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1022 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Al Viro
152a083666 new helper: mount_bdev()
... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to ->mount()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29 04:16:13 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
671f837a04 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: BUG_ON fix: check if page has buffers before calling page_buffers()
2010-10-28 15:46:57 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
b1142e8fec ext4: BUG_ON fix: check if page has buffers before calling page_buffers()
We need to make check if a page does not have buffes by checking
page_has_buffers(page) before calling page_buffers(page) in
ext4_writepage().  Otherwise page_buffers() could throw a BUG_ON.

Thanks also to Markus Trippelsdorf and Avinash Kurup who also reported
the problem.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com>
2010-10-28 17:33:57 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
19ef20143f ext4: fix compile with CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR disabled
Commit 5dabfc78dc ("ext4: rename {exit,init}_ext4_*() to
ext4_{exit,init}_*()") causes

  fs/ext4/super.c:4776: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ext4_init_xattr’

when CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR is disabled.

It renamed init_ext4_xattr to ext4_init_xattr but forgot to update the
dummy definition in fs/ext4/xattr.h.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-28 09:29:17 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
a107e5a3a4 Merge branch 'next' into upstream-merge
Conflicts:
	fs/ext4/inode.c
	fs/ext4/mballoc.c
	include/trace/events/ext4.h
2010-10-27 23:44:47 -04:00
Dmitry Monakhov
3d287de3b8 ext4: optimize orphan_list handling for ext4_setattr
Surprisingly chown() on ext4 is not SMP scalable operation. 
Due to unconditional orphan_del(NULL, inode) in ext4_setattr()
result in significant performance overhead because of global orphan
mutex, especially in no-journal mode (where orphan_add() is noop).
It is possible to skip explicit orphan_del if possible.
Results of fchown() micro-benchmark in no-journal mode
while (1) {
   iteration++;
   fchown(fd, uid, gid);
   fchown(fd, uid + 1, gid + 1)
}
measured: iterations per millisecond
| nr_tasks | w/o patch | with patch |
|        1 |       142 |        185 |
|        4 |       109 |        642 |

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 22:08:46 -04:00
Nicolas Kaiser
beed5ecbaa ext4: fix unbalanced mutex unlock in error path of ext4_li_request_new
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 22:08:42 -04:00
Kazuya Mio
a6371b636f ext4: fix compile error in ext4_fallocate()
When I compiled 2.6.36-rc3 kernel with EXT4FS_DEBUG definition, I got
the following compile error.

  CC [M]  fs/ext4/extents.o
fs/ext4/extents.c: In function 'ext4_fallocate':
fs/ext4/extents.c:3772: error: 'block' undeclared (first use in this function)
fs/ext4/extents.c:3772: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
fs/ext4/extents.c:3772: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [fs/ext4/extents.o] Error 1

The patch fixes this problem.

Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:15 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
eee4adc709 ext4: move ext4_mb_{get,put}_buddy_cache_lock and make them static
These functions are only used within fs/ext4/mballoc.c, so move them
so they are used after they are defined, and then make them be static.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:15 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
61d08673de ext4: rename mark_bitmap_end() to ext4_mark_bitmap_end()
Fix a namespace leak from fs/ext4

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:15 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
4a873a472b ext4: move flush_completed_IO to fs/ext4/fsync.c and make it static
Fix a namespace leak by moving the function to the file where it is
used and making it static.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:14 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
bf89d16f6e ext4: rename {ext,idx}_pblock and inline small extent functions
Cleanup namespace leaks from fs/ext4 and the inline trivial functions
ext4_{ext,idx}_pblock() and ext4_{ext,idx}_store_pblock() since the
code size actually shrinks when we make these functions inline,
they're so trivial.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:14 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
1f109d5a17 ext4: make various ext4 functions be static
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>
2010-10-27 21:30:14 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
5dabfc78dc ext4: rename {exit,init}_ext4_*() to ext4_{exit,init}_*()
This is a cleanup to avoid namespace leaks out of fs/ext4

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:14 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
7f93cff90f ext4: fix kernel oops if the journal superblock has a non-zero j_errno
Commit 84061e0 fixed an accounting bug only to introduce the
possibility of a kernel OOPS if the journal has a non-zero j_errno
field indicating that the file system had detected a fs inconsistency.
After the journal replay, if the journal superblock indicates that the
file system has an error, this indication is transfered to the file
system and then ext4_commit_super() is called to write this to the
disk.

But since the percpu counters are now initialized after the journal
replay, the call to ext4_commit_super() will cause a kernel oops since
it needs to use the percpu counters the ext4 superblock structure.

The fix is to skip setting the ext4 free block and free inode fields
if the percpu counter has not been set.

Thanks to Ken Sumrall for reporting and analyzing the root causes of
this bug.

Addresses-Google-Bug: #3054080

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:13 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
72f84e6560 ext4: update writeback_index based on last page scanned
As pointed out in a prior patch, updating the mapping's
writeback_index based on pages written isn't quite right;
what the writeback index is really supposed to reflect is
the next page which should be scanned for writeback during
periodic flush.

As in write_cache_pages(), write_cache_pages_da() does
this scanning for us as we assemble the mpd for later
writeout.  If we keep track of the next page after the
current scan, we can easily update writeback_index without
worrying about pages written vs. pages skipped, etc.

Without this, an fsync will reset writeback_index to
0 (its starting index) + however many pages it wrote, which
can mess up the progress of periodic flush.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:13 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
5b41d92437 ext4: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging
This is analogous to Jan Kara's commit,
f446daaea9
mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging

but since we forked write_cache_pages, we need to reimplement
it there (and in ext4_da_writepages, since range_cyclic handling
was moved to there)

If you start a large buffered IO to a file, and then set
fsync after it, you'll find that fsync does not complete
until the other IO stops.

If you continue re-dirtying the file (say, putting dd
with conv=notrunc in a loop), when fsync finally completes
(after all IO is done), it reports via tracing that
it has written many more pages than the file contains;
in other words it has synced and re-synced pages in
the file multiple times.

This then leads to problems with our writeback_index
update, since it advances it by pages written, and
essentially sets writeback_index off the end of the
file...

With the following patch, we only sync as much as was
dirty at the time of the sync.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:13 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
bbd08344e3 ext4: tidy up a void argument in inode.c
This doesn't fix anything at all, it just removes a vestige
of prior use from __mpage_da_writepage()

__mpage_da_writepage() had a *void argument leftover from
its previous life as a callback; make it reflect the actual type.

Fixing this up makes it slightly more obvious to read, and 
enables proper typechecking.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:12 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
27ee40df2b ext4: add batched_discard into ext4 feature list
Should be applied on the top of "lazy inode table initialization"
and "batched discard support" patch-sets.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:12 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
7360d1731e ext4: Add batched discard support for ext4
Walk through allocation groups and trim all free extents. It can be
invoked through FITRIM ioctl on the file system. The main idea is to
provide a way to trim the whole file system if needed, since some SSD's
may suffer from performance loss after the whole device was filled (it
does not mean that fs is full!).

It search for free extents in allocation groups specified by Byte range
start -> start+len. When the free extent is within this range, blocks
are marked as used and then trimmed. Afterwards these blocks are marked
as free in per-group bitmap.

Since fstrim is a long operation it is good to have an ability to
interrupt it by a signal. This was added by Dmitry Monakhov.
Thanks Dimitry.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:12 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
77ca6cdf0a ext4: Use return value from sb_issue_discard()
Use return value from sb_issue_discard() as return value in
ext4_issue_discard(). Since sb_issue_discard() may result in more
serious errors than just -EOPNOTSUPP it is worth to inform user of this
function about them to handle error cases properly.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:11 -04:00
Namhyung Kim
877836905d ext4: Check return value of sb_getblk() and friends
Fail block allocation if sb_getblk() returns NULL. In that case,
sb_find_get_block() also likely to fail so that it should skip
calling ext4_forget().

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:11 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
bd2d0210cf ext4: use bio layer instead of buffer layer in mpage_da_submit_io
Call the block I/O layer directly instad of going through the buffer
layer.  This should give us much better performance and scalability,
as well as lowering our CPU utilization when doing buffered writeback.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:10 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
1de3e3df91 ext4: move mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs()'s functionality to mpage_da_submit_io()
This massively simplifies the ext4_da_writepages() code path by
completely removing mpage_put_bnr_bhs(), which is almost 100 lines of
code iterating over a set of pages using pagevec_lookup(), and folds
that functionality into mpage_da_submit_io()'s existing
pagevec_lookup() loop.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:10 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
3ecdb3a193 ext4: inline walk_page_buffers() into mpage_da_submit_io
Expand the call:

  if (walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_bufs, 0, len, NULL,
                        ext4_bh_delay_or_unwritten))
	goto redirty_page

into mpage_da_submit_io().

This will allow us to merge in mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs() in the next
patch.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:10 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
cb20d51883 ext4: inline ext4_writepage() into mpage_da_submit_io()
As a prepratory step to switching to bio_submit, inline
ext4_writepage() into mpage_da_submit() and then simplify things a
bit.  This makes it clearer what mpage_da_submit needs to do.

Also, move the ClearPageChecked(page) call into
__ext4_journalled_writepage(), as a minor bit of cleanup refactoring.

This also allows us to pull i_size_read() and
ext4_should_journal_data() out of the loop, which should be a very
minor CPU savings.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:09 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
a42afc5f56 ext4: simplify ext4_writepage()
The actual code in ext4_writepage() is unnecessarily convoluted.
Simplify it so it is easier to understand, but otherwise logically
equivalent.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:09 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
5a87b7a5da ext4: call mpage_da_submit_io() from mpage_da_map_blocks()
Eventually we need to completely reorganize the ext4 writepage
callpath, but for now, we simplify things a little by calling
mpage_da_submit_io() from mpage_da_map_blocks(), since all of the
places where we call mpage_da_map_blocks() it is followed up by a call
to mpage_da_submit_io().

We're also a wee bit better with respect to error handling, but there
are still a number of issues where it's not clear what the right thing
is to do with ext4 functions deep in the writeback codepath fails.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:09 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
16828088f9 ext4: use KMEM_CACHE instead of kmem_cache_create
Also remove the SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT flag from the system zone kmem
cache.  This slab tends to be fairly static, so it shouldn't be marked
as likely to have free pages that can be reclaimed.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:09 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
7845c04975 ext4: use search_dirblock() in ext4_dx_find_entry()
Use the search_dirblock() in ext4_dx_find_entry().  It makes the code
easier to read, and it takes advantage of common code.  It also saves
100 bytes or so of text space.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
2010-10-27 21:30:08 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
8941ec8bb6 ext4: avoid uninitialized memory references in ext3_htree_next_block()
If the first block of htree directory is missing '.' or '..' but is
otherwise a valid directory, and we do a lookup for '.' or '..', it's
possible to dereference an uninitialized memory pointer in
ext4_htree_next_block().

We avoid this by moving the special case from ext4_dx_find_entry() to
ext4_find_entry(); this also means we can optimize ext4_find_entry()
slightly when NFS looks up "..".

Thanks to Brad Spengler for pointing a Clang warning that led me to
look more closely at this code.  The warning was harmless, but it was
useful in pointing out code that was too ugly to live.  This warning was
also reported by Roman Borisov.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
2010-10-27 21:30:08 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
640e939656 ext4: remove unused ext4_sb_info members
Not that these take up a lot of room, but the structure is long enough
as it is, and there's no need to confuse people with these various
undocumented & unused structure members...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redaht.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:08 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
c999af2b34 ext4: queue conversion after adding to inode's completed IO list
By queuing the io end on the unwritten workqueue before adding it
to our inode's list of completed IOs, I think we run the risk
of the work getting completed, and the IO freed, before we try
to add it to the inode's i_completed_io_list.

It should be safe to add it to the inode's list of completed
IOs, and -then- queue it for completion, I think.

Thanks to Dave Chinner for pointing out the race.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:07 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
3e1e5f5016 ext4: don't use ext4_allocation_contexts for tracing
Many tracepoints were populating an ext4_allocation_context
to pass in, but this requires a slab allocation even when
tracepoints are off.  In fact, 4 of 5 of these allocations
were only for tracing.  In addition, we were only using a
small fraction of the 144 bytes of this structure for this
purpose.

We can do away with all these alloc/frees of the ac and
simply pass in the bits we care about, instead.

I tested this by turning on tracing and running through
xfstests on x86_64.  I did not actually do anything with
the trace output, however.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:07 -04:00
Toshiyuki Okajima
0c9169ccad ext4: fix potential infinite loop in ext4_da_writepages()
On linux-2.6.36-rc2, if we execute the following script, we can hang
the system when the /bin/sync command is executed:

========================================================================
#!/bin/sh

echo -n "HANG UP TEST: "
/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/img bs=1k count=1 seek=1M 2> /dev/null
/sbin/mkfs.ext4 -Fq /tmp/img
/bin/mount -o loop -t ext4 /tmp/img /mnt
/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file bs=1 count=1 \
seek=$((16*1024*1024*1024*1024-4096)) 2> /dev/null
/bin/sync
/bin/umount /mnt
echo "DONE"
exit 0
========================================================================

We can see the following backtrace if we get the kdump when this
hangup occurs:

======================================================================
kthread()
=> bdi_writeback_thread()
   => wb_do_writeback()
      => wb_writeback()
         => writeback_inodes_wb()
            => writeback_sb_inodes()
               => writeback_single_inode()
                  => ext4_da_writepages()  ---+ 
                                ^ infinite    |
                                |   loop      |
                                +-------------+
======================================================================

The reason why this hangup happens is described as follows:
1) We write the last extent block of the file whose size is the filesystem 
   maximum size.
2) "BH_Delay" flag is set on the buffer_head of its block.
3) - the member, "m_lblk" of struct mpage_da_data is 4294967295 (UINT_MAX)
   - the member, "m_len" of struct mpage_da_data is 1
  mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs() which is called via ext4_da_writepages()
  cannot clear "BH_Delay" flag of the buffer_head because the type of
  m_lblk is ext4_lblk_t and then m_lblk + m_len is overflow.

  Therefore an infinite loop occurs because ext4_da_writepages()
  cannot write the page (which corresponds to the block) since
  "BH_Delay" flag isn't cleared.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
static void mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
				struct ext4_map_blocks *map)
{
...
	int blocks = map->m_len;
...
		do {
			// cur_logical = 4294967295
			// map->m_lblk = 4294967295
			// blocks = 1
			// *** map->m_lblk + blocks == 0 (OVERFLOW!) ***
			// (cur_logical >= map->m_lblk + blocks) => true
			if (cur_logical >= map->m_lblk + blocks)
				break;
----------------------------------------------------------------------

NOTE: Mounting with the nodelalloc option will avoid this codepath,
and thus, avoid this hang

Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:07 -04:00
Toshiyuki Okajima
e0d10bfa91 ext4: improve llseek error handling for overly large seek offsets
The llseek system call should return EINVAL if passed a seek offset
which results in a write error.  What this maximum offset should be
depends on whether or not the huge_file file system feature is set,
and whether or not the file is extent based or not.


If the file has no "EXT4_EXTENTS_FL" flag, the maximum size which can be 
written (write systemcall) is different from the maximum size which can be 
sought (lseek systemcall).

For example, the following 2 cases demonstrates the differences
between the maximum size which can be written, versus the seek offset
allowed by the llseek system call:

#1: mkfs.ext3 <dev>; mount -t ext4 <dev>
#2: mkfs.ext3 <dev>; tune2fs -Oextent,huge_file <dev>; mount -t ext4 <dev>

Table. the max file size which we can write or seek
       at each filesystem feature tuning and file flag setting
+============+===============================+===============================+
| \ File flag|                               |                               |
|      \     |     !EXT4_EXTENTS_FL          |        EXT4_EXTETNS_FL        |
|case       \|                               |                               |
+------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| #1         |   write:      2194719883264   | write:       --------------   |
|            |   seek:       2199023251456   | seek:        --------------   |
+------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| #2         |   write:      4402345721856   | write:       17592186044415   |
|            |   seek:      17592186044415   | seek:        17592186044415   |
+------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+

The differences exist because ext4 has 2 maxbytes which are sb->s_maxbytes
(= extent-mapped maxbytes) and EXT4_SB(sb)->s_bitmap_maxbytes (= block-mapped 
maxbytes).  Although generic_file_llseek uses only extent-mapped maxbytes.
(llseek of ext4_file_operations is generic_file_llseek which uses
sb->s_maxbytes.)

Therefore we create ext4 llseek function which uses 2 maxbytes.

The new own function originates from generic_file_llseek().
If the file flag, "EXT4_EXTENTS_FL" is not set, the function alters 
inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes into EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_bitmap_maxbytes.

Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
2010-10-27 21:30:06 -04:00
Maciej Żenczykowski
c41303ced6 ext4: don't update sb journal_devnum when RO dev
An ext4 filesystem on a read-only device, with an external journal
which is at a different device number then recorded in the superblock
will fail to honor the read-only setting of the device and trigger
a superblock update (write).

For example:
  - ext4 on a software raid which is in read-only mode
  - external journal on a read-write device which has changed device num
  - attempt to mount with -o journal_dev=<new_number>
  - hits BUG_ON(mddev->ro = 1) in md.c

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:06 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
2407518de6 ext4: use sb_issue_zeroout in ext4_ext_zeroout
Change ext4_ext_zeroout to use sb_issue_zeroout instead of its
own approach to zero out extents.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:06 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
a31437b85a ext4: use sb_issue_zeroout in setup_new_group_blocks
Use sb_issue_zeroout to zero out inode table and descriptor table
blocks instead of old approach which involves journaling.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:05 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
857ac889cc ext4: add interface to advertise ext4 features in sysfs
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>
2010-10-27 21:30:05 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
bfff68738f ext4: add support for lazy inode table initialization
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>
2010-10-27 21:30:05 -04:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
a1c6c5698d ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference in print_daily_error_info()
Fix NULL pointer dereference in print_daily_error_info, when   
called on unmounted fs (EXT4_SB(sb) returns NULL), by removing error 
reporting timer in ext4_put_super.

Google-Bug-Id: 3017663

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:04 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
53fdcf992d ext4: don't hold spinlock while calling ext4_issue_discard()
We can't hold the block group spinlock because we ext4_issue_discard()
calls wait and hence can get rescheduled.

Google-Bug-Id: 3017678

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:04 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
5829870982 ext4: check for negative error code from sb_issue_discard
sb_issue_discard() is returning negative error code, so check for
-EOPNOTSUPP.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:03 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
b443e7339a ext4: don't bump up LONG_MAX nr_to_write by a factor of 8
I'm uneasy with lots of stuff going on in ext4_da_writepages(),
but bumping nr_to_write from LLONG_MAX to -8 clearly isn't
making anything better, so avoid the multiplier in that case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:03 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
659c6009ca ext4: stop looping in ext4_num_dirty_pages when max_pages reached
Today we simply break out of the inner loop when we have accumulated
max_pages; this keeps scanning forwad and doing pagevec_lookup_tag()
in the while (!done) loop, this does potentially a lot of work
with no net effect.

When we have accumulated max_pages, just clean up and return.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:03 -04:00
Curt Wohlgemuth
fb1813f4a8 ext4: use dedicated slab caches for group_info structures
ext4_group_info structures are currently allocated with kmalloc().
With a typical 4K block size, these are 136 bytes each -- meaning
they'll each consume a 256-byte slab object.  On a system with many
ext4 large partitions, that's a lot of wasted kernel slab space.
(E.g., a single 1TB partition will have about 8000 block groups, using
about 2MB of slab, of which nearly 1MB is wasted.)

This patch creates an array of slab pointers created as needed --
depending on the superblock block size -- and uses these slabs to
allocate the group info objects.

Google-Bug-Id: 2980809

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:29:12 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
58590b06d7 ext4: fix EOFBLOCKS_FL handling
It turns out we have several problems with how EOFBLOCKS_FL is
handled.  First of all, there was a fencepost error where we were not
clearing the EOFBLOCKS_FL when fill in the last uninitialized block,
but rather when we allocate the next block _after_ the uninitalized
block.  Secondly we were not testing to see if we needed to clear the
EOFBLOCKS_FL when writing to the file O_DIRECT or when were converting
an uninitialized block (which is the most common case).

Google-Bug-Id: 2928259

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:23:12 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
85fe4025c6 fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
by themselves.  For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
but that's left for later patches.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:11 -04:00
Al Viro
7de9c6ee3e new helper: ihold()
Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:11 -04:00