xfs: Fix a deadlock in xfs_log_commit_cil() code path
While testing and rearranging pquota/gquota code, I stumbled on a xfs_shutdown() during a mount. But the mount just hung. Debugged and found that there is a deadlock involving &log->l_cilp->xc_ctx_lock. It is in a code path where &log->l_cilp->xc_ctx_lock is first acquired in read mode and some levels down the same semaphore is being acquired in write mode causing a deadlock. This is the stack: xfs_log_commit_cil -> acquires &log->l_cilp->xc_ctx_lock in read mode xlog_print_tic_res xfs_force_shutdown xfs_log_force_umount xlog_cil_force xlog_cil_force_lsn xlog_cil_push_foreground xlog_cil_push - tries to acquire same semaphore in write mode This patch fixes the deadlock by changing the reason code for xfs_force_shutdown in xlog_print_tic_res() to SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR. SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR is the right reason code to be set since we are in the log path. Thanks to Dave for suggesting this solution. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
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