From 87e63466c9fc30c3d95b8741c3df1f1ff01d7f23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ravi Singh Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:39:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino --- fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 6 ------ fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c index beaa26ec62da..9978ac1422fc 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c @@ -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; diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c index bcc470f56e46..148cc32449c1 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c @@ -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;