From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: truncate delalloc extents when IO fails in writeback
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 04:21:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100305092105.GA1499@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100305020042.GM14317@discord.disaster>
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:00:42PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
>
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> We currently use block_invalidatepage() to clean up pages where I/O
> fails in ->writepage(). Unfortunately, if the page has delalloc
> regions on it, we fail to remove the delalloc regions when we
> invalidate the page. This can result in tripping a BUG() in
> xfs_get_blocks() later on if a direct IO read is done on that same
> region - the delalloc extent is returned when none is supposed to be
> there.
>
> Fix this by truncating away the delalloc regions on the page before
> invalidating it. Because they are delalloc, we can do this without
> needing a transaction. Indeed - if we get ENOSPC errors, we have to
> be able to do this truncation without a transaction as there is
> no space left for block reservation (typically why we see a ENOSPC
> in writeback).
Looks good. I also like the new assert to ensure no blocks actually
get freed.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-05 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 1:46 [PATCH 0/3] xfs: delayed allocation @ ENOSPC fixes Dave Chinner
2010-03-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfs: check for more work before sleeping in xfssyncd Dave Chinner
2010-03-04 13:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-04 22:56 ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs: truncate delalloc extents when IO fails in writeback Dave Chinner
2010-03-04 14:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-04 22:03 ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-05 2:00 ` [PATCH v2] " Dave Chinner
2010-03-05 9:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-03-10 9:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] " Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-10 12:52 ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-10 18:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: Increase the default size of the reserved blocks pool Dave Chinner
2010-03-05 15:45 ` Alex Elder
2010-03-05 23:26 ` Dave Chinner
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