Currently when there are buffered writes that were not yet flushed and
they fall within allocated ranges of the file (that is, not in holes or
beyond eof assuming there are no prealloc extents beyond eof), btrfs
simply reports an incorrect number of used blocks through the stat(2)
system call (or any of its variants), regardless of mount options or
inode flags (compress, compress-force, nodatacow). This is because the
number of blocks used that is reported is based on the current number
of bytes in the vfs inode plus the number of dealloc bytes in the btrfs
inode. The later covers bytes that both fall within allocated regions
of the file and holes.
Example scenarios where the number of reported blocks is wrong while the
buffered writes are not flushed:
$ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdc
$ mount /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc
$ xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xaa 0 64K" /mnt/sdc/foo1
wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 0
64 KiB, 16 ops; 0.0000 sec (259.336 MiB/sec and 66390.0415 ops/sec)
$ sync
$ xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xbb 0 64K" /mnt/sdc/foo1
wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 0
64 KiB, 16 ops; 0.0000 sec (192.308 MiB/sec and 49230.7692 ops/sec)
# The following should have reported 64K...
$ du -h /mnt/sdc/foo1
128K /mnt/sdc/foo1
$ sync
# After flushing the buffered write, it now reports the correct value.
$ du -h /mnt/sdc/foo1
64K /mnt/sdc/foo1
$ xfs_io -f -c "falloc -k 0 128K" -c "pwrite -S 0xaa 0 64K" /mnt/sdc/foo2
wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 0
64 KiB, 16 ops; 0.0000 sec (520.833 MiB/sec and 133333.3333 ops/sec)
$ sync
$ xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xbb 64K 64K" /mnt/sdc/foo2
wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 65536
64 KiB, 16 ops; 0.0000 sec (260.417 MiB/sec and 66666.6667 ops/sec)
# The following should have reported 128K...
$ du -h /mnt/sdc/foo2
192K /mnt/sdc/foo2
$ sync
# After flushing the buffered write, it now reports the correct value.
$ du -h /mnt/sdc/foo2
128K /mnt/sdc/foo2
So the number of used file blocks is simply incorrect, unlike in other
filesystems such as ext4 and xfs for example, but only while the buffered
writes are not flushed.
Fix this by tracking the number of delalloc bytes that fall within holes
and beyond eof of a file, and use instead this new counter when reporting
the number of used blocks for an inode.
Another different problem that exists is that the delalloc bytes counter
is reset when writeback starts (by clearing the EXTENT_DEALLOC flag from
the respective range in the inode's iotree) and the vfs inode's bytes
counter is only incremented when writeback finishes (through
insert_reserved_file_extent()). Therefore while writeback is ongoing we
simply report a wrong number of blocks used by an inode if the write
operation covers a range previously unallocated. While this change does
not fix this problem, it does minimizes it a lot by shortening that time
window, as the new dealloc bytes counter (new_delalloc_bytes) is only
decremented when writeback finishes right before updating the vfs inode's
bytes counter. Fully fixing this second problem is not trivial and will
be addressed later by a different patch.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
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