On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:46:29 +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
> Recently we notice that ext4 filesystem occasionally fail to read
> metadata from disk and report error message, but the disk and block
> layer looks fine. After analyse, we lockon commit 88dbcbb3a484
> ("blkdev: avoid migration stalls for blkdev pages"). It provide a
> migration method for the bdev, we could move page that has buffers
> without extra users now, but it lock the buffers on the page, which
> breaks the fragile metadata read operation on ext4 filesystem,
> ext4_read_bh_lock() was copied from ll_rw_block(), it depends on the
> assumption of that locked buffer means it is under IO. So it just
> trylock the buffer and skip submit IO if it lock failed, after
> wait_on_buffer() we conclude IO error because the buffer is not
> uptodate.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] ext4: ext4_read_bh_lock() should submit IO if the buffer isn't uptodate
commit: 07e3f4273ff54a4c891f05e9f0f0c842b46578a7
Best regards,
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Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
