Commit 0af32fb4 authored Aug 17, 2016 by Christoph Hellwig Committed by Dave Chinner Aug 17, 2016

xfs: fix bogus space reservation in xfs_iomap_write_allocate



The space reservations was without an explaination in commit

    "Add error reporting calls in error paths that return EFSCORRUPTED"

back in 2003.  There is no reason to reserve disk blocks in the
transaction when allocating blocks for delalloc space as we already
reserved the space when creating the delalloc extent.

With this fix we stop running out of the reserved pool in
generic/229, which has happened for long time with small blocksize
file systems, and has increased in severity with the new buffered
write path.

[ dchinner: we still need to pass the block reservation into
  xfs_bmapi_write() to ensure we don't deadlock during AG selection.
  See commit dbd5c8c9 ("xfs: pass total block res. as total
  xfs_bmapi_write() parameter") for more details on why this is
  necessary. ]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

parent 4dd3fd71

fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c

+7 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -715,12 +715,16 @@ xfs_iomap_write_allocate(
		* is in the delayed allocation extent on which we sit
		* but before our buffer starts.
		*/

		nimaps = 0;
		while (nimaps == 0) {
		nres = XFS_EXTENTADD_SPACE_RES(mp, XFS_DATA_FORK);

		error = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, &M_RES(mp)->tr_write, nres,
		/*
		* We have already reserved space for the extent and any
		* indirect blocks when creating the delalloc extent,
		* there is no need to reserve space in this transaction
		* again.
		*/
		error = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, &M_RES(mp)->tr_write, 0,
		0, XFS_TRANS_RESERVE, &tp);
		if (error)
		return error;

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