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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/mballoc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 484c9d10c7f..d23056d375b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -928,8 +928,11 @@ int ext4_mb_init_group(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group) blocks_per_page = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE / sb->s_blocksize; this_grp = ext4_get_group_info(sb, group); /* - * This ensures we don't add group - * to this buddy cache via resize + * This ensures that we don't reinit the buddy cache + * page which map to the group from which we are already + * allocating. If we are looking at the buddy cache we would + * have taken a reference using ext4_mb_load_buddy and that + * would have taken the alloc_sem lock. */ num_grp_locked = ext4_mb_get_buddy_cache_lock(sb, group); if (!EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(this_grp)) { |