Instead of writing the buffer directly from inside xfs_iflush return it to
the caller and let the caller decide what to do with the buffer. Also
remove the pincount check in xfs_iflush that all non-blocking callers already
implement and the now unused flags parameter.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 54 ++++++++++++++----------------------------------
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h | 2 -
fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c | 17 ++++++++++++++-
fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c | 29 +++++++++++++------------
4 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c 2012-03-25 16:41:19.481217746 +0200
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c 2012-03-25 16:41:21.647884454 +0200
@@ -2384,22 +2384,22 @@ cluster_corrupt_out:
}
/*
- * xfs_iflush() will write a modified inode's changes out to the
- * inode's on disk home. The caller must have the inode lock held
- * in at least shared mode and the inode flush completion must be
- * active as well. The inode lock will still be held upon return from
- * the call and the caller is free to unlock it.
- * The inode flush will be completed when the inode reaches the disk.
- * The flags indicate how the inode's buffer should be written out.
+ * Flush dirty inode metadata into the backing buffer.
+ *
+ * The caller must have the inode lock and the inode flush lock held. The
+ * inode lock will still be held upon return to the caller, and the inode
+ * flush lock will be released after the inode has reached the disk.
+ *
+ * The caller must write out the buffer returned in *bpp and release it.
*/
int
xfs_iflush(
- xfs_inode_t *ip,
- uint flags)
+ struct xfs_inode *ip,
+ struct xfs_buf **bpp)
{
- xfs_buf_t *bp;
- xfs_dinode_t *dip;
- xfs_mount_t *mp;
+ struct xfs_mount *mp = ip->i_mount;
+ struct xfs_buf *bp;
+ struct xfs_dinode *dip;
int error;
XFS_STATS_INC(xs_iflush_count);
@@ -2409,24 +2409,8 @@ xfs_iflush(
ASSERT(ip->i_d.di_format != XFS_DINODE_FMT_BTREE ||
ip->i_d.di_nextents > XFS_IFORK_MAXEXT(ip, XFS_DATA_FORK));
- mp = ip->i_mount;
+ *bpp = NULL;
- /*
- * We can't flush the inode until it is unpinned, so wait for it if we
- * are allowed to block. We know no one new can pin it, because we are
- * holding the inode lock shared and you need to hold it exclusively to
- * pin the inode.
- *
- * If we are not allowed to block, force the log out asynchronously so
- * that when we come back the inode will be unpinned. If other inodes
- * in the same cluster are dirty, they will probably write the inode
- * out for us if they occur after the log force completes.
- */
- if (!(flags & SYNC_WAIT) && xfs_ipincount(ip)) {
- xfs_iunpin(ip);
- xfs_ifunlock(ip);
- return EAGAIN;
- }
xfs_iunpin_wait(ip);
/*
@@ -2458,8 +2442,7 @@ xfs_iflush(
/*
* Get the buffer containing the on-disk inode.
*/
- error = xfs_itobp(mp, NULL, ip, &dip, &bp,
- (flags & SYNC_TRYLOCK) ? XBF_TRYLOCK : XBF_LOCK);
+ error = xfs_itobp(mp, NULL, ip, &dip, &bp, XBF_TRYLOCK);
if (error || !bp) {
xfs_ifunlock(ip);
return error;
@@ -2487,13 +2470,8 @@ xfs_iflush(
if (error)
goto cluster_corrupt_out;
- if (flags & SYNC_WAIT)
- error = xfs_bwrite(bp);
- else
- xfs_buf_delwri_queue(bp);
-
- xfs_buf_relse(bp);
- return error;
+ *bpp = bp;
+ return 0;
corrupt_out:
xfs_buf_relse(bp);
Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h 2012-03-25 16:41:00.701217399 +0200
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h 2012-03-25 16:41:21.647884454 +0200
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ int xfs_iunlink(struct xfs_trans *, xfs
void xfs_iext_realloc(xfs_inode_t *, int, int);
void xfs_iunpin_wait(xfs_inode_t *);
-int xfs_iflush(xfs_inode_t *, uint);
+int xfs_iflush(struct xfs_inode *, struct xfs_buf **);
void xfs_promote_inode(struct xfs_inode *);
void xfs_lock_inodes(xfs_inode_t **, int, uint);
void xfs_lock_two_inodes(xfs_inode_t *, xfs_inode_t *, uint);
Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c 2012-03-25 16:41:00.711217397 +0200
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c 2012-03-25 16:41:21.651217787 +0200
@@ -506,6 +506,15 @@ xfs_inode_item_trylock(
if (!xfs_ilock_nowait(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED))
return XFS_ITEM_LOCKED;
+ /*
+ * Re-check the pincount now that we stabilized the value by
+ * taking the ilock.
+ */
+ if (xfs_ipincount(ip) > 0) {
+ xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
+ return XFS_ITEM_PINNED;
+ }
+
if (!xfs_iflock_nowait(ip)) {
/*
* inode has already been flushed to the backing buffer,
@@ -666,6 +675,8 @@ xfs_inode_item_push(
{
struct xfs_inode_log_item *iip = INODE_ITEM(lip);
struct xfs_inode *ip = iip->ili_inode;
+ struct xfs_buf *bp = NULL;
+ int error;
ASSERT(xfs_isilocked(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED));
ASSERT(xfs_isiflocked(ip));
@@ -689,7 +700,11 @@ xfs_inode_item_push(
* will pull the inode from the AIL, mark it clean and unlock the flush
* lock.
*/
- (void) xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_TRYLOCK);
+ error = xfs_iflush(ip, &bp);
+ if (!error) {
+ xfs_buf_delwri_queue(bp);
+ xfs_buf_relse(bp);
+ }
xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
}
Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c 2012-03-25 16:41:21.304551114 +0200
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c 2012-03-25 16:45:50.037889431 +0200
@@ -645,10 +645,6 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode_grab(
* (*) dgc: I don't think the clean, pinned state is possible but it gets
* handled anyway given the order of checks implemented.
*
- * As can be seen from the table, the return value of xfs_iflush() is not
- * sufficient to correctly decide the reclaim action here. The checks in
- * xfs_iflush() might look like duplicates, but they are not.
- *
* Also, because we get the flush lock first, we know that any inode that has
* been flushed delwri has had the flush completed by the time we check that
* the inode is clean.
@@ -676,7 +672,8 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode(
struct xfs_perag *pag,
int sync_mode)
{
- int error;
+ struct xfs_buf *bp = NULL;
+ int error;
restart:
error = 0;
@@ -725,29 +722,33 @@ restart:
/*
* Now we have an inode that needs flushing.
*
- * We do a nonblocking flush here even if we are doing a SYNC_WAIT
- * reclaim as we can deadlock with inode cluster removal.
+ * Note that xfs_iflush will never block on the inode buffer lock, as
* xfs_ifree_cluster() can lock the inode buffer before it locks the
- * ip->i_lock, and we are doing the exact opposite here. As a result,
- * doing a blocking xfs_itobp() to get the cluster buffer will result
+ * ip->i_lock, and we are doing the exact opposite here. As a result,
+ * doing a blocking xfs_itobp() to get the cluster buffer would result
* in an ABBA deadlock with xfs_ifree_cluster().
*
* As xfs_ifree_cluser() must gather all inodes that are active in the
* cache to mark them stale, if we hit this case we don't actually want
* to do IO here - we want the inode marked stale so we can simply
- * reclaim it. Hence if we get an EAGAIN error on a SYNC_WAIT flush,
- * just unlock the inode, back off and try again. Hopefully the next
- * pass through will see the stale flag set on the inode.
+ * reclaim it. Hence if we get an EAGAIN error here, just unlock the
+ * inode, back off and try again. Hopefully the next pass through will
+ * see the stale flag set on the inode.
*/
- error = xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_TRYLOCK | sync_mode);
+ error = xfs_iflush(ip, &bp);
if (error == EAGAIN) {
xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
/* backoff longer than in xfs_ifree_cluster */
delay(2);
goto restart;
}
- xfs_iflock(ip);
+ if (!error) {
+ error = xfs_bwrite(bp);
+ xfs_buf_relse(bp);
+ }
+
+ xfs_iflock(ip);
reclaim:
xfs_ifunlock(ip);
xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
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