Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: btrfs_defrag_file: Fix calculation of max_to_defrag.

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On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 06:16:23PM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> Consider a file having 10 4k blocks (i.e. blocks in the range [0 - 9]). If the
> defrag ioctl was invoked for the block range [3 - 6], then max_to_defrag
> should actually have the value 4. Instead in the current code we end up
> setting it to 6.
> 
> Now, this does not (yet) cause an issue since the first part of the while loop
> condition in btrfs_defrag_file() (i.e. "i <= last_index") causes the control
> to flow out of the while loop before any buggy behavior is actually caused. So
> the patch just makes sure that max_to_defrag ends up having the right value
> rather than fixing a bug. I did run the xfstests suite to make sure that no
> new regressions were introduced by this patch.

Thank, put that kind of detailed description into the changelog.
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