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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
	"hannes@cmpxchg.org" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] writeback: introduce the pageout work
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:51:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120309095135.GC21038@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120309073113.GA5337@localhost>

  Hello,

On Thu 08-03-12 23:31:13, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 05:48:21PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 21:55 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > >   13   1125  /c/linux/fs/ubifs/file.c <<do_truncation>>   <===== deadlockable
> > 
> > Sorry, but could you please explain once again how the deadlock may
> > happen?
> 
> Sorry I confused ubifs do_truncation() with the truncate_inode_pages()
> that may be called from iput().
> 
> The once suspected deadlock scheme is when the flusher thread calls
> the final iput:
> 
>         flusher thread
>           iput_final
>             <some ubifs function>
>               ubifs_budget_space
>                 shrink_liability
>                   writeback_inodes_sb
>                     writeback_inodes_sb_nr
>                       bdi_queue_work
>                       wait_for_completion  => end up waiting for the flusher itself
> 
> However I cannot find any ubifs functions to form the above loop, so
> ubifs should be safe for now.
  Yeah, me neither but I also failed to find a place where
ubifs_evict_inode() truncates inode space when deleting the inode... Artem?

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-09  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-28 14:00 [PATCH 0/9] [RFC] pageout work and dirty reclaim throttling Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 1/9] memcg: add page_cgroup flags for dirty page tracking Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29  0:50   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-04  1:29     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 2/9] memcg: add dirty page accounting infrastructure Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 22:37   ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-29  0:27     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 3/9] memcg: add kernel calls for memcg dirty page stats Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29  1:10   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 4/9] memcg: dirty page accounting support routines Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 15:15   ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 22:45   ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-29  1:15     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 5/9] writeback: introduce the pageout work Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29  0:04   ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-29  2:31     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 13:28     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 11:04     ` Jan Kara
2012-03-01 11:41       ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 16:50         ` Jan Kara
2012-03-01 19:46         ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-03 13:25           ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-07  0:37             ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-07  5:40               ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 19:42       ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-01 21:15         ` Jan Kara
2012-03-01 21:22           ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-01 12:36     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 16:38       ` Jan Kara
2012-03-02  4:48         ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02  9:59           ` Jan Kara
2012-03-02 10:39             ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02 19:57               ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-03 13:55                 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-03 14:27                   ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-04 11:13                     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-07 15:48                   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09  7:31                     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-09  9:51                       ` Jan Kara [this message]
2012-03-09 10:24                         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 16:10                         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 21:11                           ` Jan Kara
2012-03-12 12:36                             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-12 14:02                               ` Jan Kara
2012-03-12 14:21                                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 10:15                   ` Jan Kara
2012-03-09 15:10                     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 13:51   ` [PATCH v2 " Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 13:35     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02  6:22       ` [PATCH v3 " Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 6/9] vmscan: dirty reclaim throttling Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 7/9] mm: pass __GFP_WRITE to memcg charge and reclaim routines Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm: dont set __GFP_WRITE on ramfs/sysfs writes Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 10:13   ` Johannes Weiner
2012-03-01 10:30     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm: debug vmscan waits Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02  6:59   ` [RFC PATCH] mm: don't treat anonymous pages as dirtyable pages Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02  7:18     ` Fengguang Wu

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