While testing and rearranging pquota/gquota code, I stumbled on a xfs_shutdown() during a mount. But the mount just hung. Debugged and found that there is a deadlock involving &log->l_cilp->xc_ctx_lock. It is in a code path where &log->l_cilp->xc_ctx_lock is first acquired in read mode and some levels down the same semaphore is being acquired in write mode causing a deadlock. This is the stack: xfs_log_commit_cil -> acquires &log->l_cilp->xc_ctx_lock in read mode xlog_print_tic_res xfs_force_shutdown xfs_log_force_umount xlog_cil_force xlog_cil_force_lsn xlog_cil_push_foreground xlog_cil_push - tries to acquire same semaphore in write mode This patch fixes the deadlock by changing the reason code for xfs_force_shutdown in xlog_print_tic_res() to SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR. SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR is the right reason code to be set since we are in the log path. Thanks to Dave for suggesting this solution. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c index d852a2b..bf89eb9 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c @@ -1941,7 +1941,7 @@ xlog_print_tic_res( xfs_alert_tag(mp, XFS_PTAG_LOGRES, "xlog_write: reservation ran out. Need to up reservation"); - xfs_force_shutdown(mp, SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT_INCORE); + xfs_force_shutdown(mp, SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR); } /* -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs