Btrfs: fix deadlock on metadata reservation when evicting a inode

When I ran the xfstests, I found the test tasks was blocked on meta-data
reservation.

By debugging, I found the reason of this bug:
   start transaction
        |
	v
   reserve meta-data space
	|
	v
   flush delay allocation -> iput inode -> evict inode
	^					|
	|					v
   wait for delay allocation flush <- reserve meta-data space

And besides that, the flush on evicting inode will block the thread, which
is reclaiming the memory, and make oom happen easily.

Fix this bug by skipping the flush step when evicting inode.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
This commit is contained in:
Miao Xie 2011-11-18 17:43:00 +08:00 committed by David Sterba
parent b52f75a595
commit aa38a711a8
3 changed files with 22 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -2369,6 +2369,9 @@ int btrfs_block_rsv_check(struct btrfs_root *root,
int btrfs_block_rsv_refill(struct btrfs_root *root,
struct btrfs_block_rsv *block_rsv,
u64 min_reserved);
int btrfs_block_rsv_refill_noflush(struct btrfs_root *root,
struct btrfs_block_rsv *block_rsv,
u64 min_reserved);
int btrfs_block_rsv_migrate(struct btrfs_block_rsv *src_rsv,
struct btrfs_block_rsv *dst_rsv,
u64 num_bytes);

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@ -3887,9 +3887,9 @@ int btrfs_block_rsv_check(struct btrfs_root *root,
return ret;
}
int btrfs_block_rsv_refill(struct btrfs_root *root,
static inline int __btrfs_block_rsv_refill(struct btrfs_root *root,
struct btrfs_block_rsv *block_rsv,
u64 min_reserved)
u64 min_reserved, int flush)
{
u64 num_bytes = 0;
int ret = -ENOSPC;
@ -3908,7 +3908,7 @@ int btrfs_block_rsv_refill(struct btrfs_root *root,
if (!ret)
return 0;
ret = reserve_metadata_bytes(root, block_rsv, num_bytes, 1);
ret = reserve_metadata_bytes(root, block_rsv, num_bytes, flush);
if (!ret) {
block_rsv_add_bytes(block_rsv, num_bytes, 0);
return 0;
@ -3917,6 +3917,20 @@ int btrfs_block_rsv_refill(struct btrfs_root *root,
return ret;
}
int btrfs_block_rsv_refill(struct btrfs_root *root,
struct btrfs_block_rsv *block_rsv,
u64 min_reserved)
{
return __btrfs_block_rsv_refill(root, block_rsv, min_reserved, 1);
}
int btrfs_block_rsv_refill_noflush(struct btrfs_root *root,
struct btrfs_block_rsv *block_rsv,
u64 min_reserved)
{
return __btrfs_block_rsv_refill(root, block_rsv, min_reserved, 0);
}
int btrfs_block_rsv_migrate(struct btrfs_block_rsv *src_rsv,
struct btrfs_block_rsv *dst_rsv,
u64 num_bytes)

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@ -3490,7 +3490,7 @@ void btrfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
* doing the truncate.
*/
while (1) {
ret = btrfs_block_rsv_refill(root, rsv, min_size);
ret = btrfs_block_rsv_refill_noflush(root, rsv, min_size);
/*
* Try and steal from the global reserve since we will