[PATCH 45/80] staging: lustre: llite: Fix the deadlock in balance_dirty_pages()

From: James Simmons
Date: Tue Aug 16 2016 - 16:28:57 EST


From: Jinshan Xiong <jinshan.xiong@xxxxxxxxx>

If the page is already dirtied in ll_write_end() and kernel tries
to call balance_dirty_pages() to write back dirty pages in the same
thread, this is deadlock case if the page is already held by clio.

This can also fix the issue of LU-4873.

Signed-off-by: Jinshan Xiong <jinshan.xiong@xxxxxxxxx>
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4977
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/10149
Reviewed-by: Bobi Jam <bobijam@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lai Siyao <lai.siyao@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
index c14a1b6..8c8c100 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
@@ -506,9 +506,8 @@ static int ll_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
env = lcc->lcc_env;
io = lcc->lcc_io;

- if (likely(to == PAGE_SIZE)) /* LU-4873 */
- /* To avoid deadlock, try to lock page first. */
- vmpage = grab_cache_page_nowait(mapping, index);
+ /* To avoid deadlock, try to lock page first. */
+ vmpage = grab_cache_page_nowait(mapping, index);
if (unlikely(!vmpage || PageDirty(vmpage) || PageWriteback(vmpage))) {
struct vvp_io *vio = vvp_env_io(env);
struct cl_page_list *plist = &vio->u.write.vui_queue;
@@ -617,6 +616,13 @@ static int ll_write_end(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
LASSERT(from == 0);
vio->u.write.vui_to = from + copied;

+ /*
+ * To address the deadlock in balance_dirty_pages() where
+ * this dirty page may be written back in the same thread.
+ */
+ if (PageDirty(vmpage))
+ unplug = true;
+
/* We may have one full RPC, commit it soon */
if (plist->pl_nr >= PTLRPC_MAX_BRW_PAGES)
unplug = true;
--
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