[PATCH] ext4: retry failed direct IO allocations

On a 256M filesystem, doing this in a loop:

        xfs_io -F -f -d -c 'pwrite 0 64m' test
        rm -f test

eventually leads to ENOSPC.  (the xfs_io command does a
64m direct IO write to the file "test")

As with other block allocation callers, it looks like we need to
potentially retry the allocations on the initial ENOSPC.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 635f8ec6ebc6..5c5bc5dafff8 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3378,6 +3378,7 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ind_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
         ssize_t ret;
         int orphan = 0;
         size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+        int retries = 0;
 
         if (rw == WRITE) {
                 loff_t final_size = offset + count;
@@ -3400,9 +3401,12 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ind_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
                 }
         }
 
+retry:
         ret = blockdev_direct_IO(rw, iocb, inode, inode->i_sb->s_bdev, iov,
                                  offset, nr_segs,
                                  ext4_get_block, NULL);
+        if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
+                goto retry;
 
         if (orphan) {
                 int err;