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Commit 53cf9784 authored by Xiaoguang Wang's avatar Xiaoguang Wang Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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jbd2: fix deadlock while checkpoint thread waits commit thread to finish



This issue was found when I tried to put checkpoint work in a separate thread,
the deadlock below happened:
         Thread1                                |   Thread2
__jbd2_log_wait_for_space                       |
jbd2_log_do_checkpoint (hold j_checkpoint_mutex)|
  if (jh->b_transaction != NULL)                |
    ...                                         |
    jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, tid);        |jbd2_update_log_tail
                                                |  will lock j_checkpoint_mutex,
                                                |  but will be blocked here.
                                                |
    jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, tid);         |
    wait_event(journal->j_wait_done_commit,     |
     !tid_gt(tid, journal->j_commit_sequence)); |
     ...                                        |wake_up(j_wait_done_commit)
  }                                             |

then deadlock occurs, Thread1 will never be waken up.

To fix this issue, drop j_checkpoint_mutex in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()
when we are going to wait for transaction commit.

Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiaoguang Wang <xiaoguang.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 8fdd60f2
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