Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] f2fs: wait on atomic writes to count F2FS_CP_WB_DATA

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Fri Jan 04 2019 - 15:36:09 EST


On 01/04, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2019/1/4 12:20, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > Otherwise, we can get wrong counts incurring checkpoint hang.
> >
> > IO_W (CP: -24, Data: 24, Flush: ( 0 0 1), Discard: ( 0 0))
> >
> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Good catch! ;)
>
> I can understand this condition, but for other new developer who reads this
> commit, it will be a little hard to understand situation here.
>
> How about explaining a little more about problem here, maybe:
>
> Thread A Thread B
> - f2fs_write_data_pages
> - __write_data_page
> - f2fs_submit_page_write
> - inc_page_count(F2FS_WB_DATA)
> type is F2FS_WB_DATA due to file is non-atomic one
> - f2fs_ioc_start_atomic_write
> - set_inode_flag(FI_ATOMIC_FILE)
> - f2fs_write_end_io
> - dec_page_count(F2FS_WB_CP_DATA)
> type is F2FS_WB_DATA due to file becomes
> atomic one
>
> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, added the comment. :P

>
> Thanks,
>