On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:07:10 +0800
Cong Meng <mcpacino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I sent this patch half mount ago, but no response at all. If anything is
> wrong, please tell me. Thanks a lots. This is my first time to send patch
> to linux kernel.
>
> The invocation of __getblk(bdev, block, size) will cause kernel stall if
> the @size parameter is not equal to the blockr-size of @bdev, which is saved
> in bdev->bd_inode->i_blkbits.
>
> submit_bh() has the similar problem.
>
> This patch calculates the block-size using i_blkbits.
> So that, for example, __getblk() can get a 4K buffer head while the
> block-size of @bdev is 1K.
>
This comes up every couple of years and iirc we always decided that
it's a bug in the calling code somewhere. How did you hit it?
> --- a/fs/buffer.c
> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
> @@ -1051,10 +1051,7 @@ grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
> pgoff_t index;
> int sizebits;
>
> - sizebits = -1;
> - do {
> - sizebits++;
> - } while ((size << sizebits) < PAGE_SIZE);
I'm sure the existing code could use __roundup_pow_of_two() here.
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