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The xfs_buf_log_item structure has a reference counter with slightly tricky semantics. In the common case, a buffer is logged and committed in a transaction, committed to the on-disk log (added to the AIL) and then finally written back and removed from the AIL. The bli refcount covers two potentially overlapping timeframes: 1. the bli is held in an active transaction 2. the bli is pinned by the log The caveat to this approach is that the reference counter does not purely dictate the lifetime of the bli. IOW, when a dirty buffer is physically logged and unpinned, the bli refcount may go to zero as the log item is inserted into the AIL. Only once the buffer is written back can the bli finally be freed. The above semantics means that it is not enough for the various refcount decrementing contexts to release the bli on decrement to zero. xfs_trans_brelse(), transaction commit (->iop_unlock()) and unpin (->iop_unpin()) must all drop the associated reference and make additional checks to determine if the current context is responsible for freeing the item. For example, if a transaction holds but does not dirty a particular bli, the commit may drop the refcount to zero. If the bli itself is clean, it is also not AIL resident and must be freed at this time. The same is true for xfs_trans_brelse(). If the transaction dirties a bli and then aborts or an unpin results in an abort due to a log I/O error, the last reference count holder is expected to explicitly remove the item from the AIL and release it (since an abort means filesystem shutdown and metadata writeback will never occur). This leads to fairly complex checks being replicated in a few different places. Since ->iop_unlock() and xfs_trans_brelse() are nearly identical, refactor the logic into a common helper that implements and documents the semantics in one place. This patch does not change behavior. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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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.