Hey Alan,

On 06/30/2012 08:44 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

quoted

+		 * tty_write_message() will invoked by print_warning()
+		 * at fs/quota/dquot.c if CONFIG_PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING
+		 * is enabled when a user running out of disk quota limits.
+		 * It will end up call tty_write().  Here is a potential race

tty->ops->write is the low level write method, not tty_write.

I was wondering if below call trace is come from tty_write_message()->tty->ops->write()?
[ 2739.802106] -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}:
[ 2739.802120]        [<c10fa825>] lock_acquire+0x14e/0x189
[ 2739.802133]        [<c11e3e83>] might_fault+0xbf/0xf8
[ 2739.802154]        [<c13bcbdf>] _copy_from_user+0x40/0x8a
[ 2739.802175]        [<c14addc3>] copy_from_user+0x16/0x26
[ 2739.802195]        [<c14b00b4>] tty_write+0x282/0x3c7
[ 2739.802212]        [<c14b02dd>] redirected_tty_write+0xe4/0xfd
[ 2739.802226]        [<c1231879>] vfs_write+0xf5/0x1a3
[ 2739.802239]        [<c1231bdc>] sys_write+0x6c/0xa9
[ 2739.802253]        [<c186281f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38

This appears to be even more wrong than the other one in other ways too -
it uses interruptible sleeps but doesn't handle the signal case so will
spin on a signal and kill the box.

NAK

Looking gat the traces I suspect what you've actually got is a much more
complicated deadlock where a process doing perfectly normal I/O to the
tty has faulted and there is a chain of dependancies through the file
system code to the thread which is doing the dquot_alloc_inode.

If that is the case then dquot_alloc_inode shouldn't be making blocking
calls to tty_write_message and probably the right thing to do is to queue
work for it so the tty_write_message is done asynchronously.

There are a very limited number of events that need reporting so probably
something like a per mount flags and workqueue would allow you to do

	set_bit(DQUOT_INODEOVER, &foo->events);
	schedule_work()

and the work queue can just xchg the events long for 0 and spew any
messages required.

Thanks for the teaching, I'll give a try. 

-Jeff

Alan
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