Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix race condition between writting and scrubing supers

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> On 10/19/2013 12:32, Shilong Wang wrote:
>> 2013/10/19, Stefan Behrens <sbehrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On 10/19/2013 06:17, Wang Shilong wrote:
>>>> From: Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> 
>>>> Scrubing supers is not in a transaction context, when trying to
>>>> write supers to disk, we should check if we are trying to
>>>> scrub supers.Fix it.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>   fs/btrfs/disk-io.c     | 2 ++
>>>>   fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 2 ++
>>>>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>>> 
>>>> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
>>>> index 419968e..0debb19 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
>>>> @@ -3582,7 +3582,9 @@ int btrfs_commit_super(struct btrfs_root *root)
>>>>   		return ret;
>>>>   	}
>>>> 
>>>> +	btrfs_scrub_pause_super(root);
>>>>   	ret = write_ctree_super(NULL, root, 0);
>>>> +	btrfs_scrub_continue_super(root);
>>>>   	return ret;
>>>>   }
>>>> 
>>>> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
>>>> index 277fe81..3ebcbbd 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
>>>> @@ -1892,7 +1892,9 @@ int btrfs_commit_transaction(struct
>>>> btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>>>>   		goto cleanup_transaction;
>>>>   	}
>>>> 
>>>> +	btrfs_scrub_pause_super(root);
>>>>   	ret = write_ctree_super(trans, root, 0);
>>>> +	btrfs_scrub_continue_super(root);
>>>>   	if (ret) {
>>>>   		mutex_unlock(&root->fs_info->tree_log_mutex);
>>>>   		goto cleanup_transaction;
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What kind of race do you see between writing the 4K superblock and scrub
>>> checking its checksum? Or in other words, what could happen?
> 
> > Yeah, it did not hurt. but it may  output checksum mismatch.  For example:
> > Writing 4k superblock is not totally finished, but we are trying to scrub it.
> 
> Have you ever seen this issue?

No, just noticing it by accident.

> 
> If yes, let's find a different solution. You scrub, let's say, once a week. Scrubbing the superblock takes, let's say, 100ms, then it's finished. This short race doesn't justify to add such code to btrfs_commit_transaction and btrfs_commit_super IMHO. And commiting a transaction is synchronized to scrub already when the commit root is updated.

Agree with this point.

> 
> If this is really an issue and these 4K disk writes and reads interfere, let's find a better solution please.

>From now, scrubing supers don't involve writing,  so it doesn't hurt even if this short race really happens.
Anyway, thanks for comments .

Thanks,
Wang
> 
> 

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