We hit something like the following function call flows:
|->run_delalloc_range()
|->btrfs_join_transaction()
|->cow_file_range()
|->btrfs_join_transaction()
|->find_free_extent()
|->btrfs_join_transaction()
Trace infomation can be seen as:
[ 7411.127040] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 7411.127060] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11557 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:383 start_transaction+0x561/0x580 [btrfs]()
[ 7411.127079] CPU: 0 PID: 11557 Comm: kworker/u8:9 Tainted: G O 3.13.0+ #4
[ 7411.127080] Hardware name: LENOVO QiTianM4350/ , BIOS F1KT52AUS 05/24/2013
[ 7411.127085] Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-btrfs-5)
[ 7411.127092] Call Trace:
[ 7411.127097] [<
ffffffff815b87b0>] dump_stack+0x45/0x56
[ 7411.127101] [<
ffffffff81051ffd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
[ 7411.127102] [<
ffffffff810520da>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[ 7411.127109] [<
ffffffffa0444fb1>] start_transaction+0x561/0x580 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127115] [<
ffffffffa0445027>] btrfs_join_transaction+0x17/0x20 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127120] [<
ffffffffa0431c91>] find_free_extent+0xa21/0xb50 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127126] [<
ffffffffa0431f68>] btrfs_reserve_extent+0xa8/0x1a0 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127131] [<
ffffffffa04322ce>] btrfs_alloc_free_block+0xee/0x440 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127137] [<
ffffffffa043bd6e>] ? btree_set_page_dirty+0xe/0x10 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127142] [<
ffffffffa041da51>] __btrfs_cow_block+0x121/0x530 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127146] [<
ffffffffa041dfff>] btrfs_cow_block+0x11f/0x1c0 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127151] [<
ffffffffa0421b74>] btrfs_search_slot+0x1d4/0x9c0 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127157] [<
ffffffffa0438567>] btrfs_lookup_file_extent+0x37/0x40 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127163] [<
ffffffffa0456bfc>] __btrfs_drop_extents+0x16c/0xd90 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127169] [<
ffffffffa0444ae3>] ? start_transaction+0x93/0x580 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127171] [<
ffffffff811663e2>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x132/0x140
[ 7411.127176] [<
ffffffffa041cd9a>] ? btrfs_alloc_path+0x1a/0x20 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127182] [<
ffffffffa044aa61>] cow_file_range_inline+0x181/0x2e0 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127187] [<
ffffffffa044aead>] cow_file_range+0x2ed/0x440 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127194] [<
ffffffffa0464d7f>] ? free_extent_buffer+0x4f/0xb0 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127200] [<
ffffffffa044b38f>] run_delalloc_nocow+0x38f/0xa60 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127207] [<
ffffffffa0461600>] ? test_range_bit+0x30/0x180 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127212] [<
ffffffffa044bd48>] run_delalloc_range+0x2e8/0x350 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127219] [<
ffffffffa04618f9>] ? find_lock_delalloc_range+0x1a9/0x1e0 [btrfs]
[ 7411.127222] [<
ffffffff812a1e71>] ? blk_queue_bio+0x2c1/0x330
[ 7411.127228] [<
ffffffffa0462ad4>] __extent_writepage+0x2f4/0x760 [btrfs]
Here we fix it by avoiding joining transaction again if we have held
a transaction handle when allocating chunk in find_free_extent().
Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>