DragonFly-2.1.1.463.g362ec master sys/vfs/hammer hammer.h hammer_blockmap.c hammer_cursor.c hammer_io.c hammer_ondisk.c

[Matthew Dillon]

commit 362ec2dc8da3cf56732007d509fadaf1808abe5c
Author: Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 25 22:34:42 2009 -0800

    HAMMER VFS - Reorganize the use of hammer_del_buffers(), fix rare deadlocks
    
    The previous attempt at fixing a deadlock due to a hammer_buffer being
    held cached across long-blocking procedures failed to catch all cases.
    Implement a more complete and less invasive fix.  These buffers are
    typically held in the hammer_cursor structure.
    
    Instead of trying to release such cached data buffers proactively,
    we instead allow hammer_del_buffers() to return a temporary failure when
    called from the reservation code.  If hammer_del_buffers() is unable to
    completely eradicate underlying buffers due to them being referenced via
    the above cache entities the related hammer_reserve structure is simply
    re-added to the delayed-release queue.
    
    The related big-block are thus not reused until all such cached entites
    have been dereferenced.  The relaxed requirements on the cached entities
    removes the possibility of a deadlock in the invalidation code and also
    simplifies hammer_io_inval()'s handling of the hammer_buffer<->buffer_cache
    coupling case.

Summary of changes:
 sys/vfs/hammer/hammer.h          |    7 +++--
 sys/vfs/hammer/hammer_blockmap.c |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
 sys/vfs/hammer/hammer_cursor.c   |   13 ------------
 sys/vfs/hammer/hammer_io.c       |   30 +++++++++++++++++++++------
 sys/vfs/hammer/hammer_ondisk.c   |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 5 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/362ec2dc8da3cf56732007d509fadaf1808abe5c


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