btrfs: update comments for chunk allocation -ENOSPC cases
Update the comments at btrfs_chunk_alloc() and do_chunk_alloc() that describe which cases can lead to a failure to allocate metadata and system space despite having previously reserved space. This adds one more reason that I previously forgot to mention. Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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@ -3429,7 +3429,7 @@ static int do_chunk_alloc(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, u64 flags)
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/*
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* Normally we are not expected to fail with -ENOSPC here, since we have
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* previously reserved space in the system space_info and allocated one
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* new system chunk if necessary. However there are two exceptions:
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* new system chunk if necessary. However there are three exceptions:
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*
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* 1) We may have enough free space in the system space_info but all the
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* existing system block groups have a profile which can not be used
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@ -3455,7 +3455,14 @@ static int do_chunk_alloc(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, u64 flags)
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* with enough free space got turned into RO mode by a running scrub,
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* and in this case we have to allocate a new one and retry. We only
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* need do this allocate and retry once, since we have a transaction
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* handle and scrub uses the commit root to search for block groups.
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* handle and scrub uses the commit root to search for block groups;
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*
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* 3) We had one system block group with enough free space when we called
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* check_system_chunk(), but after that, right before we tried to
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* allocate the last extent buffer we needed, a discard operation came
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* in and it temporarily removed the last free space entry from the
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* block group (discard removes a free space entry, discards it, and
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* then adds back the entry to the block group cache).
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*/
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if (ret == -ENOSPC) {
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const u64 sys_flags = btrfs_system_alloc_profile(trans->fs_info);
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* properly, either intentionally or as a bug. One example where this is
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* done intentionally is fsync, as it does not reserve any transaction units
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* and ends up allocating a variable number of metadata extents for log
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* tree extent buffers.
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* tree extent buffers;
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*
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* 4) The task has reserved enough transaction units / metadata space, but right
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* before it tries to allocate the last extent buffer it needs, a discard
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* operation comes in and, temporarily, removes the last free space entry from
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* the only metadata block group that had free space (discard starts by
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* removing a free space entry from a block group, then does the discard
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* operation and, once it's done, it adds back the free space entry to the
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* block group).
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*
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* We also need this 2 phases setup when adding a device to a filesystem with
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* a seed device - we must create new metadata and system chunks without adding
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