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authorYingping Lu <yingping@sgi.com>2006-06-09 14:55:18 +1000
committerNathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>2006-06-09 14:55:18 +1000
commitd210a28cd851082cec9b282443f8cc0e6fc09830 (patch)
tree77b8c843d4cb7e6095b607570c5fd16702e50592 /fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
parentd3446eac3f50dade2f09ed212b112609ee78fb33 (diff)
[XFS] In actual allocation of file system blocks and freeing extents, the
transaction within each such operation may involve multiple locking of AGF buffer. While the freeing extent function has sorted the extents based on AGF number before entering into transaction, however, when the file system space is very limited, the allocation of space would try every AGF to get space allocated, this could potentially cause out-of-order locking, thus deadlock could happen. This fix mitigates the scarce space for allocation by setting aside a few blocks without reservation, and avoid deadlock by maintaining ascending order of AGF locking. SGI-PV: 947395 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:210801a Signed-off-by: Yingping Lu <yingping@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c24
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
index c0b1c290688..4b7be49cc4d 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
@@ -1254,6 +1254,26 @@ xfs_mod_sb(xfs_trans_t *tp, __int64_t fields)
xfs_trans_log_buf(tp, bp, first, last);
}
+
+/*
+ * In order to avoid ENOSPC-related deadlock caused by
+ * out-of-order locking of AGF buffer (PV 947395), we place
+ * constraints on the relationship among actual allocations for
+ * data blocks, freelist blocks, and potential file data bmap
+ * btree blocks. However, these restrictions may result in no
+ * actual space allocated for a delayed extent, for example, a data
+ * block in a certain AG is allocated but there is no additional
+ * block for the additional bmap btree block due to a split of the
+ * bmap btree of the file. The result of this may lead to an
+ * infinite loop in xfssyncd when the file gets flushed to disk and
+ * all delayed extents need to be actually allocated. To get around
+ * this, we explicitly set aside a few blocks which will not be
+ * reserved in delayed allocation. Considering the minimum number of
+ * needed freelist blocks is 4 fsbs, a potential split of file's bmap
+ * btree requires 1 fsb, so we set the number of set-aside blocks to 8.
+*/
+#define SET_ASIDE_BLOCKS 8
+
/*
* xfs_mod_incore_sb_unlocked() is a utility routine common used to apply
* a delta to a specified field in the in-core superblock. Simply
@@ -1298,7 +1318,7 @@ xfs_mod_incore_sb_unlocked(xfs_mount_t *mp, xfs_sb_field_t field,
return 0;
case XFS_SBS_FDBLOCKS:
- lcounter = (long long)mp->m_sb.sb_fdblocks;
+ lcounter = (long long)mp->m_sb.sb_fdblocks - SET_ASIDE_BLOCKS;
res_used = (long long)(mp->m_resblks - mp->m_resblks_avail);
if (delta > 0) { /* Putting blocks back */
@@ -1332,7 +1352,7 @@ xfs_mod_incore_sb_unlocked(xfs_mount_t *mp, xfs_sb_field_t field,
}
}
- mp->m_sb.sb_fdblocks = lcounter;
+ mp->m_sb.sb_fdblocks = lcounter + SET_ASIDE_BLOCKS;
return 0;
case XFS_SBS_FREXTENTS:
lcounter = (long long)mp->m_sb.sb_frextents;