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Message-ID: <20130402090047.GF3670@kernel.dk>
Date:	Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:00:47 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Loopback device hung [was Re: xfs deadlock on 3.9-rc5 running
 xfstests case #78]

On Tue, Apr 02 2013, CAI Qian wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jens Axboe" <axboe@...nel.dk>
> > To: "Dave Chinner" <david@...morbit.com>
> > Cc: "CAI Qian" <caiqian@...hat.com>, xfs@....sgi.com, "LKML" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 3:30:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: Loopback device hung [was Re: xfs deadlock on 3.9-rc5 running xfstests case #78]
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 02 2013, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 02 2013, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > > [Added jens Axboe to CC]
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:08:49AM -0400, CAI Qian wrote:
> > > > > Saw on almost all the servers range from x64, ppc64 and s390x with
> > > > > kernel
> > > > > 3.9-rc5 and xfsprogs-3.1.10. Never caught this in 3.9-rc4, so looks
> > > > > like
> > > > > something new broke this. Log is here with sysrq debug info.
> > > > > http://people.redhat.com/qcai/stable/log
> > > 
> > > CAI Qian, can you try and back the below out and test again?
> > 
> > Nevermind, it's clearly that one. The below should improve the
> > situation, but it's not pretty. A better fix would be to allow
> > auto-deletion even if PART_NO_SCAN is set.
> Jens, when compiled the mainline (up to fefcdbe) with this patch,
> it error-ed out,

Looks like I sent the wrong one, updated below.

diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index fe5f640..faa3afa 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1057,14 +1057,15 @@ static int loop_clr_fd(struct loop_device *lo)
 		struct disk_part_iter piter;
 		struct hd_struct *part;
 
-		mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, 1);
-		invalidate_partition(bdev->bd_disk, 0);
-		disk_part_iter_init(&piter, bdev->bd_disk,
-					DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY);
-		while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter)))
-			delete_partition(bdev->bd_disk, part->partno);
-		disk_part_iter_exit(&piter);
-		mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+		if (mutex_trylock(&bdev->bd_mutex)) {
+			invalidate_partition(bdev->bd_disk, 0);
+			disk_part_iter_init(&piter, bdev->bd_disk,
+						DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY);
+			while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter)))
+				delete_partition(bdev->bd_disk, part->partno);
+			disk_part_iter_exit(&piter);
+			mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*

-- 
Jens Axboe

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