On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 02:54:34PM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 10:03:04PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 03:07:58PM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:59:02AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 10:29:28PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 05:18:12PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 07:07:34AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> > > > > > > bcachefs freeze testing via fstests generic/390 occasionally
> > > > > > > reproduces the following BUG from bch2_fs_read_only():
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > >   BUG_ON(atomic_long_read(&c->btree_key_cache.nr_dirty));
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Your fix makes sense, but I wonder if it might be simpler and 
> > > > > > better to
> > > > > > fix this in bch2_journal_reclaim_fast().
> > > ...
> > > > 
> > > > FWIW, one thing I disliked about the original patch was the need to
> > > > mostly duplicate the buf put helper due to the locking context quirk. I
> > > > was trying to avoid that, but I ran out of ideas before I wanted to move
> > > > on actually fixing the bug. My preference would be to address the
> > > > reference counting issue as is (to preserve design simplicity), and then
> > > > maybe think a bit harder about cleaning up the res put implementation if
> > > > the primary concern is that we feel like this starts to make things a
> > > > bit convoluted..
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Another thought that comes to mind is to perhaps allow the journal_res
> > > to hold a reference to the pin fifo for the associated seq.. The idea
> > > would be we could continue to hold a reference during the open/close
> > > journal buffer lifecycle, but a res of the same seq would acquire an
> > > additional reference as well to keep the tail from popping before a
> > > transaction can actually set a pin (i.e. essentially parallel to the
> > > buffer reference).
> > 
> > Yeah that would probably be cleanest - but it would be much too heavy.
> > 
> 
> I'm curious how so? Additional atomics? 

Not just that, getting a journal reservation is lockless but getting a
journal pin is not.

> >    So we have to make sure that that refcount isn't hitting 0 multiple
> >    times. The appropriate assertion already exists in
> >    journal_res_get_fast() - for a refcount to hit 0 multiple times it
> >    must leave 0 while in use, and we check for that.
> > 
> >    Let's just add a comment by that EBUG_ON(!journal_state_count(new,
> >    new.idx)) line indicating why it's now important.
> > 
> 
> Sounds reasonable. I'll try to come up with something. Thanks.

Sounds good

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