writeback: Fix lost wake-up shutting down writeback thread
authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:52:10 +0000 (08:52 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:52:10 +0000 (08:52 +0200)
commitb76b4014f9d988d2412b873e4d4c13c7f9afc4e4
tree25493858be740a5cb558e594e6af61971758a94a
parent6628bc74f1aa9c35dd386320bf7ec04f12edb1b3
writeback: Fix lost wake-up shutting down writeback thread

Setting the task state here may cause us to miss the wake up from
kthread_stop(), so we need to recheck kthread_should_stop() or risk
sleeping forever in the following schedule().

Symptom was an indefinite hang on an NFSv4 mount.  (NFSv4 may create
multiple mounts in a temporary namespace while traversing the mount
path, and since the temporary namespace is immediately destroyed, it may
end up destroying a mount very soon after it was created, possibly
making this race more likely.)

INFO: task mount.nfs4:4314 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
mount.nfs4    D 0000000000000000  2880  4314   4313 0x00000000
 ffff88001ed6da28 0000000000000046 ffff88001ed6dfd8 ffff88001ed6dfd8
 ffff88001ed6c000 ffff88001ed6c000 ffff88001ed6c000 ffff88001e5003a0
 ffff88001ed6dfd8 ffff88001e5003a8 ffff88001ed6c000 ffff88001ed6dfd8
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8196090d>] schedule_timeout+0x1cd/0x2e0
 [<ffffffff8106a31c>] ? mark_held_locks+0x6c/0xa0
 [<ffffffff819639a0>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60
 [<ffffffff8106a5fd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x14d/0x190
 [<ffffffff819671fe>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xe/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8195fc80>] wait_for_common+0x120/0x190
 [<ffffffff81033c70>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20
 [<ffffffff8195fdcd>] wait_for_completion+0x1d/0x20
 [<ffffffff810595fa>] kthread_stop+0x4a/0x150
 [<ffffffff81061a60>] ? thaw_process+0x70/0x80
 [<ffffffff810cc68a>] bdi_unregister+0x10a/0x1a0
 [<ffffffff81229dc9>] nfs_put_super+0x19/0x20
 [<ffffffff810ee8c4>] generic_shutdown_super+0x54/0xe0
 [<ffffffff810ee9b6>] kill_anon_super+0x16/0x60
 [<ffffffff8122d3b9>] nfs4_kill_super+0x39/0x90
 [<ffffffff810eda45>] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x60
 [<ffffffff810edfb9>] deactivate_super+0x49/0x70
 [<ffffffff81108294>] mntput_no_expire+0x84/0xe0
 [<ffffffff811084ef>] release_mounts+0x9f/0xc0
 [<ffffffff81108575>] put_mnt_ns+0x65/0x80
 [<ffffffff8122cc56>] nfs_follow_remote_path+0x1e6/0x420
 [<ffffffff8122cfbf>] nfs4_try_mount+0x6f/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8122d0c2>] nfs4_get_sb+0xa2/0x360
 [<ffffffff810edcb8>] vfs_kern_mount+0x88/0x1f0
 [<ffffffff810ede92>] do_kern_mount+0x52/0x130
 [<ffffffff81963d9a>] ? _lock_kernel+0x6a/0x170
 [<ffffffff81108e9e>] do_mount+0x26e/0x7f0
 [<ffffffff81106b3a>] ? copy_mount_options+0xea/0x190
 [<ffffffff811094b8>] sys_mount+0x98/0xf0
 [<ffffffff810024d8>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
1 lock held by mount.nfs4/4314:
 #0:  (&type->s_umount_key#24){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff810edfb1>] deactivate_super+0x41/0x70

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
fs/fs-writeback.c