When performing rename operation with RENAME_WHITEOUT flag, we will hold AGF lock to allocate or free extents in manipulating the dirents firstly, and then doing the xfs_iunlink_remove() call last to hold AGI lock to modify the tmpfile info, so we the lock order AGI->AGF. The big problem here is that we have an ordering constraint on AGF and AGI locking - inode allocation locks the AGI, then can allocate a new extent for new inodes, locking the AGF after the AGI. Hence the ordering that is imposed by other parts of the code is AGI before AGF. So we get the ABBA agi&agf deadlock here. Process A: Call trace: ? __schedule+0x2bd/0x620 schedule+0x33/0x90 schedule_timeout+0x17d/0x290 __down_common+0xef/0x125 ? xfs_buf_find+0x215/0x6c0 [xfs] down+0x3b/0x50 xfs_buf_lock+0x34/0xf0 [xfs] xfs_buf_find+0x215/0x6c0 [xfs] xfs_buf_get_map+0x37/0x230 [xfs] xfs_buf_read_map+0x29/0x190 [xfs] xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x13d/0x520 [xfs] xfs_read_agf+0xa6/0x180 [xfs] ? schedule_timeout+0x17d/0x290 xfs_alloc_read_agf+0x52/0x1f0 [xfs] xfs_alloc_fix_freelist+0x432/0x590 [xfs] ? down+0x3b/0x50 ? xfs_buf_lock+0x34/0xf0 [xfs] ? xfs_buf_find+0x215/0x6c0 [xfs] xfs_alloc_vextent+0x301/0x6c0 [xfs] xfs_ialloc_ag_alloc+0x182/0x700 [xfs] ? _xfs_trans_bjoin+0x72/0xf0 [xfs] xfs_dialloc+0x116/0x290 [xfs] xfs_ialloc+0x6d/0x5e0 [xfs] ? xfs_log_reserve+0x165/0x280 [xfs] xfs_dir_ialloc+0x8c/0x240 [xfs] xfs_create+0x35a/0x610 [xfs] xfs_generic_create+0x1f1/0x2f0 [xfs] ... Process B: Call trace: ? __schedule+0x2bd/0x620 ? xfs_bmapi_allocate+0x245/0x380 [xfs] schedule+0x33/0x90 schedule_timeout+0x17d/0x290 ? xfs_buf_find+0x1fd/0x6c0 [xfs] __down_common+0xef/0x125 ? xfs_buf_get_map+0x37/0x230 [xfs] ? xfs_buf_find+0x215/0x6c0 [xfs] down+0x3b/0x50 xfs_buf_lock+0x34/0xf0 [xfs] xfs_buf_find+0x215/0x6c0 [xfs] xfs_buf_get_map+0x37/0x230 [xfs] xfs_buf_read_map+0x29/0x190 [xfs] xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x13d/0x520 [xfs] xfs_read_agi+0xa8/0x160 [xfs] xfs_iunlink_remove+0x6f/0x2a0 [xfs] ? current_time+0x46/0x80 ? xfs_trans_ichgtime+0x39/0xb0 [xfs] xfs_rename+0x57a/0xae0 [xfs] xfs_vn_rename+0xe4/0x150 [xfs] ... In this patch we move the xfs_iunlink_remove() call to between xfs_dir_canenter() and xfs_dir_createname(). By doing xfs_iunlink _remove() firstly, we remove the AGI/AGF lock inversion problem. Signed-off-by: kaixuxia <kaixuxia@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c index 6467d5e..48691f2 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c @@ -3294,6 +3294,18 @@ struct xfs_iunlink { if (error) goto out_trans_cancel; } + + /* + * Handle the whiteout inode and acquire the AGI lock, so + * fix the AGI/AGF lock inversion problem. + */ + if (wip) { + ASSERT(VFS_I(wip)->i_nlink == 0); + error = xfs_iunlink_remove(tp, wip); + if (error) + goto out_trans_cancel; + } + /* * If target does not exist and the rename crosses * directories, adjust the target directory link count @@ -3428,9 +3440,11 @@ struct xfs_iunlink { if (wip) { ASSERT(VFS_I(wip)->i_nlink == 0); xfs_bumplink(tp, wip); - error = xfs_iunlink_remove(tp, wip); - if (error) - goto out_trans_cancel; + if (target_ip != NULL) { + error = xfs_iunlink_remove(tp, wip); + if (error) + goto out_trans_cancel; + } xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, wip, XFS_ILOG_CORE); /* -- 1.8.3.1 -- kaixuxia