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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] xfs: use kfree_rcu_mightsleep to free the perag structures
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 05:42:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240822034248.GC32681@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240821161939.GC865349@frogsfrogsfrogs>

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 09:19:39AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> I started wondering, have you seen any complaints from might_sleep when
> freeing pags after a failed growfs?

No, why would I?  We're not freeing perags with a spinlock held there.

> Then I wondered if growfs_data
> could actually take any locks that would prevent sleeping, which led me
> to another question: why do growfs_{data,log} hold m_growlock but
> growfs_rt doesn't?  Is that actually safe?

As far as I can tell growfs_rt is missing a m_growlock critical section
and right now we allow parallel calls to growfs_rt, which could lead
to unexpected results.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-22  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-21  6:38 convert XFS perag lookup to xarrays v2 Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-21  6:38 ` [PATCH 1/5] xfs: use kfree_rcu_mightsleep to free the perag structures Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-21 16:19   ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-08-22  3:42     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-08-21  6:38 ` [PATCH 2/5] xfs: move the tagged perag lookup helpers to xfs_icache.c Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-21 16:34   ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-08-22  3:47     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-28  6:28     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-28 16:10       ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-08-29  3:48         ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-21  6:38 ` [PATCH 3/5] xfs: simplify tagged perag iteration Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-21 16:30   ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-08-21  6:38 ` [PATCH 4/5] xfs: convert perag lookup to xarray Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-21 16:28   ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-08-22  3:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-27 22:51       ` Dave Chinner
2024-08-21  6:38 ` [PATCH 5/5] xfs: use xas_for_each_marked in xfs_reclaim_inodes_count Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-21 16:22   ` Darrick J. Wong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-08-29  4:08 convert XFS perag lookup to xarrays v3 Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-29  4:08 ` [PATCH 1/5] xfs: use kfree_rcu_mightsleep to free the perag structures Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-29 21:19   ` Darrick J. Wong

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