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[v5,3/5] fs/writeback: in wait_sb_inodes(), skip wait for AS_WRITEBACK_INDETERMINATE mappings

Message ID 20241115224459.427610-4-joannelkoong@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series fuse: remove temp page copies in writeback | expand

Commit Message

Joanne Koong Nov. 15, 2024, 10:44 p.m. UTC
For filesystems with the AS_WRITEBACK_INDETERMINATE flag set, writeback
operations may take an indeterminate time to complete. For example, writing
data back to disk in FUSE filesystems depends on the userspace server
successfully completing writeback.

In this commit, wait_sb_inodes() skips waiting on writeback if the
inode's mapping has AS_WRITEBACK_INDETERMINATE set, else sync(2) may take an
indeterminate amount of time to complete.

If the caller wishes to ensure the data for a mapping with the
AS_WRITEBACK_INDETERMINATE flag set has actually been written back to disk,
they should use fsync(2)/fdatasync(2) instead.

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
---
 fs/fs-writeback.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Jingbo Xu Nov. 20, 2024, 12:07 p.m. UTC | #1
On 11/16/24 6:44 AM, Joanne Koong wrote:
> For filesystems with the AS_WRITEBACK_INDETERMINATE flag set, writeback
> operations may take an indeterminate time to complete. For example, writing
> data back to disk in FUSE filesystems depends on the userspace server
> successfully completing writeback.
> 
> In this commit, wait_sb_inodes() skips waiting on writeback if the
> inode's mapping has AS_WRITEBACK_INDETERMINATE set, else sync(2) may take an
> indeterminate amount of time to complete.
> 
> If the caller wishes to ensure the data for a mapping with the
> AS_WRITEBACK_INDETERMINATE flag set has actually been written back to disk,
> they should use fsync(2)/fdatasync(2) instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/fs-writeback.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> index d8bec3c1bb1f..ad192db17ce4 100644
> --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> @@ -2659,6 +2659,9 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb)
>  		if (!mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK))
>  			continue;
>  
> +		if (mapping_writeback_indeterminate(mapping))
> +			continue;
> +
>  		spin_unlock_irq(&sb->s_inode_wblist_lock);
>  
>  		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);

Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
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diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index d8bec3c1bb1f..ad192db17ce4 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -2659,6 +2659,9 @@  static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb)
 		if (!mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK))
 			continue;
 
+		if (mapping_writeback_indeterminate(mapping))
+			continue;
+
 		spin_unlock_irq(&sb->s_inode_wblist_lock);
 
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);