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Commit 4dffb2cb authored by Darrick J. Wong's avatar Darrick J. Wong
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xfs: allow pausing of pending deferred work items



Traditionally, all pending deferred work attached to a transaction is
finished when one of the xfs_defer_finish* functions is called.
However, online repair wants to be able to allocate space for a new data
structure, format a new metadata structure into the allocated space, and
commit that into the filesystem.

As a hedge against system crashes during repairs, we also want to log
some EFI items for the allocated space speculatively, and cancel them if
we elect to commit the new data structure.

Therefore, introduce the idea of pausing a pending deferred work item.
Log intent items are still created for paused items and relogged as
necessary.  However, paused items are pushed onto a side list before we
start calling ->finish_item, and the whole list is reattach to the
transaction afterwards.  New work items are never attached to paused
pending items.

Modify xfs_defer_cancel to clean up pending deferred work items holding
a log intent item but not a log intent done item, since that is now
possible.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent 6b126139
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