From 641c56fbfeae85d5ec87fee90a752f7b7224f236 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Chinner Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:50:17 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] [XFS] Prevent deadlock when flushing inodes on unmount When we are unmounting the filesystem, we flush all the inodes to disk. Unfortunately, if we have an inode cluster that has just been freed and marked stale sitting in an incore log buffer (i.e. hasn't been flushed to disk), it will be holding all the flush locks on the inodes in that cluster. xfs_iflush_all() which is called during unmount walks all the inodes trying to reclaim them, and it doing so calls xfs_finish_reclaim() on each inode. If the inode is dirty, if grabs the flush lock and flushes it. Unfortunately, find dirty inodes that already have their flush lock held and so we sleep. At this point in the unmount process, we are running single-threaded. There is nothing more that can push on the log to force the transaction holding the inode flush locks to disk and hence we deadlock. The fix is to issue a log force before flushing the inodes on unmount so that all the flush locks will be released before we start flushing the inodes. SGI-PV: 964538 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28862a Signed-off-by: David Chinner Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin --- fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c index f6fe47d8c4dc..39cf6f3267c3 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c @@ -1182,6 +1182,17 @@ xfs_unmountfs(xfs_mount_t *mp, struct cred *cr) int64_t fsid; #endif + /* + * We can potentially deadlock here if we have an inode cluster + * that has been freed has it's buffer still pinned in memory because + * the transaction is still sitting in a iclog. The stale inodes + * on that buffer will have their flush locks held until the + * transaction hits the disk and the callbacks run. the inode + * flush takes the flush lock unconditionally and with nothing to + * push out the iclog we will never get that unlocked. hence we + * need to force the log first. + */ + xfs_log_force(mp, (xfs_lsn_t)0, XFS_LOG_FORCE | XFS_LOG_SYNC); xfs_iflush_all(mp); XFS_QM_DQPURGEALL(mp, XFS_QMOPT_QUOTALL | XFS_QMOPT_UMOUNTING);