Restructure the zfsdev_state_list to allow for lock-free reading by
converting to a simple singly-linked list from which items are never
deleted and over which only forward iterations are performed. It depends
on, among other things, the atomicity of accessing the zs_minor integer
and zs_next pointer.
This fixes a lock inversion in which the zfsdev_state_lock is used by
both the sync task (txg_sync) and indirectly by any user program which
uses /dev/zfs; the zfsdev_release method uses the same lock and then
blocks on the sync task.
The most typical failure scenerio occurs when the sync task is cleaning
up a user hold while various concurrent "zfs" commands are in progress.
Neither Illumos nor Solaris are affected by this issue because they use
DDI interface which provides lock-free reading of device state via the
ddi_get_soft_state() function.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#2301
Tim Chase
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