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ext2: retry block allocation if new blocks are allocated from system zone 

If the block allocator gets blocks out of system zone ext2 calls ext2_error.
But if the file system is mounted with errors=continue retry block allocation.
 We need to mark the system zone blocks as in use to make sure retry don't
pick them again

System zone is the block range mapping block bitmap, inode bitmap and inode
table.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V 2008-04-28 02:16:04 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 605afd60ef
commit 8b91582500
1 changed files with 11 additions and 5 deletions
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@ -149,11 +149,12 @@ read_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, unsigned int block_group)
block_group, le32_to_cpu(desc->bg_block_bitmap));
return NULL;
}
if (!ext2_valid_block_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh)) {
brelse(bh);
return NULL;
}
ext2_valid_block_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh);
/*
* file system mounted not to panic on error, continue with corrupt
* bitmap
*/
return bh;
}
@ -1380,7 +1381,12 @@ allocated:
"Allocating block in system zone - "
"blocks from "E2FSBLK", length %lu",
ret_block, num);
goto out;
/*
* ext2_try_to_allocate marked the blocks we allocated as in
* use. So we may want to selectively mark some of the blocks
* as free
*/
goto retry_alloc;
}
performed_allocation = 1;