Re: [PATCH] nfs: nfs_commit_inode should redirty inode if the inode has outstanding requests

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On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 16:16 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 11:00:38AM -0500, Scott Mayhew wrote:
> > It seems that nfs_commit_inode can be called where the nfs_inode
> > has
> > outstanding requests and the commit lists are empty.  That can lead
> > to
> > invalidate_complete_page2 failing due to the associated page having
> > private data which in turn leads to invalidate_inode_pages2_range
> > returning -EBUSY.
> 
> For what it's worth, I verified that this fixes the EBUSY I was
> seeing:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?i=20180223160350.GF15876@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 

Fine, but the patch will also cause the inode to be marked as dirty in
cases where there are no unstable writes to commit, but there are pages
undergoing writeback.
IOW: it regresses the fix that was made in dc4fd9ab01

So please do look into fixing do_launder_page().

> 
> > 
> > Instead of having nfs_commit_inode exit early when the commit lists
> > are
> > empty, only do so if nrequests is also 0.
> > 
> > Fixes: dc4fd9ab01 ("nfs: don't wait on commit in nfs_commit_inode()
> > if there were no commit requests")
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/nfs/write.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
> > index 7428a66..0268bd1 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfs/write.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
> > @@ -1890,7 +1890,7 @@ int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode, int
> > how)
> >  	if (res)
> >  		error = nfs_generic_commit_list(inode, &head, how,
> > &cinfo);
> >  	nfs_commit_end(cinfo.mds);
> > -	if (res == 0)
> > +	if (res == 0 && !nfs_have_writebacks(inode))
> >  		return res;
> >  	if (error < 0)
> >  		goto out_error;
> > -- 
> > 2.9.5
> > 
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData
trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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