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authorChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>2008-11-13 23:39:14 +0000
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2008-11-13 23:39:14 +0000
commit8a57dfc6f943c92b861c9a19b0c86ddcb2aba768 (patch)
tree18090d42e647cda854c93aa304cf03fbad44f6c0 /mm
parentd221d2e77696e70e94b13989ea15db2ba5b34f8e (diff)
dm: avoid destroying table in dm_any_congested
dm_any_congested() just checks for the DMF_BLOCK_IO and has no code to make sure that suspend waits for dm_any_congested() to complete. This patch adds such a check. Without it, a race can occur with dm_table_put() attempting to destroying the table in the wrong thread, the one running dm_any_congested() which is meant to be quick and return immediately. Two examples of problems: 1. Sleeping functions called from congested code, the caller of which holds a spin lock. 2. An ABBA deadlock between pdflush and multipathd. The two locks in contention are inode lock and kernel lock. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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