Re: [PATCH v3]Ext4: journal credits reservation fixes for DIO, fallocate and delalloc writepages

[Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>]

Ted, thanks for going through this,

在 2008-08-01五的 01:49 -0400，Theodore Tso写道：

>     ext4: Fix lack of credits BUG() when deleting a badly fragmented inode
>     
>     The extents codepath for ext4_truncate() requests journal transaction
>     credits in very small chunks, requesting only what is needed.  This
>     means there may not be enough credits left on the transaction handle
>     after ext4_truncate() returns and then when ext4_delete_inode() tries
>     finish up its work, it may not have enough transaction credits,
>     causing a BUG() oops in the jbd2 core.

But, ext4_delete_inode()'s transaction and ext4_truncate()'s transaction
are different,  ext4_truncate() transaction is nested inside
ext4_delete_inode.

Inside ext4_delete_inode, the transaction is to log the changes in
ext4_orhan_del() and  ext4_free_inode(). If I get right,
ext4_orhan_del() need credit to modify superblock and inode block,
ext4_free_inode() needs credit for modifying quota,xattr and inode
bitmap, group descriptor, superblock, and inode block. 

Currently ext4_delete_inode() uses blocks_for_truncate(inode) to
calculate credits, by the time ext4_delete_inode() is called, i_blocks
seems to 0 (I need to double check this). So the credits is just
EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS, which take care of the credits for inode,
superblock, xattr and quota, but missing is inode bitmap...I will double
check before I post a patch...



>     
>     Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index c7fb647..6d27e78 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -215,6 +215,18 @@ void ext4_delete_inode (struct inode * inode)
>  	inode->i_size = 0;
>  	if (inode->i_blocks)
>  		ext4_truncate(inode);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * ext4_ext_truncate() doesn't reserve any slop when it
> +	 * restarts journal transactions; therefore there may not be
> +	 * enough credits left in the handle to remove the inode from
> +	 * the orphan list and set the dtime field.
> +	 */
> +	if (ext4_ext_journal_restart(handle, 3)) {
> +		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
> +		goto no_delete;
> +	}
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Kill off the orphan record which ext4_truncate created.
>  	 * AKPM: I think this can be inside the above `if'.

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