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xfs: retry COW fork delalloc conversion when no extent was found 

While we can only truncate a block under the page lock for the current
page, there is no high-level synchronization for moving extents from the
COW to the data fork.  This means that for example we can have another
thread doing a direct I/O completion that moves extents from the COW to
the data fork race with writeback.  While this race is very hard to hit
the always_cow seems to reproduce it reasonably well, and it also exists
without that.  Because of that there is a chance that a delalloc
conversion for the COW fork might not find any extents to convert.  In
that case we should retry the whole block lookup and now find the blocks
in the data fork.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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Christoph Hellwig 2019-02-15 08:02:50 -08:00 committed by Darrick J. Wong
parent 19c8e4e258
commit 7588cbeec6
1 changed files with 16 additions and 2 deletions
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fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
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@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ xfs_imap_valid(
* extent that maps offset_fsb in wpc->imap.
*
* The current page is held locked so nothing could have removed the block
* backing offset_fsb.
* backing offset_fsb, although it could have moved from the COW to the data
* fork by another thread.
*/
static int
xfs_convert_blocks(
@ -375,6 +376,7 @@ xfs_map_blocks(
xfs_fileoff_t cow_fsb = NULLFILEOFF;
struct xfs_bmbt_irec imap;
struct xfs_iext_cursor icur;
int retries = 0;
int error = 0;
if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp))
@ -404,6 +406,7 @@ xfs_map_blocks(
* into real extents. If we return without a valid map, it means we
* landed in a hole and we skip the block.
*/
retry:
xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
ASSERT(ip->i_d.di_format != XFS_DINODE_FMT_BTREE ||
(ip->i_df.if_flags & XFS_IFEXTENTS));
@ -471,8 +474,19 @@ xfs_map_blocks(
return 0;
allocate_blocks:
error = xfs_convert_blocks(wpc, ip, offset_fsb);
if (error)
if (error) {
/*
* If we failed to find the extent in the COW fork we might have
* raced with a COW to data fork conversion or truncate.
* Restart the lookup to catch the extent in the data fork for
* the former case, but prevent additional retries to avoid
* looping forever for the latter case.
*/
if (error == -EAGAIN && wpc->fork == XFS_COW_FORK && !retries++)
goto retry;
ASSERT(error != -EAGAIN);
return error;
}
/*
* Due to merging the return real extent might be larger than the