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NFS: Fix an ABBA issue in nfs_lock_and_join_requests() 

All other callers of nfs_page_group_lock() appear to already hold the
page lock on the head page, so doing it in the opposite order here
is inefficient, although not deadlock prone since we roll back all
locks on contention.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
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Trond Myklebust 2017-07-17 10:29:32 -04:00
parent 7cb9cd9aa2
commit a0e265bc78
1 changed files with 17 additions and 12 deletions
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fs/nfs/write.c
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@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ nfs_unroll_locks_and_wait(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_page *head,
int ret;
/* relinquish all the locks successfully grabbed this run */
for (tmp = head ; tmp != req; tmp = tmp->wb_this_page)
for (tmp = head->wb_this_page ; tmp != req; tmp = tmp->wb_this_page)
nfs_unlock_request(tmp);
WARN_ON_ONCE(test_bit(PG_TEARDOWN, &req->wb_flags));
@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ nfs_unroll_locks_and_wait(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_page *head,
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
/* release ref from nfs_page_find_head_request_locked */
nfs_release_request(head);
nfs_unlock_and_release_request(head);
ret = nfs_wait_on_request(req);
nfs_release_request(req);
@ -484,10 +484,6 @@ nfs_lock_and_join_requests(struct page *page)
int ret;
try_again:
total_bytes = 0;
WARN_ON_ONCE(destroy_list);
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
/*
@ -502,6 +498,16 @@ try_again:
return NULL;
}
/* lock the page head first in order to avoid an ABBA inefficiency */
if (!nfs_lock_request(head)) {
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
ret = nfs_wait_on_request(head);
nfs_release_request(head);
if (ret < 0)
return ERR_PTR(ret);
goto try_again;
}
/* holding inode lock, so always make a non-blocking call to try the
* page group lock */
ret = nfs_page_group_lock(head, true);
@ -509,13 +515,14 @@ try_again:
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
nfs_page_group_lock_wait(head);
nfs_release_request(head);
nfs_unlock_and_release_request(head);
goto try_again;
}
/* lock each request in the page group */
subreq = head;
do {
total_bytes = head->wb_bytes;
for (subreq = head->wb_this_page; subreq != head;
subreq = subreq->wb_this_page) {
/*
* Subrequests are always contiguous, non overlapping
* and in order - but may be repeated (mirrored writes).
@ -541,9 +548,7 @@ try_again:
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
subreq = subreq->wb_this_page;
} while (subreq != head);
}
/* Now that all requests are locked, make sure they aren't on any list.
* Commit list removal accounting is done after locks are dropped */