[PATCH 1/3] f2fs: avoid RECLAIM_FS-ON-W: deadlock

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Mon May 20 2013 - 23:58:38 EST


This patch tries to avoid the following deadlock condition of which the reclaim
path can trigger f2fs_balance_fs again.

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[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
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inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage.
kswapd0/41 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
(&sbi->gc_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: f2fs_balance_fs+0xe6/0x100 [f2fs]
{RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at:
[<ffffffff810aa5a9>] mark_held_locks+0xb9/0x140
[<ffffffff810aae85>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0x85/0xf0
[<ffffffff8113ab2c>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7c/0x9b0
[<ffffffff81175aa8>] alloc_pages_current+0xb8/0x180
[<ffffffff811319cf>] __page_cache_alloc+0xaf/0xd0
[<ffffffff8113225c>] find_or_create_page+0x4c/0xb0
[<ffffffffa021359e>] find_data_page+0x14e/0x210 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa021161b>] f2fs_gc+0x9eb/0xd90 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa0218fae>] f2fs_balance_fs+0xee/0x100 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa020848c>] f2fs_setattr+0x6c/0x200 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff811ae51b>] notify_change+0x1db/0x3a0
[<ffffffff8118fbd0>] do_truncate+0x60/0xa0
[<ffffffff8118fd95>] vfs_truncate+0x185/0x1b0
[<ffffffff8118fe1c>] do_sys_truncate+0x5c/0xa0
[<ffffffff8118ffee>] SyS_truncate+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff816e2b42>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/data.c | 4 ++--
fs/f2fs/inode.c | 3 +--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
index c320f7f..1644fff 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ struct page *find_data_page(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index, bool sync)
if (dn.data_blkaddr == NEW_ADDR)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

- page = grab_cache_page(mapping, index);
+ page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, AOP_FLAG_NOFS);
if (!page)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ struct page *get_lock_data_page(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index)
int err;

repeat:
- page = grab_cache_page(mapping, index);
+ page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, AOP_FLAG_NOFS);
if (!page)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
index 91ac7f9..a18946e 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
@@ -130,8 +130,7 @@ make_now:
inode->i_op = &f2fs_dir_inode_operations;
inode->i_fop = &f2fs_dir_operations;
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &f2fs_dblock_aops;
- mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE |
- __GFP_ZERO);
+ mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_F2FS_ZERO);
} else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) {
inode->i_op = &f2fs_symlink_inode_operations;
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &f2fs_dblock_aops;
--
1.8.1.3.566.gaa39828

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