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2009-01-06ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "Theodore Ts'o
Previously, some were "ext4: ", and some were "EXT4: "; change them to be consistent with most ext4 printk's, which is to use "EXT4-fs: ". Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystemTheodore Ts'o
This avoids insane superblock configurations that could lead to kernel oops due to null pointer derefences. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12371 Thanks to David Maciejak at Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security Research Team who discovered this bug independently (but at approximately the same time) as Thiemo Nagel, who submitted the patch. Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-05ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priorityTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-04jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNCTheodore Ts'o
Since we will be waiting the write of the commit record to the journal to complete in journal_submit_commit_record(), submit it using WRITE_SYNC. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-03jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" messageTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-03ext4: Add markers for better debuggabilityTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06ext4: Remove code to create the journal inodeTheodore Ts'o
This code has been obsolete in quite some time, since the supported method for adding a journal inode is to use tune2fs (or to creating new filesystem with a journal via mke2fs or mkfs.ext4). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressureToshiyuki Okajima
Pages in the page cache belonging to ext4 data files are released via the ext4_releasepage() function specified in the ext4 inode's address_space_ops. However, metadata blocks (such as indirect blocks, directory blocks, etc) are managed via the block device address_space_ops, and they can not be released by try_to_free_buffers() if they have a journal head attached to them. To address this, we supply a release_metadata function which calls jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() function to free the metadata, and which is called by the block device's blkdev_releasepage() function. Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2009-01-05ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressureToshiyuki Okajima
Pages in the page cache belonging to ext3 data files are released via the ext3_releasepage() function specified in the ext3 inode's address_space_ops. However, metadata blocks (such as indirect blocks, directory blocks, etc) are managed via the block device address_space_ops, and they can not be released by try_to_free_buffers() if they have a journal head attached to them. To address this, we supply a try_to_free_pages() function which calls journal_try_to_free_buffers() function to free the metadata, and which is called by the block device's blkdev_releasepage() function. Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2009-01-03add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systemsTheodore Ts'o
Implement blkdev_releasepage() to release the buffer_heads and pages after we release private data belonging to a mounted filesystem. Cc: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelallocAneesh Kumar K.V
With nodelalloc option we need to update the dirty block counter on block allocation failure. This is needed because we increment the dirty block counter early in the block allocation phase. Without the patch s_dirty_blocks_counter goes wrong so that filesystem's free blocks decreases incorrectly. Tested-by: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com> 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
2009-01-05ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cacheAneesh Kumar K.V
We need to init the complete page during buddy cache init by setting the contents to '1'. Otherwise we can see the following errors after doing an online resize of the filesystem: EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used: Allocating block 1040385 in system zone of 127 group 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
2009-01-05ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocationAneesh Kumar K.V
After we mark the blocks in the buddy cache as allocated, we need to ensure that we don't reinit the buddy cache until the block bitmap is updated. This commit achieves this by holding the group_info alloc_semaphore till ext4_mb_release_context 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
2009-01-05ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as usedAneesh Kumar K.V
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
2009-01-05ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initializationAneesh Kumar K.V
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
2009-01-05ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()Aneesh Kumar K.V
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
2009-01-03ext4: code cleanupAneesh Kumar K.V
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>
2009-01-05ext4: Use high 16 bits of the block group descriptor's free counts fieldsAneesh Kumar K.V
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>
2009-01-05ext4: Fix race between read_block_bitmap() and mark_diskspace_used()Aneesh Kumar K.V
We need to make sure we update the block bitmap and clear EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag with sb_bgl_lock held, since ext4_read_block_bitmap() looks at EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT to decide whether to initialize the block bitmap each time it is called (introduced by commit c806e68f), and this can race with block allocations in ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used(). ext4_read_block_bitmap does: spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group)); if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) { ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc); Now on the block allocation side we do mb_set_bits(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group), bitmap_bh->b_data, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len); .... spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group)); if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) { gdp->bg_flags &= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT); ie on allocation we update the bitmap then we take the sb_bgl_lock and clear the EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag. What can happen is a parallel ext4_read_block_bitmap can zero out the bitmap in between the above mb_set_bits and spin_lock(sb_bg_lock..) The race results in below user visible errors EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_release_inode_pa: free 100, pa_free 105 EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): mb_free_blocks: double-free of inode 0's block .. 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
2009-01-05ext4: fix BUG when calling ext4_error with locked block groupAneesh Kumar K.V
The mballoc code likes to call ext4_error while it is holding locked block groups. This can causes a scheduling in atomic context BUG. We can't just unlock the block group and relock it after/if ext4_error returns since that might result in race conditions in the case where the filesystem is set to continue after finding errors. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-23ext4: Fix lockdep recursive locking warningAneesh Kumar K.V
In ext4_mb_init_group(), if the filesystem block size is less than PAGE_SIZE/2, the code tries to grab alloc_sem for multiple block groups in a loop. We need to allow for this by using down_write_nested() and passing in the loop index as a lock subclass number. This works because no other code path needs to take multiple alloc_sem's. Note that lockdep will fail for filesystem blocksize smaller than to PAGE_SIZE/16k. (e.g., a 1k filesystem blocksize with a 32k page size, or a 2k filesystem blocksize with a 64k blocksize, etc.) Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: don't use blocks freed but not yet committed in buddy cache initAneesh Kumar K.V
When we generate buddy cache (especially during resize) we need to make sure we don't use the blocks freed but not yet comitted. This makes sure we have the right value of free blocks count in the group info and also in the bitmap. This also ensures the ordered mode consistency 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
2008-11-06jbd2: Call journal commit callback without holding j_list_lockAneesh Kumar K.V
Avoid freeing the transaction in __jbd2_journal_drop_transaction() so the journal commit callback can run without holding j_list_lock, to avoid lock contention on this spinlock. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-25ext4: cleanup mballoc header filesAneesh Kumar K.V
Move some of the forward declaration of the static functions to mballoc.c where they are used. This enables us to include mballoc.h in other .c files. Also correct the buddy cache documentation. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: Use EXT4_GROUP_INFO_NEED_INIT_BIT during resizeAneesh Kumar K.V
The new groups added during resize are flagged as need_init group. Make sure we properly initialize these groups. When we have block size < page size and we are adding new groups the page may still be marked uptodate even though we haven't initialized the group. While forcing the init of buddy cache we need to make sure other groups part of the same page of buddy cache is not using the cache. group_info->alloc_sem is added to ensure the same. 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
2009-01-05ext4: Add blocks added during resize to bitmapAneesh Kumar K.V
With this change new blocks added during resize are marked as free in the block bitmap and the group is flagged with EXT4_GROUP_INFO_NEED_INIT_BIT flag. This makes sure when mballoc tries to allocate blocks from the new group we would reload the buddy information using the bitmap present in the disk. 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
2008-11-22ext4: sparse fixesAneesh Kumar K.V
* Change EXT4_HAS_*_FEATURE to return a boolean * Add a function prototype for ext4_fiemap() in ext4.h * Make ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() and ext4_xattr_fiemap() be static functions * Add lock annotations to mb_free_blocks() Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-05jbd2: Remove a large array of bh's from the stack of the checkpoint routineTheodore Ts'o
jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()n is one of the kernel's largest stack users. Move the array of buffer head's from the stack of jbd2_log_do_checkpoint() to the in-core journal structure. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-05ext4: Change unsigned long to unsigned intTheodore Ts'o
Convert the unsigned longs that are most responsible for bloating the stack usage on 64-bit systems. 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>
2009-01-05ext4: Make ext4_group_t be an unsigned intTheodore Ts'o
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>
2008-11-04ext4: Remove i_ext_generation from ext4_inode_info structureTheodore Ts'o
The i_ext_generation was incremented, but never used. Remove it to slim down the ext4_inode_info structure. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-03ext4: add fsync batch tuning knobsTheodore Ts'o
Add new mount options, min_batch_time and max_batch_time, which controls how long the jbd2 layer should wait for additional filesystem operations to get batched with a synchronous write transaction. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-12-17ext4: display average commit timeTheodore Ts'o
Display the average commit time (which is used by the ext4 fsync batching patch) in /proc/fs/jbd2/*/info for performance tuning purposes. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-26jbd2: improve jbd2 fsync batchingJosef Bacik
This patch removes the static sleep time in favor of a more self optimizing approach where we measure the average amount of time it takes to commit a transaction to disk and the ammount of time a transaction has been running. If somebody does a sync write or an fsync() traditionally we would sleep for 1 jiffies, which depending on the value of HZ could be a significant amount of time compared to how long it takes to commit a transaction to the underlying storage. With this patch instead of sleeping for a jiffie, we check to see if the amount of time this transaction has been running is less than the average commit time, and if it is we sleep for the delta using schedule_hrtimeout to give us a higher precision sleep time. This greatly benefits high end storage where you could end up sleeping for longer than it takes to commit the transaction and therefore sitting idle instead of allowing the transaction to be committed by keeping the sleep time to a minimum so you are sure to always be doing something. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: Don't overwrite allocation_context ac_statusAneesh Kumar K.V
We can call ext4_mb_check_limits even after successfully allocating the requested blocks. In that case, make sure we don't overwrite ac_status if it already has the status AC_STATUS_FOUND. This fixes the lockdep warning: ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.28-rc6-autokern1 #1 --------------------------------------------- fsstress/11948 is trying to acquire lock: (&meta_group_info[i]->alloc_sem){----}, at: [<c04d9a49>] ext4_mb_load_buddy+0x9f/0x278 ..... stack backtrace: ..... [<c04db974>] ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0xbb5/0xd44 ..... but task is already holding lock: (&meta_group_info[i]->alloc_sem){----}, at: [<c04d9a49>] ext4_mb_load_buddy+0x9f/0x278 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
2009-01-05ext4: remove extraneous newlines from calls to ext4_error() and ext4_warning()Theodore Ts'o
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>
2009-01-05jbd2: Add barrier not supported test to journal_wait_on_commit_recordTheodore Ts'o
Xen doesn't report that barriers are not supported until buffer I/O is reported as completed, instead of when the buffer I/O is submitted. Add a check and a fallback codepath to journal_wait_on_commit_record() to detect this case, so that attempts to mount ext4 filesystems on LVM/devicemapper devices on Xen guests don't blow up with an "Aborting journal on device XXX"; "Remounting filesystem read-only" error. Thanks to Andreas Sundstrom for reporting this issue. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-07ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journalFrank Mayhar
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>
2008-12-17ext4: Widen type of ext4_sb_info.s_mb_maxs[]Yasunori Goto
I chased the cause of following ext4 oops report which is tested on ia64 box. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12018 The cause is the size of s_mb_maxs array that is defined as "unsigned short" in ext4_sb_info structure. If the file system's block size is 8k or greater, an unsigned short is not wide enough to contain the value fs->blocksize << 3. Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2008-11-26ext4: When resizing set the EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED flag for new block groupsSolofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net
The inode table has been zeroed in setup_new_group_blocks(). Mark it as such in ext4_group_add(). Since we are currently clearing inode table for the new block group, we should set the EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED flag. If at some point in the future we don't immediately zero out the inode table as part of the resize operation, then obviously we shouldn't do this. Signed-off-by: Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-26ext4: Use simple_strtol() instead of simple_strtoul() in ext4_ui_proc_openRoel Kluin
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-25jbd2: Add BH_JBDPrivateStartMark Fasheh
Add this so that file systems using JBD2 can safely allocate unused b_state bits. In this case, we add it so that Ocfs2 can define a single bit for tracking the validation state of a buffer. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-25ext4: fix build warningWu Fengguang
Replace `if' with `goto' to assure gcc that ix has been initialized. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-05ext4: avoid ext4_error when mounting a fs with a single bgAneesh Kumar K.V
Remove some completely unneeded code which which caused an ext4_error to be generated when mounting a file system with only a single block group. 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
2009-01-05ext4: Fix the delalloc writepages to allocate blocks at the right offset.Aneesh Kumar K.V
When iterating through the pages which have mapped buffer_heads, we failed to update the b_state value. This results in allocating blocks at logical offset 0. 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
2008-11-05ext4: tone down ext4_da_writepages warningsTheodore Ts'o
If the filesystem has errors, ext4_da_writepages() will return a *lot* of errors, including lots and lots of stack dumps. While it's true that we are dropping user data on the floor, which is unfortunate, the stack dumps aren't helpful, and they tend to obscure the true original root cause of the problem. So in the case where the filesystem has aborted, return an EROFS right away. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-12-12ext4: remove do_blk_alloc()Theodore Ts'o
The convenience function do_blk_alloc() is a static function with only one caller, so fold it into ext4_new_meta_blocks() to simplify the code and to make it easier to understand. To save more stack space, if count is a null pointer in ext4_new_meta_blocks() assume that caller wanted a single block (and if there is an error, no blocks were allocated). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-12-07ext4: remove ext4_new_meta_block()Theodore Ts'o
There were only two one callers of the function ext4_new_meta_block(), which just a very simpler wrapper function around ext4_new_meta_blocks(). Change those two functions to call ext4_new_meta_blocks() directly, to save code and stack space usage. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-01ext4: remove ext4_new_blocks() and call ext4_mb_new_blocks() directlyTheodore Ts'o
There was only one caller of the compatibility function ext4_new_blocks(), in balloc.c's ext4_alloc_blocks(). Change it to call ext4_mb_new_blocks() directly, and remove ext4_new_blocks() altogether. This cleans up the code, by removing two extra functions from the call chain, and hopefully saving some stack usage. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06Update Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txtTheodore Ts'o
Fix paragraph with recommendations on how to tune ext4 for benchmarks. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>