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xfs: sync eofblocks scans under iolock are livelock prone
The xfs_eofblocks.eof_scan_owner field is an internal field to facilitate invoking eofb scans from the kernel while under the iolock. This is necessary because the eofb scan acquires the iolock of each inode. Synchronous scans are invoked on certain buffered write failures while under iolock. In such cases, the scan owner indicates that the context for the scan already owns the particular iolock and prevents a double lock deadlock. eofblocks scans while under iolock are still livelock prone in the event of multiple parallel scans, however. If multiple buffered writes to different inodes fail and invoke eofblocks scans at the same time, each scan avoids a deadlock with its own inode by virtue of the eof_scan_owner field, but will never be able to acquire the iolock of the inode from the parallel scan. Because the low free space scans are invoked with SYNC_WAIT, the scan will not return until it has processed every tagged inode and thus both scans will spin indefinitely on the iolock being held across the opposite scan. This problem can be reproduced reliably by generic/224 on systems with higher cpu counts (x16). To avoid this problem, simplify the semantics of eofblocks scans to never invoke a scan while under iolock. This means that the buffered write context must drop the iolock before the scan. It must reacquire the lock before the write retry and also repeat the initial write checks, as the original state might no longer be valid once the iolock was dropped. Signed-off-by:Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: