Hi Matthew, thanks for your work on this patch series! I applied it against 4c3, and ran a quick test run on it, and found the following locking problem. To reproduce: kvm-xfstests -c nojournal generic/113 generic/113 [09:27:19][ 5.841937] run fstests generic/113 at 2019-10-21 09:27:19 [ 7.959477] [ 7.959798] ============================================ [ 7.960518] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected [ 7.961225] 5.4.0-rc3-xfstests-00012-g7fe6ea084e48 #1238 Not tainted [ 7.961991] -------------------------------------------- [ 7.962569] aio-stress/1516 is trying to acquire lock: [ 7.963129] ffff9fd4791148c8 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#12){++++}, at: __generic_file_fsync+0x3e/0xb0 [ 7.964109] [ 7.964109] but task is already holding lock: [ 7.964740] ffff9fd4791148c8 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#12){++++}, at: ext4_dio_write_iter+0x15b/0x430 [ 7.965763] [ 7.965763] other info that might help us debug this: [ 7.966630] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 7.966630] [ 7.967424] CPU0 [ 7.967760] ---- [ 7.968097] lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#12); [ 7.968827] lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#12); [ 7.969558] [ 7.969558] *** DEADLOCK *** [ 7.969558] [ 7.970518] May be due to missing lock nesting notation [ 7.970518] [ 7.971592] 1 lock held by aio-stress/1516: [ 7.972267] #0: ffff9fd4791148c8 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#12){++++}, at: ext4_dio_write_iter+0x15b/0x430 [ 7.973807] [ 7.973807] stack backtrace: [ 7.974510] CPU: 0 PID: 1516 Comm: aio-stress Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3-xfstests-00012-g7fe6ea084e48 #1238 [ 7.976053] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014 [ 7.977327] Call Trace: [ 7.977700] dump_stack+0x67/0x90 [ 7.978198] __lock_acquire.cold+0x130/0x1f7 [ 7.978829] ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70 [ 7.979659] lock_acquire+0x9a/0x160 [ 7.980320] ? __generic_file_fsync+0x3e/0xb0 [ 7.981014] down_write+0x40/0x110 [ 7.981717] ? __generic_file_fsync+0x3e/0xb0 [ 7.982676] __generic_file_fsync+0x3e/0xb0 [ 7.983454] ext4_sync_file+0x277/0x4e0 [ 7.984188] iomap_dio_complete+0x112/0x130 [ 7.984971] ? iomap_dio_rw+0x3a0/0x4b0 [ 7.985647] iomap_dio_rw+0x419/0x4b0 [ 7.986317] ? ext4_dio_write_iter+0x296/0x430 [ 7.987039] ext4_dio_write_iter+0x296/0x430 [ 7.987786] aio_write+0xef/0x1c0 [ 7.988284] ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0x14/0x30 [ 7.988822] ? sched_clock+0x5/0x10 [ 7.989234] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc/0xc0 [ 7.989719] __io_submit_one.constprop.0+0x399/0x5f0 [ 7.990315] ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0x14/0x30 [ 7.990917] ? sched_clock+0x5/0x10 [ 7.991473] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc/0xc0 [ 7.992097] ? io_submit_one+0x141/0x5a0 [ 7.992741] io_submit_one+0x141/0x5a0 [ 7.993354] __x64_sys_io_submit+0x9a/0x290 [ 7.993853] ? do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1b0 [ 7.994250] ? __ia32_sys_io_destroy+0x10/0x10 [ 7.994748] do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1b0 [ 7.995175] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe [ 7.995761] RIP: 0033:0x55d1268c2d17 [ 7.996270] Code: 00 75 08 8b 47 0c 39 47 08 74 08 e9 b3 ff ff ff 0f 1f 00 31 c0 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 b8 d1 00 00 00 0f 05 <c3> 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 63 ff b8 ce 00 00 00 0f 05 c3 0f 1f [ 7.999131] RSP: 002b:00007f090fb0bd88 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000d1 [ 7.999994] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055d128135010 RCX: 000055d1268c2d17 [ 8.000881] RDX: 000055d128135010 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: 00007f0907263000 [ 8.001765] RBP: 000055d128129560 R08: 00007fff421ae080 R09: 00007f090fb0bd68 [ 8.002824] R10: 00007f090fb0bd60 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000008 [ 8.004016] R13: 00007f090fb0bdb0 R14: 00007f090fb0bda0 R15: 000055d128129560 I'm other test configurations are still running, and I haven't had a chance to do a detailed review on it, but I'll try to get to it this week. Thanks, - Ted