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authorJinshan Xiong <jinshan.xiong@intel.com>2016-08-16 20:18:44 (GMT)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-08-21 13:57:35 (GMT)
commit91196c20a37bb5990e4358ff97dbeb2bd3007154 (patch)
treef633c8e53d446e7dbe4837d7d109702c39f991e1 /drivers/staging/lustre
parent9b58714f9ab4138dabcf7176fdc465bd00afeae9 (diff)
downloadlinux-91196c20a37bb5990e4358ff97dbeb2bd3007154.tar.xz
staging: lustre: llite: avoid a deadlock in page write
For a partial page write, it will have to issue a READ RPC firstly to get a full uptodate page. If another page is already locked by this thread it can easily cause deadlock. Signed-off-by: Jinshan Xiong <jinshan.xiong@intel.com> Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4873 Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/9928 Reviewed-by: Bobi Jam <bobijam@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Niu Yawei <yawei.niu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/lustre')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
index d98c7ac..c14a1b6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
@@ -506,8 +506,9 @@ static int ll_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
env = lcc->lcc_env;
io = lcc->lcc_io;
- /* To avoid deadlock, try to lock page first. */
- vmpage = grab_cache_page_nowait(mapping, index);
+ if (likely(to == PAGE_SIZE)) /* LU-4873 */
+ /* To avoid deadlock, try to lock page first. */
+ vmpage = grab_cache_page_nowait(mapping, index);
if (unlikely(!vmpage || PageDirty(vmpage) || PageWriteback(vmpage))) {
struct vvp_io *vio = vvp_env_io(env);
struct cl_page_list *plist = &vio->u.write.vui_queue;