On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 05:37:40PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> Using the offwakecputime bpf script I noticed most of our time was spent 
> waiting
> on the delayed ref throttling.  This is what is supposed to happen, but
> sometimes the transaction can commit and then we're waiting for throttling 
> that
> doesn't matter anymore.  So change this stuff to be a little smarter by 
> tracking
> the transid we were in when we initiated the throttling.  If the transaction 
> we
> get is different then we can just bail out.  This resulted in a 50% speedup in
> my fs_mark test, and reduced the amount of time spent throttling by 60 seconds
> over the entire run (which is about 30 minutes).  Thanks,
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jba...@fb.com>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/ctree.h       |  2 +-
>  fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
>  fs/btrfs/inode.c       |  1 +
>  fs/btrfs/transaction.c |  3 ++-
>  4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
> index 55a24c5..4222936 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
> @@ -3505,7 +3505,7 @@ void btrfs_put_block_group(struct 
> btrfs_block_group_cache *cache);
>  int btrfs_run_delayed_refs(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>                          struct btrfs_root *root, unsigned long count);
>  int btrfs_async_run_delayed_refs(struct btrfs_root *root,
> -                              unsigned long count, int wait);
> +                              unsigned long count, u64 transid, int wait);
>  int btrfs_lookup_data_extent(struct btrfs_root *root, u64 start, u64 len);
>  int btrfs_lookup_extent_info(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>                            struct btrfs_root *root, u64 bytenr,
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> index 4b5a517..f23f426 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> @@ -2839,6 +2839,7 @@ int btrfs_should_throttle_delayed_refs(struct 
> btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  
>  struct async_delayed_refs {
>       struct btrfs_root *root;
> +     u64 transid;
>       int count;
>       int error;
>       int sync;
> @@ -2854,9 +2855,16 @@ static void delayed_ref_async_start(struct btrfs_work 
> *work)
>  
>       async = container_of(work, struct async_delayed_refs, work);
>  
> -     trans = btrfs_join_transaction(async->root);
> +     trans = btrfs_attach_transaction(async->root);
>       if (IS_ERR(trans)) {
> -             async->error = PTR_ERR(trans);
> +             if (PTR_ERR(trans) != -ENOENT)
> +                     async->error = PTR_ERR(trans);
> +             goto done;
> +     }

This ends up deadlocking because btrfs_attach_transaction waits in ways
that join does not.  The differences between these two are really
subtle, and we manage to make this mistake every year or so.

Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: fix deadlock in delayed_ref_async_start

"Btrfs: track transid for delayed ref flushing" was deadlocking on
btrfs_attach_transaction because its not safe to call from the async
delayed ref start code.  This commit brings back btrfs_join_transaction
instead and checks for a blocked commit.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jba...@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <c...@fb.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index 6ce5b6c..44da4ac 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -2845,16 +2845,13 @@ static void delayed_ref_async_start(struct btrfs_work 
*work)
 
        async = container_of(work, struct async_delayed_refs, work);
 
-       trans = btrfs_attach_transaction(async->root);
-       if (IS_ERR(trans)) {
-               if (PTR_ERR(trans) != -ENOENT)
-                       async->error = PTR_ERR(trans);
+       /* if the commit is already started, we don't need to wait here */
+       if (btrfs_transaction_blocked(async->root->fs_info))
                goto done;
-       }
 
-       /* Don't bother flushing if we got into a different transaction */
-       if (trans->transid != async->transid) {
-               btrfs_end_transaction(trans, async->root);
+       trans = btrfs_join_transaction(async->root);
+       if (IS_ERR(trans)) {
+               async->error = PTR_ERR(trans);
                goto done;
        }
 
@@ -2863,10 +2860,15 @@ static void delayed_ref_async_start(struct btrfs_work 
*work)
         * wait on delayed refs
         */
        trans->sync = true;
+
+       /* Don't bother flushing if we got into a different transaction */
+       if (trans->transid > async->transid)
+               goto end;
+
        ret = btrfs_run_delayed_refs(trans, async->root, async->count);
        if (ret)
                async->error = ret;
-
+end:
        ret = btrfs_end_transaction(trans, async->root);
        if (ret && !async->error)
                async->error = ret;
-- 
2.8.0.rc2

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