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    xfs: reorder iunlink remove operation in xfs_ifree · 9a5280b3
    Dave Chinner authored
    The O_TMPFILE creation implementation creates a specific order of
    operations for inode allocation/freeing and unlinked list
    modification. Currently both are serialised by the AGI, so the order
    doesn't strictly matter as long as the are both in the same
    transaction.
    
    However, if we want to move the unlinked list insertions largely out
    from under the AGI lock, then we have to be concerned about the
    order in which we do unlinked list modification operations.
    O_TMPFILE creation tells us this order is inode allocation/free,
    then unlinked list modification.
    
    Change xfs_ifree() to use this same ordering on unlinked list
    removal. This way we always guarantee that when we enter the
    iunlinked list removal code from this path, we already have the AGI
    locked and we don't have to worry about lock nesting AGI reads
    inside unlink list locks because it's already locked and attached to
    the transaction.
    
    We can do this safely as the inode freeing and unlinked list removal
    are done in the same transaction and hence are atomic operations
    with respect to log recovery.
    Reported-by: default avatarFrank Hofmann <fhofmann@cloudflare.com>
    Fixes: 298f7bec ("xfs: pin inode backing buffer to the inode log item")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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