On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 16:23 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > ext4_fallocate need to update file size in each transaction. Otherwise > ife we crash the file size won't be updated. We were also not marking > the inode dirty after updating file size before. Also when we try to > retry allocation due to ENOSPC make sure we reset the variable ret so > that we actually do a retry. > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/ext4/extents.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- > 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c > index dcdf92a..09dd3c5 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c > @@ -2783,6 +2783,26 @@ int ext4_ext_writepage_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int num) > return needed; > } > > +static void ext4_falloc_update_inode(struct inode *inode, > + int mode, loff_t new_size) > +{ > + struct timespec now; > + > + now = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb); > + if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_ctime, &now)) > + inode->i_ctime = now; > + /* > + * Update only when preallocation was requested beyond > + * the file size. > + */ > + if (!(mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE) && > + new_size > i_size_read(inode)) { > + i_size_write(inode, new_size); > + EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = i_size_read(inode); Just a minor thing, we could store new_size directly to i_disksize to avoid calling the i_size_read() instead. > + } > + > +} > + > /* > * preallocate space for a file. This implements ext4's fallocate inode > * operation, which gets called from sys_fallocate system call. > @@ -2794,8 +2814,8 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) > { > handle_t *handle; > ext4_lblk_t block; > + loff_t new_size; > unsigned long max_blocks; > - ext4_fsblk_t nblocks = 0; > int ret = 0; > int ret2 = 0; > int retries = 0; > @@ -2814,8 +2834,7 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) > return -ENODEV; > > block = offset >> blkbits; > - max_blocks = (EXT4_BLOCK_ALIGN(len + offset, blkbits) >> blkbits) > - - block; > + max_blocks = EXT4_BLOCK_ALIGN(len, blkbits) >> blkbits; > Not sure about this change... Other than this looks fine to me MIngming -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html