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The inode log item is kind of special in that it can be aggregating new changes in memory at the same time time existing changes are being written back to disk. This means there are fields in the log item that are accessed concurrently from contexts that don't share any locking at all. e.g. updating ili_last_fields occurs at flush time under the ILOCK_EXCL and flush lock at flush time, under the flush lock at IO completion time, and is read under the ILOCK_EXCL when the inode is logged. Hence there is no actual serialisation between reading the field during logging of the inode in transactions vs clearing the field in IO completion. We currently get away with this by the fact that we are only clearing fields in IO completion, and nothing bad happens if we accidentally log more of the inode than we actually modify. Worst case is we consume a tiny bit more memory and log bandwidth. However, if we want to do more complex state manipulations on the log item that requires updates at all three of these potential locations, we need to have some mechanism of serialising those operations. To do this, introduce a spinlock into the log item to serialise internal state. This could be done via the xfs_inode i_flags_lock, but this then leads to potential lock inversion issues where inode flag updates need to occur inside locks that best nest inside the inode log item locks (e.g. marking inodes stale during inode cluster freeing). Using a separate spinlock avoids these sorts of problems and simplifies future code. This does not touch the use of ili_fields in the item formatting code - that is entirely protected by the ILOCK_EXCL at this point in time, so it remains untouched. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.