tree 3092ed3f5dd472e66a61da9306dfa6839604c42c
parent 3117a77370b6cb902191568e4e647cdcba083d0a
author Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> 1217860887 -0400
committer Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> 1222355046 -0400

Btrfs: fix ioctl-initiated transactions vs wait_current_trans()

Commit 597:466b27332893 (btrfs_start_transaction: wait for commits in
progress) breaks the transaction start/stop ioctls by making
btrfs_start_transaction conditionally wait for the next transaction to
start.  If an application artificially is holding a transaction open,
things deadlock.

This workaround maintains a count of open ioctl-initiated transactions in
fs_info, and avoids wait_current_trans() if any are currently open (in
start_transaction() and btrfs_throttle()).  The start transaction ioctl
uses a new btrfs_start_ioctl_transaction() that _does_ call
wait_current_trans(), effectively pushing the join/wait decision to the
outer ioctl-initiated transaction.

This more or less neuters btrfs_throttle() when ioctl-initiated
transactions are in use, but that seems like a pretty fundamental
consequence of wrapping lots of write()'s in a transaction.  Btrfs has no
way to tell if the application considers a given operation as part of it's
transaction.

Obviously, if the transaction start/stop ioctls aren't being used, there
is no effect on current behavior.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
---
 ctree.h       |    1 +
 ioctl.c       |   12 +++++++++++-
 transaction.c |   18 +++++++++++++-----
 transaction.h |    2 ++
 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>