From 1bfd8d04190c615bb8d1d98188dead0c09702208 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:13:55 +1100 Subject: xfs: introduce inode cluster buffer trylocks for xfs_iflush There is an ABBA deadlock between synchronous inode flushing in xfs_reclaim_inode and xfs_icluster_free. xfs_icluster_free locks the buffer, then takes inode ilocks, whilst synchronous reclaim takes the ilock followed by the buffer lock in xfs_iflush(). To avoid this deadlock, separate the inode cluster buffer locking semantics from the synchronous inode flush semantics, allowing callers to attempt to lock the buffer but still issue synchronous IO if it can get the buffer. This requires xfs_iflush() calls that currently use non-blocking semantics to pass SYNC_TRYLOCK rather than 0 as the flags parameter. This allows xfs_reclaim_inode to avoid the deadlock on the buffer lock and detect the failure so that it can drop the inode ilock and restart the reclaim attempt on the inode. This allows xfs_ifree_cluster to obtain the inode lock, mark the inode stale and release it and hence defuse the deadlock situation. It also has the pleasant side effect of avoiding IO in xfs_reclaim_inode when it tries to next reclaim the inode as it is now marked stale. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Alex Elder --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c') diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c index 6c10f1d2e3d3..594cd822d84d 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c @@ -761,8 +761,10 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode( struct xfs_perag *pag, int sync_mode) { - int error = 0; + int error; +restart: + error = 0; xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); if (!xfs_iflock_nowait(ip)) { if (!(sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT)) @@ -788,9 +790,31 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode( if (xfs_inode_clean(ip)) goto reclaim; - /* Now we have an inode that needs flushing */ - error = xfs_iflush(ip, sync_mode); + /* + * Now we have an inode that needs flushing. + * + * We do a nonblocking flush here even if we are doing a SYNC_WAIT + * reclaim as we can deadlock with inode cluster removal. + * xfs_ifree_cluster() can lock the inode buffer before it locks the + * ip->i_lock, and we are doing the exact opposite here. As a result, + * doing a blocking xfs_itobp() to get the cluster buffer will result + * in an ABBA deadlock with xfs_ifree_cluster(). + * + * As xfs_ifree_cluser() must gather all inodes that are active in the + * cache to mark them stale, if we hit this case we don't actually want + * to do IO here - we want the inode marked stale so we can simply + * reclaim it. Hence if we get an EAGAIN error on a SYNC_WAIT flush, + * just unlock the inode, back off and try again. Hopefully the next + * pass through will see the stale flag set on the inode. + */ + error = xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_TRYLOCK | sync_mode); if (sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT) { + if (error == EAGAIN) { + xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); + /* backoff longer than in xfs_ifree_cluster */ + delay(2); + goto restart; + } xfs_iflock(ip); goto reclaim; } -- cgit v1.2.2