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Traditionally, all pending deferred work attached to a transaction is finished when one of the xfs_defer_finish* functions is called. However, online repair wants to be able to allocate space for a new data structure, format a new metadata structure into the allocated space, and commit that into the filesystem. As a hedge against system crashes during repairs, we also want to log some EFI items for the allocated space speculatively, and cancel them if we elect to commit the new data structure. Therefore, introduce the idea of pausing a pending deferred work item. Log intent items are still created for paused items and relogged as necessary. However, paused items are pushed onto a side list before we start calling ->finish_item, and the whole list is reattach to the transaction afterwards. New work items are never attached to paused pending items. Modify xfs_defer_cancel to clean up pending deferred work items holding a log intent item but not a log intent done item, since that is now possible. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.