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Chris Mason 7703bdd8d2 Btrfs: don't clean dirty pages during buffered writes
During buffered writes, we follow this basic series of steps:

again:
	lock all the pages
	wait for writeback on all the pages
	Take the extent range lock
	wait for ordered extents on the whole range
	clean all the pages

	if (copy_from_user_in_atomic() hits a fault) {
		drop our locks
		goto again;
	}

	dirty all the pages
	release all the locks

The extra waiting, cleaning and locking are there to make sure we don't
modify pages in flight to the drive, after they've been crc'd.

If some of the pages in the range were already dirty when the write
began, and we need to goto again, we create a window where a dirty page
has been cleaned and unlocked.  It may be reclaimed before we're able to
lock it again, which means we'll read the old contents off the drive and
lose any modifications that had been pending writeback.

We don't actually need to clean the pages.  All of the other locking in
place makes sure we don't start IO on the pages, so we can just leave
them dirty for the duration of the write.

Fixes: 73d59314e6 (the original btrfs merge)
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2018-10-15 17:23:35 +02:00
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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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.