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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>,
	Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>,
	adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, jack@suse.com,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] ext4: Discard preallocations before releasing group lock
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:00:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200924150034.GH482521@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200918095653.GF18920@quack2.suse.cz>

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:56:53AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Fri 18-09-20 14:37:15, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 9/16/20 5:08 PM, Ye Bin wrote:
> > > From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> > > 
> > > ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations() can be releasing group lock with
> > > preallocations accumulated on its local list. Thus although
> > > discard_pa_seq was incremented and concurrent allocating processes will
> > > be retrying allocations, it can happen that premature ENOSPC error is
> > > returned because blocks used for preallocations are not available for
> > > reuse yet. Make sure we always free locally accumulated preallocations
> > > before releasing group lock.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 07b5b8e1ac40 ("ext4: mballoc: introduce pcpu seqcnt for freeing PA to improve ENOSPC handling")
> > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> > > Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
> ...
> > > +	/* if we still need more blocks and some PAs were used, try again */
> > > +	if (free < needed && busy) {
> > > +		ext4_unlock_group(sb, group);
> > > +		cond_resched();
> > > +		busy = 0;
> > > +		/* Make sure we increment discard_pa_seq again */
> > > +		needed -= free;
> > > +		free = 0;
> > 
> > Oops sorry about getting back to this.
> > But if we are making free 0 here so we may return a wrong free value
> > when we return from this function. We should fix that by also accounting
> > previous freed blocks at the time of final return from this function.
> 
> Ah, good catch! I'll send v2 with this fixed up.

Did you send a v2 of this patch?  I can't find it in my inbox...

Thanks!

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-24 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-16 11:38 [PATCH v5 0/2] Fix dead loop in ext4_mb_new_blocks Ye Bin
2020-09-16 11:38 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] ext4: Discard preallocations before releasing group lock Ye Bin
2020-09-18  9:07   ` Ritesh Harjani
2020-09-18  9:56     ` Jan Kara
2020-09-24 15:00       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2020-09-24 15:12         ` Jan Kara
2020-09-24 14:58   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-09-16 11:38 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] ext4: Fix dead loop in ext4_mb_new_blocks Ye Bin
2020-09-24 14:59   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o

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