linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: if zeroout fails fall back to splitting the extent node

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Date:   Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:57:36 +0800
From:   yangerkun <yangerkun@...wei.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: if zeroout fails fall back to splitting the extent
 node



在 2021/8/14 10:15, yangerkun 写道:
> 
> 
> 在 2021/8/14 5:27, Theodore Ts'o 写道:
>> If the underlying storage device is using thin-provisioning, it's
>> possible for a zeroout operation to return ENOSPC.
>>
>> Commit df22291ff0fd ("ext4: Retry block allocation if we have free blocks
>> left") added logic to retry block allocation since we might get free 
>> block
>> after we commit a transaction. But the ENOSPC from thin-provisioning
>> will confuse ext4, and lead to an infinite loop.
>>
>> Since using zeroout instead of splitting the extent node is an
>> optimization, if it fails, we might as well fall back to splitting the
>> extent node.
>>
>> Reported-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@...wei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
>> ---
>>
>> I've run this through my battery of tests, and it doesn't cause any
>> regressions.  Yangerkun, can you test this and see if this works for
>> you?
> 
> Will do it.

Thanks for the patch, it can help us to pass the testcase. And after 
some review, it's really a better fix for me.

Thanks,
Kun.

> 
>>
>>   fs/ext4/extents.c | 5 +++--
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
>> index 92ad64b89d9b..501516cadc1b 100644
>> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
>> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
>> @@ -3569,7 +3569,7 @@ static int 
>> ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle,
>>                   split_map.m_len - ee_block);
>>               err = ext4_ext_zeroout(inode, &zero_ex1);
>>               if (err)
>> -                goto out;
>> +                goto fallback;
>>               split_map.m_len = allocated;
>>           }
>>           if (split_map.m_lblk - ee_block + split_map.m_len <
>> @@ -3583,7 +3583,7 @@ static int 
>> ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle,
>>                                 ext4_ext_pblock(ex));
>>                   err = ext4_ext_zeroout(inode, &zero_ex2);
>>                   if (err)
>> -                    goto out;
>> +                    goto fallback;
>>               }
>>               split_map.m_len += split_map.m_lblk - ee_block;
>> @@ -3592,6 +3592,7 @@ static int 
>> ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle,
>>           }
>>       }
>> +fallback:
>>       err = ext4_split_extent(handle, inode, ppath, &split_map, 
>> split_flag,
>>                   flags);
>>       if (err > 0)
>>
> .