Commit a9bae189542e71f91e61a4428adf6e5a7dfe8063
Committed by
Linus Torvalds
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nilfs2: fix fix very long mount time issue
There exists a situation when GC can work in background alone without any other filesystem activity during significant time. The nilfs_clean_segments() method calls nilfs_segctor_construct() that updates superblocks in the case of NILFS_SC_SUPER_ROOT and THE_NILFS_DISCONTINUED flags are set. But when GC is working alone the nilfs_clean_segments() is called with unset THE_NILFS_DISCONTINUED flag. As a result, the update of superblocks doesn't occurred all this time and in the case of SPOR superblocks keep very old values of last super root placement. SYMPTOMS: Trying to mount a NILFS2 volume after SPOR in such environment ends with very long mounting time (it can achieve about several hours in some cases). REPRODUCING PATH: 1. It needs to use external USB HDD, disable automount and doesn't make any additional filesystem activity on the NILFS2 volume. 2. Generate temporary file with size about 100 - 500 GB (for example, dd if=/dev/zero of=<file_name> bs=1073741824 count=200). The size of file defines duration of GC working. 3. Then it needs to delete file. 4. Start GC manually by means of command "nilfs-clean -p 0". When you start GC by means of such way then, at the end, superblocks is updated by once. So, for simulation of SPOR, it needs to wait sometime (15 - 40 minutes) and simply switch off USB HDD manually. 5. Switch on USB HDD again and try to mount NILFS2 volume. As a result, NILFS2 volume will mount during very long time. REPRODUCIBILITY: 100% FIX: This patch adds checking that superblocks need to update and set THE_NILFS_DISCONTINUED flag before nilfs_clean_segments() call. Reported-by: Sergey Alexandrov <splavgm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> Tested-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
... | ... | @@ -664,8 +664,11 @@ |
664 | 664 | if (ret < 0) |
665 | 665 | printk(KERN_ERR "NILFS: GC failed during preparation: " |
666 | 666 | "cannot read source blocks: err=%d\n", ret); |
667 | - else | |
667 | + else { | |
668 | + if (nilfs_sb_need_update(nilfs)) | |
669 | + set_nilfs_discontinued(nilfs); | |
668 | 670 | ret = nilfs_clean_segments(inode->i_sb, argv, kbufs); |
671 | + } | |
669 | 672 | |
670 | 673 | nilfs_remove_all_gcinodes(nilfs); |
671 | 674 | clear_nilfs_gc_running(nilfs); |