Filipe Manana
2014-Nov-03 14:12 UTC
[PATCH] Btrfs: avoid premature -ENOMEM in clear_extent_bit()
We try to allocate an extent state structure before acquiring the extent
state tree's spinlock as we might need a new one later and therefore avoid
doing later an atomic allocation while holding the tree's spinlock. However
we returned -ENOMEM if that initial non-atomic allocation failed, which is
a bit excessive since we might end up not needing the pre-allocated extent
state at all - for the case where the tree doesn't have any extent states
that cover the input range and cover too any other range. Therefore don't
return -ENOMEM if that pre-allocation fails.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
---
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index 654ed3d..4ebabd2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -595,9 +595,14 @@ int clear_extent_bit(struct extent_io_tree *tree, u64
start, u64 end,
clear = 1;
again:
if (!prealloc && (mask & __GFP_WAIT)) {
+ /*
+ * Don't care for allocation failure here because we might end
+ * up not needing the pre-allocated extent state at all, which
+ * is the case if we only have in the tree extent states that
+ * cover our input range and don't cover too any other range.
+ * If we end up needing a new extent state we allocate it later.
+ */
prealloc = alloc_extent_state(mask);
- if (!prealloc)
- return -ENOMEM;
}
spin_lock(&tree->lock);
--
1.9.1
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