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    ext4: fix dead loop in ext4_mb_new_blocks · 70022da8
    Ye Bin authored
    As we test disk offline/online with running fsstress, we find fsstress
    process is keeping running state.
    kworker/u32:3-262   [004] ...1   140.787471: ext4_mb_discard_preallocations: dev 8,32 needed 114
    ....
    kworker/u32:3-262   [004] ...1   140.787471: ext4_mb_discard_preallocations: dev 8,32 needed 114
    
    ext4_mb_new_blocks
    repeat:
            ext4_mb_discard_preallocations_should_retry(sb, ac, &seq)
                    freed = ext4_mb_discard_preallocations
                            ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations
                                    this_cpu_inc(discard_pa_seq);
                    ---> freed == 0
                    seq_retry = ext4_get_discard_pa_seq_sum
                            for_each_possible_cpu(__cpu)
                                    __seq += per_cpu(discard_pa_seq, __cpu);
                    if (seq_retry != *seq) {
                            *seq = seq_retry;
                            ret = true;
                    }
    
    As we see seq_retry is sum of discard_pa_seq every cpu, if
    ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations return zero discard_pa_seq in this
    cpu maybe increase one, so condition "seq_retry != *seq" have always
    been met.
    Ritesh Harjani suggest to in ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations function we
    only increase discard_pa_seq when there is some PA to free.
    
    Fixes: 07b5b8e1 ("ext4: mballoc: introduce pcpu seqcnt for freeing PA to improve ENOSPC handling")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYe Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRitesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200916113859.1556397-3-yebin10@huawei.comSigned-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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