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When creating a new inode, at btrfs_create_new_inode(), one of the very last steps is to add the inode to the root's inodes xarray. This often requires allocating memory which may fail (even though xarrays have a dedicated kmem_cache which make it less likely to fail), and at that point we are forced to abort the current transaction (as some, but not all, of the inode metadata was added to its subvolume btree). To avoid a transaction abort, preallocate memory for the xarray early at btrfs_create_new_inode(), so that if we fail we don't need to abort the transaction and the insertion into the xarray is guaranteed to succeed. Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.