From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
xfs_bmap_rtalloc initializes the bno_hint variable to NULLRTBLOCK (aka
NULLFSBLOCK). If the allocation request is for a file range that's
adjacent to an existing mapping, it will then change bno_hint to the
blkno hint in the bmalloca structure.
In other words, bno_hint is either a rt block number, or it's all 1s.
Unfortunately, commit ec12f97f1b8a8f didn't take the NULLRTBLOCK state
into account, which means that it tries to translate that into a
realtime extent number. We then end up with an obnoxiously high rtx
number and pointlessly feed that to the near allocator. This often
fails and falls back to the by-size allocator. Seeing as we had no
locality hint anyway, this is a waste of time.
Fix the code to detect a lack of bno_hint correctly. This was detected
by running xfs/009 with metadir enabled and a 28k rt extent size.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v6.12
Fixes: ec12f97f1b8a8f ("xfs: make the rtalloc start hint a xfs_rtblock_t")
Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.c
index 0cb534d71119a5..fcfa6e0eb3ad2a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.c
@@ -1827,7 +1827,7 @@ xfs_rtallocate_rtg(
* For an allocation to an empty file at offset 0, pick an extent that
* will space things out in the rt area.
*/
- if (bno_hint)
+ if (bno_hint != NULLFSBLOCK)
start = xfs_rtb_to_rtx(args.mp, bno_hint);
else if (!xfs_has_rtgroups(args.mp) && initial_user_data)
start = xfs_rtpick_extent(args.rtg, tp, maxlen);
