xfs: Account log unmount transaction correctly
authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:15:11 +0000 (05:15 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:20:10 +0000 (19:20 +0000)
commit 3948659e30808fbaa7673bbe89de2ae9769e20a7 upstream.

There have been a few reports of this warning appearing recently:

XFS (dm-4): xlog_space_left: head behind tail
 tail_cycle = 129, tail_bytes = 20163072
 GH   cycle = 129, GH   bytes = 20162880

The common cause appears to be lots of freeze and unfreeze cycles,
and the output from the warnings indicates that we are leaking
around 8 bytes of log space per freeze/unfreeze cycle.

When we freeze the filesystem, we write an unmount record and that
uses xlog_write directly - a special type of transaction,
effectively. What it doesn't do, however, is correctly account for
the log space it uses. The unmount record writes an 8 byte structure
with a special magic number into the log, and the space this
consumes is not accounted for in the log ticket tracking the
operation. Hence we leak 8 bytes every unmount record that is
written.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

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