Commit e100c699 authored by Dave Chinner's avatar Dave Chinner Committed by Zheng Zengkai
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xfs: xfs_log_force_lsn isn't passed a LSN

mainline-inclusion
from mainline-v5.13-rc4
commit 5f9b4b0d
category: bugfix
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I4KIAO
CVE: NA

Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5f9b4b0de8dc2fb8eb655463b438001c111570fe



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In doing an investigation into AIL push stalls, I was looking at the
log force code to see if an async CIL push could be done instead.
This lead me to xfs_log_force_lsn() and looking at how it works.

xfs_log_force_lsn() is only called from inode synchronisation
contexts such as fsync(), and it takes the ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn
value as the LSN to sync the log to. This gets passed to
xlog_cil_force_lsn() via xfs_log_force_lsn() to flush the CIL to the
journal, and then used by xfs_log_force_lsn() to flush the iclogs to
the journal.

The problem is that ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn does not store a
log sequence number. What it stores is passed to it from the
->iop_committing method, which is called by xfs_log_commit_cil().
The value this passes to the iop_committing method is the CIL
context sequence number that the item was committed to.

As it turns out, xlog_cil_force_lsn() converts the sequence to an
actual commit LSN for the related context and returns that to
xfs_log_force_lsn(). xfs_log_force_lsn() overwrites it's "lsn"
variable that contained a sequence with an actual LSN and then uses
that to sync the iclogs.

This caused me some confusion for a while, even though I originally
wrote all this code a decade ago. ->iop_committing is only used by
a couple of log item types, and only inode items use the sequence
number it is passed.

Let's clean up the API, CIL structures and inode log item to call it
a sequence number, and make it clear that the high level code is
using CIL sequence numbers and not on-disk LSNs for integrity
synchronisation purposes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAllison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGuo Xuenan <guoxuenan@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLihong Kou <koulihong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarZhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>
parent 59ab51ec
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