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ext4: Clear dirty bit from pages without data to write
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With journalled data it can happen that checkpointing code will write
out page contents without clearing the page dirty bit. The logic in
ext4_page_nomap_can_writeout() then results in us never calling
mpage_submit_page() and thus clearing the dirty bit. Drop the
optimization with ext4_page_nomap_can_writeout() and just always call to
mpage_submit_page(). ext4_bio_write_page() knows when to redirty the
page and the additional clearing & setting of page dirty bit for ordered
mode writeout is not that expensive to jump through the hoops for it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329154950.19720-4-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Jan Kara authored and Theodore Ts'o committed Apr 14, 2023
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25 changes: 5 additions & 20 deletions fs/ext4/inode.c
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Expand Up @@ -2348,19 +2348,6 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode)
MAX_WRITEPAGES_EXTENT_LEN + bpp - 1, bpp);
}

/* Return true if the folio needs to be written as part of transaction commit */
static bool ext4_folio_nomap_can_writeout(struct folio *folio)
{
struct buffer_head *bh, *head;

bh = head = folio_buffers(folio);
do {
if (buffer_dirty(bh) && buffer_mapped(bh) && !buffer_delay(bh))
return true;
} while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head);
return false;
}

static int ext4_journal_page_buffers(handle_t *handle, struct page *page,
int len)
{
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2545,13 +2532,11 @@ static int mpage_prepare_extent_to_map(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
* range operations before discarding the page cache.
*/
if (!mpd->can_map) {
if (ext4_folio_nomap_can_writeout(folio)) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(sb->s_writers.frozen ==
SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE);
err = mpage_submit_folio(mpd, folio);
if (err < 0)
goto out;
}
WARN_ON_ONCE(sb->s_writers.frozen ==
SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE);
err = mpage_submit_folio(mpd, folio);
if (err < 0)
goto out;
/* Pending dirtying of journalled data? */
if (folio_test_checked(folio)) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(sb->s_writers.frozen >=
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