f2fs: fix the panic in do_checkpoint()
There could be a scenario where f2fs_sync_meta_pages() will not ensure that all F2FS_DIRTY_META pages are submitted for IO. Thus, resulting in the below panic in do_checkpoint() - f2fs_bug_on(sbi, get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_META) && !f2fs_cp_error(sbi)); This can happen in a low-memory condition, where shrinker could also be doing the writepage operation (stack shown below) at the same time when checkpoint is running on another core. schedule down_write f2fs_submit_page_write -> by this time, this page in page cache is tagged as PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK and PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY is cleared, due to which f2fs_sync_meta_pages() cannot sync this page in do_checkpoint() path. f2fs_do_write_meta_page __f2fs_write_meta_page f2fs_write_meta_page shrink_page_list shrink_inactive_list shrink_node_memcg shrink_node kswapd Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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