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* ext3: trivial quota cleanupDmitry Monakhov2010-03-051-54/+67
| | | | | | | | | | | The patch is aimed to reorganize and simplify quota code a bit. Quota code is itself complex enouth, but we can make it more readable in some places: - Move quota option parsing to separate functions. - Simplify old-quota and journaled-quota mix check. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3: mount flags manipulation cleanupDmitry Monakhov2010-03-051-27/+20
| | | | | | | | Replace intermediate EXT3_MOUNT_XXX flags manipulation to corresponding macro. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3: Use bitops to read/modify EXT3_I(inode)->i_stateJan Kara2010-03-053-18/+18
| | | | | | | | | At several places we modify EXT3_I(inode)->i_state without holding i_mutex (ext3_release_file, ext3_bmap, ext3_journalled_writepage, ext3_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. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3: Replace lock/unlock_super() with an explicit lock for resizingEric Sandeen2009-12-232-17/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 32ed5058ce90024efcd811254b4b1de0468099df 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>
* ext3: Replace lock/unlock_super() with an explicit lock for the orphan listEric Sandeen2009-12-232-9/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | Use a separate lock to protect the orphan list, so we can stop overloading the use of lock_super(). Port of ext4 commit 3b9d4ed26680771295d904a6b83e88e620780893 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>
* ext3: ext3_mark_recovery_complete() doesn't need to use lock_superEric Sandeen2009-12-231-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 a63c9eb2ce6f5028da90f282798232c4f398ceb8 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>
* ext3: Remove outdated comment about lock_super()Eric Sandeen2009-12-231-8/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 32ed5058ce90024efcd811254b4b1de0468099df 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>
* ext3: quota macros cleanup [V2]Dmitry Monakhov2009-12-232-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* sanitize xattr handler prototypesChristoph Hellwig2009-12-165-96/+72
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()Roel Kluin2009-12-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy dataJan Kara2009-12-101-4/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: Support for vfsv1 quota formatJan Kara2009-12-101-6/+24
| | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: Unify log messages in ext3Alexey Fisher2009-12-101-205/+227
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"Eric Sandeen2009-12-101-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: Don't update the superblock in ext3_statfs()Eric Sandeen2009-12-101-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit a71ce8c6c9bf269b192f352ea555217815cf027e 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>
* ext3: journal all modifications in ext3_xattr_set_handleEric Sandeen2009-12-101-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linusJiri Kosina2009-12-071-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: kernel/irq/chip.c
| * tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset"Uwe Kleine-König2009-12-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | ext3: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsyncJan Kara2009-11-113-21/+49
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | ext3: retry failed direct IO allocationsEric Sandeen2009-11-111-0/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 fbbf69456619de5d251cb9f1df609069178c62d5) Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-onlyTheodore Ts'o2009-10-131-1/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'hwpoison' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-241-0/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ...
| * HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systemsAndi Kleen2009-09-161-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | const: make struct super_block::s_qcop constAlexey Dobriyan2009-09-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | const: make struct super_block::dq_op constAlexey Dobriyan2009-09-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | ext3: Flush disk caches on fsync when neededJan Kara2009-09-161-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | ext3: Add locking to ext3_do_update_inodeChris Mason2009-09-161-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | ext3: Fix possible deadlock between ext3_truncate() and ext3_get_blocks()Jan Kara2009-09-161-4/+15
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: Remove syncing logic from ext3_file_writeJan Kara2009-09-141-60/+1
| | | | | | | | 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>
* ext[234]: move over to 'check_acl' permission modelLinus Torvalds2009-09-084-12/+6
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: Improve error message that changing journaling mode on remount is not ↵Jan Kara2009-08-241-13/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 bbae8bcc49bc4d002221dab52c79a50a82e7cd1f 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>
* ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDEREDTheodore Ts'o2009-08-241-15/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: Get rid of extenddisksize parameter of ext3_get_blocks_handle()Jan Kara2009-07-152-12/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: Fix truncation of symlinks after failed writeJan Kara2009-07-151-9/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* helpers for acl caching + switch to thoseAl Viro2009-06-241-64/+19
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* switch ext3 to inode->i_aclAl Viro2009-06-244-36/+10
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2009-06-192-2/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * '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
| * block: rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAFBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2009-06-192-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | ext3: make sure inode is deleted from orphan list after truncateJan Kara2009-06-181-9/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | ext3: fix chain verification in ext3_get_blocks()Jan Kara2009-06-181-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL pathLinus Torvalds2009-06-171-5/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Push BKL down into ->remount_fs()Alessio Igor Bogani2009-06-111-0/+4
| | | | | | | [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>
* Push lock_super() into the ->remount_fs() of filesystems that care about itAl Viro2009-06-111-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* push BKL down into ->put_superChristoph Hellwig2009-06-111-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext3: remove ->write_super and stop maintaining ->s_dirtChristoph Hellwig2009-06-116-30/+2
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2009-06-111-2/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * '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
| * block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_sizeMartin K. Petersen2009-05-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | ext3: Fix memory leak in ext3_fill_super() in case of a failed mountManish Katiyar2009-05-171-0/+1
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext3: Try to avoid starting a transaction in writepage for data=writepageJan Kara2009-04-081-5/+18
| | | | | | | | | | This does the same as commit 9e80d407736161d9b8b0c5a0d44f786e44c322ea (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>
* ext3: make default data ordering mode configurableLinus Torvalds2009-04-062-1/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
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