[ ssic-linux-Bugs-686748 ] Filesystem stacking deadlock

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Bugs item #686748, was opened at 2003-02-14 15:10
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Category: Filesystem
>Group: v1.2.0
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: David Zafman (dzafman)
Assigned to: John Byrne (jlbyrne)
Summary: Filesystem stacking deadlock

Initial Comment:

This has only been seen once.  There are other
processes wedged processes, which based on their
stacks, are also blocked on the same inodes i_sem. 
This stack trace below shows that if the same processes
recursively calls generic_file_write() twice, it will,
of course, deadlock, leaving the i_sem locked on the
inode. 

We might look into the Non-stop Clusters code, to see
how we dealt  with this issue before, although it might
be somewhat OS specific.

Stack traceback for pid 8
EBP        EIP        Function (args)
0xc11f7aa0 0xc011a9c8 schedule+0x478 (0x1, 0xc11f6000,
0xc30cfbe8, 0xc1ff5c08, 0xc3cd94ec)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc011a550 0xc011aa80
0xc11f7ac0 0xc0106199 __down+0x69 (0xc3cd94ec,
0xc11f7b78, 0xc0c5c3a0)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0106130 0xc0106200
0xc11f7ad4 0xc010634b __down_failed+0xb (0xc11f7b58,
0xffffffff, 0xc3f96000, 0xc11f7b04, 0xc4859a04)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0106340 0xc0106354
           0xc0135868 _text_lock_filemap+0x27b
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc01355ed 0xc0135880
0xc11f7ae8 0xc0135561 generic_file_write+0x21
(0xc11f7b58, 0xc3f96000, 0x1000, 0xc11f7b78, 0xc11f6000)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0135540 0xc0135590
0xc11f7b04 0xc4859a04 [ext3]ext3_file_write+0x44
(0xc11f7b58, 0xc3f96000, 0x1000, 0xc11f7b78, 0xc11f7b58)
                               ext3 .text 0xc4858060
0xc48599c0 0xc4859a10
0xc11f7bd4 0xc01e3859 cfsd_write+0xb9 (0xc2345360,
0x8a000, 0x0, 0xc3f96000, 0x1000)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc01e37a0 0xc01e38d0
0xc11f7c40 0xc01e012c cfs_proc_write+0x8c (0xc0e8bba0,
0x8a000, 0x0, 0x1000, 0xc3f96000)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc01e00a0 0xc01e0220
0xc11f7c70 0xc01ddf97 cfs_writepage_sync+0x57 (0x0,
0xc0e8bba0, 0xc111e238, 0x0, 0x1000)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc01ddf40 0xc01de020
0xc11f7c9c 0xc01de0be cfs_writepage+0x9e (0xc111e238,
0xc3c1bd90, 0xc11f6000, 0x3b, 0x256)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc01de020 0xc01de100
[1]more&gt;
0xc11f7ccc 0xc0139c96 shrink_cache+0x1f6 (0x6, 0x3,
0x20, 0xc03c4908, 0x6)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0139aa0 0xc0139e40
0xc11f7cf0 0xc0139f83 shrink_caches+0x53 (0x20,
0xc11f6000, 0x1d2, 0xc03c4908)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0139f30 0xc0139fb0
0xc11f7d08 0xc0139fe3 try_to_free_pages+0x33 (0x0, 0x0,
0x0, 0xc03c4a84, 0x81)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0139fb0 0xc013a010
0xc11f7d28 0xc013aa98 balance_classzone+0x68
(0xc11f7d40, 0xc03c4908, 0xc03c4a78, 0x1d2, 0xab)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc013aa30 0xc013ac00
0xc11f7d50 0xc013ad0a __alloc_pages+0x10a (0xc11f7da4)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc013ac00 0xc013ad70
0xc11f7d58 0xc013aa26 _alloc_pages+0x16 (0xc11f7d88,
0x0, 0x1000, 0xfffffff4, 0x0)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc013aa10 0xc013aa30
           0xc0135259 __generic_file_write+0x419
(0xc11f7e38, 0xc2436000, 0x1000, 0xc11f7e58, 0xc11f7e38)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0134e40 0xc0135540
0xc11f7dc8 0xc0135570 generic_file_write+0x30
(0xc11f7e38, 0xc2436000, 0x1000, 0xc11f7e58, 0xc11f6000)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0135540 0xc0135590
0xc11f7de4 0xc4859a04 [ext3]ext3_file_write+0x44
(0xc11f7e38, 0xc2436000, 0x1000, 0xc11f7e58, 0xc11f7e38)
                               ext3 .text 0xc4858060
0xc48599c0 0xc4859a10
0xc11f7eb4 0xc01e3859 cfsd_write+0xb9 (0x202, 0x202,
0xc11dd780, 0x0, 0x0)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc01e37a0 0xc01e38d0
0xc11f7e3c 0xc48090c8
[scsi_mod]scsi_queue_next_request+0x48 (0xc044aee0)
                               scsi_mod .text
0xc4802060 0xc4809080 0xc48091a0
0xc11f7ef4 0xc0123aac bh_action+0x4c (0x8, 0x0, 0x1,
0xc041d500, 0xfffffffe)
[1]more&gt;
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0123a60 0xc0123af0
0xc11f7f10 0xc0123951 tasklet_hi_action+0x61
(0xc0e8bba0, 0xab000, 0x0, 0x1000, 0xc2436000)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc01238f0 0xc01239a0
0xc11f7f50 0xc01ddf97 cfs_writepage_sync+0x57 (0x0,
0xc0e8bba0, 0xc10a2f38, 0x0, 0x1000)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc01ddf40 0xc01de020
0xc11f7f7c 0xc01de0be cfs_writepage+0x9e (0xc10a2f38,
0xc0e8bc64, 0xc01de020, 0x0, 0x4)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc01de020 0xc01de100
0xc11f7fa0 0xc01324b8 filemap_fdatasync+0x88
(0xc0e8bc54, 0x0, 0xc326e464, 0xc326e400, 0xc11f6000)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0132430 0xc0132510
0xc11f7fc4 0xc015623a sync_unlocked_inodes+0xaa
(0xc11f6000)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0156190 0xc01564d0
0xc11f7fd0 0xc0144938 sync_old_buffers+0x28 (0x30f00,
0xc11f6000, 0x30f00, 0xc115bf9c, 0xc0105000)
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0144910 0xc01449a0
0xc11f7fec 0xc0144cec kupdate+0x13c
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0144bb0 0xc0144d00
           0xc0105ab6 kernel_thread+0x26
                               kernel .text 0xc0100000
0xc0105a90 0xc0105ad0



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Comment By: Roger Tsang (rogertsang)
Date: 2005-09-29 01:19

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Is this a loopback filesystem?

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