If we have enough aggressive DIO readers, truncate and other dio
waiters 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 | 9 +++++++--
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 583cb3f..c40a98d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4305,9 +4305,14 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
if (attr->ia_size != inode->i_size) {
truncate_setsize(inode, attr->ia_size);
- /* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight */
- if (orphan)
+ /* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight.
+ * Temporarily disable dioread_nolock to prevent
+ * livelock. */
+ if (orphan) {
+ ext4_inode_block_unlocked_dio(inode);
inode_dio_wait(inode);
+ ext4_inode_resume_unlocked_dio(inode);
+ }
}
ext4_truncate(inode);
}
--
1.7.7.6
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