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Message-Id: <1322039726-3587-1-git-send-email-xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:15:25 +0800
From: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc: achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, tytso@....edu,
Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: let mpage_submit_io works well when blocksize < pagesize
If there is a unwritten but clean buffer in a page and there is a dirty buffer
after the buffer, then mpage_submit_io does not write the dirty buffer out.
As a result, da_writepages loops forever.
This patch fixes the problem by checking dirty flag.
Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 755f6c7..20a1d17 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1339,8 +1339,11 @@ static int mpage_da_submit_io(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
clear_buffer_unwritten(bh);
}
- /* skip page if block allocation undone */
- if (buffer_delay(bh) || buffer_unwritten(bh))
+ /*
+ * skip page if block allocation undone and
+ * block is dirty
+ */
+ if (ext4_bh_delay_or_unwritten(NULL, bh))
skip_page = 1;
bh = bh->b_this_page;
block_start += bh->b_size;
--
1.7.5.1
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