Commit c33ec326 authored by Jaegeuk Kim's avatar Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: avoid f2fs_balance_fs call during pageout

This patch should resolve the following bug.

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[ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ]
3.13.0-rc5.f2fs+ #6 Not tainted
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kswapd0/41 just changed the state of lock:
 (&sbi->gc_mutex){+.+.-.}, at: [<ffffffffa030503e>] f2fs_balance_fs+0xae/0xd0 [f2fs]
but this lock took another, RECLAIM_FS-READ-unsafe lock in the past:
 (&sbi->cp_rwsem){++++.?}

and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them.

other info that might help us debug this:
Chain exists of:
  &sbi->gc_mutex --> &sbi->cp_mutex --> &sbi->cp_rwsem

 Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(&sbi->cp_rwsem);
                               local_irq_disable();
                               lock(&sbi->gc_mutex);
                               lock(&sbi->cp_mutex);
  <Interrupt>
    lock(&sbi->gc_mutex);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

This bug is due to the f2fs_balance_fs call in f2fs_write_data_page.
If f2fs_write_data_page is triggered by wbc->for_reclaim via kswapd, it should
not call f2fs_balance_fs which tries to get a mutex grabbed by original syscall
flow.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
parent 499046ab
...@@ -842,8 +842,10 @@ static int f2fs_write_data_page(struct page *page, ...@@ -842,8 +842,10 @@ static int f2fs_write_data_page(struct page *page,
else if (err) else if (err)
goto redirty_out; goto redirty_out;
if (wbc->for_reclaim) if (wbc->for_reclaim) {
f2fs_submit_merged_bio(sbi, DATA, WRITE); f2fs_submit_merged_bio(sbi, DATA, WRITE);
need_balance_fs = false;
}
clear_cold_data(page); clear_cold_data(page);
out: out:
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