ext4: remove i_mutex lock in ext4_evict_inode to fix lockdep complaining
commit 8c0bec2151a47906bf779c6715a10ce04453ab77 upstream.
The i_mutex lock and flush_completed_IO() added by commit 2581fdc810
in ext4_evict_inode() causes lockdep complaining about potential
deadlock in several places. In most/all of these LOCKDEP complaints
it looks like it's a false positive, since many of the potential
circular locking cases can't take place by the time the
ext4_evict_inode() is called; but since at the very least it may mask
real problems, we need to address this.
This change removes the flush_completed_IO() and i_mutex lock in
ext4_evict_inode(). Instead, we take a different approach to resolve
the software lockup that commit 2581fdc810 intends to fix. Rather
than having ext4-dio-unwritten thread wait for grabing the i_mutex
lock of an inode, we use mutex_trylock() instead, and simply requeue
the work item if we fail to grab the inode's i_mutex lock.
This should speed up work queue processing in general and also
prevents the following deadlock scenario: During page fault,
shrink_icache_memory is called that in turn evicts another inode B.
Inode B has some pending io_end work so it calls ext4_ioend_wait()
that waits for inode B's i_ioend_count to become zero. However, inode
B's ioend work was queued behind some of inode A's ioend work on the
same cpu's ext4-dio-unwritten workqueue. As the ext4-dio-unwritten
thread on that cpu is processing inode A's ioend work, it tries to
grab inode A's i_mutex lock. Since the i_mutex lock of inode A is
still hold before the page fault happened, we enter a deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 4bc6838..1a34c1c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
*/
#define EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN 0x0001
#define EXT4_IO_END_ERROR 0x0002
+#define EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED 0x0004
struct ext4_io_page {
struct page *p_page;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index c94774c..1265904 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -190,9 +190,6 @@
trace_ext4_evict_inode(inode);
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
- ext4_flush_completed_IO(inode);
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
ext4_ioend_wait(inode);
if (inode->i_nlink) {
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 97e5e98..bd6a85e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -142,7 +142,23 @@
unsigned long flags;
int ret;
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&inode->i_mutex)) {
+ /*
+ * Requeue the work instead of waiting so that the work
+ * items queued after this can be processed.
+ */
+ queue_work(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->dio_unwritten_wq, &io->work);
+ /*
+ * To prevent the ext4-dio-unwritten thread from keeping
+ * requeueing end_io requests and occupying cpu for too long,
+ * yield the cpu if it sees an end_io request that has already
+ * been requeued.
+ */
+ if (io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED)
+ yield();
+ io->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED;
+ return;
+ }
ret = ext4_end_io_nolock(io);
if (ret < 0) {
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);