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Dan Williams d2c997c0f1 fs, dax: use page->mapping to warn if truncate collides with a busy page
Catch cases where extent unmap operations encounter pages that are
pinned / busy. Typically this is pinned pages that are under active dma.
This warning is a canary for potential data corruption as truncated
blocks could be allocated to a new file while the device is still
performing i/o.

Here is an example of a collision that this implementation catches:

 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1286 at fs/dax.c:343 dax_disassociate_entry+0x55/0x80
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  __dax_invalidate_mapping_entry+0x6c/0xf0
  dax_delete_mapping_entry+0xf/0x20
  truncate_exceptional_pvec_entries.part.12+0x1af/0x200
  truncate_inode_pages_range+0x268/0x970
  ? tlb_gather_mmu+0x10/0x20
  ? up_write+0x1c/0x40
  ? unmap_mapping_range+0x73/0x140
  xfs_free_file_space+0x1b6/0x5b0 [xfs]
  ? xfs_file_fallocate+0x7f/0x320 [xfs]
  ? down_write_nested+0x40/0x70
  ? xfs_ilock+0x21d/0x2f0 [xfs]
  xfs_file_fallocate+0x162/0x320 [xfs]
  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x3f/0x70
  ? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x2a/0x50
  ? __sb_start_write+0xd0/0x1b0
  ? vfs_fallocate+0x20c/0x270
  vfs_fallocate+0x154/0x270
  SyS_fallocate+0x43/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96

Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2018-04-03 05:41:19 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2018-03-07 10:59:23 -08:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes 2018-03-09 07:32:20 +01:00
drivers dax: store pfns in the radix 2018-03-30 11:34:54 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs fs, dax: use page->mapping to warn if truncate collides with a busy page 2018-04-03 05:41:19 -07:00
include fs, dax: prepare for dax-specific address_space_operations 2018-03-30 11:34:55 -07:00
init jump_label: Explicitly disable jump labels in __init code 2018-02-21 16:54:05 +01:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.