xfs: attach inodes to the cluster buffer when dirtied

Rather than attach inodes to the cluster buffer just when we are
doing IO, attach the inodes to the cluster buffer when they are
dirtied. The means the buffer always carries a list of dirty inodes
that reference it, and we can use that list to make more fundamental
changes to inode writeback that aren't otherwise possible.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_inode.c

@@ -163,13 +163,16 @@ xfs_trans_log_inode(
 		/*
 		 * We need an explicit buffer reference for the log item but
 		 * don't want the buffer to remain attached to the transaction.
-		 * Hold the buffer but release the transaction reference.
+		 * Hold the buffer but release the transaction reference once
+		 * we've attached the inode log item to the buffer log item
+		 * list.
 		 */
 		xfs_buf_hold(bp);
-		xfs_trans_brelse(tp, bp);
-
 		spin_lock(&iip->ili_lock);
 		iip->ili_item.li_buf = bp;
+		bp->b_flags |= _XBF_INODES;
+		list_add_tail(&iip->ili_item.li_bio_list, &bp->b_li_list);
+		xfs_trans_brelse(tp, bp);
 	}
 
 	/*

fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c

@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@ xfs_buf_item_unpin(
 		if (bip->bli_flags & XFS_BLI_STALE_INODE) {
 			xfs_buf_item_done(bp);
 			xfs_iflush_done(bp);
+			ASSERT(list_empty(&bp->b_li_list));
 		} else {
 			xfs_trans_ail_delete(lip, SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR);
 			xfs_buf_item_relse(bp);

fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c

@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ __xfs_inode_free(
 {
 	/* asserts to verify all state is correct here */
 	ASSERT(atomic_read(&ip->i_pincount) == 0);
+	ASSERT(!ip->i_itemp || list_empty(&ip->i_itemp->ili_item.li_bio_list));
 	XFS_STATS_DEC(ip->i_mount, vn_active);
 
 	call_rcu(&VFS_I(ip)->i_rcu, xfs_inode_free_callback);

fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c

@@ -2584,27 +2584,24 @@ xfs_ifree_mark_inode_stale(
 		ASSERT(iip->ili_last_fields);
 		goto out_iunlock;
 	}
-	ASSERT(!iip || list_empty(&iip->ili_item.li_bio_list));
 
 	/*
-	 * Clean inodes can be released immediately.  Everything else has to go
-	 * through xfs_iflush_abort() on journal commit as the flock
-	 * synchronises removal of the inode from the cluster buffer against
-	 * inode reclaim.
+	 * Inodes not attached to the buffer can be released immediately.
+	 * Everything else has to go through xfs_iflush_abort() on journal
+	 * commit as the flock synchronises removal of the inode from the
+	 * cluster buffer against inode reclaim.
 	 */
-	if (xfs_inode_clean(ip)) {
+	if (!iip || list_empty(&iip->ili_item.li_bio_list)) {
 		xfs_ifunlock(ip);
 		goto out_iunlock;
 	}
 
 	/* we have a dirty inode in memory that has not yet been flushed. */
-	ASSERT(iip->ili_fields);
 	spin_lock(&iip->ili_lock);
 	iip->ili_last_fields = iip->ili_fields;
 	iip->ili_fields = 0;
 	iip->ili_fsync_fields = 0;
 	spin_unlock(&iip->ili_lock);
-	list_add_tail(&iip->ili_item.li_bio_list, &bp->b_li_list);
 	ASSERT(iip->ili_last_fields);
 
 out_iunlock:
@@ -3818,19 +3815,8 @@ xfs_iflush_int(
 	xfs_trans_ail_copy_lsn(mp->m_ail, &iip->ili_flush_lsn,
 				&iip->ili_item.li_lsn);
 
-	/*
-	 * Attach the inode item callback to the buffer whether the flush
-	 * succeeded or not. If not, the caller will shut down and fail I/O
-	 * completion on the buffer to remove the inode from the AIL and release
-	 * the flush lock.
-	 */
-	bp->b_flags |= _XBF_INODES;
-	list_add_tail(&iip->ili_item.li_bio_list, &bp->b_li_list);
-
 	/* generate the checksum. */
 	xfs_dinode_calc_crc(mp, dip);
-
-	ASSERT(!list_empty(&bp->b_li_list));
 	return error;
 }
 

fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c

@@ -660,6 +660,10 @@ xfs_inode_item_destroy(
  * list for other inodes that will run this function. We remove them from the
  * buffer list so we can process all the inode IO completions in one AIL lock
  * traversal.
+ *
+ * Note: Now that we attach the log item to the buffer when we first log the
+ * inode in memory, we can have unflushed inodes on the buffer list here. These
+ * inodes will have a zero ili_last_fields, so skip over them here.
  */
 void
 xfs_iflush_done(
@@ -677,12 +681,15 @@ xfs_iflush_done(
 	 */
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(lip, n, &bp->b_li_list, li_bio_list) {
 		iip = INODE_ITEM(lip);
+
 		if (xfs_iflags_test(iip->ili_inode, XFS_ISTALE)) {
-			list_del_init(&lip->li_bio_list);
 			xfs_iflush_abort(iip->ili_inode);
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		if (!iip->ili_last_fields)
+			continue;
+
 		list_move_tail(&lip->li_bio_list, &tmp);
 
 		/* Do an unlocked check for needing the AIL lock. */
@@ -728,12 +735,16 @@ xfs_iflush_done(
 		/*
 		 * Remove the reference to the cluster buffer if the inode is
 		 * clean in memory. Drop the buffer reference once we've dropped
-		 * the locks we hold.
+		 * the locks we hold. If the inode is dirty in memory, we need
+		 * to put the inode item back on the buffer list for another
+		 * pass through the flush machinery.
 		 */
 		ASSERT(iip->ili_item.li_buf == bp);
 		if (!iip->ili_fields) {
 			iip->ili_item.li_buf = NULL;
 			drop_buffer = true;
+		} else {
+			list_add(&lip->li_bio_list, &bp->b_li_list);
 		}
 		iip->ili_last_fields = 0;
 		iip->ili_flush_lsn = 0;
@@ -777,6 +788,7 @@ xfs_iflush_abort(
 		iip->ili_flush_lsn = 0;
 		bp = iip->ili_item.li_buf;
 		iip->ili_item.li_buf = NULL;
+		list_del_init(&iip->ili_item.li_bio_list);
 		spin_unlock(&iip->ili_lock);
 	}
 	xfs_ifunlock(ip);