[RFC PATCH v4 20/34] ext4: use reserved metadata blocks when splitting extent on endio

Zhang Yi
2024-04-10T14:38:42Z

ext4 only reserved space for delalloc for data blocks, doesn't reserve
space for metadata blocks in ext4_da_reserve_space(). Besides, if we
enable dioread_nolock mount option, it also doesn't reserve metadata
blocks for the extent status conversion.

In order to prevent data loss caused by fail to allocate metadata blocks
on writeback, we reserve 2% space or 4096 blocks for meta data, and use
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO to do the potential split in advance. But all
these two methods were just best efforts, if it's really running out of
sapce, there is no difference between splitting extent on writeback and
on IO completed, both will lead to data loss.

The best way is to reserve enough space for metadata. Before that, we
can at least make sure that things won't get worse if we postpone
splitting extent to endio. So let's use reserved sapce in endio too.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
---
fs/ext4/extents.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 8bc8a519f745..fcb1916a7c29 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3722,7 +3722,8 @@ static int ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio(handle_t *handle,
(unsigned long long)map->m_lblk, map->m_len);
#endif
err = ext4_split_convert_extents(handle, inode, map, ppath,
- EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT);
+ EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT |
+ EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_METADATA_NOFAIL);
if (err < 0)
return err;
path = ext4_find_extent(inode, map->m_lblk, ppath, 0);
--
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