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Lukas Czerner
bfff68738f ext4: add support for lazy inode table initialization
When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it
considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are
not zeroed out.  The fact that parts of the inode table are
uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors,
which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has
been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group
checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and
the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to
report false problems.

Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon
as possble.  This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely
use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting
file systems.

This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is
created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed.  There
is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the
first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit
thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the
request list.

This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up
scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule
time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to
zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with
the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10).  We are doing
this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no
longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate
structures and exits (and can be created later later by another
filesystem).

We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not
care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we
have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode
allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we
take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem
in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the
group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait.

This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:05 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
5f248c9c25 Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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
2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
Al Viro
0930fcc1ee convert ext4 to ->evict_inode()
pretty much brute-force...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:48:30 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
a0375156ca ext4: Clean up s_dirt handling
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>
2010-06-11 23:14:04 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
e4ce30f377 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (40 commits)
  ext4: Make fsync sync new parent directories in no-journal mode
  ext4: Drop whitespace at end of lines
  ext4: Fix compat EXT4_IOC_ADD_GROUP
  ext4: Conditionally define compat ioctl numbers
  tracing: Convert more ext4 events to DEFINE_EVENT
  ext4: Add new tracepoints to track mballoc's buddy bitmap loads
  ext4: Add a missing trace hook
  ext4: restart ext4_ext_remove_space() after transaction restart
  ext4: Clear the EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL flag only when warranted
  ext4: Avoid crashing on NULL ptr dereference on a filesystem error
  ext4: Use bitops to read/modify i_flags in struct ext4_inode_info
  ext4: Convert calls of ext4_error() to EXT4_ERROR_INODE()
  ext4: Convert callers of ext4_get_blocks() to use ext4_map_blocks()
  ext4: Add new abstraction ext4_map_blocks() underneath ext4_get_blocks()
  ext4: Use our own write_cache_pages()
  ext4: Show journal_checksum option
  ext4: Fix for ext4_mb_collect_stats()
  ext4: check for a good block group before loading buddy pages
  ext4: Prevent creation of files larger than RLIMIT_FSIZE using fallocate
  ext4: Remove extraneous newlines in ext4_msg() calls
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in fs/ext4/fsync.c
2010-05-27 10:26:37 -07:00
Dmitry Monakhov
b10b852090 ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:24 -04:00
Dmitry Monakhov
12e9b89200 ext4: Use bitops to read/modify i_flags in struct ext4_inode_info
At several places we modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags without holding
i_mutex (ext4_do_update_inode, ...). These modifications are racy and
we can lose updates to i_flags. So convert handling of i_flags to use
bitops which are atomic.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15792

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-05-16 22:00:00 -04:00
Dmitry Monakhov
d17413c08c ext4: clean up inode bitmaps manipulation in ext4_free_inode
- Reorganize locking scheme to batch two atomic operation in to one.
  This also allow us to state what healthy group must obey following rule
  ext4_free_inodes_count(sb, gdp) == ext4_count_free(inode_bitmap, NUM);
- Fix possible undefined pointer dereference.
- Even if group descriptor stats aren't accessible we have to update
  inode bitmaps.
- Move non-group members update out of group_lock.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-05-16 07:00:00 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
c4caae2518 ext4: Fixed inode allocator to correctly track a flex_bg's used_dirs
When used_dirs was introduced for the flex_groups struct, it looks
like the accounting was not put into place properly, in some places
manipulating free_inodes rather than used_dirs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-03-23 21:32:00 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
e213e26ab3 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (33 commits)
  quota: stop using QUOTA_OK / NO_QUOTA
  dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine
  dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine
  dquot: move dquot drop responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine
  dquot: move dquot transfer responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines
  dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines
  ext3: add writepage sanity checks
  ext3: Truncate allocated blocks if direct IO write fails to update i_size
  quota: Properly invalidate caches even for filesystems with blocksize < pagesize
  quota: generalize quota transfer interface
  quota: sb_quota state flags cleanup
  jbd: Delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer
  ext3: quota_write cross block boundary behaviour
  quota: drop permission checks from xfs_fs_set_xstate/xfs_fs_set_xquota
  quota: split out compat_sys_quotactl support from quota.c
  quota: split out netlink notification support from quota.c
  quota: remove invalid optimization from quota_sync_all
  ...

Fixed trivial conflicts in fs/namei.c and fs/ufs/inode.c
2010-03-05 13:20:53 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
871a293155 dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine
Get rid of the initialize dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_initialize helper to __dquot_initialize
and vfs_dq_init to dquot_initialize to have a consistent namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:30 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
9f75475802 dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine
Get rid of the drop dquot operation - it is now always called from
the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none
currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Rename the now static low-level dquot_drop helper to __dquot_drop
and vfs_dq_drop to dquot_drop to have a consistent namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:30 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
63936ddaa1 dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines
Get rid of the alloc_inode and free_inode dquot operations - they are
always called from the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs
their own (which none currently does) it can just call into it's
own routine directly.

Also get rid of the vfs_dq_alloc/vfs_dq_free wrappers and always
call the lowlevel dquot_alloc_inode / dqout_free_inode routines
directly, which now lose the number argument which is always 1.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:28 +01:00
Curt Wohlgemuth
73b50c1c92 ext4: Fix BUG_ON at fs/buffer.c:652 in no journal mode
Calls to ext4_handle_dirty_metadata should only pass in an inode
pointer for inode-specific metadata, and not for shared metadata
blocks such as inode table blocks, block group descriptors, the
superblock, etc.

The BUG_ON can get tripped when updating a special device (such as a
block device) that is opened (so that i_mapping is set in
fs/block_dev.c) and the file system is mounted in no journal mode.

Addresses-Google-Bug: #2404870

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-02-16 15:06:29 -05:00
Eric Sandeen
12062dddda ext4: move __func__ into a macro for ext4_warning, ext4_error
Just a pet peeve of mine; we had a mishash of calls with either __func__
or "function_name" and the latter tends to get out of sync.

I think it's easier to just hide the __func__ in a macro, and it'll
be consistent from then on.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-02-15 14:19:27 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
19f5fb7ad6 ext4: Use bitops to read/modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_state
At several places we modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_state without holding
i_mutex (ext4_release_file, ext4_bmap, ext4_journalled_writepage,
ext4_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.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-01-24 14:34:07 -05:00
Peng Tao
785b4b3a5a ext4: fix build warning when EXT4FS_DEBUG is on
When compiling with EXT4FS_DEBUG on, gcc will complain with following warnings:

linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ialloc.c: In function ‘ext4_count_free_inodes’:
linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1192: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects type
‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘ext4_group_t’

So add a type cast to suppress it. 

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-27 21:44:40 -04:00
Johann Lombardi
e6462869e4 ext4: Fix goal inum check in the inode allocator
The goal inode is specificed by inode number which belongs
to [1; s_inodes_count].

Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-05 23:45:11 -04:00
Andreas Dilger
11013911da ext4: teach the inode allocator to use a goal inode number
Enhance the inode allocator to take a goal inode number as a
paremeter; if it is specified, it takes precedence over Orlov or
parent directory inode allocation algorithms.

The extents migration function uses the goal inode number so that the
extent trees allocated the migration function use the correct flex_bg.
In the future, the goal inode functionality will also be used to
allocate an adjacent inode for the extended attributes.

Also, for testing purposes the goal inode number can be specified via
/sys/fs/{dev}/inode_goal.  This can be useful for testing inode
allocation beyond 2^32 blocks on very large filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-13 11:45:35 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
f157a4aa98 ext4: Use a hash of the topdir directory name for the Orlov parent group
Instead of using a random number to determine the goal parent grop for
the Orlov top directories, use a hash of the directory name.  This
allows for repeatable results when trying to benchmark filesystem
layout algorithms.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-13 11:09:42 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
9bffad1ed2 ext4: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepoints
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-17 11:48:11 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
88b6edd17c ext4: Clean up calls to ext4_get_group_desc()
If the caller isn't planning on modifying the block group descriptors,
there's no need to pass in a pointer to a struct buffer_head.  Nuking
this saves a tiny amount of CPU time and stack space usage.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-25 11:50:39 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
955ce5f5be ext4: Convert ext4_lock_group to use sb_bgl_lock
We have sb_bgl_lock() and ext4_group_info.bb_state
bit spinlock to protech group information. The later is only
used within mballoc code. Consolidate them to use sb_bgl_lock().
This makes the mballoc.c code much simpler and also avoid
confusion with two locks protecting same info.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-02 20:35:09 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
bb23c20a85 ext4: Move fs/ext4/group.h into ext4.h
Move the function prototypes in group.h into ext4.h so they are all
defined in one place.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01 19:44:44 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
8df9675f8b ext4: Avoid races caused by on-line resizing and SMP memory reordering
Ext4's on-line resizing adds a new block group and then, only at the
last step adjusts s_groups_count.  However, it's possible on SMP
systems that another CPU could see the updated the s_group_count and
not see the newly initialized data structures for the just-added block
group.  For this reason, it's important to insert a SMP read barrier
after reading s_groups_count and before reading any (for example) the
new block group descriptors allowed by the increased value of
s_groups_count.

Unfortunately, we rather blatently violate this locking protocol
documented in fs/ext4/resize.c.  Fortunately, (1) on-line resizes
happen relatively rarely, and (2) it seems rare that the filesystem
code will immediately try to use just-added block group before any
memory ordering issues resolve themselves.  So apparently problems
here are relatively hard to hit, since ext3 has been vulnerable to the
same issue for years with no one apparently complaining.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01 08:50:38 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
b5451f7b26 ext4: Fix potential inode allocation soft lockup in Orlov allocator
If the Orlov allocator is having trouble finding an appropriate block
group, the fallback code could loop forever, causing a soft lockup
warning in find_group_orlov():

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [cp:11728]
     ...
Pid: 11728, comm: cp Not tainted (2.6.30-rc1-dirty #77) Lenovo          
EIP: 0060:[<c021650e>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0
EIP is at ext4_get_group_desc+0x54/0x9d
    ...
Call Trace:
 [<c0218021>] find_group_orlov+0x2ee/0x334
 [<c0120a5f>] ? sched_clock+0x8/0xb
 [<c02188e3>] ext4_new_inode+0x2cf/0xb1a

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-22 21:00:36 -04:00
Chuck Ebbert
6b82f3cb2d ext4: really print the find_group_flex fallback warning only once
Missing braces caused the warning to print more than once.

Signed-Off-By: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-14 07:37:40 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
7d39db14a4 ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()
Instead of looping over all of the block groups in a flex group
summing their summary statistics, start tracking used_dirs in struct
flex_groups, and use struct flex_groups instead.  This should save a
bit of CPU for mkdir-heavy workloads.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04 19:31:53 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
9f24e4208f ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups
Reduce pressure on the sb_bgl_lock family of locks by using atomic_t's
to track the number of free blocks and inodes in each flex_group.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04 19:09:10 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
a4912123b6 ext4: New inode/block allocation algorithms for flex_bg filesystems
The find_group_flex() inode allocator is now only used if the
filesystem is mounted using the "oldalloc" mount option.  It is
replaced with the original Orlov allocator that has been updated for
flex_bg filesystems (it should behave the same way if flex_bg is
disabled).  The inode allocator now functions by taking into account
each flex_bg group, instead of each block group, when deciding whether
or not it's time to allocate a new directory into a fresh flex_bg.

The block allocator has also been changed so that the first block
group in each flex_bg is preferred for use for storing directory
blocks.  This keeps directory blocks close together, which is good for
speeding up e2fsck since large directories are more likely to look
like this:

debugfs:  stat /home/tytso/Maildir/cur
Inode: 1844562   Type: directory    Mode:  0700   Flags: 0x81000
Generation: 1132745781    Version: 0x00000000:0000ad71
User: 15806   Group: 15806   Size: 1060864
File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
Links: 2   Blockcount: 2072
Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
 ctime: 0x499c0ff4:164961f4 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
 atime: 0x499c0ff4:00000000 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
 mtime: 0x49957f51:00000000 -- Fri Feb 13 09:10:25 2009
crtime: 0x499c0f57:00d51440 -- Wed Feb 18 08:38:31 2009
Size of extra inode fields: 28
BLOCKS:
(0):7348651, (1-258):7348654-7348911
TOTAL: 259

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-12 12:18:34 -04:00
Duane Griffin
2dc6b0d48c ext4: tighten restrictions on inode flags
At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on
which inodes.  Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and
IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links.  Tighten that to disallow
TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set
on non-regular file, non-directories.

Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and
use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to
facilitate future consistency.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-15 18:09:20 -05:00
Duane Griffin
8fa43a81b9 ext4: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent
At present INDEX and EXTENTS are the only flags that new ext4 inodes do
NOT inherit from their parent.  In addition prevent the flags DIRTY,
ECOMPR, IMAGIC, TOPDIR, HUGE_FILE and EXT_MIGRATE from being inherited. 
List inheritable flags explicitly to prevent future flags from
accidentally being inherited.

This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-15 18:57:26 -05:00
Jan Kara
a269eb1829 ext4: Use lowercase names of quota functions
Use lowercase names of quota functions instead of old uppercase ones.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
2009-03-26 02:18:36 +01:00
Theodore Ts'o
2842c3b544 ext4: Print the find_group_flex() warning only once
This is a short-term warning, and even printk_ratelimit() can result
in too much noise in system logs.  So only print it once as a warning.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-12 12:20:01 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
7ce9d5d1f3 ext4: fix ext4_free_inode() vs. ext4_claim_inode() race
I was seeing fsck errors on inode bitmaps after a 4 thread
dbench run on a 4 cpu machine:

Inode bitmap differences: -50736 -(50752--50753) etc...

I believe that this is because ext4_free_inode() uses atomic
bitops, and although ext4_new_inode() *used* to also use atomic 
bitops for synchronization, commit 
393418676a changed this to use
the sb_bgl_lock, so that we could also synchronize against
read_inode_bitmap and initialization of uninit inode tables.

However, that change left ext4_free_inode using atomic bitops,
which I think leaves no synchronization between setting & 
unsetting bits in the inode table.

The below patch fixes it for me, although I wonder if we're 
getting at all heavy-handed with this spinlock...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04 18:38:18 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
05bf9e839d ext4: Add fallback for find_group_flex
This is a workaround for find_group_flex() which badly needs to be
replaced.  One of its problems (besides ignoring the Orlov algorithm)
is that it is a bit hyperactive about returning failure under
suspicious circumstances.  This can lead to spurious ENOSPC failures
even when there are inodes still available.

Work around this for now by retrying the search using
find_group_other() if find_group_flex() returns -1.  If
find_group_other() succeeds when find_group_flex() has failed, log a
warning message.

A better block/inode allocator that will fix this problem for real has
been queued up for the next merge window.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-21 12:13:24 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
83982b6f47 ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was
implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents
feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to
create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag
was not eabled.  The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option
entirely.  It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new
extent-based files if the filesystem can support it.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 14:53:16 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
ba80b1019a ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-03 20:03:21 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
648f5879f5 ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
We need to mark the block/inode bitmap beyond the end of the group
with '1'.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-05 21:46:04 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
2ccb5fb9f1 ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
For uninit block group, the on-disk bitmap is not initialized. That
implies we cannot depend on the uptodate flag on the bitmap
buffer_head to find bitmap validity.  Use a new buffer_head flag which
would be set after we properly initialize the bitmap.  This also
prevents (re-)initializing the uninit group bitmap every time we call 
ext4_read_block_bitmap().

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-05 21:49:55 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
393418676a ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
We need to make sure we update the inode bitmap and clear
EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT flag with sb_bgl_lock held, since
ext4_read_inode_bitmap() looks at EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT to decide
whether to initialize the inode bitmap each time it is called.
(introduced by commit c806e68f.)

ext4_read_inode_bitmap does:

spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT)) {
	ext4_init_inode_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);

and ext4_new_inode does
if (!ext4_set_bit_atomic(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, group),
                   ino, inode_bitmap_bh->b_data))
		   ......
		   ...
spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, group));

gdp->bg_flags &= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT);
i.e., on allocation we update the bitmap then we take the sb_bgl_lock
and clear the EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT flag. What can happen is a
parallel ext4_read_inode_bitmap can zero out the bitmap in between
the above ext4_set_bit_atomic and spin_lock(sb_bg_lock..)

The race results in below user visible errors
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 168449
EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file ...
EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links ...
# ls -al /mnt/tmp/f/p369/d3/d6/d39/db2/dee/d10f/d3f/l71
ls: /mnt/tmp/f/p369/d3/d6/d39/db2/dee/d10f/d3f/l71: Stale NFS file handle

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-05 21:38:14 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
3300beda52 ext4: code cleanup
Rename some variables.  We also unlock locks in the reverse order we
acquired as a part of cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-03 22:33:39 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
560671a0d3 ext4: Use high 16 bits of the block group descriptor's free counts fields
Rename the lower bits with suffix _lo and add helper
to access the values. Also rename bg_itable_unused_hi
to bg_pad as in e2fsprogs.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05 22:20:24 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
a9df9a4910 ext4: Make ext4_group_t be an unsigned int
Nearly all places in the ext3/4 code which uses "unsigned long" is
probably a bug, since on 32-bit systems a ulong a 32-bits, which means
we are wasting stack space on 64-bit systems.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05 22:18:16 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
fde4d95ad8 ext4: remove extraneous newlines from calls to ext4_error() and ext4_warning()
This removes annoying blank syslog entries emitted by ext4_error() or
ext4_warning(), since these functions add their own newline.

Signed-off-by: Nick Warne <nick@ukfsn.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05 22:17:35 -05:00
Frank Mayhar
0390131ba8 ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journal
A few weeks ago I posted a patch for discussion that allowed ext4 to run
without a journal.  Since that time I've integrated the excellent
comments from Andreas and fixed several serious bugs.  We're currently
running with this patch and generating some performance numbers against
both ext2 (with backported reservations code) and ext4 with and without
a journal.  It just so happens that running without a journal is
slightly faster for most everything.

We did
	iozone -T -t 4 s 2g -r 256k -T -I -i0 -i1 -i2

which creates 4 threads, each of which create and do reads and writes on
a 2G file, with a buffer size of 256K, using O_DIRECT for all file opens
to bypass the page cache.  Results:

                     ext2        ext4, default   ext4, no journal
  initial writes   13.0 MB/s        15.4 MB/s          15.7 MB/s
  rewrites         13.1 MB/s        15.6 MB/s          15.9 MB/s
  reads            15.2 MB/s        16.9 MB/s          17.2 MB/s
  re-reads         15.3 MB/s        16.9 MB/s          17.2 MB/s
  random readers    5.6 MB/s         5.6 MB/s           5.7 MB/s
  random writers    5.1 MB/s         5.3 MB/s           5.4 MB/s 

So it seems that, so far, this was a useful exercise.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-07 00:06:22 -05:00
Al Viro
6b38e842bb nfsd race fixes: ext4
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:44 -05:00
James Morris
2b82892565 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	security/keys/internal.h
	security/keys/process_keys.c
	security/keys/request_key.c

Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 11:29:12 +11:00
David Howells
4c9c544e49 CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the Ext4 filesystem
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: adilger@sun.com
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:38:51 +11:00
Frederic Bohe
23712a9c28 ext4: add checksum calculation when clearing UNINIT flag in ext4_new_inode
When initializing an uninitialized block group in ext4_new_inode(),
its block group checksum must be re-calculated.  This fixes a race
when several threads try to allocate a new inode in an UNINIT'd group.

There is some question whether we need to be initializing the block
bitmap in ext4_new_inode() at all, but for now, if we are going to
init the block group, let's eliminate the race.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-07 09:21:01 -05:00