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 In these cases, we aren't quite withdrawn yet, but we still need to not dequeue glocks and other critical things.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>
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