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Commit 7703bdd8 authored by Chris Mason's avatar Chris Mason Committed by David Sterba
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Btrfs: don't clean dirty pages during buffered writes



During buffered writes, we follow this basic series of steps:

again:
	lock all the pages
	wait for writeback on all the pages
	Take the extent range lock
	wait for ordered extents on the whole range
	clean all the pages

	if (copy_from_user_in_atomic() hits a fault) {
		drop our locks
		goto again;
	}

	dirty all the pages
	release all the locks

The extra waiting, cleaning and locking are there to make sure we don't
modify pages in flight to the drive, after they've been crc'd.

If some of the pages in the range were already dirty when the write
began, and we need to goto again, we create a window where a dirty page
has been cleaned and unlocked.  It may be reclaimed before we're able to
lock it again, which means we'll read the old contents off the drive and
lose any modifications that had been pending writeback.

We don't actually need to clean the pages.  All of the other locking in
place makes sure we don't start IO on the pages, so we can just leave
them dirty for the duration of the write.

Fixes: 73d59314 (the original btrfs merge)
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent 818255fe
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