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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c | 6 |
4 files changed, 32 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c index 818c4cf2de8..8a70b2a17d6 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ xfs_fs_write_inode( error = 0; goto out_unlock; } - error = xfs_iflush(ip, 0); + error = xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_TRYLOCK); } out_unlock: diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c index 6c10f1d2e3d..594cd822d84 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c @@ -761,8 +761,10 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode( struct xfs_perag *pag, int sync_mode) { - int error = 0; + int error; +restart: + error = 0; xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); if (!xfs_iflock_nowait(ip)) { if (!(sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT)) @@ -788,9 +790,31 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode( if (xfs_inode_clean(ip)) goto reclaim; - /* Now we have an inode that needs flushing */ - error = xfs_iflush(ip, sync_mode); + /* + * Now we have an inode that needs flushing. + * + * We do a nonblocking flush here even if we are doing a SYNC_WAIT + * reclaim as we can deadlock with inode cluster removal. + * xfs_ifree_cluster() can lock the inode buffer before it locks the + * ip->i_lock, and we are doing the exact opposite here. As a result, + * doing a blocking xfs_itobp() to get the cluster buffer will result + * in an ABBA deadlock with xfs_ifree_cluster(). + * + * As xfs_ifree_cluser() must gather all inodes that are active in the + * cache to mark them stale, if we hit this case we don't actually want + * to do IO here - we want the inode marked stale so we can simply + * reclaim it. Hence if we get an EAGAIN error on a SYNC_WAIT flush, + * just unlock the inode, back off and try again. Hopefully the next + * pass through will see the stale flag set on the inode. + */ + error = xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_TRYLOCK | sync_mode); if (sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT) { + if (error == EAGAIN) { + xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); + /* backoff longer than in xfs_ifree_cluster */ + delay(2); + goto restart; + } xfs_iflock(ip); goto reclaim; } diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c index da871f53223..742c8330994 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c @@ -2835,7 +2835,7 @@ xfs_iflush( * Get the buffer containing the on-disk inode. */ error = xfs_itobp(mp, NULL, ip, &dip, &bp, - (flags & SYNC_WAIT) ? XBF_LOCK : XBF_TRYLOCK); + (flags & SYNC_TRYLOCK) ? XBF_TRYLOCK : XBF_LOCK); if (error || !bp) { xfs_ifunlock(ip); return error; diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c index fd4f398bd6f..46cc40131d4 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c @@ -760,11 +760,11 @@ xfs_inode_item_push( * Push the inode to it's backing buffer. This will not remove the * inode from the AIL - a further push will be required to trigger a * buffer push. However, this allows all the dirty inodes to be pushed - * to the buffer before it is pushed to disk. THe buffer IO completion - * will pull th einode from the AIL, mark it clean and unlock the flush + * to the buffer before it is pushed to disk. The buffer IO completion + * will pull the inode from the AIL, mark it clean and unlock the flush * lock. */ - (void) xfs_iflush(ip, 0); + (void) xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_TRYLOCK); xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED); } |