We got the following warnings from thin_check during thin-pool setup: $ thin_check /dev/vdb examining superblock examining devices tree missing devices: [1, 84] too few entries in btree_node: 41, expected at least 42 (block 138, max_entries = 126) examining mapping tree The phenomenon is the number of entries in one node of details_info tree is less than (max_entries / 3). And it can be easily reproduced by the following procedures: $ new a thin pool $ presume the max entries of details_info tree is 126 $ new 127 thin devices (e.g. 1~127) to make the root node being full and then split $ remove the first 43 (e.g. 1~43) thin devices to make the children reblance repeatedly $ stop the thin pool $ thin_check The root cause is that the B-tree removal procedure in __rebalance2() doesn't guarantee the invariance: the minimal number of entries in non-root node should be >= (max_entries / 3). Simply fix the problem by increasing the rebalance threshold to make sure the number of entries in each child will be greater than or equal to (max_entries / 3 + 1), so no matter which child is used for removal, the number will still be valid. Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c index 21ea537bd55e..eff04fa23dfa 100644 --- a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c +++ b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c @@ -203,7 +203,13 @@ static void __rebalance2(struct dm_btree_info *info, struct btree_node *parent, struct btree_node *right = r->n; uint32_t nr_left = le32_to_cpu(left->header.nr_entries); uint32_t nr_right = le32_to_cpu(right->header.nr_entries); - unsigned threshold = 2 * merge_threshold(left) + 1; + /* + * Ensure the number of entries in each child will be greater + * than or equal to (max_entries / 3 + 1), so no matter which + * child is used for removal, the number will still be not + * less than (max_entries / 3). + */ + unsigned int threshold = 2 * (merge_threshold(left) + 1); if (nr_left + nr_right < threshold) { /* -- 2.22.0 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel