xfs: fix premature enospc on inode allocation
After growing a filesystem, XFS can fail to allocate inodes even though there is a large amount of space available in the filesystem for inodes. The issue is caused by a nearly full allocation group having enough free space in it to be considered for inode allocation, but not enough contiguous free space to actually allocation inodes. This situation results in successful selection of the AG for allocation, then failure of the allocation resulting in ENOSPC being reported to the caller. It is caused by two possible issues. Firstly, we only consider the lognest free extent and whether it would fit an inode chunk. If the extent is not correctly aligned, then we can't allocate an inode chunk in it regardless of the fact that it is large enough. This tends to be a permanent error until space in the AG is freed. The second issue is that we don't actually lock the AGI or AGF when we are doing these checks, and so by the time we get to actually allocating the inode chunk the space we thought we had in the AG may have been allocated. This tends to be a spurious error as it requires a race to trigger. Hence this case is ignored in this patch as the reported problem is for permanent errors. The first issue could be addressed by simply taking into account the alignment when checking the longest extent. This, however, would prevent allocation in AGs that have aligned, exact sized extents free. However, this case should be fairly rare compared to the number of allocations that occur near ENOSPC that would trigger this condition. Hence, when selecting the inode AG, take into account the inode cluster alignment when checking the lognest free extent in the AG. If we can't find any AGs with a contiguous free space large enough to be aligned, drop the alignment addition and just try for an AG that has enough contiguous free space available for an inode chunk. This won't prevent issues from occurring, but should avoid situations where other AGs have lots of free space but the selected AG can't allocate due to alignment constraints. Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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