xfs: fix direct IO nested transaction deadlock.

commit 437a255aa23766666aec78af63be4c253faa8d57 upstream.

The direct IO path can do a nested transaction reservation when
writing past the EOF. The first transaction is the append
transaction for setting the filesize at IO completion, but we can
also need a transaction for allocation of blocks. If the log is low
on space due to reservations and small log, the append transaction
can be granted after wating for space as the only active transaction
in the system. This then attempts a reservation for an allocation,
which there isn't space in the log for, and the reservation sleeps.
The result is that there is nothing left in the system to wake up
all the processes waiting for log space to come free.

The stack trace that shows this deadlock is relatively innocuous:

 xlog_grant_head_wait
 xlog_grant_head_check
 xfs_log_reserve
 xfs_trans_reserve
 xfs_iomap_write_direct
 __xfs_get_blocks
 xfs_get_blocks_direct
 do_blockdev_direct_IO
 __blockdev_direct_IO
 xfs_vm_direct_IO
 generic_file_direct_write
 xfs_file_dio_aio_writ
 xfs_file_aio_write
 do_sync_write
 vfs_write

This was discovered on a filesystem with a log of only 10MB, and a
log stripe unit of 256k whih increased the base reservations by
512k. Hence a allocation transaction requires 1.2MB of log space to
be available instead of only 260k, and so greatly increased the
chance that there wouldn't be enough log space available for the
nested transaction to succeed. The key to reproducing it is this
mkfs command:

mkfs.xfs -f -d agcount=16,su=256k,sw=12 -l su=256k,size=2560b $SCRATCH_DEV

The test case was a 1000 fsstress processes running with random
freeze and unfreezes every few seconds. Thanks to Eryu Guan
(eguan@redhat.com) for writing the test that found this on a system
with a somewhat unique default configuration....

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dahl <adahl@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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