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Commit 87826df0 authored by Jeff Mahoney's avatar Jeff Mahoney Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: delalloc for page dirtied out-of-band in fixup worker



 We encountered an issue that was easily observable on s/390 systems but
 could really happen anywhere. The timing just seemed to hit reliably
 on s/390 with limited memory.

 The gist is that when an unexpected set_page_dirty() happened, we'd
 run into the BUG() in btrfs_writepage_fixup_worker since it wasn't
 properly set up for delalloc.

 This patch does the following:
 - Performs the missing delalloc in the fixup worker
 - Allow the start hook to return -EBUSY which informs __extent_writepage
   that it should mark the page skipped and not to redirty it. This is
   required since the fixup worker can fail with -ENOSPC and the page
   will have already been redirtied. That causes an Oops in
   drop_outstanding_extents later. Retrying the fixup worker could
   lead to an infinite loop. Deferring the page redirty also saves us
   some cycles since the page would be stuck in a resubmit-redirty loop
   until the fixup worker completes. It's not harmful, just wasteful.
 - If the fixup worker fails, we mark the page and mapping as errored,
   and end the writeback, similar to what we would do had the page
   actually been submitted to writeback.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
parent a7e221e9
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