Re: [PATCH v6 3/7] xfs: update lazy sb counters immediately for resizefs

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Hi Brian,

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 02:38:04PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:56:17PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> > sb_fdblocks will be updated lazily if lazysbcount is enabled,
> > therefore when shrinking the filesystem sb_fdblocks could be
> > larger than sb_dblocks and xfs_validate_sb_write() would fail.
> > 
> > Even for growfs case, it'd be better to update lazy sb counters
> > immediately to reflect the real sb counters.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> > index a2a407039227..2e490fb75832 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> > @@ -128,6 +128,14 @@ xfs_growfs_data_private(
> >  				 nb - mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks);
> >  	if (id.nfree)
> >  		xfs_trans_mod_sb(tp, XFS_TRANS_SB_FDBLOCKS, id.nfree);
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * update in-core counters now to reflect the real numbers
> > +	 * (especially sb_fdblocks)
> > +	 */
> 
> Could you update the comment to explain why we do this? For example:
> 
> "Sync sb counters now to reflect the updated values. This is
> particularly important for shrink because the write verifier will fail
> if sb_fdblocks is ever larger than sb_dblocks."
> 

Thanks for the review/suggestion!

I updated the comment in "[PATCH v6 6/7] xfs: support shrinking unused
space in the last AG", since shrinking functionality is somewhat landed
after [PATCH 6/7]... If that looks worse than changing directly here,
I will shift/update the comment in the next version.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> Brian
> 




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