Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: stop all workers before cleaning up roots

[Alex Lyakas <alex.btrfs@zadarastorage.com>]

Hi Josef,

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> wrote:
> Dave reported a panic because the extent_root->commit_root was NULL in the
> caching kthread.  That is because we just unset it in free_root_pointers, which
> is not the correct thing to do, we have to either wait for the caching kthread
> to complete or hold the extent_commit_sem lock so we know the thread has exited.
> This patch makes the kthreads all stop first and then we do our cleanup.  This
> should fix the race.  Thanks,
>
> Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/disk-io.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> index 2b53afd..77cb566 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> @@ -3547,13 +3547,13 @@ int close_ctree(struct btrfs_root *root)
>
>         btrfs_free_block_groups(fs_info);

do you think it would be safer to stop all workers first and make sure
they are stopped, then do btrfs_free_block_groups()? I see, for
example, that btrfs_free_block_groups() checks:
if (block_group->cached == BTRFS_CACHE_STARTED)
which could be perhaps racy with other people spawning caching_threads.

So maybe better to stop all threads (including cleaner and committer)
and then free everything?

>
> -       free_root_pointers(fs_info, 1);
> +       btrfs_stop_all_workers(fs_info);
>
>         del_fs_roots(fs_info);
>
> -       iput(fs_info->btree_inode);
> +       free_root_pointers(fs_info, 1);
>
> -       btrfs_stop_all_workers(fs_info);
> +       iput(fs_info->btree_inode);
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY
>         if (btrfs_test_opt(root, CHECK_INTEGRITY))
> --
> 1.7.7.6
>
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Alex.