This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mbcache: don't reclaim used entries
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mbcache-don-t-reclaim-used-entries.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 58318914186c157477b978b1739dfe2f1b9dc0fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 12:54:20 +0200
Subject: mbcache: don't reclaim used entries
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
commit 58318914186c157477b978b1739dfe2f1b9dc0fe upstream.
Do not reclaim entries that are currently used by somebody from a
shrinker. Firstly, these entries are likely useful. Secondly, we will
need to keep such entries to protect pending increment of xattr block
refcount.
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 82939d7999df ("ext4: convert to mbcache2")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220712105436.32204-1-jack@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/mbcache.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/mbcache.c
+++ b/fs/mbcache.c
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ static unsigned long mb_cache_shrink(str
while (nr_to_scan-- && !list_empty(&cache->c_list)) {
entry = list_first_entry(&cache->c_list,
struct mb_cache_entry, e_list);
- if (entry->e_referenced) {
+ if (entry->e_referenced || atomic_read(&entry->e_refcnt) > 2) {
entry->e_referenced = 0;
list_move_tail(&entry->e_list, &cache->c_list);
continue;
@@ -301,6 +301,14 @@ static unsigned long mb_cache_shrink(str
spin_unlock(&cache->c_list_lock);
head = mb_cache_entry_head(cache, entry->e_key);
hlist_bl_lock(head);
+ /* Now a reliable check if the entry didn't get used... */
+ if (atomic_read(&entry->e_refcnt) > 2) {
+ hlist_bl_unlock(head);
+ spin_lock(&cache->c_list_lock);
+ list_add_tail(&entry->e_list, &cache->c_list);
+ cache->c_entry_count++;
+ continue;
+ }
if (!hlist_bl_unhashed(&entry->e_hash_list)) {
hlist_bl_del_init(&entry->e_hash_list);
atomic_dec(&entry->e_refcnt);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.19/mbcache-add-functions-to-delete-entry-if-unused.patch
queue-4.19/mbcache-don-t-reclaim-used-entries.patch
