ext4: fix rename whiteout with fast commit
This patch adds rename whiteout support in fast commits. Note that the whiteout object that gets created is actually char device. Which imples, the function ext4_inode_journal_mode(struct inode *inode) would return "JOURNAL_DATA" for this inode. This has a consequence in fast commit code that it will make creation of the whiteout object a fast-commit ineligible behavior and thus will fall back to full commits. With this patch, this can be observed by running fast commits with rename whiteout and seeing the stats generated by ext4_fc_stats tracepoint as follows: ext4_fc_stats: dev 254:32 fc ineligible reasons: XATTR:0, CROSS_RENAME:0, JOURNAL_FLAG_CHANGE:0, NO_MEM:0, SWAP_BOOT:0, RESIZE:0, RENAME_DIR:0, FALLOC_RANGE:0, INODE_JOURNAL_DATA:16; num_commits:6, ineligible: 6, numblks: 3 So in short, this patch guarantees that in case of rename whiteout, we fall back to full commits. Amir mentioned that instead of creating a new whiteout object for every rename, we can create a static whiteout object with irrelevant nlink. That will make fast commits to not fall back to full commit. But until this happens, this patch will ensure correctness by falling back to full commits. Fixes: 8016e29f ("ext4: fast commit recovery path") Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210316221921.1124955-1-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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