1. 16 Jan, 2015 1 commit
    • Junxiao Bi's avatar
      ocfs2: fix journal commit deadlock · e66e0fc5
      Junxiao Bi authored
      commit 136f49b9 upstream.
      
      For buffer write, page lock will be got in write_begin and released in
      write_end, in ocfs2_write_end_nolock(), before it unlock the page in
      ocfs2_free_write_ctxt(), it calls ocfs2_run_deallocs(), this will ask
      for the read lock of journal->j_trans_barrier.  Holding page lock and
      ask for journal->j_trans_barrier breaks the locking order.
      
      This will cause a deadlock with journal commit threads, ocfs2cmt will
      get write lock of journal->j_trans_barrier first, then it wakes up
      kjournald2 to do the commit work, at last it waits until done.  To
      commit journal, kjournald2 needs flushing data first, it needs get the
      cache page lock.
      
      Since some ocfs2 cluster locks are holding by write process, this
      deadlock may hung the whole cluster.
      
      unlock pages before ocfs2_run_deallocs() can fix the locking order, also
      put unlock before ocfs2_commit_trans() to make page lock is unlocked
      before j_trans_barrier to preserve unlocking order.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJunxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarWengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>
      Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      e66e0fc5
  2. 08 Jan, 2015 39 commits