Chris Mason <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:13:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > @@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
> > > list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use);
> > > } else {
> > > list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused);
> > > + inodes_stat.nr_unused++;
> > > }
> > > }
> > > wake_up_inode(inode);
> > >
> > > Are you sure the above diff is correct? It was added somewhere between
> > > 2.6.5 and 2.6.8. I think it's wrong.
> > >
> > > The only way I can imagine the i_count to be zero in the above path, is
> > > that I_WILL_FREE is set. And if I_WILL_FREE is set, then we must not
> > > increase nr_unused. So I believe the above change is buggy and it will
> > > definitely overstate the number of unused inodes and it should be backed
> > > out.
> >
> > Well according to my assertion (below), the inode in __sync_single_inode()
> > cannot have a zero refcount, so the whole if() statement is never executed.
>
> generic_forget_inode->write_inode_now->__writeback_single_inode->
> __sync_single_inode
oshit.
> We do have I_WILL_FREE, but i_count will be zero.
yup.
> >
> > The thinking behind that increment is that __sync_single_inode() has just
> > taken a dirty, zero-refcount inode and has cleaned it. A dirty inode
> > cannot have previously been on inode_unused, hence we now are newly moving
> > it to inode_unused.
>
> nr_unused doesn't seem to count the number of inodes on the unused list.
> It is actually counting the number of inodes whose i_count is 0. See
> generic_forget_inode and invalidate_list to see what I mean.
hm, OK. It'd be nice to make that more explicit. Something like this?
--- devel/fs/inode.c~generic_forget_inode-nr_unused-cleanup 2005-10-18 18:13:22.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/fs/inode.c 2005-10-18 18:13:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -1067,8 +1067,8 @@ static void generic_forget_inode(struct
if (!hlist_unhashed(&inode->i_hash)) {
if (!(inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY|I_LOCK)))
list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused);
- inodes_stat.nr_unused++;
if (!sb || (sb->s_flags & MS_ACTIVE)) {
+ inodes_stat.nr_unused++; /* One more 0-ref inode */
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
return;
}
@@ -1077,7 +1077,6 @@ static void generic_forget_inode(struct
write_inode_now(inode, 1);
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
inode->i_state &= ~I_WILL_FREE;
- inodes_stat.nr_unused--;
hlist_del_init(&inode->i_hash);
}
list_del_init(&inode->i_list);
_
> generic_forget_inode took care of incrementing the unused count when
> i_count went to zero. So, I don't think we need to worry about the
> unused count in __writeback_single_inode.
>
How about this for now?
diff -puN fs/fs-writeback.c~fix-nr_unused-accounting-and-avoid-recursing-in-iput-with-i_will_free-set fs/fs-writeback.c
--- devel/fs/fs-writeback.c~fix-nr_unused-accounting-and-avoid-recursing-in-iput-with-i_will_free-set 2005-10-18 18:02:51.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/fs/fs-writeback.c 2005-10-18 18:05:22.000000000 -0700
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
/*
* The inode is clean, unused
*/
+ WARN_ON(1);
list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused);
- inodes_stat.nr_unused++;
}
}
wake_up_inode(inode);
@@ -238,14 +238,20 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
}
/*
- * Write out an inode's dirty pages. Called under inode_lock.
+ * Write out an inode's dirty pages. Called under inode_lock. Either the
+ * caller has ref on the inode (either via __iget or via syscall against an fd)
+ * or the inode has I_WILL_FREE set (via generic_forget_inode)
*/
static int
-__writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
- struct writeback_control *wbc)
+__writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
wait_queue_head_t *wqh;
+ if (!atomic_read(&inode->i_count))
+ WARN_ON(!(inode->i_flags & I_WILL_FREE));
+ else
+ WARN_ON(inode->i_flags & I_WILL_FREE);
+
if ((wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) && (inode->i_state & I_LOCK)) {
list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode->i_sb->s_dirty);
return 0;
@@ -259,11 +265,9 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *i
wqh = bit_waitqueue(&inode->i_state, __I_LOCK);
do {
- __iget(inode);
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
__wait_on_bit(wqh, &wq, inode_wait,
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
- iput(inode);
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
} while (inode->i_state & I_LOCK);
}
@@ -541,14 +545,15 @@ void sync_inodes(int wait)
}
/**
- * write_inode_now - write an inode to disk
- * @inode: inode to write to disk
- * @sync: whether the write should be synchronous or not
+ * write_inode_now - write an inode to disk
+ * @inode: inode to write to disk
+ * @sync: whether the write should be synchronous or not
+ *
+ * This function commits an inode to disk immediately if it is dirty. This is
+ * primarily needed by knfsd.
*
- * This function commits an inode to disk immediately if it is
- * dirty. This is primarily needed by knfsd.
+ * The caller must either have a ref on the inode or must have set I_WILL_FREE.
*/
-
int write_inode_now(struct inode *inode, int sync)
{
int ret;
_
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