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2010-10-27Merge branch 'next' into upstream-mergeTheodore Ts'o
Conflicts: fs/ext4/inode.c fs/ext4/mballoc.c include/trace/events/ext4.h
2010-10-27ext4: rename mark_bitmap_end() to ext4_mark_bitmap_end()Theodore Ts'o
Fix a namespace leak from fs/ext4 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27ext4: make various ext4 functions be staticTheodore Ts'o
These functions have no need to be exported beyond file context. No functions needed to be moved for this commit; just some function declarations changed to be static and removed from header files. (A similar patch was submitted by Eric Sandeen, but I wanted to handle code movement in separate patches to make sure code changes didn't accidentally get dropped.) Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27ext4: add interface to advertise ext4 features in sysfsLukas Czerner
User-space should have the opportunity to check what features doest ext4 support in each particular copy. This adds easy interface by creating new "features" directory in sys/fs/ext4/. In that directory files advertising feature names can be created. Add lazy_itable_init to the feature list. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27ext4: add support for lazy inode table initializationLukas Czerner
When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are not zeroed out. The fact that parts of the inode table are uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors, which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to report false problems. Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon as possble. This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting file systems. This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed. There is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the request list. This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10). We are doing this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate structures and exits (and can be created later later by another filesystem). We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait. This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits) no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list Fix sget() race with failing mount vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change BFS: clean up the superblock usage AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage cifs: truncate fallout mbcache: fix shrinker function return value mbcache: Remove unused features add f_flags to struct statfs(64) pass a struct path to vfs_statfs update VFS documentation for method changes. All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
2010-08-09convert ext4 to ->evict_inode()Al Viro
pretty much brute-force... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-06-11ext4: Clean up s_dirt handlingTheodore Ts'o
We don't need to set s_dirt in most of the ext4 code when journaling is enabled. In ext3/4 some of the summary statistics for # of free inodes, blocks, and directories are calculated from the per-block group statistics when the file system is mounted or unmounted. As a result the superblock doesn't have to be updated, either via the journal or by setting s_dirt. There are a few exceptions, most notably when resizing the file system, where the superblock needs to be modified --- and in that case it should be done as a journalled operation if possible, and s_dirt set only in no-journal mode. This patch will optimize out some unneeded disk writes when using ext4 with a journal. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-05-27Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (40 commits) ext4: Make fsync sync new parent directories in no-journal mode ext4: Drop whitespace at end of lines ext4: Fix compat EXT4_IOC_ADD_GROUP ext4: Conditionally define compat ioctl numbers tracing: Convert more ext4 events to DEFINE_EVENT ext4: Add new tracepoints to track mballoc's buddy bitmap loads ext4: Add a missing trace hook ext4: restart ext4_ext_remove_space() after transaction restart ext4: Clear the EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL flag only when warranted ext4: Avoid crashing on NULL ptr dereference on a filesystem error ext4: Use bitops to read/modify i_flags in struct ext4_inode_info ext4: Convert calls of ext4_error() to EXT4_ERROR_INODE() ext4: Convert callers of ext4_get_blocks() to use ext4_map_blocks() ext4: Add new abstraction ext4_map_blocks() underneath ext4_get_blocks() ext4: Use our own write_cache_pages() ext4: Show journal_checksum option ext4: Fix for ext4_mb_collect_stats() ext4: check for a good block group before loading buddy pages ext4: Prevent creation of files larger than RLIMIT_FSIZE using fallocate ext4: Remove extraneous newlines in ext4_msg() calls ... Fixed up trivial conflict in fs/ext4/fsync.c
2010-05-21ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helperDmitry Monakhov
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-16ext4: Use bitops to read/modify i_flags in struct ext4_inode_infoDmitry Monakhov
At several places we modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags without holding i_mutex (ext4_do_update_inode, ...). These modifications are racy and we can lose updates to i_flags. So convert handling of i_flags to use bitops which are atomic. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15792 Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-05-16ext4: clean up inode bitmaps manipulation in ext4_free_inodeDmitry Monakhov
- Reorganize locking scheme to batch two atomic operation in to one. This also allow us to state what healthy group must obey following rule ext4_free_inodes_count(sb, gdp) == ext4_count_free(inode_bitmap, NUM); - Fix possible undefined pointer dereference. - Even if group descriptor stats aren't accessible we have to update inode bitmaps. - Move non-group members update out of group_lock. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-03-23ext4: Fixed inode allocator to correctly track a flex_bg's used_dirsEric Sandeen
When used_dirs was introduced for the flex_groups struct, it looks like the accounting was not put into place properly, in some places manipulating free_inodes rather than used_dirs. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-03-05Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (33 commits) quota: stop using QUOTA_OK / NO_QUOTA dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystem dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine dquot: move dquot drop responsibility into the filesystem dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine dquot: move dquot transfer responsibility into the filesystem dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines ext3: add writepage sanity checks ext3: Truncate allocated blocks if direct IO write fails to update i_size quota: Properly invalidate caches even for filesystems with blocksize < pagesize quota: generalize quota transfer interface quota: sb_quota state flags cleanup jbd: Delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer ext3: quota_write cross block boundary behaviour quota: drop permission checks from xfs_fs_set_xstate/xfs_fs_set_xquota quota: split out compat_sys_quotactl support from quota.c quota: split out netlink notification support from quota.c quota: remove invalid optimization from quota_sync_all ... Fixed trivial conflicts in fs/namei.c and fs/ufs/inode.c
2010-03-05dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routineChristoph Hellwig
Get rid of the initialize dquot operation - it is now always called from the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly. Rename the now static low-level dquot_initialize helper to __dquot_initialize and vfs_dq_init to dquot_initialize to have a consistent namespace. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05dquot: cleanup dquot drop routineChristoph Hellwig
Get rid of the drop dquot operation - it is now always called from the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly. Rename the now static low-level dquot_drop helper to __dquot_drop and vfs_dq_drop to dquot_drop to have a consistent namespace. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routinesChristoph Hellwig
Get rid of the alloc_inode and free_inode dquot operations - they are always called from the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs their own (which none currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly. Also get rid of the vfs_dq_alloc/vfs_dq_free wrappers and always call the lowlevel dquot_alloc_inode / dqout_free_inode routines directly, which now lose the number argument which is always 1. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-02-16ext4: Fix BUG_ON at fs/buffer.c:652 in no journal modeCurt Wohlgemuth
Calls to ext4_handle_dirty_metadata should only pass in an inode pointer for inode-specific metadata, and not for shared metadata blocks such as inode table blocks, block group descriptors, the superblock, etc. The BUG_ON can get tripped when updating a special device (such as a block device) that is opened (so that i_mapping is set in fs/block_dev.c) and the file system is mounted in no journal mode. Addresses-Google-Bug: #2404870 Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-02-15ext4: move __func__ into a macro for ext4_warning, ext4_errorEric Sandeen
Just a pet peeve of mine; we had a mishash of calls with either __func__ or "function_name" and the latter tends to get out of sync. I think it's easier to just hide the __func__ in a macro, and it'll be consistent from then on. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-01-24ext4: Use bitops to read/modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_stateTheodore Ts'o
At several places we modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_state without holding i_mutex (ext4_release_file, ext4_bmap, ext4_journalled_writepage, ext4_do_update_inode, ...). These modifications are racy and we can lose updates to i_state. So convert handling of i_state to use bitops which are atomic. Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-27ext4: fix build warning when EXT4FS_DEBUG is onPeng Tao
When compiling with EXT4FS_DEBUG on, gcc will complain with following warnings: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ialloc.c: In function ‘ext4_count_free_inodes’: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1192: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘ext4_group_t’ So add a type cast to suppress it. Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-05ext4: Fix goal inum check in the inode allocatorJohann Lombardi
The goal inode is specificed by inode number which belongs to [1; s_inodes_count]. Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann@sun.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-13ext4: teach the inode allocator to use a goal inode numberAndreas Dilger
Enhance the inode allocator to take a goal inode number as a paremeter; if it is specified, it takes precedence over Orlov or parent directory inode allocation algorithms. The extents migration function uses the goal inode number so that the extent trees allocated the migration function use the correct flex_bg. In the future, the goal inode functionality will also be used to allocate an adjacent inode for the extended attributes. Also, for testing purposes the goal inode number can be specified via /sys/fs/{dev}/inode_goal. This can be useful for testing inode allocation beyond 2^32 blocks on very large filesystems. Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-13ext4: Use a hash of the topdir directory name for the Orlov parent groupTheodore Ts'o
Instead of using a random number to determine the goal parent grop for the Orlov top directories, use a hash of the directory name. This allows for repeatable results when trying to benchmark filesystem layout algorithms. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-17ext4: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepointsTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-25ext4: Clean up calls to ext4_get_group_desc()Theodore Ts'o
If the caller isn't planning on modifying the block group descriptors, there's no need to pass in a pointer to a struct buffer_head. Nuking this saves a tiny amount of CPU time and stack space usage. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-02ext4: Convert ext4_lock_group to use sb_bgl_lockAneesh Kumar K.V
We have sb_bgl_lock() and ext4_group_info.bb_state bit spinlock to protech group information. The later is only used within mballoc code. Consolidate them to use sb_bgl_lock(). This makes the mballoc.c code much simpler and also avoid confusion with two locks protecting same info. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01ext4: Move fs/ext4/group.h into ext4.hTheodore Ts'o
Move the function prototypes in group.h into ext4.h so they are all defined in one place. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01ext4: Avoid races caused by on-line resizing and SMP memory reorderingTheodore Ts'o
Ext4's on-line resizing adds a new block group and then, only at the last step adjusts s_groups_count. However, it's possible on SMP systems that another CPU could see the updated the s_group_count and not see the newly initialized data structures for the just-added block group. For this reason, it's important to insert a SMP read barrier after reading s_groups_count and before reading any (for example) the new block group descriptors allowed by the increased value of s_groups_count. Unfortunately, we rather blatently violate this locking protocol documented in fs/ext4/resize.c. Fortunately, (1) on-line resizes happen relatively rarely, and (2) it seems rare that the filesystem code will immediately try to use just-added block group before any memory ordering issues resolve themselves. So apparently problems here are relatively hard to hit, since ext3 has been vulnerable to the same issue for years with no one apparently complaining. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-22ext4: Fix potential inode allocation soft lockup in Orlov allocatorTheodore Ts'o
If the Orlov allocator is having trouble finding an appropriate block group, the fallback code could loop forever, causing a soft lockup warning in find_group_orlov(): BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [cp:11728] ... Pid: 11728, comm: cp Not tainted (2.6.30-rc1-dirty #77) Lenovo EIP: 0060:[<c021650e>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0 EIP is at ext4_get_group_desc+0x54/0x9d ... Call Trace: [<c0218021>] find_group_orlov+0x2ee/0x334 [<c0120a5f>] ? sched_clock+0x8/0xb [<c02188e3>] ext4_new_inode+0x2cf/0xb1a Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-14ext4: really print the find_group_flex fallback warning only onceChuck Ebbert
Missing braces caused the warning to print more than once. Signed-Off-By: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()Theodore Ts'o
Instead of looping over all of the block groups in a flex group summing their summary statistics, start tracking used_dirs in struct flex_groups, and use struct flex_groups instead. This should save a bit of CPU for mkdir-heavy workloads. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groupsTheodore Ts'o
Reduce pressure on the sb_bgl_lock family of locks by using atomic_t's to track the number of free blocks and inodes in each flex_group. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-12ext4: New inode/block allocation algorithms for flex_bg filesystemsTheodore Ts'o
The find_group_flex() inode allocator is now only used if the filesystem is mounted using the "oldalloc" mount option. It is replaced with the original Orlov allocator that has been updated for flex_bg filesystems (it should behave the same way if flex_bg is disabled). The inode allocator now functions by taking into account each flex_bg group, instead of each block group, when deciding whether or not it's time to allocate a new directory into a fresh flex_bg. The block allocator has also been changed so that the first block group in each flex_bg is preferred for use for storing directory blocks. This keeps directory blocks close together, which is good for speeding up e2fsck since large directories are more likely to look like this: debugfs: stat /home/tytso/Maildir/cur Inode: 1844562 Type: directory Mode: 0700 Flags: 0x81000 Generation: 1132745781 Version: 0x00000000:0000ad71 User: 15806 Group: 15806 Size: 1060864 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 2 Blockcount: 2072 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x499c0ff4:164961f4 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009 atime: 0x499c0ff4:00000000 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009 mtime: 0x49957f51:00000000 -- Fri Feb 13 09:10:25 2009 crtime: 0x499c0f57:00d51440 -- Wed Feb 18 08:38:31 2009 Size of extra inode fields: 28 BLOCKS: (0):7348651, (1-258):7348654-7348911 TOTAL: 259 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-15ext4: tighten restrictions on inode flagsDuane Griffin
At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on which inodes. Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links. Tighten that to disallow TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set on non-regular file, non-directories. Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to facilitate future consistency. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-15ext4: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parentDuane Griffin
At present INDEX and EXTENTS are the only flags that new ext4 inodes do NOT inherit from their parent. In addition prevent the flags DIRTY, ECOMPR, IMAGIC, TOPDIR, HUGE_FILE and EXT_MIGRATE from being inherited. List inheritable flags explicitly to prevent future flags from accidentally being inherited. This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-26ext4: Use lowercase names of quota functionsJan Kara
Use lowercase names of quota functions instead of old uppercase ones. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
2009-03-12ext4: Print the find_group_flex() warning only onceTheodore Ts'o
This is a short-term warning, and even printk_ratelimit() can result in too much noise in system logs. So only print it once as a warning. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04ext4: fix ext4_free_inode() vs. ext4_claim_inode() raceEric Sandeen
I was seeing fsck errors on inode bitmaps after a 4 thread dbench run on a 4 cpu machine: Inode bitmap differences: -50736 -(50752--50753) etc... I believe that this is because ext4_free_inode() uses atomic bitops, and although ext4_new_inode() *used* to also use atomic bitops for synchronization, commit 393418676a7602e1d7d3f6e560159c65c8cbd50e changed this to use the sb_bgl_lock, so that we could also synchronize against read_inode_bitmap and initialization of uninit inode tables. However, that change left ext4_free_inode using atomic bitops, which I think leaves no synchronization between setting & unsetting bits in the inode table. The below patch fixes it for me, although I wonder if we're getting at all heavy-handed with this spinlock... Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-21ext4: Add fallback for find_group_flexTheodore Ts'o
This is a workaround for find_group_flex() which badly needs to be replaced. One of its problems (besides ignoring the Orlov algorithm) is that it is a bit hyperactive about returning failure under suspicious circumstances. This can lead to spurious ENOSPC failures even when there are inodes still available. Work around this for now by retrying the search using find_group_other() if find_group_flex() returns -1. If find_group_other() succeeds when find_group_flex() has failed, log a warning message. A better block/inode allocator that will fix this problem for real has been queued up for the next merge window. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06ext4: Remove "extents" mount optionTheodore Ts'o
This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag was not eabled. The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option entirely. It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new extent-based files if the filesystem can support it. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-03ext4: Add markers for better debuggabilityTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as usedAneesh Kumar K.V
We need to mark the block/inode bitmap beyond the end of the group with '1'. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-05ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initializationAneesh Kumar K.V
For uninit block group, the on-disk bitmap is not initialized. That implies we cannot depend on the uptodate flag on the bitmap buffer_head to find bitmap validity. Use a new buffer_head flag which would be set after we properly initialize the bitmap. This also prevents (re-)initializing the uninit group bitmap every time we call ext4_read_block_bitmap(). Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-05ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()Aneesh Kumar K.V
We need to make sure we update the inode bitmap and clear EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT flag with sb_bgl_lock held, since ext4_read_inode_bitmap() looks at EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT to decide whether to initialize the inode bitmap each time it is called. (introduced by commit c806e68f.) ext4_read_inode_bitmap does: spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group)); if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT)) { ext4_init_inode_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc); and ext4_new_inode does if (!ext4_set_bit_atomic(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, group), ino, inode_bitmap_bh->b_data)) ...... ... spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, group)); gdp->bg_flags &= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT); i.e., on allocation we update the bitmap then we take the sb_bgl_lock and clear the EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT flag. What can happen is a parallel ext4_read_inode_bitmap can zero out the bitmap in between the above ext4_set_bit_atomic and spin_lock(sb_bg_lock..) The race results in below user visible errors EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 168449 EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file ... EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links ... # ls -al /mnt/tmp/f/p369/d3/d6/d39/db2/dee/d10f/d3f/l71 ls: /mnt/tmp/f/p369/d3/d6/d39/db2/dee/d10f/d3f/l71: Stale NFS file handle Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-03ext4: code cleanupAneesh Kumar K.V
Rename some variables. We also unlock locks in the reverse order we acquired as a part of cleanup. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: Use high 16 bits of the block group descriptor's free counts fieldsAneesh Kumar K.V
Rename the lower bits with suffix _lo and add helper to access the values. Also rename bg_itable_unused_hi to bg_pad as in e2fsprogs. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: Make ext4_group_t be an unsigned intTheodore Ts'o
Nearly all places in the ext3/4 code which uses "unsigned long" is probably a bug, since on 32-bit systems a ulong a 32-bits, which means we are wasting stack space on 64-bit systems. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: remove extraneous newlines from calls to ext4_error() and ext4_warning()Theodore Ts'o
This removes annoying blank syslog entries emitted by ext4_error() or ext4_warning(), since these functions add their own newline. Signed-off-by: Nick Warne <nick@ukfsn.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-07ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journalFrank Mayhar
A few weeks ago I posted a patch for discussion that allowed ext4 to run without a journal. Since that time I've integrated the excellent comments from Andreas and fixed several serious bugs. We're currently running with this patch and generating some performance numbers against both ext2 (with backported reservations code) and ext4 with and without a journal. It just so happens that running without a journal is slightly faster for most everything. We did iozone -T -t 4 s 2g -r 256k -T -I -i0 -i1 -i2 which creates 4 threads, each of which create and do reads and writes on a 2G file, with a buffer size of 256K, using O_DIRECT for all file opens to bypass the page cache. Results: ext2 ext4, default ext4, no journal initial writes 13.0 MB/s 15.4 MB/s 15.7 MB/s rewrites 13.1 MB/s 15.6 MB/s 15.9 MB/s reads 15.2 MB/s 16.9 MB/s 17.2 MB/s re-reads 15.3 MB/s 16.9 MB/s 17.2 MB/s random readers 5.6 MB/s 5.6 MB/s 5.7 MB/s random writers 5.1 MB/s 5.3 MB/s 5.4 MB/s So it seems that, so far, this was a useful exercise. Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>