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    xfs: fix sub-page blocksize data integrity writes · 480d7467
    Dave Chinner authored
    FSX on 512 byte block size filesystems has been failing for some
    time with corrupted data. The fault dates back to the change in
    the writeback data integrity algorithm that uses a mark-and-sweep
    approach to avoid data writeback livelocks.
    
    Unfortunately, a side effect of this mark-and-sweep approach is that
    each page will only be written once for a data integrity sync, and
    there is a condition in writeback in XFS where a page may require
    two writeback attempts to be fully written. As a result of the high
    level change, we now only get a partial page writeback during the
    integrity sync because the first pass through writeback clears the
    mark left on the page index to tell writeback that the page needs
    writeback....
    
    The cause is writing a partial page in the clustering code. This can
    happen when a mapping boundary falls in the middle of a page - we
    end up writing back the first part of the page that the mapping
    covers, but then never revisit the page to have the remainder mapped
    and written.
    
    The fix is simple - if the mapping boundary falls inside a page,
    then simple abort clustering without touching the page. This means
    that the next ->writepage entry that write_cache_pages() will make
    is the page we aborted on, and xfs_vm_writepage() will map all
    sections of the page correctly. This behaviour is also optimal for
    non-data integrity writes, as it results in contiguous sequential
    writeback of the file rather than missing small holes and having to
    write them a "random" writes in a future pass.
    
    With this fix, all the fsx tests in xfstests now pass on a 512 byte
    block size filesystem on a 4k page machine.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
    
    (cherry picked from commit 49b137cb)
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