Re: mapped pages being truncated [was Re: 2.6.5-rc2-aa5]

[Hugh Dickins]

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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