On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:41 PM Junxiao Bi <junxiao...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 7/13/20 11:17 PM, Song Liu wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 4:36 PM Junxiao Bi <junxiao...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> The following deadlock was captured. The first process is holding > >> 'kernfs_mutex' > >> and hung by io. The io was staging in 'r1conf.pending_bio_list' of raid1 > >> device, > >> this pending bio list would be flushed by second process 'md127_raid1', but > >> it was hung by 'kernfs_mutex'. Using sysfs_notify_dirent_safe() to replace > >> sysfs_notify() can fix it. There were other sysfs_notify() invoked from io > >> path, removed all of them. > >> > > [...] > >> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org > >> Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao...@oracle.com> > > Thanks for the patch. It looks good in general. One question though, do we > > need the same change the following line in md.c:level_store()? > > > > sysfs_notify(&mddev->kobj, NULL, "level"); > > Thanks for the review. This one is not in io path, looks it's safe. I > can change it if you want to align it with others.
This one is the only leftover. Let's also change it. Thanks, Song
