linux/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.h
Christoph Hellwig be4f1ac828 xfs: log all dirty inodes in xfs_fs_sync_fs
Since Linux 2.6.36 the writeback code has introduces various measures for
live lock prevention during sync().  Unfortunately some of these are
actively harmful for the XFS model, where the inode gets marked dirty for
metadata from the data I/O handler.

The older_than_this checks that are now more strictly enforced since

    writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback

by only calling into __writeback_inodes_sb and thus only sampling the
current cut off time once.  But on a slow enough devices the previous
asynchronous sync pass might not have fully completed yet, and thus XFS
might mark metadata dirty only after that sampling of the cut off time for
the blocking pass already happened.  I have not myself reproduced this
myself on a real system, but by introducing artificial delay into the
XFS I/O completion workqueues it can be reproduced easily.

Fix this by iterating over all XFS inodes in ->sync_fs and log all that
are dirty.  This might log inode that only got redirtied after the
previous pass, but given how cheap delayed logging of inodes is it
isn't a major concern for performance.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2011-12-23 16:41:47 -06:00

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/*
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#ifndef XFS_SYNC_H
#define XFS_SYNC_H 1
struct xfs_mount;
struct xfs_perag;
#define SYNC_WAIT 0x0001 /* wait for i/o to complete */
#define SYNC_TRYLOCK 0x0002 /* only try to lock inodes */
extern struct workqueue_struct *xfs_syncd_wq; /* sync workqueue */
int xfs_syncd_init(struct xfs_mount *mp);
void xfs_syncd_stop(struct xfs_mount *mp);
int xfs_quiesce_data(struct xfs_mount *mp);
void xfs_quiesce_attr(struct xfs_mount *mp);
void xfs_flush_inodes(struct xfs_inode *ip);
int xfs_log_dirty_inode(struct xfs_inode *ip, struct xfs_perag *pag, int flags);
int xfs_reclaim_inodes(struct xfs_mount *mp, int mode);
int xfs_reclaim_inodes_count(struct xfs_mount *mp);
void xfs_reclaim_inodes_nr(struct xfs_mount *mp, int nr_to_scan);
void xfs_inode_set_reclaim_tag(struct xfs_inode *ip);
void __xfs_inode_set_reclaim_tag(struct xfs_perag *pag, struct xfs_inode *ip);
void __xfs_inode_clear_reclaim_tag(struct xfs_mount *mp, struct xfs_perag *pag,
struct xfs_inode *ip);
int xfs_sync_inode_grab(struct xfs_inode *ip);
int xfs_inode_ag_iterator(struct xfs_mount *mp,
int (*execute)(struct xfs_inode *ip, struct xfs_perag *pag, int flags),
int flags);
#endif