On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:39:36 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:13:17AM +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
>> The reason the deadlock is that:
>>   Task                                       Btrfs-cleaner
>>   umount()
>>     down_write(&s->s_umount)
>>     close_ctree()
>>       wait for the end of
>>       btrfs-cleaner
>>                                      start_transaction
>>                                        reserve space
>>                                          shrink_delalloc()
>>                                            writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle()
>>                                              down_read(&sb->s_umount)
>> So, the deadlock has happened.
> 
> Every time a deadlock involving writeback_inodes_sb...if_idle()
> comes up, I give the same response. If the s_umount is write locked,
> then the sb is not idle. IOWs, writeback_inodes_sb...if_idle()
> should be doing down_read_trylock(), not down_read().

Someone did this work several months ago, but those patches have not been
applied until now, so...

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/8/264

Thanks
Miao
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