btrfs: skip logging parent dir when conflicting inode is not a dir

When we find a conflicting inode (an inode that had the same name and
parent directory as the inode we are logging now) that was deleted in the
current transaction, we always end up logging its parent directory.

This is to deal with the case where the conflicting inode corresponds to
a deleted subvolume/snapshot or a directory that had subvolumes/snapshots
(or some subdirectory inside it had subvolumes/snapshots, etc), because
we can't deal with dropping subvolumes/snapshots during log replay. So
if we log the parent directory, and if we are dealing with these special
cases, then we fallback to a transaction commit when logging the parent,
because its last_unlink_trans will match the current transaction (which
gets set and propagated when a subvolume/snapshot is deleted).

This change skips the logging of the parent directory when the conflicting
inode is not a directory (or a subvolume/snapshot). This is ok because in
this case logging the current inode is enough to trigger an unlink of the
conflicting inode during log replay.

So for a case like this:

  $ mkdir /mnt/dir
  $ echo -n "first foo data" > /mnt/dir/foo

  $ sync

  $ rm -f /mnt/dir/foo
  $ echo -n "second foo data" > /mnt/dir/foo
  $ xfs_io -c "fsync" /mnt/dir/foo

We avoid logging parent directory "dir" when logging the new file "foo".
In other cases it avoids falling back to a transaction commit, when the
parent directory has a last_unlink_trans value that matches the current
transaction, due to moving a file from it to some other directory.

This is a case that happens frequently with dbench for example, where a
new file that has the name/parent of another file that was deleted in the
current transaction, is fsynced.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 62 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
index 5a91c74a721b..8202761306c9 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
@@ -5644,8 +5644,46 @@ static void free_conflicting_inodes(struct btrfs_log_ctx *ctx)
 	}
 }
 
+static int conflicting_inode_is_dir(struct btrfs_root *root, u64 ino,
+				    struct btrfs_path *path)
+{
+	struct btrfs_key key;
+	int ret;
+
+	key.objectid = ino;
+	key.type = BTRFS_INODE_ITEM_KEY;
+	key.offset = 0;
+
+	path->search_commit_root = 1;
+	path->skip_locking = 1;
+
+	ret = btrfs_search_slot(NULL, root, &key, path, 0, 0);
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret > 0)) {
+		/*
+		 * We have previously found the inode through the commit root
+		 * so this should not happen. If it does, just error out and
+		 * fallback to a transaction commit.
+		 */
+		ret = -ENOENT;
+	} else if (ret == 0) {
+		struct btrfs_inode_item *item;
+
+		item = btrfs_item_ptr(path->nodes[0], path->slots[0],
+				      struct btrfs_inode_item);
+		if (S_ISDIR(btrfs_inode_mode(path->nodes[0], item)))
+			ret = 1;
+	}
+
+	btrfs_release_path(path);
+	path->search_commit_root = 0;
+	path->skip_locking = 0;
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static int add_conflicting_inode(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 				 struct btrfs_root *root,
+				 struct btrfs_path *path,
 				 u64 ino, u64 parent,
 				 struct btrfs_log_ctx *ctx)
 {
@@ -5665,15 +5703,23 @@ static int add_conflicting_inode(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	inode = btrfs_iget(root->fs_info->sb, ino, root);
 	/*
 	 * If the other inode that had a conflicting dir entry was deleted in
-	 * the current transaction, we need to log its parent directory.
-	 * We can't simply ignore it and let the current inode's reference cause
-	 * an unlink of the conflicting inode when replaying the log - because
-	 * the conflicting inode may be a deleted subvolume/snapshot or it may
-	 * be a directory that had subvolumes/snapshots inside it (or had one
-	 * or more subdirectories with subvolumes/snapshots, etc). If that's the
-	 * case, then when logging the parent directory we will fallback to a
-	 * transaction commit because the parent directory will have a
-	 * last_unlink_trans that matches the current transaction.
+	 * the current transaction then we either:
+	 *
+	 * 1) Log the parent directory (later after adding it to the list) if
+	 *    the inode is a directory. This is because it may be a deleted
+	 *    subvolume/snapshot or it may be a regular directory that had
+	 *    deleted subvolumes/snapshots (or subdirectories that had them),
+	 *    and at the moment we can't deal with dropping subvolumes/snapshots
+	 *    during log replay. So we just log the parent, which will result in
+	 *    a fallback to a transaction commit if we are dealing with those
+	 *    cases (last_unlink_trans will match the current transaction);
+	 *
+	 * 2) Do nothing if it's not a directory. During log replay we simply
+	 *    unlink the conflicting dentry from the parent directory and then
+	 *    add the dentry for our inode. Like this we can avoid logging the
+	 *    parent directory (and maybe fallback to a transaction commit in
+	 *    case it has a last_unlink_trans == trans->transid, due to moving
+	 *    some inode from it to some other directory).
 	 */
 	if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
 		int ret = PTR_ERR(inode);
@@ -5681,6 +5727,12 @@ static int add_conflicting_inode(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 		if (ret != -ENOENT)
 			return ret;
 
+		ret = conflicting_inode_is_dir(root, ino, path);
+		/* Not a directory or we got an error. */
+		if (ret <= 0)
+			return ret;
+
+		/* Conflicting inode is a directory, so we'll log its parent. */
 		ino_elem = kmalloc(sizeof(*ino_elem), GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!ino_elem)
 			return -ENOMEM;
@@ -5919,7 +5971,7 @@ again:
 				ins_nr = 0;
 
 				btrfs_release_path(path);
-				ret = add_conflicting_inode(trans, root,
+				ret = add_conflicting_inode(trans, root, path,
 							    other_ino,
 							    other_parent, ctx);
 				if (ret)