Hi Andrew Morton, On 2017/11/2 4:49, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:20:38 +0800 alex chen <alex.c...@huawei.com> wrote: > >> we should wait dio requests to finish before inode lock in >> ocfs2_setattr(), otherwise the following deadlock will be happened: >> process 1 process 2 process 3 >> truncate file 'A' end_io of writing file 'A' receiving the bast >> messages >> ocfs2_setattr >> ocfs2_inode_lock_tracker >> ocfs2_inode_lock_full >> inode_dio_wait >> __inode_dio_wait >> -->waiting for all dio >> requests finish >> dlm_proxy_ast_handler >> dlm_do_local_bast >> ocfs2_blocking_ast >> >> ocfs2_generic_handle_bast >> set >> OCFS2_LOCK_BLOCKED flag >> dio_end_io >> dio_bio_end_aio >> dio_complete >> ocfs2_dio_end_io >> ocfs2_dio_end_io_write >> ocfs2_inode_lock >> __ocfs2_cluster_lock >> ocfs2_wait_for_mask >> -->waiting for OCFS2_LOCK_BLOCKED >> flag to be cleared, that is waiting >> for 'process 1' unlocking the inode lock >> inode_dio_end >> -->here dec the i_dio_count, but will never >> be called, so a deadlock happened. >> > > This sounds like something which should be backported into -stable > kernels. Do you agree? > Yes, I think this problem also exists in the "-stable" tree.
Thanks, Alex > > . > _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-devel mailing list Ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel
