From: Greg KH Subject: [patch 096/104] ext4: calculate journal credits correctly Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:56:42 -0800 Message-ID: <20081203195642.GS8950@kroah.com> References: <20081203193901.715896543@mini.kroah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , Theodore Ts'o , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , Domenico Andreoli , Willy Tarreau , Rodrigo Rubira Branco , Jake Edge , Eugene Teo , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ext4 Developers List To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:56771 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755241AbYLCT6D (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:58:03 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="ext4-calculate-journal-credits-correctly.patch" In-Reply-To: <20081203194725.GA8950@kroah.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: "Theodore Ts'o" (cherry picked from commit ac51d83705c2a38c71f39cde99708b14e6212a60) This fixes a 2.6.27 regression which was introduced in commit a02908f1. We weren't passing the chunk parameter down to the two subections, ext4_indirect_trans_blocks() and ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(), with the result that massively overestimate the amount of credits needed by ext4_da_writepages, especially in the non-extents case. This causes failures especially on /boot partitions, which tend to be small and non-extent using since GRUB doesn't handle extents. This patch fixes the bug reported by Joseph Fannin at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11964 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4444,9 +4444,10 @@ static int ext4_indirect_trans_blocks(st static int ext4_index_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks, int chunk) { if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)) - return ext4_indirect_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks, 0); - return ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks, 0); + return ext4_indirect_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks, chunk); + return ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks, chunk); } + /* * Account for index blocks, block groups bitmaps and block group * descriptor blocks if modify datablocks and index blocks