s_fc_lock can be acquired from inode eviction and thus is
reclaim unsafe. Since the fast commit path holds s_fc_lock while writing
the commit log, allocations under the lock can enter reclaim and invert
the lock order with fs_reclaim. Add ext4_fc_lock()/ext4_fc_unlock()
helpers which acquire s_fc_lock under memalloc_nofs_save()/restore()
context and use them everywhere so allocations under the lock cannot
recurse into filesystem reclaim.
Fixes: 6593714d67 ("ext4: hold s_fc_lock while during fast commit")
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106120621.440126-1-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fast commits only log operations that have dedicated replay support.
EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT swaps extents between regular files and may copy
data, rewriting the affected inodes' block mapping layout without
going through the fast commit tracking paths.
In practice these operations are rare and usually followed by further
updates, but mixing them into a fast commit makes the overall
semantics harder to reason about and risks replay gaps if new call
sites appear.
Teach ext4 to mark the filesystem fast-commit ineligible for the
journal transactions used by move_extent_per_page() when
EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT runs.
This forces those transactions to fall back to a full commit,
ensuring that these multi-inode extent swaps are captured by the
normal journal rather than partially encoded in fast commit TLVs.
This change should not affect common workloads but makes online
defragmentation safer and easier to reason about under fast commit.
Testing:
1. prepare:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/fc_move.img bs=1M count=0 seek=256
mkfs.ext4 -O fast_commit -F /root/fc_move.img
mkdir -p /mnt/fc_move && mount -t ext4 -o loop \
/root/fc_move.img /mnt/fc_move
2. Created two files, ran EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT via e4defrag, and checked
the ineligible reason statistics:
fallocate -l 64M /mnt/fc_move/file1
cp /mnt/fc_move/file1 /mnt/fc_move/file2
e4defrag /mnt/fc_move/file1
cat /proc/fs/ext4/loop0/fc_info
shows "Move extents": > 0 and fc stats ineligible > 0.
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211115146.897420-4-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fast commits only log operations that have dedicated replay support.
Enabling fs-verity builds a Merkle tree and updates inode and orphan
state in ways that are not described by the fast commit replay tags.
In practice these operations are rare and usually followed by further
updates, but mixing them into a fast commit makes the overall
semantics harder to reason about and risks replay gaps if new call
sites appear.
Teach ext4 to mark the filesystem fast-commit ineligible when
ext4_end_enable_verity() starts its journal transaction.
This forces that transaction to fall back to a full commit, ensuring
that the fs-verity enable changes are captured by the normal journal
rather than partially encoded in fast commit TLVs.
This change should not affect common workloads but makes fs-verity
enable safer and easier to reason about under fast commit.
Testing:
1. prepare:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/fc_verity.img bs=1M count=0 seek=128
mkfs.ext4 -O fast_commit,verity -F /root/fc_verity.img
mkdir -p /mnt/fc_verity && mount -t ext4 -o loop /root/fc_verity.img /mnt/fc_verity
2. Enabled fs-verity on a file and verified reason accounting:
echo "data" > /mnt/fc_verity/verityfile
/root/enable_verity /mnt/fc_verity/verityfile
sync
tail -n 1 /proc/fs/ext4/loop0/fc_info
"fs-verity enable": 1
3. Enabled fs-verity on a second file, fsynced it, and checked that the
ineligible commit counter is updated too:
echo "data2" > /mnt/fc_verity/verityfile2
/root/enable_verity /mnt/fc_verity/verityfile2
/root/fsync_file /mnt/fc_verity/verityfile2
sync
/proc/fs/ext4/loop0/fc_info shows "fs-verity enable" incremented and
fc stats ineligible increased accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211115146.897420-3-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fast commits only log operations that have dedicated replay support.
Inode format migration (indirect<->extent layout changes via
EXT4_IOC_MIGRATE or toggling EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) rewrites the block mapping
representation without going through the fast commit tracking paths.
In practice these migrations are rare and usually followed by further
updates, but mixing them into a fast commit makes the overall semantics
harder to reason about and risks replay gaps if new call sites appear.
Teach ext4 to mark the filesystem fast-commit ineligible when
ext4_ext_migrate() or ext4_ind_migrate() start their journal transactions.
This forces those transactions to fall back to a full commit, ensuring
that the entire inode layout change is captured by the normal journal
rather than partially encoded in fast commit TLVs. This change should
not affect common workloads but makes format migrations safer and easier
to reason about under fast commit.
Testing:
1. prepare:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/fc.img bs=1M count=0 seek=128
mkfs.ext4 -O fast_commit -F /root/fc.img
mkdir -p /mnt/fc && mount -t ext4 -o loop /root/fc.img /mnt/fc
2. Created a test file and toggled the extents flag to exercise both
ext4_ind_migrate() and ext4_ext_migrate():
touch /mnt/fc/migtest
chattr -e /mnt/fc/migtest
chattr +e /mnt/fc/migtest
3. Verified fast-commit ineligible statistics:
tail -n 1 /proc/fs/ext4/loop0/fc_info
"Inode format migration": 2
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211115146.897420-2-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
The following code paths may result in high latency or even task hangs:
1. fastcommit io is throttled by wbt.
2. jbd2_fc_wait_bufs() might wait for a long time while
JBD2_FAST_COMMIT_ONGOING is set in journal->flags, and then
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() waits for the
JBD2_FAST_COMMIT_ONGOING bit for a long time while holding the write
lock of j_state_lock.
3. start_this_handle() waits for read lock of j_state_lock which
results in high latency or task hang.
Given the fact that ext4_fc_commit() already modifies the current
process' IO priority to match that of the jbd2 thread, it should be
reasonable to match jbd2's IO submission flags as well.
Suggested-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Sun <sunjunchao@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-ID: <20250827121812.1477634-1-sunjunchao@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently, in the I/O writeback path, ext4_map_blocks() may attempt to
cache additional unrelated extents in the extent status tree without
holding the inode's i_rwsem and the mapping's invalidate_lock. This can
lead to stale extent status entries remaining in certain scenarios,
potentially causing data corruption.
For example, when performing a collapse range in ext4_collapse_range(),
it clears the extent cache and dirty pages before removing blocks and
shifting extents. It also holds the i_data_sem during these two
operations. However, both ext4_ext_remove_space() and
ext4_ext_shift_extents() may briefly release the i_data_sem if journal
credits are insufficient (ext4_datasem_ensure_credits()). If another
writeback process writes dirty pages from other regions during this
interval, it may cache extents that are about to be modified. Unless
ext4_collapse_range() explicitly clears the extent cache again, these
cached entries can become stale and inconsistent with the actual
extents.
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Assume that block a is dirty. The collapse range operation is removing
data from n to m and drops i_data_sem immediately after removing the
extent from b to c. At the same time, a concurrent writeback begins to
write back block a; it will reloads the extent from [n, b) into the
extent status tree since it does not hold the i_rwsem or the
invalidate_lock. After the collapse range operation, it left the stale
extent [n, b), which points logical block n to N, but the actual
physical block of n should be M.
Similarly, both ext4_insert_range() and ext4_truncate() have the same
problem. ext4_punch_hole() survived since it re-add a hole extent entry
after removing space since commit 9f1118223a ("ext4: add a hole extent
entry in cache after punch").
In most cases, during dirty page writeback, the block mapping
information is likely to be found in the extent cache, making it less
necessary to search for physical extents. Consequently, loading
unrelated extent caches during writeback appears to be ineffective.
Therefore, fix this by adds EXT4_EX_NOCACHE in the writeback path to
prevent caching of unrelated extents, eliminating this potential source
of corruption.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250423085257.122685-4-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently, the EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_SUBMIT flag is only used during data
writeback to indicate that in ordered mode, the journal commit thread
should skip re-submitting data and simply wait for I/O completion.
To prepare for later patches that need to detect I/O submission context
in ext4_map_blocks(), generalizes the meaning of
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_SUBMIT. This flag will be set during:
1) data I/O writeback,
2) I/O completion extents conversion,
3) journal performing commit in fast_commit.
This change doesn't affect current usage of this flag and provides a
clear way to identify I/O submission context.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250423085257.122685-3-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch reworks fast commit's commit path to remove locking the
journal for the entire duration of a fast commit. Instead, we only lock
the journal while marking all the eligible inodes as "committing". This
allows handles to make progress in parallel with the fast commit.
Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250508175908.1004880-5-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
If the inode that's being requested to track using ext4_fc_track_inode
is being committed, then wait until the inode finishes the
commit. Also, add calls to ext4_fc_track_inode at the right places.
With this patch, now calling ext4_reserve_inode_write() results in
inode being tracked for next fast commit. This ensures that by the
time ext4_reserve_inode_write() returns, it is ready to be modified
and won't be committed until the corresponding handle is open.
A subtle lock ordering requirement with i_data_sem (which is
documented in the code) requires that ext4_fc_track_inode() be called
before grabbing i_data_sem. So, this patch also adds explicit
ext4_fc_track_inode() calls in places where i_data_sem grabbed.
Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250508175908.1004880-3-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
... rather than open-coding them. As a bonus, that avoids the pointless
work with extra allocations, etc. for long names.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The ext4_find_extent() can update the extent path so that it does not have
to allocate and free the path repeatedly, thus reducing the consumption of
memory allocation and freeing in the following functions:
ext4_ext_clear_bb
ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks
ext4_fc_replay_add_range
ext4_fc_set_bitmaps_and_counters
No functional changes. Note that ext4_find_extent() does not support error
pointers, so in this case set path to NULL first.
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240822023545.1994557-25-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
The use of path and ppath is now very confusing, so to make the code more
readable, pass path between functions uniformly, and get rid of ppath.
To get rid of the ppath in ext4_ext_insert_extent(), the following is done
here:
* Free the extents path when an error is encountered.
* Its caller needs to update ppath if it uses ppath.
* Free path when npath is used, free npath when it is not used.
* The got_allocated_blocks label in ext4_ext_map_blocks() does not
update err now, so err is updated to 0 if the err returned by
ext4_ext_search_right() is greater than 0 and is about to enter
got_allocated_blocks.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240822023545.1994557-15-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Function jbd2_journal_shrink_checkpoint_list() assumes that '0' is not a
valid value for transaction IDs, which is incorrect.
Furthermore, the sbi->s_fc_ineligible_tid handling also makes the same
assumption by being initialised to '0'. Fortunately, the sb flag
EXT4_MF_FC_INELIGIBLE can be used to check whether sbi->s_fc_ineligible_tid
has been previously set instead of comparing it with '0'.
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques (SUSE) <luis.henriques@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240724161119.13448-5-luis.henriques@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
When a full journal commit is on-going, any fast commit has to be enqueued
into a different queue: FC_Q_STAGING instead of FC_Q_MAIN. This enqueueing
is done only once, i.e. if an inode is already queued in a previous fast
commit entry it won't be enqueued again. However, if a full commit starts
_after_ the inode is enqueued into FC_Q_MAIN, the next fast commit needs to
be done into FC_Q_STAGING. And this is not being done in function
ext4_fc_track_template().
This patch fixes the issue by re-enqueuing an inode into the STAGING queue
during the fast commit clean-up callback when doing a full commit. However,
to prevent a race with a fast-commit, the clean-up callback has to be called
with the journal locked.
This bug was found using fstest generic/047. This test creates several 32k
bytes files, sync'ing each of them after it's creation, and then shutting
down the filesystem. Some data may be loss in this operation; for example a
file may have it's size truncated to zero.
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques (SUSE) <luis.henriques@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240717172220.14201-1-luis.henriques@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
When fast-commit needs to track ranges, it has to handle inodes that have
inlined data in a different way because ext4_fc_write_inode_data(), in the
actual commit path, will attempt to map the required blocks for the range.
However, inodes that have inlined data will have it's data stored in
inode->i_block and, eventually, in the extended attribute space.
Unfortunately, because fast commit doesn't currently support extended
attributes, the solution is to mark this commit as ineligible.
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039883
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques (SUSE) <luis.henriques@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Fixes: 9725958bb7 ("ext4: fast commit may miss tracking unwritten range during ftruncate")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240618144312.17786-1-luis.henriques@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Li Chen
Julian Sun
Eric Biggers
Zhang Yi
Harshad Shirwadkar
Al Viro
Dan Carpenter
Jiapeng Chong
Luis Henriques (SUSE)
Baokun Li