On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 04:09:30PM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> 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.  :)

Agree :) Thanks!

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