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From: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: fdmanana@suse.com, dsterba@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: Fix deadlock between direct IO and fast fsync
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:57:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25132456.GqS7QuRSzf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1482485418-4190-1-git-send-email-chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Friday, December 23, 2016 03:00:18 PM Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> The following deadlock is seen when executing generic/113 test,
> 
>  ---------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------
>   Direct I/O task                                           Fast fsync task
>  ---------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------
>   btrfs_direct_IO
>     __blockdev_direct_IO
>      do_blockdev_direct_IO
>       do_direct_IO
>        btrfs_get_blocks_direct
>         while (blocks needs to written)
>          get_more_blocks (first iteration)
>           btrfs_get_blocks_direct
>            btrfs_create_dio_extent
>              down_read(&BTRFS_I(inode) >dio_sem)
>              Create and add extent map and ordered extent
>              up_read(&BTRFS_I(inode) >dio_sem)
>                                                             btrfs_sync_file
>                                                               btrfs_log_dentry_safe
>                                                                btrfs_log_inode_parent
>                                                                 btrfs_log_inode
>                                                                  btrfs_log_changed_extents
>                                                                   down_write(&BTRFS_I(inode) >dio_sem)
>                                                                    Collect new extent maps and ordered extents
>                                                                     wait for ordered extent completion
>          get_more_blocks (second iteration)
>           btrfs_get_blocks_direct
>            btrfs_create_dio_extent
>              down_read(&BTRFS_I(inode) >dio_sem)
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> In the above description, Btrfs direct I/O code path has not yet started
> submitting bios for file range covered by the initial ordered
> extent. Meanwhile, The fast fsync task obtains the write semaphore and
> waits for I/O on the ordered extent to get completed. However, the
> Direct I/O task is now blocked on obtaining the read semaphore.
> 
> To resolve the deadlock, this commit modifies the Direct I/O code path
> to obtain the read semaphore before invoking
> __blockdev_direct_IO(). The semaphore is then given up after
> __blockdev_direct_IO() returns. This allows the Direct I/O code to
> complete I/O on all the ordered extents it creates.
>

Btw, I was able to reproduce the issue on kdave/for-next branch with "Merge
branch 'for-next-next-4.9-20161125' into for-next-20161125" as the topmost
commit. The issue cannot be reproduced yet on latest code available from
kdave/for-next branch.

-- 
chandan


  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-23 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-23  9:30 [PATCH] Btrfs: Fix deadlock between direct IO and fast fsync Chandan Rajendra
2016-12-23 10:27 ` Chandan Rajendra [this message]
2016-12-23 11:57   ` Chandan Rajendra
2016-12-24  0:18     ` Liu Bo
2016-12-24  3:27       ` Chandan Rajendra
2017-01-02 14:29       ` David Sterba
2017-01-06 11:45 ` Filipe Manana
2017-01-06 12:18   ` David Sterba

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