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Eric Sandeen
96d2a495c2 ext3: Replace lock/unlock_super() with an explicit lock for resizing
Use a separate lock to protect s_groups_count and the other block
group descriptors which get changed via an on-line resize operation,
so we can stop overloading the use of lock_super().

Port of ext4 commit 32ed5058ce by
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.

CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-23 13:44:12 +01:00
Eric Sandeen
b8a052d016 ext3: Replace lock/unlock_super() with an explicit lock for the orphan list
Use a separate lock to protect the orphan list, so we can stop
overloading the use of lock_super().

Port of ext4 commit 3b9d4ed266
by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.

CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-23 13:44:11 +01:00
Eric Sandeen
4854a5f0cb ext3: ext3_mark_recovery_complete() doesn't need to use lock_super
The function ext3_mark_recovery_complete() is called from two call
paths: either (a) while mounting the filesystem, in which case there's
no danger of any other CPU calling write_super() until the mount is
completed, and (b) while remounting the filesystem read-write, in
which case the fs core has already locked the superblock.  This also
allows us to take out a very vile unlock_super()/lock_super() pair in
ext3_remount().

Port of ext4 commit a63c9eb2ce by
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.

CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-23 13:44:11 +01:00
Eric Sandeen
ed505ee454 ext3: Remove outdated comment about lock_super()
ext3_fill_super() is no longer called by read_super(), and it is no
longer called with the superblock locked.  The
unlock_super()/lock_super() is no longer present, so this comment is
entirely superfluous.

Port of ext4 commit 32ed5058ce by
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.

CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-23 13:43:50 +01:00
Dmitry Monakhov
c459001fa4 ext3: quota macros cleanup [V2]
Currently all quota block reservation macros contains hardcoded "2"
aka MAXQUOTAS value. This is no good because in some places it is not
obvious to understand what does this digit represent. Let's introduce
new macro with self descriptive name.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-23 13:33:54 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
431547b3c4 sanitize xattr handler prototypes
Add a flags argument to struct xattr_handler and pass it to all xattr
handler methods.  This allows using the same methods for multiple
handlers, e.g. for the ACL methods which perform exactly the same action
for the access and default ACLs, just using a different underlying
attribute.  With a little more groundwork it'll also allow sharing the
methods for the regular user/trusted/secure handlers in extN, ocfs2 and
jffs2 like it's already done for xfs in this patch.

Also change the inode argument to the handlers to a dentry to allow
using the handlers mechnism for filesystems that require it later,
e.g. cifs.

[with GFS2 bits updated by Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:49 -05:00
Roel Kluin
8e0eb4011b ext3: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
Return the PTR_ERR of the correct pointer.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:55 +01:00
Jan Kara
68eb3db083 ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
When ext3_write_begin fails after allocating some blocks or
generic_perform_write fails to copy data to write, we truncate blocks already
instantiated beyond i_size. Although these blocks were never inside i_size, we
have to truncate pagecache of these blocks so that corresponding buffers get
unmapped. Otherwise subsequent __block_prepare_write (called because we are
retrying the write) will find the buffers mapped, not call ->get_block, and
thus the page will be backed by already freed blocks leading to filesystem and
data corruption.

Reported-by: James Y Knight <foom@fuhm.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:55 +01:00
Jan Kara
1aeec43432 ext3: Support for vfsv1 quota format
We just have to add proper mount options handling. The rest is handled by
the generic quota code.

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:54 +01:00
Alexey Fisher
4cf46b67eb ext3: Unify log messages in ext3
Make messages produced by ext3 more unified. It should be
easy to parse.

dmesg before patch:
[ 4893.684892] reservations ON
[ 4893.684896] xip option not supported
[ 4893.684964] EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running
e2fsck is recommended

dmesg after patch:
[  873.300792] EXT3-fs (loop0): using internal journaln
[  873.300796] EXT3-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode
[  924.163657] EXT3-fs (loop0): error: can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.
[  723.755642] EXT3-fs (loop0): error: bad blocksize 8192
[  357.874687] EXT3-fs (loop0): error: no journal found. mounting ext3 over ext2?
[  873.300764] EXT3-fs (loop0): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
[  924.163657] EXT3-fs (loop0): error: can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:53 +01:00
Eric Sandeen
dee1d3b627 ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
Users on the list recently complained about differences across
filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay.

In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is
perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make
that an alias for ext3.

Also show this status in /proc/mounts

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:52 +01:00
Eric Sandeen
b918397542 ext3: Don't update the superblock in ext3_statfs()
commit a71ce8c6c9 updated ext3_statfs()
to update the on-disk superblock counters, but modified this buffer
directly without any journaling of the change.  This is one of the
accesses that was causing the crc errors in journal replay as seen in
kernel.org bugzilla #14354.

The modifications were originally to keep the sb "more" in sync,
so that a readonly fsck of the device didn't flag this as an
error (as often), but apparently e2fsprogs deals with this differently
now, anyway.

Based on Ted's patch for ext4, which was in turn based on my
work on that bug and another preliminary patch...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:52 +01:00
Eric Sandeen
d965736b8c ext3: journal all modifications in ext3_xattr_set_handle
ext3_xattr_set_handle() was zeroing out an inode outside
of journaling constraints; this is one of the accesses that
was causing the crc errors in journal replay as seen in
kernel.org bugzilla #14354.

Although ext3 doesn't have the crc issue, modifications
out of journal control are a Bad Thing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:52 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
d014d04386 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:

	kernel/irq/chip.c
2009-12-07 18:36:35 +01:00
Uwe Kleine-König
bf48aabb89 tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset"
This patch was generated by

	git grep -E -i -l 'offest' | xargs -r perl -p -i -e 's/offest/offset/'

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-04 15:39:50 +01:00
Jan Kara
fe8bc91c4c ext3: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync
We cannot rely on buffer dirty bits during fsync because pdflush can come
before fsync is called and clear dirty bits without forcing a transaction
commit. What we do is that we track which transaction has last changed
the inode and which transaction last changed allocation and force it to
disk on fsync.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-11-11 15:22:49 +01:00
Eric Sandeen
ea0174a713 ext3: retry failed direct IO allocations
On a 256M 4k block filesystem, doing this in a loop:

    dd if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=direct bs=1M count=64
    rm -f test

eventually leads to spurious ENOSPC:

    dd: writing `test': No space left on device

As with other block allocation callers, it looks like we need to
potentially retry the allocations on the initial ENOSPC.

A similar patch went into ext4 (commit
fbbf694566)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-11-11 15:22:49 +01:00
Theodore Ts'o
96ec2e0a71 ext3: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-only
This avoids updating the superblock write time when we are mounting
the root file system read/only but we need to replay the journal; at
that point, for people who are east of GMT and who make their clock
tick in localtime for Windows bug-for-bug compatibility, and this will
cause e2fsck to complain and force a full file system check.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-10-13 00:06:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
db16826367 Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
  HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
  HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
  HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
  HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
  HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
  HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
  HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
  HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
  HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
  HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
  HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
  HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
  HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
  HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
  HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
  HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
  HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
  HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
  ...
2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
0d54b217a2 const: make struct super_block::s_qcop const
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
61e225dc34 const: make struct super_block::dq_op const
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
Jan Kara
56fcad29d4 ext3: Flush disk caches on fsync when needed
In case we fsync() a file and inode is not dirty, we don't force a transaction
to disk and hence don't flush disk caches. Thus file data could be just in disk
caches and not on persistent storage. Fix the problem by flushing disk caches
if we didn't force a transaction commit.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-16 17:44:11 +02:00
Chris Mason
4f003fd32b ext3: Add locking to ext3_do_update_inode
I've been struggling with this off and on while I've been testing the
data=guarded work.  The symptom is corrupted orphan lists and inodes
with the wrong i_size stored on disk.  I was convinced the
data=guarded code was just missing a call to ext3_mark_inode_dirty, but
tracing showed the i_disksize I was sending to ext3_mark_inode_dirty
wasn't actually making it to the drive.

ext3_mark_inode_dirty can be called without locks held (atime updates
and a few others), so the data=guarded code uses locks while updating
the in-memory inode, and then calls ext3_mark_inode_dirty
without any locks held.

But, ext3_mark_inode_dirty has no internal locking to make sure that
only one CPU is updating the buffer head at a time.  Generally this
works out ok because everyone that changes the inode then calls
ext3_mark_inode_dirty themselves.  Even though it races, eventually
someone updates the buffer heads and things move on.

But there is still a risk of the wrong values getting in, and the
data=guarded code seems to hit the race very often.

Since everyone that changes the inode also logs it, it should be
possible to fix this with some memory barriers.  I'll leave that as an
exercise to the reader and lock the buffer head instead.

It it probably a good idea to have a different patch series for lockless
bit flipping on the ext3 i_state field.  ext3_do_update_inode &= clears
EXT3_STATE_NEW without any locks held.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-16 17:44:11 +02:00
Jan Kara
00171d3c7e ext3: Fix possible deadlock between ext3_truncate() and ext3_get_blocks()
During truncate we are sometimes forced to start a new transaction as the
amount of blocks to be journaled is both quite large and hard to predict. So
far we restarted a transaction while holding truncate_mutex and that violates
lock ordering because truncate_mutex ranks below transaction start (and it
can lead to a real deadlock with ext3_get_blocks() allocating new blocks
from ext3_writepage()).

Luckily, the problem is easy to fix: We just drop the truncate_mutex before
restarting the transaction and acquire it afterwards. We are safe to do this as
by the time ext3_truncate() is called, all the page cache for the truncated
part of the file is dropped and so writepage() cannot come and allocate new
blocks in the part of the file we are truncating. The rest of writers is
stopped by us holding i_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-16 17:44:11 +02:00
Andi Kleen
aa261f549d HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
Enable removing of corrupted pages through truncation
for a bunch of file systems: ext*, xfs, gfs2, ocfs2, ntfs
These should cover most server needs.

I chose the set of migration aware file systems for this
for now, assuming they have been especially audited.
But in general it should be safe for all file systems
on the data area that support read/write and truncate.

Caveat: the hardware error handler does not take i_mutex
for now before calling the truncate function. Is that ok?

Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: mfasheh@suse.com
Cc: aia21@cantab.net
Cc: hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk
Cc: swhiteho@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:16 +02:00
Jan Kara
e367626b61 ext3: Remove syncing logic from ext3_file_write
Syncing is now properly done by generic_file_aio_write() so no special logic is
needed in ext3.

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:16 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1d5ccd1c42 ext[234]: move over to 'check_acl' permission model
Don't implement per-filesystem 'extX_permission()' functions that have
to be called for every path component operation, and instead just expose
the actual ACL checking so that the VFS layer can now do it for us.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:09:04 -07:00
Jan Kara
3c4cec6527 ext3: Improve error message that changing journaling mode on remount is not possible
This patch makes the error message about changing journaling mode on remount
more descriptive. Some people are going to hit this error now due to commit
bbae8bcc49 if they configure a kernel to default
to data=writeback mode. The problem happens if they have data=ordered set for
the root filesystem in /etc/fstab but not in the kernel command line (and they
don't use initrd). Their filesystem then gets mounted as data=writeback by
kernel but then their boot fails because init scripts won't be able to remount
the filesystem rw. Better error message will hopefully make it easier for them
to find the error in their setup and bother us less with error reports :).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-08-24 16:48:45 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o
6d41807614 ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED
The old description for this configuration option was perhaps not
completely balanced in terms of describing the tradeoffs of using a
default of data=writeback vs. data=ordered.  Despite the fact that old
description very strongly recomended disabling this feature, all of
the major distributions have elected to preserve the existing 'legacy'
default, which is a strong hint that it perhaps wasn't telling the
whole story.

This revised description has been vetted by a number of ext3
developers as being better at informing the user about the tradeoffs
of enabling or disabling this configuration feature.

Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-08-24 16:48:32 +02:00
Jan Kara
43237b5490 ext3: Get rid of extenddisksize parameter of ext3_get_blocks_handle()
Get rid of extenddisksize parameter of ext3_get_blocks_handle(). This seems to
be a relict from some old days and setting disksize in this function does not
make much sence. Currently it was set only by ext3_getblk().  Since the
parameter has some effect only if create == 1, it is easy to check that the
three callers which end up calling ext3_getblk() with create == 1 (ext3_append,
ext3_quota_write, ext3_mkdir) do the right thing and set disksize themselves.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-07-15 21:30:46 +02:00
Jan Kara
9eaaa2d575 ext3: Fix truncation of symlinks after failed write
Contents of long symlinks is written via standard write methods. So when the
write fails, we add inode to orphan list. But symlinks don't have .truncate
method defined so nobody properly removes them from the orphan list (both on
disk and in memory).

Fix this by calling ext3_truncate() directly instead of calling vmtruncate()
(which is saner anyway since we don't need anything vmtruncate() does except
from calling .truncate in these paths).  We also add inode to orphan list only
if ext3_can_truncate() is true (currently, it can be false for symlinks when
there are no blocks allocated) - otherwise orphan list processing will complain
and ext3_truncate() will not remove inode from on-disk orphan list.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-07-15 21:28:07 +02:00
Al Viro
073aaa1b14 helpers for acl caching + switch to those
helpers: get_cached_acl(inode, type), set_cached_acl(inode, type, acl),
forget_cached_acl(inode, type).

ubifs/xattr.c needed includes reordered, the rest is a plain switchover.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24 08:17:07 -04:00
Al Viro
6582a0e6f6 switch ext3 to inode->i_acl
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24 08:17:04 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
31583d6acf Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Fix kernel-doc parameter name typo in blk-settings.c:
  block: rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF
  block: Fix bounce_pfn setting
  hd: stop defining MAJOR_NR
2009-06-19 17:43:04 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
90c699a9ee block: rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF
Follow-up to "block: enable by default support for large devices
and files on 32-bit archs".

Rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF to:
- allow update of existing [def]configs for "default y" change
- reflect that it is used also for large files support nowadays

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-19 08:08:50 +02:00
Jan Kara
ef43618a47 ext3: make sure inode is deleted from orphan list after truncate
As Ted pointed out, it can happen that ext3_truncate() returns without
removing inode from orphan list.  This way we could in some rare cases
(like when we get ENOMEM from an allocation in ext3_truncate called
because of failed ext3_write_begin) leave the inode on orphan list and
that triggers assertion failure on umount.

So make ext3_truncate() always remove inode from in-memory orphan list.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:45 -07:00
Jan Kara
e8ef7aaea7 ext3: fix chain verification in ext3_get_blocks()
Chain verification in ext3_get_blocks() has been hosed since it called
verify_chain(chain, NULL) which always returns success.  As a result
readers could in theory race with truncate.  On the other hand the race
probably cannot happen with the current locking scheme, since by the
time ext3_truncate() is called all the pages are already removed and
hence get_block() shouldn't be called on such pages...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9c64daff9d ext3: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
If a filesystem supports POSIX ACL's, the VFS layer expects the filesystem
to do POSIX ACL checks on any files not owned by the caller, and it does
this for every single pathname component that it looks up.

That obviously can be pretty expensive if the filesystem isn't careful
about it, especially with locking. That's doubly sad, since the common
case tends to be that there are no ACL's associated with the files in
question.

ext3 already caches the ACL data so that it doesn't have to look it up
over and over again, but it does so by taking the inode->i_lock spinlock
on every lookup. Which is a noticeable overhead even if it's a private
lock, especially on CPU's where the serialization is expensive (eg Intel
Netburst aka 'P4').

For the special case of not actually having any ACL's, all that locking is
unnecessary. Even if somebody else were to be changing the ACL's on
another CPU, we simply don't care - if we've seen a NULL ACL, we might as
well use it.

So just load the ACL speculatively without any locking, and if it was
NULL, just use it. If it's non-NULL (either because we had a cached
entry, or because the cache hasn't been filled in at all), it means that
we'll need to get the lock and re-load it properly.

This is noticeable even on Nehalem, which does locking quite well (much
better than P4). From lmbench:

	Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
	--------------------------------------------------------------------
	Host                 OS  Mhz null null      open slct fork exec sh
	                             call  I/O stat clos TCP  proc proc proc
	--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
 - before:
	nehalem.l Linux 2.6.30- 3193 0.04 0.09 0.95 1.45 2.18 69.1 273. 1141
	nehalem.l Linux 2.6.30- 3193 0.04 0.09 0.95 1.48 2.28 69.9 253. 1140
	nehalem.l Linux 2.6.30- 3193 0.04 0.10 0.95 1.42 2.19 68.6 284. 1141
 - after:
	nehalem.l Linux 2.6.30- 3193 0.04 0.09 0.92 1.44 2.12 68.3 282. 1094
	nehalem.l Linux 2.6.30- 3193 0.04 0.09 0.92 1.39 2.20 67.0 308. 1123
	nehalem.l Linux 2.6.30- 3193 0.04 0.09 0.92 1.39 2.36 67.4 293. 1148

where you can see what appears to be a roughly 3% improvement in stat
and open/close latencies from just the removal of the locking overhead.

Of course, this only matters for files you don't own (the owner never
needs to do the ACL checks), but that's the common case for libraries,
header files, and executables. As well as for the base components of any
absolute pathname, even if you are the owner of the final file.

[ At some point we probably want to move this ACL caching logic entirely
  into the VFS layer (and only call down to the filesystem when
  uncached), but in the meantime this improves ext3 a bit.

  A similar fix to btrfs makes a much bigger difference (15x improvement
  in lmbench) due to broken caching. ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-17 00:36:35 -04:00
Alessio Igor Bogani
337eb00a2c Push BKL down into ->remount_fs()
[xfs, btrfs, capifs, shmem don't need BKL, exempt]

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:11 -04:00
Al Viro
bbd6851a32 Push lock_super() into the ->remount_fs() of filesystems that care about it
Note that since we can't run into contention between remount_fs and write_super
(due to exclusion on s_umount), we have to care only about filesystems that
touch lock_super() on their own.  Out of those ext3, ext4, hpfs, sysv and ufs
do need it; fat doesn't since its ->remount_fs() only accesses assign-once
data (basically, it's "we have no atime on directories and only have atime on
files for vfat; force nodiratime and possibly noatime into *flags").

[folded a build fix from hch]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:08 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
6cfd014842 push BKL down into ->put_super
Move BKL into ->put_super from the only caller.  A couple of
filesystems had trivial enough ->put_super (only kfree and NULLing of
s_fs_info + stuff in there) to not get any locking: coda, cramfs, efs,
hugetlbfs, omfs, qnx4, shmem, all others got the full treatment.  Most
of them probably don't need it, but I'd rather sort that out individually.
Preferably after all the other BKL pushdowns in that area.

[AV: original used to move lock_super() down as well; these changes are
removed since we don't do lock_super() at all in generic_shutdown_super()
now]
[AV: fuse, btrfs and xfs are known to need no damn BKL, exempt]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:07 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
ca41f7b918 ext3: remove ->write_super and stop maintaining ->s_dirt
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:05 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
c9059598ea Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-06-11 11:10:35 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen
e1defc4ff0 block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Manish Katiyar
de5ce03730 ext3: Fix memory leak in ext3_fill_super() in case of a failed mount
Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-17 23:52:47 -04:00
Jan Kara
430db323fa ext3: Try to avoid starting a transaction in writepage for data=writepage
This does the same as commit 9e80d40773
(avoid starting a transaction when no block allocation is needed)
but for data=writeback mode of ext3. We also cleanup the data=ordered
case a bit to stick to coding style...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-08 13:15:10 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
bbae8bcc49 ext3: make default data ordering mode configurable
This makes the defautl ext3 data ordering mode (when no explicit
ordering is set) configurable, so as to allow people to default to
'data=writeback' and get the resulting latency improvements.

This is a non-issue if a filesystem has been explicitly set to some
ordering (with 'tune2fs').

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 17:16:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
20bec8ab14 Merge branch 'ext3-latency-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'ext3-latency-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext3: Add replace-on-rename hueristics for data=writeback mode
  ext3: Add replace-on-truncate hueristics for data=writeback mode
  ext3: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()
  block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacks
2009-04-03 11:10:33 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
e7c8f5079e ext3: Add replace-on-rename hueristics for data=writeback mode
In data=writeback mode, start an asynchronous flush when renaming a
file on top of an already-existing file.  This lowers the probability
of data loss in the case of applications that attempt to replace a
file via using rename().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-03 01:34:49 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
f7ab34ea72 ext3: Add replace-on-truncate hueristics for data=writeback mode
In data=writeback mode, start an asynchronous flush when closing a
file which had been previously truncated down to zero.  This lowers
the probability of data loss in the case of applications that attempt
to replace a file using truncate.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-03 01:34:35 -04:00