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2009-02-26ext4: don't call jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested without journalEric Sandeen
Running without a journal, I oopsed when I ran out of space, because we called jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested() from ext4_should_retry_alloc() without a journal. This should take care of it, I think. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-22ext4: Fix deadlock in ext4_write_begin() and ext4_da_write_begin()Jan Kara
Functions ext4_write_begin() and ext4_da_write_begin() call grab_cache_page_write_begin() without AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Thus it can happen that page reclaim is triggered in that function and it recurses back into the filesystem (or some other filesystem). But this can lead to various problems as a transaction is already started at that point. Add the necessary flag. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11688 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-14ext4: Implement range_cyclic in ext4_da_writepages instead of write_cache_pagesAneesh Kumar K.V
With delayed allocation we lock the page in write_cache_pages() and try to build an in memory extent of contiguous blocks. This is needed so that we can get large contiguous blocks request. If range_cyclic mode is enabled, write_cache_pages() will loop back to the 0 index if no I/O has been done yet, and try to start writing from the beginning of the range. That causes an attempt to take the page lock of lower index page while holding the page lock of higher index page, which can cause a dead lock with another writeback thread. The solution is to implement the range_cyclic behavior in ext4_da_writepages() instead. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12579 Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-10jbd2: Avoid possible NULL dereference in jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate()Jan Kara
If we race with commit code setting i_transaction to NULL, we could possibly dereference it. Proper locking requires the journal pointer (to access journal->j_list_lock), which we don't have. So we have to change the prototype of the function so that filesystem passes us the journal pointer. Also add a more detailed comment about why the function jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() does what it does and how it should be used. Thanks to Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> for pointing to the suspitious code. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com CC: mfasheh@suse.de CC: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
2009-01-30ext4: Remove bogus BUG() check in ext4_bmap()Theodore Ts'o
The code to support journal-less ext4 operation added a BUG to ext4_bmap() which fired if there was no journal and the EXT4_STATE_JDATA bit was set in the i_state field. This caused running the filefrag program (which uses the FIMBAP ioctl) to trigger a BUG(). The EXT4_STATE_JDATA bit is only used for ext4_bmap(), and it's harmless for the bit to be set. We could add a check in __ext4_journalled_writepage() and ext4_journalled_write_end() to only set the EXT4_STATE_JDATA bit if the journal is present, but that adds an extra test and jump instruction. It's easier to simply remove the BUG check. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12568 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-20ext4: Fix ext4_free_blocks() w/o a journal when files have indirect blocksTheodore Ts'o
When trying to unlink a file with indirect blocks on a filesystem without a journal, the "circular indirect block" sanity test was getting falsely triggered. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-17ext4: only use i_size_high for regular filesTheodore Ts'o
Directories are not allowed to be bigger than 2GB, so don't use i_size_high for anything other than regular files. E2fsck should complain about these inodes, but the simplest thing to do for the kernel is to only use i_size_high for regular files. This prevents an intentially corrupted filesystem from causing the kernel to burn a huge amount of CPU and issuing error messages such as: EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_block_to_path: block 135090028 > max Thanks to David Maciejak from Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security Research Team for reporting this issue. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12375 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-08Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (57 commits) jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs ext4: Remove "extents" mount option block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: " ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message ext4: Add markers for better debuggability ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode() ext4: code cleanup ...
2009-01-06percpu_counter: FBC_BATCH should be a variableEric Dumazet
For NR_CPUS >= 16 values, FBC_BATCH is 2*NR_CPUS Considering more and more distros are using high NR_CPUS values, it makes sense to use a more sensible value for FBC_BATCH, and get rid of NR_CPUS. A sensible value is 2*num_online_cpus(), with a minimum value of 32 (This minimum value helps branch prediction in __percpu_counter_add()) We already have a hotcpu notifier, so we can adjust FBC_BATCH dynamically. We rename FBC_BATCH to percpu_counter_batch since its not a constant anymore. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-04fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fixNick Piggin
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could cause filesystem deadlocks. The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS anyway, so turn that into a single flag. Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there, change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive and does away with random leading underscores). This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a random example). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the logic. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-03ext4: Add markers for better debuggabilityTheodore Ts'o
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>
2008-12-31ext4: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminatedDuane Griffin
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted on-disk. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: adilger@sun.com Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-11-07ext4: Mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate after prepare_writeAneesh Kumar K.V
We need to make sure we mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate so that block_write_full_page write them correctly. This fixes mmap corruptions that can occur in low memory situations. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
2008-11-06ext4: calculate journal credits correctlyTheodore Ts'o
This fixes a 2.6.27 regression which was introduced in commit a02908f1. We weren't passing the chunk parameter down to the two subections, ext4_indirect_trans_blocks() and ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(), with the result that massively overestimate the amount of credits needed by ext4_da_writepages, especially in the non-extents case. This causes failures especially on /boot partitions, which tend to be small and non-extent using since GRUB doesn't handle extents. This patch fixes the bug reported by Joseph Fannin at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11964 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>
2009-01-07ext4: 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>
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>
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>
2008-10-29ext4: fix printk format warningAlexander Beregalov
fs/ext4/balloc.c:607: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 's64' fs/ext4/inode.c:1822: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 's64' fs/ext4/inode.c:1824: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 's64' Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-16ext4: Remove automatic enabling of the HUGE_FILE feature flagTheodore Ts'o
If the HUGE_FILE feature flag is not set, don't allow the creation of large files, instead of automatically enabling the feature flag. Recent versions of mke2fs will set the HUGE_FILE flag automatically anyway for ext4 filesystems. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-16ext4: Fix file fragmentation during large file write.Aneesh Kumar K.V
The range_cyclic writeback mode uses the address_space writeback_index as the start index for writeback. With delayed allocation we were updating writeback_index wrongly resulting in highly fragmented file. This patch reduces the number of extents reduced from 4000 to 27 for a 3GB file. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-14ext4: Use tag dirty lookup during mpage_da_submit_ioAneesh Kumar K.V
This enables us to drop the range_cont writeback mode use from ext4_da_writepages. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-10-10ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4Theodore Ts'o
The ext4 filesystem is getting stable enough that it's time to drop the "dev" prefix. Also remove the requirement for the TEST_FILESYS flag. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-07Hook ext4 to the vfs fiemap interface.Eric Sandeen
ext4_ext_walk_space() was reinstated to be used for iterating over file extents with a callback; it is used by the ext4 fiemap implementation. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2008-10-10ext4: Remove old legacy block allocatorTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-09ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode tableTheodore Ts'o
With modern hard drives, reading 64k takes roughly the same time as reading a 4k block. So request readahead for adjacent inode table blocks to reduce the time it takes when iterating over directories (especially when doing this in htree sort order) in a cold cache case. With this patch, the time it takes to run "git status" on a kernel tree after flushing the caches via "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" is reduced by 21%. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-13ext4: Properly update i_disksize.Aneesh Kumar K.V
With delayed allocation we use i_data_sem to update i_disksize. We need to update i_disksize only if the new size specified is greater than the current value and we need to make sure we don't race with other i_disksize update. With delayed allocation we will switch to the write_begin function for non-delayed allocation if we are low on free blocks. This means the write_begin function for non-delayed allocation also needs to use the same locking. We also need to check and update i_disksize even if the new size is less that inode.i_size because of delayed allocation. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-13ext4: truncate block allocated on a failed ext4_write_beginAneesh Kumar K.V
For blocksize < pagesize we need to remove blocks that got allocated in block_write_begin() if we fail with ENOSPC for later blocks. block_write_begin() internally does this if it allocated pages locally. This makes sure we don't have blocks outside inode.i_size during ENOSPC. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08ext4: Retry block allocation if we have free blocks leftAneesh Kumar K.V
When we truncate files, the meta-data blocks released are not reused untill we commit the truncate transaction. That means delayed get_block request will return ENOSPC even if we have free blocks left. Force a journal commit and retry block allocation if we get ENOSPC with free blocks left. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08ext4: Don't add the inode to journal handle until after the block is allocatedAneesh Kumar K.V
Make sure we don't add the inode to the journal handle until after the block allocation, so that a journal commit will not include the inode in case of block allocation failure. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-08ext4: Switch to non delalloc mode when we are low on free blocks count.Aneesh Kumar K.V
The delayed allocation code allocates blocks during writepages(), which can not handle block allocation failures. To deal with this, we switch away from delayed allocation mode when we are running low on free blocks. This also allows us to avoid needing to reserve a large number of meta-data blocks in case all of the requested blocks are discontiguous. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting.Aneesh Kumar K.V
This patch adds dirty block accounting using percpu_counters. Delayed allocation block reservation is now done by updating dirty block counter. In a later patch we switch to non delalloc mode if the filesystem free blocks is greater than 150% of total filesystem dirty blocks Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao<cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08ext4: Retry block reservationAneesh Kumar K.V
During block reservation if we don't have enough blocks left, retry block reservation with smaller block counts. This makes sure we try fallocate and DIO with smaller request size and don't fail early. The delayed allocation reservation cannot try with smaller block count. So retry block reservation to handle temporary disk full conditions. Also print free blocks details if we fail block allocation during writepages. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-09ext4: Make sure all the block allocation paths reserve blocksAneesh Kumar K.V
With delayed allocation we need to make sure block are reserved before we attempt to allocate them. Otherwise we get block allocation failure (ENOSPC) during writepages which cannot be handled. This would mean silent data loss (We do a printk stating data will be lost). This patch updates the DIO and fallocate code path to do block reservation before block allocation. This is needed to make sure parallel DIO and fallocate request doesn't take block out of delayed reserve space. When free blocks count go below a threshold we switch to a slow patch which looks at other CPU's accumulated percpu counter values. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-19ext4: invalidate pages if delalloc block allocation fails.Aneesh Kumar K.V
We are a bit agressive in invalidating all the pages. But it is ok because we really don't know why the block allocation failed and it is better to come of the writeback path so that user can look for more info. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-09-08ext4: Fix whitespace checkpatch warnings/errorsTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-18ext4: Fix small file fragmentationAneesh Kumar K.V
For small file block allocations, mballoc uses per cpu prealloc space. Use goal block when searching for the right prealloc space. Also make sure ext4_da_writepages tries to write all the pages for small files in single attempt Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-19ext4: journal credit fix for the delayed allocation's writepages() functionMingming Cao
Previous delalloc writepages implementation started a new transaction outside of a loop which called get_block() to do the block allocation. Since we didn't know exactly how many blocks would need to be allocated, the estimated journal credits required was very conservative and caused many issues. With the reworked delayed allocation, a new transaction is created for each get_block(), thus we don't need to guess how many credits for the multiple chunk of allocation. We start every transaction with enough credits for inserting a single exent. When estimate the credits for indirect blocks to allocate a chunk of blocks, we need to know the number of data blocks to allocate. We use the total number of reserved delalloc datablocks; if that is too big, for non-extent files, we need to limit the number of blocks to EXT4_MAX_TRANS_BLOCKS. Code cleanup from Aneesh. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-19ext4: Rework the ext4_da_writepages() functionAneesh Kumar K.V
With the below changes we reserve credit needed to insert only one extent resulting from a call to single get_block. This makes sure we don't take too much journal credits during writeout. We also don't limit the pages to write. That means we loop through the dirty pages building largest possible contiguous block request. Then we issue a single get_block request. We may get less block that we requested. If so we would end up not mapping some of the buffer_heads. That means those buffer_heads are still marked delay. Later in the writepage callback via __mpage_writepage we redirty those pages. We should also not limit/throttle wbc->nr_to_write in the filesystem writepages callback. That cause wrong behaviour in generic_sync_sb_inodes caused by wbc->nr_to_write being <= 0 Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-19ext4: journal credits reservation fixes for DIO, fallocateMingming Cao
DIO and fallocate credit calculation is different than writepage, as they do start a new journal right for each call to ext4_get_blocks_wrap(). This patch uses the helper function in DIO and fallocate case, passing a flag indicating that the modified data are contigous thus could account less indirect/index blocks. This patch also fixed the journal credit reservation for direct I/O (DIO). Previously the estimated credits for DIO only was calculated for non-extent files, which was not enough if the file is extent-based. Also fixed was fallocate double-counting credits for modifying the the superblock. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-19ext4: journal credits calulation cleanup and fix for non-extent writepageMingming Cao
When considering how many journal credits are needed for modifying a chunk of data, we need to account for the super block, inode block, quota blocks and xattr block, indirect/index blocks, also, group bitmap and group descriptor blocks for new allocation (including data and indirect/index blocks). There are many places in ext4 do the calculation on their own and often missed one or two meta blocks, and often they assume single block allocation, and did not considering the multile chunk of allocation case. This patch is trying to cleanup current journal credit code, provides some common helper funtion to calculate the journal credits, to be used for writepage, writepages, DIO, fallocate, migration, defrag, and for both nonextent and extent files. This patch modified the writepage/write_begin credit caculation for nonextent files, to use the new helper function. It also fixed the problem that writepage on nonextent files did not consider the case blocksize <pagesize, thus could possibelly need multiple block allocation in a single transaction. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-19ext4: Fix delalloc release block reservation for truncateMingming Cao
Ext4 will release the reserved blocks for delayed allocations when inode is truncated/unlinked. If there is no reserved block at all, we shouldn't need to do so. But current code still tries to release the reserved blocks regardless whether the counters's value is 0. Continue to do that causes the later calculation to go wrong and a kernel BUG_ON() caught that. This doesn't happen for extent-based files, as the calculation for 0 reserved blocks was right for extent based file. This patch fixed the kernel BUG() due to above reason. It adds checks for 0 to avoid unnecessary release and fix calculation for non-extent files. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-13ext4: Fix potential truncate BUG due to i_prealloc_list being non-emptyTheodore Ts'o
We need to call ext4_discard_reservation() earlier in ext4_truncate(), to avoid a BUG() in ext4_mb_return_to_preallocation(), which is called (ultimately) by ext4_free_blocks(). So we must ditch the blocks on i_prealloc_list before we start freeing the data blocks. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-19ext4: Handle unwritten extent properly with delayed allocationAneesh Kumar K.V
When using fallocate the buffer_heads are marked unwritten and unmapped. We need to map them in the writepages after a get_block. Otherwise we split the uninit extents, but never write the content to disk. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-02ext4: remove write-only variables from ext4_ordered_write_endEric Sandeen
The variables 'from' and 'to' are not used anywhere. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-26ext4: Cleanup whitespace and other miscellaneous style issuesTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-17ext4: Cleanup the block reservation code pathAneesh Kumar K.V
The truncate patch should not use the i_allocated_meta_blocks value. So add seperate functions to be used in the truncate and alloc path. We also need to release the meta-data block that we reserved for the blocks that we are truncating. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>