Re: btrfs: sleeping function called from invalid context

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On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 12:30 AM Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 24.02.20 г. 1:42 ч., Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > Hi, I noticed this when I was doing some build tests; is this a known issue?
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> So this is fallout from 28553fa992cb28be6a65566681aac6cafabb4f2d because
> it's being called while we have locked extent buffers (before calling
> btrfs_free_Path which is holding a rwlock (a variant of spinlock). And
> actually unlocking btrfs' extent requires allocating structures to
> reflect the new state. This allocation is currently done with GFP_NOFS
> which implies DIRECT_RECLAIM hence the maybe sleep from slab allocator
> is triggered.
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> Filipe, can the unlock be done _after_ freeing the path or even better -
> reduce the critical section altogether in btrfs_truncate_inode_items?
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> I don't think '[PATCH] Btrfs: fix deadlock during fast fsync when
> logging prealloc extents beyond eof' actually fixes the problem since
> the unlock can happen under the path again.

The problem is that that patch was made against the integration branch
(misc-next) where truncate doesn't use btree search paths with
spinning locks anymore, so it didn't trigger that problem during
development.
The patch was then picked into 5.6-rc2, where we still use spinning
locks, whence people reporting the issue (before Ted, Dave Jones and a
few others had reported it as well).

The solution was to pick a patch from the integration branch into 5.6-rc3:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=52e29e331070cd7d52a64cbf1b0958212a340e28

That solves the sleep in invalid context warnings.
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-- 
Filipe David Manana,

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”




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