Chunguang Xu
82ef1370b0
Commit cfd7323772 ("ext4: add prefetching for block allocation
bitmaps") introduced block bitmap prefetch, and expects to read block
bitmaps of flex_bg through an IO. However, it seems to ignore the
value range of s_log_groups_per_flex. In the scenario where the value
of s_log_groups_per_flex is greater than 27, s_mb_prefetch or
s_mb_prefetch_limit will overflow, cause a divide zero exception.
In addition, the logic of calculating nr is also flawed, because the
size of flexbg is fixed during a single mount, but s_mb_prefetch can
be modified, which causes nr to fail to meet the value condition of
[1, flexbg_size].
To solve this problem, we need to set the upper limit of
s_mb_prefetch. Since we expect to load block bitmaps of a flex_bg
through an IO, we can consider determining a reasonable upper limit
among the IO limit parameters. After consideration, we chose
BLK_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE. This is a good choice to solve divide zero
problem and avoiding performance degradation.
[ Some minor code simplifications to make the changes easy to follow -- TYT ]
Reported-by: Tosk Robot <tencent_os_robot@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <brookxu@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Liao <samuelliao@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1607051143-24508-1-git-send-email-brookxu@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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