Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: fixing global bitmap allocating failure for discontig type

[Heming Zhao]

Hello list,

I wrote this patch based on Gautham's patch code logic. Because I lack a
test script to verify this patch, this patch only passes compilation.

btw, another topic (unrelated to this bug) is that ocfs2-test fails to run
on the latest Linux distributions (e.g., openSUSE Tumbleweed). I am focusing
on fixing this problem, but it requires some time. I have created a personal
repository [1]. Once I finish the verification process for ocfs2-test, I will
submit a PR to the upstream GitHub repository [2] (the suse-py3 branch).

[1]: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:hmzhao:branches:network:ha-clustering:Factory/ocfs2-test
[2]: https://github.com/markfasheh/ocfs2-test

- Heming

On 3/27/25 14:22, Heming Zhao wrote:
> The commit 4eb7b93e0310 ("ocfs2: improve write IO performance when
> fragmentation is high") introduced a regression. In the discontiguous
> extent allocation case, ocfs2_cluster_group_search() is comparing with
> the wrong target length, which causes allocation failure.
>
> Call stack:
> ocfs2_mkdir()
>   ocfs2_reserve_new_inode()
>    ocfs2_reserve_suballoc_bits()
>     ocfs2_block_group_alloc()
>      ocfs2_block_group_alloc_discontig()
>       __ocfs2_claim_clusters()
>        ocfs2_claim_suballoc_bits()
>         ocfs2_search_chain()
>          ocfs2_cluster_group_search()
>
> Reported-by: Gautham Ananthakrishna <gautham.ananthakrishna@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 4eb7b93e0310 ("ocfs2: improve write IO performance when fragmentation is high")
> Signed-off-by: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c | 14 +++++++++++---
>   fs/ocfs2/suballoc.h |  1 +
>   2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)