Trimming is completely transactionless, and the way it operates consists
of hiding free space entries from a block group, perform the trim/discard
and then make the free space entries visible again.
Therefore while a free space entry is being trimmed, we can have free space
cache writing running in parallel (as part of a transaction commit) which
will miss the free space entry. This means that an unmount (or crash/reboot)
after that transaction commit and mount again before another transaction
starts/commits after the discard finishes, we will have some free space
that won't be used again unless the free space cache is rebuilt. After the
unmount, fsck (btrfsck, btrfs check) reports the issue like the following
example:
*** fsck.btrfs output ***
checking extents
checking free space cache
There is no free space entry for 521764864-521781248
There is no free space entry for 521764864-1103101952
cache appears valid but isnt 29360128
Checking filesystem on /dev/sdc
UUID: b4789e27-4774-4626-98e9-ae8dfbfb0fb5
found 1235681286 bytes used err is -22
(...)
Another issue caused by this race is a crash while writing bitmap entries
to the cache, because while the cache writeout task accesses the bitmaps,
the trim task can be concurrently modifying the bitmap or worse might
be freeing the bitmap. The later case results in the following crash:
[55650.804460] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[55650.804835] Modules linked in: btrfs dm_flakey dm_mod crc32c_generic xor raid6_pq nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfs_acl nfs lockd fscache sunrpc loop parport_pc parport i2c_piix4 psmouse evdev pcspkr microcode processor i2ccore serio_raw thermal_sys button ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache sg sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom crct10dif_generic crct10dif_common ata_generic virtio_scsi floppy ata_piix libata virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio scsi_mod e1000 [last unloaded: btrfs]
[55650.806169] CPU: 1 PID: 31002 Comm: btrfs-transacti Tainted: G W 3.17.0-rc5-btrfs-next-1+ #1
[55650.806493] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.7.5-0-ge51488c-20140602_164612-nilsson.home.kraxel.org 04/01/2014
[55650.806867] task: ffff8800b12f6410 ti: ffff880071538000 task.ti: ffff880071538000
[55650.807166] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa037cf45>] [<ffffffffa037cf45>] write_bitmap_entries+0x65/0xbb [btrfs]
[55650.807514] RSP: 0018:ffff88007153bc30 EFLAGS: 00010246
[55650.807687] RAX: 000000005d1ec000 RBX: ffff8800a665df08 RCX: 0000000000000400
[55650.807885] RDX: ffff88005d1ec000 RSI: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RDI: ffff88005d1ec000
[55650.808017] RBP: ffff88007153bc58 R08: 00000000ddd51536 R09: 00000000000001e0
[55650.808017] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000037 R12: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
[55650.808017] R13: ffff88007153bca8 R14: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b R15: ffff88007153bc98
[55650.808017] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88023ec80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[55650.808017] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[55650.808017] CR2: 0000000002273b88 CR3: 00000000b18f6000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[55650.808017] Stack:
[55650.808017] ffff88020e834e00 ffff880172d68db0 0000000000000000 ffff88019257c800
[55650.808017] ffff8801d42ea720 ffff88007153bd10 ffffffffa037d2fa ffff880224e99180
[55650.808017] ffff8801469a6188 ffff880224e99140 ffff880172d68c50 00000003000000b7
[55650.808017] Call Trace:
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa037d2fa>] __btrfs_write_out_cache+0x1ea/0x37f [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa037d959>] btrfs_write_out_cache+0xa1/0xd8 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa033936b>] btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups+0x4b5/0x505 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa03aa98e>] commit_cowonly_roots+0x15e/0x1f7 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffff813eb9c7>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x10
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa0346e46>] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x411/0x882 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa03432a4>] transaction_kthread+0xf2/0x1a4 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffffa03431b2>] ? btrfs_cleanup_transaction+0x3d8/0x3d8 [btrfs]
[55650.808017] [<ffffffff8105966b>] kthread+0xb7/0xbf
[55650.808017] [<ffffffff810595b4>] ? __kthread_parkme+0x67/0x67
[55650.808017] [<ffffffff813ebeac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[55650.808017] [<ffffffff810595b4>] ? __kthread_parkme+0x67/0x67
[55650.808017] Code: 4c 89 ef 8d 70 ff e8 d4 fc ff ff 41 8b 45 34 41 39 45 30 7d 5c 31 f6 4c 89 ef e8 80 f6 ff ff 49 8b 7d 00 4c 89 f6 b9 00 04 00 00 <f3> a5 4c 89 ef 41 8b 45 30 8d 70 ff e8 a3 fc ff ff 41 8b 45 34
[55650.808017] RIP [<ffffffffa037cf45>] write_bitmap_entries+0x65/0xbb [btrfs]
[55650.808017] RSP <ffff88007153bc30>
[55650.815725] ---[ end trace 1c032e96b149ff86 ]---
Fix this by serializing both tasks in such a way that cache writeout
doesn't wait for the trim/discard of free space entries to finish and
doesn't miss any free space entry.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
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