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[6/9] ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers V2

Message ID 1347548474-31897-7-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org
State Superseded, archived
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Dmitry Monakhov Sept. 13, 2012, 3:01 p.m. UTC 
If we have enough aggressive DIO readers, truncate and other dio
waiters will wait forever inside inode_dio_wait(). It is reasonable
to disable nonlock DIO read optimization during truncate.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 658f649..a295b3a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4333,9 +4333,13 @@  int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 	if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
 		if (attr->ia_size != inode->i_size) {
 			truncate_setsize(inode, attr->ia_size);
-			/* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight */
-			if (orphan)
+			/* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight.
+			 * Temproraly disable unlocked DIO to prevent livelock */
+			if (orphan) {
+				ext4_inode_block_unlocked_dio(inode);
 				inode_dio_wait(inode);
+				ext4_inode_resume_unlocked_dio(inode);
+			}
 		}
 		ext4_truncate(inode);
 	}