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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 05/12] btrfs: add a helper to queue a corrupted sector for read repair
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:14:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YmwAzU+UORfX92Te@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ac0c01f-73f6-e830-f3bc-6281bd79b7d2@gmx.com>

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 06:55:59AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> Another consideration is, would it really dead lock?
> 
> We're only called for read path, not writeback path.
> IIRC it's easier to hit dead lock at writeback path, as writeback can be
> triggered by memory pressure.
> 
> But would the same problem happen just for read path?

System with sever memory pressure needs to page something in to get
something out.  The readpage uses the last available bio in the btrfs
bioset, but that read now needs a read repair, which needs to allocate
another bio from the bio_set -> deadlock.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-29 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1651043617.git.wqu@suse.com>
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 01/12] btrfs: introduce a pure data checksum checking helper Qu Wenruo
2022-04-28 13:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 02/12] btrfs: always save bio::bi_iter into btrfs_bio::iter before submitting Qu Wenruo
2022-04-28  5:16   ` Qu Wenruo
2022-04-28 13:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-28 22:41     ` Qu Wenruo
2022-04-29 15:09       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-29 23:04         ` Qu Wenruo
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 03/12] btrfs: remove duplicated parameters from submit_data_read_repair() Qu Wenruo
2022-04-28 13:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 04/12] btrfs: add btrfs_read_repair_ctrl to record corrupted sectors Qu Wenruo
2022-04-28 13:37   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-28 22:51     ` Qu Wenruo
2022-04-29  0:09       ` Qu Wenruo
2022-04-29 15:12         ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-29 15:11       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 05/12] btrfs: add a helper to queue a corrupted sector for read repair Qu Wenruo
2022-04-28  5:20   ` Qu Wenruo
2022-04-28 13:44     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-28 22:55       ` Qu Wenruo
2022-04-29  7:11         ` Qu Wenruo
2022-04-29 15:14         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-04-29 23:08           ` Qu Wenruo
2022-05-01 23:59           ` Qu Wenruo
2022-05-02 16:45             ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-02 23:00               ` Qu Wenruo
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 06/12] btrfs: introduce a helper to repair from one mirror Qu Wenruo
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 07/12] btrfs: allow btrfs read repair to submit all writes in one go Qu Wenruo
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 08/12] btrfs: switch buffered read to the new btrfs_read_repair_* based repair routine Qu Wenruo
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 09/12] btrfs: switch direct IO routine to use btrfs_read_repair_ctrl Qu Wenruo
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 10/12] btrfs: cleanup btrfs_repair_one_sector() Qu Wenruo
2022-04-28 13:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 11/12] btrfs: remove io_failure_record infrastructure completely Qu Wenruo
2022-04-27  7:18 ` [PATCH RFC v2 12/12] btrfs: remove btrfs_inode::io_failure_tree Qu Wenruo

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