linux-kernel - [245/262] ext4: remove i_mutex lock in ext4_evict

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Date:	Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:29:27 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@...gle.com>,
	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [245/262] ext4: remove i_mutex lock in ext4_evict_inode to fix lockdep complaining

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@...gle.com>

commit 8c0bec2151a47906bf779c6715a10ce04453ab77 upstream.

The i_mutex lock and flush_completed_IO() added by commit 2581fdc810
in ext4_evict_inode() causes lockdep complaining about potential
deadlock in several places.  In most/all of these LOCKDEP complaints
it looks like it's a false positive, since many of the potential
circular locking cases can't take place by the time the
ext4_evict_inode() is called; but since at the very least it may mask
real problems, we need to address this.

This change removes the flush_completed_IO() and i_mutex lock in
ext4_evict_inode().  Instead, we take a different approach to resolve
the software lockup that commit 2581fdc810 intends to fix.  Rather
than having ext4-dio-unwritten thread wait for grabing the i_mutex
lock of an inode, we use mutex_trylock() instead, and simply requeue
the work item if we fail to grab the inode's i_mutex lock.

This should speed up work queue processing in general and also
prevents the following deadlock scenario: During page fault,
shrink_icache_memory is called that in turn evicts another inode B.
Inode B has some pending io_end work so it calls ext4_ioend_wait()
that waits for inode B's i_ioend_count to become zero.  However, inode
B's ioend work was queued behind some of inode A's ioend work on the
same cpu's ext4-dio-unwritten workqueue.  As the ext4-dio-unwritten
thread on that cpu is processing inode A's ioend work, it tries to
grab inode A's i_mutex lock.  Since the i_mutex lock of inode A is
still hold before the page fault happened, we enter a deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 fs/ext4/ext4.h    |    1 +
 fs/ext4/inode.c   |    3 ---
 fs/ext4/page-io.c |   18 +++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ struct mpage_da_data {
  */
 #define	EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN	0x0001
 #define EXT4_IO_END_ERROR	0x0002
+#define EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED	0x0004

 struct ext4_io_page {
 	struct page	*p_page;
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -190,9 +190,6 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inod

 	trace_ext4_evict_inode(inode);

-	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ext4_flush_completed_IO(inode);
-	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	ext4_ioend_wait(inode);

 	if (inode->i_nlink) {
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -142,7 +142,23 @@ static void ext4_end_io_work(struct work
 	unsigned long		flags;
 	int			ret;

-	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+	if (!mutex_trylock(&inode->i_mutex)) {
+		/*
+		 * Requeue the work instead of waiting so that the work
+		 * items queued after this can be processed.
+		 */
+		queue_work(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->dio_unwritten_wq, &io->work);
+		/*
+		 * To prevent the ext4-dio-unwritten thread from keeping
+		 * requeueing end_io requests and occupying cpu for too long,
+		 * yield the cpu if it sees an end_io request that has already
+		 * been requeued.
+		 */
+		if (io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED)
+			yield();
+		io->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED;
+		return;
+	}
 	ret = ext4_end_io_nolock(io);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);

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