[PATCH 3.14 46/66] ext4: clarify ext4_error message in ext4_mb_generate_buddy_error()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-15T23:47:01Z

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 94d4c066a4ff170a2671b1a9b153febbf36796f6 upstream.

We are spending a lot of time explaining to users what this error
means. Let's try to improve the message to avoid this problem.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -751,8 +751,8 @@ void ext4_mb_generate_buddy(struct super

if (free != grp->bb_free) {
ext4_grp_locked_error(sb, group, 0, 0,
- "%u clusters in bitmap, %u in gd; "
- "block bitmap corrupt.",
+ "block bitmap and bg descriptor "
+ "inconsistent: %u vs %u free clusters",
free, grp->bb_free);
/*
* If we intend to continue, we consider group descriptor