From d76a3a77113db020d9bb1e894822869410450bd9 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 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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/jbd2') diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index ed10991ab00..886ec2faa9b 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -709,6 +709,37 @@ int jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid) return err; } +/* + * When this function returns the transaction corresponding to tid + * will be completed. If the transaction has currently running, start + * committing that transaction before waiting for it to complete. If + * the transaction id is stale, it is by definition already completed, + * so just return SUCCESS. + */ +int jbd2_complete_transaction(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid) +{ + int need_to_wait = 1; + + read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); + if (journal->j_running_transaction && + journal->j_running_transaction->t_tid == tid) { + if (journal->j_commit_request != tid) { + /* transaction not yet started, so request it */ + read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); + jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, tid); + goto wait_commit; + } + } else if (!(journal->j_committing_transaction && + journal->j_committing_transaction->t_tid == tid)) + need_to_wait = 0; + read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); + if (!need_to_wait) + return 0; +wait_commit: + return jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, tid); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(jbd2_complete_transaction); + /* * Log buffer allocation routines: */ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2