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authorBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2012-11-08 14:18:22 -0800
committerBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2012-11-09 12:24:51 -0800
commite26ade5101ba1d8e8350ff1270bfca4258e1ffe3 (patch)
tree7d7642323fa0fa7e18e0d875986c9b2e8b80b512 /man
parentbbf8c748051294b104678f101ba1162632099b07 (diff)
Fix zvol+btrfs hang
When using a zvol to back a btrfs filesystem the btrfs mount would hang. This was due to the bio completion callback used in btrfs assuming that lower level drivers would never modify the bio->bi_io_vecs after they were submitted via bio_submit(). If they are modified btrfs will miscalculate which pages need to be unlocked resulting in a hang. It's worth mentioning that other file systems such as ext[234] and xfs work fine because they do not make the same assumption in the bio completion callback. The most straight forward way to fix the issue is to present the semantics expected by btrfs. This is done by cloning the bios attached to each request and then using the clones bvecs to perform the required accounting. The clones are freed after each read/write and the original unmodified bios are linked back in to the request. Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Closes #469
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