linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fuse: Fix possible deadlock when writing back dirty pages

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Message-ID: <495c1637-8d63-6620-ca76-e77f61ae11cf@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:18:34 +0800
From:   Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:     Peng Tao <tao.peng@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fuse: Fix possible deadlock when writing back
 dirty pages



在 2021/4/14 17:47, Miklos Szeredi 写道:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:22 AM Baolin Wang
> <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 在 2021/4/14 17:02, Miklos Szeredi 写道:
>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:42 AM Baolin Wang
>>> <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry I missed this patch before, and I've tested this patch, it seems
>>>> can solve the deadlock issue I met before.
>>>
>>> Great, thanks for testing.
>>>
>>>> But look at this patch in detail, I think this patch only reduced the
>>>> deadlock window, but did not remove the possible deadlock scenario
>>>> completely like I explained in the commit log.
>>>>
>>>> Since the fuse_fill_write_pages() can still lock the partitail page in
>>>> your patch, and will be wait for the partitail page waritehack is
>>>> completed if writeback is set in fuse_send_write_pages().
>>>>
>>>> But at the same time, a writeback worker thread may be waiting for
>>>> trying to lock the partitail page to write a bunch of dirty pages by
>>>> fuse_writepages().
>>>
>>> As you say, fuse_fill_write_pages() will lock a partial page.  This
>>> page cannot become dirty, only after being read completely, which
>>> first requires the page lock.  So dirtying this page can only happen
>>> after the writeback of the fragment was completed.
>>
>> What I mean is the writeback worker had looked up the dirty pages in
>> write_cache_pages() and stored them into a temporary pagevec, then try
>> to lock dirty page one by one and write them.
>>
>> For example, suppose it looked up 2 dirty pages (named page 1 and page
>> 2), and writed down page 1 by fuse_writepages_fill(), unlocked page 1.
>> Then try to lock page 2.
>>
>> At the same time, suppose the fuse_fill_write_pages() will write the
>> same page 1 and partitail page 2, and it will lock partital page 2 and
>> wait for the page 1's writeback is completed. But page 1's writeback can
>> not be completed, since the writeback worker is waiting for locking page
>> 2, which was already locked by fuse_fill_write_pages().
> 
> How would page2 become not uptodate, when it was already collected by
> write_cache_pages()?  I.e. page2 is a dirty page, hence it must be
> uptodate, and fuse_writepages_fill() will not keep it locked.

Read your patch carefully again, now I realized you are right, and your 
patch can solve the deadlock issue I met. Please feel free to add my 
tested-by tag for your patch. Thanks.

Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>