linux-ext4 - [PATCH 2/2] ext4: fix ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() to handle page range properly

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Date:	Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:31:39 -0800
From:	Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@...gle.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: fix ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() to handle page range properly

If ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() is called because of a
failure from ext4_map_blocks() in mpage_da_map_and_submit(),
it's supposed to clean up -- including unlock -- all the
pages in the mpd structure.  But these values may not match
up, even on a system in which block size == page size:

   mpd->b_blocknr != mpd->first_page
   mpd->b_size != (mpd->next_page - mpd->first_page)

ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() has been using b_blocknr and
b_size; this patch changes it to use first_page and
next_page.

Tested:  I injected a small number (5%) of failures in
ext4_map_blocks() in the case that the flags contain
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_DELALLOC_RESERVE, and ran fsstress on this
kernel.  Without this patch, I got hung tasks every time.
With this patch, I see no hangs in many runs of fsstress.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@...gle.com>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |   11 ++++-------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 1cff229..18a3b90 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2165,8 +2165,7 @@ static int mpage_da_submit_io(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static void ext4_da_block_invalidatepages(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
-					sector_t logical, long blk_cnt)
+static void ext4_da_block_invalidatepages(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
 {
 	int nr_pages, i;
 	pgoff_t index, end;
@@ -2174,9 +2173,8 @@ static void ext4_da_block_invalidatepages(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
 	struct inode *inode = mpd->inode;
 	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
 
-	index = logical >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode->i_blkbits);
-	end   = (logical + blk_cnt - 1) >>
-				(PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode->i_blkbits);
+	index = mpd->first_page;
+	end   = mpd->next_page - 1;
 	while (index <= end) {
 		nr_pages = pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, index, PAGEVEC_SIZE);
 		if (nr_pages == 0)
@@ -2312,8 +2310,7 @@ static void mpage_da_map_and_submit(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
 				ext4_print_free_blocks(mpd->inode);
 		}
 		/* invalidate all the pages */
-		ext4_da_block_invalidatepages(mpd, next,
-				mpd->b_size >> mpd->inode->i_blkbits);
+		ext4_da_block_invalidatepages(mpd);
 
 		/* Mark this page range as having been completed */
 		mpd->io_done = 1;
-- 
1.7.3.1

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