[PATCH] ext4: Retry block allocation for failed DIO and DAX writes

[PATCH] ext4: Retry block allocation for failed DIO and DAX writes

[Jan Kara]

Currently if block allocation for DIO or DAX write fails due to ENOSPC,
we just returned it to userspace. However these ENOSPC errors can be
transient because the transaction freeing blocks has not yet committed.
This demonstrates as failures of generic/102 test when the filesystem is
mounted with 'dax' mount option.

Fix the problem by properly retrying the allocation in case of ENOSPC
error in get blocks functions used for direct IO.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index b2e9576450eb..113e94f52909 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -763,39 +763,47 @@ int ext4_get_block_unwritten(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
 /* Maximum number of blocks we map for direct IO at once. */
 #define DIO_MAX_BLOCKS 4096
 
-static handle_t *start_dio_trans(struct inode *inode,
-				 struct buffer_head *bh_result)
+/*
+ * Get blocks function for the cases that need to start a transaction -
+ * generally difference cases of direct IO and DAX IO. It also handles retries
+ * in case of ENOSPC.
+ */
+static int ext4_get_block_trans(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
+				struct buffer_head *bh_result, int flags)
 {
 	int dio_credits;
+	handle_t *handle;
+	int retries = 0;
+	int ret;
 
 	/* Trim mapping request to maximum we can map at once for DIO */
 	if (bh_result->b_size >> inode->i_blkbits > DIO_MAX_BLOCKS)
 		bh_result->b_size = DIO_MAX_BLOCKS << inode->i_blkbits;
 	dio_credits = ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode,
 				      bh_result->b_size >> inode->i_blkbits);
-	return ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MAP_BLOCKS, dio_credits);
+retry:
+	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MAP_BLOCKS, dio_credits);
+	if (IS_ERR(handle))
+		return PTR_ERR(handle);
+
+	ret = _ext4_get_block(inode, iblock, bh_result, flags);
+	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+
+	if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
+		goto retry;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /* Get block function for DIO reads and writes to inodes without extents */
 int ext4_dio_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
 		       struct buffer_head *bh, int create)
 {
-	handle_t *handle;
-	int ret;
-
 	/* We don't expect handle for direct IO */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(ext4_journal_current_handle());
 
-	if (create) {
-		handle = start_dio_trans(inode, bh);
-		if (IS_ERR(handle))
-			return PTR_ERR(handle);
-	}
-	ret = _ext4_get_block(inode, iblock, bh,
-			      create ? EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE : 0);
-	if (create)
-		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-	return ret;
+	if (!create)
+		return _ext4_get_block(inode, iblock, bh, 0);
+	return ext4_get_block_trans(inode, iblock, bh, EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -806,18 +814,13 @@ int ext4_dio_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
 static int ext4_dio_get_block_unwritten_async(struct inode *inode,
 		sector_t iblock, struct buffer_head *bh_result,	int create)
 {
-	handle_t *handle;
 	int ret;
 
 	/* We don't expect handle for direct IO */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(ext4_journal_current_handle());
 
-	handle = start_dio_trans(inode, bh_result);
-	if (IS_ERR(handle))
-		return PTR_ERR(handle);
-	ret = _ext4_get_block(inode, iblock, bh_result,
-			      EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_CREATE_EXT);
-	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+	ret = ext4_get_block_trans(inode, iblock, bh_result,
+				   EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_CREATE_EXT);
 
 	/*
 	 * When doing DIO using unwritten extents, we need io_end to convert
@@ -850,18 +853,13 @@ static int ext4_dio_get_block_unwritten_async(struct inode *inode,
 static int ext4_dio_get_block_unwritten_sync(struct inode *inode,
 		sector_t iblock, struct buffer_head *bh_result,	int create)
 {
-	handle_t *handle;
 	int ret;
 
 	/* We don't expect handle for direct IO */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(ext4_journal_current_handle());
 
-	handle = start_dio_trans(inode, bh_result);
-	if (IS_ERR(handle))
-		return PTR_ERR(handle);
-	ret = _ext4_get_block(inode, iblock, bh_result,
-			      EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_CREATE_EXT);
-	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+	ret = ext4_get_block_trans(inode, iblock, bh_result,
+				   EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_CREATE_EXT);
 
 	/*
 	 * Mark inode as having pending DIO writes to unwritten extents.
-- 
2.6.2

Re: [PATCH] ext4: Retry block allocation for failed DIO and DAX writes

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 02:12:26PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Currently if block allocation for DIO or DAX write fails due to ENOSPC,
> we just returned it to userspace. However these ENOSPC errors can be
> transient because the transaction freeing blocks has not yet committed.
> This demonstrates as failures of generic/102 test when the filesystem is
> mounted with 'dax' mount option.
> 
> Fix the problem by properly retrying the allocation in case of ENOSPC
> error in get blocks functions used for direct IO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted