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Since commit 6df9a95e63 ("Btrfs: make the chunk allocator completely
tree lockless") we search commit root of device tree to avoid deadlock.
This introduced a safety feature, find_free_dev_extent_start() won't
use dev extents which just get freed in current transaction.
This safety feature makes sure we won't allocate new block group using
just freed dev extents to break CoW.
However, this feature also makes find_free_dev_extent_start() not
reliable reporting free device space. Just add such comment to make
later viewer careful about this behavior.
This behavior makes one caller, btrfs_can_relocate() unreliable
determining the device free space.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.