Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: remove circular locking between sb_internal and fs_reclaim

[Daeho Jeong]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 10:56 AM Daeho Jeong <daeho43@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I doubt the problem may also happen in f2fs_evict_inode() with below
> > callpath:
> >
> > - evict_inode
> >   - dquot_initialize failed
> >   - sb_start_intwrite
> >   - f2fs_truncate
> >    - dquot_initialize lock dqio_sem
> >
> > How about this?
> >
>
> Got it~
> Then we need this in both f2fs_evict_inode() and f2fs_drop_inode().
>

It turns out this deadlock issue was related to the Android kernel only. :(
That was related to one of Android tracepoints, which triggered
internal memory reclaim inside of it.
We made a workaround for that in Android kernel.

Thanks,