On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 01:52:05PM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> On 3/16/18 4:12 PM, David Sterba wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 02:36:27PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> >> From: Jeff Mahoney <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> While running btrfs/011, I hit the following lockdep splat.
> >>
> >> This is the important bit:
> >>    pcpu_alloc+0x1ac/0x5e0
> >>    __percpu_counter_init+0x4e/0xb0
> >>    btrfs_init_fs_root+0x99/0x1c0 [btrfs]
> >>    btrfs_get_fs_root.part.54+0x5b/0x150 [btrfs]
> >>    resolve_indirect_refs+0x130/0x830 [btrfs]
> >>    find_parent_nodes+0x69e/0xff0 [btrfs]
> >>    btrfs_find_all_roots_safe+0xa0/0x110 [btrfs]
> >>    btrfs_find_all_roots+0x50/0x70 [btrfs]
> >>    btrfs_qgroup_prepare_account_extents+0x53/0x90 [btrfs]
> >>    btrfs_commit_transaction+0x3ce/0x9b0 [btrfs]
> >>
> >> The percpu_counter_init call in btrfs_alloc_subvolume_writers
> >> uses GFP_KERNEL, which we can't do during transaction commit.
> >>
> >> This switches it to GFP_NOFS.
> > 
> >> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >>  fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> >> index 21f34ad0d411..eb6bb3169a9e 100644
> >> --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> >> +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> >> @@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ static struct btrfs_subvolume_writers 
> >> *btrfs_alloc_subvolume_writers(void)
> >>    if (!writers)
> >>            return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> >>  
> >> -  ret = percpu_counter_init(&writers->counter, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> >> +  ret = percpu_counter_init(&writers->counter, 0, GFP_NOFS);
> > 
> > A line above the diff context is another allocation that does GFP_NOFS,
> > so one of the gfp flags were wrong.
> > 
> > Looks like there's another instance where percpu allocates with
> > GFP_KERNEL: create_space_info that can be called from the path that
> > allocates chunks, so this also looks like a NOFS candidate.
> 
> We can get rid of this case entirely.  Those call sites should be
> removed since the space_infos are all allocated at mount time.

That would be great and make a few things simpler. So this means that
__find_space_info never fails once the space infos are properly
initialized, right? That was my concern in do_chunk_alloc and
btrfs_make_block_group (that's called from __btrfs_alloc_chunk).

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