[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "bcache: Change refill_dirty() to always scan entire disk if necessary" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    bcache: Change refill_dirty() to always scan entire disk if necessary

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt14.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From c0fdfb719702abb63515e04a8b477a409ad2d1c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:47:01 -0800
Subject: bcache: Change refill_dirty() to always scan entire disk if necessary

commit 627ccd20b4ad3ba836472468208e2ac4dfadbf03 upstream.

Previously, it would only scan the entire disk if it was starting from
the very start of the disk - i.e. if the previous scan got to the end.

This was broken by refill_full_stripes(), which updates last_scanned so
that refill_dirty was never triggering the searched_from_start path.

But if we change refill_dirty() to always scan the entire disk if
necessary, regardless of what last_scanned was, the code gets cleaner
and we fix that bug too.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c
index f1986bc..540256a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c
@@ -323,6 +323,10 @@ void bcache_dev_sectors_dirty_add(struct cache_set *c, unsigned inode,

 static bool dirty_pred(struct keybuf *buf, struct bkey *k)
 {
+	struct cached_dev *dc = container_of(buf, struct cached_dev, writeback_keys);
+
+	BUG_ON(KEY_INODE(k) != dc->disk.id);
+
 	return KEY_DIRTY(k);
 }

@@ -372,11 +376,24 @@ next:
 	}
 }

+/*
+ * Returns true if we scanned the entire disk
+ */
 static bool refill_dirty(struct cached_dev *dc)
 {
 	struct keybuf *buf = &dc->writeback_keys;
+	struct bkey start = KEY(dc->disk.id, 0, 0);
 	struct bkey end = KEY(dc->disk.id, MAX_KEY_OFFSET, 0);
-	bool searched_from_start = false;
+	struct bkey start_pos;
+
+	/*
+	 * make sure keybuf pos is inside the range for this disk - at bringup
+	 * we might not be attached yet so this disk's inode nr isn't
+	 * initialized then
+	 */
+	if (bkey_cmp(&buf->last_scanned, &start) < 0 ||
+	    bkey_cmp(&buf->last_scanned, &end) > 0)
+		buf->last_scanned = start;

 	if (dc->partial_stripes_expensive) {
 		refill_full_stripes(dc);
@@ -384,14 +401,20 @@ static bool refill_dirty(struct cached_dev *dc)
 			return false;
 	}

-	if (bkey_cmp(&buf->last_scanned, &end) >= 0) {
-		buf->last_scanned = KEY(dc->disk.id, 0, 0);
-		searched_from_start = true;
-	}
-
+	start_pos = buf->last_scanned;
 	bch_refill_keybuf(dc->disk.c, buf, &end, dirty_pred);

-	return bkey_cmp(&buf->last_scanned, &end) >= 0 && searched_from_start;
+	if (bkey_cmp(&buf->last_scanned, &end) < 0)
+		return false;
+
+	/*
+	 * If we get to the end start scanning again from the beginning, and
+	 * only scan up to where we initially started scanning from:
+	 */
+	buf->last_scanned = start;
+	bch_refill_keybuf(dc->disk.c, buf, &start_pos, dirty_pred);
+
+	return bkey_cmp(&buf->last_scanned, &start_pos) >= 0;
 }

 static int bch_writeback_thread(void *arg)
--
1.9.1