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    tmpfs: change final i_blocks BUG to WARNING · 0f3c42f5
    Hugh Dickins authored
    
    
    Under a particular load on one machine, I have hit shmem_evict_inode()'s
    BUG_ON(inode->i_blocks), enough times to narrow it down to a particular
    race between swapout and eviction.
    
    It comes from the "if (freed > 0)" asymmetry in shmem_recalc_inode(),
    and the lack of coherent locking between mapping's nrpages and shmem's
    swapped count.  There's a window in shmem_writepage(), between lowering
    nrpages in shmem_delete_from_page_cache() and then raising swapped
    count, when the freed count appears to be +1 when it should be 0, and
    then the asymmetry stops it from being corrected with -1 before hitting
    the BUG.
    
    One answer is coherent locking: using tree_lock throughout, without
    info->lock; reasonable, but the raw_spin_lock in percpu_counter_add() on
    used_blocks makes that messier than expected.  Another answer may be a
    further effort to eliminate the weird shmem_recalc_inode() altogether,
    but previous attempts at that failed.
    
    So far undecided, but for now change the BUG_ON to WARN_ON: in usual
    circumstances it remains a useful consistency check.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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