From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:45680 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2388835AbeKLIUe (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 03:20:34 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Chao Yu , Jaegeuk Kim Subject: [PATCH 4.18 188/350] Revert "f2fs: fix to clear PG_checked flag in set_page_dirty()" Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:20:52 -0800 Message-Id: <20181111221715.892832970@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181111221707.043394111@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181111221707.043394111@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jaegeuk Kim commit 164a63fa6b384e30ceb96ed80bc7dc3379bc0960 upstream. This reverts commit 66110abc4c931f879d70e83e1281f891699364bf. If we clear the cold data flag out of the writeback flow, we can miscount -1 by end_io, which incurs a deadlock caused by all I/Os being blocked during heavy GC. Balancing F2FS Async: - IO (CP: 1, Data: -1, Flush: ( 0 0 1), Discard: ( ... GC thread: IRQ - move_data_page() - set_page_dirty() - clear_cold_data() - f2fs_write_end_io() - type = WB_DATA_TYPE(page); here, we get wrong type - dec_page_count(sbi, type); - f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback() Cc: Reported-and-Tested-by: Park Ju Hyung Reviewed-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/f2fs/data.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c @@ -2501,10 +2501,6 @@ static int f2fs_set_data_page_dirty(stru if (!PageUptodate(page)) SetPageUptodate(page); - /* don't remain PG_checked flag which was set during GC */ - if (is_cold_data(page)) - clear_cold_data(page); - if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode) && !f2fs_is_commit_atomic_write(inode)) { if (!IS_ATOMIC_WRITTEN_PAGE(page)) { f2fs_register_inmem_page(inode, page);