On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 06:57:59PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 01:47:22PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > > From: Josef Bacik <jba...@fb.com> > > > > We don't actually need this. It used to be in place for O_SYNC writes, > > but we've used the normal fsync() path for that for years now. The > > other case we hit this is through sync(), which will commit the > > transaction anyway. All this does is make us commit the transaction a > > bunch for no reason, and it could deadlock with delayed iput's. > > In what way does it deadlock with delayed iput?
Here's an example stack trace: [ +0.005066] __schedule+0x38e/0x8c0 [ +0.007144] schedule+0x36/0x80 [ +0.006447] bit_wait+0x11/0x60 [ +0.006446] __wait_on_bit+0xbe/0x110 [ +0.007487] ? bit_wait_io+0x60/0x60 [ +0.007319] __inode_wait_for_writeback+0x96/0xc0 [ +0.009568] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x40/0x40 [ +0.009565] inode_wait_for_writeback+0x21/0x30 [ +0.009224] evict+0xb0/0x190 [ +0.006099] iput+0x1a8/0x210 [ +0.006103] btrfs_run_delayed_iputs+0x73/0xc0 [ +0.009047] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x799/0x8c0 [ +0.009567] btrfs_write_inode+0x81/0xb0 [ +0.008008] __writeback_single_inode+0x267/0x320 [ +0.009569] writeback_sb_inodes+0x25b/0x4e0 [ +0.008702] wb_writeback+0x102/0x2d0 [ +0.007487] wb_workfn+0xa4/0x310 [ +0.006794] ? wb_workfn+0xa4/0x310 [ +0.007143] process_one_work+0x150/0x410 [ +0.008179] worker_thread+0x6d/0x520 [ +0.007490] kthread+0x12c/0x160 [ +0.006620] ? put_pwq_unlocked+0x80/0x80 [ +0.008185] ? kthread_park+0xa0/0xa0 [ +0.007484] ? do_syscall_64+0x53/0x150 [ +0.007837] ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40 So writeback calls btrfs_write_inode(), which calls btrfs_commit_transaction(), which calls btrfs_run_delayed_iputs(), which calls iput() on the inode currently in btrfs_write_inode(), which calls evict(), which waits for writeback on that same inode. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
