GFS2: glock livelock

This patch fixes a couple gfs2 problems with the reclaiming of
unlinked dinodes.  First, there were a couple of livelocks where
everything would come to a halt waiting for a glock that was
seemingly held by a process that no longer existed.  In fact, the
process did exist, it just had the wrong pid number in the holder
information.  Second, there was a lock ordering problem between
inode locking and glock locking.  Third, glock/inode contention
could sometimes cause inodes to be improperly marked invalid by
iget_failed.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Bob Peterson
2010-04-14 11:58:16 -04:00
committed by Steven Whitehouse
parent 602c89d2e3
commit 1a0eae8848
7 changed files with 144 additions and 29 deletions

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@@ -855,6 +855,9 @@ void gfs2_holder_reinit(unsigned int state, unsigned flags, struct gfs2_holder *
gh->gh_flags = flags;
gh->gh_iflags = 0;
gh->gh_ip = (unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0);
if (gh->gh_owner_pid)
put_pid(gh->gh_owner_pid);
gh->gh_owner_pid = get_pid(task_pid(current));
}
/**