even with Linus's set_page_dirty_lock() suggestion: [ 160.607904] EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 173.093239] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 173.097884] kernel BUG at /home/davehans/linux.git/fs/ext4/inode.c:2377! [ 173.104695] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 173.108849] CPU: 65 PID: 4286 Comm: racewrite_threa Not tainted 3.15.0-rc2+ #392 [ 173.116383] Hardware name: FUJITSU-SV PRIMEQUEST 1800E2/SB, BIOS PRIMEQUEST 1000 Series BIOS Version 1.24 09/14/2011 [ 173.127174] task: ffff887ff1909140 ti: ffff887ff2048000 task.ti: ffff887ff2048000 [ 173.134799] RIP: 0010:[] [] mpage_prepare_extent_to_map+0x320/0x330 [ 173.144432] RSP: 0018:ffff887ff2049c68 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 173.149819] RAX: 0000000000000041 RBX: ffff887ff2049dc8 RCX: ffff88bff2e52b48 [ 173.157080] RDX: 6bfffc000002003d RSI: 0000000000000167 RDI: ffffffff819c1ce8 [ 173.164341] RBP: ffff887ff2049d48 R08: ffffea037fbdb980 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 173.171603] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000220 R12: 7fffffffffffffff [ 173.178864] R13: 0000000000000041 R14: ffff887ff2049ca8 R15: ffff887ff2049ca8 [ 173.186125] FS: 00007fe361e37700(0000) GS:ffff88dfffaa0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 173.194381] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 173.200214] CR2: 00007fe3aa70a000 CR3: 0000005fefdd9000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 [ 173.207475] Stack: [ 173.209506] ffffea037fbdb980 ffff887ff2049ca8 ffff88bff2e52b48 0000000000000000 [ 173.217017] 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffffea037fbdb980 [ 173.224527] 0000000000000003 0000000000000286 ffff887ff1909140 ffff883ff2730800 [ 173.232038] Call Trace: [ 173.234527] [] ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x7c/0x120 [ 173.241159] [] ? ext4_writepages+0x44b/0xce0 [ 173.247166] [] ext4_writepages+0x484/0xce0 [ 173.253001] [] do_writepages+0x23/0x40 [ 173.258479] [] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x59/0x60 [ 173.265112] [] SyS_fadvise64_64+0x265/0x270 [ 173.271031] [] SyS_fadvise64+0xe/0x10 [ 173.276429] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 173.282513] Code: ff e9 6d ff ff ff 48 8d bd 48 ff ff ff e8 b9 20 f2 ff e9 31 ff ff ff 48 8b 4b 08 8b 49 20 85 c9 0f 85 ee fd ff ff 31 c0 eb b3 90 <0f> 0b 0f 0b 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 66 66 66 90 [ 173.301685] RIP [] mpage_prepare_extent_to_map+0x320/0x330 [ 173.308933] RSP [ 173.312576] ---[ end trace b53fdf1d352b727a ]---