[PATCH] xfs: Non-blocking inode locking in IO completion

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

The introduction of barriers to DM loop devices (e.g. dm-crypt) has
created a new IO order completion dependency that XFS does not
handle. That is, the completion of log IOs (which have barriers) in
the loop filesystem are now dependent on completion of data IO in
the backing filesystem.

This can cause deadlocks when a flush daemon issues a log force with
an inode locked because the IO completion of IO on the inode is
blocked by the inode lock. This in turn prevents further data IO
completion from occuring, which prevents the log IO from completing
because DM is waiting for data Io completion as well.

The fix for this new completion order dependency issue is to make
the IO completion inode locking non-blocking. If the inode lock
can't be grabbed, simply requeue the IO completion back to the work
queue so that it can be processed later. This prevents the
completion queue from being blocked and allows data IO completion on
other inodes to proceed, hence avoiding completion order dependent
deadlocks.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
---
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c |   93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index 66abe36..1c65a2b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -163,14 +163,17 @@ xfs_ioend_new_eof(
 }
 
 /*
- * Update on-disk file size now that data has been written to disk.
- * The current in-memory file size is i_size.  If a write is beyond
- * eof i_new_size will be the intended file size until i_size is
- * updated.  If this write does not extend all the way to the valid
- * file size then restrict this update to the end of the write.
+ * Update on-disk file size now that data has been written to disk.  The
+ * current in-memory file size is i_size.  If a write is beyond eof i_new_size
+ * will be the intended file size until i_size is updated.  If this write does
+ * not extend all the way to the valid file size then restrict this update to
+ * the end of the write.
+ *
+ * This function does not block as blocking on the inode lock in IO completion
+ * can lead to IO completion order dependency deadlocks.. If it can't get the
+ * inode ilock it will return EAGAIN. Callers must handle this.
  */
-
-STATIC void
+STATIC int
 xfs_setfilesize(
 	xfs_ioend_t		*ioend)
 {
@@ -181,9 +184,11 @@ xfs_setfilesize(
 	ASSERT(ioend->io_type != IOMAP_READ);
 
 	if (unlikely(ioend->io_error))
-		return;
+		return 0;
+
+	if (!xfs_ilock_nowait(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL))
+		return EAGAIN;
 
-	xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
 	isize = xfs_ioend_new_eof(ioend);
 	if (isize) {
 		ip->i_d.di_size = isize;
@@ -191,6 +196,28 @@ xfs_setfilesize(
 	}
 
 	xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Schedule IO completion handling on a xfsdatad if this was
+ * the final hold on this ioend. If we are asked to wait,
+ * flush the workqueue.
+ */
+STATIC void
+xfs_finish_ioend(
+	xfs_ioend_t	*ioend,
+	int		wait)
+{
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ioend->io_remaining)) {
+		struct workqueue_struct *wq;
+
+		wq = (ioend->io_type == IOMAP_UNWRITTEN) ?
+			xfsconvertd_workqueue : xfsdatad_workqueue;
+		queue_work(wq, &ioend->io_work);
+		if (wait)
+			flush_workqueue(wq);
+	}
 }
 
 /*
@@ -198,11 +225,11 @@ xfs_setfilesize(
  */
 STATIC void
 xfs_end_io(
-	struct work_struct	*work)
+	struct work_struct *work)
 {
-	xfs_ioend_t		*ioend =
-		container_of(work, xfs_ioend_t, io_work);
-	struct xfs_inode	*ip = XFS_I(ioend->io_inode);
+	xfs_ioend_t	*ioend = container_of(work, xfs_ioend_t, io_work);
+	struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(ioend->io_inode);
+	int		error;
 
 	/*
 	 * For unwritten extents we need to issue transactions to convert a
@@ -210,7 +237,6 @@ xfs_end_io(
 	 */
 	if (ioend->io_type == IOMAP_UNWRITTEN &&
 	    likely(!ioend->io_error && !XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount))) {
-		int error;
 
 		error = xfs_iomap_write_unwritten(ip, ioend->io_offset,
 						 ioend->io_size);
@@ -222,30 +248,23 @@ xfs_end_io(
 	 * We might have to update the on-disk file size after extending
 	 * writes.
 	 */
-	if (ioend->io_type != IOMAP_READ)
-		xfs_setfilesize(ioend);
-	xfs_destroy_ioend(ioend);
-}
-
-/*
- * Schedule IO completion handling on a xfsdatad if this was
- * the final hold on this ioend. If we are asked to wait,
- * flush the workqueue.
- */
-STATIC void
-xfs_finish_ioend(
-	xfs_ioend_t	*ioend,
-	int		wait)
-{
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ioend->io_remaining)) {
-		struct workqueue_struct *wq;
-
-		wq = (ioend->io_type == IOMAP_UNWRITTEN) ?
-			xfsconvertd_workqueue : xfsdatad_workqueue;
-		queue_work(wq, &ioend->io_work);
-		if (wait)
-			flush_workqueue(wq);
+	if (ioend->io_type != IOMAP_READ) {
+		error = xfs_setfilesize(ioend);
+		ASSERT(!error || error == EAGAIN);
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * If we didn't complete processing of the ioend, requeue it to the
+	 * tail of the workqueue for another attempt later. Otherwise destroy
+	 * it.
+	 */
+	if (error == EAGAIN) {
+		atomic_inc(&ioend->io_remaining);
+		xfs_finish_ioend(ioend, 0);
+		/* ensure we don't spin on blocked ioends */
+		delay(1);
+	} else
+		xfs_destroy_ioend(ioend);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.6.5

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