ext4: Resolve the hang of direct i/o read in handling EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN.
authorTao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:30:59 +0000 (12:30 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:30:59 +0000 (12:30 -0400)
EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN flag set and the increase of i_aiodio_unwritten
should be done simultaneously since ext4_end_io_nolock always clear
the flag and decrease the counter in the same time.

We don't increase i_aiodio_unwritten when setting
EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN so it will go nagative and causes some process
to wait forever.

Part of the patch came from Eric in his e-mail, but it doesn't fix the
problem met by Michael actually.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=131316851417460&w=2

Reported-and-Tested-by: Michael Tokarev<mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
fs/ext4/inode.c
fs/ext4/page-io.c

index 7dd6981..762e803 100644 (file)
@@ -2678,8 +2678,15 @@ static void ext4_end_io_buffer_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate)
                goto out;
        }
 
-       io_end->flag = EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
+       /*
+        * It may be over-defensive here to check EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN now,
+        * but being more careful is always safe for the future change.
+        */
        inode = io_end->inode;
+       if (!(io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) {
+               io_end->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
+               atomic_inc(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten);
+       }
 
        /* Add the io_end to per-inode completed io list*/
        spin_lock_irqsave(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_completed_io_lock, flags);
index 430c401..78839af 100644 (file)
@@ -334,8 +334,10 @@ submit_and_retry:
        if ((io_end->num_io_pages >= MAX_IO_PAGES) &&
            (io_end->pages[io_end->num_io_pages-1] != io_page))
                goto submit_and_retry;
-       if (buffer_uninit(bh))
-               io->io_end->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
+       if (buffer_uninit(bh) && !(io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) {
+               io_end->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
+               atomic_inc(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten);
+       }
        io->io_end->size += bh->b_size;
        io->io_next_block++;
        ret = bio_add_page(io->io_bio, bh->b_page, bh->b_size, bh_offset(bh));