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From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, jack@suse.cz,
	ojaswin@linux.ibm.com, sashal@kernel.org,
	naresh.kamboju@linaro.org, jiangqi903@gmail.com,
	yi.zhang@huawei.com, yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com,
	libaokun1@huawei.com, yukuai3@huawei.com, yangerkun@huawei.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 05/11] ext4: restart handle if credits are insufficient during allocating blocks
Date: Mon,  7 Jul 2025 22:08:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250707140814.542883-6-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250707140814.542883-1-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com>

From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>

After large folios are supported on ext4, writing back a sufficiently
large and discontinuous folio may consume a significant number of
journal credits, placing considerable strain on the journal. For
example, in a 20GB filesystem with 1K block size and 1MB journal size,
writing back a 2MB folio could require thousands of credits in the
worst-case scenario (when each block is discontinuous and distributed
across different block groups), potentially exceeding the journal size.
This issue can also occur in ext4_write_begin() and ext4_page_mkwrite()
when delalloc is not enabled.

Fix this by ensuring that there are sufficient journal credits before
allocating an extent in mpage_map_one_extent() and
ext4_block_write_begin(). If there are not enough credits, return
-EAGAIN, exit the current mapping loop, restart a new handle and a new
transaction, and allocating blocks on this folio again in the next
iteration.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index e73d5379b8f0..10d4f86a5c15 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -877,6 +877,26 @@ static void ext4_update_bh_state(struct buffer_head *bh, unsigned long flags)
 	} while (unlikely(!try_cmpxchg(&bh->b_state, &old_state, new_state)));
 }
 
+/*
+ * Make sure that the current journal transaction has enough credits to map
+ * one extent. Return -EAGAIN if it cannot extend the current running
+ * transaction.
+ */
+static inline int ext4_journal_ensure_extent_credits(handle_t *handle,
+						     struct inode *inode)
+{
+	int credits;
+	int ret;
+
+	/* Called from ext4_da_write_begin() which has no handle started? */
+	if (!handle)
+		return 0;
+
+	credits = ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode, 1);
+	ret = __ext4_journal_ensure_credits(handle, credits, credits, 0);
+	return ret <= 0 ? ret : -EAGAIN;
+}
+
 static int _ext4_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
 			   struct buffer_head *bh, int flags)
 {
@@ -1175,7 +1195,9 @@ int ext4_block_write_begin(handle_t *handle, struct folio *folio,
 			clear_buffer_new(bh);
 		if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
 			WARN_ON(bh->b_size != blocksize);
-			err = get_block(inode, block, bh, 1);
+			err = ext4_journal_ensure_extent_credits(handle, inode);
+			if (!err)
+				err = get_block(inode, block, bh, 1);
 			if (err)
 				break;
 			if (buffer_new(bh)) {
@@ -1374,8 +1396,9 @@ static int ext4_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 				ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
 		}
 
-		if (ret == -ENOSPC &&
-		    ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
+		if (ret == -EAGAIN ||
+		    (ret == -ENOSPC &&
+		     ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries)))
 			goto retry_journal;
 		folio_put(folio);
 		return ret;
@@ -2323,6 +2346,11 @@ static int mpage_map_one_extent(handle_t *handle, struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
 	int get_blocks_flags;
 	int err, dioread_nolock;
 
+	/* Make sure transaction has enough credits for this extent */
+	err = ext4_journal_ensure_extent_credits(handle, inode);
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
 	trace_ext4_da_write_pages_extent(inode, map);
 	/*
 	 * Call ext4_map_blocks() to allocate any delayed allocation blocks, or
@@ -2450,7 +2478,7 @@ static int mpage_map_and_submit_extent(handle_t *handle,
 			 * In the case of ENOSPC, if ext4_count_free_blocks()
 			 * is non-zero, a commit should free up blocks.
 			 */
-			if ((err == -ENOMEM) ||
+			if ((err == -ENOMEM) || (err == -EAGAIN) ||
 			    (err == -ENOSPC && ext4_count_free_clusters(sb))) {
 				/*
 				 * We may have already allocated extents for
@@ -2956,6 +2984,8 @@ static int ext4_do_writepages(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
 			ret = 0;
 			continue;
 		}
+		if (ret == -EAGAIN)
+			ret = 0;
 		/* Fatal error - ENOMEM, EIO... */
 		if (ret)
 			break;
@@ -6734,7 +6764,8 @@ vm_fault_t ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 retry_alloc:
 	/* Start journal and allocate blocks */
 	err = ext4_block_page_mkwrite(inode, folio, get_block);
-	if (err == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
+	if (err == -EAGAIN ||
+	    (err == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries)))
 		goto retry_alloc;
 out_ret:
 	ret = vmf_fs_error(err);
-- 
2.46.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-07 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-07 14:08 [PATCH v4 00/11] ext4: fix insufficient credits when writing back large folios Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] ext4: process folios writeback in bytes Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] ext4: move the calculation of wbc->nr_to_write to mpage_folio_done() Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] ext4: fix stale data if it bail out of the extents mapping loop Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] ext4: refactor the block allocation process of ext4_page_mkwrite() Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 14:08 ` Zhang Yi [this message]
2025-07-07 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] ext4: enhance tracepoints during the folios writeback Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] ext4: correct the reserved credits for extent conversion Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] ext4: reserved credits for one extent during the folio writeback Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] ext4: replace ext4_writepage_trans_blocks() Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] ext4: fix insufficient credits calculation in ext4_meta_trans_blocks() Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] ext4: limit the maximum folio order Zhang Yi
2025-07-07 16:37   ` Jan Kara
2025-07-08  4:04   ` Joseph Qi
2025-07-10 12:12   ` Naresh Kamboju
2025-07-09  7:53 ` [PATCH v4 00/11] ext4: fix insufficient credits when writing back large folios Naresh Kamboju
2025-07-14 17:46 ` Theodore Ts'o

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