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SubjectRe: [RESEND PATCH 1/1] block: Set same_page to false in __bio_try_merge_page if ret is false
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On 9/8/20 9:14 PM, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> If we hit the UINT_MAX limit of bio->bi_iter.bi_size and so we are anyway
> not merging this page in this bio, then it make sense to make same_page
> also as false before returning.
>
> Without this patch, we hit below WARNING in iomap.
> This mostly happens with very large memory system and / or after tweaking
> vm dirty threshold params to delay writeback of dirty data.
>
> WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 5130 at fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:74 iomap_page_release+0x120/0x150
> CPU: 18 PID: 5130 Comm: fio Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 5.8.0-rc3 #6
> Call Trace:
> __remove_mapping+0x154/0x320 (unreliable)
> iomap_releasepage+0x80/0x180
> try_to_release_page+0x94/0xe0
> invalidate_inode_page+0xc8/0x110
> invalidate_mapping_pages+0x1dc/0x540
> generic_fadvise+0x3c8/0x450
> xfs_file_fadvise+0x2c/0xe0 [xfs]
> vfs_fadvise+0x3c/0x60
> ksys_fadvise64_64+0x68/0xe0
> sys_fadvise64+0x28/0x40
> system_call_exception+0xf8/0x1c0
> system_call_common+0xf0/0x278

Applied, thanks.

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Jens Axboe

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