linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix delalloc sync hang with journal lock inversion

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Date:	Thu, 22 May 2008 12:26:10 -0700
From:	Mingming <cmm@...ibm.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	tytso@....edu, sandeen@...hat.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix delalloc sync hang with journal lock
	inversion


On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 23:56 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:10:17AM -0700, Mingming wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 23:14 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/ext4/inode.c |   10 +++++++---
> > >  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> > > index 46cc610..076d00f 100644
> > > --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> > > +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> > > @@ -1571,13 +1571,17 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
> > >  		 */
> > >  		if (wbc->nr_to_write > EXT4_MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES)
> > >  			wbc->nr_to_write = EXT4_MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
> > > -		to_write -= wbc->nr_to_write;
> > > 
> > > +		to_write -= wbc->nr_to_write;
> > >  		ret = mpage_da_writepages(mapping, wbc, ext4_da_get_block_write);
> > >  		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
> > > -		to_write +=wbc->nr_to_write;
> > > +		if (wbc->nr_to_write) {
> > > +			/* We failed to write what we requested for */
> > > +			to_write += wbc->nr_to_write;
> > > +			break;
> > > +		}
> > 
> > Not sure about the break here...
> > > +		wbc->nr_to_write = to_write;
> > 
> > Looks right. thanks.
> > 
> > >  	}
> > > -
> > >  out_writepages:
> > >  	wbc->nr_to_write = to_write;
> > >  	wbc->range_cyclic = range_cyclic;
> > 
> 
> The call chain that made me look at this was 
> 
> #0  ext4_da_writepages (mapping=0xc76dc244, wbc=0xc790bf70) at fs/ext4/inode.c:1557
> #1  0xc0150176 in do_writepages (mapping=0xc76dc244, wbc=0xc790bf70) at mm/page-writeback.c:1004
> #2  0xc0180fe6 in __writeback_single_inode (inode=0xc76dc11c, wbc=0xc790bf70) at fs/fs-writeback.c:285
> #3  0xc018146c in sync_sb_inodes (sb=0xc7abac00, wbc=0xc790bf70) at fs/fs-writeback.c:502
> #4  0xc0181701 in writeback_inodes (wbc=0xc790bf70) at fs/fs-writeback.c:570
> #5  0xc01509f8 in background_writeout (_min_pages=<value optimized out>) at mm/page-writeback.c:639
> #6  0xc0150f57 in pdflush (dummy=<value optimized out>) at mm/pdflush.c:127
> #7  0xc01324af in kthread (_create=<value optimized out>) at kernel/kthread.c:79
> #8  0xc0104633 in kernel_thread_helper () at include/asm/string_32.h:238
> 
> ext4_da_writepages gets called with nr_to_write MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES. the
> file size is only 4K. ie there is only one page to write. With these
> value we get stuck in the above loop because to_write will never decrement
> below 1023.
> 

Ah, So I guess the comment should be reflect that the nr_to_write
returned after mpage_da_writepages() means there is no more dirty page
need to flush, then quit the loop.

Mingming
> 
> -aneesh

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