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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] bcache: add separate workqueue for journal_write to avoid" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

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greg k-h

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From 0f843e65d9eef4936929bb036c5f771fb261eea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Guoju Fang <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:41:46 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] bcache: add separate workqueue for journal_write to avoid
deadlock

After write SSD completed, bcache schedules journal_write work to system_wq, which is a public workqueue in system, without WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag. system_wq is also a bound wq, and there may be no idle kworker on current processor. Creating a new kworker may unfortunately need to reclaim memory first, by shrinking cache and slab used by vfs, which depends on bcache device. That's a deadlock.

This patch create a new workqueue for journal_write with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag. It's rescuer thread will work to avoid the deadlock.

Signed-off-by Guoju Fang <[email protected]>
Cc [email protected]
Signed-off-by Coly Li <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h +1 -0
index 83504dd8100a..954dad29e6e8 100644
@@ -965,6 +965,7 @@ void bch_prio_write(struct cache *ca);
 void bch_write_bdev_super(struct cached_dev *dc, struct closure *parent);
 
 extern struct workqueue_struct *bcache_wq;
+extern struct workqueue_struct *bch_journal_wq;
 extern struct mutex bch_register_lock;
 extern struct list_head bch_cache_sets;
drivers/md/bcache/journal.c +3 -3
index 6116bbf870d8..522c7426f3a0 100644
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static void do_journal_discard(struct cache *ca)
 
 		closure_get(&ca->set->cl);
 		INIT_WORK(&ja->discard_work, journal_discard_work);
-		schedule_work(&ja->discard_work);
+		queue_work(bch_journal_wq, &ja->discard_work);
 	}
 }
 

@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ static void journal_write_done(struct closure *cl)
 		: &j->w[0];
 
 	__closure_wake_up(&w->wait);
-	continue_at_nobarrier(cl, journal_write, system_wq);
+	continue_at_nobarrier(cl, journal_write, bch_journal_wq);
 }
 
 static void journal_write_unlock(struct closure *cl)

@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ static void journal_write_unlocked(struct closure *cl)
 		spin_unlock(&c->journal.lock);
 
 		btree_flush_write(c);
-		continue_at(cl, journal_write, system_wq);
+		continue_at(cl, journal_write, bch_journal_wq);
 		return;
 	}
drivers/md/bcache/super.c +8 -0
index 94c756c66bd7..30ba9aeb5ee8 100644
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static int bcache_major;
 static DEFINE_IDA(bcache_device_idx);
 static wait_queue_head_t unregister_wait;
 struct workqueue_struct *bcache_wq;
+struct workqueue_struct *bch_journal_wq;
 
 #define BTREE_MAX_PAGES		(256 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE)
 /* limitation of partitions number on single bcache device */

@@ -2341,6 +2342,9 @@ static void bcache_exit(void)
 		kobject_put(bcache_kobj);
 	if (bcache_wq)
 		destroy_workqueue(bcache_wq);
+	if (bch_journal_wq)
+		destroy_workqueue(bch_journal_wq);
+
 	if (bcache_major)
 		unregister_blkdev(bcache_major, "bcache");
 	unregister_reboot_notifier(&reboot);

@@ -2370,6 +2374,10 @@ static int __init bcache_init(void)
 	if (!bcache_wq)
 		goto err;
 
+	bch_journal_wq = alloc_workqueue("bch_journal", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
+	if (!bch_journal_wq)
+		goto err;
+
 	bcache_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("bcache", fs_kobj);
 	if (!bcache_kobj)
 		goto err;