[PATCH] ext4: fix reservation extension
authorMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:38:19 +0000 (20:38 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:39:39 +0000 (08:39 -0800)
commit1df1e63b9e9340015c01b85817568fb9afde10bc
tree10961392c3915cfe1b8317206b3993ed0e4596a6
parent2bd94bd79e5bfa217714f78e5d6d7b6517ca546f
[PATCH] ext4: fix reservation extension

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Not found anything relevant, but I keep noticing these lines
> in ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv(), ext3 and ext4 similar:
>
>  } else if (grp_goal > 0 &&
>  (my_rsv->rsv_end - grp_goal + 1) < *count)
>  try_to_extend_reservation(my_rsv, sb,
>  *count-my_rsv->rsv_end + grp_goal - 1);
>
> They're wrong, a no-op in most groups, aren't they?  rsv_end is an
> absolute block number, whereas grp_goal is group-relative, so the
> calculation ought to bring in group_first_block?  Or I'm confused.
>

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/ext4/balloc.c