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ext4: clear stale xarray tags on folios skipped during writeback

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In data=journal mode, the writeback thread can hit the
WARN_ON_ONCE(sb_rdonly(sb)) in ext4_journal_check_start() while the
superblock is being remounted read-only during reboot:

Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-253:0)
RIP: 0010:ext4_journal_check_start+0x8b/0xd0
Call Trace:
  __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x3c/0x1e0
  mpage_prepare_extent_to_map+0x4af/0x580
  ext4_do_writepages+0x3c0/0x1080
  ext4_writepages+0xc8/0x1a0
  do_writepages+0xc4/0x180
  __writeback_single_inode+0x45/0x2f0
  writeback_sb_inodes+0x26b/0x5d0
  __writeback_inodes_wb+0x54/0x100
  wb_writeback+0x1ac/0x320
  wb_workfn+0x394/0x470

And followed by the warning:
EXT4-fs warning (device vda1): ext4_evict_inode:195: inode #6263:
comm (sd-umount): data will be lost

This issue is not reproduced every time, but frequently.
The reproduction step is to create a VM with 8 CPUs, 16G memory and
setup data=journal:
sudo tune2fs -o journal_data /dev/vda1
Run fio:
rm -f fiotest
fio --name=fiotest --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --runtime=6 --ioengine=libaio
--iodepth=256 --numjobs=8 --filename=fiotest --filesize=30G
--group_reporting
Reboot the VM, and check the console output from:
virsh console testvm

But there is no dirty inode, folio_clear_dirty_for_io clears PG_dirty
but leaves tags PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY and PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE set which
are only cleared by __folio_start_writeback.
In data=journal mode, jbd2 checkpoints the journalled data to its final
location and clears its own dirty flag without touching folio PG_dirty
or xarray dirty flags.
The commit f4a2b42e78 ("ext4: fix stale xarray tags after writeback")
fixes when PG_dirty is still set but there is no dirty page.
Another case is PG_dirty is cleared, but PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY and
PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE is still set. In this case, writeback thread
checks clean folio and skips it in mpage_prepare_extent_to_map:
if (!folio_test_dirty(folio) ||
    ...
        folio_unlcok(folio);
	continue

And never reaches ext4_bio_write_folio where the commit f4a2b42e78
clears the stale xarray tags. Print debug logs after the filesystem
is remounted read-only:
writepages RDONLY nrpages=2048 dirtytag=1 wbtag=0 towrite=1 sync=0
And all folios are actually clean:
folio idx=3 dirty=0 wb=0 checked=0 dirtybuf=0 jbddirty=0 mapped=1
...

We need to clear the xarray stale tags for such clean folios by
cycling them through writeback in the skip path, the same way
f4a2b42e78 does in ext4_bio_write_folio.

Fixes: dff4ac75ee ("ext4: move keep_towrite handling to ext4_bio_write_page()")
Signed-off-by: Gerald Yang <gerald.yang@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260625160127.162272-1-gerald.yang@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
This commit is contained in:
Gerald Yang 2026-06-26 00:01:23 +08:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 03438084a7
commit ec524aae47
1 changed files with 15 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -2696,13 +2696,25 @@ static int mpage_prepare_extent_to_map(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
* page is already under writeback and we are not doing
* a data integrity writeback, skip the page
*/
if (!folio_test_dirty(folio) ||
(folio_test_writeback(folio) &&
(mpd->wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE)) ||
if ((folio_test_writeback(folio) &&
mpd->wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) ||
unlikely(folio->mapping != mapping)) {
folio_unlock(folio);
continue;
}
/*
* If the folio is clean, skip writing it back.
* Cycle the folio through the writeback state
* though, to clear stale xarray tags.
*/
if (!folio_test_dirty(folio)) {
if (!folio_test_writeback(folio)) {
__folio_start_writeback(folio, false);
folio_end_writeback(folio);
}
folio_unlock(folio);
continue;
}
folio_wait_writeback(folio);
BUG_ON(folio_test_writeback(folio));