From: Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH v2 5/7] VFS: Avoid read-write deadlock in try_to_writeback_inodes_sb Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:04:35 -0800 Message-ID: <1323367477-21685-6-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1323367477-21685-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Surbhi Palande , Valerie Aurora , Kamal Mostafa , Christopher Chaltain , "Peter M. Petrakis" , Mikulas Patocka To: Jan Kara , Alexander Viro , Andreas Dilger , Matthew Wilcox , Randy Dunlap , Theodore Tso Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1323367477-21685-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org From: Valerie Aurora Use trylock in try_to_writeback_inodes_sb to avoid read-write deadlocks that could be triggered by freeze. BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421 Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora Cc: Kamal Mostafa Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis [kamal@canonical.com: patch restructure] Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index ea89b3f..3a80f1b 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -1274,8 +1274,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb); * try_to_writeback_inodes_sb - start writeback if none underway * @sb: the superblock * - * Invoke writeback_inodes_sb if no writeback is currently underway. - * Returns 1 if writeback was started, 0 if not. + * Invoke writeback_inodes_sb if no writeback is currently underway + * and no one else holds the s_umount lock. Returns 1 if writeback + * was started, 0 if not. */ int try_to_writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb, enum wb_reason reason) { @@ -1288,15 +1289,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_to_writeback_inodes_sb); * @sb: the superblock * @nr: the number of pages to write * - * Invoke writeback_inodes_sb if no writeback is currently underway. - * Returns 1 if writeback was started, 0 if not. + * Invoke writeback_inodes_sb if no writeback is currently underway + * and no one else holds the s_umount lock. Returns 1 if writeback + * was started, 0 if not. */ int try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long nr, enum wb_reason reason) { if (!writeback_in_progress(sb->s_bdi)) { - down_read(&sb->s_umount); + if (!down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) + return 0; if (nr == 0) writeback_inodes_sb(sb, reason); else -- 1.7.5.4