ceph: when seeing write errors on an inode, switch to sync writes

Currently, we don't have a real feedback mechanism in place for when we
start seeing buffered writeback errors. If writeback is failing, there
is nothing that prevents an application from continuing to dirty pages
that aren't being cleaned.

In the event that we're seeing write errors of any sort occur on an
inode, have the callback set a flag to force further writes to be
synchronous. When the next write succeeds, clear the flag to allow
buffered writeback to continue.

Since this is just a hint to the write submission mechanism, we only
take the i_ceph_lock when a lockless check shows that the flag needs to
be changed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yan, Zheng” <zyan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ceph/super.h b/fs/ceph/super.h
index c68e6a045fb9..7334ee86b9e8 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/super.h
+++ b/fs/ceph/super.h
@@ -474,6 +474,32 @@ static inline struct inode *ceph_find_inode(struct super_block *sb,
 #define CEPH_I_CAP_DROPPED	(1 << 8)  /* caps were forcibly dropped */
 #define CEPH_I_KICK_FLUSH	(1 << 9)  /* kick flushing caps */
 #define CEPH_I_FLUSH_SNAPS	(1 << 10) /* need flush snapss */
+#define CEPH_I_ERROR_WRITE	(1 << 11) /* have seen write errors */
+
+/*
+ * We set the ERROR_WRITE bit when we start seeing write errors on an inode
+ * and then clear it when they start succeeding. Note that we do a lockless
+ * check first, and only take the lock if it looks like it needs to be changed.
+ * The write submission code just takes this as a hint, so we're not too
+ * worried if a few slip through in either direction.
+ */
+static inline void ceph_set_error_write(struct ceph_inode_info *ci)
+{
+	if (!(READ_ONCE(ci->i_ceph_flags) & CEPH_I_ERROR_WRITE)) {
+		spin_lock(&ci->i_ceph_lock);
+		ci->i_ceph_flags |= CEPH_I_ERROR_WRITE;
+		spin_unlock(&ci->i_ceph_lock);
+	}
+}
+
+static inline void ceph_clear_error_write(struct ceph_inode_info *ci)
+{
+	if (READ_ONCE(ci->i_ceph_flags) & CEPH_I_ERROR_WRITE) {
+		spin_lock(&ci->i_ceph_lock);
+		ci->i_ceph_flags &= ~CEPH_I_ERROR_WRITE;
+		spin_unlock(&ci->i_ceph_lock);
+	}
+}
 
 static inline void __ceph_dir_set_complete(struct ceph_inode_info *ci,
 					   long long release_count,