[PATCH v3 00/21] block atomic writes for XFS

From: John Garry
Date: Mon Apr 29 2024 - 13:53:31 EST


This series expands atomic write support to filesystems, specifically
XFS. Extent alignment is based on new feature forcealign.

Flag FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES is added as an enabling flag for atomic writes.

XFS can be formatted for atomic writes as follows:
mkfs.xfs -i forcealign=1 -d extsize=16384 -d atomic-writes=1 /dev/sda

atomic-writes=1 just enables atomic writes in the SB, but does not auto-
enable atomic writes for each file.

Support can be enabled through xfs_io command:
$xfs_io -c "lsattr -v" filename
[extsize, force-align]
$xfs_io -c "extsize" filename
[16384] filename
$xfs_io -c "chattr +W" filename
$xfs_io -c "lsattr -v" filename
[extsize, force-align, atomic-writes] filename
$xfs_io -c statx filename
..
stat.stx_atomic_write_unit_min = 4096
stat.stx_atomic_write_unit_max = 16384
stat.stx_atomic_write_segments_max = 1
..

A couple of patches are marked as RFC, as I am anything but 100% confident
in them. Indeed, from testing, there is an issue that I get ENOSPC at what
appears to be a moderate FS usage, like ~60%, and spaceman is reporting
appropriately-sized free extents. I notice that when I disable any
fallocate punch calls in my testing, then this issue goes away. More
details available upon request.

Stripe alignment testing for forcealign changes should be noted at
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/083f3d88-cd39-41ef-9ee1-cafe04a96cf9@xxxxxxxxxx/

Baseline is following series (which is based on v6.9-rc1):
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20240326133813.3224593-1-john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx/

Basic xfsprogs support at:
https://github.com/johnpgarry/xfsprogs-dev/tree/forcealign_and_atomicwrites_for_v3_xfs_block_atomic_writes

Patches for this series can be found at:
https://github.com/johnpgarry/linux/commits/atomic-writes-v6.9-v6-fs-v3/

Changes since v2:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20240304130428.13026-1-john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx/
- Incorporate forcealign patches from
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20240402233006.1210262-1-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
- Put bdev awu min and max in buftarg
- Extra forcealign patches to deal with truncate and fallocate punch,
insert, collapse
- Add generic_atomic_write_valid_size()
- Change iomap.extent_shift -> .extent_size

Changes since v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20240124142645.9334-1-john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx/
- Add blk_validate_atomic_write_op_size() (Darrick suggested idea)
- Swap forcealign for rtvol support (Dave requested forcealign)
- Sub-extent DIO zeroing (Dave wanted rid of XFS_BMAPI_ZERO usage)
- Improve coding for XFS statx support (Darrick, Ojaswin)
- Improve conditions for setting FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE (Darrick)
- Improve commit message for FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES flag (Darrick)
- Validate atomic writes in xfs_file_dio_write()
- Drop IOMAP_ATOMIC

Darrick J. Wong (2):
xfs: Introduce FORCEALIGN inode flag
xfs: Enable file data forcealign feature

Dave Chinner (6):
xfs: only allow minlen allocations when near ENOSPC
xfs: always tail align maxlen allocations
xfs: simplify extent allocation alignment
xfs: make EOF allocation simpler
xfs: introduce forced allocation alignment
fs: xfs: align args->minlen for forced allocation alignment

John Garry (13):
fs: Add generic_atomic_write_valid_size()
xfs: Do not free EOF blocks for forcealign
xfs: Update xfs_is_falloc_aligned() mask for forcealign
xfs: Unmap blocks according to forcealign
xfs: Only free full extents for forcealign
iomap: Sub-extent zeroing
fs: xfs: iomap: Sub-extent zeroing
fs: Add FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES flag
iomap: Atomic write support
xfs: Support FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES for forcealign
xfs: Support atomic write for statx
xfs: Validate atomic writes
xfs: Support setting FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE

fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 27 ++-
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c | 33 ++--
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.h | 3 +-
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c | 302 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_format.h | 16 +-
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_ialloc.c | 12 +-
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c | 86 ++++++++++
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.h | 3 +
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_sb.c | 4 +
fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c | 14 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 15 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h | 4 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 64 +++++--
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 14 ++
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h | 15 ++
fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 55 ++++++-
fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c | 13 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 28 ++++
fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h | 4 +
fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 8 +
fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h | 8 +-
include/linux/fs.h | 12 ++
include/linux/iomap.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 3 +
24 files changed, 549 insertions(+), 195 deletions(-)

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