svn commit: r285021 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 6 03:07:36 UTC 2015


On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 08:04:55PM -0700, K. Macy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 04:17:23AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 04:20:04PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >> > On 30/07/2015 10:24, K. Macy wrote:
> >> > > Just FYI this change introduces a deadlock with with the
> >> > > spa_namespace_lock. Mount will be holding this lock while trying to
> >> > > acquire the spa_namespace_lock. zfskern on the other hand holds the
> >> > > spa_namespace_lock when calling zfs_freebsd_access  which in turn
> >> > > tries to acquire the teardown lock.
> >> >
> >> > I missed the fact that zpool.cache file is being written with spa_namespace_lock
> >> > held.
> >> > I'll try to either resolve the problem in the next day or I will revert the change.
> >>
> >> FYI, I'm hitting this deadlock on my laptop. Reverting the change fixes
> >> the problem.
> >>
> >
> > Since it is now 3 days after "I'll try to either resolve the problem in
> > the next day or I will revert the change", my view is that this needs to
> > be reverted now, if it hasn't been done already.
> >
> His proposed solution looks fine to me. Why don't we commit that?
> 

I must have missed the solution - was it part of this thread?  If
a solution exists, then yes, that should be the fix instead.

Glen

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