[Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 1/2] Revert "fs/ext4: do not run test_and_set_bit on every prefetch scan"

Konstantin Khorenko khorenko at virtuozzo.com
Tue Sep 22 16:27:47 MSK 2026


This reverts commit 3fff8724d1f894459c1477990fe086c0c2573410.

Mainstream has already fixed this issue the same way, only with the
test_bit check folded into the macro instead of the call site, so drop
our patch and take the mainstream version:
0e364a030229b ("ext4: avoid RWM atomic in EXT4_MB_GRP_TEST_AND_SET_READ")

https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-137147
https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-145663
Feature: fix ms/ext4

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at virtuozzo.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4.h    | 2 --
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 +---
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index ca6498609e2e1..bf7637785e073 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -3514,8 +3514,6 @@ struct ext4_group_info {
 	(clear_bit(EXT4_GROUP_INFO_WAS_TRIMMED_BIT, &((grp)->bb_state)))
 #define EXT4_MB_GRP_TEST_AND_SET_READ(grp)	\
 	(test_and_set_bit(EXT4_GROUP_INFO_BBITMAP_READ_BIT, &((grp)->bb_state)))
-#define EXT4_MB_GRP_TEST_READ(grp)	\
-	(test_bit(EXT4_GROUP_INFO_BBITMAP_READ_BIT, &((grp)->bb_state)))
 
 #define EXT4_MAX_CONTENTION		8
 #define EXT4_CONTENTION_THRESHOLD	2
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index b50aa34057967..aaf2c24c514c6 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2836,9 +2836,7 @@ ext4_group_t ext4_mb_prefetch(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 		 * prefetch once, so we avoid getblk() call, which can
 		 * be expensive.
 		 */
-		if (gdp && grp &&
-		    !EXT4_MB_GRP_TEST_READ(grp) &&
-		    !EXT4_MB_GRP_TEST_AND_SET_READ(grp) &&
+		if (gdp && grp && !EXT4_MB_GRP_TEST_AND_SET_READ(grp) &&
 		    EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(grp) &&
 		    ext4_free_group_clusters(sb, gdp) > 0 ) {
 			bh = ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait(sb, group, true);

-- 
2.43.0



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