diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 4fe3d8d0be77..db65c5a9a5a2 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 99e4c750419e0bb24a1bbf094b1e6a5a4eedbc36
+refs/heads/master: e6b5859cccfa0fec02f3c5b1069481efc7186f47
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
index e928a88f2db1..ebaff625fc28 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
@@ -516,3 +516,42 @@ static int ocfs2_validate_and_adjust_move_goal(struct inode *inode,
 
 	return ret;
 }
+
+static void ocfs2_probe_alloc_group(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh,
+				    int *goal_bit, u32 move_len, u32 max_hop,
+				    u32 *phys_cpos)
+{
+	int i, used, last_free_bits = 0, base_bit = *goal_bit;
+	struct ocfs2_group_desc *gd = (struct ocfs2_group_desc *)bh->b_data;
+	u32 base_cpos = ocfs2_blocks_to_clusters(inode->i_sb,
+						 le64_to_cpu(gd->bg_blkno));
+
+	for (i = base_bit; i < le16_to_cpu(gd->bg_bits); i++) {
+
+		used = ocfs2_test_bit(i, (unsigned long *)gd->bg_bitmap);
+		if (used) {
+			/*
+			 * we even tried searching the free chunk by jumping
+			 * a 'max_hop' distance, but still failed.
+			 */
+			if ((i - base_bit) > max_hop) {
+				*phys_cpos = 0;
+				break;
+			}
+
+			if (last_free_bits)
+				last_free_bits = 0;
+
+			continue;
+		} else
+			last_free_bits++;
+
+		if (last_free_bits == move_len) {
+			*goal_bit = i;
+			*phys_cpos = base_cpos + i;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	mlog(0, "found phys_cpos: %u to fit the wanted moving.\n", *phys_cpos);
+}