The previous patch is not ok 
(http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg07447.html).  Please ignore it. 
Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Zhong, Xin 
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Zhong, Xin
Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: pwrite blocked when writing from the mmaped buffer of 
the same page

This problem is found in meego testing:
http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6672
A file in btrfs is mmaped and the mmaped buffer is passed to pwrite to write to 
the same page
of the same file. In btrfs_file_aio_write(), the pages is locked by 
prepare_pages(). So when
btrfs_copy_from_user() is called, page fault happens and the same page needs to 
be locked again
in filemap_fault(). The fix is to move iov_iter_fault_in_readable() before 
prepage_pages() to make page
fault happen before pages are locked. And also disable page fault in critical 
region in
btrfs_copy_from_user().

Signed-off-by: Xin Zhong <[email protected]>
---
 fs/btrfs/file.c |   23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
index c1faded..805f2ee 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -57,11 +57,15 @@ static noinline int btrfs_copy_from_user(loff_t pos, int 
num_pages,
                                     PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset, write_bytes);
                struct page *page = prepared_pages[pg];
 again:
-               if (unlikely(iov_iter_fault_in_readable(i, count)))
-                       return -EFAULT;
-
-               /* Copy data from userspace to the current page */
-               copied = iov_iter_copy_from_user(page, i, offset, count);
+               /*
+                * Copy data from userspace to the current page
+                *
+                * Disable pagefault to avoid recursive lock since
+                * the pages are already locked
+                */
+               pagefault_disable();
+               copied = iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(page, i, offset, count);
+               pagefault_enable();

                /* Flush processor's dcache for this page */
                flush_dcache_page(page);
@@ -974,6 +978,15 @@ static ssize_t btrfs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb,
                if (ret)
                        goto out;

+               /*
+                * fault pages before locking them in prepare_pages
+                * to avoid recursive lock
+                */
+               if (unlikely(iov_iter_fault_in_readable(&i, write_bytes))) {
+                       ret = -EFAULT;
+                       goto out;
+               }
+
                ret = prepare_pages(root, file, pages, num_pages,
                                    pos, first_index, last_index,
                                    write_bytes);
--
1.6.2.2

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