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

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On 2023/4/11 17:19, Jan Kara wrote:
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 <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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.

Totally agree! ext4_es_must_keep() is short and clear. It does make more sense to replace ext4_es_is_delayed() in es_do_reclaim_extents() with the new helper, I'll try to find out if there are any ext4_es_is_delayed() that need to be replaced as well.

@@ -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.

Yes! It does get a little long-winded here.


+	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
Yes! Thank you very much for the review!
I will send a patch V3 with the changes suggested by you.

--
With Best Regards,
Baokun Li
.



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