Normally I just toss patches into git, but this one is pretty subtle and
I wanted to send it around for extra review. QA at Oracle did a test
where they unplugged one drive of a btrfs raid1 mirror for a while and
then plugged it back in.
The end result is that we have a whole bunch of out-of-date blocks on
the bad mirror. The btrfs parent transid pointers are supposed to
detect these bad blocks and then we're supposed to read from the good
copy instead.
The good news is we did detect the bad blocks. The bad news is we
didn't jump over to the good mirror instead. This patch explains why:
Author: Chris Mason <chris.ma...@oracle.com>
Date: Wed Feb 22 12:36:24 2012 -0500
Btrfs: clear the extent uptodate bits during parent transid failures
If btrfs reads a block and finds a parent transid mismatch, it clears
the uptodate flags on the extent buffer, and the pages inside it. But
we only clear the uptodate bits in the state tree if the block straddles
more than one page.
This is from an old optimization from to reduce contention on the extent
state tree. But it is buggy because the code that retries a read from
a different copy of the block is going to find the uptodate state bits
set and skip the IO.
The end result of the bug is that we'll never actually read the good
copy (if there is one).
The fix here is to always clear the uptodate state bits, which is safe
because this code is only called when the parent transid fails.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.ma...@oracle.com>
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index 1e8d5e5..a4dc892 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -3852,10 +3852,9 @@ int clear_extent_buffer_uptodate(struct extent_io_tree
*tree,
num_pages = num_extent_pages(eb->start, eb->len);
clear_bit(EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE, &eb->bflags);
- if (eb_straddles_pages(eb)) {
- clear_extent_uptodate(tree, eb->start, eb->start + eb->len - 1,
- cached_state, GFP_NOFS);
- }
+ clear_extent_uptodate(tree, eb->start, eb->start + eb->len - 1,
+ cached_state, GFP_NOFS);
+
for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++) {
page = extent_buffer_page(eb, i);
if (page)
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