Btrfs: Do metadata checksums for reads via a workqueue

Before, metadata checksumming was done by the callers of read_tree_block,
which would set EXTENT_CSUM bits in the extent tree to show that a given
range of pages was already checksummed and didn't need to be verified
again.

But, those bits could go away via try_to_releasepage, and the end
result was bogus checksum failures on pages that never left the cache.

The new code validates checksums when the page is read.  It is a little
tricky because metadata blocks can span pages and a single read may
end up going via multiple bios.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index 4b3b20459f6..e803c4daad2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -485,6 +485,10 @@ struct btrfs_fs_info {
         struct list_head trans_list;
         struct list_head hashers;
         struct list_head dead_roots;
+        struct list_head end_io_work_list;
+        struct work_struct end_io_work;
+        spinlock_t end_io_work_lock;
+
 #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE <= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,18)
         struct work_struct trans_work;
 #else