Re: [PATCH] fs-writeback: drop wb->list_lock during blk_finish_plug()

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On Wed, Sep 09 2015, Chris Mason wrote:
> Commit d353d7587 added a plug/finish_plug pair to writeback_sb_inodes,
> but writeback_sb_inodes has a horrible secret...it's called with the
> wb->list_lock held.
> 
> Btrfs raid5/6 and MD raid10 have horrible secrets of their own...they
> both do allocations in their unplug callbacks.
> 
> None of the options to fix it are very pretty.  We don't want to kick
> off workers for all of these unplugs, and the lock doesn't look hot
> enough to justify bigger restructuring.
> 
> [ 2854.025042] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/page_alloc.c:3189
> [ 2854.041366] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 145562, name: kworker/u66:15
> [ 2854.056813] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
> [ 2854.064870] CPU: 13 PID: 145562 Comm: kworker/u66:15 Not tainted 4.2.0-mason+ #1
> [ 2854.080082] Hardware name: ZTSYSTEMS Echo Ridge T4  /A9DRPF-10D, BIOS 1.07 05/10/2012
> [ 2854.096211] Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-btrfs-244)
> [ 2854.107821]  ffffffff81a2bbee ffff880ee09a7598 ffffffff813307bb ffff880ee09a7598
> [ 2854.123162]  ffff881010d1ca00 ffff880ee09a75c8 ffffffff81086615 0000000000000000
> [ 2854.138556]  0000000000000000 0000000000000c75 ffffffff81a2bbee ffff880ee09a75f8
> [ 2854.153936] Call Trace:
> [ 2854.181101]  [<ffffffff81086722>] __might_sleep+0x52/0x90
> [ 2854.192136]  [<ffffffff8116d2b4>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x344/0xbe0
> [ 2854.229682]  [<ffffffff811b54aa>] alloc_pages_current+0x10a/0x1e0
> [ 2854.255508]  [<ffffffffa0663f19>] full_stripe_write+0x59/0xc0 [btrfs]
> [ 2854.268600]  [<ffffffffa0663fb9>] __raid56_parity_write+0x39/0x60 [btrfs]
> [ 2854.282385]  [<ffffffffa06640fb>] run_plug+0x11b/0x140 [btrfs]
> [ 2854.294259]  [<ffffffffa0664143>] btrfs_raid_unplug+0x23/0x70 [btrfs]
> [ 2854.307334]  [<ffffffff81307622>] blk_flush_plug_list+0x82/0x1f0
> [ 2854.319542]  [<ffffffff813077c4>] blk_finish_plug+0x34/0x50
> [ 2854.330878]  [<ffffffff812079c2>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x122/0x580
> [ 2854.343256]  [<ffffffff81208016>] wb_writeback+0x136/0x4e0
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>

-- 
Jens Axboe

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