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* ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIOEric Sandeen2011-02-121-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated by xfstest 240. The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions. When more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new" block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated and causes data corruption. Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all unaligned asynchronous direct IO. I've done the same here. The difference is that we only wait on conversions, not all IO. This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with stuffing this into ext4_file_write(). But since ext4 is DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level. I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the work queue to do conversions - which must also take the i_mutex. So that won't work. This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment. I've tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does avoid the corruption. It is also quite a lot slower (14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned) but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day. Mingming suggested that we can track outstanding conversions, and wait on those so that non-sparse files won't be affected, and I've implemented that here; unaligned AIO to nonsparse files won't take a perf hit. [tytso@mit.edu: Keep the mutex as a hashed array instead of bloating the ext4 inode] [tytso@mit.edu: Fix up namespace issues so that global variables are protected with an "ext4_" prefix.] Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* fallocate should be a file operationChristoph Hellwig2011-01-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously, while XFS forced a commit. Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes. On the other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions. Given that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure available that lets us check for O_SYNC. This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems, and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire up fallocate for regular files. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-131-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits) Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send. writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable. m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable. wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable. media: comment typo fix diable -> disable. remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description Fix spelling mistakes in comments Revert conflicting V4L changes i7core_edac: fix typos in comments mm/rmap.c: fix comment sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'. hrtimer: fix a typo in comment init/Kconfig: fix typo anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment fix comment typos concerning "consistent" poll: fix a typo in comment ... Fix up trivial conflicts in: - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c) - fs/ext4/ext4.h Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
| * Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina2010-12-221-1/+4
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too outdated.
| * | tree-wide: fix comment/printk typosUwe Kleine-König2010-11-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address", "between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already", "equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest", "relative", "memory", "offset", "already", Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | | ext4: flush the i_completed_io_list during ext4_truncateJiaying Zhang2011-01-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ted first found the bug when running 2.6.36 kernel with dioread_nolock mount option that xfstests #13 complained about wrong file size during fsck. However, the bug exists in the older kernels as well although it is somehow harder to trigger. The problem is that ext4_end_io_work() can happen after we have truncated an inode to a smaller size. Then when ext4_end_io_work() calls ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(), we may reallocate some blocks that have been truncated, so the inode size becomes inconsistent with the allocated blocks. The following patch flushes the i_completed_io_list during truncate to reduce the risk that some pending end_io requests are executed later and convert already truncated blocks to initialized. Note that although the fix helps reduce the problem a lot there may still be a race window between vmtruncate() and ext4_end_io_work(). The fundamental problem is that if vmtruncate() is called without either i_mutex or i_alloc_sem held, it can race with an ongoing write request so that the io_end request is processed later when the corresponding blocks have been truncated. Ted and I have discussed the problem offline and we saw a few ways to fix the race completely: a) We guarantee that i_mutex lock and i_alloc_sem write lock are both hold whenever vmtruncate() is called. The i_mutex lock prevents any new write requests from entering writeback and the i_alloc_sem prevents the race from ext4_page_mkwrite(). Currently we hold both locks if vmtruncate() is called from do_truncate(), which is probably the most common case. However, there are places where we may call vmtruncate() without holding either i_mutex or i_alloc_sem. I would like to ask for other people's opinions on what locks are expected to be held before calling vmtruncate(). There seems a disagreement among the callers of that function. b) We change the ext4 write path so that we change the extent tree to contain the newly allocated blocks and update i_size both at the same time --- when the write of the data blocks is completed. c) We add some additional locking to synchronize vmtruncate() and ext4_end_io_work(). This approach may have performance implications so we need to be careful. All of the above proposals may require more substantial changes, so we may consider to take the following patch as a bandaid. Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: dynamically allocate the jbd2_inode in ext4_inode_info as necessaryTheodore Ts'o2011-01-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace the jbd2_inode structure (which is 48 bytes) with a pointer and only allocate the jbd2_inode when it is needed --- that is, when the file system has a journal present and the inode has been opened for writing. This allows us to further slim down the ext4_inode_info structure. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: drop i_state_flags on architectures with 64-bit longsTheodore Ts'o2011-01-101-6/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can store the dynamic inode state flags in the high bits of EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags, and eliminate i_state_flags. This saves 8 bytes from the size of ext4_inode_info structure, which when multiplied by the number of the number of in the inode cache, can save a lot of memory. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: reorder ext4_inode_info structure elements to remove unneeded paddingTheodore Ts'o2011-01-101-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | By reordering the elements in the ext4_inode_info structure, we can reduce the padding needed on an x86_64 system by 16 bytes. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: drop ec_type from the ext4_ext_cache structureTheodore Ts'o2011-01-101-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can encode the ec_type information by using ee_len == 0 to denote EXT4_EXT_CACHE_NO, ee_start == 0 to denote EXT4_EXT_CACHE_GAP, and if neither is true, then the cache type must be EXT4_EXT_CACHE_EXTENT. This allows us to reduce the size of ext4_ext_inode by another 8 bytes. (ec_type is 4 bytes, plus another 4 bytes of padding) Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: use ext4_lblk_t instead of sector_t for logical blocksTheodore Ts'o2011-01-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a number of places where we used sector_t instead of ext4_lblk_t for logical blocks, which for ext4 are still 32-bit data types. No point wasting space in the ext4_inode_info structure, and requiring 64-bit arithmetic on 32-bit systems, when it isn't necessary. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: replace i_delalloc_reserved_flag with EXT4_STATE_DELALLOC_RESERVEDTheodore Ts'o2011-01-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the short element i_delalloc_reserved_flag from the ext4_inode_info structure and replace it a new bit in i_state_flags. Since we have an ext4_inode_info for every ext4 inode cached in the inode cache, any savings we can produce here is a very good thing from a memory utilization perspective. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: Use ext4_error_file() to print the pathname to the corrupted inodeTheodore Ts'o2011-01-101-7/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Where the file pointer is available, use ext4_error_file() instead of ext4_error_inode(). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: zero out nanosecond timestamps for small inodesEric Sandeen2010-12-191-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When nanosecond timestamp resolution isn't supported on an ext4 partition (inode size = 128), stat() appears to be returning uninitialized garbage in the nanosecond component of timestamps. EXT4_INODE_GET_XTIME should zero out tv_nsec when EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE evaluates to false. Reported-by: Jordan Russell <jr-list-2010@quo.to> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: optimize ext4_check_dir_entry() with unlikely() annotationsTheodore Ts'o2010-12-191-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This function gets called a lot for large directories, and the answer is almost always "no, no, there's no problem". This means using unlikely() is a good thing. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: Add second mount options field since the s_mount_opt is full upTheodore Ts'o2010-12-151-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: Move struct ext4_mount_options from ext4.h to super.cTheodore Ts'o2010-12-151-16/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the ext4_mount_options structure definition from ext4.h, since it is only used in super.c. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | ext4: Simplify the usage of clear_opt() and set_opt() macrosTheodore Ts'o2010-12-151-2/+4
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | Change clear_opt() and set_opt() to take a superblock pointer instead of a pointer to EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_opt. This makes it easier for us to support a second mount option field. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: Turn off multiple page-io submission by defaultTheodore Ts'o2010-12-141-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Jon Nelson has found a test case which causes postgresql to fail with the error: psql:t.sql:4: ERROR: invalid page header in block 38269 of relation base/16384/16581 Under memory pressure, it looks like part of a file can end up getting replaced by zero's. Until we can figure out the cause, we'll roll back the change and use block_write_full_page() instead of ext4_bio_write_page(). The new, more efficient writing function can be used via the mount option mblk_io_submit, so we can test and fix the new page I/O code. To reproduce the problem, install postgres 8.4 or 9.0, and pin enough memory such that the system just at the end of triggering writeback before running the following sql script: begin; create temporary table foo as select x as a, ARRAY[x] as b FROM generate_series(1, 10000000 ) AS x; create index foo_a_idx on foo (a); create index foo_b_idx on foo USING GIN (b); rollback; If the temporary table is created on a hard drive partition which is encrypted using dm_crypt, then under memory pressure, approximately 30-40% of the time, pgsql will issue the above failure. This patch should fix this problem, and the problem will come back if the file system is mounted with the mblk_io_submit mount option. Reported-by: Jon Nelson <jnelson@jamponi.net> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: fix potential race when freeing ext4_io_page structuresTheodore Ts'o2010-11-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use an atomic_t and make sure we don't free the structure while we might still be submitting I/O for that page. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: handle writeback of inodes which are being freedTheodore Ts'o2010-11-081-0/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following BUG can occur when an inode which is getting freed when it still has dirty pages outstanding, and it gets deleted (in this because it was the target of a rename). In ordered mode, we need to make sure the data pages are written just in case we crash before the rename (or unlink) is committed. If the inode is being freed then when we try to igrab the inode, we end up tripping the BUG_ON at fs/ext4/page-io.c:146. To solve this problem, we need to keep track of the number of io callbacks which are pending, and avoid destroying the inode until they have all been completed. That way we don't have to bump the inode count to keep the inode from being destroyed; an approach which doesn't work because the count could have already been dropped down to zero before the inode writeback has started (at which point we're not allowed to bump the count back up to 1, since it's already started getting freed). Thanks to Dave Chinner for suggesting this approach, which is also used by XFS. kernel BUG at /scratch_space/linux-2.6/fs/ext4/page-io.c:146! Call Trace: [<ffffffff811075b1>] ext4_bio_write_page+0x172/0x307 [<ffffffff811033a7>] mpage_da_submit_io+0x2f9/0x37b [<ffffffff811068d7>] mpage_da_map_and_submit+0x2cc/0x2e2 [<ffffffff811069b3>] mpage_add_bh_to_extent+0xc6/0xd5 [<ffffffff81106c66>] write_cache_pages_da+0x2a4/0x3ac [<ffffffff81107044>] ext4_da_writepages+0x2d6/0x44d [<ffffffff81087910>] do_writepages+0x1c/0x25 [<ffffffff810810a4>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x4b/0x4d [<ffffffff810815f5>] filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff81122a2e>] jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate+0x7b/0xa2 [<ffffffff8110615d>] ext4_evict_inode+0x57/0x24c [<ffffffff810c14a3>] evict+0x22/0x92 [<ffffffff810c1a3d>] iput+0x212/0x249 [<ffffffff810bdf16>] dentry_iput+0xa1/0xb9 [<ffffffff810bdf6b>] d_kill+0x3d/0x5d [<ffffffff810be613>] dput+0x13a/0x147 [<ffffffff810b990d>] sys_renameat+0x1b5/0x258 [<ffffffff81145f71>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x2d/0x4c [<ffffffff810b2950>] ? cp_new_stat+0xde/0xea [<ffffffff810b29c1>] ? sys_newlstat+0x2d/0x38 [<ffffffff810b99c6>] sys_rename+0x16/0x18 [<ffffffff81002a2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Tested-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
* ext4: move ext4_mb_{get,put}_buddy_cache_lock and make them staticEric Sandeen2010-10-271-3/+0
| | | | | | | | 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>
* ext4: rename mark_bitmap_end() to ext4_mark_bitmap_end()Theodore Ts'o2010-10-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Fix a namespace leak from fs/ext4 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: move flush_completed_IO to fs/ext4/fsync.c and make it staticTheodore Ts'o2010-10-271-1/+0
| | | | | | | 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>
* ext4: make various ext4 functions be staticTheodore Ts'o2010-10-271-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext4: rename {exit,init}_ext4_*() to ext4_{exit,init}_*()Theodore Ts'o2010-10-271-6/+6
| | | | | | This is a cleanup to avoid namespace leaks out of fs/ext4 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Add batched discard support for ext4Lukas Czerner2010-10-271-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext4: use bio layer instead of buffer layer in mpage_da_submit_ioTheodore Ts'o2010-10-271-1/+35
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext4: remove unused ext4_sb_info membersEric Sandeen2010-10-271-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext4: improve llseek error handling for overly large seek offsetsToshiyuki Okajima2010-10-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext4: add interface to advertise ext4 features in sysfsLukas Czerner2010-10-271-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext4: add support for lazy inode table initializationLukas Czerner2010-10-271-0/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* ext4: use dedicated slab caches for group_info structuresCurt Wohlgemuth2010-10-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-101-1/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits) no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list Fix sget() race with failing mount vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change BFS: clean up the superblock usage AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage cifs: truncate fallout mbcache: fix shrinker function return value mbcache: Remove unused features add f_flags to struct statfs(64) pass a struct path to vfs_statfs update VFS documentation for method changes. All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
| * convert ext4 to ->evict_inode()Al Viro2010-08-091-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | pretty much brute-force... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | ext4: re-inline ext4_rec_len_(to|from)_disk functionsEric Sandeen2010-08-051-2/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 3d0518f4, "ext4: New rec_len encoding for very large blocksizes" made several changes to this path, but from a perf perspective, un-inlining ext4_rec_len_from_disk() seems most significant. This function is called from ext4_check_dir_entry(), which on a file-creation workload is called extremely often. I tested this with bonnie: # bonnie++ -u root -s 0 -f -x 200 -d /mnt/test -n 32 (this does 200 iterations) and got this for the file creations: ext4 stock: Average = 21206.8 files/s ext4 inlined: Average = 22346.7 files/s (+5%) Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: Add mount options in superblockTheodore Ts'o2010-08-011-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow mount options to be stored in the superblock. Also add default mount option bits for nobarrier, block_validity, discard, and nodelalloc. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: fix ext4_get_blocks referencesEric Sandeen2010-07-271-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ext4_get_blocks got renamed to ext4_map_blocks, but left stale comments and a prototype littered around. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: move aio completion after unwritten extent conversionjiayingz@google.com (Jiaying Zhang)2010-07-271-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is to be applied upon Christoph's "direct-io: move aio_complete into ->end_io" patch. It adds iocb and result fields to struct ext4_io_end_t, so that we can call aio_complete from ext4_end_io_nolock() after the extent conversion has finished. I have verified with Christoph's aio-dio test that used to fail after a few runs on an original kernel but now succeeds on the patched kernel. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/19659 for details. Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: Define s_jnl_backup_type in superblockTheodore Ts'o2010-07-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This has been in use by e2fsprogs for a while; define it to keep the super block fields in sync. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: Once a day, printk file system error information to dmesgTheodore Ts'o2010-07-271-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows us to grab any file system error messages by scraping /var/log/messages. This will make it easy for us to do error analysis across the very large number of machines as we deploy ext4 across the fleet. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: Save error information to the superblock for analysisTheodore Ts'o2010-07-271-1/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Save number of file system errors, and the time function name, line number, block number, and inode number of the first and most recent errors reported on the file system in the superblock. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: Pass line numbers to ext4_error() and friendsTheodore Ts'o2010-07-271-17/+27
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: Cleanup ext4_check_dir_entry so __func__ is now implicitTheodore Ts'o2010-07-271-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Also start passing the line number to ext4_check_dir since we're going to need it in upcoming patch. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: Enhance ext4_grp_locked_error() to take block and function numbersTheodore Ts'o2010-06-291-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | Also use a macro definition so that __func__ and __LINE__ is implicit. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: clean up ext4_abort() so __func__ is now implicitTheodore Ts'o2010-06-291-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use a macro definition for ext4_abort() to clean up the .c files a wee bit. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: Add new superblock fields reserved for the Next3 snapshot featureTheodore Ts'o2010-06-291-1/+7
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: remove vestiges of nobh supportChristoph Hellwig2010-06-141-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The nobh option was only supported for writeback mode, but given that all write paths actually create buffer heads it effectively was a no-op already. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | ext4: Clean up s_dirt handlingTheodore Ts'o2010-06-111-0/+6
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We don't need to set s_dirt in most of the ext4 code when journaling is enabled. In ext3/4 some of the summary statistics for # of free inodes, blocks, and directories are calculated from the per-block group statistics when the file system is mounted or unmounted. As a result the superblock doesn't have to be updated, either via the journal or by setting s_dirt. There are a few exceptions, most notably when resizing the file system, where the superblock needs to be modified --- and in that case it should be done as a journalled operation if possible, and s_dirt set only in no-journal mode. This patch will optimize out some unneeded disk writes when using ext4 with a journal. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* drop unused dentry argument to ->fsyncChristoph Hellwig2010-05-271-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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