From 74431472d16eb54e9451b2060f74a3d35e8bdc8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Yi Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 09:45:16 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: use reserved metadata blocks when splitting extent on endio [ Upstream commit 01942af95ab6c9d98e64ae01fdc243a03e4b973f ] When performing buffered writes, we may need to split and convert an unwritten extent into a written one during the end I/O process. However, we do not reserve space specifically for these metadata changes, we only reserve 2% of space or 4096 blocks. To address this, we use EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO to potentially split extents in advance and EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_METADATA_NOFAIL to utilize reserved space if necessary. These two approaches can reduce the likelihood of running out of space and losing data. However, these methods are merely best efforts, we could still run out of space, and there is not much difference between converting an extent during the writeback process and the end I/O process, it won't increase the risk of losing data if we postpone the conversion. Therefore, also use EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_METADATA_NOFAIL in ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio() to prepare for the buffered I/O iomap conversion, which may perform extent conversion during the end I/O process. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260105014522.1937690-2-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index ae7f2d6b32e3..7338f93313b6 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -3805,6 +3805,8 @@ ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, * illegal. */ if (ee_block != map->m_lblk || ee_len > map->m_len) { + int flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT | + EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_METADATA_NOFAIL; #ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG ext4_warning(inode->i_sb, "Inode (%ld) finished: extent logical block %llu," " len %u; IO logical block %llu, len %u", @@ -3812,7 +3814,7 @@ ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, (unsigned long long)map->m_lblk, map->m_len); #endif path = ext4_split_convert_extents(handle, inode, map, path, - EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT, NULL); + flags, NULL); if (IS_ERR(path)) return path;