Add btrfs_end_transaction_throttle to force writers to wait for pending commits

The existing throttle mechanism was often not sufficient to prevent
new writers from coming in and making a given transaction run forever.
This adds an explicit wait at the end of most operations so they will
allow the current transaction to close.

There is no wait inside file_write, inode updates, or cow filling, all which
have different deadlock possibilities.

This is a temporary measure until better asynchronous commit support is
added.  This code leads to stalls as it waits for data=ordered
writeback, and it really needs to be fixed.

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.h b/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
index c3172ddb3321..52559b51b181 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
@@ -101,4 +101,6 @@ int btrfs_commit_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
                              struct btrfs_root *root);
 int btrfs_write_ordered_inodes(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
                                 struct btrfs_root *root);
+int btrfs_end_transaction_throttle(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
+                                   struct btrfs_root *root);
 #endif