From 9baf30972b5568d8b5bc8b3c46a6ec5b58100463 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tang Junhui Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 14:25:59 +0800 Subject: bcache: fix for gc and write-back race gc and write-back get raced (see the email "bcache get stucked" I sended before): gc thread write-back thread | |bch_writeback_thread() |bch_gc_thread() | | |==>read_dirty() |==>bch_btree_gc() | |==>btree_root() //get btree root | | //node write locker | |==>bch_btree_gc_root() | | |==>read_dirty_submit() | |==>write_dirty() | |==>continue_at(cl, | | write_dirty_finish, | | system_wq); | |==>write_dirty_finish()//excute | | //in system_wq | |==>bch_btree_insert() | |==>bch_btree_map_leaf_nodes() | |==>__bch_btree_map_nodes() | |==>btree_root //try to get btree | | //root node read | | //lock | |-----stuck here |==>bch_btree_set_root() |==>bch_journal_meta() |==>bch_journal() |==>journal_try_write() |==>journal_write_unlocked() //journal_full(&c->journal) | //condition satisfied |==>continue_at(cl, journal_write, system_wq); //try to excute | //journal_write in system_wq | //but work queue is excuting | //write_dirty_finish() |==>closure_sync(); //wait journal_write execute | //over and wake up gc, |-------------stuck here |==>release root node write locker This patch alloc a separate work-queue for write-back thread to avoid such race. (Commit log re-organized by Coly Li to pass checkpatch.pl checking) Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui Acked-by: Coly Li Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/md/bcache/super.c') diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c index c3fedd265d18..3b724fa2b68d 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c @@ -1059,6 +1059,8 @@ static void cached_dev_free(struct closure *cl) cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dc->writeback_rate_update); if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dc->writeback_thread)) kthread_stop(dc->writeback_thread); + if (dc->writeback_write_wq) + destroy_workqueue(dc->writeback_write_wq); mutex_lock(&bch_register_lock); -- cgit