Filesystems are occasionally being shut down with this error:
xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk: attempting to delete a log item that is
not in the AIL.
It was diagnosed to be related to the EFI/EFD commit order when the
EFI and EFD are in different checkpoints and the EFD is committed
before the EFI here:
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2013-01/msg00082.html
The real problem is that a single bit cannot fully describe the
states that the EFI/EFD processing can be in. These completion
states are:
EFI EFI in AIL EFD Result
committed/unpinned Yes committed OK
committed/pinned No committed Shutdown
uncommitted No committed Shutdown
Note that the "result" field is what should happen, not what does
happen. The current logic is broken and handles the first two cases
correctly by luck. That is, the code will free the EFI if the
XFS_EFI_COMMITTED bit is *not* set, rather than if it is set. The
inverted logic "works" because if both EFI and EFD are committed,
then the first __xfs_efi_release() call clears the XFS_EFI_COMMITTED
bit, and the second frees the EFI item. Hence as long as
xfs_efi_item_committed() has been called, everything appears to be
fine.
It is the third case where the logic fails - where
xfs_efd_item_committed() is called before xfs_efi_item_committed(),
and that results in the EFI being freed before it has been
committed. That is the bug that triggered the shutdown, and hence
keeping track of whether the EFI has been committed or not is
insufficient to correctly order the EFI/EFD operations w.r.t. the
AIL.
What we really want is this: the EFI is always placed into the
AIL before the last reference goes away. The only way to guarantee
that is that the EFI is not freed until after it has been unpinned
*and* the EFD has been committed. That is, restructure the logic so
that the only case that can occur is the first case.
This can be done easily by replacing the XFS_EFI_COMMITTED with an
EFI reference count. The EFI is initialised with it's own count, and
that is not released until it is unpinned. However, there is a
complication to this method - the high level EFI/EFD code in
xfs_bmap_finish() does not hold direct references to the EFI
structure, and runs a transaction commit between the EFI and EFD
processing. Hence the EFI can be freed even before the EFD is
created using such a method.
Further, log recovery uses the AIL for tracking EFI/EFDs that need
to be recovered, but it uses the AIL *differently* to the EFI
transaction commit. Hence log recovery never pins or unpins EFIs, so
we can't drop the EFI reference count indirectly to free the EFI.
However, this doesn't prevent us from using a reference count here.
There is a 1:1 relationship between EFIs and EFDs, so when we
initialise the EFI we can take a reference count for the EFD as
well. This solves the xfs_bmap_finish() issue - the EFI will never
be freed until the EFD is processed. In terms of log recovery,
during the committing of the EFD we can look for the
XFS_EFI_RECOVERED bit being set and drop the EFI reference as well,
thereby ensuring everything works correctly there as well.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
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