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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c index 18f4b262e61c..b339ff93df99 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c @@ -1761,10 +1761,31 @@ xfs_inactive_ifree( return error; } + /* + * We do not hold the inode locked across the entire rolling transaction + * here. We only need to hold it for the first transaction that + * xfs_ifree() builds, which may mark the inode XFS_ISTALE if the + * underlying cluster buffer is freed. Relogging an XFS_ISTALE inode + * here breaks the relationship between cluster buffer invalidation and + * stale inode invalidation on cluster buffer item journal commit + * completion, and can result in leaving dirty stale inodes hanging + * around in memory. + * + * We have no need for serialising this inode operation against other + * operations - we freed the inode and hence reallocation is required + * and that will serialise on reallocating the space the deferops need + * to free. Hence we can unlock the inode on the first commit of + * the transaction rather than roll it right through the deferops. This + * avoids relogging the XFS_ISTALE inode. + * + * We check that xfs_ifree() hasn't grown an internal transaction roll + * by asserting that the inode is still locked when it returns. + */ xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); - xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip, 0); + xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); error = xfs_ifree(tp, ip); + ASSERT(xfs_isilocked(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL)); if (error) { /* * If we fail to free the inode, shut down. The cancel @@ -1777,7 +1798,6 @@ xfs_inactive_ifree( xfs_force_shutdown(mp, SHUTDOWN_META_IO_ERROR); } xfs_trans_cancel(tp); - xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); return error; } @@ -1795,7 +1815,6 @@ xfs_inactive_ifree( xfs_notice(mp, "%s: xfs_trans_commit returned error %d", __func__, error); - xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); return 0; } |