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  1. 06 Apr, 2009 4 commits
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      xfs: inform the xfsaild of the push target before sleeping · 9d7fef74
      Dave Chinner authored 
      When trying to reserve log space, we find the amount of space
we need, then go to sleep waiting for space. When we are
woken, we try to push the tail of the log forward to make
sure we have space available.

Unfortunately, this means that if there is not space available, and
everyone who needs space goes to sleep there is no-one left to push
the tail of the log to make space available. Once we have a thread
waiting for space to become available, the others queue up behind
it in a FIFO, and none of them push the tail of the log.

This can result in everyone going to sleep in xlog_grant_log_space()
if the first sleeper races with the last I/O that moves the tail
of the log forward. With no further I/O tomove the tail of the log,
there is nothing to wake the sleepers and hence all transactions
just stop.

Fix this by making sure the xfsaild will create enough space for the
transaction that is about to sleep by moving the push target far
enough forwards to ensure that that the curent proceeees will have
enough space available when it is woken. That is, we push the
AIL before we go to sleep.

Because we've inserted the log ticket into the queue before we've
pushed and gone to sleep, subsequent transactions will wait behind
this one. Hence we are guaranteed to have space available when we
are woken.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      9d7fef74
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      xfs: prevent unwritten extent conversion from blocking I/O completion · c626d174
      Dave Chinner authored 
      Unwritten extent conversion can recurse back into the filesystem due
to memory allocation. Memory reclaim requires I/O completions to be
processed to allow the callers to make progress. If the I/O
completion workqueue thread is doing the recursion, then we have a
deadlock situation.

Move unwritten extent completion into it's own workqueue so it
doesn't block I/O completions for normal delayed allocation or
overwrite data.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      c626d174
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      xfs: fix double free of inode · 705db3fd
      Dave Chinner authored 
      If we fail to initialise the VFS inode in inode_init_always(),
it will call ->delete_inode internally resulting in the inode being
freed. Hence we need to delay the call to inode_init_always()
until after the XFS inode is sufficient set up to handle a
call to ->delete_inode, and then if that fails do not touch
the inode again at all as it has been freed.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      705db3fd
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      xfs: validate log feature fields correctly · a6cb767e
      Dave Chinner authored 
      If the large log sector size feature bit is set in the
superblock by accident (say disk corruption), the then
fields that are now considered valid are not checked on
production kernels. The checks are present as ASSERT
statements so cause a panic on a debug kernel.

Change this so that the fields are validity checked if
the feature bit is set and abort the log mount if the
fields do not contain valid values.
Reported-by: default avatarEric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      a6cb767e
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