The block allocator supports various arguments to tweak block allocation
behavior and set allocation requirements. The sparse inode chunk feature
introduces a new requirement not supported by the current arguments.
Sparse inode allocations must convert or merge into an inode record that
describes a fixed length chunk (64 inodes x inodesize). Full inode chunk
allocations by definition always result in valid inode records. Sparse
chunk allocations are smaller and the associated records can refer to
blocks not owned by the inode chunk. This model can result in invalid
inode records in certain cases.
For example, if a sparse allocation occurs near the start of an AG, the
aligned inode record for that chunk might refer to agbno 0. If an
allocation occurs towards the end of the AG and the AG size is not
aligned, the inode record could refer to blocks beyond the end of the
AG. While neither of these scenarios directly result in corruption, they
both insert invalid inode records and at minimum cause repair to
complain, are unlikely to merge into full chunks over time and set land
mines for other areas of code.
To guarantee sparse inode chunk allocation creates valid inode records,
support the ability to specify an agbno range limit for
XFS_ALLOCTYPE_NEAR_BNO block allocations. The min/max agbno's are
specified in the allocation arguments and limit the block allocation
algorithms to that range. The starting 'agbno' hint is clamped to the
range if the specified agbno is out of range. If no sufficient extent is
available within the range, the allocation fails. For backwards
compatibility, the min/max fields can be initialized to 0 to disable
range limiting (e.g., equivalent to min=0,max=agsize).
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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