xfs: don't assert fail with AIL lock held

Been hitting AIL ordering assert failures recently, but been unable
to trace them down because the system immediately hangs up onteh
spinlock that was held when this assert fires:

XFS: Assertion failed: XFS_LSN_CMP(prev_lip->li_lsn, lip->li_lsn) <= 0, file: fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c, line: 52

Move the assertions outside of the spinlock so the corpse can
be dissected. Thanks to Brian Foster for supplying a clean
way of doing this.

Signed-Off-By: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
index 50611d2bcbc2..41e280ef1483 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
@@ -32,30 +32,51 @@
 #ifdef DEBUG
 /*
  * Check that the list is sorted as it should be.
+ *
+ * Called with the ail lock held, but we don't want to assert fail with it
+ * held otherwise we'll lock everything up and won't be able to debug the
+ * cause. Hence we sample and check the state under the AIL lock and return if
+ * everything is fine, otherwise we drop the lock and run the ASSERT checks.
+ * Asserts may not be fatal, so pick the lock back up and continue onwards.
  */
 STATIC void
 xfs_ail_check(
-	struct xfs_ail	*ailp,
-	xfs_log_item_t	*lip)
+	struct xfs_ail		*ailp,
+	struct xfs_log_item	*lip)
 {
-	xfs_log_item_t	*prev_lip;
+	struct xfs_log_item	*prev_lip;
+	struct xfs_log_item	*next_lip;
+	xfs_lsn_t		prev_lsn = NULLCOMMITLSN;
+	xfs_lsn_t		next_lsn = NULLCOMMITLSN;
+	xfs_lsn_t		lsn;
+	bool			in_ail;
+
 
 	if (list_empty(&ailp->ail_head))
 		return;
 
 	/*
-	 * Check the next and previous entries are valid.
+	 * Sample then check the next and previous entries are valid.
 	 */
-	ASSERT(test_bit(XFS_LI_IN_AIL, &lip->li_flags));
-	prev_lip = list_entry(lip->li_ail.prev, xfs_log_item_t, li_ail);
+	in_ail = test_bit(XFS_LI_IN_AIL, &lip->li_flags);
+	prev_lip = list_entry(lip->li_ail.prev, struct xfs_log_item, li_ail);
 	if (&prev_lip->li_ail != &ailp->ail_head)
-		ASSERT(XFS_LSN_CMP(prev_lip->li_lsn, lip->li_lsn) <= 0);
-
-	prev_lip = list_entry(lip->li_ail.next, xfs_log_item_t, li_ail);
-	if (&prev_lip->li_ail != &ailp->ail_head)
-		ASSERT(XFS_LSN_CMP(prev_lip->li_lsn, lip->li_lsn) >= 0);
+		prev_lsn = prev_lip->li_lsn;
+	next_lip = list_entry(lip->li_ail.next, struct xfs_log_item, li_ail);
+	if (&next_lip->li_ail != &ailp->ail_head)
+		next_lsn = next_lip->li_lsn;
+	lsn = lip->li_lsn;
 
+	if (in_ail &&
+	    (prev_lsn == NULLCOMMITLSN || XFS_LSN_CMP(prev_lsn, lsn) <= 0) &&
+	    (next_lsn == NULLCOMMITLSN || XFS_LSN_CMP(next_lsn, lsn) >= 0))
+		return;
 
+	spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock);
+	ASSERT(in_ail);
+	ASSERT(prev_lsn == NULLCOMMITLSN || XFS_LSN_CMP(prev_lsn, lsn) <= 0);
+	ASSERT(next_lsn == NULLCOMMITLSN || XFS_LSN_CMP(next_lsn, lsn) >= 0);
+	spin_lock(&ailp->ail_lock);
 }
 #else /* !DEBUG */
 #define	xfs_ail_check(a,l)