Before this patch, the call stack in ext4_run_li_request is as follows: /* * nr = no. of BGs we want to fetch (=s_mb_prefetch) * prefetch_ios = no. of BGs not uptodate after * ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait() */ next_group = ext4_mb_prefetch(sb, group, nr, prefetch_ios); ext4_mb_prefetch_fini(sb, next_group prefetch_ios); ext4_mb_prefetch_fini() will only try to initialize buddies for BGs in range [next_group - prefetch_ios, next_group). This is incorrect since sometimes (prefetch_ios < nr), which causes ext4_mb_prefetch_fini() to incorrectly ignore some of the BGs that might need initialization. This issue is more notable now with the previous patch enabling "fetching" of BLOCK_UNINIT BGs which are marked buffer_uptodate by default. Fix this by passing nr to ext4_mb_prefetch_fini() instead of prefetch_ios so that it considers the right range of groups. Similarly, make sure we don't pass nr=0 to ext4_mb_prefetch_fini() in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() since we might have prefetched BLOCK_UNINIT groups that would need buddy initialization. Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 ---- fs/ext4/super.c | 11 ++++------- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 48726a831264..410c9636907b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2702,8 +2702,6 @@ ext4_mb_regular_allocator(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) if ((prefetch_grp == group) && (cr > CR1 || prefetch_ios < sbi->s_mb_prefetch_limit)) { - unsigned int curr_ios = prefetch_ios; - nr = sbi->s_mb_prefetch; if (ext4_has_feature_flex_bg(sb)) { nr = 1 << sbi->s_log_groups_per_flex; @@ -2712,8 +2710,6 @@ ext4_mb_regular_allocator(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) } prefetch_grp = ext4_mb_prefetch(sb, group, nr, &prefetch_ios); - if (prefetch_ios == curr_ios) - nr = 0; } /* This now checks without needing the buddy page */ diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 72ead3b56706..9dbb09cfc8f7 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -3636,16 +3636,13 @@ static int ext4_run_li_request(struct ext4_li_request *elr) ext4_group_t group = elr->lr_next_group; unsigned int prefetch_ios = 0; int ret = 0; + int nr = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mb_prefetch; u64 start_time; if (elr->lr_mode == EXT4_LI_MODE_PREFETCH_BBITMAP) { - elr->lr_next_group = ext4_mb_prefetch(sb, group, - EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mb_prefetch, &prefetch_ios); - if (prefetch_ios) - ext4_mb_prefetch_fini(sb, elr->lr_next_group, - prefetch_ios); - trace_ext4_prefetch_bitmaps(sb, group, elr->lr_next_group, - prefetch_ios); + elr->lr_next_group = ext4_mb_prefetch(sb, group, nr, &prefetch_ios); + ext4_mb_prefetch_fini(sb, elr->lr_next_group, nr); + trace_ext4_prefetch_bitmaps(sb, group, elr->lr_next_group, nr); if (group >= elr->lr_next_group) { ret = 1; if (elr->lr_first_not_zeroed != ngroups && -- 2.31.1