btrfs: do not panic if we can't allocate a prealloc extent state
We sometimes have to allocate new extent states when clearing or setting new bits in an extent io tree. Generally we preallocate this before taking the tree spin lock, but we can use this preallocated extent state sometimes and then need to try to do a GFP_ATOMIC allocation under the lock. Unfortunately sometimes this fails, and then we hit the BUG_ON() and bring the box down. This happens roughly 20 times a week in our fleet. However the vast majority of callers use GFP_NOFS, which means that if this GFP_ATOMIC allocation fails, we could simply drop the spin lock, go back and allocate a new extent state with our given gfp mask, and begin again from where we left off. For the remaining callers that do not use GFP_NOFS, they are generally using GFP_NOWAIT, which still allows for some reclaim. So allow these allocations to attempt to happen outside of the spin lock so we don't need to rely on GFP_ATOMIC allocations. This in essence creates an infinite loop for anything that isn't GFP_NOFS. To address this we may want to migrate to using mempools for extent states so that we will always have emergency reserves in order to make our allocations. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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