This is a backport of 1db913823c0f8360fccbd24ca67eb073966a5ffd that
applies cleanly on top of patch 1 of this patchset.
ext4: Handle -EDQUOT error on write
We need to release the journal before we do a write_inode. Otherwise
we could deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Marcus Husar <marcus.husar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
inode.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff -uprN a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c 2010-02-05 09:55:16.068240000 +0100
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c 2010-02-05 10:52:12.148240610 +0100
@@ -1866,24 +1866,12 @@ repeat:
* later. Real quota accounting is done at pages writeout
* time.
*/
- if (vfs_dq_reserve_block(inode, md_needed + 1)) {
- /*
- * We tend to badly over-estimate the amount of
- * metadata blocks which are needed, so if we have
- * reserved any metadata blocks, try to force out the
- * inode and see if we have any better luck.
- */
- if (md_reserved && retries++ <= 3)
- goto retry;
+ if (vfs_dq_reserve_block(inode, md_needed + 1))
return -EDQUOT;
- }
if (ext4_claim_free_blocks(sbi, md_needed + 1)) {
vfs_dq_release_reservation_block(inode, md_needed + 1);
if (ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries)) {
- retry:
- if (md_reserved)
- write_inode_now(inode, (retries == 3));
yield();
goto repeat;
}
@@ -3061,7 +3049,7 @@ static int ext4_da_write_begin(struct fi
loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
struct page **pagep, void **fsdata)
{
- int ret, retries = 0;
+ int ret, retries = 0, quota_retries = 0;
struct page *page;
pgoff_t index;
unsigned from, to;
@@ -3120,6 +3108,22 @@ retry:
if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
goto retry;
+
+ if ((ret == -EDQUOT) &&
+ EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_meta_blocks &&
+ (quota_retries++ < 3)) {
+ /*
+ * Since we often over-estimate the number of meta
+ * data blocks required, we may sometimes get a
+ * spurios out of quota error even though there would
+ * be enough space once we write the data blocks and
+ * find out how many meta data blocks were _really_
+ * required. So try forcing the inode write to see if
+ * that helps.
+ */
+ write_inode_now(inode, (quota_retries == 3));
+ goto retry;
+ }
out:
return ret;
}
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