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When we log an inode, we format the "log inode" core and set an LSN in that inode core. We do that via xfs_inode_item_format_core(), which calls: xfs_inode_to_log_dinode(ip, dic, ip->i_itemp->ili_item.li_lsn); to format the log inode. It writes the LSN from the inode item into the log inode, and if recovery decides the inode item needs to be replayed, it recovers the log inode LSN field and writes it into the on disk inode LSN field. Now this might seem like a reasonable thing to do, but it is wrong on multiple levels. Firstly, if the item is not yet in the AIL, item->li_lsn is zero. i.e. the first time the inode it is logged and formatted, the LSN we write into the log inode will be zero. If we only log it once, recovery will run and can write this zero LSN into the inode. This means that the next time the inode is logged and log recovery runs, it will *always* replay changes to the inode regardless of whether the inode is newer on disk than the version in the log and that violates the entire purpose of recording the LSN in the inode at writeback time (i.e. to stop it going backwards in time on disk during recovery). Secondly, if we commit the CIL to the journal so the inode item moves to the AIL, and then relog the inode, the LSN that gets stamped into the log inode will be the LSN of the inode's current location in the AIL, not it's age on disk. And it's not the LSN that will be associated with the current change. That means when log recovery replays this inode item, the LSN that ends up on disk is the LSN for the previous changes in the log, not the current changes being replayed. IOWs, after recovery the LSN on disk is not in sync with the LSN of the modifications that were replayed into the inode. This, again, violates the recovery ordering semantics that on-disk writeback LSNs provide. Hence the inode LSN in the log dinode is -always- invalid. Thirdly, recovery actually has the LSN of the log transaction it is replaying right at hand - it uses it to determine if it should replay the inode by comparing it to the on-disk inode's LSN. But it doesn't use that LSN to stamp the LSN into the inode which will be written back when the transaction is fully replayed. It uses the one in the log dinode, which we know is always going to be incorrect. Looking back at the change history, the inode logging was broken by commit |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.