From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][take 5] JBD2: Fix race between free buffer and commit trasanction
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:54:20 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080530062420.GA7450@skywalker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212020299.3791.57.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 05:18:19PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> Index: linux-2.6.26-rc3/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.26-rc3.orig/fs/jbd2/transaction.c 2008-05-28 16:10:41.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.26-rc3/fs/jbd2/transaction.c 2008-05-28 16:13:16.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1656,12 +1656,42 @@ out:
> return;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() could race with jbd2_journal_commit_transaction()
> + * The later might still hold the reference count to the buffers when inspecting
> + * them on t_syncdata_list or t_locked_list.
> + *
> + * jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() will call this function to
> + * wait for the current transaction to finish syncing data buffers, before
> + * try to free that buffer.
> + *
> + * Called with journal->j_state_lock hold.
> + */
We are taking the spin_lock again in the function ??
> +static void jbd2_journal_wait_for_transaction_sync_data(journal_t *journal)
> +{
> + transaction_t *transaction = NULL;
> + tid_t tid;
> +
> + spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> + transaction = journal->j_committing_transaction;
> +
> + if (!transaction) {
> + spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + tid = transaction->t_tid;
> + spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> + jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, tid);
> +}
[.... snip.... ]
> + if (ret == 0 && (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) && (gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) {
> + spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> + jbd2_journal_wait_for_transaction_sync_data(journal);
> + ret = try_to_free_buffers(page);
> + spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> + }
> +
> busy:
> return ret;
> }
>
>
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-30 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-06 17:42 [RFC] JBD ordered mode rewrite Jan Kara
2008-03-06 19:05 ` Josef Bacik
2008-03-10 16:30 ` Jan Kara
2008-03-06 23:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-10 17:38 ` Jan Kara
2008-03-07 1:34 ` Mark Fasheh
2008-03-10 18:00 ` Jan Kara
2008-03-07 10:55 ` Mingming Cao
2008-03-10 18:29 ` Jan Kara
2008-03-07 23:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-03-08 0:08 ` Mingming Cao
2008-03-08 12:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-10 19:54 ` Jan Kara
2008-03-10 21:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-04-25 23:38 ` Possible race between direct IO and JBD? Mingming Cao
2008-04-26 10:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-28 12:26 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-28 17:11 ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-04-28 18:09 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-28 19:09 ` Mingming Cao
2008-04-29 12:43 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-29 17:49 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-01 15:16 ` [PATCH] jbd_commit_transaction() races with journal_try_to_drop_buffers() causing DIO failures Badari Pulavarty
2008-05-01 22:08 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-05 17:06 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-05 17:53 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-06 0:10 ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-05-09 22:27 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-12 15:54 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-12 19:23 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-13 14:20 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-13 0:39 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-13 14:54 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-13 16:37 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-13 22:23 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-14 17:08 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-14 17:41 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-14 18:14 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-16 14:13 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-16 14:14 ` [PATCH] Fix DIO EIO error caused by race between jbd_commit_transaction() and journal_try_to_drop_buffers() Mingming Cao
2008-05-16 15:01 ` Josef Bacik
2008-05-16 17:11 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-16 17:17 ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-05-16 17:30 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-16 17:12 ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-05-16 21:01 ` [PATCH] JBD: Fix DIO EIO error caused by race between free buffer and commit trasanction Mingming Cao
2008-05-18 22:37 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-19 19:59 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-19 20:25 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-19 22:07 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-20 9:30 ` Jens Axboe
2008-05-20 17:47 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-20 18:02 ` [PATCH-v2] JBD: Fix " Mingming Cao
2008-05-20 23:53 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-21 17:14 ` Mingming
2008-05-24 22:44 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-28 18:18 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-28 18:55 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-29 0:15 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-29 0:16 ` [PATCH][take 5] " Mingming Cao
2008-05-29 0:18 ` [PATCH][take 5] JBD2: " Mingming Cao
2008-05-30 6:24 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2008-05-30 15:17 ` Mingming Cao
2008-05-21 23:38 ` [PATCH 1/2][TAKE3] JBD: " Mingming
2008-05-22 5:57 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 23:39 ` [PATCH 2/2][TAKE3] JBD2: " Mingming
2008-05-20 18:03 ` [PATCH -v2] JBD2: Fix race between journal " Mingming Cao
2008-05-16 21:01 ` [PATCH] JBD2: Fix DIO EIO error caused by race between " Mingming Cao
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