xfs: prevent unwritten extent conversion from blocking I/O completion

Unwritten extent conversion can recurse back into the filesystem due
to memory allocation. Memory reclaim requires I/O completions to be
processed to allow the callers to make progress. If the I/O
completion workqueue thread is doing the recursion, then we have a
deadlock situation.

Move unwritten extent completion into it's own workqueue so it
doesn't block I/O completions for normal delayed allocation or
overwrite data.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>

fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c

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 }
 
 /*
- * Schedule IO completion handling on a xfsdatad if this was
- * the final hold on this ioend. If we are asked to wait,
- * flush the workqueue.
- */
-STATIC void
-xfs_finish_ioend(
-	xfs_ioend_t	*ioend,
-	int		wait)
-{
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ioend->io_remaining)) {
-		queue_work(xfsdatad_workqueue, &ioend->io_work);
-		if (wait)
-			flush_workqueue(xfsdatad_workqueue);
-	}
-}
-
-/*
  * We're now finished for good with this ioend structure.
  * Update the page state via the associated buffer_heads,
  * release holds on the inode and bio, and finally free
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 		container_of(work, xfs_ioend_t, io_work);
 
 	xfs_destroy_ioend(ioend);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Schedule IO completion handling on a xfsdatad if this was
+ * the final hold on this ioend. If we are asked to wait,
+ * flush the workqueue.
+ */
+STATIC void
+xfs_finish_ioend(
+	xfs_ioend_t	*ioend,
+	int		wait)
+{
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ioend->io_remaining)) {
+		struct workqueue_struct *wq = xfsdatad_workqueue;
+		if (ioend->io_work.func == xfs_end_bio_unwritten)
+			wq = xfsconvertd_workqueue;
+
+		queue_work(wq, &ioend->io_work);
+		if (wait)
+			flush_workqueue(wq);
+	}
 }
 
 /*

fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.h

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 #define __XFS_AOPS_H__
 
 extern struct workqueue_struct *xfsdatad_workqueue;
+extern struct workqueue_struct *xfsconvertd_workqueue;
 extern mempool_t *xfs_ioend_pool;
 
 /*

fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c

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 static struct workqueue_struct *xfslogd_workqueue;
 struct workqueue_struct *xfsdatad_workqueue;
+struct workqueue_struct *xfsconvertd_workqueue;
 
 #ifdef XFS_BUF_TRACE
 void
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 	xfs_buf_t	*bp, *n;
 	int		pincount = 0;
 
+	xfs_buf_runall_queues(xfsconvertd_workqueue);
 	xfs_buf_runall_queues(xfsdatad_workqueue);
 	xfs_buf_runall_queues(xfslogd_workqueue);
 
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 	if (!xfsdatad_workqueue)
 		goto out_destroy_xfslogd_workqueue;
 
+	xfsconvertd_workqueue = create_workqueue("xfsconvertd");
+	if (!xfsconvertd_workqueue)
+		goto out_destroy_xfsdatad_workqueue;
+
 	register_shrinker(&xfs_buf_shake);
 	return 0;
 
+ out_destroy_xfsdatad_workqueue:
+	destroy_workqueue(xfsdatad_workqueue);
  out_destroy_xfslogd_workqueue:
 	destroy_workqueue(xfslogd_workqueue);
  out_free_buf_zone:
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 xfs_buf_terminate(void)
 {
 	unregister_shrinker(&xfs_buf_shake);
+	destroy_workqueue(xfsconvertd_workqueue);
 	destroy_workqueue(xfsdatad_workqueue);
 	destroy_workqueue(xfslogd_workqueue);
 	kmem_zone_destroy(xfs_buf_zone);