[LTP] [linux-next:master] [block/bdev] 3c20917120: BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_mm/util.c

Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org
Tue Apr 8 19:48:55 CEST 2025


On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 10:24:40AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> > Fun
> > puzzle for the community is figuring out *why* oh why did a large folio
> > end up being used on buffer-heads for your use case *without* an LBS
> > device (logical block size) being present, as I assume you didn't have
> > one, ie say a nvme or virtio block device with logical block size  >
> > PAGE_SIZE. The area in question would trigger on folio migration *only*
> > if you are migrating large buffer-head folios. We only create those
> 
> To be clear, large folios for buffer-heads.
> > if
> > you have an LBS device and are leveraging the block device cache or a
> > filesystem with buffer-heads with LBS (they don't exist yet other than
> > the block device cache).

My guess is that udev or something tries to read the disk label in
response to some uevent (mkfs, mount, unmount, etc), which creates a
large folio because min_order > 0, and attaches a buffer head.  There's
a separate crash report that I'll cc you on.

--D


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