Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: don't release reserved space for previously allocated cluster

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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 05:39:29PM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> When xfstests' auto group is run on a bigalloc filesystem with a
> 4.0-rc3 kernel, e2fsck failures and kernel warnings occur for some
> tests. e2fsck reports incorrect iblocks values, and the warnings
> indicate that the space reserved for delayed allocation is being
> overdrawn at allocation time.
> 
> Some of these errors occur because the reserved space is incorrectly
> decreased by one cluster when ext4_ext_map_blocks satisfies an
> allocation request by mapping an unused portion of a previously
> allocated cluster.  Because a cluster's worth of reserved space was
> already released when it was first allocated, it should not be released
> again.
> 
> This patch appears to correct the e2fsck failure reported for
> generic/232 and the kernel warnings produced by ext4/001, generic/009,
> and generic/033.  Failures and warnings for some other tests remain to
> be addressed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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