Re: xfs trace in 4.4.2 / also in 4.3.3 WARNING fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c:1232 xfs_vm_releasepage

[Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:56:08PM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> should i remove the complete if conditions incl. the return 0 or should
> id convert it to if without WARN_ONCE? like below?
> 
>         if (WARN_ON_ONCE(delalloc))
>                 return 0;
>         if (WARN_ON_ONCE(unwritten))
>                 return 0;
> 
> =>
> 
>   if (delalloc)
>     return 0;
>   if (unwritten)
>     return 0;

Yes, you need to keep the checks and returns. That's what I meant
when I said that "XFS handles the dirty page case correctly in this
case". If the page is dirty, we should not be attempting to release
the buffers, and that is what the code does. It's just noisy about
it...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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