Hi, Amit,

Have you looked at ext4_ext_walk_space()? It calculate the right extent length to allocate to avoid overlap before calling block allocation callback function is called.

Amit K. Arora wrote:
 /*
+ * ext4_ext_check_overlap:
+ * check if a portion of the "newext" extent overlaps with an
+ * existing extent.
+ *
+ * If there is an overlap discovered, it returns the (logical) block
+ * number of the first block in the next extent (the existing extent
+ * which covers few of the new requested blocks)
+ * If there is no overlap found, it returns 0.
+ */

What if the start logical block of the exisitng extent is 0 and there is overlap? I think that is possible. For example, the exisitng extent is (0,100) and you want to insert new extent (0,500), this will certainly fail to report the overlap.


+unsigned int ext4_ext_check_overlap(struct inode *inode,

We shall be consistant with other data type used for logical block, right now is unsigned long. Probably replace that with ext4_fsblk_t type when that cleanup is introduced.

+                                       struct ext4_extent *newext,
+                                       struct ext4_ext_path *path)
+{
+       unsigned int depth, b1, len1, b2;
+
unsigned long type for b1 and b2.

+       b1 = le32_to_cpu(newext->ee_block);
+       len1 = le16_to_cpu(newext->ee_len);
+       depth = ext_depth(inode);
+       if (!path[depth].p_ext)
+               goto out;
+       b2 = le32_to_cpu(path[depth].p_ext->ee_block);
+
+       /* get the next allocated block if the extent in the path
+        * is before the requested block(s) */
+       if (b2 < b1) {
+               b2 = ext4_ext_next_allocated_block(path);
+               if (b2 == EXT_MAX_BLOCK)
+                       goto out;
+       }
+
+       if (b1 + len1 > b2)
+               return b2;
+out:
+       return 0;
+}
+

Since this overlap check function is called inside ext4_ext_insert_extent(), I think this function should check for all kinds of overlaps. Here you only check if the new extent is overlap with the next extent. Looking at ext4_ext_walk_space(), there are total three kinds of overlaps:
1) righ port of new extent overlap with path->p_ext,
2) left port of new extent overlap with path->p_ext
2) right port of new extent overlap with next extent

I think we are almost repeating the same logic in ext4_ext_walk_space() here.

+/*
  * ext4_ext_insert_extent:
  * tries to merge requsted extent into the existing extent or
  * inserts requested extent as new one into the tree,
@@ -1133,12 +1170,25 @@ int ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle_t *han
        struct ext4_extent *nearex; /* nearest extent */
        struct ext4_ext_path *npath = NULL;
        int depth, len, err, next;
+       unsigned int oblock;

unsigned long type for oblock

        BUG_ON(newext->ee_len == 0);
        depth = ext_depth(inode);
        ex = path[depth].p_ext;
        BUG_ON(path[depth].p_hdr == NULL);

+       /* check for overlap */
+       oblock = ext4_ext_check_overlap(inode, newext, path);
+       if (oblock) {
+               printk(KERN_ERR "ERROR: newext=%u/%u overlaps with an "
+                               "existing extent, which starts with %u\n",
+                               le32_to_cpu(newext->ee_block),
+                               le16_to_cpu(newext->ee_len),
+                               oblock);
+               ext4_ext_show_leaf(inode, path);
+               BUG();
+       }

How about return true or false from ext4_ext_check_overlap()? Inside that function put the correct new extent logical block number and extent length that safe to insert? Afterall the returning oblock is used in ext4_ext_get_blocks() to calculate the safe extent to allocate.

+
        /* try to insert block into found extent and return */
        if (ex && ext4_can_extents_be_merged(inode, ex, newext)) {
                ext_debug("append %d block to %d:%d (from %llu)\n",
@@ -1984,6 +2034,10 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle
                 */
                if (ee_len > EXT_MAX_LEN)
                        goto out2;
+
+               if (iblock < ee_block && iblock + max_blocks >= ee_block)
+                       allocated = ee_block - iblock;
+
                /* if found extent covers block, simply return it */
                if (iblock >= ee_block && iblock < ee_block + ee_len) {
                        newblock = iblock - ee_block + ee_start;

Here I realize that the way that ext4_ext_get_blocks() handles the requested extent has hole on the right side is: simply returns the left port of the extent which already has blocks allocated. This is actually what non_extent get_blocks does also. caller of get_blocks() including preallocation code in ioctl will continue calling get_blocks to allocate blocks for the hole.

Probably we shall make this clear in the comment.
@@ -2016,7 +2070,17 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle

        /* allocate new block */
        goal = ext4_ext_find_goal(inode, path, iblock);
-       allocated = max_blocks;
+
+       /* Check if we can really insert (iblock)::(iblock+max_blocks) extent */
+       newex.ee_block = cpu_to_le32(iblock);
+       if (!allocated) {
+               newex.ee_len = cpu_to_le16(max_blocks);
+               allocated = ext4_ext_check_overlap(inode, &newex, path);
+               if (allocated)
+                       allocated = allocated - iblock;
+               else
+                       allocated = max_blocks;
+       }
        newblock = ext4_new_blocks(handle, inode, goal, &allocated, &err);
        if (!newblock)
                goto out2;
@@ -2024,7 +2088,6 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle
                        goal, newblock, allocated);

        /* try to insert new extent into found leaf and return */
-       newex.ee_block = cpu_to_le32(iblock);
        ext4_ext_store_pblock(&newex, newblock);
        newex.ee_len = cpu_to_le16(allocated);
        err = ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle, inode, path, &newex);
Index: linux-2.6.19.prealloc/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19.prealloc.orig/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h
+++ linux-2.6.19.prealloc/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ ext4_ext_invalidate_cache(struct inode *

 extern int ext4_extent_tree_init(handle_t *, struct inode *);
 extern int ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_insert(struct inode *, struct 
ext4_ext_path *);
+extern unsigned int ext4_ext_check_overlap(struct inode *, struct ext4_extent 
*, struct ext4_ext_path *);
 extern int ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle_t *, struct inode *, struct 
ext4_ext_path *, struct ext4_extent *);
 extern int ext4_ext_walk_space(struct inode *, unsigned long, unsigned long, 
ext_prepare_callback, void *);
 extern struct ext4_ext_path * ext4_ext_find_extent(struct inode *, int, struct 
ext4_ext_path *);



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