The task may fail to get free space though it is enough when multi-task
space allocation and caching space happen at the same time.
Task1 Caching Thread Task2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
find_free_extent
The space has not
be cached, and start
caching thread. And
wait for it.
cache space, if
the space is > 2MB
wake up Task1
find_free_extent
get all the space that
is cached.
try to allocate space,
but there is no space
now.
trigger BUG_ON()
The message is following:
btrfs allocation failed flags 1, wanted 4096
space_info has 1040187392 free, is not full
space_info total=1082130432, used=4096, pinned=41938944, reserved=0, may_use=40828928, readonly=0
block group 12582912 has 8388608 bytes, 0 used 8388608 pinned 0 reserved
block group has cluster?: no
0 blocks of free space at or bigger than bytes is
block group 1103101952 has 1073741824 bytes, 4096 used 33550336 pinned 0 reserved
block group has cluster?: no
0 blocks of free space at or bigger than bytes is
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/inode.c:835!
[<ffffffffa031261b>] __extent_writepage+0x1bf/0x5ce [btrfs]
[<ffffffff810cbcb8>] ? __set_page_dirty_nobuffers+0xfe/0x108
[<ffffffffa02f8ada>] ? wait_current_trans+0x23/0xec [btrfs]
[<ffffffff810c3fbf>] ? find_get_pages_tag+0x73/0xe2
[<ffffffffa0312d12>] extent_write_cache_pages.clone.0+0x176/0x29a [btrfs]
[<ffffffffa0312e74>] extent_writepages+0x3e/0x53 [btrfs]
[<ffffffff8110ad2c>] ? do_sync_write+0xc6/0x103
[<ffffffffa0302d6e>] ? btrfs_submit_direct+0x414/0x414 [btrfs]
[<ffffffff811380fa>] ? fsnotify+0x236/0x266
[<ffffffffa02fc930>] btrfs_writepages+0x22/0x24 [btrfs]
[<ffffffff810cc215>] do_writepages+0x1c/0x25
[<ffffffff810c4958>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x4e/0x50
[<ffffffff810c4982>] filemap_write_and_wait_range+0x28/0x51
[<ffffffffa0306b2e>] btrfs_sync_file+0x7d/0x198 [btrfs]
[<ffffffff8110aa26>] ? fsnotify_modify+0x5d/0x65
[<ffffffff8112d150>] vfs_fsync_range+0x18/0x21
[<ffffffff8112d170>] vfs_fsync+0x17/0x19
[<ffffffff8112d316>] do_fsync+0x29/0x3e
[<ffffffff8112d348>] sys_fsync+0xb/0xf
[<ffffffff81468352>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[SNIP]
RIP [<ffffffffa02fe08c>] cow_file_range+0x1c4/0x32b [btrfs]
We fix this bug by trying to allocate the space again if there are block groups
in caching.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>