Commit 1b65007e authored by Dmitry Monakhov's avatar Dmitry Monakhov Committed by Theodore Ts'o

ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers

If we have enough aggressive DIO readers, truncate and other dio
waiters will wait forever inside inode_dio_wait(). It is reasonable
to disable nonlock DIO read optimization during truncate.
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 1c9114f9
......@@ -4333,9 +4333,14 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
if (attr->ia_size != i_size_read(inode)) {
truncate_setsize(inode, attr->ia_size);
/* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight */
if (orphan)
/* Inode size will be reduced, wait for dio in flight.
* Temporarily disable dioread_nolock to prevent
* livelock. */
if (orphan) {
ext4_inode_block_unlocked_dio(inode);
inode_dio_wait(inode);
ext4_inode_resume_unlocked_dio(inode);
}
}
ext4_truncate(inode);
}
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