bd_holders is increased only when user open the device file as FMODE_EXCL
so if something opens zram0 as !FMODE_EXCL and request I/O while another
user reset zram0, we can see following warning.
zram0: detected capacity change from 0 to
64424509440
Buffer I/O error on dev zram0, logical block 180823, lost async page write
Buffer I/O error on dev zram0, logical block 180824, lost async page write
Buffer I/O error on dev zram0, logical block 180825, lost async page write
Buffer I/O error on dev zram0, logical block 180826, lost async page write
Buffer I/O error on dev zram0, logical block 180827, lost async page write
Buffer I/O error on dev zram0, logical block 180828, lost async page write
Buffer I/O error on dev zram0, logical block 180829, lost async page write
Buffer I/O error on dev zram0, logical block 180830, lost async page write
Buffer I/O error on dev zram0, logical block 180831, lost async page write
Buffer I/O error on dev zram0, logical block 180832, lost async page write
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 1996 at fs/block_dev.c:57 __blkdev_put+0x1d7/0x210()
Modules linked in:
CPU: 11 PID: 1996 Comm: dd Not tainted 3.19.0-rc6-next-
20150202+ #1125
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x45/0x57
warn_slowpath_common+0x8a/0xc0
warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
__blkdev_put+0x1d7/0x210
blkdev_put+0x50/0x130
blkdev_close+0x25/0x30
__fput+0xdf/0x1e0
____fput+0xe/0x10
task_work_run+0xa7/0xe0
do_notify_resume+0x49/0x60
int_signal+0x12/0x17
---[ end trace
274fbbc5664827d2 ]---
The warning comes from bdev_write_node in blkdev_put path.
static void bdev_write_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
while (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) {
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
WARN_ON_ONCE(write_inode_now(inode, true)); <========= here.
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
}
The reason is dd process encounters I/O fails due to sudden block device
disappear so in filemap_check_errors in __writeback_single_inode returns
-EIO.
If we check bd_openers instead of bd_holders, we could address the
problem. When I see the brd, it already have used it rather than
bd_holders so although I'm not a expert of block layer, it seems to be
better.
I can make following warning with below simple script. In addition, I
added msleep(2000) below set_capacity(zram->disk, 0) after applying your
patch to make window huge(Kudos to Ganesh!)
script:
echo $((60<<30)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
setsid dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/zram0 &
sleep 1
setsid echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>