ext4: lock block groups when initializing
I noticed when filling a 1T filesystem with 4 threads using the
fs_mark benchmark:
fs_mark -d /mnt/test -D 256 -n 100000 -t 4 -s 20480 -F -S 0
that I occasionally got checksum mismatch errors:
EXT4-fs error (device sdb): ext4_init_inode_bitmap: Checksum bad for group 6935
etc. I'd reliably get 4-5 of them during the run.
It appears that the problem is likely a race to init the bg's
when the uninit_bg feature is enabled.
With the patch below, which adds sb_bgl_locking around initialization,
I was able to complete several runs with no errors or warnings.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 386cb79..1ae5004 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -321,12 +321,15 @@
if (bh_uptodate_or_lock(bh))
return bh;
+ spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);
set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
unlock_buffer(bh);
+ spin_unlock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
return bh;
}
+ spin_unlock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
if (bh_submit_read(bh) < 0) {
put_bh(bh);
ext4_error(sb, __func__,