from freebsd 1.179:

When the softupdates worklist gets too long, threads that attempt to
add more work are forced to process two worklist items first.
However, processing an item may generate additional work, causing the
unlucky thread to recursively process the worklist.  Add a per-thread
flag to detect this situation and avoid the recursion.  This should
fix the stack overflows that could occur while removing large
directory trees.

pedro@ tedu@ ok

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c
index ef56c480cb7..66108fa5935 100644
--- a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c
+++ b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$OpenBSD: ffs_softdep.c,v 1.70 2006/06/21 10:01:10 mickey Exp $	*/
+/*	$OpenBSD: ffs_softdep.c,v 1.71 2006/06/28 14:17:07 mickey Exp $	*/
 
 /*
  * Copyright 1998, 2000 Marshall Kirk McKusick. All Rights Reserved.
@@ -5233,20 +5233,23 @@ request_cleanup(resource, islocked)
 	/*
 	 * We never hold up the filesystem syncer process.
 	 */
-	if (p == filesys_syncer)
+	if (p == filesys_syncer || (p->p_flag & P_SOFTDEP))
 		return (0);
 	/*
 	 * First check to see if the work list has gotten backlogged.
 	 * If it has, co-opt this process to help clean up two entries.
 	 * Because this process may hold inodes locked, we cannot
 	 * handle any remove requests that might block on a locked
-	 * inode as that could lead to deadlock.
+	 * inode as that could lead to deadlock. We set P_SOFTDEP
+	 * to avoid recursively processing the worklist.
 	 */
 	if (num_on_worklist > max_softdeps / 10) {
+		p->p_flag |= P_SOFTDEP;
 		if (islocked)
 			FREE_LOCK(&lk);
 		process_worklist_item(NULL, LK_NOWAIT);
 		process_worklist_item(NULL, LK_NOWAIT);
+		p->p_flag &= ~P_SOFTDEP;
 		stat_worklist_push += 2;
 		if (islocked)
 			ACQUIRE_LOCK(&lk);
@@ -5453,7 +5456,6 @@ clear_inodedeps(p)
 		vn_finished_write(mp);
 #endif
 		ACQUIRE_LOCK(&lk);
-		drain_output(vp, 1);
 	}
 	FREE_LOCK(&lk);
 }