gfs2: Introduce concept of a pending withdraw

File system withdraws can be delayed when inconsistencies are
discovered when we cannot withdraw immediately, for example, when
critical spin_locks are held. But delaying the withdraw can cause
gfs2 to ignore the error and keep running for a short period of time.
For example, an rgrp glock may be dequeued and demoted while there
are still buffers that haven't been properly revoked, due to io
errors writing to the journal.

This patch introduces a new concept of a pending withdraw, which
means an inconsistency has been discovered and we need to withdraw
at the earliest possible opportunity. In these cases, we aren't
quite withdrawn yet, but we still need to not dequeue glocks and
other critical things. If we dequeue the glocks and the withdraw
results in our journal being replayed, the replay could overwrite
data that's been modified by a different node that acquired the
glock in the meantime.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/log.c b/fs/gfs2/log.c
index c4c7c013f7a7..d1ab04135b2f 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/log.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/log.c
@@ -88,8 +88,7 @@ static void gfs2_remove_from_ail(struct gfs2_bufdata *bd)
 
 static int gfs2_ail1_start_one(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp,
 			       struct writeback_control *wbc,
-			       struct gfs2_trans *tr,
-			       bool *withdraw)
+			       struct gfs2_trans *tr)
 __releases(&sdp->sd_ail_lock)
 __acquires(&sdp->sd_ail_lock)
 {
@@ -108,7 +107,7 @@ __acquires(&sdp->sd_ail_lock)
 			    !test_and_set_bit(SDF_AIL1_IO_ERROR,
 					      &sdp->sd_flags)) {
 				gfs2_io_error_bh(sdp, bh);
-				*withdraw = true;
+				gfs2_withdraw_delayed(sdp);
 			}
 			list_move(&bd->bd_ail_st_list, &tr->tr_ail2_list);
 			continue;
@@ -149,7 +148,6 @@ void gfs2_ail1_flush(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	struct list_head *head = &sdp->sd_ail1_list;
 	struct gfs2_trans *tr;
 	struct blk_plug plug;
-	bool withdraw = false;
 
 	trace_gfs2_ail_flush(sdp, wbc, 1);
 	blk_start_plug(&plug);
@@ -158,13 +156,12 @@ restart:
 	list_for_each_entry_reverse(tr, head, tr_list) {
 		if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
 			break;
-		if (gfs2_ail1_start_one(sdp, wbc, tr, &withdraw) &&
-		    !gfs2_withdrawn(sdp))
+		if (gfs2_ail1_start_one(sdp, wbc, tr) && !gfs2_withdrawn(sdp))
 			goto restart;
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&sdp->sd_ail_lock);
 	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
-	if (withdraw)
+	if (test_bit(SDF_WITHDRAWING, &sdp->sd_flags))
 		gfs2_withdraw(sdp);
 	trace_gfs2_ail_flush(sdp, wbc, 0);
 }
@@ -193,8 +190,7 @@ static void gfs2_ail1_start(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp)
  *
  */
 
-static void gfs2_ail1_empty_one(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct gfs2_trans *tr,
-				bool *withdraw)
+static void gfs2_ail1_empty_one(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct gfs2_trans *tr)
 {
 	struct gfs2_bufdata *bd, *s;
 	struct buffer_head *bh;
@@ -208,7 +204,7 @@ static void gfs2_ail1_empty_one(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct gfs2_trans *tr,
 		if (!buffer_uptodate(bh) &&
 		    !test_and_set_bit(SDF_AIL1_IO_ERROR, &sdp->sd_flags)) {
 			gfs2_io_error_bh(sdp, bh);
-			*withdraw = true;
+			gfs2_withdraw_delayed(sdp);
 		}
 		list_move(&bd->bd_ail_st_list, &tr->tr_ail2_list);
 	}
@@ -226,11 +222,10 @@ static int gfs2_ail1_empty(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp)
 	struct gfs2_trans *tr, *s;
 	int oldest_tr = 1;
 	int ret;
-	bool withdraw = false;
 
 	spin_lock(&sdp->sd_ail_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(tr, s, &sdp->sd_ail1_list, tr_list) {
-		gfs2_ail1_empty_one(sdp, tr, &withdraw);
+		gfs2_ail1_empty_one(sdp, tr);
 		if (list_empty(&tr->tr_ail1_list) && oldest_tr)
 			list_move(&tr->tr_list, &sdp->sd_ail2_list);
 		else
@@ -239,7 +234,7 @@ static int gfs2_ail1_empty(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp)
 	ret = list_empty(&sdp->sd_ail1_list);
 	spin_unlock(&sdp->sd_ail_lock);
 
-	if (withdraw) {
+	if (test_bit(SDF_WITHDRAWING, &sdp->sd_flags)) {
 		gfs2_lm(sdp, "fatal: I/O error(s)\n");
 		gfs2_withdraw(sdp);
 	}