ext4: journal credits calulation cleanup and fix for non-extent writepage

When considering how many journal credits are needed for modifying a
chunk of data, we need to account for the super block, inode block,
quota blocks and xattr block, indirect/index blocks, also, group bitmap
and group descriptor blocks for new allocation (including data and
indirect/index blocks). There are many places in ext4 do the calculation
on their own and often missed one or two meta blocks, and often they
assume single block allocation, and did not considering the multile
chunk of allocation case.

This patch is trying to cleanup current journal credit code, provides
some common helper funtion to calculate the journal credits, to be used
for writepage, writepages, DIO, fallocate, migration, defrag, and for
both nonextent and extent files.

This patch modified the writepage/write_begin credit caculation for
nonextent files, to use the new helper function. It also fixed the
problem that writepage on nonextent files did not consider the case
blocksize <pagesize, thus could possibelly need multiple block
allocation in a single transaction.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 6c7924d9e358..38e661b0ea88 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1072,6 +1072,7 @@ extern void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *);
 extern void ext4_get_inode_flags(struct ext4_inode_info *);
 extern void ext4_set_aops(struct inode *inode);
 extern int ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(struct inode *);
+extern int ext4_meta_trans_blocks(struct inode *, int nrblocks, int idxblocks);
 extern int ext4_block_truncate_page(handle_t *handle,
                 struct address_space *mapping, loff_t from);
 extern int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page);
@@ -1227,6 +1228,8 @@ extern const struct inode_operations ext4_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
 /* extents.c */
 extern int ext4_ext_tree_init(handle_t *handle, struct inode *);
 extern int ext4_ext_writepage_trans_blocks(struct inode *, int);
+extern int ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks,
+                                       int chunk);
 extern int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                         ext4_lblk_t iblock,
                         unsigned long max_blocks, struct buffer_head *bh_result,