The next patch in the series is (finally!) going to change btree splits
(and interior updates in general) to not take intent locks all the way
up to the root - instead only locking the nodes they'll need to modify.
However, this will be introducing a race since if we're not holding a
write lock on a btree node it can be written out by another thread, and
then we might not have enough space for a new bset entry.
We can handle this by retrying - we just need to introduce a new error
path.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
We've outgrown our own deadlock avoidance strategy.
The btree iterator API provides an interface where the user doesn't need
to concern themselves with lock ordering - different btree iterators can
be traversed in any order. Without special care, this will lead to
deadlocks.
Our previous strategy was to define a lock ordering internally, and
whenever we attempt to take a lock and trylock() fails, we'd check if
the current btree transaction is holding any locks that cause a lock
ordering violation. If so, we'd issue a transaction restart, and then
bch2_trans_begin() would re-traverse all previously used iterators, but
in the correct order.
That approach had some issues, though.
- Sometimes we'd issue transaction restarts unnecessarily, when no
deadlock would have actually occured. Lock ordering restarts have
become our primary cause of transaction restarts, on some workloads
totally 20% of actual transaction commits.
- To avoid deadlock or livelock, we'd often have to take intent locks
when we only wanted a read lock: with the lock ordering approach, it
is actually illegal to hold _any_ read lock while blocking on an intent
lock, and this has been causing us unnecessary lock contention.
- It was getting fragile - the various lock ordering rules are not
trivial, and we'd been seeing occasional livelock issues related to
this machinery.
So, since bcachefs is already a relational database masquerading as a
filesystem, we're stealing the next traditional database technique and
switching to a cycle detector for avoiding deadlocks.
When we block taking a btree lock, after adding ourself to the waitlist
but before sleeping, we do a DFS of btree transactions waiting on other
btree transactions, starting with the current transaction and walking
our held locks, and transactions blocking on our held locks.
If we find a cycle, we emit a transaction restart. Occasionally (e.g.
the btree split path) we can not allow the lock() operation to fail, so
if necessary we'll tell another transaction that it has to fail.
Result: trans_restart_would_deadlock events are reduced by a factor of
10 to 100, and we'll be able to delete a whole bunch of grotty, fragile
code.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Continuing the saga of introducing private dedicated error codes for
each error path, this patch converts ENOSPC to error codes that are
subtypes of ENOSPC. We've recently had a test failure where we got
-ENOSPC where we shouldn't have, and didn't have enough information to
tell where it came from, so this patch will solve that problem.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
The next patch is going to be adding private error codes for all the
places we return -ENOSPC.
Additionally, this patch updates return paths at all module boundaries
to call bch2_err_class(), to return the standard error code.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Now that we have error codes, with subtypes, we can switch to our own
error code for transaction restarts - and even better, a distinct error
code for each transaction restart reason: clearer code and better
debugging.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Instead of overloading standard error codes (EINTR/EAGAIN), and defining
short lists of error codes in multiple places that potentially end up
overlapping & conflicting, we're now going to have one master list of
error codes.
Error codes are defined with an x-macro: thus we also have
bch2_err_str() now.
Also, error codes have a class field. Now, instead of checking for
errors with ==, code should use bch2_err_matches(), which returns true
if the error is equal to or a sub-error of the error class.
This means we can define unique errors for every source location where
an error is generated, which will help improve our error messages.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Fsck now checks for keys in different snapshot IDs that are now
redundant due to other snapshots being deleted - it needs to for its own
algorithms to not get confused.
When it detects this it should re-run the post snapshot deletion cleanup
- this patch does that.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Start a new header, errcode.h, for bcachefs-private error codes - more
error codes will be converted later.
This patch just converts bucket_alloc_ret so that they can be mixed with
standard error codes and passed as ERR_PTR errors - the ec.c code was
doing this already, but incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
