ext4: use transaction reservation for extent conversion in ext4_end_io
Later we would like to clear PageWriteback bit only after extent
conversion from unwritten to written extents is performed. However it
is not possible to start a transaction after PageWriteback is set
because that violates lock ordering (and is easy to deadlock). So we
have to reserve a transaction before locking pages and sending them
for IO and later we use the transaction for extent conversion from
ext4_end_io().
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index de6860c..5f20bc4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
{
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&io_end->list));
BUG_ON(io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN);
+ WARN_ON(io_end->handle);
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&EXT4_I(io_end->inode)->i_ioend_count))
wake_up_all(ext4_ioend_wq(io_end->inode));
@@ -92,13 +93,15 @@
struct inode *inode = io->inode;
loff_t offset = io->offset;
ssize_t size = io->size;
+ handle_t *handle = io->handle;
int ret = 0;
ext4_debug("ext4_end_io_nolock: io 0x%p from inode %lu,list->next 0x%p,"
"list->prev 0x%p\n",
io, inode->i_ino, io->list.next, io->list.prev);
- ret = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(inode, offset, size);
+ io->handle = NULL; /* Following call will use up the handle */
+ ret = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(handle, inode, offset, size);
if (ret < 0) {
ext4_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_EMERG,
"failed to convert unwritten extents to written "
@@ -228,8 +231,10 @@
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&io_end->count)) {
if (io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN) {
- err = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(io_end->inode,
- io_end->offset, io_end->size);
+ err = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(io_end->handle,
+ io_end->inode, io_end->offset,
+ io_end->size);
+ io_end->handle = NULL;
ext4_clear_io_unwritten_flag(io_end);
}
ext4_release_io_end(io_end);
