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Create a new space reservation scheme so that btree metadata for the realtime volume can reserve space in the data device to avoid space underruns. Back when we were testing the rmap and refcount btrees for the data device, people observed occasional shutdowns when xfs_btree_split was called for either of those two btrees. This happened when certain operations (mostly writeback ioends) created new rmap or refcount records, which would expand the size of the btree. If there were no free blocks available the allocation would fail and the split would shut down the filesystem. I considered pre-reserving blocks for btree expansion at the time of a write() call, but there wasn't any good way to attach the reservations to an inode and keep them there all the way to ioend processing. Unlike delalloc reservations which have that indlen mechanism, there's no way to do that for mapped extents; and indlen blocks are given back during the delalloc -> unwritten transition. The solution was to reserve sufficient blocks for rmap/refcount btree expansion at mount time. This is what the XFS_AG_RESV_* flags provide; any expansion of those two btrees can come from the pre-reserved space. This patch brings that pre-reservation ability to inode-rooted btrees so that the rt rmap and refcount btrees can also save room for future expansion. Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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