I've been debugging a hang in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode which is being seen on Power 6 systems quite a lot. When we get in the hung state, all I/O to the disk in question gets blocked where we stay indefinitely. Looking at the task list, I can see we are stuck in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode waiting on a wake up. I added some debug code to detect this scenario and dump additional data if we were stuck in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode for longer than 30 minutes. When it hit, I was able to see that i_flags was 0, suggesting we missed the wake up. This patch changes i_flags to be an unsigned long, uses bit operators to access it, and adds barriers around the accesses. Prior to applying this patch, we were regularly hitting this hang on numerous systems in our test environment. After applying the patch, the hangs no longer occur. Its still not clear to me why the j_list_lock doesn't protect us in this path. It also appears a hang very similar to this was seen in the past and then was no longer recreatable: http://forum.soft32.com/linux/20090310-ext4-hangs-ftopict478916.html Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd2/commit.c | 14 ++++++++++---- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 5 ++++- include/linux/jbd2.h | 2 +- 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/jbd2.h~jbd2_ji_commit_barrier_patch include/linux/jbd2.h --- linux-2.6/include/linux/jbd2.h~jbd2_ji_commit_barrier_patch 2010-07-07 09:01:12.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6-bjking1/include/linux/jbd2.h 2010-07-07 09:01:12.000000000 -0500 @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ struct jbd2_inode { struct inode *i_vfs_inode; /* Flags of inode [j_list_lock] */ - unsigned int i_flags; + unsigned long i_flags; }; struct jbd2_revoke_table_s; diff -puN fs/jbd2/commit.c~jbd2_ji_commit_barrier_patch fs/jbd2/commit.c --- linux-2.6/fs/jbd2/commit.c~jbd2_ji_commit_barrier_patch 2010-07-07 09:01:12.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6-bjking1/fs/jbd2/commit.c 2010-07-07 09:01:12.000000000 -0500 @@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ #include <linux/backing-dev.h> #include <linux/bio.h> #include <linux/blkdev.h> +#include <linux/bitops.h> #include <trace/events/jbd2.h> +#include <asm/system.h> /* * Default IO end handler for temporary BJ_IO buffer_heads. @@ -245,7 +247,7 @@ static int journal_submit_data_buffers(j spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); list_for_each_entry(jinode, &commit_transaction->t_inode_list, i_list) { mapping = jinode->i_vfs_inode->i_mapping; - jinode->i_flags |= JI_COMMIT_RUNNING; + set_bit(__JI_COMMIT_RUNNING, &jinode->i_flags); spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); /* * submit the inode data buffers. We use writepage @@ -260,7 +262,9 @@ static int journal_submit_data_buffers(j spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); J_ASSERT(jinode->i_transaction == commit_transaction); commit_transaction->t_flushed_data_blocks = 1; - jinode->i_flags &= ~JI_COMMIT_RUNNING; + smp_mb__before_clear_bit(); + clear_bit(__JI_COMMIT_RUNNING, &jinode->i_flags); + smp_mb__before_clear_bit(); wake_up_bit(&jinode->i_flags, __JI_COMMIT_RUNNING); } spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); @@ -281,7 +285,7 @@ static int journal_finish_inode_data_buf /* For locking, see the comment in journal_submit_data_buffers() */ spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); list_for_each_entry(jinode, &commit_transaction->t_inode_list, i_list) { - jinode->i_flags |= JI_COMMIT_RUNNING; + set_bit(__JI_COMMIT_RUNNING, &jinode->i_flags); spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); err = filemap_fdatawait(jinode->i_vfs_inode->i_mapping); if (err) { @@ -297,7 +301,9 @@ static int journal_finish_inode_data_buf ret = err; } spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); - jinode->i_flags &= ~JI_COMMIT_RUNNING; + smp_mb__before_clear_bit(); + clear_bit(__JI_COMMIT_RUNNING, &jinode->i_flags); + smp_mb__before_clear_bit(); wake_up_bit(&jinode->i_flags, __JI_COMMIT_RUNNING); } diff -puN fs/jbd2/journal.c~jbd2_ji_commit_barrier_patch fs/jbd2/journal.c --- linux-2.6/fs/jbd2/journal.c~jbd2_ji_commit_barrier_patch 2010-07-07 09:01:12.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6-bjking1/fs/jbd2/journal.c 2010-07-07 09:01:12.000000000 -0500 @@ -41,12 +41,14 @@ #include <linux/hash.h> #include <linux/log2.h> #include <linux/vmalloc.h> +#include <linux/bitops.h> #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include <trace/events/jbd2.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <asm/page.h> +#include <asm/system.h> EXPORT_SYMBOL(jbd2_journal_start); EXPORT_SYMBOL(jbd2_journal_restart); @@ -2209,9 +2211,10 @@ void jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode(jour restart: spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); /* Is commit writing out inode - we have to wait */ - if (jinode->i_flags & JI_COMMIT_RUNNING) { + if (test_bit(__JI_COMMIT_RUNNING, &jinode->i_flags)) { wait_queue_head_t *wq; DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, &jinode->i_flags, __JI_COMMIT_RUNNING); + smp_mb(); wq = bit_waitqueue(&jinode->i_flags, __JI_COMMIT_RUNNING); prepare_to_wait(wq, &wait.wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
