Re: [PATCH 1/2] netfs: release the folio lock and put the folio before retrying

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 2022-07-01 at 10:29 +0800, xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The lower layer filesystem should always make sure the folio is
> locked and do the unlock and put the folio in netfs layer.
> 
> URL: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/56423
> Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/netfs/buffered_read.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c b/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
> index 42f892c5712e..257fd37c2461 100644
> --- a/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
> +++ b/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
> @@ -351,8 +351,11 @@ int netfs_write_begin(struct netfs_inode *ctx,
>  		ret = ctx->ops->check_write_begin(file, pos, len, folio, _fsdata);
>  		if (ret < 0) {
>  			trace_netfs_failure(NULL, NULL, ret, netfs_fail_check_write_begin);
> -			if (ret == -EAGAIN)
> +			if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
> +				folio_unlock(folio);
> +				folio_put(folio);
>  				goto retry;
> +			}
>  			goto error;
>  		}
>  	}

I don't know here... I think it might be better to just expect that when
this function returns an error that the folio has already been unlocked.
Doing it this way will mean that you will lock and unlock the folio a
second time for no reason.

Maybe something like this instead?

diff --git a/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c b/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
index 42f892c5712e..8ae7b0f4c909 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ int netfs_write_begin(struct netfs_inode *ctx,
                        trace_netfs_failure(NULL, NULL, ret, netfs_fail_check_write_begin);
                        if (ret == -EAGAIN)
                                goto retry;
-                       goto error;
+                       goto error_unlocked;
                }
        }
 
@@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ int netfs_write_begin(struct netfs_inode *ctx,
 error:
        folio_unlock(folio);
        folio_put(folio);
+error_unlocked:
        _leave(" = %d", ret);
        return ret;
 }