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Brian Foster authored
The log covering background task used to be part of the xfssyncd workqueue. That workqueue was removed as of commit 5889608d ("xfs: syncd workqueue is no more") and the associated work item scheduled to the xfs-log wq. The latter is used for log buffer I/O completion. Since xfs_log_worker() can invoke a log flush, a deadlock is possible between the xfs-log and xfs-cil workqueues. Consider the following codepath from xfs_log_worker(): xfs_log_worker() xfs_log_force() _xfs_log_force() xlog_cil_force() xlog_cil_force_lsn() xlog_cil_push_now() flush_work() The above is in xfs-log wq context and blocked waiting on the completion of an xfs-cil work item. Concurrently, the cil push in progress can end up blocked here: xlog_cil_push_work() xlog_cil_push() xlog_write() xlog_state_get_iclog_space() xlog_wait(&log->l_flush_wait, ...) The above is in xfs-cil context waiting on log buffer I/O completion, which executes in xfs-log wq context. In this scenario both workqueues are deadlocked waiting on eachother. Add a new workqueue specifically for the high level log covering and ail pushing worker, as was the case prior to commit 5889608d. Diagnosed-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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