linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Don't report EOPNOTSUPP errors from discard

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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:53:53 +0800
From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
CC: <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Don't report EOPNOTSUPP errors from discard

On 2024/2/13 18:16, Jan Kara wrote:
> When ext4 is mounted without journal, with discard mount option, and on
> a device not supporting trim, we print error for each and every freed
> extent. This is not only useless but actively harmful. Instead ignore
> the EOPNOTSUPP error. Trim is only advisory anyway and when the
> filesystem has journal we silently ignore trim error as well.
> 

Make sense, call ext4_std_error() since EOPNOTSUPP is really harmful.

Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...wei.com>

> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> index e4f7cf9d89c4..aed620cf4d40 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> @@ -6488,7 +6488,13 @@ static void ext4_mb_clear_bb(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  		if (test_opt(sb, DISCARD)) {
>  			err = ext4_issue_discard(sb, block_group, bit,
>  						 count_clusters, NULL);
> -			if (err && err != -EOPNOTSUPP)
> +			/*
> +			 * Ignore EOPNOTSUPP error. This is consistent with
> +			 * what happens when using journal.
> +			 */
> +			if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> +				err = 0;
> +			if (err)
>  				ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, "discard request in"
>  					 " group:%u block:%d count:%lu failed"
>  					 " with %d", block_group, bit, count,
>