Re: [PATCH v27.1 4/7] xfs: automatic freeing of freshly allocated unwritten space

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Wellllp I guess I fail at email yet again!

This should have been a reply to this email:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20231006051251.GR21298@frogsfrogsfrogs/T/#u

But apparently I forgot or was tired or removed the In-Reply-To header.

--D

On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 05:52:20PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> As mentioned in the previous commit, online repair wants to allocate
> space to write out a new metadata structure, and it also wants to hedge
> against system crashes during repairs by logging (and later cancelling)
> EFIs to free the space if we crash before committing the new data
> structure.
> 
> Therefore, create a trio of functions to schedule automatic reaping of
> freshly allocated unwritten space.  xfs_alloc_schedule_autoreap creates
> a paused EFI representing the space we just allocated.  Once the
> allocations are made and the autoreaps scheduled, we can start writing
> to disk.
> 
> If the writes succeed, xfs_alloc_cancel_autoreap marks the EFI work
> items as stale and unpauses the pending deferred work item.  Assuming
> that's done in the same transaction that commits the new structure into
> the filesystem, we guarantee that either the new object is fully
> visible, or that all the space gets reclaimed.
> 
> If the writes succeed but only part of an extent was used, repair must
> call the same _cancel_autoreap function to kill the first EFI and then
> log a new EFI to free the unused space.  The first EFI is already
> committed, so it cannot be changed.
> 
> For full extents that aren't used, xfs_alloc_commit_autoreap will
> unpause the EFI, which results in the space being freed during the next
> _defer_finish cycle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v27.1: naming and comment tweaks per dave
> ---
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c |  104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.h |   12 +++++
>  fs/xfs/xfs_extfree_item.c |   10 +++-
>  3 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> index 295d11a27f632..8456b5588d14b 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> @@ -2501,14 +2501,15 @@ xfs_defer_agfl_block(
>   * Add the extent to the list of extents to be free at transaction end.
>   * The list is maintained sorted (by block number).
>   */
> -int
> -xfs_free_extent_later(
> +static int
> +xfs_defer_extent_free(
>  	struct xfs_trans		*tp,
>  	xfs_fsblock_t			bno,
>  	xfs_filblks_t			len,
>  	const struct xfs_owner_info	*oinfo,
>  	enum xfs_ag_resv_type		type,
> -	bool				skip_discard)
> +	bool				skip_discard,
> +	struct xfs_defer_pending	**dfpp)
>  {
>  	struct xfs_extent_free_item	*xefi;
>  	struct xfs_mount		*mp = tp->t_mountp;
> @@ -2556,10 +2557,105 @@ xfs_free_extent_later(
>  			XFS_FSB_TO_AGBNO(tp->t_mountp, bno), len);
>  
>  	xfs_extent_free_get_group(mp, xefi);
> -	xfs_defer_add(tp, XFS_DEFER_OPS_TYPE_FREE, &xefi->xefi_list);
> +	*dfpp = xfs_defer_add(tp, XFS_DEFER_OPS_TYPE_FREE, &xefi->xefi_list);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +int
> +xfs_free_extent_later(
> +	struct xfs_trans		*tp,
> +	xfs_fsblock_t			bno,
> +	xfs_filblks_t			len,
> +	const struct xfs_owner_info	*oinfo,
> +	enum xfs_ag_resv_type		type,
> +	bool				skip_discard)
> +{
> +	struct xfs_defer_pending	*dontcare = NULL;
> +
> +	return xfs_defer_extent_free(tp, bno, len, oinfo, type, skip_discard,
> +			&dontcare);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Set up automatic freeing of unwritten space in the filesystem.
> + *
> + * This function attached a paused deferred extent free item to the
> + * transaction.  Pausing means that the EFI will be logged in the next
> + * transaction commit, but the pending EFI will not be finished until the
> + * pending item is unpaused.
> + *
> + * If the system goes down after the EFI has been persisted to the log but
> + * before the pending item is unpaused, log recovery will find the EFI, fail to
> + * find the EFD, and free the space.
> + *
> + * If the pending item is unpaused, the next transaction commit will log an EFD
> + * without freeing the space.
> + *
> + * Caller must ensure that the tp, fsbno, len, oinfo, and resv flags of the
> + * @args structure are set to the relevant values.
> + */
> +int
> +xfs_alloc_schedule_autoreap(
> +	const struct xfs_alloc_arg	*args,
> +	bool				skip_discard,
> +	struct xfs_alloc_autoreap	*aarp)
> +{
> +	int				error;
> +
> +	error = xfs_defer_extent_free(args->tp, args->fsbno, args->len,
> +			&args->oinfo, args->resv, skip_discard, &aarp->dfp);
> +	if (error)
> +		return error;
> +
> +	xfs_defer_item_pause(args->tp, aarp->dfp);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Cancel automatic freeing of unwritten space in the filesystem.
> + *
> + * Earlier, we created a paused deferred extent free item and attached it to
> + * this transaction so that we could automatically roll back a new space
> + * allocation if the system went down.  Now we want to cancel the paused work
> + * item by marking the EFI stale so we don't actually free the space, unpausing
> + * the pending item and logging an EFD.
> + *
> + * The caller generally should have already mapped the space into the ondisk
> + * filesystem.  If the reserved space was partially used, the caller must call
> + * xfs_free_extent_later to create a new EFI to free the unused space.
> + */
> +void
> +xfs_alloc_cancel_autoreap(
> +	struct xfs_trans		*tp,
> +	struct xfs_alloc_autoreap	*aarp)
> +{
> +	struct xfs_defer_pending	*dfp = aarp->dfp;
> +	struct xfs_extent_free_item	*xefi;
> +
> +	if (!dfp)
> +		return;
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry(xefi, &dfp->dfp_work, xefi_list)
> +		xefi->xefi_flags |= XFS_EFI_CANCELLED;
> +
> +	xfs_defer_item_unpause(tp, dfp);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Commit automatic freeing of unwritten space in the filesystem.
> + *
> + * This unpauses an earlier _schedule_autoreap and commits to freeing the
> + * allocated space.  Call this if none of the reserved space was used.
> + */
> +void
> +xfs_alloc_commit_autoreap(
> +	struct xfs_trans		*tp,
> +	struct xfs_alloc_autoreap	*aarp)
> +{
> +	if (aarp->dfp)
> +		xfs_defer_item_unpause(tp, aarp->dfp);
> +}
> +
>  #ifdef DEBUG
>  /*
>   * Check if an AGF has a free extent record whose length is equal to
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.h
> index 6b95d1d8a8537..851cafbd64494 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.h
> @@ -255,6 +255,18 @@ void xfs_extent_free_get_group(struct xfs_mount *mp,
>  #define XFS_EFI_SKIP_DISCARD	(1U << 0) /* don't issue discard */
>  #define XFS_EFI_ATTR_FORK	(1U << 1) /* freeing attr fork block */
>  #define XFS_EFI_BMBT_BLOCK	(1U << 2) /* freeing bmap btree block */
> +#define XFS_EFI_CANCELLED	(1U << 3) /* dont actually free the space */
> +
> +struct xfs_alloc_autoreap {
> +	struct xfs_defer_pending	*dfp;
> +};
> +
> +int xfs_alloc_schedule_autoreap(const struct xfs_alloc_arg *args,
> +		bool skip_discard, struct xfs_alloc_autoreap *aarp);
> +void xfs_alloc_cancel_autoreap(struct xfs_trans *tp,
> +		struct xfs_alloc_autoreap *aarp);
> +void xfs_alloc_commit_autoreap(struct xfs_trans *tp,
> +		struct xfs_alloc_autoreap *aarp);
>  
>  extern struct kmem_cache	*xfs_extfree_item_cache;
>  
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_extfree_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_extfree_item.c
> index 9e7b58f3566c0..4af5b3b338b19 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_extfree_item.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_extfree_item.c
> @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ xfs_trans_free_extent(
>  	uint				next_extent;
>  	xfs_agblock_t			agbno = XFS_FSB_TO_AGBNO(mp,
>  							xefi->xefi_startblock);
> -	int				error;
> +	int				error = 0;
>  
>  	oinfo.oi_owner = xefi->xefi_owner;
>  	if (xefi->xefi_flags & XFS_EFI_ATTR_FORK)
> @@ -392,9 +392,11 @@ xfs_trans_free_extent(
>  	trace_xfs_bmap_free_deferred(tp->t_mountp, xefi->xefi_pag->pag_agno, 0,
>  			agbno, xefi->xefi_blockcount);
>  
> -	error = __xfs_free_extent(tp, xefi->xefi_pag, agbno,
> -			xefi->xefi_blockcount, &oinfo, xefi->xefi_agresv,
> -			xefi->xefi_flags & XFS_EFI_SKIP_DISCARD);
> +	if (!(xefi->xefi_flags & XFS_EFI_CANCELLED))
> +		error = __xfs_free_extent(tp, xefi->xefi_pag, agbno,
> +				xefi->xefi_blockcount, &oinfo,
> +				xefi->xefi_agresv,
> +				xefi->xefi_flags & XFS_EFI_SKIP_DISCARD);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Mark the transaction dirty, even on error. This ensures the



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