On 2015/9/1 6:34, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Aug 31, 2015, at 3:46 AM, Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> In ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations(), if free is always less >> than needed, and some PAs are always used in every loop, it will >> be endless loop. >> >> Here we pick a random value to limit the max number of loop. >> >> Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 7 +++++-- >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c >> index 34b610e..553fbde 100644 >> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c >> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c >> @@ -3836,6 +3836,7 @@ ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations(struct super_block *sb, >> int err; >> int busy = 0; >> int free = 0; >> + int tried = 0; >> >> mb_debug(1, "discard preallocation for group %u\n", group); >> >> @@ -3886,9 +3887,11 @@ repeat: >> list_add(&pa->u.pa_tmp_list, &list); >> } >> >> - /* if we still need more blocks and some PAs were used, try again */ >> - if (free < needed && busy) { >> + /* if we still need more blocks and some PAs were used, try again, >> + here 20 is a ramdon value. */ > > (typo) s/ramdon/random/ > My mistake, thanks! >> + if (free < needed && busy && tried < 20) { >> busy = 0; >> + tried++; >> ext4_unlock_group(sb, group); >> cond_resched(); >> goto repeat; > > Looks OK otherwise. > > Cheers, Andreas > > > > > > > -- 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