From: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] ext4: use READ_ONCE for lockless jinode reads
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:46:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260219114645.778338-3-me@linux.beauty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260219114645.778338-1-me@linux.beauty>
ext4 journal commit callbacks access jbd2_inode fields such as
i_transaction and i_dirty_start/end without holding journal->j_list_lock.
Use READ_ONCE() for these reads to match the lockless access pattern.
Convert the dirty range from PAGE_SIZE units back to byte offsets before
passing it to writeback.
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
---
Changes since v1:
- Convert the jinode dirty range from PAGE_SIZE units (pgoff_t) back to byte
offsets before passing it to writeback.
fs/ext4/inode.c | 12 ++++++++++--
fs/ext4/super.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index d99296d7315f..5ec60580a2d0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3033,11 +3033,19 @@ static int ext4_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
int ext4_normal_submit_inode_data_buffers(struct jbd2_inode *jinode)
{
+ pgoff_t dirty_start = READ_ONCE(jinode->i_dirty_start);
+ pgoff_t dirty_end = READ_ONCE(jinode->i_dirty_end);
+ loff_t range_start, range_end;
+
+ if (dirty_end == JBD2_INODE_DIRTY_RANGE_NONE)
+ return 0;
+ range_start = (loff_t)dirty_start << PAGE_SHIFT;
+ range_end = ((loff_t)dirty_end << PAGE_SHIFT) + PAGE_SIZE - 1;
struct writeback_control wbc = {
.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
.nr_to_write = LONG_MAX,
- .range_start = jinode->i_dirty_start,
- .range_end = jinode->i_dirty_end,
+ .range_start = range_start,
+ .range_end = range_end,
};
struct mpage_da_data mpd = {
.inode = jinode->i_vfs_inode,
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 69eb63dde983..27062c8ad60a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ static bool ext4_journalled_writepage_needs_redirty(struct jbd2_inode *jinode,
{
struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
struct journal_head *jh;
+ transaction_t *trans = READ_ONCE(jinode->i_transaction);
bh = head = folio_buffers(folio);
do {
@@ -539,7 +540,7 @@ static bool ext4_journalled_writepage_needs_redirty(struct jbd2_inode *jinode,
*/
jh = bh2jh(bh);
if (buffer_dirty(bh) ||
- (jh && (jh->b_transaction != jinode->i_transaction ||
+ (jh && (jh->b_transaction != trans ||
jh->b_next_transaction)))
return true;
} while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head);
@@ -550,12 +551,20 @@ static bool ext4_journalled_writepage_needs_redirty(struct jbd2_inode *jinode,
static int ext4_journalled_submit_inode_data_buffers(struct jbd2_inode *jinode)
{
struct address_space *mapping = jinode->i_vfs_inode->i_mapping;
+ pgoff_t dirty_start = READ_ONCE(jinode->i_dirty_start);
+ pgoff_t dirty_end = READ_ONCE(jinode->i_dirty_end);
+ loff_t range_start, range_end;
+
+ if (dirty_end == JBD2_INODE_DIRTY_RANGE_NONE)
+ return 0;
+ range_start = (loff_t)dirty_start << PAGE_SHIFT;
+ range_end = ((loff_t)dirty_end << PAGE_SHIFT) + PAGE_SIZE - 1;
struct writeback_control wbc = {
- .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
+ .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
.nr_to_write = LONG_MAX,
- .range_start = jinode->i_dirty_start,
- .range_end = jinode->i_dirty_end,
- };
+ .range_start = range_start,
+ .range_end = range_end,
+ };
struct folio *folio = NULL;
int error;
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-19 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-19 11:46 [PATCH v2 0/3] jbd2/ext4/ocfs2: lockless jinode dirty range Li Chen
2026-02-19 11:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] jbd2: store jinode dirty range in PAGE_SIZE units Li Chen
2026-02-19 21:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2026-02-20 6:43 ` Li Chen
2026-02-23 1:11 ` Andreas Dilger
2026-02-19 11:46 ` Li Chen [this message]
2026-02-19 11:46 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ocfs2: use READ_ONCE for lockless jinode reads Li Chen
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