On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:58:12AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Mon 27-10-14 12:04:22, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 01:01:27PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > From de3426d6495f4b44b14c09b7c7202e9a86d864b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > > From: Jan Kara <[email protected]> > > > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:58:42 +0200 > > > Subject: [PATCH] mm: Remove false WARN_ON from pagecache_isize_extended() > > > > > > The WARN_ON checking whether i_mutex is held in > > > pagecache_isize_extended() was wrong because some filesystems (e.g. > > > XFS) use different locks for serialization of truncates / writes. So > > > just remove the check. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > mm/truncate.c | 1 - > > > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c > > > index 261eaf6e5a19..c646084e5eec 100644 > > > --- a/mm/truncate.c > > > +++ b/mm/truncate.c > > > @@ -755,7 +755,6 @@ void pagecache_isize_extended(struct inode *inode, > > > loff_t from, loff_t to) > > > struct page *page; > > > pgoff_t index; > > > > > > - WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex)); > > > WARN_ON(to > inode->i_size); > > > > > > if (from >= to || bsize == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) > > > > Jan, Have you sent this patch upstream yet? I'm seeing it fire in > > my testing in 3.18-rc1 kernels, so I was wondering what your plans > > are for this... > I did send it but it got lost somewhere. I'll resend it.
If it comes to it, I can push it through the XFS tree - I've got a few patches I need to send for -rc3... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
