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    xfs: cancel eofblocks background trimming on remount read-only · fa5a4f57
    Brian Foster authored
    
    
    The filesystem quiesce sequence performs the operations necessary to
    drain all background work, push pending transactions through the log
    infrastructure and wait on I/O resulting from the final AIL push. We
    have had reports of remount,ro hangs in xfs_log_quiesce() ->
    xfs_wait_buftarg(), however, and some instrumentation code to detect
    transaction commits at this point in the quiesce sequence has inculpated
    the eofblocks background scanner as a cause.
    
    While higher level remount code generally prevents user modifications by
    the time the filesystem has made it to xfs_log_quiesce(), the background
    scanner may still be alive and can perform pending work at any time. If
    this occurs between the xfs_log_force() and xfs_wait_buftarg() calls
    within xfs_log_quiesce(), this can lead to an indefinite lockup in
    xfs_wait_buftarg().
    
    To prevent this problem, cancel the background eofblocks scan worker
    during the remount read-only quiesce sequence. This suspends background
    trimming when a filesystem is remounted read-only. This is only done in
    the remount path because the freeze codepath has already locked out new
    transactions by the time the filesystem attempts to quiesce (and thus
    waiting on an active work item could deadlock). Kick the eofblocks
    worker to pick up where it left off once an fs is remounted back to
    read-write.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
    
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