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authorJason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>2007-09-01 12:06:03 -0700
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2007-09-02 18:18:38 +0100
commitfc0e01974ccccc7530b7634a63ee3fcc57b845ea (patch)
tree2680036a725a5cef83330ea618aa77e0494880ec
parent40ffbfad6bb79a99cc7627bdaca0ee22dec526f6 (diff)
[JFFS2] fix write deadlock regression
I've bisected the deadlock when many small appends are done on jffs2 down to this commit: commit 6fe6900e1e5b6fa9e5c59aa5061f244fe3f467e2 Author: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Date: Sun May 6 14:49:04 2007 -0700 mm: make read_cache_page synchronous Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls. I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7 possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in block2mtd. All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return with a !uptodate page. It introduced a wait to read_cache_page, as well as a read_cache_page_async function equivalent to the old read_cache_page without any callers. Switching jffs2_gc_fetch_page to read_cache_page_async for the old behavior makes the deadlocks go away, but maybe reintroduces the use-before-uptodate problem? I don't understand the mm/fs interaction well enough to say. [It's fine. dwmw2.] Signed-off-by: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/fs.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/fs.c b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
index 1d3b7a9fc82..8bc727b7169 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/fs.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ unsigned char *jffs2_gc_fetch_page(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
struct inode *inode = OFNI_EDONI_2SFFJ(f);
struct page *pg;
- pg = read_cache_page(inode->i_mapping, offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT,
+ pg = read_cache_page_async(inode->i_mapping, offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT,
(void *)jffs2_do_readpage_unlock, inode);
if (IS_ERR(pg))
return (void *)pg;