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Filipe Manana
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Now that the extent map shrinker can only be run by a single task and runs
asynchronously as a work queue job, enable it as it can no longer cause
stalls on tasks allocating memory and entering the extent map shrinker
through the fs shrinker (implemented by btrfs_free_cached_objects()).
This is crucial to prevent exhaustion of memory due to unbounded extent
map creation, primarily with direct IO but also for buffered IO on files
with holes. This problem, for the direct IO case, was first reported in
the Link tag below. That report was added to a Link tag of the first patch
that introduced the extent map shrinker, commit 956a17d9d0 ("btrfs: add
a shrinker for extent maps"), however the Link tag disappeared somehow
from the committed patch (but was included in the submitted patch to the
mailing list), so adding it below for future reference.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/13f94633dcf04d29aaf1f0a43d42c55e@amazon.com/
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
============
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.