Commit 2267065a authored by Bob Peterson's avatar Bob Peterson Committed by Khalid Elmously

Revert "gfs2: Don't demote a glock until its revokes are written"

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883916

[ Upstream commit b14c9490 ]

This reverts commit df5db5f9.

This patch fixes a regression: patch df5db5f9 allowed function
run_queue() to bypass its call to do_xmote() if revokes were queued for
the glock. That's wrong because its call to do_xmote() is what is
responsible for calling the go_sync() glops functions to sync both
the ail list and any revokes queued for it. By bypassing the call,
gfs2 could get into a stand-off where the glock could not be demoted
until its revokes are written back, but the revokes would not be
written back because do_xmote() was never called.

It "sort of" works, however, because there are other mechanisms like
the log flush daemon (logd) that can sync the ail items and revokes,
if it deems it necessary. The problem is: without file system pressure,
it might never deem it necessary.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
parent 0acb0973
......@@ -541,9 +541,6 @@ __acquires(&gl->gl_lockref.lock)
goto out_unlock;
if (nonblock)
goto out_sched;
smp_mb();
if (atomic_read(&gl->gl_revokes) != 0)
goto out_sched;
set_bit(GLF_DEMOTE_IN_PROGRESS, &gl->gl_flags);
GLOCK_BUG_ON(gl, gl->gl_demote_state == LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE);
gl->gl_target = gl->gl_demote_state;
......
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