On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 8:18 PM Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 08:10:37PM +0100, fdman...@kernel.org wrote: > > From: Filipe Manana <fdman...@suse.com> > > > > When we are writing out a free space cache, during the transaction commit > > phase, we can end up in a deadlock which results in a stack trace like the > > following: > > > > schedule+0x28/0x80 > > btrfs_tree_read_lock+0x8e/0x120 [btrfs] > > ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80 > > btrfs_read_lock_root_node+0x2f/0x40 [btrfs] > > btrfs_search_slot+0xf6/0x9f0 [btrfs] > > ? evict_refill_and_join+0xd0/0xd0 [btrfs] > > ? inode_insert5+0x119/0x190 > > btrfs_lookup_inode+0x3a/0xc0 [btrfs] > > ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x166/0x1d0 > > btrfs_iget+0x113/0x690 [btrfs] > > __lookup_free_space_inode+0xd8/0x150 [btrfs] > > lookup_free_space_inode+0x5b/0xb0 [btrfs] > > load_free_space_cache+0x7c/0x170 [btrfs] > > ? cache_block_group+0x72/0x3b0 [btrfs] > > cache_block_group+0x1b3/0x3b0 [btrfs] > > ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80 > > find_free_extent+0x799/0x1010 [btrfs] > > btrfs_reserve_extent+0x9b/0x180 [btrfs] > > btrfs_alloc_tree_block+0x1b3/0x4f0 [btrfs] > > __btrfs_cow_block+0x11d/0x500 [btrfs] > > btrfs_cow_block+0xdc/0x180 [btrfs] > > btrfs_search_slot+0x3bd/0x9f0 [btrfs] > > btrfs_lookup_inode+0x3a/0xc0 [btrfs] > > ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x166/0x1d0 > > btrfs_update_inode_item+0x46/0x100 [btrfs] > > cache_save_setup+0xe4/0x3a0 [btrfs] > > btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups+0x1be/0x480 [btrfs] > > btrfs_commit_transaction+0xcb/0x8b0 [btrfs] > > > > At cache_save_setup() we need to update the inode item of a block group's > > cache which is located in the tree root (fs_info->tree_root), which means > > that it may result in COWing a leaf from that tree. If that happens we > > need to find a free metadata extent and while looking for one, if we find > > a block group which was not cached yet we attempt to load its cache by > > calling cache_block_group(). However this function will try to load the > > inode of the free space cache, which requires finding the matching inode > > item in the tree root - if that inode item is located in the same leaf as > > the inode item of the space cache we are updating at cache_save_setup(), > > we end up in a deadlock, since we try to obtain a read lock on the same > > extent buffer that we previously write locked. > > > > So fix this by skipping the loading of free space caches of any block > > groups that are not yet cached (rare cases) if we are COWing an extent > > buffer from the root tree and space caching is enabled (-o space_cache > > mount option). This is a rare case and its downside is failure to > > find a free extent (return -ENOSPC) when all the already cached block > > groups have no free extents. > > > > Reported-by: Andrew Nelson <andrew.s.nel...@gmail.com> > > Link: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/captelenq9x5kowuq+fa7h1r3nsjg8vyith8+ifjurc_duhh...@mail.gmail.com/ > > Fixes: 9d66e233c704 ("Btrfs: load free space cache if it exists") > > Tested-by: Andrew Nelson <andrew.s.nel...@gmail.com> > > Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdman...@suse.com> > > Great, thanks, > > Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com>
So this makes many fstests occasionally fail with aborted transaction due to ENOSPC. It's late and I haven't verified yet, but I suppose this is because we always skip loading the cache regardless of currently being COWing an existing leaf or allocating a new one (growing the tree). Needs to be fixed. > > Josef
