jbd2: Fix unreclaimed pages after truncate in data=journal mode
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:34:35 +0000 (15:34 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:28:27 +0000 (14:28 -0800)
commitd5ad20c5a9a98f8f875a8adc2703f8f04df9d19a
tree6a4e67ed0f5f6b16b76a918ae81fa2bb504d80c7
parent95a2d5fb5516a6046962f0457f776e033959da40
jbd2: Fix unreclaimed pages after truncate in data=journal mode

commit bc23f0c8d7ccd8d924c4e70ce311288cb3e61ea8 upstream.

Ted and Namjae have reported that truncated pages don't get timely
reclaimed after being truncated in data=journal mode. The following test
triggers the issue easily:

for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
pwrite(fd, buf, 1024*1024, 0);
fsync(fd);
fsync(fd);
ftruncate(fd, 0);
}

The reason is that journal_unmap_buffer() finds that truncated buffers
are not journalled (jh->b_transaction == NULL), they are part of
checkpoint list of a transaction (jh->b_cp_transaction != NULL) and have
been already written out (!buffer_dirty(bh)). We clean such buffers but
we leave them in the checkpoint list. Since checkpoint transaction holds
a reference to the journal head, these buffers cannot be released until
the checkpoint transaction is cleaned up. And at that point we don't
call release_buffer_page() anymore so pages detached from mapping are
lingering in the system waiting for reclaim to find them and free them.

Fix the problem by removing buffers from transaction checkpoint lists
when journal_unmap_buffer() finds out they don't have to be there
anymore.

Reported-and-tested-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Fixes: de1b794130b130e77ffa975bb58cb843744f9ae5
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/jbd2/transaction.c