[PATCH v2] ocfs2: call journal flush to mark journal as empty after journal recovery when mount

From: Kai Li
Date: Thu Dec 12 2019 - 01:01:56 EST


If journal is dirty when mount, it will be replayed but jbd2 sb
log tail cannot be updated to mark a new start because
journal->j_flag has already been set with JBD2_ABORT first
in journal_init_common. When a new transaction is committed, it
will be recored in block 1 first(journal->j_tail is set to 1 in
journal_reset).If emergency restart happens again before journal
super block is updated unfortunately, the new recorded trans will
not be replayed in the next mount.

The following steps describe this procedure in detail.
1. mount and touch some files
2. these transactions are committed to journal area but not checkpointed
3. emergency restart
4. mount again and its journals are replayed
5. journal super block's first s_start is 1, but its s_seq is not updated
6. touch a new file and its trans is committed but not checkpointed
7. emergency restart again
8. mount and journal is dirty, but trans committed in 6 will not be
replayed.

This exception happens easily when this lun is used by only one node. If it
is used by multi-nodes, other node will replay its journal and its
journal super block will be updated after recovery like what this patch
does.

ocfs2_recover_node->ocfs2_replay_journal.

The following jbd2 journal can be generated by touching a new file after
journal is replayed, and seq 15 is the first valid commit, but first seq
is 13 in journal super block.
logdump:
Block 0: Journal Superblock
Seq: 0 Type: 4 (JBD2_SUPERBLOCK_V2)
Blocksize: 4096 Total Blocks: 32768 First Block: 1
First Commit ID: 13 Start Log Blknum: 1
Error: 0
Feature Compat: 0
Feature Incompat: 2 block64
Feature RO compat: 0
Journal UUID: 4ED3822C54294467A4F8E87D2BA4BC36
FS Share Cnt: 1 Dynamic Superblk Blknum: 0
Per Txn Block Limit Journal: 0 Data: 0

Block 1: Journal Commit Block
Seq: 14 Type: 2 (JBD2_COMMIT_BLOCK)

Block 2: Journal Descriptor
Seq: 15 Type: 1 (JBD2_DESCRIPTOR_BLOCK)
No. Blocknum Flags
0. 587 none
UUID: 00000000000000000000000000000000
1. 8257792 JBD2_FLAG_SAME_UUID
2. 619 JBD2_FLAG_SAME_UUID
3. 24772864 JBD2_FLAG_SAME_UUID
4. 8257802 JBD2_FLAG_SAME_UUID
5. 513 JBD2_FLAG_SAME_UUID JBD2_FLAG_LAST_TAG
...
Block 7: Inode
Inode: 8257802 Mode: 0640 Generation: 57157641 (0x3682809)
FS Generation: 2839773110 (0xa9437fb6)
CRC32: 00000000 ECC: 0000
Type: Regular Attr: 0x0 Flags: Valid
Dynamic Features: (0x1) InlineData
User: 0 (root) Group: 0 (root) Size: 7
Links: 1 Clusters: 0
ctime: 0x5de5d870 0x11104c61 -- Tue Dec 3 11:37:20.286280801 2019
atime: 0x5de5d870 0x113181a1 -- Tue Dec 3 11:37:20.288457121 2019
mtime: 0x5de5d870 0x11104c61 -- Tue Dec 3 11:37:20.286280801 2019
dtime: 0x0 -- Thu Jan 1 08:00:00 1970
...
Block 9: Journal Commit Block
Seq: 15 Type: 2 (JBD2_COMMIT_BLOCK)

The following is jouranl recovery log when recovering the upper jbd2
journal when mount again.
syslog:
[ 2265.648622] ocfs2: File system on device (252,1) was not unmounted cleanly, recovering it.
[ 2265.649695] fs/jbd2/recovery.c:(do_one_pass, 449): Starting recovery pass 0
[ 2265.650407] fs/jbd2/recovery.c:(do_one_pass, 449): Starting recovery pass 1
[ 2265.650409] fs/jbd2/recovery.c:(do_one_pass, 449): Starting recovery pass 2
[ 2265.650410] fs/jbd2/recovery.c:(jbd2_journal_recover, 278): JBD2: recovery, exit status 0, recovered transactions 13 to 13

Due to first commit seq 13 recorded in journal super is not consistent
with the value recorded in block 1(seq is 14), journal recovery will be
terminated before seq 15 even though it is an unbroken commit, inode
8257802 is a new file and it will be lost.

Signed-off-by: Kai Li <li.kai4@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ocfs2/journal.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
index 1afe57f425a0..5c7a489f47b0 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
@@ -1066,6 +1066,15 @@ int ocfs2_journal_load(struct ocfs2_journal *journal, int local, int replayed)

ocfs2_clear_journal_error(osb->sb, journal->j_journal, osb->slot_num);

+ if (replayed) {
+ mlog(ML_NOTICE, "journal recovery complete");
+ jbd2_journal_lock_updates(journal->j_journal);
+ status = jbd2_journal_flush(journal->j_journal);
+ jbd2_journal_unlock_updates(journal->j_journal);
+ if (status < 0)
+ mlog_errno(status);
+ }
+
status = ocfs2_journal_toggle_dirty(osb, 1, replayed);
if (status < 0) {
mlog_errno(status);
--
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