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Filipe Manana 79bd37120b btrfs: rework chunk allocation to avoid exhaustion of the system chunk array 
Commit eafa4fd0ad ("btrfs: fix exhaustion of the system chunk array
due to concurrent allocations") fixed a problem that resulted in
exhausting the system chunk array in the superblock when there are many
tasks allocating chunks in parallel. Basically too many tasks enter the
first phase of chunk allocation without previous tasks having finished
their second phase of allocation, resulting in too many system chunks
being allocated. That was originally observed when running the fallocate
tests of stress-ng on a PowerPC machine, using a node size of 64K.

However that commit also introduced a deadlock where a task in phase 1 of
the chunk allocation waited for another task that had allocated a system
chunk to finish its phase 2, but that other task was waiting on an extent
buffer lock held by the first task, therefore resulting in both tasks not
making any progress. That change was later reverted by a patch with the
subject "btrfs: fix deadlock with concurrent chunk allocations involving
system chunks", since there is no simple and short solution to address it
and the deadlock is relatively easy to trigger on zoned filesystems, while
the system chunk array exhaustion is not so common.

This change reworks the chunk allocation to avoid the system chunk array
exhaustion. It accomplishes that by making the first phase of chunk
allocation do the updates of the device items in the chunk btree and the
insertion of the new chunk item in the chunk btree. This is done while
under the protection of the chunk mutex (fs_info->chunk_mutex), in the
same critical section that checks for available system space, allocates
a new system chunk if needed and reserves system chunk space. This way
we do not have chunk space reserved until the second phase completes.

The same logic is applied to chunk removal as well, since it keeps
reserved system space long after it is done updating the chunk btree.

For direct allocation of system chunks, the previous behaviour remains,
because otherwise we would deadlock on extent buffers of the chunk btree.
Changes to the chunk btree are by large done by chunk allocation and chunk
removal, which first reserve chunk system space and then later do changes
to the chunk btree. The other remaining cases are uncommon and correspond
to adding a device, removing a device and resizing a device. All these
other cases do not pre-reserve system space, they modify the chunk btree
right away, so they don't hold reserved space for a long period like chunk
allocation and chunk removal do.

The diff of this change is huge, but more than half of it is just addition
of comments describing both how things work regarding chunk allocation and
removal, including both the new behavior and the parts of the old behavior
that did not change.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.12+
Tested-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Tested-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2021-07-07 17:42:41 +02:00
arch A first set of urgent fixes to the FPU/XSTATE handling mess^W code. 2021-06-20 09:09:58 -07:00
block block-5.13-2021-05-22 2021-05-22 07:40:34 -10:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto async_xor: check src_offs is not NULL before updating it 2021-06-10 19:40:14 -07:00
Documentation RISC-V Fixes for 5.13-rc7 2021-06-19 08:45:34 -07:00
drivers A single fix for GICv3 to not take an interrupt in an NMI context. 2021-06-20 09:38:14 -07:00
fs btrfs: rework chunk allocation to avoid exhaustion of the system chunk array 2021-07-07 17:42:41 +02:00
include btrfs: rip out may_commit_transaction 2021-06-22 14:50:45 +02:00
init pid: take a reference when initializing cad_pid 2021-06-05 08:58:11 -07:00
ipc ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
kernel - A single fix to restore fairness between control groups with equal priority 2021-06-20 09:44:52 -07:00
lib lib: crc64: fix kernel-doc warning 2021-06-05 08:58:12 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm mm/sparse: fix check_usemap_section_nr warnings 2021-06-16 09:24:43 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.13-rc7, including fixes from wireless, bpf, 2021-06-18 18:55:29 -07:00
samples VFIO fixes for v5.13-rc5 2021-06-03 11:52:24 -07:00
scripts recordmcount: Correct st_shndx handling 2021-06-18 09:09:17 -04:00
security trusted-keys: match tpm_get_ops on all return paths 2021-05-12 22:36:37 +03:00
sound sound fixes for 5.13-rc6 2021-06-11 10:47:10 -07:00
tools tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/in.h copy with the kernel sources 2021-06-19 10:15:22 -03:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: VMX: update vcpu posted-interrupt descriptor when assigning device 2021-05-27 07:58:23 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
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.mailmap mailmap: use private address for Michel Lespinasse 2021-06-05 08:58:12 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 5.13-rc7, including fixes from wireless, bpf, 2021-06-18 18:55:29 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.13-rc7 2021-06-20 15:03:15 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.