btrfs: fix nowait buffered write returning -ENOSPC

If we are doing a buffered write in NOWAIT context and we can't reserve
metadata space due to -ENOSPC, then we should return -EAGAIN so that we
retry the write in a context allowed to block and do metadata reservation
with flushing, which might succeed this time due to the allowed flushing.

Returning -ENOSPC while in NOWAIT context simply makes some writes fail
with -ENOSPC when they would likely succeed after switching from NOWAIT
context to blocking context. That is unexpected behaviour and even fio
complains about it with a warning like this:

  fio: io_u error on file /mnt/sdi/task_0.0.0: No space left on device: write offset=1535705088, buflen=65536
  fio: pid=592630, err=28/file:io_u.c:1846, func=io_u error, error=No space left on device

The fio's job config is this:

   [global]
   bs=64K
   ioengine=io_uring
   iodepth=1
   size=2236962133
   nr_files=1
   filesize=2236962133
   direct=0
   runtime=10
   fallocate=posix
   io_size=2236962133
   group_reporting
   time_based

   [task_0]
   rw=randwrite
   directory=/mnt/sdi
   numjobs=4

So fix this by returning -EAGAIN if we are in NOWAIT context and the
metadata reservation failed with -ENOSPC.

Fixes: 304e45acdb8f ("btrfs: plumb NOWAIT through the write path")
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
index d55ad46384d1..5ce2ae9d4f72 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -1598,6 +1598,9 @@ static noinline ssize_t btrfs_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb,
 						write_bytes);
 			else
 				btrfs_check_nocow_unlock(BTRFS_I(inode));
+
+			if (nowait && ret == -ENOSPC)
+				ret = -EAGAIN;
 			break;
 		}