This is a revert of commit 0a8068a3dd ("btrfs: make ranged full
fsyncs more efficient"), with updated comment in btrfs_sync_file.
Commit 0a8068a3dd ("btrfs: make ranged full fsyncs more efficient")
made full fsyncs operate on the given range only as it assumed it was safe
when using the NO_HOLES feature, since the hole detection was simplified
some time ago and no longer was a source for races with ordered extent
completion of adjacent file ranges.
However it's still not safe to have a full fsync only operate on the given
range, because extent maps for new extents might not be present in memory
due to inode eviction or extent cloning. Consider the following example:
1) We are currently at transaction N;
2) We write to the file range [0, 1MiB);
3) Writeback finishes for the whole range and ordered extents complete,
while we are still at transaction N;
4) The inode is evicted;
5) We open the file for writing, causing the inode to be loaded to
memory again, which sets the 'full sync' bit on its flags. At this
point the inode's list of modified extent maps is empty (figuring
out which extents were created in the current transaction and were
not yet logged by an fsync is expensive, that's why we set the
'full sync' bit when loading an inode);
6) We write to the file range [512KiB, 768KiB);
7) We do a ranged fsync (such as msync()) for file range [512KiB, 768KiB).
This correctly flushes this range and logs its extent into the log
tree. When the writeback started an extent map for range [512KiB, 768KiB)
was added to the inode's list of modified extents, and when the fsync()
finishes logging it removes that extent map from the list of modified
extent maps. This fsync also clears the 'full sync' bit;
8) We do a regular fsync() (full ranged). This fsync() ends up doing
nothing because the inode's list of modified extents is empty and
no other changes happened since the previous ranged fsync(), so
it just returns success (0) and we end up never logging extents for
the file ranges [0, 512KiB) and [768KiB, 1MiB).
Another scenario where this can happen is if we replace steps 2 to 4 with
cloning from another file into our test file, as that sets the 'full sync'
bit in our inode's flags and does not populate its list of modified extent
maps.
This was causing test case generic/457 to fail sporadically when using the
NO_HOLES feature, as it exercised this later case where the inode has the
'full sync' bit set and has no extent maps in memory to represent the new
extents due to extent cloning.
Fix this by reverting commit 0a8068a3dd ("btrfs: make ranged full fsyncs
more efficient") since there is no easy way to work around it.
Fixes: 0a8068a3dd ("btrfs: make ranged full fsyncs more efficient")
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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