On 09/03/2014 09:35 AM, Miao Xie wrote:
> There were several problems about chunk mutex usage:
> - Lock chunk mutex when updating metadata. It would cause the nested
>   deadlock because updating metadata might need allocate new chunks
>   that need acquire chunk mutex. We remove chunk mutex at this case,
>   because b-tree lock and other lock mechanism can help us.
> - ABBA deadlock occured between device_list_mutex and chunk_mutex.
>   When we update device status, we must acquire device_list_mutex at the
>   beginning, and then we might get chunk_mutex during the device status
>   update because we need allocate new chunks for metadata COW. But at
>   most place, we acquire chunk_mutex at first and then acquire device list
>   mutex. We need change the lock order.
> - Some place we needn't acquire chunk_mutex. For example we needn't get
>   chunk_mutex when we free a empty seed fs_devices structure.
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> index 9f22398d..357f911 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> 
> @@ -2619,10 +2615,23 @@ static int btrfs_relocate_chunk(struct btrfs_root 
> *root,
>       map = (struct map_lookup *)em->bdev;
>  
>       for (i = 0; i < map->num_stripes; i++) {
> -             ret = btrfs_free_dev_extent(trans, map->stripes[i].dev,
> -                                         map->stripes[i].physical);
> +             device = map->stripes[i].dev;
> +             ret = btrfs_free_dev_extent(trans, device,
> +                                         map->stripes[i].physical,
> +                                         &dev_extent_len);
>               BUG_ON(ret);

gcc is worried that dev_extent_len may be used uninitialized here.  The
BUG_ON makes it unlikely we'll notice dev_extent_len, but I set it to
zero in my version here.

-chris
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