2023-04-11 09:34:24

by Jan Kara

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ext4: use __GFP_NOFAIL if allocating extents_status cannot fail

On Thu 06-04-23 21:28:34, Baokun Li wrote:
> If extent status tree update fails, we have inconsistency between what is
> stored in the extent status tree and what is stored on disk. And that can
> cause even data corruption issues in some cases.
>
> In the extent status tree, we have extents which we can just drop without
> issues and extents we must not drop - this depends on the extent's status
> - currently ext4_es_is_delayed() extents must stay, others may be dropped.
>
> For extents that cannot be dropped we use __GFP_NOFAIL to allocate memory.
> A helper function is also added to help determine if the current extent can
> be dropped, although only ext4_es_is_delayed() extents cannot be dropped
> currently. In addition, with the above logic, the undo operation in
> __es_remove_extent that may cause inconsistency if the split extent fails
> is unnecessary, so we remove it as well.
>
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <[email protected]>
> ---
> V1->V2:
> Add the patch 2 as suggested by Jan Kara.
>
> fs/ext4/extents_status.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents_status.c b/fs/ext4/extents_status.c
> index 7bc221038c6c..8eed17f35b11 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents_status.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents_status.c
> @@ -448,12 +448,29 @@ static void ext4_es_list_del(struct inode *inode)
> spin_unlock(&sbi->s_es_lock);
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Helper function to help determine if memory allocation for this
> + * extent_status is allowed to fail.
> + */
> +static inline bool ext4_es_alloc_should_nofail(struct extent_status *es)

I'd call this function ext4_es_must_keep() and also use it in
es_do_reclaim_extents() instead of ext4_es_is_delayed(). Do this as a
preparatory patch please.

> @@ -792,9 +809,16 @@ static int __es_insert_extent(struct inode *inode, struct extent_status *newes)
> }
>
> es = ext4_es_alloc_extent(inode, newes->es_lblk, newes->es_len,
> - newes->es_pblk);
> - if (!es)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + newes->es_pblk, 0);

I would just call this like:

es = ext4_es_alloc_extent(inode, newes->es_lblk, newes->es_len,
newes->es_pblk, ext4_es_must_keep(newes));

to save the ifs below.

> + if (!es) {
> + /* Use GFP_NOFAIL if the allocation cannot fail. */
> + if (ext4_es_alloc_should_nofail(newes))
> + es = ext4_es_alloc_extent(inode, newes->es_lblk,
> + newes->es_len, newes->es_pblk, 1);
> + else
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
> rb_link_node(&es->rb_node, parent, p);
> rb_insert_color(&es->rb_node, &tree->root);
>
> @@ -1349,8 +1373,6 @@ static int __es_remove_extent(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t lblk,
> ext4_es_status(&orig_es));
> err = __es_insert_extent(inode, &newes);
> if (err) {
> - es->es_lblk = orig_es.es_lblk;
> - es->es_len = orig_es.es_len;
> if ((err == -ENOMEM) &&
> __es_shrink(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb),
> 128, EXT4_I(inode)))

Also now __es_remove_extent() cannot fail (it will always remove what it
should, maybe more) so please just make it void function (as a separate
cleanup patch afterwards). Thanks!

Honza
--
Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR