As we've noted in various places, all current users of in-memory btrees
are online fsck. Online fsck only stages a btree long enough to rebuild
an ondisk data structure, which means that the in-memory btree is
ephemeral. Furthermore, if we encounter /any/ errors while updating an
in-memory btree, all we do is tear down all the staged data and return
an errno to userspace. In-memory btrees need not be transactional, so
their buffers should not be committed to the ondisk log, nor should they
be checkpointed by the AIL. That's just as well since the ephemeral
nature of the btree means that the buftarg and the buffers may disappear
quickly anyway.
Therefore, we need a way to launder the btree buffers that get attached
to the transaction by the generic btree code. Because the buffers are
directly mapped to backing file pages, there's no need to bwrite them
back to the tmpfs file. All we need to do is clean enough of the buffer
log item state so that the bli can be detached from the buffer, remove
the bli from the transaction's log item list, and reset the transaction
dirty state as if the laundered items had never been there.
For simplicity, create xfbtree transaction commit and cancel helpers
that launder the in-memory btree buffers for callers. Once laundered,
call the write verifier on non-stale buffers to avoid integrity issues,
or punch a hole in the backing file for stale buffers.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Adapt the generic btree cursor code to be able to create a btree whose
buffers come from a (presumably in-memory) buftarg with a header block
that's specific to in-memory btrees. We'll connect this to other parts
of online scrub in the next patches.
Note that in-memory btrees always have a block size matching the system
memory page size for efficiency reasons. There are also a few things we
need to do to finalize a btree update; that's covered in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Allow the buffer cache to target in-memory files by making it possible
to have a buftarg that maps pages from private shmem files. As the
prevous patch alludes, the in-memory buftarg contains its own cache,
points to a shmem file, and does not point to a block_device.
The next few patches will make it possible to construct an xfs_btree in
pageable memory by using this buftarg.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
