Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] ext4: correct the journal credits calculations of allocating blocks

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Mon May 19 2025 - 11:48:54 EST


On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 10:48:28AM +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
>
> This patch conflicts with Jan's patch e18d4f11d240 ("ext4: fix
> calculation of credits for extent tree modification") in
> ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(), the conflict should be resolved when
> merging this patch. However, I checked the merged commit of this patch
> in your dev branch[1], and the changes in ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks()
> seem to be incorrect, which could result in insufficient credit
> reservations on 1K block size filesystems.

Thanks so much for noticing the mis-merge! I've fixed it in my tree,
and will be pushing it out shortly. If you could take a look and make
sure that it's correct, that would be great.

- Ted