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There's been a bug in the btree write buffer where it wasn't triggering btree node merges - and leaving behind a bunch of nearly empty btree nodes. Then during journal replay, when updates to the backpointers btree aren't using the btree write buffer (because we require synchronization with journal replay), we end up doing those merges all at once. Then if it's the interior update path running them, we deadlock because those run with the highest watermark. There's no real need for the interior update path to be doing btree node merges; other code paths can handle that at lower watermarks. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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.