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    ext4: Don't call sb_issue_discard() in ext4_free_blocks() · b56ff9d3
    Theodore Ts'o authored
    Commit 5c521830 (ext4: Support discard requests when running in
    no-journal mode) attempts to add sb_issue_discard() for data blocks
    (in data=writeback mode) and in no-journal mode.  Unfortunately, this
    no longer works, because in commit dd3932ed (block: remove
    BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT), sb_issue_discard() only presents a synchronous
    interface, and there are times when we call ext4_free_blocks() when we
    are are holding a spinlock, or are otherwise in an atomic context.
    
    For now, I've removed the call to sb_issue_discard() to prevent a
    deadlock or (if spinlock debugging is enabled) failures like this:
    
    BUG: scheduling while atomic: rc.sysinit/1376/0x00000002
    Pid: 1376, comm: rc.sysinit Not tainted 2.6.36-ARCH #1
    Call Trace:
    [<ffffffff810397ce>] __schedule_bug+0x5e/0x70
    [<ffffffff81403110>] schedule+0x950/0xa70
    [<ffffffff81060bad>] ? insert_work+0x7d/0x90
    [<ffffffff81060fbd>] ? queue_work_on+0x1d/0x30
    [<ffffffff81061127>] ? queue_work+0x37/0x60
    [<ffffffff8140377d>] schedule_timeout+0x21d/0x360
    [<ffffffff812031c3>] ? generic_make_request+0x2c3/0x540
    [<ffffffff81402680>] wait_for_common+0xc0/0x150
    [<ffffffff81041490>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
    [<ffffffff812034bc>] ? submit_bio+0x7c/0x100
    [<ffffffff810680a0>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x40
    [<ffffffff814027b8>] wait_for_completion+0x18/0x20
    [<ffffffff8120a969>] blkdev_issue_discard+0x1b9/0x210
    [<ffffffff811ba03e>] ext4_free_blocks+0x68e/0xb60
    [<ffffffff811b1650>] ? __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0x110/0x120
    [<ffffffff811b098c>] ext4_ext_truncate+0x8cc/0xa70
    [<ffffffff810d713e>] ? pagevec_lookup+0x1e/0x30
    [<ffffffff81191618>] ext4_truncate+0x178/0x5d0
    [<ffffffff810eacbb>] ? unmap_mapping_range+0xab/0x280
    [<ffffffff810d8976>] vmtruncate+0x56/0x70
    [<ffffffff811925cb>] ext4_setattr+0x14b/0x460
    [<ffffffff811319e4>] notify_change+0x194/0x380
    [<ffffffff81117f80>] do_truncate+0x60/0x90
    [<ffffffff811e08fa>] ? security_inode_permission+0x1a/0x20
    [<ffffffff811eaec1>] ? tomoyo_path_truncate+0x11/0x20
    [<ffffffff81127539>] do_last+0x5d9/0x770
    [<ffffffff811278bd>] do_filp_open+0x1ed/0x680
    [<ffffffff8140644f>] ? page_fault+0x1f/0x30
    [<ffffffff81132bfc>] ? alloc_fd+0xec/0x140
    [<ffffffff81118db1>] do_sys_open+0x61/0x120
    [<ffffffff81118e8b>] sys_open+0x1b/0x20
    [<ffffffff81002e6b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
    
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22302Reported-by: default avatarMathias Burén <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: jiayingz@google.com
    b56ff9d3
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