Dan Williams <[email protected]> writes:

> [ drop Ross, add Kirill, linux-mm, and lkml ]
>
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 9:42 PM Murphy Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> By running xfstests with fsdax enabled, generic/437 always hits this
>> warning[1] since this commit:
>>
>> commit 83d116c53058d505ddef051e90ab27f57015b025
>> Author: Jia He <[email protected]>
>> Date:   Fri Oct 11 22:09:39 2019 +0800
>>
>>     mm: fix double page fault on arm64 if PTE_AF is cleared
>>
>> Looking at the test program[2] generic/437 uses, it's pretty easy
>> to hit this warning. Remove this WARN as it seems not necessary.
>
> This is not sufficient justification. Does this same test fail without
> DAX? If not, why not? At a minimum you need to explain why this is not
> indicating a problem.

I ran into this, too, and Kirill has posted a patch[1] to fix the issue.
Note that it's a potential data corrupter, so just removing the warning
is NOT the right approach.  :)

-Jeff

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/T/#u
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