xfs: Add infrastructure needed for error propagation during buffer IO failure

cmaiolino · djwong · commit 0b80ae6ed131 · 2017-08-22T09:22:23.000-07:00
With the current code, XFS never re-submit a failed buffer for IO,
because the failed item in the buffer is kept in the flush locked state
forever.

To be able to resubmit an log item for IO, we need a way to mark an item
as failed, if, for any reason the buffer which the item belonged to
failed during writeback.

Add a new log item callback to be used after an IO completion failure
and make the needed clean ups.

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include "xfs_error.h"
 #include "xfs_trace.h"
 #include "xfs_log.h"
+#include "xfs_inode.h"
 
 
 kmem_zone_t	*xfs_buf_item_zone;
@@ -1054,6 +1055,31 @@ xfs_buf_do_callbacks(
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * Invoke the error state callback for each log item affected by the failed I/O.
+ *
+ * If a metadata buffer write fails with a non-permanent error, the buffer is
+ * eventually resubmitted and so the completion callbacks are not run. The error
+ * state may need to be propagated to the log items attached to the buffer,
+ * however, so the next AIL push of the item knows hot to handle it correctly.
+ */
+STATIC void
+xfs_buf_do_callbacks_fail(
+	struct xfs_buf		*bp)
+{
+	struct xfs_log_item	*next;
+	struct xfs_log_item	*lip = bp->b_fspriv;
+	struct xfs_ail		*ailp = lip->li_ailp;
+
+	spin_lock(&ailp->xa_lock);
+	for (; lip; lip = next) {
+		next = lip->li_bio_list;
+		if (lip->li_ops->iop_error)
+			lip->li_ops->iop_error(lip, bp);
+	}
+	spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
+}
+
 static bool
 xfs_buf_iodone_callback_error(
 	struct xfs_buf		*bp)
@@ -1123,7 +1149,11 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callback_error(
 	if ((mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_UNMOUNTING) && mp->m_fail_unmount)
 		goto permanent_error;
 
-	/* still a transient error, higher layers will retry */
+	/*
+	 * Still a transient error, run IO completion failure callbacks and let
+	 * the higher layers retry the buffer.
+	 */
+	xfs_buf_do_callbacks_fail(bp);
 	xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, 0);
 	xfs_buf_relse(bp);
 	return true;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h
@@ -64,11 +64,13 @@ typedef struct xfs_log_item {
 } xfs_log_item_t;
 
 #define	XFS_LI_IN_AIL	0x1
-#define XFS_LI_ABORTED	0x2
+#define	XFS_LI_ABORTED	0x2
+#define	XFS_LI_FAILED	0x4
 
 #define XFS_LI_FLAGS \
 	{ XFS_LI_IN_AIL,	"IN_AIL" }, \
-	{ XFS_LI_ABORTED,	"ABORTED" }
+	{ XFS_LI_ABORTED,	"ABORTED" }, \
+	{ XFS_LI_FAILED,	"FAILED" }
 
 struct xfs_item_ops {
 	void (*iop_size)(xfs_log_item_t *, int *, int *);
@@ -79,6 +81,7 @@ struct xfs_item_ops {
 	void (*iop_unlock)(xfs_log_item_t *);
 	xfs_lsn_t (*iop_committed)(xfs_log_item_t *, xfs_lsn_t);
 	void (*iop_committing)(xfs_log_item_t *, xfs_lsn_t);
+	void (*iop_error)(xfs_log_item_t *, xfs_buf_t *);
 };
 
 void	xfs_log_item_init(struct xfs_mount *mp, struct xfs_log_item *item,
