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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Eli V <eliventer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: prevent __btrfs_dump_space_info() to underflow its free space
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:37:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210917103702.GJ9286@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210916124329.65141-1-wqu@suse.com>

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 08:43:29PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> It's not uncommon where __btrfs_dump_space_info() get called
> under over-commit situations.
> 
> In that case free space would underflow as total allocated space is not
> enough to handle all the over-committed space.
> 
> Such underflow values can sometimes cause confusion for users enabled
> enospc_debug mount option, and takes some seconds for developers to
> convert the underflow value to signed result.
> 
> Just output the free space as s64 to avoid such problem.
> 
> Reported-by: Eli V <eliventer@gmail.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/CAJtFHUSy4zgyhf-4d9T+KdJp9w=UgzC2A0V=VtmaeEpcGgm1-Q@mail.gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>

Added to misc-next, thanks.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-17 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-16 12:43 [PATCH] btrfs: prevent __btrfs_dump_space_info() to underflow its free space Qu Wenruo
2021-09-16 13:40 ` Anand Jain
2021-09-17 10:37 ` David Sterba [this message]

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