Re: [PATCH] Fix balance Oops

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Aug 07 2009, Yan Zheng wrote:
> invalidate_inode_pages2_range may return -EBUSY occasionally
> which results Oops. This patch fixes the issue by moving
> invalidate_inode_pages2_range into a loop and keeping calling
> it until the return value is not -EBUSY.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
> 
> ---
> diff -urp 1/fs/btrfs/relocation.c 2/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
> --- 1/fs/btrfs/relocation.c	2009-07-29 10:03:04.367858774 +0800
> +++ 2/fs/btrfs/relocation.c	2009-08-07 13:26:43.882147138 +0800
> @@ -2553,8 +2553,13 @@ int relocate_inode_pages(struct inode *i
>  	last_index = (start + len - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
>  
>  	/* make sure the dirty trick played by the caller work */
> -	ret = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(inode->i_mapping,
> -					    first_index, last_index);
> +	while (1) {
> +		ret = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(inode->i_mapping,
> +						    first_index, last_index);
> +		if (ret != -EBUSY)
> +			break;
> +		cond_resched();
> +	}

If it returns EBUSY, would it not make more sense to call
filemap_write_and_wait_range() instead of hammering on invalidate?

-- 
Jens Axboe