From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 13:11:45 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: dealing with the rest of shrink_dentry_list() livelock
X-Git-Tag: v3.15-rc8~11^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b2b80195d8829921506880f6dccd21cabd163d0d;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

dealing with the rest of shrink_dentry_list() livelock

We have the same problem with ->d_lock order in the inner loop, where
we are dropping references to ancestors.  Same solution, basically -
instead of using dentry_kill() we use lock_parent() (introduced in the
previous commit) to get that lock in a safe way, recheck ->d_count
(in case if lock_parent() has ended up dropping and retaking ->d_lock
and somebody managed to grab a reference during that window), trylock
the inode->i_lock and use __dentry_kill() to do the rest.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index d54a99baf4f..eb7c7255470 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -885,8 +885,26 @@ static void shrink_dentry_list(struct list_head *list)
 		 * fragmentation.
 		 */
 		dentry = parent;
-		while (dentry && !lockref_put_or_lock(&dentry->d_lockref))
-			dentry = dentry_kill(dentry, 1);
+		while (dentry && !lockref_put_or_lock(&dentry->d_lockref)) {
+			parent = lock_parent(dentry);
+			if (dentry->d_lockref.count != 1) {
+				dentry->d_lockref.count--;
+				spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+				if (parent)
+					spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
+				break;
+			}
+			inode = dentry->d_inode;	/* can't be NULL */
+			if (unlikely(!spin_trylock(&inode->i_lock))) {
+				spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+				if (parent)
+					spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
+				cpu_relax();
+				continue;
+			}
+			__dentry_kill(dentry);
+			dentry = parent;
+		}
 	}
 }