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authorChunwei Chen <[email protected]>2015-03-05 11:52:26 -0800
committerBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2015-07-29 07:38:15 -0700
commit21a96fb635fb14a59efe44d7ea6767c5f9a586bc (patch)
treead2a1724912309480f55e25d9844dc491b06c583 /man
parentc1718e9580b9b6222be19c1691d3d7b61e503754 (diff)
Fix "BUG: Bad page state" caused by writeback flag
Commit d958324 fixed the deadlock between page lock and range lock by unlocking the page lock before acquiring the range lock. However, this created a new issue #3075. The problem is that if we can't set the write back bit before releasing the page lock. Then other processes will be unaware that the page is under active write back. They may therefore truncate the page, invalidate the page, or not honor the sync semantics. To workaround this problem we re-dirty the page before dropping the page lock. While this doesn't prevent the page from being truncated it does ensure it won't be invalidated. Then the range lock and the page lock are reacquired in the correct deadlock-free order. Once both locks are safely held the page state can be rechecked. If all is well and the page is in the expect state the dirty bit can be removed, the write back bit set, and the page removed from the skip count. If not the page will be handled as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Closes #3075
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