[PATCH] Attempt to sync the fsstress writes to a frozen F.S

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While the fsstress background writes are busy dirtying the page cache, if a
fsfreeze happens then the background writes should stall. A sync should then
not have any data to sync to the FS. If it does have any data to sync then
sync will cause a deadlock by holding the s_umount write semaphore and waiting
in the wait queue for the FS to thaw, whereas the F.S can never thaw without
getting the s_umount write semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Surbhi Palande <surbhi.palande@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 068 |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/068 b/068
index 82c1a4e..b9ac58d 100755
--- a/068
+++ b/068
@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ do
 	    tee -a $seq.full
 	sleep 2
 
+	# there should be nothing to sync at this point. This may hang in case
+	# of fsstress background writes dirtying the page cache while the F.S is frozen
+	sync &
+	sleep 2
+
 	echo "*** thawing  \$SCRATCH_MNT" | tee -a $seq.full
 	xfs_freeze -u "$SCRATCH_MNT" | tee -a $seq.full
 	[ $? != 0 ] && echo xfs_freeze -u "$SCRATCH_MNT" failed | \
-- 
1.7.1

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