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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 RFC] f2fs: fix to force keeping write barrier for strict fsync mode
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On 2021/7/2 9:32, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 07/02, Chao Yu wrote:
>> On 2021/7/2 1:10, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>>> On 06/01, Chao Yu wrote:
>>>> [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15126.html
>>>>
>>>> As [1] reported, if lower device doesn't support write barrier, in below
>>>> case:
>>>>
>>>> - write page #0; persist
>>>> - overwrite page #0
>>>> - fsync
>>>> - write data page #0 OPU into device's cache
>>>> - write inode page into device's cache
>>>> - issue flush
>>>
>>> Well, we have preflush for node writes, so I don't think this is the case.
>>>
>>> fio.op_flags |= REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA;
>>
>> This is only used for atomic write case, right?
>>
>> I mean the common case which is called from f2fs_issue_flush() in
>> f2fs_do_sync_file().
>
> How about adding PREFLUSH when writing node blocks aligned to the above set?

You mean implementation like v1 as below?

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-f2fs-devel/20200120100045.70210-1-yuchao0@huawei.com/

Thanks,

>
>>
>> And please see do_checkpoint(), we call f2fs_flush_device_cache() and
>> commit_checkpoint() separately to keep persistence order of CP datas.
>>
>> See commit 46706d5917f4 ("f2fs: flush cp pack except cp pack 2 page at first")
>> for details.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> If SPO is triggered during flush command, inode page can be persisted
>>>> before data page #0, so that after recovery, inode page can be recovered
>>>> with new physical block address of data page #0, however there may
>>>> contains dummy data in new physical block address.
>>>>
>>>> Then what user will see is: after overwrite & fsync + SPO, old data in
>>>> file was corrupted, if any user do care about such case, we can suggest
>>>> user to use STRICT fsync mode, in this mode, we will force to trigger
>>>> preflush command to persist data in device cache in prior to node
>>>> writeback, it avoids potential data corruption during fsync().
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> v2:
>>>> - fix this by adding additional preflush command rather than using
>>>> atomic write flow.
>>>> fs/f2fs/file.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>>> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
>>>> index 7d5311d54f63..238ca2a733ac 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
>>>> @@ -301,6 +301,20 @@ static int f2fs_do_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
>>>> f2fs_exist_written_data(sbi, ino, UPDATE_INO))
>>>> goto flush_out;
>>>> goto out;
>>>> + } else {
>>>> + /*
>>>> + * for OPU case, during fsync(), node can be persisted before
>>>> + * data when lower device doesn't support write barrier, result
>>>> + * in data corruption after SPO.
>>>> + * So for strict fsync mode, force to trigger preflush to keep
>>>> + * data/node write order to avoid potential data corruption.
>>>> + */
>>>> + if (F2FS_OPTION(sbi).fsync_mode == FSYNC_MODE_STRICT &&
>>>> + !atomic) {
>>>> + ret = f2fs_issue_flush(sbi, inode->i_ino);
>>>> + if (ret)
>>>> + goto out;
>>>> + }
>>>> }
>>>> go_write:
>>>> /*
>>>> --
>>>> 2.29.2

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