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authorLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>2015-06-08 11:38:37 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2015-06-08 11:38:37 -0400
commitbbdc322f2c600667e3d23dfadf8bbaad08f7edd3 (patch)
tree8ff80ff43b805f1be02d038b4da697e8e5b1eefd /fs/ext4
parent41e5b7ed3e9597ccc46b6affc81872e6370936d9 (diff)
ext4: try to initialize all groups we can in case of failure on ppc64
Currently on the machines with page size > block size when initializing block group buddy cache we initialize it for all the block group bitmaps in the page. However in the case of read error, checksum error, or if a single bitmap is in any way corrupted we would fail to initialize all of the bitmaps. This is problematic because we will not have access to the other allocation groups even though those might be perfectly fine and usable. Fix this by reading all the bitmaps instead of error out on the first problem and simply skip the bitmaps which were either not read properly, or are not valid. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/mballoc.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 8d1e60214ef0..df02951df6bf 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -882,10 +882,8 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore)
/* wait for I/O completion */
for (i = 0, group = first_group; i < groups_per_page; i++, group++) {
- if (bh[i] && ext4_wait_block_bitmap(sb, group, bh[i])) {
+ if (bh[i] && ext4_wait_block_bitmap(sb, group, bh[i]))
err = -EIO;
- goto out;
- }
}
first_block = page->index * blocks_per_page;
@@ -898,6 +896,11 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore)
/* skip initialized uptodate buddy */
continue;
+ if (!buffer_verified(bh[group - first_group]))
+ /* Skip faulty bitmaps */
+ continue;
+ err = 0;
+
/*
* data carry information regarding this
* particular group in the format specified