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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>2017-08-01 11:45:23 -0500
committerBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>2017-08-10 10:45:21 -0500
commit71c1b2136835c88c231f7a5e3dc618f7568f84f7 (patch)
tree73a9839b924775b9e91e47a7f5a1288cc583d31c /fs/gfs2/glock.h
parenteebd2e813f7ef688e22cd0b68aea78fb3d1ef19c (diff)
gfs2: gfs2_evict_inode: Put glocks asynchronously
gfs2_evict_inode is called to free inodes under memory pressure. The function calls into DLM when an inode's last cluster-wide reference goes away (remote unlink) and to release the glock and associated DLM lock before finally destroying the inode. However, if DLM is blocked on memory to become available, calling into DLM again will deadlock. Avoid that by decoupling releasing glocks from destroying inodes in that case: with gfs2_glock_queue_put, glocks will be dequeued asynchronously in work queue context, when the associated inodes have likely already been destroyed. With this change, inodes can end up being unlinked, remote-unlink can be triggered, and then the inode can be reallocated before all remote-unlink callbacks are processed. To detect that, revalidate the link count in gfs2_evict_inode to make sure we're not deleting an allocated, referenced inode. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.h b/fs/gfs2/glock.h
index 526d2123f758..5e12220cc0c2 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.h
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.h
@@ -182,7 +182,9 @@ static inline struct address_space *gfs2_glock2aspace(struct gfs2_glock *gl)
extern int gfs2_glock_get(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, u64 number,
const struct gfs2_glock_operations *glops,
int create, struct gfs2_glock **glp);
+extern void gfs2_glock_hold(struct gfs2_glock *gl);
extern void gfs2_glock_put(struct gfs2_glock *gl);
+extern void gfs2_glock_queue_put(struct gfs2_glock *gl);
extern void gfs2_holder_init(struct gfs2_glock *gl, unsigned int state,
u16 flags, struct gfs2_holder *gh);
extern void gfs2_holder_reinit(unsigned int state, u16 flags,