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Date:      Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:35:27 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        fs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 282449] UFS deadlock with install -S during freebsd-update
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--- Comment #15 from Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> ---
Looking at this again, I think the problem isn't with the general
runningbufspace mechanism.  There's a specific code path in the SU+J
implementation where we can deadlock when hirunningspace is small.

What happens is, we prepare to write a data buf, claim space for it in the
runningbuf total, then call bufstrategy(), which in turn might dispatch jou=
rnal
I/O asynchronously, which can block on runningbufspace.  Normally this happ=
ens
in the context of the softdep flusher, which is exempt from the runningbufs=
pace
limit, but it can happen in a user thread as well:

_sleep+0x1f0 waitrunningbufspace+0x76 bufwrite+0x24a
softdep_process_journal+0x728 softdep_disk_io_initiation+0x79b
ffs_geom_strategy+0x1f0 ufs_strategy+0x83 bufstrategy+0x36 bufwrite+0x1da
cluster_wbuild+0x722 cluster_write+0x12f ffs_write+0x41d

When hirunningspace =3D=3D maxphys =3D=3D runningbufspace, this recursive b=
ufwrite()
call will block forever.

I suspect this bawrite() call in softdep_process_journal() should be gated =
on
(curthread->td_pflags & TDP_NORUNNINGSPACE) !=3D 0.  The softdep flusher wi=
ll
continue to issue async writes, but if a user thread is forced to flush jou=
rnal
records in order to initiate I/O, it'll do so synchronously.

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