This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: clear EXT4_GROUP_INFO_WAS_TRIMMED_BIT even mount with discard
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ext4-clear-ext4_group_info_was_trimmed_bit-even-moun.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7e32b48398617cc0982b184edc2314e69d1ee3d5
Author: yangerkun <yangerkun@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Aug 17 16:55:10 2024 +0800
ext4: clear EXT4_GROUP_INFO_WAS_TRIMMED_BIT even mount with discard
[ Upstream commit 20cee68f5b44fdc2942d20f3172a262ec247b117 ]
Commit 3d56b8d2c74c ("ext4: Speed up FITRIM by recording flags in
ext4_group_info") speed up fstrim by skipping trim trimmed group. We
also has the chance to clear trimmed once there exists some block free
for this group(mount without discard), and the next trim for this group
will work well too.
For mount with discard, we will issue dicard when we free blocks, so
leave trimmed flag keep alive to skip useless trim trigger from
userspace seems reasonable. But for some case like ext4 build on
dm-thinpool(ext4 blocksize 4K, pool blocksize 128K), discard from ext4
maybe unaligned for dm thinpool, and thinpool will just finish this
discard(see process_discard_bio when begein equals to end) without
actually process discard. For this case, trim from userspace can really
help us to free some thinpool block.
So convert to clear trimmed flag for all case no matter mounted with
discard or not.
Fixes: 3d56b8d2c74c ("ext4: Speed up FITRIM by recording flags in ext4_group_info")
Signed-off-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240817085510.2084444-1-yangerkun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 75dbe40ed8f72..329b3cf105742 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2834,11 +2834,8 @@ static void ext4_free_data_in_buddy(struct super_block *sb,
/*
* Clear the trimmed flag for the group so that the next
* ext4_trim_fs can trim it.
- * If the volume is mounted with -o discard, online discard
- * is supported and the free blocks will be trimmed online.
*/
- if (!test_opt(sb, DISCARD))
- EXT4_MB_GRP_CLEAR_TRIMMED(db);
+ EXT4_MB_GRP_CLEAR_TRIMMED(db);
if (!db->bb_free_root.rb_node) {
/* No more items in the per group rb tree
@@ -4962,8 +4959,9 @@ void ext4_free_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
" group:%d block:%d count:%lu failed"
" with %d", block_group, bit, count,
err);
- } else
- EXT4_MB_GRP_CLEAR_TRIMMED(e4b.bd_info);
+ }
+
+ EXT4_MB_GRP_CLEAR_TRIMMED(e4b.bd_info);
ext4_lock_group(sb, block_group);
mb_clear_bits(bitmap_bh->b_data, bit, count_clusters);
