If we have enough aggressive DIO readers, truncate will wait forever inside inode_dio_wait(). It is reasonable to disable nonlock DIO read optimization during truncate. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 709ec5a..5a75908 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4354,7 +4354,9 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr) if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) { if (attr->ia_size != i_size_read(inode)) truncate_setsize(inode, attr->ia_size); + ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIOREAD_LOCK); inode_dio_wait(inode); + ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIOREAD_LOCK); ext4_truncate(inode); } -- 1.7.7.6 -- 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