As we test disk offline/online with running fsstress, we find fsstress process is keeping running state. kworker/u32:3-262 [004] ...1 140.787471: ext4_mb_discard_preallocations: dev 8,32 needed 114 .... kworker/u32:3-262 [004] ...1 140.787471: ext4_mb_discard_preallocations: dev 8,32 needed 114 Test step: 1. sysctl kernel.panic_on_oops=1 2. mkfs.ext4 -O^has_journal /dev/sdc 3. mount /dev/sdc -o errors=continue test 4. ./fsstress -d ./test/ -l 1000 -n 1000000 -p 1 & 5. run test script: while true; do echo offline > /sys/block/sda/device/state sleep 0.05 echo running > /sys/block/sda/device/state done ext4_mb_new_blocks repeat: ext4_mb_discard_preallocations_should_retry(sb, ac, &seq) freed = ext4_mb_discard_preallocations ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations this_cpu_inc(discard_pa_seq); ---> freed == 0 seq_retry = ext4_get_discard_pa_seq_sum for_each_possible_cpu(__cpu) __seq += per_cpu(discard_pa_seq, __cpu); if (seq_retry != *seq) { *seq = seq_retry; ret = true; } As we see seq_retry is sum of discard_pa_seq every cpu, if ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations return zero discard_pa_seq in this cpu maybe increase one, so condition "seq_retry != *seq" have always been met. To Fix this problem, ext4_get_discard_pa_seq_sum function couldn't add own's cpu "discard_pa_seq" value. Fixes: 07b5b8e1ac40 ("ext4: mballoc: introduce pcpu seqcnt for freeing PA to improve ENOSPC handling") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 132c118d12e1..168ea3e65da2 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -373,10 +373,12 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, discard_pa_seq); static inline u64 ext4_get_discard_pa_seq_sum(void) { int __cpu; + int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();; u64 __seq = 0; for_each_possible_cpu(__cpu) - __seq += per_cpu(discard_pa_seq, __cpu); + if (this_cpu != __cpu) + __seq += per_cpu(discard_pa_seq, __cpu); return __seq; } -- 2.25.4