Re: [PATCH v6 3/7] xfs: update lazy sb counters immediately for resizefs

[Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:56:17PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> sb_fdblocks will be updated lazily if lazysbcount is enabled,
> therefore when shrinking the filesystem sb_fdblocks could be
> larger than sb_dblocks and xfs_validate_sb_write() would fail.
> 
> Even for growfs case, it'd be better to update lazy sb counters
> immediately to reflect the real sb counters.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> index a2a407039227..2e490fb75832 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> @@ -128,6 +128,14 @@ xfs_growfs_data_private(
>  				 nb - mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks);
>  	if (id.nfree)
>  		xfs_trans_mod_sb(tp, XFS_TRANS_SB_FDBLOCKS, id.nfree);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * update in-core counters now to reflect the real numbers
> +	 * (especially sb_fdblocks)
> +	 */

Could you update the comment to explain why we do this? For example:

"Sync sb counters now to reflect the updated values. This is
particularly important for shrink because the write verifier will fail
if sb_fdblocks is ever larger than sb_dblocks."

Brian

> +	if (xfs_sb_version_haslazysbcount(&mp->m_sb))
> +		xfs_log_sb(tp);
> +
>  	xfs_trans_set_sync(tp);
>  	error = xfs_trans_commit(tp);
>  	if (error)
> -- 
> 2.27.0
>