On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:35:43PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2008 11:14 -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> [snip excellent analysis]
> > So you get into this situation where
> > t_nr_buffers (the actual number of buffers that are on the transaction) is
> > greater than the number of buffers accounted for via t_outstanding_credits.
> > This presents a problem since as we loop through writting buffers to the
> > journal, we decrement t_outstanding_credits, and if t_nr_buffers is more than
> > t_outstanding_credits then we end up with a negative number for
> > t_outstanding_credits
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Do you know what kernel this problem was introduced in, or is this a
> long standing problem? Presumably the same is needed for jbd2?
>
> Once we have some decent amount of testing going on with ext4, I think
> it makes sense to merge the jbd2 changes back into jbd and return to
> a single code base, since there is nothing in the jbd2 code that ext3
> can't also work with (i.e. all of the changes are properly isolated
> with compatibility flags and such).
>
> > @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ static inline int jbd_space_needed(journal_t *journal)
> > int nblocks = journal->j_max_transaction_buffers;
> > if (journal->j_committing_transaction)
> > nblocks += journal->j_committing_transaction->
> > - t_outstanding_credits;
> > + t_nr_buffers;
>
> (trivial) this can be moved back onto the previous line.
>
> > @@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ static inline int jbd_space_needed(journal_t *journal)
> > int nblocks = journal->j_max_transaction_buffers;
> > if (journal->j_committing_transaction)
> > nblocks += journal->j_committing_transaction->
> > - t_outstanding_credits;
> > + t_nr_buffers;
>
> Same...
>
The original issue was reported on RHEL4, so thats 2.6.9, and looking through
the old-bkcvs git tree I can't see where this was introduced, so it's probably
existed before that. The same problem looks to exist in jbd2 though I haven't
tested it myself, I just went ahead and included the fixes. Here is the updated
patch, thanks much for the comments.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
index 31853eb..e385a5c 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
@@ -561,13 +561,6 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
continue;
}
- /*
- * start_this_handle() uses t_outstanding_credits to determine
- * the free space in the log, but this counter is changed
- * by journal_next_log_block() also.
- */
- commit_transaction->t_outstanding_credits--;
-
/* Bump b_count to prevent truncate from stumbling over
the shadowed buffer! @@@ This can go if we ever get
rid of the BJ_IO/BJ_Shadow pairing of buffers. */
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index 4f302d2..c0f93f5 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
stats.u.run.rs_logging = jiffies;
stats.u.run.rs_flushing = jbd2_time_diff(stats.u.run.rs_flushing,
stats.u.run.rs_logging);
- stats.u.run.rs_blocks = commit_transaction->t_outstanding_credits;
+ stats.u.run.rs_blocks = commit_transaction->t_nr_buffers;
stats.u.run.rs_blocks_logged = 0;
descriptor = NULL;
@@ -655,13 +655,6 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
continue;
}
- /*
- * start_this_handle() uses t_outstanding_credits to determine
- * the free space in the log, but this counter is changed
- * by jbd2_journal_next_log_block() also.
- */
- commit_transaction->t_outstanding_credits--;
-
/* Bump b_count to prevent truncate from stumbling over
the shadowed buffer! @@@ This can go if we ever get
rid of the BJ_IO/BJ_Shadow pairing of buffers. */
diff --git a/include/linux/jbd.h b/include/linux/jbd.h
index d9ecd13..eaeb3db 100644
--- a/include/linux/jbd.h
+++ b/include/linux/jbd.h
@@ -1055,8 +1055,7 @@ static inline int jbd_space_needed(journal_t *journal)
{
int nblocks = journal->j_max_transaction_buffers;
if (journal->j_committing_transaction)
- nblocks += journal->j_committing_transaction->
- t_outstanding_credits;
+ nblocks += journal->j_committing_transaction->t_nr_buffers;
return nblocks;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h
index 2cbf6fd..acf9d34 100644
--- a/include/linux/jbd2.h
+++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h
@@ -1167,8 +1167,7 @@ static inline int jbd_space_needed(journal_t *journal)
{
int nblocks = journal->j_max_transaction_buffers;
if (journal->j_committing_transaction)
- nblocks += journal->j_committing_transaction->
- t_outstanding_credits;
+ nblocks += journal->j_committing_transaction->t_nr_buffers;
return nblocks;
}
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