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From: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
To: Liu Bo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Btrfs: fix deadlock during allocating chunks
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:08:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120315150737.GE6474@pambianco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331723829-25226-1-git-send-email-liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:17:09PM +0800, Liu Bo wrote:
> This deadlock comes from xfstests 251.
> 
> We'll hold the chunk_mutex throughout the whole of a chunk allocation.
> But if we find that we've used up system chunk space, we need to allocate a
> new system chunk, but this will lead to a recursion of chunk allocation and end
> up with a deadlock on chunk_mutex.
> So instead we need to allocate the system chunk first if we find we're in ENOSPC.

I'm using this patch without problem since you published it (compressed
/home with hourly snapshot delete/creation).

Thanks a lot for your work,
Andrea

      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14 11:17 [PATCH v2] Btrfs: fix deadlock during allocating chunks Liu Bo
2012-03-15 15:08 ` Andrea Gelmini [this message]

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