Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] xfs: avoid transaction reservation recursion

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On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:13:15AM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 9:58 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 09:34:44AM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > > @@ -1500,9 +1500,9 @@ iomap_do_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, void *data)
> > >
> > >       /*
> > >        * Given that we do not allow direct reclaim to call us, we should
> > > -      * never be called in a recursive filesystem reclaim context.
> > > +      * never be called while in a filesystem transaction.
> > >        */
> > > -     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS))
> > > +     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(wbc->fstrans_recursion))
> > >               goto redirty;
> >
> > Erm, Dave said:
> >
> > > I think we should just remove
> > > the check completely from iomap_writepage() and move it up into
> > > xfs_vm_writepage() and xfs_vm_writepages().
> >
> > ie everywhere you set this new bit, just check current->journal_info.
> 
> 
> I can't get you. Would you pls. be more specific ?
> 
> I move the check of current->journal into xfs_vm_writepage() and
> xfs_vm_writepages(), and I think that is the easiest way to implement
> it.
> 
>        /* we abort the update if there was an IO error */
> @@ -564,6 +565,9 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
>  {
>         struct xfs_writepage_ctx wpc = { };
> 
> +       if (xfs_trans_context_active())
> +               wbc->fstrans_recursion = 1;    <<< set for XFS only.
> +
>         return iomap_writepage(page, wbc, &wpc.ctx, &xfs_writeback_ops);

Get rid of wbc->fstrans_recursion. Just do

	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(current->journal_info))
		.....

right here in the XFS code.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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