From ebdc12a0b5ed501c23b52b1ab5d28aea681badcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 22:02:52 -0400 Subject: ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound commit d76a3a77113db020d9bb1e894822869410450bd9 upstream. In the case where an inode has a very stale transaction id (tid) in i_datasync_tid or i_sync_tid, it's possible that after a very large (2**31) number of transactions, that the tid number space might wrap, causing tid_geq()'s calculations to fail. Commit deeeaf13 "jbd2: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug", later modified by commit e7b04ac0 "jbd2: don't wake kjournald unnecessarily", attempted to fix this problem, but it only avoided kjournald spinning forever by fixing the logic in jbd2_log_start_commit(). Unfortunately, in the codepaths in fs/ext4/fsync.c and fs/ext4/inode.c that might call jbd2_log_start_commit() with a stale tid, those functions will subsequently call jbd2_log_wait_commit() with the same stale tid, and then wait for a very long time. To fix this, we replace the calls to jbd2_log_start_commit() and jbd2_log_wait_commit() with a call to a new function, jbd2_complete_transaction(), which will correctly handle stale tid's. As a bonus, jbd2_complete_transaction() will avoid locking j_state_lock for writing unless a commit needs to be started. This should have a small (but probably not measurable) improvement for ext4's scalability. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Reported-by: Ben Hutchings Reported-by: George Barnett [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Rui Xiang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/fsync.c | 3 +-- fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4') diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c index bb6c7d81131..a8d03a4d3f8 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c +++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c @@ -260,8 +260,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync) if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER && !jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier(journal, commit_tid)) needs_barrier = true; - jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid); - ret = jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid); + ret = jbd2_complete_transaction(journal, commit_tid); if (needs_barrier) blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL); out: diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 98bff01eed6..755345a30f4 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -149,8 +149,7 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal; tid_t commit_tid = EXT4_I(inode)->i_datasync_tid; - jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid); - jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid); + jbd2_complete_transaction(journal, commit_tid); filemap_write_and_wait(&inode->i_data); } truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258