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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: prevent recursion in xfs_buf_iorequest
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 10:27:16 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120703002716.GX19223@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120702100034.627510436@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 06:00:04AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> If the b_iodone handler is run in calling context in xfs_buf_iorequest we
> can run into a recursion where xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks keeps calling back
> into xfs_buf_iorequest because an I/O error happened, which keeps calling
> back into xfs_buf_iorequest.  This chain will usually not take long
> because the filesystem gets shut down because of log I/O errors, but even
> over a short time it can cause stack overflows if run on the same context.
> 
> As a short term workaround make sure we always call the iodone handler in
> workqueue context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Looks fine - final completion from io submission is a rare case so
this shouldn't cause issues....

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-02 10:00 [PATCH 0/2] buffer caches fixes for Linux 3.5 Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-02 10:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: prevent recursion in xfs_buf_iorequest Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-03  0:27   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-07-02 10:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: do not call xfs_bdstrat_cb in xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-03  0:28   ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-03 16:05     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-03 23:29       ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-04  5:57         ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-04  8:32           ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-04 15:16             ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-12 23:04   ` Ben Myers
2012-07-13  6:16     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-13  6:24       ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] " Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-13 16:59         ` Ben Myers
2012-07-13 19:12         ` Ben Myers

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