On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:44:22PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote: > Avoid metadata flush to be blocked by the writeback throttling code in > wbt_wait(). Otherwise, we can end up with a deadlock under heavy write > load with all chunk works active. In such situation, a deadlock can > happen if the flush work is blocked by the throttling code while holding > the metadata lock: as the chunk works will wait for the metadata lock > too, no progress can be made. > > Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c > index 884ff7c170a0..f694fb98b002 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c > @@ -567,7 +567,8 @@ static void dmz_write_mblock(struct dmz_metadata *zmd, struct dmz_mblock *mblk, > bio->bi_bdev = zmd->dev->bdev; > bio->bi_private = mblk; > bio->bi_end_io = dmz_mblock_bio_end_io; > - bio_set_op_attrs(bio, REQ_OP_WRITE, REQ_META | REQ_PRIO); > + bio_set_op_attrs(bio, REQ_OP_WRITE, > + REQ_META | REQ_PRIO | REQ_SYNC | REQ_IDLE); Please just assign bi_opf directly instea dof using bio_set_op_attrs in new code. Also what do you need REQ_IDLE for? -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
