linux-stable/fs/jbd2
Tejun Heo 6fa7aa50b2 fs/jbd2, locking/mutex, sched/wait: Use mutex_lock_io() for journal->j_checkpoint_mutex
When an ext4 fs is bogged down by a lot of metadata IOs (in the
reported case, it was deletion of millions of files, but any massive
amount of journal writes would do), after the journal is filled up,
tasks which try to access the filesystem and aren't currently
performing the journal writes end up waiting in
__jbd2_log_wait_for_space() for journal->j_checkpoint_mutex.

Because those mutex sleeps aren't marked as iowait, this condition can
lead to misleadingly low iowait and /proc/stat:procs_blocked.  While
iowait propagation is far from strict, this condition can be triggered
fairly easily and annotating these sleeps correctly helps initial
diagnosis quite a bit.

Use the new mutex_lock_io() for journal->j_checkpoint_mutex so that
these sleeps are properly marked as iowait.

Reported-by: Mingbo Wan <mingbo@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477673892-28940-5-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-14 11:30:06 +01:00
..
checkpoint.c block,fs: use REQ_* flags directly 2016-11-01 09:43:26 -06:00
commit.c fs/jbd2, locking/mutex, sched/wait: Use mutex_lock_io() for journal->j_checkpoint_mutex 2017-01-14 11:30:06 +01:00
journal.c fs/jbd2, locking/mutex, sched/wait: Use mutex_lock_io() for journal->j_checkpoint_mutex 2017-01-14 11:30:06 +01:00
Kconfig jbd2: remove debug dependency on debug_fs and update Kconfig help text 2013-06-12 23:07:51 -04:00
Makefile
recovery.c fs: have ll_rw_block users pass in op and flags separately 2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
revoke.c block,fs: use REQ_* flags directly 2016-11-01 09:43:26 -06:00
transaction.c jbd2: fix incorrect unlock on j_list_lock 2016-10-12 23:19:18 -04:00