@@ -2456,6 +2456,7 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct add
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
int no_nrwrite_index_update;
long pages_written = 0, pages_skipped;
+ int range_cyclic, cycled = 1, io_done = 0;
int needed_blocks, ret = 0, nr_to_writebump = 0;
struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(mapping->host->i_sb);
@@ -2493,9 +2494,15 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct add
if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
range_whole = 1;
- if (wbc->range_cyclic)
+ range_cyclic = wbc->range_cyclic;
+ if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
index = mapping->writeback_index;
- else
+ if (index)
+ cycled = 0;
+ wbc->range_start = index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+ wbc->range_end = LLONG_MAX;
+ wbc->range_cyclic = 0;
+ } else
index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
mpd.wbc = wbc;
@@ -2509,6 +2516,7 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct add
wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update = 1;
pages_skipped = wbc->pages_skipped;
+retry:
while (!ret && wbc->nr_to_write > 0) {
/*
@@ -2563,6 +2571,7 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct add
pages_written += mpd.pages_written;
wbc->pages_skipped = pages_skipped;
ret = 0;
+ io_done = 1;
} else if (wbc->nr_to_write)
/*
* There is no more writeout needed
@@ -2571,6 +2580,13 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct add
*/
break;
}
+ if (!io_done && !cycled) {
+ cycled = 1;
+ index = 0;
+ wbc->range_start = index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+ wbc->range_end = mapping->writeback_index - 1;
+ goto retry;
+ }
if (pages_skipped != wbc->pages_skipped)
printk(KERN_EMERG "This should not happen leaving %s "
"with nr_to_write = %ld ret = %d\n",
@@ -2578,6 +2594,7 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct add
/* Update index */
index += pages_written;
+ wbc->range_cyclic = range_cyclic;
if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
/*
* set the writeback_index so that range_cyclic
This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled Subject: ext4: Implement range_cyclic in ext4_da_writepages instead of write_cache_pages to the 2.6.27-stable tree. Its filename is ext4-implement-range_cyclic-in-ext4_da_writepages-instead-of-write_cache_pages.patch A git repo of this tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary From tytso@mit.edu Mon Apr 19 10:24:03 2010 From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:26:05 -0400 Subject: ext4: Implement range_cyclic in ext4_da_writepages instead of write_cache_pages To: stable@kernel.org Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, "Jayson R. King" <dev@jaysonking.com>, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-ID: <1268699165-17461-12-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> commit 2acf2c261b823d9d9ed954f348b97620297a36b5 upstream. With delayed allocation we lock the page in write_cache_pages() and try to build an in memory extent of contiguous blocks. This is needed so that we can get large contiguous blocks request. If range_cyclic mode is enabled, write_cache_pages() will loop back to the 0 index if no I/O has been done yet, and try to start writing from the beginning of the range. That causes an attempt to take the page lock of lower index page while holding the page lock of higher index page, which can cause a dead lock with another writeback thread. The solution is to implement the range_cyclic behavior in ext4_da_writepages() instead. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12579 Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jayson R. King <dev@jaysonking.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com are queue-2.6.27/ext4-fix-file-fragmentation-during-large-file-write.patch queue-2.6.27/ext4-retry-block-allocation-if-we-have-free-blocks-left.patch queue-2.6.27/vfs-add-no_nrwrite_index_update-writeback-control-flag.patch queue-2.6.27/ext4-retry-block-reservation.patch queue-2.6.27/ext4-invalidate-pages-if-delalloc-block-allocation-fails.patch queue-2.6.27/ext4-use-tag-dirty-lookup-during-mpage_da_submit_io.patch queue-2.6.27/vfs-remove-the-range_cont-writeback-mode.patch queue-2.6.27/ext4-make-sure-all-the-block-allocation-paths-reserve-blocks.patch queue-2.6.27/ext4-implement-range_cyclic-in-ext4_da_writepages-instead-of-write_cache_pages.patch queue-2.6.27/ext4-add-percpu-dirty-block-accounting.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html