This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfs: clear_request_commit while holding i_lock to the 3.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nfs-clear_request_commit-while-holding-i_lock.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thu Oct 2 16:49:13 2014 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:14:38 -0400 Subject: nfs: clear_request_commit while holding i_lock To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <1410804885-17228-8-git-send-email-trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 411a99adffb4f993eee29759f744de01487044ac upstream. Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c | 5 ++--- fs/nfs/write.c | 15 ++++----------- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c +++ b/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c @@ -1015,6 +1015,7 @@ static u32 select_bucket_index(struct nf /* The generic layer is about to remove the req from the commit list. * If this will make the bucket empty, it will need to put the lseg reference. + * Note this is must be called holding the inode (/cinfo) lock */ static void filelayout_clear_request_commit(struct nfs_page *req, @@ -1022,7 +1023,6 @@ filelayout_clear_request_commit(struct n { struct pnfs_layout_segment *freeme = NULL; - spin_lock(cinfo->lock); if (!test_and_clear_bit(PG_COMMIT_TO_DS, &req->wb_flags)) goto out; cinfo->ds->nwritten--; @@ -1037,8 +1037,7 @@ filelayout_clear_request_commit(struct n } out: nfs_request_remove_commit_list(req, cinfo); - spin_unlock(cinfo->lock); - pnfs_put_lseg(freeme); + pnfs_put_lseg_async(freeme); } static struct list_head * --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -379,8 +379,6 @@ nfs_destroy_unlinked_subrequests(struct subreq->wb_head = subreq; subreq->wb_this_page = subreq; - nfs_clear_request_commit(subreq); - /* subreq is now totally disconnected from page group or any * write / commit lists. last chance to wake any waiters */ nfs_unlock_request(subreq); @@ -490,7 +488,7 @@ try_again: * Commit list removal accounting is done after locks are dropped */ subreq = head; do { - nfs_list_remove_request(subreq); + nfs_clear_request_commit(subreq); subreq = subreq->wb_this_page; } while (subreq != head); @@ -520,15 +518,11 @@ try_again: nfs_page_group_unlock(head); - /* drop lock to clear_request_commit the head req and clean up - * requests on destroy list */ + /* drop lock to clean uprequests on destroy list */ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); nfs_destroy_unlinked_subrequests(destroy_list, head); - /* clean up commit list state */ - nfs_clear_request_commit(head); - /* still holds ref on head from nfs_page_find_head_request_locked * and still has lock on head from lock loop */ return head; @@ -810,6 +804,7 @@ nfs_clear_page_commit(struct page *page) dec_bdi_stat(page_file_mapping(page)->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); } +/* Called holding inode (/cinfo) lock */ static void nfs_clear_request_commit(struct nfs_page *req) { @@ -819,9 +814,7 @@ nfs_clear_request_commit(struct nfs_page nfs_init_cinfo_from_inode(&cinfo, inode); if (!pnfs_clear_request_commit(req, &cinfo)) { - spin_lock(cinfo.lock); nfs_request_remove_commit_list(req, &cinfo); - spin_unlock(cinfo.lock); } nfs_clear_page_commit(req->wb_page); } @@ -1040,9 +1033,9 @@ static struct nfs_page *nfs_try_to_updat else req->wb_bytes = rqend - req->wb_offset; out_unlock: - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); if (req) nfs_clear_request_commit(req); + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); return req; out_flushme: spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.16/nfs-move-nfs_pgio_data-and-remove-nfs_rw_header.patch queue-3.16/nfs-use-blocking-page_group_lock-in-add_request.patch queue-3.16/nfs-remove-pgio_header-refcount-related-cleanup.patch queue-3.16/pnfs-add-pnfs_put_lseg_async.patch queue-3.16/nfs-can_coalesce_requests-must-enforce-contiguity.patch queue-3.16/nfs-disallow-duplicate-pages-in-pgio-page-vectors.patch queue-3.16/nfs-fix-error-handling-in-lock_and_join_requests.patch queue-3.16/nfs-change-nfs_page_group_lock-argument.patch queue-3.16/nfsv4-nfs4_state_manager-vs.-nfs_server_remove_lists.patch queue-3.16/nfsv4-fix-another-bug-in-the-close-open_downgrade-code.patch queue-3.16/nfs-check-wait_on_bit_lock-err-in-page_group_lock.patch queue-3.16/nfs-don-t-sleep-with-inode-lock-in-lock_and_join_requests.patch queue-3.16/nfs-rename-members-of-nfs_pgio_data.patch queue-3.16/nfs-fix-nonblocking-calls-to-nfs_page_group_lock.patch queue-3.16/nfs-merge-nfs_pgio_data-into-_header.patch queue-3.16/nfs-clear_request_commit-while-holding-i_lock.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html