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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: handle racing deletions in xfs_zone_gc_iter_irec
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 09:15:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260519071556.GA10037@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260518065224.9066-1-hans.holmberg@wdc.com>

On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 08:52:24AM +0200, Hans Holmberg wrote:
> Under heavy garbage collection pressure from RocksDB workloads,
> filesystem shutdowns can occur in xfs_zone_gc_iter_irec when
> xfs_iget() returns -EINVAL for deleted files.
> 
> Fix this by handling -EINVAL just like we handle -ENOENT, allowing
> zone GC to safely ignore stale mappings.

While I'd prefer -ENOENT returns for not malformed but potentially
out of data inodes, this works as well with a small loss in error
checking:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-19  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-18  6:52 [PATCH v2] xfs: handle racing deletions in xfs_zone_gc_iter_irec Hans Holmberg
2026-05-18  7:48 ` Dave Chinner
2026-05-18  8:55   ` Hans Holmberg
2026-05-18  9:17     ` Damien Le Moal
2026-05-18  9:44     ` Dave Chinner
2026-05-18 12:45       ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-05-18 12:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-05-19  7:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-05-30  6:35 ` Carlos Maiolino

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