---

yaml
---
r: 274635
b: refs/heads/master
c: 726c35f
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  274633: 4af5626
  274631: 8a9710c
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 1728366efa5ebf48bd2ed544afa8700cd07ba822
+refs/heads/master: 726c35fa0edf1d9b8a88b73255532e73089aedda

trunk/fs/btrfs/inode.c

@@ -3526,7 +3526,7 @@ void btrfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans;
 	struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(inode)->root;
-	struct btrfs_block_rsv *rsv;
+	struct btrfs_block_rsv *rsv, *global_rsv;
 	u64 min_size = btrfs_calc_trunc_metadata_size(root, 1);
 	unsigned long nr;
 	int ret;
@@ -3561,6 +3561,7 @@ void btrfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 		goto no_delete;
 	}
 	rsv->size = min_size;
+	global_rsv = &root->fs_info->global_block_rsv;
 
 	btrfs_i_size_write(inode, 0);
 
@@ -3577,6 +3578,15 @@ void btrfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	 */
 	while (1) {
 		ret = btrfs_block_rsv_check(root, rsv, min_size, 0, 1);
+
+		/*
+		 * Try and steal from the global reserve since we will
+		 * likely not use this space anyway, we want to try as
+		 * hard as possible to get this to work.
+		 */
+		if (ret)
+			ret = btrfs_block_rsv_migrate(global_rsv, rsv, min_size);
+
 		if (ret) {
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "Could not get space for a "
 			       "delete, will truncate on mount %d\n", ret);