xfs: ensure WB_SYNC_ALL writeback handles partial pages correctly
XFS has been having trouble with stray delayed allocation extents beyond EOF for a long time. Recent changes to the collapse range code has triggered erroneous EBUSY errors on page invalidtion for block size smaller than page size filesystems. These have been caused by dirty buffers beyond EOF on a partial page which do not get written to disk during a sync. The issue is that write-ahead in xfs_cluster_write() finds such a partial page and handles it by leaving the page dirty but pushing it into a writeback state. This used to work just fine, as the write_cache_pages() code would then find the dirty partial page in the next mapping tree lookup as the dirty tag is still set. Unfortunately, when we moved to a mark and sweep approach to writeback to fix other writeback sync issues, we broken this. THe act of marking the page as under writeback now clears the TOWRITE tag in the radix tree, even though the page is still dirty. This causes the TOWRITE tag to be cleared, and hence the next lookup on the mapping tree does not find the dirty partial page and so doesn't try to write it again. This same writeback bug was found recently in ext4 and fixed in commit 1c8349a1 ("ext4: fix data integrity sync in ordered mode") without communication to the wider filesystem community. We can use exactly the same fix here so the TOWRITE flag is not cleared on partial page writes. cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # dependent on 1c8349a1 Root-cause-found-by:Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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