Btrfs: fix possible softlockup in the allocator

Like the cluster allocating stuff, we can lockup the box with the normal
allocation path.  This happens when we

1) Start to cache a block group that is severely fragmented, but has a decent
amount of free space.
2) Start to commit a transaction
3) Have the commit try and empty out some of the delalloc inodes with extents
that are relatively large.

The inodes will not be able to make the allocations because they will ask for
allocations larger than a contiguous area in the free space cache.  So we will
wait for more progress to be made on the block group, but since we're in a
commit the caching kthread won't make any more progress and it already has
enough free space that wait_block_group_cache_progress will just return.  So,
if we wait and fail to make the allocation the next time around, just loop and
go to the next block group.  This keeps us from getting stuck in a softlockup.
Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index d119c0388af1..2f82fabd7011 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -4028,6 +4028,7 @@ static noinline int find_free_extent(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	int loop = 0;
 	bool found_uncached_bg = false;
 	bool failed_cluster_refill = false;
+	bool failed_alloc = false;
 
 	WARN_ON(num_bytes < root->sectorsize);
 	btrfs_set_key_type(ins, BTRFS_EXTENT_ITEM_KEY);
@@ -4232,14 +4233,23 @@ refill_cluster:
 
 		offset = btrfs_find_space_for_alloc(block_group, search_start,
 						    num_bytes, empty_size);
-		if (!offset && (cached || (!cached &&
-					   loop == LOOP_CACHING_NOWAIT))) {
-			goto loop;
-		} else if (!offset && (!cached &&
-				       loop > LOOP_CACHING_NOWAIT)) {
+		/*
+		 * If we didn't find a chunk, and we haven't failed on this
+		 * block group before, and this block group is in the middle of
+		 * caching and we are ok with waiting, then go ahead and wait
+		 * for progress to be made, and set failed_alloc to true.
+		 *
+		 * If failed_alloc is true then we've already waited on this
+		 * block group once and should move on to the next block group.
+		 */
+		if (!offset && !failed_alloc && !cached &&
+		    loop > LOOP_CACHING_NOWAIT) {
 			wait_block_group_cache_progress(block_group,
-					num_bytes + empty_size);
+						num_bytes + empty_size);
+			failed_alloc = true;
 			goto have_block_group;
+		} else if (!offset) {
+			goto loop;
 		}
 checks:
 		search_start = stripe_align(root, offset);
@@ -4287,6 +4297,7 @@ checks:
 		break;
 loop:
 		failed_cluster_refill = false;
+		failed_alloc = false;
 		btrfs_put_block_group(block_group);
 	}
 	up_read(&space_info->groups_sem);