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author | Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> | 2012-06-20 23:52:57 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-06-21 01:39:35 +0400 |
commit | fbb24a3a915f105016f1c828476be11aceac8504 (patch) | |
tree | c3c9b8361e4a12a0ae80ce88a016cca71abf5ba1 /fs/nilfs2/segment.c | |
parent | e4eed03fd06578571c01d4f1478c874bb432c815 (diff) | |
download | linux-fbb24a3a915f105016f1c828476be11aceac8504.tar.xz |
nilfs2: ensure proper cache clearing for gc-inodes
A gc-inode is a pseudo inode used to buffer the blocks to be moved by
garbage collection.
Block caches of gc-inodes must be cleared every time a garbage collection
function (nilfs_clean_segments) completes. Otherwise, stale blocks
buffered in the caches may be wrongly reused in successive calls of the GC
function.
For user files, this is not a problem because their gc-inodes are
distinguished by a checkpoint number as well as an inode number. They
never buffer different blocks if either an inode number, a checkpoint
number, or a block offset differs.
However, gc-inodes of sufile, cpfile and DAT file can store different data
for the same block offset. Thus, the nilfs_clean_segments function can
move incorrect block for these meta-data files if an old block is cached.
I found this is really causing meta-data corruption in nilfs.
This fixes the issue by ensuring cache clear of gc-inodes and resolves
reported GC problems including checkpoint file corruption, b-tree
corruption, and the following warning during GC.
nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 307234 already freed.
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Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.37+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nilfs2/segment.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c index 0e72ad6f22aa..88e11fb346b6 100644 --- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c +++ b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c @@ -2309,6 +2309,8 @@ nilfs_remove_written_gcinodes(struct the_nilfs *nilfs, struct list_head *head) if (!test_bit(NILFS_I_UPDATED, &ii->i_state)) continue; list_del_init(&ii->i_dirty); + truncate_inode_pages(&ii->vfs_inode.i_data, 0); + nilfs_btnode_cache_clear(&ii->i_btnode_cache); iput(&ii->vfs_inode); } } |