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authorLiu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>2015-08-14 18:33:07 +0800
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>2015-10-01 18:07:59 +0200
commit73416dab235e5ff030e3b3c61da0cd6ced324fc9 (patch)
treeeacb4410f3b1e79be065d826cc7894441fafc3c1 /fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
parentf190aa471a7a703444f6587ed79c24a04a22d848 (diff)
downloadlinux-73416dab235e5ff030e3b3c61da0cd6ced324fc9.tar.gz
Btrfs: move kobj stuff out of dev_replace lock range
To avoid deadlock described in commit 084b6e7c7607 ("btrfs: Fix a
lockdep warning when running xfstest."), we should move kobj stuff out
of dev_replace lock range.

  "It is because the btrfs_kobj_{add/rm}_device() will call memory
  allocation with GFP_KERNEL,
  which may flush fs page cache to free space, waiting for it self to do
  the commit, causing the deadlock.

  To solve the problem, move btrfs_kobj_{add/rm}_device() out of the
  dev_replace lock range, also involing split the
  btrfs_rm_dev_replace_srcdev() function into remove and free parts.

  Now only btrfs_rm_dev_replace_remove_srcdev() is called in dev_replace
  lock range, and kobj_{add/rm} and btrfs_rm_dev_replace_free_srcdev() are
  called out of the lock range."

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
[added lockup description]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
index 02031fc07f7f..0978e52ffa42 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
@@ -375,10 +375,6 @@ int btrfs_dev_replace_start(struct btrfs_root *root,
 	WARN_ON(!tgt_device);
 	dev_replace->tgtdev = tgt_device;
 
-	ret = btrfs_sysfs_add_device_link(tgt_device->fs_devices, tgt_device);
-	if (ret)
-		btrfs_err(root->fs_info, "kobj add dev failed %d\n", ret);
-
 	printk_in_rcu(KERN_INFO
 		      "BTRFS: dev_replace from %s (devid %llu) to %s started\n",
 		      src_device->missing ? "<missing disk>" :
@@ -401,6 +397,10 @@ int btrfs_dev_replace_start(struct btrfs_root *root,
 	args->result = BTRFS_IOCTL_DEV_REPLACE_RESULT_NO_ERROR;
 	btrfs_dev_replace_unlock(dev_replace);
 
+	ret = btrfs_sysfs_add_device_link(tgt_device->fs_devices, tgt_device);
+	if (ret)
+		btrfs_err(root->fs_info, "kobj add dev failed %d\n", ret);
+
 	btrfs_wait_ordered_roots(root->fs_info, -1);
 
 	/* force writing the updated state information to disk */