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authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>2010-08-01 17:33:29 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-13 13:31:08 -0700
commit96fbd3f232d1c0b0c174b5804dce35f16c7eae63 (patch)
tree372209ef02638c7686253e7e873ef33c2cc7f6e3 /fs
parentc1e592f0ba284b88ade340fe2c5963bfdc621f28 (diff)
ext4: fix freeze deadlock under IO
commit 437f88cc031ffe7f37f3e705367f4fe1f4be8b0f upstream. Commit 6b0310fbf087ad6 caused a regression resulting in deadlocks when freezing a filesystem which had active IO; the vfs_check_frozen level (SB_FREEZE_WRITE) did not let the freeze-related IO syncing through. Duh. Changing the test to FREEZE_TRANS should let the normal freeze syncing get through the fs, but still block any transactions from starting once the fs is completely frozen. I tested this by running fsstress in the background while periodically snapshotting the fs and running fsck on the result. I ran into occasional deadlocks, but different ones. I think this is a fine fix for the problem at hand, and the other deadlocky things will need more investigation. Reported-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/super.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 4e8983a9811b..a45ced96b042 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ handle_t *ext4_journal_start_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks)
if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
return ERR_PTR(-EROFS);
- vfs_check_frozen(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
+ vfs_check_frozen(sb, SB_FREEZE_TRANS);
/* Special case here: if the journal has aborted behind our
* backs (eg. EIO in the commit thread), then we still need to
* take the FS itself readonly cleanly. */
@@ -3491,7 +3491,7 @@ int ext4_force_commit(struct super_block *sb)
journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal;
if (journal) {
- vfs_check_frozen(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
+ vfs_check_frozen(sb, SB_FREEZE_TRANS);
ret = ext4_journal_force_commit(journal);
}