xfs: flush delalloc blocks on ENOSPC in xfs_trans_alloc_icreate

xfs_trans_alloc_icreate() can fail with ENOSPC when delalloc
reservations have consumed most of the available block count
(fdblocks).  xfs_trans_alloc() already retries internally with
xfs_blockgc_flush_all(), but that only trims post-EOF speculative
preallocation and may not free enough space for the transaction
reservation.

Add a retry with xfs_flush_inodes() when xfs_trans_alloc() returns
ENOSPC.  This forces writeback of all dirty inodes via
sync_inodes_sb(), converting delalloc reservations to real
allocations and freeing the over-reserved portion back to fdblocks.

This fixes all callers of xfs_trans_alloc_icreate() and removes
the existing caller-level retry from xfs_create(), which is now
handled centrally.

Signed-off-by: Ravi Singh <ravising@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Ravi Singh 2026-04-22 07:39:59 +00:00 committed by Carlos Maiolino
parent fca20fcb76
commit 87e63466c9
2 changed files with 11 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -699,12 +699,6 @@ xfs_create(
*/
error = xfs_trans_alloc_icreate(mp, tres, udqp, gdqp, pdqp, resblks,
&tp);
if (error == -ENOSPC) {
/* flush outstanding delalloc blocks and retry */
xfs_flush_inodes(mp);
error = xfs_trans_alloc_icreate(mp, tres, udqp, gdqp, pdqp,
resblks, &tp);
}
if (error)
goto out_parent;

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@ -1199,10 +1199,21 @@ xfs_trans_alloc_icreate(
{
struct xfs_trans *tp;
bool retried = false;
bool flushed = false;
int error;
retry:
error = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, resv, dblocks, 0, 0, &tp);
if (error == -ENOSPC && !flushed) {
/*
* Flush all delalloc blocks to reclaim space from speculative
* preallocation. This is similar to the quota retry below
* but targets FS-wide ENOSPC.
*/
xfs_flush_inodes(mp);
flushed = true;
goto retry;
}
if (error)
return error;