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* jbd: use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG when writing synchronous revoke recordsTheodore Ts'o2009-04-141-1/+2
| | | | | | | | The revoke records must be written using the same way as the rest of the blocks during the commit process; that is, either marked as synchronous writes or as asynchornous writes. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-031-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits) trivial: Update my email address trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius". trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file() trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register" ...
| * trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAILKazuo Moriwaka2009-03-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | jbd header comment typo fix. Signed-off-by: Kazuo Moriwaka <moriwaka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | ext3: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()Theodore Ts'o2009-03-271-0/+5
|/ | | | | | | | | If a commit is triggered by fsync(), set a flag indicating the journal blocks associated with the transaction should be flushed out using WRITE_SYNC. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* jbd: fix missing kernel-docRandy Dunlap2009-01-151-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Fix jbd header file kernel-doc notation: Warning(linux-2.6.28-git13//include/linux/jbd.h:823): No description found for parameter 'j_average_commit_time' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* jbd: improve fsync batchingJosef Bacik2009-01-081-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a flaw with the way jbd handles fsync batching. If we fsync() a file and we were not the last person to run fsync() on this fs then we automatically sleep for 1 jiffie in order to wait for new writers to join into the transaction before forcing the commit. The problem with this is that with really fast storage (ie a Clariion) the time it takes to commit a transaction to disk is way faster than 1 jiffie in most cases, so sleeping means waiting longer with nothing to do than if we just committed the transaction and kept going. Ric Wheeler noticed this when using fs_mark with more than 1 thread, the throughput would plummet as he added more threads. This patch attempts to fix this problem by recording the average time in nanoseconds that it takes to commit a transaction to disk, and what time we started the transaction. If we run an fsync() and we have been running for less time than it takes to commit the transaction to disk, we sleep for the delta amount of time and then commit to disk. We acheive sub-jiffie sleeping using schedule_hrtimeout. This means that the wait time is auto-tuned to the speed of the underlying disk, instead of having this static timeout. I weighted the average according to somebody's comments (Andreas Dilger I think) in order to help normalize random outliers where we take way longer or way less time to commit than the average. I also have a min() check in there to make sure we don't sleep longer than a jiffie in case our storage is super slow, this was requested by Andrew. I unfortunately do not have access to a Clariion, so I had to use a ramdisk to represent a super fast array. I tested with a SATA drive with barrier=1 to make sure there was no regression with local disks, I tested with a 4 way multipathed Apple Xserve RAID array and of course the ramdisk. I ran the following command fs_mark -d /mnt/ext3-test -s 4096 -n 2000 -D 64 -t $i where $i was 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32. I mkfs'ed the fs each time. Here are my results type threads with patch without patch sata 2 24.6 26.3 sata 4 49.2 48.1 sata 8 70.1 67.0 sata 16 104.0 94.1 sata 32 153.6 142.7 xserve 2 246.4 222.0 xserve 4 480.0 440.8 xserve 8 829.5 730.8 xserve 16 1172.7 1026.9 xserve 32 1816.3 1650.5 ramdisk 2 2538.3 1745.6 ramdisk 4 2942.3 661.9 ramdisk 8 2882.5 999.8 ramdisk 16 2738.7 1801.9 ramdisk 32 2541.9 2394.0 Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* jbd: fix error handling for checkpoint ioHidehiro Kawai2008-10-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a checkpointing IO fails, current JBD code doesn't check the error and continue journaling. This means latest metadata can be lost from both the journal and filesystem. This patch leaves the failed metadata blocks in the journal space and aborts journaling in the case of log_do_checkpoint(). To achieve this, we need to do: 1. don't remove the failed buffer from the checkpoint list where in the case of __try_to_free_cp_buf() because it may be released or overwritten by a later transaction 2. log_do_checkpoint() is the last chance, remove the failed buffer from the checkpoint list and abort the journal 3. when checkpointing fails, don't update the journal super block to prevent the journaled contents from being cleaned. For safety, don't update j_tail and j_tail_sequence either 4. when checkpointing fails, notify this error to the ext3 layer so that ext3 don't clear the needs_recovery flag, otherwise the journaled contents are ignored and cleaned in the recovery phase 5. if the recovery fails, keep the needs_recovery flag 6. prevent cleanup_journal_tail() from being called between __journal_drop_transaction() and journal_abort() (a race issue between journal_flush() and __log_wait_for_space() Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Acked-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: add an option to control error handling on file dataHidehiro Kawai2008-10-201-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the journal doesn't abort when it gets an IO error in file data blocks, the file data corruption will spread silently. Because most of applications and commands do buffered writes without fsync(), they don't notice the IO error. It's scary for mission critical systems. On the other hand, if the journal aborts whenever it gets an IO error in file data blocks, the system will easily become inoperable. So this patch introduces a filesystem option to determine whether it aborts the journal or just call printk() when it gets an IO error in file data. If you mount a ext3 fs with data_err=abort option, it aborts on file data write error. If you mount it with data_err=ignore, it doesn't abort, just call printk(). data_err=ignore is the default. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__Harvey Harrison2008-10-161-2/+2
| | | | | | | | __FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* include: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.hMatthew Wilcox2008-04-181-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | None of these files use any of the functionality promised by asm/semaphore.h. It's possible that they (or some user of them) rely on it dragging in some unrelated header file, but I can't build all these files, so we'll have to fix any build failures as they come up. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
* fs: fix kernel-doc notation warningsRandy Dunlap2008-03-191-9/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc notation warnings in fs/. Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/super.c:560): missing initial short description on line: * mark_files_ro Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line: * lease_get_mtime Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line: * lease_get_mtime Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/namei.c:1368): missing initial short description on line: * lookup_one_len: filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3221): missing initial short description on line: * bh_uptodate_or_lock: Test whether the buffer is uptodate Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3240): missing initial short description on line: * bh_submit_read: Submit a locked buffer for reading Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:30): missing initial short description on line: * writeback_acquire: attempt to get exclusive writeback access to a device Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:47): missing initial short description on line: * writeback_in_progress: determine whether there is writeback in progress Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:58): missing initial short description on line: * writeback_release: relinquish exclusive writeback access against a device. Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:351): contents before sections Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:561): contents before sections Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/jbd/transaction.c:1935): missing initial short description on line: * void journal_invalidatepage() Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* jbd.h: hide kernel only codeOlaf Hering2008-02-061-2/+0
| | | | | | | | Move a few kernel-only things into __KERNEL__. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* make jbd/journal.c:__journal_abort_hard() staticAdrian Bunk2008-02-061-1/+0
| | | | | | | | __journal_abort_hard() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* jbd: Fix assertion failure in fs/jbd/checkpoint.cJan Kara2007-12-051-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before we start committing a transaction, we call __journal_clean_checkpoint_list() to cleanup transaction's written-back buffers. If this call happens to remove all of them (and there were already some buffers), __journal_remove_checkpoint() will decide to free the transaction because it isn't (yet) a committing transaction and soon we fail some assertion - the transaction really isn't ready to be freed :). We change the check in __journal_remove_checkpoint() to free only a transaction in T_FINISHED state. The locking there is subtle though (as everywhere in JBD ;(). We use j_list_lock to protect the check and a subsequent call to __journal_drop_transaction() and do the same in the end of journal_commit_transaction() which is the only place where a transaction can get to T_FINISHED state. Probably I'm too paranoid here and such locking is not really necessary - checkpoint lists are processed only from log_do_checkpoint() where a transaction must be already committed to be processed or from __journal_clean_checkpoint_list() where kjournald itself calls it and thus transaction cannot change state either. Better be safe if something changes in future... 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>
* jbd: config_jbd_debug cannot create /proc entryJose R. Santos2007-10-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The jbd-debug file used to be located in /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug, but create_proc_entry() does not do lookups on file names that are more that one directory deep. This causes the entry creation to fail and hence, no proc file is created. Instead of fixing this on procfs might as well move the jbd2-debug file to debugfs which would be the preferred location for this kind of tunable. The new location is now /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: zillions of cleanups] Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com> Acked-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>
* jbd: remove printk() from J_ASSERT macrosChris Snook2007-10-191-15/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Remove printk from J_ASSERT to preserve registers during BUG. Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* JBD: replace jbd_kmalloc with kmalloc directlyMingming Cao2007-10-171-6/+0
| | | | | | This patch cleans up jbd_kmalloc and replace it with kmalloc directly Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
* JBD: JBD slab allocation cleanupsMingming Cao2007-10-171-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | | JBD: Replace slab allocations with page allocations JBD allocate memory for committed_data and frozen_data from slab. However JBD should not pass slab pages down to the block layer. Use page allocator pages instead. This will also prepare JBD for the large blocksize patchset. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
* docbook: fix filesystems contentRandy Dunlap2007-10-151-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix filesystems docbook warnings. Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'name' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'mode' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'parent' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'value' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//include/linux/jbd.h:404): No description found for parameter 'h_lockdep_map' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* lockdep: annotate journal_start()Peter Zijlstra2007-10-111-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 02:05 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Except lockdep doesn't know about journal_start(), which has ranking > requirements similar to a semaphore. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [PATCH] make fs/jbd/transaction.c:__journal_temp_unlink_buffer() staticAdrian Bunk2006-12-071-1/+0
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter2006-12-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] JBD: Make journal_brelse_array() staticDave Kleikamp2006-09-291-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | It's always good to make symbols static when we can, and this also eliminates the need to rename the function in jbd2 Suggested by Eric Sandeen. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ext3: More whitespace cleanupsDave Kleikamp2006-09-271-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | More white space cleanups in preparation of cloning ext4 from ext3. Removing spaces that precede a tab. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] JBD: 16T fixesEric Sandeen2006-09-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These are a few places I've found in jbd that look like they may not be 16T-safe, or consistent with the use of unsigned longs for block containers. Problems here would be somewhat hard to hit, would require journal blocks past the 8T boundary, which would not be terribly common. Still, should fix. (some of these have come from the ext4 work on jbd as well). I think there's one more possibility that the wrap() function may not be safe IF your last block in the journal butts right up against the 232 block boundary, but that seems like a VERY remote possibility, and I'm not worrying about it at this point. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ext3 and jbd cleanup: remove whitespaceMingming Cao2006-09-271-28/+28
| | | | | | | | Remove whitespace from ext3 and jbd, before we clone ext4. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao<cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Manage jbd allocations from its own slabsBadari Pulavarty2006-08-271-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | JBD currently allocates commit and frozen buffers from slabs. With CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, its possible for an allocation to cross the page boundary causing IO problems. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200127 So, instead of allocating these from regular slabs - manage allocation from its own slabs and disable slab debug for these slabs. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] JBD: split checkpoint listsJan Kara2006-06-231-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split the checkpoint list of the transaction into two lists. In the first list we keep the buffers that need to be submitted for IO. In the second list are kept buffers that were already submitted and we just have to wait for the IO to complete. This should simplify a handling of checkpoint lists a bit and can eventually be also a performance gain. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make address_space_operations->invalidatepage return voidNeilBrown2006-03-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The return value of this function is never used, so let's be honest and declare it as void. Some places where invalidatepage returned 0, I have inserted comments suggesting a BUG_ON. [akpm@osdl.org: JBD BUG fix] [akpm@osdl.org: rework for git-nfs] [akpm@osdl.org: don't go BUG in block_invalidate_page()] Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] jbd: embed j_commit_timer in journal structAndrew Morton2006-03-251-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | The kjournald timer is currently on the kernel thread's stack and the journal structure points at it. Save a pointer hop by moving the timer into the journal structure. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sem2mutex: jbd, j_checkpoint_mutexArjan van de Ven2006-03-231-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] jbd: revert checkpoint list changesMark Fasheh2006-02-141-7/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch reverts commit f93ea411b73594f7d144855fd34278bcf34a9afc: [PATCH] jbd: split checkpoint lists This broke journal_flush() for OCFS2, which is its method of being sure that metadata is sent to disk for another node. And two related commits 8d3c7fce2d20ecc3264c8d8c91ae3beacdeaed1b and 43c3e6f5abdf6acac9b90c86bf03f995bf7d3d92 with the subjects: [PATCH] jbd: log_do_checkpoint fix [PATCH] jbd: remove_transaction fix These seem to be incremental bugfixes on the original patch and as such are no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove bogus asm/bug.h includes.Al Viro2006-02-071-1/+0
| | | | | | | A bunch of asm/bug.h includes are both not needed (since it will get pulled anyway) and bogus (since they are done too early). Removed. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] jbd: fix transaction batchingAndrew Morton2006-02-051-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ben points out that: When writing files out using O_SYNC, jbd's 1 jiffy delay results in a significant drop in throughput as the disk sits idle. The patch below results in a 4-5x performance improvement (from 6.5MB/s to ~24-30MB/s on my IDE test box) when writing out files using O_SYNC. So optimise the batching code by omitting it entirely if the process which is doing a sync write is the same as the one which did the most recent sync write. If that's true, we're unlikely to get any other processes joining the transaction. (Has been in -mm for ages - it took me a long time to get on to performance testing it) Numbers, on write-cache-disabled IDE: /usr/bin/time -p synctest -n 10 -uf -t 1 -p 1 dir-name Unpatched: 40 seconds Patched: 35 seconds Batching disabled: 35 seconds This is the problematic single-process-doing-fsync case. With multiple fsyncing processes the numbers are AFACIT unaltered by the patch. Aside: performance testing and instrumentation shows that the transaction batching almost doesn't help (testing with synctest -n 1 -uf -t 100 -p 10 dir-name on non-writeback-caching IDE). This is because by the time one process is running a synchronous commit, a bunch of other processes already have a transaction handle open, so they're all going to batch into the same transaction anyway. The batching seems to offer maybe 5-10% speedup with this workload, but I'm pretty sure it was more important than that when it was first developed 4-odd years ago... Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] jbd: split checkpoint listsJan Kara2006-01-061-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | Split the checkpoint list of the transaction into two lists. In the first list we keep the buffers that need to be submitted for IO. In the second list are kept buffers that were already submitted and we just have to wait for the IO to complete. This should simplify a handling of checkpoint lists a bit and can eventually be also a performance gain. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* compat-ioctl.c: fix compile with no CONFIG_JBDLinus Torvalds2005-11-221-17/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The ext3 compat-ioctl translation wants to translate data structures that <linux/jbd.h> only declared when CONFIG_JBD was enabled. So make <linux/jbd.h> play nicely even when we don't actually end up using it. Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Acked-by: Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu> Acked-by: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] jbd doc: fix some kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap2005-11-071-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add structure fields kernel-doc for 2 fields in struct journal_s. Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/jbd.h:808): No description found for parameter 'j_wbuf' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/jbd.h:808): No description found for parameter 'j_wbufsize' Convert fs/jbd/recovery.c non-static functions to kernel-doc format. fs/jbd/recovery.c doesn't export any symbols, so it should use !I instead of !E to eliminate this warning message: Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//fs/jbd/recovery.c): no structured comments found Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] gfp_t: fs/*Al Viro2005-10-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - ->releasepage() annotated (s/int/gfp_t), instances updated - missing gfp_t in fs/* added - fixed misannotation from the original sweep caught by bitwise checks: XFS used __nocast both for gfp_t and for flags used by XFS allocator. The latter left with unsigned int __nocast; we might want to add a different type for those but for now let's leave them alone. That, BTW, is a case when __nocast use had been actively confusing - it had been used in the same code for two different and similar types, with no way to catch misuses. Switch of gfp_t to bitwise had caught that immediately... One tricky bit is left alone to be dealt with later - mapping->flags is a mix of gfp_t and error indications. Left alone for now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro2005-10-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t; - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with typedef) and documents what's going on far better. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] spinlock consolidationIngo Molnar2005-09-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (written by me and also containing many suggestions of Arjan van de Ven) does a major cleanup of the spinlock code. It does the following things: - consolidates and enhances the spinlock/rwlock debugging code - simplifies the asm/spinlock.h files - encapsulates the raw spinlock type and moves generic spinlock features (such as ->break_lock) into the generic code. - cleans up the spinlock code hierarchy to get rid of the spaghetti. Most notably there's now only a single variant of the debugging code, located in lib/spinlock_debug.c. (previously we had one SMP debugging variant per architecture, plus a separate generic one for UP builds) Also, i've enhanced the rwlock debugging facility, it will now track write-owners. There is new spinlock-owner/CPU-tracking on SMP builds too. All locks have lockup detection now, which will work for both soft and hard spin/rwlock lockups. The arch-level include files now only contain the minimally necessary subset of the spinlock code - all the rest that can be generalized now lives in the generic headers: include/asm-i386/spinlock_types.h | 16 include/asm-x86_64/spinlock_types.h | 16 I have also split up the various spinlock variants into separate files, making it easier to see which does what. The new layout is: SMP | UP ----------------------------|----------------------------------- asm/spinlock_types_smp.h | linux/spinlock_types_up.h linux/spinlock_types.h | linux/spinlock_types.h asm/spinlock_smp.h | linux/spinlock_up.h linux/spinlock_api_smp.h | linux/spinlock_api_up.h linux/spinlock.h | linux/spinlock.h /* * here's the role of the various spinlock/rwlock related include files: * * on SMP builds: * * asm/spinlock_types.h: contains the raw_spinlock_t/raw_rwlock_t and the * initializers * * linux/spinlock_types.h: * defines the generic type and initializers * * asm/spinlock.h: contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. lowlevel * implementations, mostly inline assembly code * * (also included on UP-debug builds:) * * linux/spinlock_api_smp.h: * contains the prototypes for the _spin_*() APIs. * * linux/spinlock.h: builds the final spin_*() APIs. * * on UP builds: * * linux/spinlock_type_up.h: * contains the generic, simplified UP spinlock type. * (which is an empty structure on non-debug builds) * * linux/spinlock_types.h: * defines the generic type and initializers * * linux/spinlock_up.h: * contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. version of UP * builds. (which are NOPs on non-debug, non-preempt * builds) * * (included on UP-non-debug builds:) * * linux/spinlock_api_up.h: * builds the _spin_*() APIs. * * linux/spinlock.h: builds the final spin_*() APIs. */ All SMP and UP architectures are converted by this patch. arm, i386, ia64, ppc, ppc64, s390/s390x, x64 was build-tested via crosscompilers. m32r, mips, sh, sparc, have not been tested yet, but should be mostly fine. From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Booted and lightly tested on a500-44 (64-bit, SMP kernel, dual CPU). Builds 32-bit SMP kernel (not booted or tested). I did not try to build non-SMP kernels. That should be trivial to fix up later if necessary. I converted bit ops atomic_hash lock to raw_spinlock_t. Doing so avoids some ugly nesting of linux/*.h and asm/*.h files. Those particular locks are well tested and contained entirely inside arch specific code. I do NOT expect any new issues to arise with them. If someone does ever need to use debug/metrics with them, then they will need to unravel this hairball between spinlocks, atomic ops, and bit ops that exist only because parisc has exactly one atomic instruction: LDCW (load and clear word). From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> ia64 fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fs/jbd/: cleanupsAdrian Bunk2005-09-071-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch contains the following cleanups: - make needlessly global functions static - journal.c: remove the unused global function __journal_internal_check and move the check to journal_init - remove the following write-only global variable: - journal.c: current_journal - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL: - journal.c: journal_recover Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+1098
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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