1. 31 8月, 2011 1 次提交
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      ext4: remove i_mutex lock in ext4_evict_inode to fix lockdep complaining · 8c0bec21
      Jiaying Zhang 提交于
      The i_mutex lock and flush_completed_IO() added by commit 2581fdc8
      in ext4_evict_inode() causes lockdep complaining about potential
      deadlock in several places.  In most/all of these LOCKDEP complaints
      it looks like it's a false positive, since many of the potential
      circular locking cases can't take place by the time the
      ext4_evict_inode() is called; but since at the very least it may mask
      real problems, we need to address this.
      
      This change removes the flush_completed_IO() and i_mutex lock in
      ext4_evict_inode().  Instead, we take a different approach to resolve
      the software lockup that commit 2581fdc8 intends to fix.  Rather
      than having ext4-dio-unwritten thread wait for grabing the i_mutex
      lock of an inode, we use mutex_trylock() instead, and simply requeue
      the work item if we fail to grab the inode's i_mutex lock.
      
      This should speed up work queue processing in general and also
      prevents the following deadlock scenario: During page fault,
      shrink_icache_memory is called that in turn evicts another inode B.
      Inode B has some pending io_end work so it calls ext4_ioend_wait()
      that waits for inode B's i_ioend_count to become zero.  However, inode
      B's ioend work was queued behind some of inode A's ioend work on the
      same cpu's ext4-dio-unwritten workqueue.  As the ext4-dio-unwritten
      thread on that cpu is processing inode A's ioend work, it tries to
      grab inode A's i_mutex lock.  Since the i_mutex lock of inode A is
      still hold before the page fault happened, we enter a deadlock.
      Signed-off-by: NJiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      8c0bec21
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