On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 11:44:43PM +0900, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:

Relocation in a zoned filesystem can fail with a transaction abort with
error -22 (EINVAL). This happens because the relocation code assumes that
the extents we relocated the data to have the same size the source extents
had and ensures this by preallocating the extents.

But in a zoned filesystem we currently can't preallocate the extents as
this would break the sequential write required rule. Therefore it can
happen that the writeback process kicks in while we're still adding pages
to a delallocation range and starts writing out dirty pages.

This then creates destination extents that are smaller than the source
extents, triggering the following safety check in get_new_location():

 1034         if (num_bytes != btrfs_file_extent_disk_num_bytes(leaf, fi)) {
 1035                 ret = -EINVAL;
 1036                 goto out;
 1037         }

Temporarily create a dedicated block group for the relocation process, so
no non-relocation data writes can interfere with the relocation writes.

This is needed that we can switch the relocation process on a zoned
filesystem from the REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND writing we use for data to a scheme
like in a non-zoned filesystem using REQ_OP_WRITE and preallocation.

Fixes: 32430c614844 ("btrfs: zoned: enable relocation on a zoned filesystem")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <redacted>
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Looks good,
Reviewed-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>