linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 01/30] btrfs: always wait on ordered extents at fsync time

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Message-Id: <20211025190923.166779214@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 25 Oct 2021 21:14:21 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...e.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        Anand Jain <anand.jain@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 01/30] btrfs: always wait on ordered extents at fsync time

From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>

commit b5e6c3e170b77025b5f6174258c7ad71eed2d4de upstream.

There's a priority inversion that exists currently with btrfs fsync.  In
some cases we will collect outstanding ordered extents onto a list and
only wait on them at the very last second.  However this "very last
second" falls inside of a transaction handle, so if we are in a lower
priority cgroup we can end up holding the transaction open for longer
than needed, so if a high priority cgroup is also trying to fsync()
it'll see latency.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/btrfs/file.c |   56 ++++----------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -2102,53 +2102,12 @@ int btrfs_sync_file(struct file *file, l
 	atomic_inc(&root->log_batch);
 	full_sync = test_bit(BTRFS_INODE_NEEDS_FULL_SYNC,
 			     &BTRFS_I(inode)->runtime_flags);
+
 	/*
-	 * We might have have had more pages made dirty after calling
-	 * start_ordered_ops and before acquiring the inode's i_mutex.
+	 * We have to do this here to avoid the priority inversion of waiting on
+	 * IO of a lower priority task while holding a transaciton open.
 	 */
-	if (full_sync) {
-		/*
-		 * For a full sync, we need to make sure any ordered operations
-		 * start and finish before we start logging the inode, so that
-		 * all extents are persisted and the respective file extent
-		 * items are in the fs/subvol btree.
-		 */
-		ret = btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, start, len);
-	} else {
-		/*
-		 * Start any new ordered operations before starting to log the
-		 * inode. We will wait for them to finish in btrfs_sync_log().
-		 *
-		 * Right before acquiring the inode's mutex, we might have new
-		 * writes dirtying pages, which won't immediately start the
-		 * respective ordered operations - that is done through the
-		 * fill_delalloc callbacks invoked from the writepage and
-		 * writepages address space operations. So make sure we start
-		 * all ordered operations before starting to log our inode. Not
-		 * doing this means that while logging the inode, writeback
-		 * could start and invoke writepage/writepages, which would call
-		 * the fill_delalloc callbacks (cow_file_range,
-		 * submit_compressed_extents). These callbacks add first an
-		 * extent map to the modified list of extents and then create
-		 * the respective ordered operation, which means in
-		 * tree-log.c:btrfs_log_inode() we might capture all existing
-		 * ordered operations (with btrfs_get_logged_extents()) before
-		 * the fill_delalloc callback adds its ordered operation, and by
-		 * the time we visit the modified list of extent maps (with
-		 * btrfs_log_changed_extents()), we see and process the extent
-		 * map they created. We then use the extent map to construct a
-		 * file extent item for logging without waiting for the
-		 * respective ordered operation to finish - this file extent
-		 * item points to a disk location that might not have yet been
-		 * written to, containing random data - so after a crash a log
-		 * replay will make our inode have file extent items that point
-		 * to disk locations containing invalid data, as we returned
-		 * success to userspace without waiting for the respective
-		 * ordered operation to finish, because it wasn't captured by
-		 * btrfs_get_logged_extents().
-		 */
-		ret = start_ordered_ops(inode, start, end);
-	}
+	ret = btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, start, len);
 	if (ret) {
 		up_write(&BTRFS_I(inode)->dio_sem);
 		inode_unlock(inode);
@@ -2283,13 +2242,6 @@ int btrfs_sync_file(struct file *file, l
 				goto out;
 			}
 		}
-		if (!full_sync) {
-			ret = btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, start, len);
-			if (ret) {
-				btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
-				goto out;
-			}
-		}
 		ret = btrfs_commit_transaction(trans);
 	} else {
 		ret = btrfs_end_transaction(trans);