ext4: simplify io_end handling for AIO DIO
When mapping blocks for direct IO, we allocate io_end structure before
mapping blocks and store pointer to it in the inode. This creates a
requirement that any AIO DIO using io_end must be protected by i_mutex.
This created problems in the past with dioread_nolock mode which was
corrupting io_end pointers. Also io_end is allocated unnecessarily in
case where we don't need to convert any extents (which is a common case
for example when overwriting file).
We fix the problem by allocating io_end only once we return unwritten
extent from block mapping function for AIO DIO (so we can save some
pointless io_end allocations) and we pass pointer to it in bh->b_private
which generic DIO code later passes to our end IO callback. That way we
remove any need for global pointer to io_end structure and thus fix the
races.
The downside of this change is that the checking for unwritten IO in
flight in ext4_extents_can_be_merged() is more racy since we now
increment i_unwritten / set EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN only after dropping
i_data_sem. However the check has been racy already before because
ext4_writepages() already increment i_unwritten after dropping
i_data_sem and reserved blocks save us from hitting ENOSPC in the worst
case.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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