ocfs2: Avoid livelock in ocfs2_readpage()
When someone writes to an inode, readers accessing the same inode via
ocfs2_readpage() just busyloop trying to get ip_alloc_sem because
do_generic_file_read() looks up the page again and retries ->readpage()
when previous attempt failed with AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. When there are enough
readers, they can occupy all CPUs and in non-preempt kernel the system is
deadlocked because writer holding ip_alloc_sem is never run to release the
semaphore. Fix the problem by making reader block on ip_alloc_sem to break
the busy loop.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
index 4c1ec8f..ba3ca1e 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
@@ -290,7 +290,15 @@
}
if (down_read_trylock(&oi->ip_alloc_sem) == 0) {
+ /*
+ * Unlock the page and cycle ip_alloc_sem so that we don't
+ * busyloop waiting for ip_alloc_sem to unlock
+ */
ret = AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE;
+ unlock_page(page);
+ unlock = 0;
+ down_read(&oi->ip_alloc_sem);
+ up_read(&oi->ip_alloc_sem);
goto out_inode_unlock;
}