Re: [PATCH] xfs: make tr_growdata a permanent transaction

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On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 08:07:09AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The growdata transaction is used by growfs operations to increase
> the data size of the filesystem. Part of this sequence involves
> extending the size of the last preexisting AG in the fs, if
> necessary. This is implemented by freeing the newly available
> physical range to the AG.
> 
> tr_growdata is not a permanent transaction, however, and block
> allocation transactions must be permanent to handle deferred frees
> of AGFL blocks. If the grow operation extends an existing AG that
> requires AGFL fixing, assert failures occur due to a populated dfops
> list on a non-permanent transaction and the AGFL free does not
> occur. This is reproduced (rarely) by xfs/104.
> 
> Change tr_growdata to a permanent transaction with a default log
> count. This increases initial transaction reservation size, but
> growfs is an infrequent and non-performance critical operation and
> so should have minimal impact. Also add an assert in the block
> allocation path to make this transaction requirement explicit and
> obvious to future callers.
> 

We should drop the last sentence from this commit log too if we push the
assert to its own patch.

Brian

> Reported-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> [darrick: add a comment to the assert]
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c |    6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c
> index f99a7aefe418..83f4ee2afc49 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c
> @@ -876,9 +876,13 @@ xfs_trans_resv_calc(
>  	resp->tr_sb.tr_logres = xfs_calc_sb_reservation(mp);
>  	resp->tr_sb.tr_logcount = XFS_DEFAULT_LOG_COUNT;
>  
> +	/* growdata requires permanent res; it can free space to the last AG */
> +	resp->tr_growdata.tr_logres = xfs_calc_growdata_reservation(mp);
> +	resp->tr_growdata.tr_logcount = XFS_DEFAULT_PERM_LOG_COUNT;
> +	resp->tr_growdata.tr_logflags |= XFS_TRANS_PERM_LOG_RES;
> +
>  	/* The following transaction are logged in logical format */
>  	resp->tr_ichange.tr_logres = xfs_calc_ichange_reservation(mp);
> -	resp->tr_growdata.tr_logres = xfs_calc_growdata_reservation(mp);
>  	resp->tr_fsyncts.tr_logres = xfs_calc_swrite_reservation(mp);
>  	resp->tr_writeid.tr_logres = xfs_calc_writeid_reservation(mp);
>  	resp->tr_attrsetrt.tr_logres = xfs_calc_attrsetrt_reservation(mp);



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