Re: [PATCH 2/5] Btrfs: fix trans block rsv regression

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On 09/14/2012 08:41 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 02:58:04AM -0600, Liu Bo wrote:
>> In some workloads we have nested joining transaction operations,
>> eg.
>>   run_delalloc_nocow
>>       btrfs_join_transaction
>>       cow_file_range
>>          btrfs_join_transaction
>>
>> it can be a serious bug since each trans handler has only two
>> block_rsv, orig_rsv and block_rsv, which means we may lose our
>> first block_rsv after two joining transaction operations:
>>
>> 1) btrfs_start_transaction
>>       trans->block_rsv = A
>>
>> 2) btrfs_join_transaction
>>       trans->orig_rsv = trans->block_rsv; ---> orig_rsv is now A
>>       trans->block_rsv = B
>>
>> 3) btrfs_join_transaction
>>       trans->orig_rsv = trans->block_rsv; ---> orig_rsv is now B
>>       trans->block_rsv = C
>>    ...
>>
> 
> I'd like to see the actual stack trace where this happens, because I don't think
> it can happen.  And if it is we need to look at that specific case and adjust it
> as necessary and not add a bunch of kmallocs just to track the block_rsv,
> because frankly it's not that big of a deal, it was just put into place in case
> somebody wasn't expecting a call they made to start another transaction and
> reset the block_rsv, which I don't actually think happens anywhere.  So NAK on
> this patch, give me more information so I can figure out the right way to deal
> with this.  Thanks,
> 

Fine, please run xfstests 068 till it hits a BUG_ON inside either btrfs_delete_delayed_dir_index or
btrfs_insert_delayed_dir_index.

What I saw is that the orig_rsv and block_rsv is both delalloc_block_rsv, which is already lack of space.

thanks,
liubo

> Josef
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