Re: [PATCH 1/5] f2fs: fix to wait page writeback before update

From: Chao Yu
Date: Fri Mar 08 2024 - 01:20:50 EST


On 2020/6/20 6:47, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index 3268f8dd59bb..1862073b96d2 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -1250,6 +1250,7 @@ static int __clone_blkaddrs(struct inode *src_inode, struct inode *dst_inode,
f2fs_put_page(psrc, 1);
return PTR_ERR(pdst);
}
+ f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(pdst, DATA, true, true);

Do you mean pdst can be under writeback?

Jaegeuk,

Look back this again, is it possible that pdst is writebacking
in below race condition? or am I missing something?

Thread A GC Thread
- f2fs_move_file_range
- filemap_write_and_wait_range(dst)
- gc_data_segment
- f2fs_down_write(dst)
- move_data_page
- set_page_writeback(dst_page)
- f2fs_submit_page_write
- f2fs_up_write(dst)
- f2fs_down_write(dst)
- __exchange_data_block
- __clone_blkaddrs
- f2fs_get_new_data_page
- memcpy_page

Thanks,