linux-ext4 - Re: [Bug 14354] Re: ext4 increased intolerance to unclean shutdown?

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Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:45:34 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 14354] Re: ext4 increased intolerance to unclean shutdown?

Can you try this patch ?

commit a8836b1d6f92273e001012c7705ae8f4c3d5fb65
Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 27 15:36:38 2009 +0530

    ext4: discard preallocation during truncate
    
    We need to make sure when we drop and reacquire the inode's
    i_data_sem we discard the inode preallocation. Otherwise we
    could have blocks marked as free in bitmap but still belonging
    to prealloc space.
    
    Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 5c5bc5d..a1ef1c3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -209,6 +209,12 @@ static int try_to_extend_transaction(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
 	up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
 	ret = ext4_journal_restart(handle, blocks_for_truncate(inode));
 	down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
+	/*
+	 * We have dropped i_data_sem. So somebody else could have done
+	 * block allocation. So discard the prealloc space created as a
+	 * part of block allocation
+	 */
+	ext4_discard_preallocations(inode);
 
 	return ret;
 }
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