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David Sterba 4675f90ef8 Revert "btrfs: balance dirty metadata pages in btrfs_finish_ordered_io" 
commit 77b7aad195 upstream.

This reverts commit e73e81b6d0.

This patch causes a few problems:

- adds latency to btrfs_finish_ordered_io
- as btrfs_finish_ordered_io is used for free space cache, generating
  more work from btrfs_btree_balance_dirty_nodelay could end up in the
  same workque, effectively deadlocking

12260 kworker/u96:16+btrfs-freespace-write D
[<0>] balance_dirty_pages+0x6e6/0x7ad
[<0>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0x6bb/0xa90
[<0>] btrfs_finish_ordered_io+0x3da/0x770
[<0>] normal_work_helper+0x1c5/0x5a0
[<0>] process_one_work+0x1ee/0x5a0
[<0>] worker_thread+0x46/0x3d0
[<0>] kthread+0xf5/0x130
[<0>] ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30
[<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Transaction commit will wait on the freespace cache:

838 btrfs-transacti D
[<0>] btrfs_start_ordered_extent+0x154/0x1e0
[<0>] btrfs_wait_ordered_range+0xbd/0x110
[<0>] __btrfs_wait_cache_io+0x49/0x1a0
[<0>] btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups+0x10b/0x3b0
[<0>] commit_cowonly_roots+0x215/0x2b0
[<0>] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x37e/0x910
[<0>] transaction_kthread+0x14d/0x180
[<0>] kthread+0xf5/0x130
[<0>] ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30
[<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff

And then writepages ends up waiting on transaction commit:

9520 kworker/u96:13+flush-btrfs-1 D
[<0>] wait_current_trans+0xac/0xe0
[<0>] start_transaction+0x21b/0x4b0
[<0>] cow_file_range_inline+0x10b/0x6b0
[<0>] cow_file_range.isra.69+0x329/0x4a0
[<0>] run_delalloc_range+0x105/0x3c0
[<0>] writepage_delalloc+0x119/0x180
[<0>] __extent_writepage+0x10c/0x390
[<0>] extent_write_cache_pages+0x26f/0x3d0
[<0>] extent_writepages+0x4f/0x80
[<0>] do_writepages+0x17/0x60
[<0>] __writeback_single_inode+0x59/0x690
[<0>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x291/0x4e0
[<0>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x87/0xb0
[<0>] wb_writeback+0x3bb/0x500
[<0>] wb_workfn+0x40d/0x610
[<0>] process_one_work+0x1ee/0x5a0
[<0>] worker_thread+0x1e0/0x3d0
[<0>] kthread+0xf5/0x130
[<0>] ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30
[<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Eventually, we have every process in the system waiting on
balance_dirty_pages(), and nobody is able to make progress on page
writeback.

The original patch tried to fix an OOM condition, that happened on 4.4 but no
success reproducing that on later kernels (4.19 and 4.20). This is more likely
a problem in OOM itself.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20180528054821.9092-1-ethanlien@synology.com/
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18+
CC: ethanlien <ethanlien@synology.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-01-22 21:40:32 +01:00
arch xen: Fix x86 sched_clock() interface for xen 2019-01-22 21:40:32 +01:00
block block: mq-deadline: Fix write completion handling 2019-01-13 09:51:07 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: authenc - fix parsing key with misaligned rta_len 2019-01-22 21:40:32 +01:00
Documentation x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off 2019-01-09 17:38:41 +01:00
drivers xen: Fix x86 sched_clock() interface for xen 2019-01-22 21:40:32 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Revert "btrfs: balance dirty metadata pages in btrfs_finish_ordered_io" 2019-01-22 21:40:32 +01:00
include netfilter: nf_conncount: speculative garbage collection on empty lists 2019-01-22 21:40:29 +01:00
init sched/pelt: Fix warning and clean up IRQ PELT config 2018-12-19 19:19:49 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel sched/fair: Fix infinite loop in update_blocked_averages() by reverting a9e7f6544b 2019-01-13 09:51:09 +01:00
lib lib: fix build failure in CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL test 2019-01-13 09:51:10 +01:00
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mm mm: page_mapped: don't assume compound page is huge or THP 2019-01-16 22:04:36 +01:00
net ip: on queued skb use skb_header_pointer instead of pskb_may_pull 2019-01-22 21:40:31 +01:00
samples samples: disable CONFIG_SAMPLES for UML 2018-10-11 02:15:46 +09:00
scripts x86, modpost: Replace last remnants of RETPOLINE with CONFIG_RETPOLINE 2019-01-16 22:04:29 +01:00
security selinux: policydb - fix byte order and alignment issues 2019-01-13 09:51:07 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Disable headset Mic VREF for headset mode of ALC225 2019-01-16 22:04:30 +01:00
tools mm, devm_memremap_pages: fix shutdown handling 2019-01-13 09:51:04 +01:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Fix VMID alloc race by reverting to lock-less 2019-01-16 22:04:37 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch maintainer 2018-12-01 09:37:25 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.16 2019-01-16 22:04:38 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.