3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 7ef3ff2fea8bf5e4a21cef47ad87710a3d0fdb52 upstream. Nilfs2 eventually hangs in a stress test with fsstress program. This issue was caused by the following deadlock over I_SYNC flag between nilfs_segctor_thread() and writeback_sb_inodes(): nilfs_segctor_thread() nilfs_segctor_thread_construct() nilfs_segctor_unlock() nilfs_dispose_list() iput() iput_final() evict() inode_wait_for_writeback() * wait for I_SYNC flag writeback_sb_inodes() * set I_SYNC flag on inode->i_state __writeback_single_inode() do_writepages() nilfs_writepages() nilfs_construct_dsync_segment() nilfs_segctor_sync() * wait for completion of segment constructor inode_sync_complete() * clear I_SYNC flag after __writeback_single_inode() completed writeback_sb_inodes() calls do_writepages() for dirty inodes after setting I_SYNC flag on inode->i_state. do_writepages() in turn calls nilfs_writepages(), which can run segment constructor and wait for its completion. On the other hand, segment constructor calls iput(), which can call evict() and wait for the I_SYNC flag on inode_wait_for_writeback(). Since segment constructor doesn't know when I_SYNC will be set, it cannot know whether iput() will block or not unless inode->i_nlink has a non-zero count. We can prevent evict() from being called in iput() by implementing sop->drop_inode(), but it's not preferable to leave inodes with i_nlink == 0 for long periods because it even defers file truncation and inode deallocation. So, this instead resolves the deadlock by calling iput() asynchronously with a workqueue for inodes with i_nlink == 0. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nilfs2/nilfs.h | 2 -- fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- fs/nilfs2/segment.h | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nilfs2/nilfs.h +++ b/fs/nilfs2/nilfs.h @@ -141,7 +141,6 @@ enum { * @ti_save: Backup of journal_info field of task_struct * @ti_flags: Flags * @ti_count: Nest level - * @ti_garbage: List of inode to be put when releasing semaphore */ struct nilfs_transaction_info { u32 ti_magic; @@ -150,7 +149,6 @@ struct nilfs_transaction_info { one of other filesystems has a bug. */ unsigned short ti_flags; unsigned short ti_count; - struct list_head ti_garbage; }; /* ti_magic */ --- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c +++ b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c @@ -305,7 +305,6 @@ static void nilfs_transaction_lock(struc ti->ti_count = 0; ti->ti_save = cur_ti; ti->ti_magic = NILFS_TI_MAGIC; - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ti->ti_garbage); current->journal_info = ti; for (;;) { @@ -332,8 +331,6 @@ static void nilfs_transaction_unlock(str up_write(&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem); current->journal_info = ti->ti_save; - if (!list_empty(&ti->ti_garbage)) - nilfs_dispose_list(nilfs, &ti->ti_garbage, 0); } static void *nilfs_segctor_map_segsum_entry(struct nilfs_sc_info *sci, @@ -746,6 +743,15 @@ static void nilfs_dispose_list(struct th } } +static void nilfs_iput_work_func(struct work_struct *work) +{ + struct nilfs_sc_info *sci = container_of(work, struct nilfs_sc_info, + sc_iput_work); + struct the_nilfs *nilfs = sci->sc_super->s_fs_info; + + nilfs_dispose_list(nilfs, &sci->sc_iput_queue, 0); +} + static int nilfs_test_metadata_dirty(struct the_nilfs *nilfs, struct nilfs_root *root) { @@ -1899,8 +1905,8 @@ static int nilfs_segctor_collect_dirty_f static void nilfs_segctor_drop_written_files(struct nilfs_sc_info *sci, struct the_nilfs *nilfs) { - struct nilfs_transaction_info *ti = current->journal_info; struct nilfs_inode_info *ii, *n; + int defer_iput = false; spin_lock(&nilfs->ns_inode_lock); list_for_each_entry_safe(ii, n, &sci->sc_dirty_files, i_dirty) { @@ -1911,9 +1917,24 @@ static void nilfs_segctor_drop_written_f clear_bit(NILFS_I_BUSY, &ii->i_state); brelse(ii->i_bh); ii->i_bh = NULL; - list_move_tail(&ii->i_dirty, &ti->ti_garbage); + list_del_init(&ii->i_dirty); + if (!ii->vfs_inode.i_nlink) { + /* + * Defer calling iput() to avoid a deadlock + * over I_SYNC flag for inodes with i_nlink == 0 + */ + list_add_tail(&ii->i_dirty, &sci->sc_iput_queue); + defer_iput = true; + } else { + spin_unlock(&nilfs->ns_inode_lock); + iput(&ii->vfs_inode); + spin_lock(&nilfs->ns_inode_lock); + } } spin_unlock(&nilfs->ns_inode_lock); + + if (defer_iput) + schedule_work(&sci->sc_iput_work); } /* @@ -2580,6 +2601,8 @@ static struct nilfs_sc_info *nilfs_segct INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sci->sc_segbufs); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sci->sc_write_logs); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sci->sc_gc_inodes); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sci->sc_iput_queue); + INIT_WORK(&sci->sc_iput_work, nilfs_iput_work_func); init_timer(&sci->sc_timer); sci->sc_interval = HZ * NILFS_SC_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT; @@ -2606,6 +2629,8 @@ static void nilfs_segctor_write_out(stru ret = nilfs_segctor_construct(sci, SC_LSEG_SR); nilfs_transaction_unlock(sci->sc_super); + flush_work(&sci->sc_iput_work); + } while (ret && retrycount-- > 0); } @@ -2630,6 +2655,9 @@ static void nilfs_segctor_destroy(struct || sci->sc_seq_request != sci->sc_seq_done); spin_unlock(&sci->sc_state_lock); + if (flush_work(&sci->sc_iput_work)) + flag = true; + if (flag || !nilfs_segctor_confirm(sci)) nilfs_segctor_write_out(sci); @@ -2639,6 +2667,12 @@ static void nilfs_segctor_destroy(struct nilfs_dispose_list(nilfs, &sci->sc_dirty_files, 1); } + if (!list_empty(&sci->sc_iput_queue)) { + nilfs_warning(sci->sc_super, __func__, + "iput queue is not empty\n"); + nilfs_dispose_list(nilfs, &sci->sc_iput_queue, 1); + } + WARN_ON(!list_empty(&sci->sc_segbufs)); WARN_ON(!list_empty(&sci->sc_write_logs)); --- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.h +++ b/fs/nilfs2/segment.h @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/buffer_head.h> +#include <linux/workqueue.h> #include <linux/nilfs2_fs.h> #include "nilfs.h" @@ -92,6 +93,8 @@ struct nilfs_segsum_pointer { * @sc_nblk_inc: Block count of current generation * @sc_dirty_files: List of files to be written * @sc_gc_inodes: List of GC inodes having blocks to be written + * @sc_iput_queue: list of inodes for which iput should be done + * @sc_iput_work: work struct to defer iput call * @sc_freesegs: array of segment numbers to be freed * @sc_nfreesegs: number of segments on @sc_freesegs * @sc_dsync_inode: inode whose data pages are written for a sync operation @@ -135,6 +138,8 @@ struct nilfs_sc_info { struct list_head sc_dirty_files; struct list_head sc_gc_inodes; + struct list_head sc_iput_queue; + struct work_struct sc_iput_work; __u64 *sc_freesegs; size_t sc_nfreesegs; -- 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