linux/fs
Derek Basehore 6ca738d60c backing_dev: fix hung task on sync
bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed() used the mod_delayed_work() function to
schedule work to writeback dirty inodes.  The problem with this is that
it can delay work that is scheduled for immediate execution, such as the
work from sync_inodes_sb().  This can happen since mod_delayed_work()
can now steal work from a work_queue.  This fixes the problem by using
queue_delayed_work() instead.  This is a regression caused by commit
839a8e8660 ("writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with
unbound workqueue").

The reason that this causes a problem is that laptop-mode will change
the delay, dirty_writeback_centisecs, to 60000 (10 minutes) by default.
In the case that bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed() races with
sync_inodes_sb(), sync will be stopped for 10 minutes and trigger a hung
task.  Even if dirty_writeback_centisecs is not long enough to cause a
hung task, we still don't want to delay sync for that long.

We fix the problem by using queue_delayed_work() when we want to
schedule writeback sometime in future.  This function doesn't change the
timer if it is already armed.

For the same reason, we also change bdi_writeback_workfn() to
immediately queue the work again in the case that the work_list is not
empty.  The same problem can happen if the sync work is run on the
rescue worker.

[jack@suse.cz: update changelog, add comment, use bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed()]
Signed-off-by: Derek Basehore <dbasehore@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zento.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Derek Basehore <dbasehore@chromium.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:20:49 -07:00
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9p Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
adfs adfs: delayed freeing of sbi 2013-10-24 23:43:27 -04:00
affs affs: use ->kill_sb() to simplify ->put_super() and failure exits of ->mount() 2014-01-25 03:13:01 -05:00
afs afs: don't use PREPARE_WORK 2014-03-07 10:24:50 -05:00
autofs4 autofs: fix symlinks aren't checked for expiry 2014-01-23 16:36:59 -08:00
befs befs: iget_locked() doesn't return an ERR_PTR 2014-01-25 03:14:38 -05:00
bfs truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2014-02-16 11:05:27 -08:00
cachefiles Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-11-13 15:34:18 +09:00
ceph ceph: fix __dcache_readdir() 2014-02-17 12:37:13 -08:00
cifs cifs: mask off top byte in get_rfc1002_length() 2014-02-28 14:01:14 -06:00
coda coda_revalidate_inode(): switch to passing inode... 2013-11-09 00:16:21 -05:00
configfs configfs: fix race between dentry put and lookup 2013-11-21 16:42:27 -08:00
cramfs cramfs: take headers to fs/cramfs 2014-01-25 03:13:02 -05:00
debugfs treewide: Fix typo in Documentation/DocBook 2014-02-19 14:58:17 +01:00
devpts devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb 2013-11-13 12:09:36 +09:00
dlm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
ecryptfs ecryptfs: fix failure handling in ->readlink() 2014-01-25 03:13:00 -05:00
efivarfs efivarfs: 'efivarfs_file_write' function reorganization 2014-03-04 16:16:16 +00:00
efs efs: get rid of ->put_super() 2014-01-25 03:13:02 -05:00
exofs exofs: Print less in r4w 2014-01-23 18:54:14 +02:00
exportfs exportfs: fix quadratic behavior in filehandle lookup 2013-11-09 00:16:38 -05:00
ext2 ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure 2014-01-25 23:58:19 -05:00
ext3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
ext4 ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags() 2014-03-30 17:02:06 -07:00
f2fs Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
fat fat: rcu-delay unloading nls and freeing sbi 2013-10-24 23:43:28 -04:00
freevxfs
fscache FS-Cache: Handle removal of unadded object to the fscache_object_list rb tree 2014-02-17 13:47:35 -08:00
fuse Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
gfs2 Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
hfs fs/hfs/btree.h: remove duplicate defines 2013-11-13 12:09:32 +09:00
hfsplus hfsplus: add HFSX subfolder count support 2014-03-10 17:26:21 -07:00
hostfs um: hostfs: make functions static 2014-01-26 11:51:09 +01:00
hpfs hpfs: optimize quad buffer loading 2014-02-02 16:24:07 -08:00
hppfs
hugetlbfs
isofs isofs: don't pass dentry to isofs_hash{i,}_common() 2013-10-24 23:34:59 -04:00
jbd jbd: Revise KERN_EMERG error messages 2013-12-04 12:27:46 +01:00
jbd2 jbd2: fix use after free in jbd2_journal_start_reserved() 2014-02-17 20:33:01 -05:00
jffs2 MTD updates for 3.14: 2014-01-28 18:56:37 -08:00
jfs jfs: set i_ctime when setting ACL 2014-02-13 15:56:05 -06:00
kernfs kernfs: cache atomic_write_len in kernfs_open_file 2014-03-08 22:08:29 -08:00
lockd lockd: send correct lock when granting a delayed lock. 2014-02-13 14:55:02 -05:00
logfs Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
minix fs/minix: Drop dependency on H8300 2013-09-16 18:20:25 -07:00
ncpfs ncpfs: rcu-delay unload_nls() and freeing ncp_server 2013-10-24 23:43:28 -04:00
nfs NFS client bugfixes for Linux 3.14 2014-03-09 19:17:39 -07:00
nfs_common
nfsd nfsd: fix lost nfserrno() call in nfsd_setattr() 2014-02-18 12:25:57 -05:00
nilfs2 Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
nls nls: have register_nls() set ->owner 2014-01-25 03:14:05 -05:00
notify fsnotify: Allocate overflow events with proper type 2014-02-25 11:18:06 +01:00
ntfs fix O_SYNC|O_APPEND syncing the wrong range on write() 2014-02-09 15:18:09 -05:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: check if cluster name exists before deref 2014-03-28 13:56:58 -07:00
omfs truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
openpromfs
proc Devicetree changes for v3.15 2014-04-02 14:27:15 -07:00
pstore pstore: Don't allow high traffic options on fragile devices 2013-12-20 13:12:01 -08:00
qnx4 qnx4: clean qnx4_fill_super() up 2014-01-25 03:13:03 -05:00
qnx6
quota quota: Fix race between dqput() and dquot_scan_active() 2014-02-20 21:57:04 +01:00
ramfs fs/ramfs: move ramfs_aops to inode.c 2014-01-23 16:36:58 -08:00
reiserfs reiserfs: fix utterly brain-damaged indentation. 2014-02-17 13:46:33 -08:00
romfs romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super 2014-01-23 16:37:04 -08:00
squashfs Squashfs: fix failure to unlock pages on decompress error 2013-11-24 01:02:50 +00:00
sysfs Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()" 2014-03-25 20:54:57 -07:00
sysv sysv: Add forgotten superblock lock init for v7 fs 2013-09-29 22:02:02 -04:00
ubifs fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding 2014-01-23 16:37:03 -08:00
udf udf: Fix data corruption on file type conversion 2014-02-20 21:56:00 +01:00
ufs truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
xfs Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2014-02-27 10:37:22 -08:00
aio.c Merge git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next 2013-12-22 11:03:49 -08:00
anon_inodes.c vfs: Allocate anon_inode_inode in anon_inode_init() 2014-03-27 09:52:54 -07:00
attr.c fs: fix iversion handling 2013-12-05 16:36:21 -06:00
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c dump_skip(): dump_seek() replacement taking coredump_params 2013-11-09 00:16:26 -05:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c elf{,_fdpic} coredump: get rid of pointless if (siginfo->si_signo) 2013-11-09 00:16:30 -05:00
binfmt_elf.c fs: binfmt_elf: remove unused defines INTERPRETER_NONE and INTERPRETER_ELF 2014-01-23 16:36:58 -08:00
binfmt_em86.c file->f_op is never NULL... 2013-10-24 23:34:54 -04:00
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c Merge branch 'for-3.15/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-04-01 19:19:15 -07:00
bio.c bio: don't write "bio: create slab" messages to syslog 2014-02-18 12:17:47 -08:00
block_dev.c a trivial writeback fix 2013-09-13 23:06:40 -04:00
buffer.c Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2014-02-20 14:54:28 +01:00
char_dev.c Merge branch 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-11-14 12:08:14 +09:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c binfmt_elf: add ELF_HWCAP2 to compat auxv entries 2014-03-04 08:05:21 +00:00
compat_ioctl.c fs/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types 2014-03-06 16:30:44 +01:00
compat.c Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-02 12:51:41 -07:00
coredump.c coredump: make __get_dumpable/get_dumpable inline, kill fs/coredump.h 2014-01-23 16:37:01 -08:00
dcache.c make prepend_name() work correctly when called with negative *buflen 2014-03-23 00:28:40 -04:00
dcookies.c fs/compat: fix lookup_dcookie() parameter handling 2014-01-29 16:22:40 -08:00
direct-io.c block: Abstract out bvec iterator 2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c eventfd_ctx_fdget(): use fdget() instead of fget() 2014-01-25 03:13:04 -05:00
eventpoll.c epoll: do not take the nested ep->mtx on EPOLL_CTL_DEL 2014-01-02 14:40:30 -08:00
exec.c fs/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE 2014-03-06 16:30:43 +01:00
fcntl.c file->f_op is never NULL... 2013-10-24 23:34:54 -04:00
fhandle.c
file_table.c vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX 2014-03-10 11:44:41 -04:00
file.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-03-31 11:05:24 -07:00
filesystems.c
fs_struct.c seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures 2013-11-06 12:40:26 +01:00
fs-writeback.c backing_dev: fix hung task on sync 2014-04-03 16:20:49 -07:00
inode.c locks: break delegations on any attribute modification 2013-11-09 00:16:44 -05:00
internal.h get rid of s_files and files_lock 2013-11-09 00:16:20 -05:00
ioctl.c file->f_op is never NULL... 2013-10-24 23:34:54 -04:00
ioprio.c
Kconfig kernfs: add CONFIG_KERNFS 2014-02-07 16:08:57 -08:00
Kconfig.binfmt
libfs.c consolidate simple ->d_delete() instances 2013-11-15 22:04:17 -05:00
locks.c locks: missing unlock on error in generic_add_lease() 2013-11-13 07:30:53 -05:00
Makefile kernfs: add CONFIG_KERNFS 2014-02-07 16:08:57 -08:00
mbcache.c
mount.h switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
mpage.c block: Abstract out bvec iterator 2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
namei.c rcuwalk: recheck mount_lock after mountpoint crossing attempts 2014-03-23 00:32:55 -04:00
namespace.c switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
no-block.c
open.c vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX 2014-03-10 11:44:41 -04:00
pipe.c fs/pipe.c: skip file_update_time on frozen fs 2014-01-23 16:37:00 -08:00
pnode.c switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
pnode.h switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
posix_acl.c fs: get_acl() must be allowed to return EOPNOTSUPP 2014-02-03 17:12:37 -05:00
proc_namespace.c fs/proc_namespace.c: simplify testing nsp and nsp->mnt_ns 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
read_write.c Merge branch 'compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2014-03-31 14:32:17 -07:00
readdir.c file->f_op is never NULL... 2013-10-24 23:34:54 -04:00
select.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-11-13 15:34:18 +09:00
seq_file.c seq_file: always clear m->count when we free m->buf 2013-11-18 19:07:53 -08:00
signalfd.c
splice.c fuse: fix pipe_buf_operations 2014-01-22 19:36:57 +01:00
stack.c
stat.c vfs: split out vfs_getattr_nosec 2013-11-09 00:16:31 -05:00
statfs.c vfs: allow O_PATH file descriptors for fstatfs() 2013-10-12 13:12:31 -07:00
super.c fs/super.c: sync ro remount after blocking writers 2014-01-31 14:29:36 -05:00
sync.c Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start" 2014-02-22 02:02:28 +01:00
timerfd.c timerfd: support CLOCK_BOOTTIME clock 2014-01-23 16:57:40 -08:00
utimes.c locks: break delegations on any attribute modification 2013-11-09 00:16:44 -05:00
xattr.c