Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: Update documentation to remind users to update mke2fs.conf
  ext4: Fix small file fragmentation
  ext4: Initialize writeback_index to 0 when allocating a new inode
  ext4: make sure ext4_has_free_blocks returns 0 for ENOSPC
  ext4: journal credit fix for the delayed allocation's writepages() function
  ext4: Rework the ext4_da_writepages() function
  ext4: journal credits reservation fixes for DIO, fallocate
  ext4: journal credits reservation fixes for extent file writepage
  ext4: journal credits calulation cleanup and fix for non-extent writepage
  ext4: Fix bug where we return ENOSPC even though we have plenty of inodes
  ext4: don't try to resize if there are no reserved gdt blocks left
  ext4: Use ext4_discard_reservations instead of mballoc-specific call
  ext4: Fix ext4_dx_readdir hash collision handling
  ext4: Fix delalloc release block reservation for truncate
  ext4: Fix potential truncate BUG due to i_prealloc_list being non-empty
  ext4: Handle unwritten extent properly with delayed allocation

13 files changed, 460 insertions, 238 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 80e193d82e2e..0d5394920a31 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ Mailing list: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
 
     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git
 
+  - Note that it is highly important to install the mke2fs.conf file
+    that comes with the e2fsprogs 1.41.x sources in /etc/mke2fs.conf. If
+    you have edited the /etc/mke2fs.conf file installed on your system,
+    you will need to merge your changes with the version from e2fsprogs
+    1.41.x.
+
   - Create a new filesystem using the ext4dev filesystem type:
 
     	# mke2fs -t ext4dev /dev/hda1
diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 1ae5004e93fc..e9fa960ba6da 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -1626,6 +1626,9 @@ ext4_fsblk_t ext4_has_free_blocks(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi,
 		free_blocks =
 			percpu_counter_sum_and_set(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter);
 #endif
+	if (free_blocks <= root_blocks)
+		/* we don't have free space */
+		return 0;
 	if (free_blocks - root_blocks < nblocks)
 		return free_blocks - root_blocks;
 	return nblocks;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c
index d3d23d73c08b..ec8e33b45219 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static int call_filldir(struct file * filp, void * dirent,
 				get_dtype(sb, fname->file_type));
 		if (error) {
 			filp->f_pos = curr_pos;
-			info->extra_fname = fname->next;
+			info->extra_fname = fname;
 			return error;
 		}
 		fname = fname->next;
@@ -450,11 +450,21 @@ static int ext4_dx_readdir(struct file * filp,
 	 * If there are any leftover names on the hash collision
 	 * chain, return them first.
 	 */
-	if (info->extra_fname &&
-	    call_filldir(filp, dirent, filldir, info->extra_fname))
-		goto finished;
+	if (info->extra_fname) {
+		if (call_filldir(filp, dirent, filldir, info->extra_fname))
+			goto finished;
 
-	if (!info->curr_node)
+		info->extra_fname = NULL;
+		info->curr_node = rb_next(info->curr_node);
+		if (!info->curr_node) {
+			if (info->next_hash == ~0) {
+				filp->f_pos = EXT4_HTREE_EOF;
+				goto finished;
+			}
+			info->curr_hash = info->next_hash;
+			info->curr_minor_hash = 0;
+		}
+	} else if (!info->curr_node)
 		info->curr_node = rb_first(&info->root);
 
 	while (1) {
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 6c7924d9e358..295003241d3d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1072,6 +1072,8 @@ extern void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *);
 extern void ext4_get_inode_flags(struct ext4_inode_info *);
 extern void ext4_set_aops(struct inode *inode);
 extern int ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(struct inode *);
+extern int ext4_meta_trans_blocks(struct inode *, int nrblocks, int idxblocks);
+extern int ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(struct inode *, int nrblocks);
 extern int ext4_block_truncate_page(handle_t *handle,
 		struct address_space *mapping, loff_t from);
 extern int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page);
@@ -1227,6 +1229,8 @@ extern const struct inode_operations ext4_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
 /* extents.c */
 extern int ext4_ext_tree_init(handle_t *handle, struct inode *);
 extern int ext4_ext_writepage_trans_blocks(struct inode *, int);
+extern int ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks,
+				       int chunk);
 extern int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 			ext4_lblk_t iblock,
 			unsigned long max_blocks, struct buffer_head *bh_result,
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h
index 6c166c0a54b7..d33dc56d6986 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h
@@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ extern int ext4_ext_calc_metadata_amount(struct inode *inode, int blocks);
 extern ext4_fsblk_t idx_pblock(struct ext4_extent_idx *);
 extern void ext4_ext_store_pblock(struct ext4_extent *, ext4_fsblk_t);
 extern int ext4_extent_tree_init(handle_t *, struct inode *);
-extern int ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_insert(struct inode *, struct ext4_ext_path *);
+extern int ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_single_extent(struct inode *inode,
+						   int num,
+						   struct ext4_ext_path *path);
 extern int ext4_ext_try_to_merge(struct inode *inode,
 				 struct ext4_ext_path *path,
 				 struct ext4_extent *);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
index eb8bc3afe6e9..b455c685a98b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
@@ -51,6 +51,14 @@
 					 EXT4_XATTR_TRANS_BLOCKS - 2 + \
 					 2*EXT4_QUOTA_TRANS_BLOCKS(sb))
 
+/*
+ * Define the number of metadata blocks we need to account to modify data.
+ *
+ * This include super block, inode block, quota blocks and xattr blocks
+ */
+#define EXT4_META_TRANS_BLOCKS(sb)	(EXT4_XATTR_TRANS_BLOCKS + \
+					2*EXT4_QUOTA_TRANS_BLOCKS(sb))
+
 /* Delete operations potentially hit one directory's namespace plus an
  * entire inode, plus arbitrary amounts of bitmap/indirection data.  Be
  * generous.  We can grow the delete transaction later if necessary. */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 612c3d2c3824..b24d3c53f20c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -1747,54 +1747,61 @@ static int ext4_ext_rm_idx(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 }
 
 /*
- * ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_insert:
- * This routine returns max. credits that the extent tree can consume.
- * It should be OK for low-performance paths like ->writepage()
- * To allow many writing processes to fit into a single transaction,
- * the caller should calculate credits under i_data_sem and
- * pass the actual path.
+ * ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_single_extent:
+ * This routine returns max. credits that needed to insert an extent
+ * to the extent tree.
+ * When pass the actual path, the caller should calculate credits
+ * under i_data_sem.
  */
-int ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_insert(struct inode *inode,
+int ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_single_extent(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks,
 						struct ext4_ext_path *path)
 {
-	int depth, needed;
-
 	if (path) {
+		int depth = ext_depth(inode);
+		int ret = 0;
+
 		/* probably there is space in leaf? */
-		depth = ext_depth(inode);
 		if (le16_to_cpu(path[depth].p_hdr->eh_entries)
-				< le16_to_cpu(path[depth].p_hdr->eh_max))
-			return 1;
-	}
+				< le16_to_cpu(path[depth].p_hdr->eh_max)) {
 
-	/*
-	 * given 32-bit logical block (4294967296 blocks), max. tree
-	 * can be 4 levels in depth -- 4 * 340^4 == 53453440000.
-	 * Let's also add one more level for imbalance.
-	 */
-	depth = 5;
-
-	/* allocation of new data block(s) */
-	needed = 2;
+			/*
+			 *  There are some space in the leaf tree, no
+			 *  need to account for leaf block credit
+			 *
+			 *  bitmaps and block group descriptor blocks
+			 *  and other metadat blocks still need to be
+			 *  accounted.
+			 */
+			/* 1 bitmap, 1 block group descriptor */
+			ret = 2 + EXT4_META_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb);
+		}
+	}
 
-	/*
-	 * tree can be full, so it would need to grow in depth:
-	 * we need one credit to modify old root, credits for
-	 * new root will be added in split accounting
-	 */
-	needed += 1;
+	return ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks);
+}
 
-	/*
-	 * Index split can happen, we would need:
-	 *    allocate intermediate indexes (bitmap + group)
-	 *  + change two blocks at each level, but root (already included)
-	 */
-	needed += (depth * 2) + (depth * 2);
+/*
+ * How many index/leaf blocks need to change/allocate to modify nrblocks?
+ *
+ * if nrblocks are fit in a single extent (chunk flag is 1), then
+ * in the worse case, each tree level index/leaf need to be changed
+ * if the tree split due to insert a new extent, then the old tree
+ * index/leaf need to be updated too
+ *
+ * If the nrblocks are discontiguous, they could cause
+ * the whole tree split more than once, but this is really rare.
+ */
+int ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks, int chunk)
+{
+	int index;
+	int depth = ext_depth(inode);
 
-	/* any allocation modifies superblock */
-	needed += 1;
+	if (chunk)
+		index = depth * 2;
+	else
+		index = depth * 3;
 
-	return needed;
+	return index;
 }
 
 static int ext4_remove_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
@@ -1921,9 +1928,7 @@ ext4_ext_rm_leaf(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 			correct_index = 1;
 			credits += (ext_depth(inode)) + 1;
 		}
-#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
 		credits += 2 * EXT4_QUOTA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb);
-#endif
 
 		err = ext4_ext_journal_restart(handle, credits);
 		if (err)
@@ -2805,7 +2810,7 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
 	/*
 	 * probably first extent we're gonna free will be last in block
 	 */
-	err = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode) + 3;
+	err = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);
 	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, err);
 	if (IS_ERR(handle))
 		return;
@@ -2819,7 +2824,7 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
 	down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
 	ext4_ext_invalidate_cache(inode);
 
-	ext4_mb_discard_inode_preallocations(inode);
+	ext4_discard_reservation(inode);
 
 	/*
 	 * TODO: optimization is possible here.
@@ -2858,27 +2863,6 @@ out_stop:
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 }
 
-/*
- * ext4_ext_writepage_trans_blocks:
- * calculate max number of blocks we could modify
- * in order to allocate new block for an inode
- */
-int ext4_ext_writepage_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int num)
-{
-	int needed;
-
-	needed = ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_insert(inode, NULL);
-
-	/* caller wants to allocate num blocks, but note it includes sb */
-	needed = needed * num - (num - 1);
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
-	needed += 2 * EXT4_QUOTA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb);
-#endif
-
-	return needed;
-}
-
 static void ext4_falloc_update_inode(struct inode *inode,
 				int mode, loff_t new_size, int update_ctime)
 {
@@ -2939,10 +2923,9 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
 	max_blocks = (EXT4_BLOCK_ALIGN(len + offset, blkbits) >> blkbits)
 							- block;
 	/*
-	 * credits to insert 1 extent into extent tree + buffers to be able to
-	 * modify 1 super block, 1 block bitmap and 1 group descriptor.
+	 * credits to insert 1 extent into extent tree
 	 */
-	credits = EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb) + 3;
+	credits = ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode, max_blocks);
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 retry:
 	while (ret >= 0 && ret < max_blocks) {
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 655e760212b8..f344834bbf58 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ find_close_to_parent:
 			goto found_flexbg;
 		}
 
-		if (best_flex < 0 ||
+		if (flex_group[best_flex].free_inodes == 0 ||
 		    (flex_group[i].free_blocks >
 		     flex_group[best_flex].free_blocks &&
 		     flex_group[i].free_inodes))
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 59fbbe899acc..7e91913e325b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
 #include "acl.h"
 #include "ext4_extents.h"
 
+#define MPAGE_DA_EXTENT_TAIL 0x01
+
 static inline int ext4_begin_ordered_truncate(struct inode *inode,
 					      loff_t new_size)
 {
@@ -1005,6 +1007,9 @@ static int ext4_indirect_calc_metadata_amount(struct inode *inode, int blocks)
  */
 static int ext4_calc_metadata_amount(struct inode *inode, int blocks)
 {
+	if (!blocks)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)
 		return ext4_ext_calc_metadata_amount(inode, blocks);
 
@@ -1041,18 +1046,6 @@ static void ext4_da_update_reserve_space(struct inode *inode, int used)
 	spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
 }
 
-/* Maximum number of blocks we map for direct IO at once. */
-#define DIO_MAX_BLOCKS 4096
-/*
- * Number of credits we need for writing DIO_MAX_BLOCKS:
- * We need sb + group descriptor + bitmap + inode -> 4
- * For B blocks with A block pointers per block we need:
- * 1 (triple ind.) + (B/A/A + 2) (doubly ind.) + (B/A + 2) (indirect).
- * If we plug in 4096 for B and 256 for A (for 1KB block size), we get 25.
- */
-#define DIO_CREDITS 25
-
-
 /*
  * The ext4_get_blocks_wrap() function try to look up the requested blocks,
  * and returns if the blocks are already mapped.
@@ -1164,19 +1157,23 @@ int ext4_get_blocks_wrap(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, sector_t block,
 	return retval;
 }
 
+/* Maximum number of blocks we map for direct IO at once. */
+#define DIO_MAX_BLOCKS 4096
+
 static int ext4_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
 			struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create)
 {
 	handle_t *handle = ext4_journal_current_handle();
 	int ret = 0, started = 0;
 	unsigned max_blocks = bh_result->b_size >> inode->i_blkbits;
+	int dio_credits;
 
 	if (create && !handle) {
 		/* Direct IO write... */
 		if (max_blocks > DIO_MAX_BLOCKS)
 			max_blocks = DIO_MAX_BLOCKS;
-		handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, DIO_CREDITS +
-			      2 * EXT4_QUOTA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
+		dio_credits = ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode, max_blocks);
+		handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, dio_credits);
 		if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
 			goto out;
@@ -1559,7 +1556,25 @@ static void ext4_da_release_space(struct inode *inode, int to_free)
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
 	int total, mdb, mdb_free, release;
 
+	if (!to_free)
+		return;		/* Nothing to release, exit */
+
 	spin_lock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
+
+	if (!EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks) {
+		/*
+		 * if there is no reserved blocks, but we try to free some
+		 * then the counter is messed up somewhere.
+		 * but since this function is called from invalidate
+		 * page, it's harmless to return without any action
+		 */
+		printk(KERN_INFO "ext4 delalloc try to release %d reserved "
+			    "blocks for inode %lu, but there is no reserved "
+			    "data blocks\n", to_free, inode->i_ino);
+		spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/* recalculate the number of metablocks still need to be reserved */
 	total = EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks - to_free;
 	mdb = ext4_calc_metadata_amount(inode, total);
@@ -1613,11 +1628,13 @@ struct mpage_da_data {
 	unsigned long first_page, next_page;	/* extent of pages */
 	get_block_t *get_block;
 	struct writeback_control *wbc;
+	int io_done;
+	long pages_written;
 };
 
 /*
  * mpage_da_submit_io - walks through extent of pages and try to write
- * them with __mpage_writepage()
+ * them with writepage() call back
  *
  * @mpd->inode: inode
  * @mpd->first_page: first page of the extent
@@ -1632,18 +1649,11 @@ struct mpage_da_data {
 static int mpage_da_submit_io(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = mpd->inode->i_mapping;
-	struct mpage_data mpd_pp = {
-		.bio = NULL,
-		.last_block_in_bio = 0,
-		.get_block = mpd->get_block,
-		.use_writepage = 1,
-	};
 	int ret = 0, err, nr_pages, i;
 	unsigned long index, end;
 	struct pagevec pvec;
 
 	BUG_ON(mpd->next_page <= mpd->first_page);
-
 	pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
 	index = mpd->first_page;
 	end = mpd->next_page - 1;
@@ -1661,8 +1671,9 @@ static int mpage_da_submit_io(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
 				break;
 			index++;
 
-			err = __mpage_writepage(page, mpd->wbc, &mpd_pp);
-
+			err = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, mpd->wbc);
+			if (!err)
+				mpd->pages_written++;
 			/*
 			 * In error case, we have to continue because
 			 * remaining pages are still locked
@@ -1673,9 +1684,6 @@ static int mpage_da_submit_io(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
 		}
 		pagevec_release(&pvec);
 	}
-	if (mpd_pp.bio)
-		mpage_bio_submit(WRITE, mpd_pp.bio);
-
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1698,7 +1706,7 @@ static void mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs(struct mpage_da_data *mpd, sector_t logical,
 	int blocks = exbh->b_size >> inode->i_blkbits;
 	sector_t pblock = exbh->b_blocknr, cur_logical;
 	struct buffer_head *head, *bh;
-	unsigned long index, end;
+	pgoff_t index, end;
 	struct pagevec pvec;
 	int nr_pages, i;
 
@@ -1741,6 +1749,13 @@ static void mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs(struct mpage_da_data *mpd, sector_t logical,
 				if (buffer_delay(bh)) {
 					bh->b_blocknr = pblock;
 					clear_buffer_delay(bh);
+					bh->b_bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
+				} else if (buffer_unwritten(bh)) {
+					bh->b_blocknr = pblock;
+					clear_buffer_unwritten(bh);
+					set_buffer_mapped(bh);
+					set_buffer_new(bh);
+					bh->b_bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
 				} else if (buffer_mapped(bh))
 					BUG_ON(bh->b_blocknr != pblock);
 
@@ -1776,13 +1791,11 @@ static inline void __unmap_underlying_blocks(struct inode *inode,
  *
  * The function skips space we know is already mapped to disk blocks.
  *
- * The function ignores errors ->get_block() returns, thus real
- * error handling is postponed to __mpage_writepage()
  */
 static void mpage_da_map_blocks(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
 {
+	int err = 0;
 	struct buffer_head *lbh = &mpd->lbh;
-	int err = 0, remain = lbh->b_size;
 	sector_t next = lbh->b_blocknr;
 	struct buffer_head new;
 
@@ -1792,38 +1805,36 @@ static void mpage_da_map_blocks(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
 	if (buffer_mapped(lbh) && !buffer_delay(lbh))
 		return;
 
-	while (remain) {
-		new.b_state = lbh->b_state;
-		new.b_blocknr = 0;
-		new.b_size = remain;
-		err = mpd->get_block(mpd->inode, next, &new, 1);
-		if (err) {
-			/*
-			 * Rather than implement own error handling
-			 * here, we just leave remaining blocks
-			 * unallocated and try again with ->writepage()
-			 */
-			break;
-		}
-		BUG_ON(new.b_size == 0);
+	new.b_state = lbh->b_state;
+	new.b_blocknr = 0;
+	new.b_size = lbh->b_size;
 
-		if (buffer_new(&new))
-			__unmap_underlying_blocks(mpd->inode, &new);
+	/*
+	 * If we didn't accumulate anything
+	 * to write simply return
+	 */
+	if (!new.b_size)
+		return;
+	err = mpd->get_block(mpd->inode, next, &new, 1);
+	if (err)
+		return;
+	BUG_ON(new.b_size == 0);
 
-		/*
-		 * If blocks are delayed marked, we need to
-		 * put actual blocknr and drop delayed bit
-		 */
-		if (buffer_delay(lbh))
-			mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs(mpd, next, &new);
+	if (buffer_new(&new))
+		__unmap_underlying_blocks(mpd->inode, &new);
 
-		/* go for the remaining blocks */
-		next += new.b_size >> mpd->inode->i_blkbits;
-		remain -= new.b_size;
-	}
+	/*
+	 * If blocks are delayed marked, we need to
+	 * put actual blocknr and drop delayed bit
+	 */
+	if (buffer_delay(lbh) || buffer_unwritten(lbh))
+		mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs(mpd, next, &new);
+
+	return;
 }
 
-#define BH_FLAGS ((1 << BH_Uptodate) | (1 << BH_Mapped) | (1 << BH_Delay))
+#define BH_FLAGS ((1 << BH_Uptodate) | (1 << BH_Mapped) | \
+		(1 << BH_Delay) | (1 << BH_Unwritten))
 
 /*
  * mpage_add_bh_to_extent - try to add one more block to extent of blocks
@@ -1837,41 +1848,61 @@ static void mpage_da_map_blocks(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
 static void mpage_add_bh_to_extent(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
 				   sector_t logical, struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
-	struct buffer_head *lbh = &mpd->lbh;
 	sector_t next;
+	size_t b_size = bh->b_size;
+	struct buffer_head *lbh = &mpd->lbh;
+	int nrblocks = lbh->b_size >> mpd->inode->i_blkbits;
 
-	next = lbh->b_blocknr + (lbh->b_size >> mpd->inode->i_blkbits);
-
+	/* check if thereserved journal credits might overflow */
+	if (!(EXT4_I(mpd->inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)) {
+		if (nrblocks >= EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA) {
+			/*
+			 * With non-extent format we are limited by the journal
+			 * credit available.  Total credit needed to insert
+			 * nrblocks contiguous blocks is dependent on the
+			 * nrblocks.  So limit nrblocks.
+			 */
+			goto flush_it;
+		} else if ((nrblocks + (b_size >> mpd->inode->i_blkbits)) >
+				EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA) {
+			/*
+			 * Adding the new buffer_head would make it cross the
+			 * allowed limit for which we have journal credit
+			 * reserved. So limit the new bh->b_size
+			 */
+			b_size = (EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA - nrblocks) <<
+						mpd->inode->i_blkbits;
+			/* we will do mpage_da_submit_io in the next loop */
+		}
+	}
 	/*
 	 * First block in the extent
 	 */
 	if (lbh->b_size == 0) {
 		lbh->b_blocknr = logical;
-		lbh->b_size = bh->b_size;
+		lbh->b_size = b_size;
 		lbh->b_state = bh->b_state & BH_FLAGS;
 		return;
 	}
 
+	next = lbh->b_blocknr + nrblocks;
 	/*
 	 * Can we merge the block to our big extent?
 	 */
 	if (logical == next && (bh->b_state & BH_FLAGS) == lbh->b_state) {
-		lbh->b_size += bh->b_size;
+		lbh->b_size += b_size;
 		return;
 	}
 
+flush_it:
 	/*
 	 * We couldn't merge the block to our extent, so we
 	 * need to flush current  extent and start new one
 	 */
 	mpage_da_map_blocks(mpd);
-
-	/*
-	 * Now start a new extent
-	 */
-	lbh->b_size = bh->b_size;
-	lbh->b_state = bh->b_state & BH_FLAGS;
-	lbh->b_blocknr = logical;
+	mpage_da_submit_io(mpd);
+	mpd->io_done = 1;
+	return;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1891,17 +1922,35 @@ static int __mpage_da_writepage(struct page *page,
 	struct buffer_head *bh, *head, fake;
 	sector_t logical;
 
+	if (mpd->io_done) {
+		/*
+		 * Rest of the page in the page_vec
+		 * redirty then and skip then. We will
+		 * try to to write them again after
+		 * starting a new transaction
+		 */
+		redirty_page_for_writepage(wbc, page);
+		unlock_page(page);
+		return MPAGE_DA_EXTENT_TAIL;
+	}
 	/*
 	 * Can we merge this page to current extent?
 	 */
 	if (mpd->next_page != page->index) {
 		/*
 		 * Nope, we can't. So, we map non-allocated blocks
-		 * and start IO on them using __mpage_writepage()
+		 * and start IO on them using writepage()
 		 */
 		if (mpd->next_page != mpd->first_page) {
 			mpage_da_map_blocks(mpd);
 			mpage_da_submit_io(mpd);
+			/*
+			 * skip rest of the page in the page_vec
+			 */
+			mpd->io_done = 1;
+			redirty_page_for_writepage(wbc, page);
+			unlock_page(page);
+			return MPAGE_DA_EXTENT_TAIL;
 		}
 
 		/*
@@ -1932,6 +1981,8 @@ static int __mpage_da_writepage(struct page *page,
 		set_buffer_dirty(bh);
 		set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
 		mpage_add_bh_to_extent(mpd, logical, bh);
+		if (mpd->io_done)
+			return MPAGE_DA_EXTENT_TAIL;
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * Page with regular buffer heads, just add all dirty ones
@@ -1940,8 +1991,12 @@ static int __mpage_da_writepage(struct page *page,
 		bh = head;
 		do {
 			BUG_ON(buffer_locked(bh));
-			if (buffer_dirty(bh))
+			if (buffer_dirty(bh) &&
+				(!buffer_mapped(bh) || buffer_delay(bh))) {
 				mpage_add_bh_to_extent(mpd, logical, bh);
+				if (mpd->io_done)
+					return MPAGE_DA_EXTENT_TAIL;
+			}
 			logical++;
 		} while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head);
 	}
@@ -1960,22 +2015,13 @@ static int __mpage_da_writepage(struct page *page,
  *
  * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
  * address_space_operation.
- *
- * In order to avoid duplication of logic that deals with partial pages,
- * multiple bio per page, etc, we find non-allocated blocks, allocate
- * them with minimal calls to ->get_block() and re-use __mpage_writepage()
- *
- * It's important that we call __mpage_writepage() only once for each
- * involved page, otherwise we'd have to implement more complicated logic
- * to deal with pages w/o PG_lock or w/ PG_writeback and so on.
- *
- * See comments to mpage_writepages()
  */
 static int mpage_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
 			       struct writeback_control *wbc,
 			       get_block_t get_block)
 {
 	struct mpage_da_data mpd;
+	long to_write;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (!get_block)
@@ -1989,17 +2035,22 @@ static int mpage_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
 	mpd.first_page = 0;
 	mpd.next_page = 0;
 	mpd.get_block = get_block;
+	mpd.io_done = 0;
+	mpd.pages_written = 0;
+
+	to_write = wbc->nr_to_write;
 
 	ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __mpage_da_writepage, &mpd);
 
 	/*
 	 * Handle last extent of pages
 	 */
-	if (mpd.next_page != mpd.first_page) {
+	if (!mpd.io_done && mpd.next_page != mpd.first_page) {
 		mpage_da_map_blocks(&mpd);
 		mpage_da_submit_io(&mpd);
 	}
 
+	wbc->nr_to_write = to_write - mpd.pages_written;
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -2204,63 +2255,95 @@ static int ext4_da_writepage(struct page *page,
 }
 
 /*
- * For now just follow the DIO way to estimate the max credits
- * needed to write out EXT4_MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES.
- * todo: need to calculate the max credits need for
- * extent based files, currently the DIO credits is based on
- * indirect-blocks mapping way.
- *
- * Probably should have a generic way to calculate credits
- * for DIO, writepages, and truncate
+ * This is called via ext4_da_writepages() to
+ * calulate the total number of credits to reserve to fit
+ * a single extent allocation into a single transaction,
+ * ext4_da_writpeages() will loop calling this before
+ * the block allocation.
  */
-#define EXT4_MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES      DIO_MAX_BLOCKS
-#define EXT4_MAX_WRITEBACK_CREDITS    DIO_CREDITS
+
+static int ext4_da_writepages_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	int max_blocks = EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks;
+
+	/*
+	 * With non-extent format the journal credit needed to
+	 * insert nrblocks contiguous block is dependent on
+	 * number of contiguous block. So we will limit
+	 * number of contiguous block to a sane value
+	 */
+	if (!(inode->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) &&
+	    (max_blocks > EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA))
+		max_blocks = EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA;
+
+	return ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode, max_blocks);
+}
 
 static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
-				struct writeback_control *wbc)
+			      struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
-	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	handle_t *handle = NULL;
-	int needed_blocks;
-	int ret = 0;
-	long to_write;
 	loff_t range_start = 0;
+	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
+	int needed_blocks, ret = 0, nr_to_writebump = 0;
+	long to_write, pages_skipped = 0;
+	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(mapping->host->i_sb);
 
 	/*
 	 * No pages to write? This is mainly a kludge to avoid starting
 	 * a transaction for special inodes like journal inode on last iput()
 	 * because that could violate lock ordering on umount
 	 */
-	if (!mapping->nrpages)
+	if (!mapping->nrpages || !mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY))
 		return 0;
-
 	/*
-	 * Estimate the worse case needed credits to write out
-	 * EXT4_MAX_BUF_BLOCKS pages
+	 * Make sure nr_to_write is >= sbi->s_mb_stream_request
+	 * This make sure small files blocks are allocated in
+	 * single attempt. This ensure that small files
+	 * get less fragmented.
 	 */
-	needed_blocks = EXT4_MAX_WRITEBACK_CREDITS;
+	if (wbc->nr_to_write < sbi->s_mb_stream_request) {
+		nr_to_writebump = sbi->s_mb_stream_request - wbc->nr_to_write;
+		wbc->nr_to_write = sbi->s_mb_stream_request;
+	}
 
-	to_write = wbc->nr_to_write;
-	if (!wbc->range_cyclic) {
+	if (!wbc->range_cyclic)
 		/*
 		 * If range_cyclic is not set force range_cont
 		 * and save the old writeback_index
 		 */
 		wbc->range_cont = 1;
-		range_start =  wbc->range_start;
-	}
 
-	while (!ret && to_write) {
+	range_start =  wbc->range_start;
+	pages_skipped = wbc->pages_skipped;
+
+restart_loop:
+	to_write = wbc->nr_to_write;
+	while (!ret && to_write > 0) {
+
+		/*
+		 * we  insert one extent at a time. So we need
+		 * credit needed for single extent allocation.
+		 * journalled mode is currently not supported
+		 * by delalloc
+		 */
+		BUG_ON(ext4_should_journal_data(inode));
+		needed_blocks = ext4_da_writepages_trans_blocks(inode);
+
 		/* start a new transaction*/
 		handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, needed_blocks);
 		if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
+			printk(KERN_EMERG "%s: jbd2_start: "
+			       "%ld pages, ino %lu; err %d\n", __func__,
+				wbc->nr_to_write, inode->i_ino, ret);
+			dump_stack();
 			goto out_writepages;
 		}
 		if (ext4_should_order_data(inode)) {
 			/*
 			 * With ordered mode we need to add
-			 * the inode to the journal handle
+			 * the inode to the journal handl
 			 * when we do block allocation.
 			 */
 			ret = ext4_jbd2_file_inode(handle, inode);
@@ -2268,20 +2351,20 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
 				ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 				goto out_writepages;
 			}
-
 		}
-		/*
-		 * set the max dirty pages could be write at a time
-		 * to fit into the reserved transaction credits
-		 */
-		if (wbc->nr_to_write > EXT4_MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES)
-			wbc->nr_to_write = EXT4_MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
 
 		to_write -= wbc->nr_to_write;
 		ret = mpage_da_writepages(mapping, wbc,
-						ext4_da_get_block_write);
+					  ext4_da_get_block_write);
 		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-		if (wbc->nr_to_write) {
+		if (ret == MPAGE_DA_EXTENT_TAIL) {
+			/*
+			 * got one extent now try with
+			 * rest of the pages
+			 */
+			to_write += wbc->nr_to_write;
+			ret = 0;
+		} else if (wbc->nr_to_write) {
 			/*
 			 * There is no more writeout needed
 			 * or we requested for a noblocking writeout
@@ -2293,10 +2376,18 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		wbc->nr_to_write = to_write;
 	}
 
-out_writepages:
-	wbc->nr_to_write = to_write;
-	if (range_start)
+	if (wbc->range_cont && (pages_skipped != wbc->pages_skipped)) {
+		/* We skipped pages in this loop */
 		wbc->range_start = range_start;
+		wbc->nr_to_write = to_write +
+				wbc->pages_skipped - pages_skipped;
+		wbc->pages_skipped = pages_skipped;
+		goto restart_loop;
+	}
+
+out_writepages:
+	wbc->nr_to_write = to_write - nr_to_writebump;
+	wbc->range_start = range_start;
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -3486,6 +3577,9 @@ void ext4_truncate(struct inode *inode)
 	 * modify the block allocation tree.
 	 */
 	down_write(&ei->i_data_sem);
+
+	ext4_discard_reservation(inode);
+
 	/*
 	 * The orphan list entry will now protect us from any crash which
 	 * occurs before the truncate completes, so it is now safe to propagate
@@ -3555,8 +3649,6 @@ do_indirects:
 		;
 	}
 
-	ext4_discard_reservation(inode);
-
 	up_write(&ei->i_data_sem);
 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);
 	ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
@@ -4324,57 +4416,129 @@ int ext4_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int ext4_indirect_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks,
+				      int chunk)
+{
+	int indirects;
+
+	/* if nrblocks are contiguous */
+	if (chunk) {
+		/*
+		 * With N contiguous data blocks, it need at most
+		 * N/EXT4_ADDR_PER_BLOCK(inode->i_sb) indirect blocks
+		 * 2 dindirect blocks
+		 * 1 tindirect block
+		 */
+		indirects = nrblocks / EXT4_ADDR_PER_BLOCK(inode->i_sb);
+		return indirects + 3;
+	}
+	/*
+	 * if nrblocks are not contiguous, worse case, each block touch
+	 * a indirect block, and each indirect block touch a double indirect
+	 * block, plus a triple indirect block
+	 */
+	indirects = nrblocks * 2 + 1;
+	return indirects;
+}
+
+static int ext4_index_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks, int chunk)
+{
+	if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+		return ext4_indirect_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks, 0);
+	return ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks, 0);
+}
 /*
- * How many blocks doth make a writepage()?
- *
- * With N blocks per page, it may be:
- * N data blocks
- * 2 indirect block
- * 2 dindirect
- * 1 tindirect
- * N+5 bitmap blocks (from the above)
- * N+5 group descriptor summary blocks
- * 1 inode block
- * 1 superblock.
- * 2 * EXT4_SINGLEDATA_TRANS_BLOCKS for the quote files
+ * Account for index blocks, block groups bitmaps and block group
+ * descriptor blocks if modify datablocks and index blocks
+ * worse case, the indexs blocks spread over different block groups
  *
- * 3 * (N + 5) + 2 + 2 * EXT4_SINGLEDATA_TRANS_BLOCKS
+ * If datablocks are discontiguous, they are possible to spread over
+ * different block groups too. If they are contiugous, with flexbg,
+ * they could still across block group boundary.
  *
- * With ordered or writeback data it's the same, less the N data blocks.
+ * Also account for superblock, inode, quota and xattr blocks
+ */
+int ext4_meta_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks, int chunk)
+{
+	int groups, gdpblocks;
+	int idxblocks;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * How many index blocks need to touch to modify nrblocks?
+	 * The "Chunk" flag indicating whether the nrblocks is
+	 * physically contiguous on disk
+	 *
+	 * For Direct IO and fallocate, they calls get_block to allocate
+	 * one single extent at a time, so they could set the "Chunk" flag
+	 */
+	idxblocks = ext4_index_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks, chunk);
+
+	ret = idxblocks;
+
+	/*
+	 * Now let's see how many group bitmaps and group descriptors need
+	 * to account
+	 */
+	groups = idxblocks;
+	if (chunk)
+		groups += 1;
+	else
+		groups += nrblocks;
+
+	gdpblocks = groups;
+	if (groups > EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_groups_count)
+		groups = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_groups_count;
+	if (groups > EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_gdb_count)
+		gdpblocks = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_gdb_count;
+
+	/* bitmaps and block group descriptor blocks */
+	ret += groups + gdpblocks;
+
+	/* Blocks for super block, inode, quota and xattr blocks */
+	ret += EXT4_META_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Calulate the total number of credits to reserve to fit
+ * the modification of a single pages into a single transaction,
+ * which may include multiple chunks of block allocations.
  *
- * If the inode's direct blocks can hold an integral number of pages then a
- * page cannot straddle two indirect blocks, and we can only touch one indirect
- * and dindirect block, and the "5" above becomes "3".
+ * This could be called via ext4_write_begin()
  *
- * This still overestimates under most circumstances.  If we were to pass the
- * start and end offsets in here as well we could do block_to_path() on each
- * block and work out the exact number of indirects which are touched.  Pah.
+ * We need to consider the worse case, when
+ * one new block per extent.
  */
-
 int ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	int bpp = ext4_journal_blocks_per_page(inode);
-	int indirects = (EXT4_NDIR_BLOCKS % bpp) ? 5 : 3;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)
-		return ext4_ext_writepage_trans_blocks(inode, bpp);
+	ret = ext4_meta_trans_blocks(inode, bpp, 0);
 
+	/* Account for data blocks for journalled mode */
 	if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode))
-		ret = 3 * (bpp + indirects) + 2;
-	else
-		ret = 2 * (bpp + indirects) + 2;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
-	/* We know that structure was already allocated during DQUOT_INIT so
-	 * we will be updating only the data blocks + inodes */
-	ret += 2*EXT4_QUOTA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb);
-#endif
-
+		ret += bpp;
 	return ret;
 }
 
 /*
+ * Calculate the journal credits for a chunk of data modification.
+ *
+ * This is called from DIO, fallocate or whoever calling
+ * ext4_get_blocks_wrap() to map/allocate a chunk of contigous disk blocks.
+ *
+ * journal buffers for data blocks are not included here, as DIO
+ * and fallocate do no need to journal data buffers.
+ */
+int ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks)
+{
+	return ext4_meta_trans_blocks(inode, nrblocks, 1);
+}
+
+/*
  * The caller must have previously called ext4_reserve_inode_write().
  * Give this, we know that the caller already has write access to iloc->bh.
  */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 865e9ddb44d4..e0e3a5eb1ddb 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -3282,6 +3282,35 @@ static void ext4_mb_use_group_pa(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac,
 }
 
 /*
+ * Return the prealloc space that have minimal distance
+ * from the goal block. @cpa is the prealloc
+ * space that is having currently known minimal distance
+ * from the goal block.
+ */
+static struct ext4_prealloc_space *
+ext4_mb_check_group_pa(ext4_fsblk_t goal_block,
+			struct ext4_prealloc_space *pa,
+			struct ext4_prealloc_space *cpa)
+{
+	ext4_fsblk_t cur_distance, new_distance;
+
+	if (cpa == NULL) {
+		atomic_inc(&pa->pa_count);
+		return pa;
+	}
+	cur_distance = abs(goal_block - cpa->pa_pstart);
+	new_distance = abs(goal_block - pa->pa_pstart);
+
+	if (cur_distance < new_distance)
+		return cpa;
+
+	/* drop the previous reference */
+	atomic_dec(&cpa->pa_count);
+	atomic_inc(&pa->pa_count);
+	return pa;
+}
+
+/*
  * search goal blocks in preallocated space
  */
 static noinline_for_stack int
@@ -3290,7 +3319,8 @@ ext4_mb_use_preallocated(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
 	int order, i;
 	struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(ac->ac_inode);
 	struct ext4_locality_group *lg;
-	struct ext4_prealloc_space *pa;
+	struct ext4_prealloc_space *pa, *cpa = NULL;
+	ext4_fsblk_t goal_block;
 
 	/* only data can be preallocated */
 	if (!(ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA))
@@ -3333,6 +3363,13 @@ ext4_mb_use_preallocated(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
 		/* The max size of hash table is PREALLOC_TB_SIZE */
 		order = PREALLOC_TB_SIZE - 1;
 
+	goal_block = ac->ac_g_ex.fe_group * EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(ac->ac_sb) +
+		     ac->ac_g_ex.fe_start +
+		     le32_to_cpu(EXT4_SB(ac->ac_sb)->s_es->s_first_data_block);
+	/*
+	 * search for the prealloc space that is having
+	 * minimal distance from the goal block.
+	 */
 	for (i = order; i < PREALLOC_TB_SIZE; i++) {
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		list_for_each_entry_rcu(pa, &lg->lg_prealloc_list[i],
@@ -3340,17 +3377,19 @@ ext4_mb_use_preallocated(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
 			spin_lock(&pa->pa_lock);
 			if (pa->pa_deleted == 0 &&
 					pa->pa_free >= ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len) {
-				atomic_inc(&pa->pa_count);
-				ext4_mb_use_group_pa(ac, pa);
-				spin_unlock(&pa->pa_lock);
-				ac->ac_criteria = 20;
-				rcu_read_unlock();
-				return 1;
+
+				cpa = ext4_mb_check_group_pa(goal_block,
+								pa, cpa);
 			}
 			spin_unlock(&pa->pa_lock);
 		}
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 	}
+	if (cpa) {
+		ext4_mb_use_group_pa(ac, cpa);
+		ac->ac_criteria = 20;
+		return 1;
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/migrate.c b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
index b9e077ba07e9..46fc0b5b12ba 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/migrate.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ static int finish_range(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	 * credit. But below we try to not accumalate too much
 	 * of them by restarting the journal.
 	 */
-	needed = ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_insert(inode, path);
+	needed = ext4_ext_calc_credits_for_single_extent(inode,
+		    lb->last_block - lb->first_block + 1, path);
 
 	/*
 	 * Make sure the credit we accumalated is not really high
diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
index 0a9265164265..b3d35604ea18 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
@@ -773,7 +773,8 @@ int ext4_group_add(struct super_block *sb, struct ext4_new_group_data *input)
 
 	if (reserved_gdb || gdb_off == 0) {
 		if (!EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb,
-					     EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_RESIZE_INODE)){
+					     EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_RESIZE_INODE)
+		    || !le16_to_cpu(es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks)) {
 			ext4_warning(sb, __func__,
 				     "No reserved GDT blocks, can't resize");
 			return -EPERM;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index d5d77958b861..566344b926b7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -568,6 +568,7 @@ static struct inode *ext4_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 #endif
 	ei->i_block_alloc_info = NULL;
 	ei->vfs_inode.i_version = 1;
+	ei->vfs_inode.i_data.writeback_index = 0;
 	memset(&ei->i_cached_extent, 0, sizeof(struct ext4_ext_cache));
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ei->i_prealloc_list);
 	spin_lock_init(&ei->i_prealloc_lock);