ext4: fix zombie groups in average fragment size lists
commit 1c320d8e upstream. Groups with no free blocks shouldn't be in any average fragment size list. However, when all blocks in a group are allocated(i.e., bb_fragments or bb_free is 0), we currently skip updating the average fragment size, which means the group isn't removed from its previous s_mb_avg_fragment_size[old] list. This created "zombie" groups that were always skipped during traversal as they couldn't satisfy any block allocation requests, negatively impacting traversal efficiency. Therefore, when a group becomes completely full, bb_avg_fragment_size_order is now set to -1. If the old order was not -1, a removal operation is performed; if the new order is not -1, an insertion is performed. Fixes: 196e402a ("ext4: improve cr 0 / cr 1 group scanning") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by:
Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250714130327.1830534-11-libaokun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by:
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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