From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit 88c6b61ff1cfb4013a3523227d91ad11b2892388 ] Xiaoguang Wang has reported sporadic EBUSY failures of ext4/302 Unfortunetly there is nothing we can do if some other task holds BH's refenrence. So we must return EBUSY in this case. But we can try kicking the journal to see if the other task releases the bh reference after the commit is complete. Also decrease false positives by properly checking for ENOSPC and retrying the allocation after kicking the journal --- which is done by ext4_should_retry_alloc(). [ Modified by tytso to properly check for ENOSPC. ] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/move_extent.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/move_extent.c b/fs/ext4/move_extent.c index 9f2311b..503ea15 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/move_extent.c +++ b/fs/ext4/move_extent.c @@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ move_extent_per_page(struct file *o_filp, struct inode *donor_inode, int replaced_count = 0; int from = data_offset_in_page << orig_inode->i_blkbits; int blocks_per_page = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE >> orig_inode->i_blkbits; + struct super_block *sb = orig_inode->i_sb; /* * It needs twice the amount of ordinary journal buffers because @@ -405,10 +406,13 @@ unlock_pages: page_cache_release(pagep[1]); stop_journal: ext4_journal_stop(handle); + if (*err == -ENOSPC && + ext4_should_retry_alloc(sb, &retries)) + goto again; /* Buffer was busy because probably is pinned to journal transaction, * force transaction commit may help to free it. */ - if (*err == -EBUSY && ext4_should_retry_alloc(orig_inode->i_sb, - &retries)) + if (*err == -EBUSY && retries++ < 4 && EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal && + jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal)) goto again; return replaced_count; -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html