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Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:29:40 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	tytso@....edu
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync

On Tue 08-12-09 23:54:24, tytso@....edu wrote:
> Here's a revised version of your patch that I've included in the ext4
> patch queue.  I've removed the use of the atomic_t data type.  I've
  OK, I'm just unsure: Isn't even 32-bit read non-atomic if it is not
properly aligned e.g. on powerPC? So shouldn't we make sure those inode
fields are aligned to 32-bit boundary (or at least add a comment about
that)?

> also cleaned up the fsync() function some more to make it easier to
> follow, and I've fixed the handling in no-journal mode (we can't
> depend on the forcing a commit if there is no journal, so we can't
> drop the use of sync_inode() --- we can use simple_fsync(), though,
> which does everything we need if there is no journal).
  Good catch. Thanks.
  
								Honza

> commit b436b9bef84de6893e86346d8fbf7104bc520645
> Author: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Date:   Tue Dec 8 23:51:10 2009 -0500
> 
>     ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync
>     
>     We cannot rely on buffer dirty bits during fsync because pdflush can come
>     before fsync is called and clear dirty bits without forcing a transaction
>     commit. What we do is that we track which transaction has last changed
>     the inode and which transaction last changed allocation and force it to
>     disk on fsync.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
>     Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> index 4cfc2f0..ab31e65 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> @@ -709,6 +709,13 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
>  	struct list_head i_aio_dio_complete_list;
>  	/* current io_end structure for async DIO write*/
>  	ext4_io_end_t *cur_aio_dio;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Transactions that contain inode's metadata needed to complete
> +	 * fsync and fdatasync, respectively.
> +	 */
> +	tid_t i_sync_tid;
> +	tid_t i_datasync_tid;
>  };
>  
>  /*
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
> index 2c2b262..05eca81 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
> @@ -249,6 +249,19 @@ static inline int ext4_jbd2_file_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static inline void ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle_t *handle,
> +						 struct inode *inode,
> +						 int datasync)
> +{
> +	struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
> +
> +	if (ext4_handle_valid(handle)) {
> +		ei->i_sync_tid = handle->h_transaction->t_tid;
> +		if (datasync)
> +			ei->i_datasync_tid = handle->h_transaction->t_tid;
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  /* super.c */
>  int ext4_force_commit(struct super_block *sb);
>  
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index 5967f18..700206e 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -3058,6 +3058,8 @@ ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  	if (flags == EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_DIO_CONVERT_EXT) {
>  		ret = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_dio(handle, inode,
>  							path);
> +		if (ret >= 0)
> +			ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 1);
>  		goto out2;
>  	}
>  	/* buffered IO case */
> @@ -3085,6 +3087,8 @@ ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  	ret = ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle, inode,
>  						path, iblock,
>  						max_blocks);
> +	if (ret >= 0)
> +		ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 1);
>  out:
>  	if (ret <= 0) {
>  		err = ret;
> @@ -3323,10 +3327,16 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  	allocated = ext4_ext_get_actual_len(&newex);
>  	set_buffer_new(bh_result);
>  
> -	/* Cache only when it is _not_ an uninitialized extent */
> -	if ((flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_UNINIT_EXT) == 0)
> +	/*
> +	 * Cache the extent and update transaction to commit on fdatasync only
> +	 * when it is _not_ an uninitialized extent.
> +	 */
> +	if ((flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_UNINIT_EXT) == 0) {
>  		ext4_ext_put_in_cache(inode, iblock, allocated, newblock,
>  						EXT4_EXT_CACHE_EXTENT);
> +		ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 1);
> +	} else
> +		ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 0);
>  out:
>  	if (allocated > max_blocks)
>  		allocated = max_blocks;
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
> index a3c2507..0b22497 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
> @@ -51,25 +51,30 @@
>  int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
>  {
>  	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> +	struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
>  	journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
> -	int err, ret = 0;
> +	int ret;
> +	tid_t commit_tid;
>  
>  	J_ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
>  
>  	trace_ext4_sync_file(file, dentry, datasync);
>  
> +	if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	ret = flush_aio_dio_completed_IO(inode);
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		return ret;
> +	
> +	if (!journal)
> +		return simple_fsync(file, dentry, datasync);
> +
>  	/*
> -	 * data=writeback:
> +	 * data=writeback,ordered:
>  	 *  The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
> -	 *  sync_inode() will sync the metadata
> -	 *
> -	 * data=ordered:
> -	 *  The caller's filemap_fdatawrite() will write the data and
> -	 *  sync_inode() will write the inode if it is dirty.  Then the caller's
> -	 *  filemap_fdatawait() will wait on the pages.
> +	 *  Metadata is in the journal, we wait for proper transaction to
> +	 *  commit here.
>  	 *
>  	 * data=journal:
>  	 *  filemap_fdatawrite won't do anything (the buffers are clean).
> @@ -82,27 +87,10 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
>  	if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode))
>  		return ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
>  
> -	if (!journal)
> -		ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
> -
> -	if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
> -		goto out;
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * The VFS has written the file data.  If the inode is unaltered
> -	 * then we need not start a commit.
> -	 */
> -	if (inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) {
> -		struct writeback_control wbc = {
> -			.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
> -			.nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */
> -		};
> -		err = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
> -		if (ret == 0)
> -			ret = err;
> -	}
> -out:
> -	if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
> +	commit_tid = datasync ? ei->i_datasync_tid : ei->i_sync_tid;
> +	if (jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid))
> +		jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid);
> +	else if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER)
>  		blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);
>  	return ret;
>  }
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 958c3ff..f1bc1e3 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -983,6 +983,8 @@ static int ext4_ind_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  		goto cleanup;
>  
>  	set_buffer_new(bh_result);
> +
> +	ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 1);
>  got_it:
>  	map_bh(bh_result, inode->i_sb, le32_to_cpu(chain[depth-1].key));
>  	if (count > blocks_to_boundary)
> @@ -4738,6 +4740,7 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
>  	struct ext4_inode *raw_inode;
>  	struct ext4_inode_info *ei;
>  	struct inode *inode;
> +	journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal;
>  	long ret;
>  	int block;
>  
> @@ -4802,6 +4805,31 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
>  		ei->i_data[block] = raw_inode->i_block[block];
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ei->i_orphan);
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Set transaction id's of transactions that have to be committed
> +	 * to finish f[data]sync. We set them to currently running transaction
> +	 * as we cannot be sure that the inode or some of its metadata isn't
> +	 * part of the transaction - the inode could have been reclaimed and
> +	 * now it is reread from disk.
> +	 */
> +	if (journal) {
> +		transaction_t *transaction;
> +		tid_t tid;
> +
> +		spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> +		if (journal->j_running_transaction)
> +			transaction = journal->j_running_transaction;
> +		else
> +			transaction = journal->j_committing_transaction;
> +		if (transaction)
> +			tid = transaction->t_tid;
> +		else
> +			tid = journal->j_commit_sequence;
> +		spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> +		ei->i_sync_tid = tid;
> +		ei->i_datasync_tid = tid;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (EXT4_INODE_SIZE(inode->i_sb) > EXT4_GOOD_OLD_INODE_SIZE) {
>  		ei->i_extra_isize = le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_extra_isize);
>  		if (EXT4_GOOD_OLD_INODE_SIZE + ei->i_extra_isize >
> @@ -5056,6 +5084,7 @@ static int ext4_do_update_inode(handle_t *handle,
>  		err = rc;
>  	ei->i_state &= ~EXT4_STATE_NEW;
>  
> +	ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 0);
>  out_brelse:
>  	brelse(bh);
>  	ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, err);
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 8ab0c95..2b13dcf 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -706,6 +706,8 @@ static struct inode *ext4_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
>  	spin_lock_init(&(ei->i_block_reservation_lock));
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ei->i_aio_dio_complete_list);
>  	ei->cur_aio_dio = NULL;
> +	ei->i_sync_tid = 0;
> +	ei->i_datasync_tid = 0;
>  
>  	return &ei->vfs_inode;
>  }
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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