drbd: report congestion if we are waiting for some userland callback

If the drbd worker thread is synchronously waiting for some userland
callback, we don't want some casual pageout to block on us.
Have drbd_congested() report congestion in that case.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

3 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
index 79c69eb..5136510 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
@@ -850,6 +850,13 @@ enum {
 	AL_SUSPENDED,		/* Activity logging is currently suspended. */
 	AHEAD_TO_SYNC_SOURCE,   /* Ahead -> SyncSource queued */
 	STATE_SENT,		/* Do not change state/UUIDs while this is set */
+
+	CALLBACK_PENDING,	/* Whether we have a call_usermodehelper(, UMH_WAIT_PROC)
+				 * pending, from drbd worker context.
+				 * If set, bdi_write_congested() returns true,
+				 * so shrink_page_list() would not recurse into,
+				 * and potentially deadlock on, this drbd worker.
+				 */
 };
 
 struct drbd_bitmap; /* opaque for drbd_conf */
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
index 5bebe8d..41ccb58 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
@@ -3553,6 +3553,22 @@ static int drbd_congested(void *congested_data, int bdi_bits)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (test_bit(CALLBACK_PENDING, &mdev->flags)) {
+		r |= (1 << BDI_async_congested);
+		/* Without good local data, we would need to read from remote,
+		 * and that would need the worker thread as well, which is
+		 * currently blocked waiting for that usermode helper to
+		 * finish.
+		 */
+		if (!get_ldev_if_state(mdev, D_UP_TO_DATE))
+			r |= (1 << BDI_sync_congested);
+		else
+			put_ldev(mdev);
+		r &= bdi_bits;
+		reason = 'c';
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	if (get_ldev(mdev)) {
 		q = bdev_get_queue(mdev->ldev->backing_bdev);
 		r = bdi_congested(&q->backing_dev_info, bdi_bits);
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index 40a1c4f..03fc853 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ int drbd_khelper(struct drbd_conf *mdev, char *cmd)
 	char *argv[] = {usermode_helper, cmd, mb, NULL };
 	int ret;
 
+	if (current == mdev->worker.task)
+		set_bit(CALLBACK_PENDING, &mdev->flags);
+
 	snprintf(mb, 12, "minor-%d", mdev_to_minor(mdev));
 
 	if (get_net_conf(mdev)) {
@@ -189,6 +192,9 @@ int drbd_khelper(struct drbd_conf *mdev, char *cmd)
 				usermode_helper, cmd, mb,
 				(ret >> 8) & 0xff, ret);
 
+	if (current == mdev->worker.task)
+		clear_bit(CALLBACK_PENDING, &mdev->flags);
+
 	if (ret < 0) /* Ignore any ERRNOs we got. */
 		ret = 0;