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Btrfs: fix the deadlock between the transaction start/attach and commit
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Now btrfs_commit_transaction() does this

ret = btrfs_run_ordered_operations(root, 0)

which async flushes all inodes on the ordered operations list, it introduced
a deadlock that transaction-start task, transaction-commit task and the flush
workers waited for each other.
(See the following URL to get the detail
 http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&m=136070705732646&w=2)

As we know, if ->in_commit is set, it means someone is committing the
current transaction, we should not try to join it if we are not JOIN
or JOIN_NOLOCK, wait is the best choice for it. In this way, we can avoid
the above problem. In this way, there is another benefit: there is no new
transaction handle to block the transaction which is on the way of commit,
once we set ->in_commit.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
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Miao Xie authored and Josef Bacik committed Feb 20, 2013
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17 changes: 16 additions & 1 deletion fs/btrfs/transaction.c
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Expand Up @@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ static noinline void switch_commit_root(struct btrfs_root *root)
root->commit_root = btrfs_root_node(root);
}

static inline int can_join_transaction(struct btrfs_transaction *trans,
int type)
{
return !(trans->in_commit &&
type != TRANS_JOIN &&
type != TRANS_JOIN_NOLOCK);
}

/*
* either allocate a new transaction or hop into the existing one
*/
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -85,6 +93,10 @@ static noinline int join_transaction(struct btrfs_root *root, int type)
spin_unlock(&fs_info->trans_lock);
return cur_trans->aborted;
}
if (!can_join_transaction(cur_trans, type)) {
spin_unlock(&fs_info->trans_lock);
return -EBUSY;
}
atomic_inc(&cur_trans->use_count);
atomic_inc(&cur_trans->num_writers);
cur_trans->num_joined++;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -360,8 +372,11 @@ start_transaction(struct btrfs_root *root, u64 num_items, int type,

do {
ret = join_transaction(root, type);
if (ret == -EBUSY)
if (ret == -EBUSY) {
wait_current_trans(root);
if (unlikely(type == TRANS_ATTACH))
ret = -ENOENT;
}
} while (ret == -EBUSY);

if (ret < 0) {
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