19 @@ int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *p
* page is locked, which pins the address_space
*/
if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
- page_mkclean(page);
+ int cleaned = page_mkclean(page);
+ if (!must_clean_ptes && cleaned){
+ WARN_ON(1);
+ set_page_dirty(page);
+ }
+
dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
}
return 1;
}
+
+#endif
+
write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 9bfb8e8..9a01d9e 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_sp
if (PagePrivate(page))
do_invalidatepage(page, 0);

- if (test_clear_page_dirty(page))
+ if (test_clear_page_dirty(page, 0))
task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
ClearPageUptodate(page);
ClearPageMappedToDisk(page);
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, 0);
}
}
- was_dirty = test_clear_page_dirty(page);
+ was_dirty = test_clear_page_dirty(page, 0);
if (!invalidate_complete_page2(mapping, page)) {
if (was_dirty)
set_page_dirty(page);

-
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