From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:30:03 +0100
Subject: fs: jbd2: pull your plug when waiting for space
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git
Git-commit: 993e6abd71082e158504575eba3b91f0af34e89c
Patch-mainline: Queued in subsystem maintainer repository
References: SLE Realtime Extension

Two cps in parallel managed to stall the the ext4 fs. It seems that
journal code is either waiting for locks or sleeping waiting for
something to happen. This seems similar to what Mike observed on ext3,
here is his description:

|With an -rt kernel, and a heavy sync IO load, tasks can jam
|up on journal locks without unplugging, which can lead to
|terminal IO starvation.  Unplug and schedule when waiting
|for space.


Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
---
 fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ void __jbd2_log_wait_for_space(journal_t
 	nblocks = jbd2_space_needed(journal);
 	while (jbd2_log_space_left(journal) < nblocks) {
 		write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+		if (current->plug)
+			io_schedule();
 		mutex_lock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
 
 		/*