I have created a formatted EXT4 partition such that every single
extent is exactly 6blocks (24KB) of length.
I used hole punch on 2 different files.
CASE 1: In first situation, file size is 72KB. There are total 3
extents each 24KB length. Using fallocate to punch hole starting at
offset 4096 and length 4096,
dump_extents gives the following expected output :
Before punching hole :
Level Entries Logical Physical Length Flags
0/ 0 1/ 2 0 - 5 1856 - 1861 6
0/ 0 2/ 2 6 - 11 1868 - 1873 6
After punching hole :
Level Entries Logical Physical Length Flags
0/ 0 1/ 3 0 - 0 1856 - 1856 1
0/ 0 2/ 3 2 - 5 1858 - 1861 4
0/ 0 3/ 3 6 - 11 1868 - 1873 6
The 1st extent: 0-5, is splitted into 3 extents, "0-0", "1-1", "2-5"
Extent 1-1 is first marked as uninitialized in function
ext4_ext_map_blocks() and later removed from the extent tree by
ext4_ext_remove_space().
CASE 2: File size is 9.4MB. There are total 400 extents each 24KB
length, depth of extent tree at root header is 1 and there are 2 index
entries.
dump_extents output before punching hole:
Level Entries Logical Physical Length Flags
0/ 1 1/ 2 0 - 2039 1922 2040
1/ 1 1/340 0 - 5 1856 - 1861 6
1/ 1 2/340 6 - 11 1868 - 1873 6
< Continued likewise till 340/340 >
1/ 1 340/340 2034 - 2039 5942 - 5947 6
0/ 1 2/ 2 2040 - 2399 1923 360
1/ 1 1/ 60 2040 - 2045 5954 - 5959 6
1/ 1 2/ 60 2046 - 2051 5966 - 5971 6
< Continued likewise till 60/60 >
1/ 1 60/ 60 2394 - 2399 6662 - 6667 6
dump_extents output after punching hole :
0/ 1 1/ 3 0 - 5 1922 6
1/ 1 1/ 3 0 - 0 1856 - 1856 1
1/ 1 2/ 3 1 - 1 1857 - 1857 1 Uninit
1/ 1 3/ 3 2 - 5 1858 - 1861 4
0/ 1 2/ 3 6 - 2039 6674 2034
1/ 1 1/339 6 - 11 1868 - 1873 6
1/ 1 2/339 12 - 17 1880 - 1885 6
< Continued like wise...>
Comparing CASE2 with CASE1, still uninit extent "1-1" is present
within the extent tree.
In function ext4_ext_remove_space(), there is call to function
ext4_ext_rm_leaf which is responsible for removal of this extent.
But this function is not getting called in CASE 2 :
if (i == depth) {
/* this is leaf block */
err = ext4_ext_rm_leaf(handle, inode, path,
start, end);
/* root level has p_bh == NULL, brelse() eats this */
brelse(path[i].p_bh);
path[i].p_bh = NULL;
i--;
continue;
}
Varibale "i" does not become equals to "depth" because
ext4_ext_more_to_rm is returning "0" hence the following if condition
is turning out to be false for 1st extent index:
if (ext4_ext_more_to_rm(path + i)) {
Looking at the defination of ext4_ext_more_to_rm :
/*
* ext4_ext_more_to_rm:
* returns 1 if current index has to be freed (even partial)
*/
static int
ext4_ext_more_to_rm(struct ext4_ext_path *path)
{
BUG_ON(path->p_idx == NULL);
if (path->p_idx < EXT_FIRST_INDEX(path->p_hdr))
return 0;
/*
* if truncate on deeper level happened, it wasn't partial,
* so we have to consider current index for truncation
*/
if (le16_to_cpu(path->p_hdr->eh_entries) == path->p_block) <=
This condition is turning out to be true
return 0; <= The function is returning zero from here.
return 1;
}
I could not understand the significance of the above mentioned if
condition check, if anyone could explain a little, it will be help.
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