Just like in the allocator we must avoid touching multiple AGs out of order when freeing blocks, as freeing still locks the AGF and can cause the same AB-BA deadlocks as in the allocation path. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c index 0a9880777c9c..935adde72a8b 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c @@ -5435,6 +5435,7 @@ __xfs_bunmapi( xfs_fsblock_t sum; xfs_filblks_t len = *rlen; /* length to unmap in file */ xfs_fileoff_t max_len; + xfs_agnumber_t prev_agno = NULLAGNUMBER, agno; trace_xfs_bunmap(ip, bno, len, flags, _RET_IP_); @@ -5534,6 +5535,17 @@ __xfs_bunmapi( */ del = got; wasdel = isnullstartblock(del.br_startblock); + + /* + * Make sure we don't touch multiple AGF headers out of order + * in a single transaction, as that could cause AB-BA deadlocks. + */ + if (!wasdel) { + agno = XFS_FSB_TO_AGNO(mp, del.br_startblock); + if (prev_agno != NULLAGNUMBER && prev_agno > agno) + break; + prev_agno = agno; + } if (got.br_startoff < start) { del.br_startoff = start; del.br_blockcount -= start - got.br_startoff; -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html