Btrfs: fix race between free space endio workers and space cache writeout

While running a stress test I ran into the following trace/transaction
abort:

[471626.672243] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[471626.673322] WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 19107 at fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:3740 btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups+0x17c/0x214 [btrfs]()
[471626.675492] BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -2)
[471626.676748] Modules linked in: btrfs dm_flakey dm_mod crc32c_generic xor raid6_pq nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfs_acl nfs lockd grace fscache sunrpc loop fuse parport_pc i2c_piix
[471626.688802] CPU: 14 PID: 19107 Comm: fsstress Tainted: G        W       4.3.0-rc5-btrfs-next-17+ #1
[471626.690148] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.8.1-0-g4adadbd-20150316_085822-nilsson.home.kraxel.org 04/01/2014
[471626.691901]  0000000000000000 ffff880016037cf0 ffffffff812566f4 ffff880016037d38
[471626.695009]  ffff880016037d28 ffffffff8104d0a6 ffffffffa040c84e 00000000fffffffe
[471626.697490]  ffff88011fe855f8 ffff88000c484cb0 ffff88000d195000 ffff880016037d90
[471626.699201] Call Trace:
[471626.699804]  [<ffffffff812566f4>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x79
[471626.701049]  [<ffffffff8104d0a6>] warn_slowpath_common+0x9f/0xb8
[471626.702542]  [<ffffffffa040c84e>] ? btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups+0x17c/0x214 [btrfs]
[471626.704326]  [<ffffffff8104d107>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x48/0x50
[471626.705636]  [<ffffffffa0403717>] ? write_one_cache_group.isra.32+0x77/0x82 [btrfs]
[471626.707048]  [<ffffffffa040c84e>] btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups+0x17c/0x214 [btrfs]
[471626.708616]  [<ffffffffa048a50a>] commit_cowonly_roots+0x1d7/0x25a [btrfs]
[471626.709950]  [<ffffffffa041e34a>] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x4c4/0x991 [btrfs]
[471626.711286]  [<ffffffff81081c61>] ? signal_pending_state+0x31/0x31
[471626.712611]  [<ffffffffa03f6df4>] btrfs_sync_fs+0x145/0x1ad [btrfs]
[471626.715610]  [<ffffffff811962a2>] ? SyS_tee+0x226/0x226
[471626.716718]  [<ffffffff811962c2>] sync_fs_one_sb+0x20/0x22
[471626.717672]  [<ffffffff8116fc01>] iterate_supers+0x75/0xc2
[471626.718800]  [<ffffffff8119669a>] sys_sync+0x52/0x80
[471626.719990]  [<ffffffff8147cd97>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6f
[471626.721835] ---[ end trace baf57f43d76693f4 ]---
[471626.722954] BTRFS: error (device sdc) in btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups:3740: errno=-2 No such entry

This is a very rare situation and it happened due to a race between a free
space endio worker and writing the space caches for dirty block groups at
a transaction's commit critical section. The steps leading to this are:

1) A task calls btrfs_commit_transaction() and starts the writeout of the
   space caches for all currently dirty block groups (i.e. it calls
   btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups());

2) The previous step starts writeback for space caches;

3) When the writeback finishes it queues jobs for free space endio work
   queue (fs_info->endio_freespace_worker) that execute
   btrfs_finish_ordered_io();

4) The task committing the transaction sets the transaction's state
   to TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_DOING and shortly after calls
   btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups();

5) A free space endio job joins the transaction, through
   btrfs_join_transaction_nolock(), and updates a free space inode item
   in the root tree through btrfs_update_inode_fallback();

6) Updating the free space inode item resulted in COWing one or more
   nodes/leaves of the root tree, and that resulted in creating a new
   metadata block group, which gets added to the transaction's list
   of dirty block groups (this is a very rare case);

7) The free space endio job has not released yet its transaction handle
   at this point, so the new metadata block group was not yet fully
   created (didn't go through btrfs_create_pending_block_groups() yet);

8) The transaction commit task sees the new metadata block group in
   the transaction's list of dirty block groups and processes it.
   When it attempts to update the block group's block group item in
   the extent tree, through write_one_cache_group(), it isn't able
   to find it and aborts the transaction with error -ENOENT - this
   is because the free space endio job hasn't yet released its
   transaction handle (which calls btrfs_create_pending_block_groups())
   and therefore the block group item was not yet added to the extent
   tree.

Fix this waiting for free space endio jobs if we fail to find a block
group item in the extent tree and then retry once updating the block
group item.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index add4af641cfa1d56201b1322d4f6871777135ed0..cf8983e4a2ebff20e4fbba056f6523567abdf2c1 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -3768,6 +3768,25 @@ int btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
                }
                if (!ret) {
                        ret = write_one_cache_group(trans, root, path, cache);
+                       /*
+                        * One of the free space endio workers might have
+                        * created a new block group while updating a free space
+                        * cache's inode (at inode.c:btrfs_finish_ordered_io())
+                        * and hasn't released its transaction handle yet, in
+                        * which case the new block group is still attached to
+                        * its transaction handle and its creation has not
+                        * finished yet (no block group item in the extent tree
+                        * yet, etc). If this is the case, wait for all free
+                        * space endio workers to finish and retry. This is a
+                        * a very rare case so no need for a more efficient and
+                        * complex approach.
+                        */
+                       if (ret == -ENOENT) {
+                               wait_event(cur_trans->writer_wait,
+                                  atomic_read(&cur_trans->num_writers) == 1);
+                               ret = write_one_cache_group(trans, root, path,
+                                                           cache);
+                       }
                        if (ret)
                                btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, root, ret);
                }