Btrfs: use global reserve when deleting unused block group after ENOSPC

It's possible to reach a state where the cleaner kthread isn't able to
start a transaction to delete an unused block group due to lack of enough
free metadata space and due to lack of unallocated device space to allocate
a new metadata block group as well. If this happens try to use space from
the global block group reserve just like we do for unlink operations, so
that we don't reach a permanent state where starting a transaction for
filesystem operations (file creation, renames, etc) keeps failing with
-ENOSPC. Such an unfortunate state was observed on a machine where over
a dozen unused data block groups existed and the cleaner kthread was
failing to delete them due to ENOSPC error when attempting to start a
transaction, and even running balance with a -dusage=0 filter failed with
ENOSPC as well. Also unmounting and mounting again the filesystem didn't
help. Allowing the cleaner kthread to use the global block reserve to
delete the unused data block groups fixed the problem.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 6e93349d8aa2..f82d1f4460dd 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -4046,9 +4046,7 @@ int btrfs_unlink_inode(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
  */
 static struct btrfs_trans_handle *__unlink_start_trans(struct inode *dir)
 {
-	struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans;
 	struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(dir)->root;
-	int ret;
 
 	/*
 	 * 1 for the possible orphan item
@@ -4057,27 +4055,7 @@ static struct btrfs_trans_handle *__unlink_start_trans(struct inode *dir)
 	 * 1 for the inode ref
 	 * 1 for the inode
 	 */
-	trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 5);
-	if (!IS_ERR(trans) || PTR_ERR(trans) != -ENOSPC)
-		return trans;
-
-	if (PTR_ERR(trans) == -ENOSPC) {
-		u64 num_bytes = btrfs_calc_trans_metadata_size(root, 5);
-
-		trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 0);
-		if (IS_ERR(trans))
-			return trans;
-		ret = btrfs_cond_migrate_bytes(root->fs_info,
-					       &root->fs_info->trans_block_rsv,
-					       num_bytes, 5);
-		if (ret) {
-			btrfs_end_transaction(trans, root);
-			return ERR_PTR(ret);
-		}
-		trans->block_rsv = &root->fs_info->trans_block_rsv;
-		trans->bytes_reserved = num_bytes;
-	}
-	return trans;
+	return btrfs_start_transaction_fallback_global_rsv(root, 5, 5);
 }
 
 static int btrfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)