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    xfs: disallow marking previously dirty buffers as ordered · a5814bce
    Brian Foster authored
    Ordered buffers are used in situations where the buffer is not
    physically logged but must pass through the transaction/logging
    pipeline for a particular transaction. As a result, ordered buffers
    are not unpinned and written back until the transaction commits to
    the log. Ordered buffers have a strict requirement that the target
    buffer must not be currently dirty and resident in the log pipeline
    at the time it is marked ordered. If a dirty+ordered buffer is
    committed, the buffer is reinserted to the AIL but not physically
    relogged at the LSN of the associated checkpoint. The buffer log
    item is assigned the LSN of the latest checkpoint and the AIL
    effectively releases the previously logged buffer content from the
    active log before the buffer has been written back. If the tail
    pushes forward and a filesystem crash occurs while in this state, an
    inconsistent filesystem could result.
    
    It is currently the caller responsibility to ensure an ordered
    buffer is not already dirty from a previous modification. This is
    unclear and error prone when not used in situations where it is
    guaranteed a buffer has not been previously modified (such as new
    metadata allocations).
    
    To facilitate general purpose use of ordered buffers, update
    xfs_trans_ordered_buf() to conditionally order the buffer based on
    state of the log item and return the status of the result. If the
    bli is dirty, do not order the buffer and return false. The caller
    must either physically log the buffer (having acquired the
    appropriate log reservation) or push it from the AIL to clean it
    before it can be marked ordered in the current transaction.
    
    Note that ordered buffers are currently only used in two situations:
    1.) inode chunk allocation where previously logged buffers are not
    possible and 2.) extent swap which will be updated to handle ordered
    buffer failures in a separate patch.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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