An inode in the AIL can be flush locked and marked stale if
a cluster free transaction occurs at the right time. The
inode item is then marked as flushing, which causes xfsaild
to spin and leaves the filesystem stalled. This is
reproduced by running xfstests 273 in a loop for an
extended period of time.
Check for stale inodes before the flush lock. This marks
the inode as pinned, leads to a log flush and allows the
filesystem to proceed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This patch resolves the stall I was reproducing with the 273 loop test.
I repeated the test pretty much throughout the weekend. I still hit one
hung task timeout message, but the test proceeded through it.
Dave, I know you mentioned you were sending a similar patch. Either you
didn't get to it or I missed it, but here's what I've been testing....
Brian
fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c | 17 ++++++++---------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
index 0309c979..e6ba0ec 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
@@ -505,6 +505,14 @@ xfs_inode_item_push(
}
/*
+ * Stale inode items should force out the iclog.
+ */
+ if (ip->i_flags & XFS_ISTALE) {
+ rval = XFS_ITEM_PINNED;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
+ /*
* Someone else is already flushing the inode. Nothing we can do
* here but wait for the flush to finish and remove the item from
* the AIL.
@@ -514,15 +522,6 @@ xfs_inode_item_push(
goto out_unlock;
}
- /*
- * Stale inode items should force out the iclog.
- */
- if (ip->i_flags & XFS_ISTALE) {
- xfs_ifunlock(ip);
- xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
- return XFS_ITEM_PINNED;
- }
-
ASSERT(iip->ili_fields != 0 || XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount));
ASSERT(iip->ili_logged == 0 || XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount));
--
1.7.7.6
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