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authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2009-02-05 10:12:38 +0000
committerSteven Whitehouse <steve@dolmen.chygwyn.com>2009-03-24 11:21:18 +0000
commitd8348de06f704fc34d24ec068546ecb1045fc11a (patch)
treee6b7eb01ec128e40b255b903e3c6629fbd8174e5 /fs/gfs2/glops.c
parentGFS2: Fix error path ref counting for root inode (diff)
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GFS2: Fix deadlock on journal flush
This patch fixes a deadlock when the journal is flushed and there are dirty inodes other than the one which caused the journal flush. Originally the journal flushing code was trying to obtain the transaction glock while running the flush code for an inode glock. We no longer require the transaction glock at this point in time since we know that any attempt to get the transaction glock from another node will result in a journal flush. So if we are flushing the journal, we can be sure that the transaction lock is still cached from when the transaction was started. By inlining a version of gfs2_trans_begin() (minus the bit which gets the transaction glock) we can avoid the deadlock problems caused if there is a demote request queued up on the transaction glock. In addition I've also moved the umount rwsem so that it covers the glock workqueue, since it all demotions are done by this workqueue now. That fixes a bug on umount which I came across while fixing the original problem. Reported-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/gfs2/glops.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/gfs2/glops.c19
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glops.c b/fs/gfs2/glops.c
index f07ede8cb9ba..a9b7d3a60081 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glops.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glops.c
@@ -37,20 +37,25 @@
static void gfs2_ail_empty_gl(struct gfs2_glock *gl)
{
struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = gl->gl_sbd;
- unsigned int blocks;
struct list_head *head = &gl->gl_ail_list;
struct gfs2_bufdata *bd;
struct buffer_head *bh;
- int error;
+ struct gfs2_trans tr;
- blocks = atomic_read(&gl->gl_ail_count);
- if (!blocks)
- return;
+ memset(&tr, 0, sizeof(tr));
+ tr.tr_revokes = atomic_read(&gl->gl_ail_count);
- error = gfs2_trans_begin(sdp, 0, blocks);
- if (gfs2_assert_withdraw(sdp, !error))
+ if (!tr.tr_revokes)
return;
+ /* A shortened, inline version of gfs2_trans_begin() */
+ tr.tr_reserved = 1 + gfs2_struct2blk(sdp, tr.tr_revokes, sizeof(u64));
+ tr.tr_ip = (unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tr.tr_list_buf);
+ gfs2_log_reserve(sdp, tr.tr_reserved);
+ BUG_ON(current->journal_info);
+ current->journal_info = &tr;
+
gfs2_log_lock(sdp);
while (!list_empty(head)) {
bd = list_entry(head->next, struct gfs2_bufdata,