From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Cc: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>,
Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 4.11.3: BTRFS critical (device dm-1): unable to add free space :-17 => btrfs check --repair runs clean
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:06:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170621040631.GF5303@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJCQCtQJmWaPYvvcApcR6_mVVkFvyALaTpcazhBGSDQAwzcBPQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 09:26:27PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Right now Btrfs isn't scalable if you have to repair it because large
> volumes run into this problem; one of the reasons for the lowmem mode.
>
> It's a separate bug that it OOMs even with swap, I don't know why it
> won't use that, it should be up to kernel memory management to deal
The thing is that it doesn't even get OOM'ed.
I didn't look at the code, but I'm assuming it must be using kernel RAM
instead of user space RAM, which is why it can't be OOM'ed and why it gets
the kernel to deadlock.
If that is the case, then the user space code should monitor kernel space
usage and cancel the check if it's about to run out of usable RAM (better
than deadlocking the system).
Marc
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-20 14:39 4.11.3: BTRFS critical (device dm-1): unable to add free space :-17 => btrfs check --repair runs clean Marc MERLIN
2017-06-20 15:23 ` Hugo Mills
2017-06-20 15:26 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-20 15:36 ` Hugo Mills
2017-06-20 15:44 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-20 23:12 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-20 23:58 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-21 3:31 ` Chris Murphy
2017-06-21 3:43 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-21 15:13 ` How to fix errors that check --mode lomem finds, but --mode normal doesn't? Marc MERLIN
2017-06-21 23:22 ` Chris Murphy
2017-06-22 0:48 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-22 2:22 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-06-22 2:53 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-22 4:08 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-06-23 4:06 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-23 8:54 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-06-23 16:17 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-24 2:34 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-26 10:46 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-06-27 23:11 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-28 7:10 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-05-01 17:06 ` 4.11 relocate crash, null pointer Marc MERLIN
2017-05-01 18:08 ` 4.11 relocate crash, null pointer + rolling back a filesystem by X hours? Marc MERLIN
2017-05-02 1:50 ` Chris Murphy
2017-05-02 3:23 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-02 4:56 ` Chris Murphy
2017-05-02 5:11 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-02 18:47 ` btrfs check --repair: failed to repair damaged filesystem, aborting Marc MERLIN
2017-05-03 6:00 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-03 6:17 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-03 6:32 ` Roman Mamedov
2017-05-03 20:40 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-07-07 5:37 ` ctree.c:197: update_ref_for_cow: BUG_ON `ret` triggered, value -5 Marc MERLIN
2017-07-07 5:39 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-07-07 9:33 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-07-07 16:38 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-07-09 4:34 ` 4.11.6 / more corruption / root 15455 has a root item with a more recent gen (33682) compared to the found root node (0) Marc MERLIN
2017-07-09 5:05 ` We really need a better/working btrfs check --repair Marc MERLIN
2017-07-09 6:34 ` 4.11.6 / more corruption / root 15455 has a root item with a more recent gen (33682) compared to the found root node (0) Marc MERLIN
2017-07-09 7:57 ` Martin Steigerwald
2017-07-09 9:16 ` Paul Jones
2017-07-09 11:17 ` Duncan
2017-07-09 13:00 ` Martin Steigerwald
2017-07-29 19:29 ` Imran Geriskovan
2017-07-29 23:38 ` Duncan
2017-07-30 14:54 ` Imran Geriskovan
2017-07-31 4:53 ` Duncan
2017-07-31 20:32 ` Imran Geriskovan
2017-08-01 1:36 ` Duncan
2017-08-01 15:18 ` Imran Geriskovan
2017-07-31 21:07 ` Ivan Sizov
2017-07-31 21:17 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-07-31 21:39 ` Ivan Sizov
2017-08-01 16:41 ` Ivan Sizov
2017-07-31 22:00 ` Justin Maggard
2017-08-01 6:38 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-02 19:59 ` 4.11 relocate crash, null pointer + rolling back a filesystem by X hours? Kai Krakow
2017-05-02 5:01 ` Duncan
2017-05-02 19:53 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-23 16:58 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-24 10:16 ` Duncan
2017-05-05 1:19 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-05-05 2:10 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-05-05 2:40 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-05 5:03 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-05-05 15:43 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-17 18:23 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-05 1:13 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-06-28 14:43 ` How to fix errors that check --mode lomem finds, but --mode normal doesn't? Marc MERLIN
2017-06-29 13:36 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-06-29 15:30 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-30 14:59 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-06-22 4:08 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-06-21 12:04 ` 4.11.3: BTRFS critical (device dm-1): unable to add free space :-17 => btrfs check --repair runs clean Duncan
2017-06-21 3:26 ` Chris Murphy
2017-06-21 4:06 ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
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