[PATCH 1/2] f2fs: fix to avoid deadlock when merging inline data

From: Chao Yu
Date: Thu Feb 25 2016 - 04:43:44 EST


When testing with fsstress, kworker and user threads were both blocked:

INFO: task kworker/u16:1:16580 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
kworker/u16:1 D ffff8803f2595390 0 16580 2 0x00000000
Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-251:0)
ffff8802730e5760 0000000000000046 ffff880274729fc0 0000000000012440
ffff8802730e5fd8 ffff8802730e4010 0000000000012440 0000000000012440
ffff8802730e5fd8 0000000000012440 ffff880274729fc0 ffff88026eb50000
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff816fe9d9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[<ffffffff816ff895>] rwsem_down_read_failed+0xa5/0xf9
[<ffffffff81378584>] call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x14/0x30
[<ffffffffa0694feb>] f2fs_write_data_page+0x31b/0x420 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa0690f1a>] __f2fs_writepage+0x1a/0x50 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa06922a0>] f2fs_write_data_pages+0xe0/0x290 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff811473b3>] do_writepages+0x23/0x40
[<ffffffff811cc3ee>] __writeback_single_inode+0x4e/0x250
[<ffffffff811cd4f1>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x2c1/0x470
[<ffffffff811cd73e>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x9e/0xd0
[<ffffffff811cda0b>] wb_writeback+0x1fb/0x2d0
[<ffffffff811cdb7c>] wb_do_writeback+0x9c/0x220
[<ffffffff811ce232>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x72/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8106b74e>] process_one_work+0x1de/0x5b0
[<ffffffff8106e78f>] worker_thread+0x11f/0x3e0
[<ffffffff810750ce>] kthread+0xde/0xf0
[<ffffffff817093f8>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90

fsstress thread stack:
[<ffffffff81139f0e>] sleep_on_page+0xe/0x20
[<ffffffff81139ef7>] __lock_page+0x67/0x70
[<ffffffff8113b100>] find_lock_page+0x50/0x80
[<ffffffff8113b24f>] find_or_create_page+0x3f/0xb0
[<ffffffffa06983a9>] sync_node_pages+0x259/0x810 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa068d874>] write_checkpoint+0x1a4/0xce0 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa0686b0c>] f2fs_sync_fs+0x7c/0xd0 [f2fs]
[<ffffffffa067c813>] f2fs_sync_file+0x143/0x5f0 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff811d301b>] vfs_fsync_range+0x2b/0x40
[<ffffffff811d304c>] vfs_fsync+0x1c/0x20
[<ffffffff811d3291>] do_fsync+0x41/0x70
[<ffffffff811d32d3>] SyS_fdatasync+0x13/0x20
[<ffffffff817094a2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

The reason of this issue is:
CPU0: CPU1:
- f2fs_write_data_pages
- f2fs_sync_fs
- write_checkpoint
- block_operations
- f2fs_lock_all
- down_write(sbi->cp_rwsem)
- lock_page(page)
- f2fs_write_data_page
- sync_node_pages
- flush_inline_data
- pagecache_get_page(page, GFP_LOCK)
- f2fs_lock_op
- down_read(sbi->cp_rwsem)

This patch alters to use trylock_page in flush_inline_data to fix this ABBA
deadlock issue.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/node.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c
index 7b613dd..689610c 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
@@ -1203,10 +1203,13 @@ static void flush_inline_data(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, nid_t ino)
if (!inode)
return;

- page = pagecache_get_page(inode->i_mapping, 0, FGP_LOCK|FGP_NOWAIT, 0);
+ page = pagecache_get_page(inode->i_mapping, 0, FGP_NOWAIT, 0);
if (!page)
goto iput_out;

+ if (!trylock_page(page))
+ goto page_out;
+
if (!PageUptodate(page))
goto page_out;

--
2.7.0