From aa38a711a893accf5b5192f3d705a120deaa81e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miao Xie Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:43:00 +0800 Subject: Btrfs: fix deadlock on metadata reservation when evicting a inode When I ran the xfstests, I found the test tasks was blocked on meta-data reservation. By debugging, I found the reason of this bug: start transaction | v reserve meta-data space | v flush delay allocation -> iput inode -> evict inode ^ | | v wait for delay allocation flush <- reserve meta-data space And besides that, the flush on evicting inode will block the thread, which is reclaiming the memory, and make oom happen easily. Fix this bug by skipping the flush step when evicting inode. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie --- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/btrfs/inode.c') diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c index 8ad26b135a1..c5ccec23984 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -3490,7 +3490,7 @@ void btrfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) * doing the truncate. */ while (1) { - ret = btrfs_block_rsv_refill(root, rsv, min_size); + ret = btrfs_block_rsv_refill_noflush(root, rsv, min_size); /* * Try and steal from the global reserve since we will -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258