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authorHisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>2008-09-02 14:35:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-09-02 19:21:37 -0700
commit6ccfa806a9cfbbf1cd43d5b6aa47ef2c0eb518fd (patch)
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VFS: fix dio write returning EIO when try_to_release_page fails
Dio write returns EIO when try_to_release_page fails because bh is still referenced. The patch commit 3f31fddfa26b7594b44ff2b34f9a04ba409e0f91 Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri Jul 25 01:46:22 2008 -0700 jbd: fix race between free buffer and commit transaction was merged into 2.6.27-rc1, but I noticed that this patch is not enough to fix the race. I did fsstress test heavily to 2.6.27-rc1, and found that dio write still sometimes got EIO through this test. The patch above fixed race between freeing buffer(dio) and committing transaction(jbd) but I discovered that there is another race, freeing buffer(dio) and ext3/4_ordered_writepage. : background_writeout() ->write_cache_pages() ->ext3_ordered_writepage() walk_page_buffers() -> take a bh ref block_write_full_page() -> unlock_page : <- end_page_writeback : <- race! (dio write->try_to_release_page fails) walk_page_buffers() ->release a bh ref ext3_ordered_writepage holds bh ref and does unlock_page remaining taking a bh ref, so this causes the race and failure of try_to_release_page. To fix this race, I used the approach of falling back to buffered writes if try_to_release_page() fails on a page. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/truncate.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/truncate.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 250505091d37..6650c1d878b4 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int do_launder_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
* Any pages which are found to be mapped into pagetables are unmapped prior to
* invalidation.
*
- * Returns -EIO if any pages could not be invalidated.
+ * Returns -EBUSY if any pages could not be invalidated.
*/
int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
ret2 = do_launder_page(mapping, page);
if (ret2 == 0) {
if (!invalidate_complete_page2(mapping, page))
- ret2 = -EIO;
+ ret2 = -EBUSY;
}
if (ret2 < 0)
ret = ret2;