Re: Oops with ext4 from 2.6.27-rc3

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Hi Mingming & Ted, Thanks for your patch. Now it is working fine for me.


<TESTED-By: Rishikesh K Rajak risrajak@xxxxxxxxxx >

> Ext4: Fix delalloc release block reservation for truncate
>
> From: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ext4 will release the reserved blocks for delalloc
> when inode is truncated/unlinked.  If there is no reserved block at all,
> we  shouldn't  need to do so.  But current code still tries to release
the
> reserved blocks regardless whether the counters's value is 0.
> Continue doing that causes the later calculation went wrong and a
> kernel BUG_ON()
> catched that. This doesn't happen for originally extent format file,
> as the calculation
> for 0 reserved blocks was right for  extent based file.
>
> This patch fixed the kernel BUG() due to above reason. It adds checks for
0 to
> avoid unnecessary release and fix calculation for non extent files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx>

<TESTED-By: Rishikesh K Rajak risrajak@xxxxxxxxxx >

> Index: linux-2.6.27-rc1/fs/ext4/inode.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.27-rc1.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c       2008-08-13 15:29:35.
> 000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.27-rc1/fs/ext4/inode.c    2008-08-13 16:22:14.000000000
-0700
> @@ -1007,6 +1007,9 @@ static int ext4_indirect_calc_metadata_a
>  */
>  static int ext4_calc_metadata_amount(struct inode *inode, int blocks)
>  {
> +       if (!blocks)
> +               return 0;
> +
>        if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)
>                return ext4_ext_calc_metadata_amount(inode, blocks);
>
> @@ -1553,8 +1556,27 @@ static void ext4_da_release_space(struct
>        struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
>        int total, mdb, mdb_free, release;
>
> +       if (!to_free){
> +               /* Nothing to release, exit */
> +               return;
> +       }
> +
>        spin_lock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
>
> +       if (!EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks){
> +               /*
> +                * if there is no reserved blocks, but we try to free
some
> +                * then the counter is messed up somewhere.
> +                * but since this function is called from invalidate
> +                * page, it's harmless to return without any action
> +                */
> +               printk(KERN_INFO "ext4 delalloc try to release %d
reserved"
> +                           "blocks for inode %lu, but there is no
reserved"
> +                           "data blocks\n", inode->i_ino, to_free);
> +               spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
> +               return;
> +       }
> +
>        /* recalculate the number of metablocks still need to be reserved
*/
>        total = EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks - to_free;
>        mdb = ext4_calc_metadata_amount(inode, total);
> @@ -3592,7 +3614,7 @@ void ext4_truncate(struct inode *inode)
>         * ext4 *really* writes onto the disk inode.
>         */
>        ei->i_disksize = inode->i_size;
> -
> +
>        if (n == 1) {           /* direct blocks */
>                ext4_free_data(handle, inode, NULL, i_data+offsets[0],
>                               i_data + EXT4_NDIR_BLOCKS);
>
>
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