Re: mke2fs and kernel VM issues

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:06:07 +0100


On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:44:48AM -0800, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Note that this only shows up when using mke2fs to create very large
> filesystems, and you have relatively little memory. In this particular

If you can reproduce the oom of mke2fs on recent 2.2.19pre, could you try
again after applying this additional VM patch?

--- VM-locked/fs/buffer.c.~1~ Sun Feb 18 04:01:32 2001
+++ VM-locked/fs/buffer.c Sun Feb 18 23:03:32 2001
@@ -1530,9 +1530,13 @@
struct buffer_head *p = tmp;
tmp = tmp->b_this_page;

- if (buffer_dirty(p))
- if (test_and_set_bit(BH_Wait_IO, &p->b_state))
- ll_rw_block(WRITE, 1, &p);
+ if (buffer_dirty(p) || buffer_locked(p))
+ if (test_and_set_bit(BH_Wait_IO, &p->b_state)) {
+ if (buffer_dirty(p))
+ ll_rw_block(WRITE, 1, &p);
+ else if (buffer_locked(p))
+ wait_on_buffer(p);
+ }
} while (tmp != bh);

/* Restore the visibility of the page before returning. */
--- VM-locked/include/linux/fs.h.~1~ Sun Feb 18 04:01:32 2001
+++ VM-locked/include/linux/fs.h Sun Feb 18 22:59:00 2001
@@ -810,7 +810,6 @@
if (test_and_clear_bit(BH_Dirty, &bh->b_state)) {
if (bh->b_list == BUF_DIRTY)
refile_buffer(bh);
- clear_bit(BH_Wait_IO, &bh->b_state);
}
}

--- VM-locked/include/linux/locks.h.~1~ Sun Feb 18 06:31:15 2001
+++ VM-locked/include/linux/locks.h Sun Feb 18 22:59:09 2001
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
extern inline void unlock_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh)
{
clear_bit(BH_Lock, &bh->b_state);
+ clear_bit(BH_Wait_IO, &bh->b_state);
wake_up(&bh->b_wait);
}

Andrea
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