The patch titled ext4: fix reservation extension has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext4-fix-reservation-extension.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext4: fix reservation extension From: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> Hugh Dickins wrote: > Not found anything relevant, but I keep noticing these lines > in ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv(), ext3 and ext4 similar: > > } else if (grp_goal > 0 && > (my_rsv->rsv_end - grp_goal + 1) < *count) > try_to_extend_reservation(my_rsv, sb, > *count-my_rsv->rsv_end + grp_goal - 1); > > They're wrong, a no-op in most groups, aren't they? rsv_end is an > absolute block number, whereas grp_goal is group-relative, so the > calculation ought to bring in group_first_block? Or I'm confused. > Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ext2/balloc.c~ext4-fix-reservation-extension fs/ext2/balloc.c diff -puN fs/ext3/balloc.c~ext4-fix-reservation-extension fs/ext3/balloc.c diff -puN fs/ext4/balloc.c~ext4-fix-reservation-extension fs/ext4/balloc.c --- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c~ext4-fix-reservation-extension +++ a/fs/ext4/balloc.c @@ -1324,10 +1324,14 @@ ext4_try_to_allocate_with_rsv(struct sup if (!goal_in_my_reservation(&my_rsv->rsv_window, grp_goal, group, sb)) grp_goal = -1; - } else if (grp_goal > 0 && - (my_rsv->rsv_end-grp_goal+1) < *count) - try_to_extend_reservation(my_rsv, sb, - *count-my_rsv->rsv_end + grp_goal - 1); + } else if (grp_goal > 0) { + int curr = my_rsv->rsv_end - + (grp_goal + group_first_block) + 1; + + if (curr < *count) + try_to_extend_reservation(my_rsv, sb, + *count - curr); + } if ((my_rsv->rsv_start > group_last_block) || (my_rsv->rsv_end < group_first_block)) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cmm@xxxxxxxxxx are ext3-fix-reservation-extension.patch ext4-fix-reservation-extension.patch ext2-reservations.patch ext2-fix-reservation-extension.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html