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Btrfs sometimes needs to flush dirty pages on a bunch of dirty inodes in order to reclaim metadata reservations. Unfortunately most helpers in this area are too smart for us: 1) The normal filemap_fdata* helpers only take range and sync modes, and don't give any indication of how much was written, so we can only flush full inodes, which isn't what we want in most cases. 2) The normal writeback path requires us to have the s_umount sem held, but we can't unconditionally take it in this path because we could deadlock. 3) The normal writeback path also skips inodes with I_SYNC set if we write with WB_SYNC_NONE. This isn't the behavior we want under heavy ENOSPC pressure, we want to actually make sure the pages are under writeback before returning, and if another thread is in the middle of writing the file we may return before they're under writeback and miss our ordered extents and not properly wait for completion. 4) sync_inode() uses the normal writeback path and has the same problem as #3. What we really want is to call do_writepages() with our wbc. This way we can make sure that writeback is actually started on the pages, and we can control how many pages are written as a whole as we write many inodes using the same wbc. Accomplish this with a new helper that does just that so we can use it for our ENOSPC flushing infrastructure. Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.