btrfs: do not do delalloc reservation under page lock
We ran into a deadlock in production with the fixup worker. The stack traces were as follows: Thread responsible for the writeout, waiting on the page lock [<0>] io_schedule+0x12/0x40 [<0>] __lock_page+0x109/0x1e0 [<0>] extent_write_cache_pages+0x206/0x360 [<0>] extent_writepages+0x40/0x60 [<0>] do_writepages+0x31/0xb0 [<0>] __writeback_single_inode+0x3d/0x350 [<0>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x19d/0x3c0 [<0>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x5d/0xb0 [<0>] wb_writeback+0x231/0x2c0 [<0>] wb_workfn+0x308/0x3c0 [<0>] process_one_work+0x1e0/0x390 [<0>] worker_thread+0x2b/0x3c0 [<0>] kthread+0x113/0x130 [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 [<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff Thread of the fixup worker who is holding the page lock [<0>] start_delalloc_inodes+0x241/0x2d0 [<0>] btrfs_start_delalloc_roots+0x179/0x230 [<0>] btrfs_alloc_data_chunk_ondemand+0x11b/0x2e0 [<0>] btrfs_check_data_free_space+0x53/0xa0 [<0>] btrfs_delalloc_reserve_space+0x20/0x70 [<0>] btrfs_writepage_fixup_worker+0x1fc/0x2a0 [<0>] normal_work_helper+0x11c/0x360 [<0>] process_one_work+0x1e0/0x390 [<0>] worker_thread+0x2b/0x3c0 [<0>] kthread+0x113/0x130 [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 [<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff Thankfully the stars have to align just right to hit this. First you have to end up in the fixup worker, which is tricky by itself (my reproducer does DIO reads into a MMAP'ed region, so not a common operation). Then you have to have less than a page size of free data space and 0 unallocated space so you go down the "commit the transaction to free up pinned space" path. This was accomplished by a random balance that was running on the host. Then you get this deadlock. I'm still in the process of trying to force the deadlock to happen on demand, but I've hit other issues. I can still trigger the fixup worker path itself so this patch has been tested in that regard, so the normal case is fine. Fixes: 87826df0 ("btrfs: delalloc for page dirtied out-of-band in fixup worker") Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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