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| author | Chunhai Guo | 2023-09-15 22:51:31 -0600 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner | 2023-09-20 14:22:01 +0200 |
| commit | be049c3a088d512187407b7fd036cecfab46d565 (patch) | |
| tree | 178f9321a2a8e9e0492a0a5a31e02c19154067ba /fs/fs-writeback.c | |
| parent | db7fcc884d8a1e8265a87306e728c3d3239b0ca2 (diff) | |
fs-writeback: do not requeue a clean inode having skipped pages
When writing back an inode and performing an fsync on it concurrently, a
deadlock issue may arise as shown below. In each writeback iteration, a
clean inode is requeued to the wb->b_dirty queue due to non-zero
pages_skipped, without anything actually being written. This causes an
infinite loop and prevents the plug from being flushed, resulting in a
deadlock. We now avoid requeuing the clean inode to prevent this issue.
wb_writeback fsync (inode-Y)
blk_start_plug(&plug)
for (;;) {
iter i-1: some reqs with page-X added into plug->mq_list // f2fs node page-X with PG_writeback
filemap_fdatawrite
__filemap_fdatawrite_range // write inode-Y with sync_mode WB_SYNC_ALL
do_writepages
f2fs_write_data_pages
__f2fs_write_data_pages // wb_sync_req[DATA]++ for WB_SYNC_ALL
f2fs_write_cache_pages
f2fs_write_single_data_page
f2fs_do_write_data_page
f2fs_outplace_write_data
f2fs_update_data_blkaddr
f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback
wait_on_page_writeback // wait for f2fs node page-X
iter i:
progress = __writeback_inodes_wb(wb, work)
. writeback_sb_inodes
. __writeback_single_inode // write inode-Y with sync_mode WB_SYNC_NONE
. . do_writepages
. . f2fs_write_data_pages
. . . __f2fs_write_data_pages // skip writepages due to (wb_sync_req[DATA]>0)
. . . wbc->pages_skipped += get_dirty_pages(inode) // wbc->pages_skipped = 1
. if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL)) // i_state = I_SYNC | I_SYNC_QUEUED
. total_wrote++; // total_wrote = 1
. requeue_inode // requeue inode-Y to wb->b_dirty queue due to non-zero pages_skipped
if (progress) // progress = 1
continue;
iter i+1:
queue_io
// similar process with iter i, infinite for-loop !
}
blk_finish_plug(&plug) // flush plug won't be called
Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-Id: <20230916045131.957929-1-guochunhai@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 969ce991b0b0..c1af01b2c42d 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -1535,10 +1535,15 @@ static void requeue_inode(struct inode *inode, struct bdi_writeback *wb, if (wbc->pages_skipped) { /* - * writeback is not making progress due to locked - * buffers. Skip this inode for now. + * Writeback is not making progress due to locked buffers. + * Skip this inode for now. Although having skipped pages + * is odd for clean inodes, it can happen for some + * filesystems so handle that gracefully. */ - redirty_tail_locked(inode, wb); + if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL) + redirty_tail_locked(inode, wb); + else + inode_cgwb_move_to_attached(inode, wb); return; } |