[PATCH] ext4: retry failed direct IO allocations
On a 256M filesystem, doing this in a loop:
xfs_io -F -f -d -c 'pwrite 0 64m' test
rm -f test
eventually leads to ENOSPC. (the xfs_io command does a
64m direct IO write to the file "test")
As with other block allocation callers, it looks like we need to
potentially retry the allocations on the initial ENOSPC.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 635f8ec..5c5bc5d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3378,6 +3378,7 @@
ssize_t ret;
int orphan = 0;
size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+ int retries = 0;
if (rw == WRITE) {
loff_t final_size = offset + count;
@@ -3400,9 +3401,12 @@
}
}
+retry:
ret = blockdev_direct_IO(rw, iocb, inode, inode->i_sb->s_bdev, iov,
offset, nr_segs,
ext4_get_block, NULL);
+ if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
+ goto retry;
if (orphan) {
int err;