Ext4 file system has default lazy inode table initialization setup once it is mounted. However, it has issue on computing the next schedule time that makes the timeout same amount in jiffies but different real time in secs if with various HZ values. Therefore, fix by measuring the current time in a more granular unit nanoseconds and make the next schedule time independent of the HZ value. Fixes: bfff68738f1c ("ext4: add support for lazy inode table initialization") Signed-off-by: Shaoying Xu <shaoyi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/ext4/super.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index dfa09a277b56..399cbe9c14a8 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -3421,9 +3421,9 @@ static int ext4_run_li_request(struct ext4_li_request *elr) struct super_block *sb = elr->lr_super; ext4_group_t ngroups = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_groups_count; ext4_group_t group = elr->lr_next_group; - unsigned long timeout = 0; unsigned int prefetch_ios = 0; int ret = 0; + u64 start_time; if (elr->lr_mode == EXT4_LI_MODE_PREFETCH_BBITMAP) { elr->lr_next_group = ext4_mb_prefetch(sb, group, @@ -3460,14 +3460,13 @@ static int ext4_run_li_request(struct ext4_li_request *elr) ret = 1; if (!ret) { - timeout = jiffies; + start_time = ktime_get_real_ns(); ret = ext4_init_inode_table(sb, group, elr->lr_timeout ? 0 : 1); trace_ext4_lazy_itable_init(sb, group); if (elr->lr_timeout == 0) { - timeout = (jiffies - timeout) * - EXT4_SB(elr->lr_super)->s_li_wait_mult; - elr->lr_timeout = timeout; + elr->lr_timeout = nsecs_to_jiffies((ktime_get_real_ns() - start_time) * + EXT4_SB(elr->lr_super)->s_li_wait_mult); } elr->lr_next_sched = jiffies + elr->lr_timeout; elr->lr_next_group = group + 1; -- 2.16.6