Btrfs: fix -ENOSPC when finishing block group creation
authorFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Wed, 20 May 2015 13:01:54 +0000 (14:01 +0100)
committerChris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Wed, 3 Jun 2015 11:03:04 +0000 (04:03 -0700)
commit4fbcdf6694544fd9d2aedbc1e73e52b90a4fcc20
tree2d5979c0e29cc6f21a04fa521b261bfb75b04168
parent0d2b2372e097cd3b4150d3ec91e79ac3c5cc750e
Btrfs: fix -ENOSPC when finishing block group creation

While creating a block group, we often end up getting ENOSPC while updating
the chunk tree, which leads to a transaction abortion that produces a trace
like the following:

[30670.116368] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 20735 at fs/btrfs/super.c:260 __btrfs_abort_transaction+0x52/0x106 [btrfs]()
[30670.117777] BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -28)
(...)
[30670.163567] Call Trace:
[30670.163906]  [<ffffffff8142fa46>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7b
[30670.164522]  [<ffffffff8108b6a2>] ? console_unlock+0x361/0x3ad
[30670.165171]  [<ffffffff81045ea5>] warn_slowpath_common+0xa1/0xbb
[30670.166323]  [<ffffffffa035daa7>] ? __btrfs_abort_transaction+0x52/0x106 [btrfs]
[30670.167213]  [<ffffffff81045f05>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x48
[30670.167862]  [<ffffffffa035daa7>] __btrfs_abort_transaction+0x52/0x106 [btrfs]
[30670.169116]  [<ffffffffa03743d7>] btrfs_create_pending_block_groups+0x101/0x130 [btrfs]
[30670.170593]  [<ffffffffa038426a>] __btrfs_end_transaction+0x84/0x366 [btrfs]
[30670.171960]  [<ffffffffa038455c>] btrfs_end_transaction+0x10/0x12 [btrfs]
[30670.174649]  [<ffffffffa036eb6b>] btrfs_check_data_free_space+0x11f/0x27c [btrfs]
[30670.176092]  [<ffffffffa039450d>] btrfs_fallocate+0x7c8/0xb96 [btrfs]
[30670.177218]  [<ffffffff812459f2>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x15
[30670.178622]  [<ffffffff81152447>] vfs_fallocate+0x14c/0x1de
[30670.179642]  [<ffffffff8116b915>] ? __fget_light+0x2d/0x4f
[30670.180692]  [<ffffffff81152863>] SyS_fallocate+0x47/0x62
[30670.186737]  [<ffffffff81435b32>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
[30670.187792] ---[ end trace 0373e6b491c4a8cc ]---

This is because we don't do proper space reservation for the chunk block
reserve when we have multiple tasks allocating chunks in parallel.

So block group creation has 2 phases, and the first phase essentially
checks if there is enough space in the system space_info, allocating a
new system chunk if there isn't, while the second phase updates the
device, extent and chunk trees. However, because the updates to the
chunk tree happen in the second phase, if we have N tasks, each with
its own transaction handle, allocating new chunks in parallel and if
there is only enough space in the system space_info to allocate M chunks,
where M < N, none of the tasks ends up allocating a new system chunk in
the first phase and N - M tasks will get -ENOSPC when attempting to
update the chunk tree in phase 2 if they need to COW any nodes/leafs
from the chunk tree.

Fix this by doing proper reservation in the chunk block reserve.

The issue could be reproduced by running fstests generic/038 in a loop,
which eventually triggered the problem.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
fs/btrfs/ctree.h
fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
fs/btrfs/transaction.c
fs/btrfs/transaction.h