From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:56:15 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b65007e9870e0021397b548e8cd6bbc584f9152;p=linux-beck.git

ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers

If we have enough aggressive DIO readers, truncate and other dio
waiters will wait forever inside inode_dio_wait(). It is reasonable
to disable nonlock DIO read optimization during truncate.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
---

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 0bfc63331467..05ab70dd5c64 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4333,9 +4333,14 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 	if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
 		if (attr->ia_size != i_size_read(inode)) {
 			truncate_setsize(inode, attr->ia_size);
-			/* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight */
-			if (orphan)
+			/* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight.
+			 * Temporarily disable dioread_nolock to prevent
+			 * livelock. */
+			if (orphan) {
+				ext4_inode_block_unlocked_dio(inode);
 				inode_dio_wait(inode);
+				ext4_inode_resume_unlocked_dio(inode);
+			}
 		}
 		ext4_truncate(inode);
 	}