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When defragmenting we skip ranges that have holes or inline extents, so that we don't do unnecessary IO and waste space. We do this check when calling should_defrag_range() at btrfs_defrag_file(). However we do it without holding the inode's lock. The reason we do it like this is to avoid blocking other tasks for too long, that possibly want to operate on other file ranges, since after the call to should_defrag_range() and before locking the inode, we trigger a synchronous page cache readahead. However before we were able to lock the inode, some other task might have punched a hole in our range, or we may now have an inline extent there, in which case we should not set the range for defrag anymore since that would cause unnecessary IO and make us waste space (i.e. allocating extents to contain zeros for a hole). So after we locked the inode and the range in the iotree, check again if we have holes or an inline extent, and if we do, just skip the range. I hit this while testing my next patch that fixes races when updating an inode's number of bytes (subject "btrfs: update the number of bytes used by an inode atomically"), and it depends on this change in order to work correctly. Alternatively I could rework that other patch to detect holes and flag their range with the 'new delalloc' bit, but this itself fixes an efficiency problem due a race that from a functional point of view is not harmful (it could be triggered with btrfs/062 from fstests). CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+ 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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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.