btrfs: introduce a FORCE_COMMIT_TRANS flush operation

Solely for preemptive flushing, we want to be able to force the
transaction commit without any of the ambiguity of
may_commit_transaction().  This is because may_commit_transaction()
checks tickets and such, and in preemptive flushing we already know
it'll be helpful, so use this to keep the code nice and clean and
straightforward.

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
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Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
index 711beacd75d6..e677b5451f82 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
@@ -140,6 +140,12 @@
  *     be freed, plus any delayed work we may not have gotten rid of in the case
  *     of metadata.
  *
+ *   FORCE_COMMIT_TRANS
+ *     For use by the preemptive flusher.  We use this to bypass the ticketing
+ *     checks in may_commit_transaction, as we have more information about the
+ *     overall state of the system and may want to commit the transaction ahead
+ *     of actual ENOSPC conditions.
+ *
  * OVERCOMMIT
  *
  *   Because we hold so many reservations for metadata we will allow you to
@@ -735,6 +741,14 @@ static void flush_space(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 	case COMMIT_TRANS:
 		ret = may_commit_transaction(fs_info, space_info);
 		break;
+	case FORCE_COMMIT_TRANS:
+		trans = btrfs_join_transaction(root);
+		if (IS_ERR(trans)) {
+			ret = PTR_ERR(trans);
+			break;
+		}
+		ret = btrfs_commit_transaction(trans);
+		break;
 	default:
 		ret = -ENOSPC;
 		break;