The previous patch I wrote for reclaiming unlinked dinodes
had some shortcomings and did not prevent all hangs.
This version is much cleaner and more logical, and has
passed very difficult testing. Sorry for the churn.
/**
- * gfs2_unlinked_inode_lookup - Lookup an unlinked inode for reclamation
+ * gfs2_process_unlinked_inode - Lookup an unlinked inode for reclamation
+ * and try to reclaim it by doing iput.
+ *
+ * This function assumes no rgrp locks are currently held.
+ *
* @sb: The super block
* no_addr: The inode number
- * @@inode: A pointer to the inode found, if any
*
- * Returns: 0 and *inode if no errors occurred. If an error occurs,
- * the resulting *inode may or may not be NULL.
*/
- if (!(*inode))
- return -ENOBUFS;
+ if (!inode)
+ return;
- if (!((*inode)->i_state & I_NEW))
- return -ENOBUFS;
+ /* If it's not a new inode, someone's using it, so leave it alone. */
+ if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW)) {
+ iput(inode);
+ return;
+ }
- ip = GFS2_I(*inode);
- sdp = GFS2_SB(*inode);
+ ip = GFS2_I(inode);
+ sdp = GFS2_SB(inode);
ip->i_no_formal_ino = -1;
/*
* We must read the inode in order to work out its type in
@@ -303,16 +305,17 @@ int gfs2_unlinked_inode_lookup(struct super_block *sb, u64 no_addr,
*/
error = gfs2_glock_nq_init(ip->i_gl, LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE, LM_FLAG_TRY,
&gh);
- if (unlikely(error)) {
- if (error == GLR_TRYFAILED)
- error = 0;
+ if (unlikely(error))
goto fail_glock;
- }
+
/* Inode is now uptodate */
gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&gh);
- gfs2_set_iop(*inode);
+ gfs2_set_iop(inode);
+
+ /* The iput will cause it to be deleted. */
+ iput(inode);
+ return;
-unsigned int gfs2_struct2blk(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, unsigned int nstruct,
+extern unsigned int gfs2_struct2blk(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, unsigned int nstruct,
unsigned int ssize);
-int gfs2_log_reserve(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, unsigned int blks);
-void gfs2_log_incr_head(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp);
+extern int gfs2_log_reserve(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, unsigned int blks);
+extern void gfs2_log_incr_head(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp);
@@ -1209,22 +1208,27 @@ try_again:
if (error)
return error;
+ /* Find an rgrp suitable for allocation. If it encounters any unlinked
+ dinodes along the way, error will equal -EAGAIN and unlinked will
+ contains it block address. We then need to look up that inode and
+ try to free it, and try the allocation again. */
error = get_local_rgrp(ip, &unlinked, &last_unlinked);
if (error) {
if (ip != GFS2_I(sdp->sd_rindex))
gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&al->al_ri_gh);
if (error != -EAGAIN)
return error;
- error = gfs2_unlinked_inode_lookup(ip->i_inode.i_sb,
- unlinked, &inode);
- if (inode)
- iput(inode);
+
+ gfs2_process_unlinked_inode(ip->i_inode.i_sb, unlinked);
+ /* regardless of whether or not gfs2_process_unlinked_inode
+ was successful, we don't want to repeat it again. */
+ last_unlinked = unlinked;
gfs2_log_flush(sdp, NULL);
- if (error == GLR_TRYFAILED)
- error = 0;
+ error = 0;
+
goto try_again;
}
-
+ /* no error, so we have the rgrp set in the inode's allocation. */
al->al_file = file;
al->al_line = line;