Commit 180591bc authored Jan 06, 2009 by Yan Zheng Committed by Chris Mason Jan 06, 2009

Btrfs: Use btrfs_join_transaction to avoid deadlocks during snapshot creation



Snapshot creation happens at a specific time during transaction commit.  We
need to make sure the code called by snapshot creation doesn't wait
for the running transaction to commit.

This changes btrfs_delete_inode and finish_pending_snaps to use
btrfs_join_transaction instead of btrfs_start_transaction to avoid deadlocks.

It would be better if btrfs_delete_inode didn't use the join, but the
call path that triggers it is:

btrfs_commit_transaction->create_pending_snapshots->
create_pending_snapshot->btrfs_lookup_dentry->
fixup_tree_root_location->btrfs_read_fs_root->
btrfs_read_fs_root_no_name->btrfs_orphan_cleanup->iput

This will be fixed in a later patch by moving the orphan cleanup to the
cleaner thread.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

parent 9ca03b99

fs/btrfs/inode.c

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		@@ -2886,7 +2886,7 @@ void btrfs_delete_inode(struct inode *inode)
		btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, 0, (u64)-1);

		btrfs_i_size_write(inode, 0);
		trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 1);
		trans = btrfs_join_transaction(root, 1);

		btrfs_set_trans_block_group(trans, inode);
		ret = btrfs_truncate_inode_items(trans, root, inode, inode->i_size, 0);

fs/btrfs/transaction.c

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		@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ static noinline int finish_pending_snapshot(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,

		parent_inode = pending->dentry->d_parent->d_inode;
		parent_root = BTRFS_I(parent_inode)->root;
		trans = btrfs_start_transaction(parent_root, 1);
		trans = btrfs_join_transaction(parent_root, 1);

		/*
		* insert the directory item