Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] gfs2: clean up some filemap_* calls

Bob Peterson
2017-04-24T17:41:18Z

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
| On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 10:12 -0400, Bob Peterson wrote:
| > > + filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, gl->gl_vm.start, gl->gl_vm.end);
| >
| > This should probably have "error = ", no?
| >
|
| This error is discarded in the current code after resetting the error in
| the mapping. With the earlier patches in this set we don't need to reset
| the error like this anymore.
|
| Now, if this code should doing something else with those errors, then
| that's a separate problem.

Okay, I see. My bad.

| > > gfs2_ail_empty_gl(gl);
| > >
| > > spin_lock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock);
| > > @@ -225,12 +223,10 @@ static void inode_go_sync(struct gfs2_glock *gl)
| > > filemap_fdatawrite(metamapping);
| > > if (ip) {
| > > struct address_space *mapping = ip->i_inode.i_mapping;
| > > - filemap_fdatawrite(mapping);
| > > - error = filemap_fdatawait(mapping);
| > > - mapping_set_error(mapping, error);
| > > + filemap_write_and_wait(mapping);
| > > + } else {
| > > + filemap_fdatawait(metamapping);
| > > }
| > > - error = filemap_fdatawait(metamapping);
| > > - mapping_set_error(metamapping, error);
| >
| > This part doesn't look right at all. There's a big difference in gfs2
| > between
| > mapping and metamapping. We need to wait for metamapping regardless.
| >
|
| ...and this should wait. Basically, filemap_write_and_wait does
| filemap_fdatawrite and then filemap_fdatawait. This is mostly just
| replacing the existing code with a more concise helper.

But this isn't a simple replacement with a helper. This is two different
address spaces (mapping and metamapping) and you added an else in there.

So with this patch metamapping gets written, and if there's an ip,
mapping gets written but it doesn't wait for metamapping. Unless
I'm missing something.

You could replace both filemap_fdatawrites with the helper instead.
Today's code is structured as:

(a) write metamapping
if (ip)
(b) write mapping
(c) wait for mapping
(d) wait for metamapping

If you use the helper for both, it becomes, (a & d)(b & c) which is probably
acceptable. (I think we just tried to optimize what the elevator was doing).

But the way you've got it coded here still looks wrong. It looks like:
(a)
if (ip)
(b & c)
ELSE -
(d)

So (d) (metamapping) isn't guaranteed to be synced at the end of the function.
Of course, you know the modified helper functions better than I do.
What am I missing?

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat File Systems