From: Hisashi Hifumi Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:35:40 +0000 (-0700) Subject: VFS: fix dio write returning EIO when try_to_release_page fails X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc6~73 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ccfa806a9cfbbf1cd43d5b6aa47ef2c0eb518fd;p=pandora-kernel.git VFS: fix dio write returning EIO when try_to_release_page fails Dio write returns EIO when try_to_release_page fails because bh is still referenced. The patch commit 3f31fddfa26b7594b44ff2b34f9a04ba409e0f91 Author: Mingming Cao Date: Fri Jul 25 01:46:22 2008 -0700 jbd: fix race between free buffer and commit transaction was merged into 2.6.27-rc1, but I noticed that this patch is not enough to fix the race. I did fsstress test heavily to 2.6.27-rc1, and found that dio write still sometimes got EIO through this test. The patch above fixed race between freeing buffer(dio) and committing transaction(jbd) but I discovered that there is another race, freeing buffer(dio) and ext3/4_ordered_writepage. : background_writeout() ->write_cache_pages() ->ext3_ordered_writepage() walk_page_buffers() -> take a bh ref block_write_full_page() -> unlock_page : <- end_page_writeback : <- race! (dio write->try_to_release_page fails) walk_page_buffers() ->release a bh ref ext3_ordered_writepage holds bh ref and does unlock_page remaining taking a bh ref, so this causes the race and failure of try_to_release_page. To fix this race, I used the approach of falling back to buffered writes if try_to_release_page() fails on a page. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Mingming Cao Cc: Zach Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed