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btrfs: clear TAG_TOWRITE from buffer tree when submitting a tree block
[POSSIBLE BUG]
After commit 5e121ae ("btrfs: use buffer xarray for extent buffer
writeback operations"), we have a dedicated xarray for extent buffers,
and a lot of tags are migrated to that buffer tree, like
PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE/DIRTY/WRITEBACK.
This frees us from the limits of page flags, but there is a new
asymmetric behavior, we call buffer_tree_tag_for_writeback() to set
PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE for the involved ranges, but there is no one to
clear that tag.
Before that rework, we relied on the page cache tag which was cleared
when folio_start_writeback() was called.
Although this has its own problems (e.g. the first one calling
folio_start_writeback() will clear the tag for the whole page), it at
least cleared the tag.
But now our real tags are stored in the buffer tree, no one is really
clearing the PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE tag now.
[FIX]
Thankfully this is not going to cause any real bug, but just some
inefficiency iterating the extent buffers.
As if we hit an extent buffer which is not dirty but still has the
PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE tag, lock_extent_buffer_for_io() will skip it so
we won't writeback the extent buffer again.
To properly fix the inefficiency, just clear the PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE
inside lock_extent_buffer_for_io().
There is no error path between lock_extent_buffer_for_io() and
write_one_eb(), so we're safe to clear the tag there.
Reviewed-by: Naohiro Aota <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <[email protected]>
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