btrfs: re-enable the extent map shrinker
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 956a17d9 ("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>
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