[PATCH 2/3] xfs: exclude never-released buffers from buftarg I/O accounting

[Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>]

The upcoming buftarg I/O accounting mechanism maintains a count of all
buffers that have undergone I/O in the current hold-release cycle.
Certain buffers associated with core infrastructure (e.g., the xfs_mount
superblock buffer, log buffers) are never released, however. This means
that accounting I/O submission on such buffers elevates the buftarg
count indefinitely and could lead to lockup on unmount.

Define a new buffer flag to explicitly exclude buffers from buftarg I/O
accounting. Set the flag on the superblock and associated log buffers.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h   |  1 +
 fs/xfs/xfs_log.c   |  4 +++-
 fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c | 12 +++++++-----
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
index a3c7ba4..9e1cca7 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ typedef enum {
 #define XBF_READ	 (1 << 0) /* buffer intended for reading from device */
 #define XBF_WRITE	 (1 << 1) /* buffer intended for writing to device */
 #define XBF_READ_AHEAD	 (1 << 2) /* asynchronous read-ahead */
+#define XBF_NO_IOACCT	 (1 << 3) /* bypass I/O accounting (non-LRU bufs) */
 #define XBF_ASYNC	 (1 << 4) /* initiator will not wait for completion */
 #define XBF_DONE	 (1 << 5) /* all pages in the buffer uptodate */
 #define XBF_STALE	 (1 << 6) /* buffer has been staled, do not find it */
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
index 63dad9e..4af0fb0 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
@@ -1427,7 +1427,8 @@ xlog_alloc_log(
 	ASSERT(xfs_buf_islocked(bp));
 	xfs_buf_unlock(bp);
 
-	/* use high priority wq for log I/O completion */
+	/* disable accounting and use high priority wq for log I/O completion */
+	bp->b_flags |= XBF_NO_IOACCT;
 	bp->b_ioend_wq = mp->m_log_workqueue;
 	bp->b_iodone = xlog_iodone;
 	log->l_xbuf = bp;
@@ -1457,6 +1458,7 @@ xlog_alloc_log(
 						BTOBB(log->l_iclog_size), 0);
 		if (!bp)
 			goto out_free_iclog;
+		bp->b_flags |= XBF_NO_IOACCT;
 
 		ASSERT(xfs_buf_islocked(bp));
 		xfs_buf_unlock(bp);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
index e39b023..a9234a2 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
@@ -272,13 +272,15 @@ xfs_readsb(
 	buf_ops = NULL;
 
 	/*
-	 * Allocate a (locked) buffer to hold the superblock.
-	 * This will be kept around at all times to optimize
-	 * access to the superblock.
+	 * Allocate a (locked) buffer to hold the superblock. This will be kept
+	 * around at all times to optimize access to the superblock. Therefore,
+	 * set XBF_NO_IOACCT to make sure it doesn't hold the buftarg count
+	 * elevated.
 	 */
 reread:
-	error = xfs_buf_read_uncached(mp->m_ddev_targp, XFS_SB_DADDR,
-				   BTOBB(sector_size), 0, &bp, buf_ops);
+	error = xfs_buf_read_uncached_flags(mp->m_ddev_targp, XFS_SB_DADDR,
+					    BTOBB(sector_size), 0, &bp, buf_ops,
+					    XBF_NO_IOACCT);
 	if (error) {
 		if (loud)
 			xfs_warn(mp, "SB validate failed with error %d.", error);
-- 
2.5.5

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