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jbd2: fix deadlock while checkpoint thread waits commit thread to finish
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This issue was found when I tried to put checkpoint work in a separate thread,
the deadlock below happened:
         Thread1                                |   Thread2
__jbd2_log_wait_for_space                       |
jbd2_log_do_checkpoint (hold j_checkpoint_mutex)|
  if (jh->b_transaction != NULL)                |
    ...                                         |
    jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, tid);        |jbd2_update_log_tail
                                                |  will lock j_checkpoint_mutex,
                                                |  but will be blocked here.
                                                |
    jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, tid);         |
    wait_event(journal->j_wait_done_commit,     |
     !tid_gt(tid, journal->j_commit_sequence)); |
     ...                                        |wake_up(j_wait_done_commit)
  }                                             |

then deadlock occurs, Thread1 will never be waken up.

To fix this issue, drop j_checkpoint_mutex in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()
when we are going to wait for transaction commit.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Xiaoguang Wang <xiaoguang.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Xiaoguang Wang authored and Theodore Ts'o committed Feb 1, 2019
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17 changes: 15 additions & 2 deletions fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
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Expand Up @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ void __jbd2_log_wait_for_space(journal_t *journal)
nblocks = jbd2_space_needed(journal);
while (jbd2_log_space_left(journal) < nblocks) {
write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
mutex_lock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
mutex_lock_io(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);

/*
* Test again, another process may have checkpointed while we
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"JBD2: %s: Waiting for Godot: block %llu\n",
journal->j_devname, (unsigned long long) bh->b_blocknr);

if (batch_count)
__flush_batch(journal, &batch_count);
jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, tid);
/*
* jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() may want
* to take the checkpoint_mutex if JBD2_FLUSHED
* is set, jbd2_update_log_tail() called by
* jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() may also take
* checkpoint_mutex. So we need to temporarily
* drop it.
*/
mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, tid);
goto retry;
mutex_lock_io(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
goto restart;
}
if (!buffer_dirty(bh)) {
if (unlikely(buffer_write_io_error(bh)) && !result)
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion fs/jbd2/journal.c
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Expand Up @@ -2067,7 +2067,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_wipe(journal_t *journal, int write)
err = jbd2_journal_skip_recovery(journal);
if (write) {
/* Lock to make assertions happy... */
mutex_lock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
mutex_lock_io(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal, REQ_SYNC | REQ_FUA);
mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
}
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