drbd: avoid potential deadlock during handshake
During handshake communication, we also reconsider our device size, using drbd_determine_dev_size(). Just in case we need to change the offsets or layout of our on-disk metadata, we lock out application and other meta data IO, and wait for the activity log to be "idle" (no more referenced extents). If this handshake happens just after a connection loss, with a fencing policy of "resource-and-stonith", we have frozen IO. If, additionally, the activity log was "starving" (too many incoming random writes at that point in time), it won't become idle, ever, because of the frozen IO, and this would be a lockup of the receiver thread, and consquentially of DRBD. Previous logic (re-)initialized with a special "empty" transaction block, which required the activity log to fully drain first. Instead, write out some standard activity log transactions. Using lc_try_lock_for_transaction() instead of lc_try_lock() does not care about pending activity log references, avoiding the potential deadlock. Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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