btrfs: make send work with concurrent block group relocation
We don't allow send and balance/relocation to run in parallel in order to prevent send failing or silently producing some bad stream. This is because while send is using an extent (specially metadata) or about to read a metadata extent and expecting it belongs to a specific parent node, relocation can run, the transaction used for the relocation is committed and the extent gets reallocated while send is still using the extent, so it ends up with a different content than expected. This can result in just failing to read a metadata extent due to failure of the validation checks (parent transid, level, etc), failure to find a backreference for a data extent, and other unexpected failures. Besides reallocation, there's also a similar problem of an extent getting discarded when it's unpinned after the transaction used for block group relocation is committed. The restriction between balance and send was added in commit 9e967495 ("Btrfs: prevent send failures and crashes due to concurrent relocation"), kernel 5.3, while the more general restriction between send and relocation was added in commit 1cea5cf0 ("btrfs: ensure relocation never runs while we have send operations running"), kernel 5.14. Both send and relocation can be very long running operations. Relocation because it has to do a lot of IO and expensive backreference lookups in case there are many snapshots, and send due to read IO when operating on very large trees. This makes it inconvenient for users and tools to deal with scheduling both operations. For zoned filesystem we also have automatic block group relocation, so send can fail with -EAGAIN when users least expect it or send can end up delaying the block group relocation for too long. In the future we might also get the automatic block group relocation for non zoned filesystems. This change makes it possible for send and relocation to run in parallel. This is achieved the following way: 1) For all tree searches, send acquires a read lock on the commit root semaphore; 2) After each tree search, and before releasing the commit root semaphore, the leaf is cloned and placed in the search path (struct btrfs_path); 3) After releasing the commit root semaphore, the changed_cb() callback is invoked, which operates on the leaf and writes commands to the pipe (or file in case send/receive is not used with a pipe). It's important here to not hold a lock on the commit root semaphore, because if we did we could deadlock when sending and receiving to the same filesystem using a pipe - the send task blocks on the pipe because it's full, the receive task, which is the only consumer of the pipe, triggers a transaction commit when attempting to create a subvolume or reserve space for a write operation for example, but the transaction commit blocks trying to write lock the commit root semaphore, resulting in a deadlock; 4) Before moving to the next key, or advancing to the next change in case of an incremental send, check if a transaction used for relocation was committed (or is about to finish its commit). If so, release the search path(s) and restart the search, to where we were before, so that we don't operate on stale extent buffers. The search restarts are always possible because both the send and parent roots are RO, and no one can add, remove of update keys (change their offset) in RO trees - the only exception is deduplication, but that is still not allowed to run in parallel with send; 5) Periodically check if there is contention on the commit root semaphore, which means there is a transaction commit trying to write lock it, and release the semaphore and reschedule if there is contention, so as to avoid causing any significant delays to transaction commits. This leaves some room for optimizations for send to have less path releases and re searching the trees when there's relocation running, but for now it's kept simple as it performs quite well (on very large trees with resulting send streams in the order of a few hundred gigabytes). Test case btrfs/187, from fstests, stresses relocation, send and deduplication attempting to run in parallel, but without verifying if send succeeds and if it produces correct streams. A new test case will be added that exercises relocation happening in parallel with send and then checks that send succeeds and the resulting streams are correct. A final note is that for now this still leaves the mutual exclusion between send operations and deduplication on files belonging to a root used by send operations. A solution for that will be slightly more complex but it will eventually be built on top of this change. Signed-off-by:Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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