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2009-03-27ext3: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()Theodore Ts'o
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>
2009-01-08jbd: remove excess kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap
Remove excess kernel-doc from fs/jbd/transaction.c: Warning(linux-2.6.28-git5//fs/jbd/transaction.c:764): Excess function parameter 'credits' description in 'journal_get_write_access' 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>
2009-01-08jbd: improve fsync batchingJosef Bacik
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>
2008-10-30fs: remove excess kernel-docRandy Dunlap
Delete excess kernel-doc notation in fs/ subdirectory: Warning(linux-2.6.27-git10//fs/jbd/transaction.c:886): Excess function parameter or struct member 'credits' description in 'journal_get_undo_access' 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>
2008-10-20jbd: ordered data integrity fixHidehiro Kawai
In ordered mode, if a file data buffer being dirtied exists in the committing transaction, we write the buffer to the disk, move it from the committing transaction to the running transaction, then dirty it. But we don't have to remove the buffer from the committing transaction when the buffer couldn't be written out, otherwise it would miss the error and the committing transaction would not abort. This patch adds an error check before removing the buffer from the committing transaction. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-11lockdep: rename map_[acquire|release]() => lock_map_[acquire|release]()Ingo Molnar
the names were too generic: drivers/uio/uio.c:87: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'do' drivers/uio/uio.c:87: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'while' drivers/uio/uio.c:113: error: 'map_release' undeclared here (not in a function) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11lockdep: map_acquirePeter Zijlstra
Most the free-standing lock_acquire() usages look remarkably similar, sweep them into a new helper. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-25jbd: fix race between free buffer and commit transactionMingming Cao
journal_try_to_free_buffers() could race with jbd commit transaction when the later is holding the buffer reference while waiting for the data buffer to flush to disk. If the caller of journal_try_to_free_buffers() request tries hard to release the buffers, it will treat the failure as error and return back to the caller. We have seen the directo IO failed due to this race. Some of the caller of releasepage() also expecting the buffer to be dropped when passed with GFP_KERNEL mask to the releasepage()->journal_try_to_free_buffers(). With this patch, if the caller is passing the __GFP_WAIT and __GFP_FS to indicating this call could wait, in case of try_to_free_buffers() failed, let's waiting for journal_commit_transaction() to finish commit the current committing transaction, then try to free those buffers again. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28jbd: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.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>
2008-04-28jbd: fix possible journal overflow issuesJosef Bacik
There are several cases where the running transaction can get buffers added to its BJ_Metadata list which it never dirtied, which makes its t_nr_buffers counter end up larger than its t_outstanding_credits counter. This will cause issues when starting new transactions as while we are logging buffers we decrement t_outstanding_buffers, so when t_outstanding_buffers goes negative, we will report that we need less space in the journal than we actually need, so transactions will be started even though there may not be enough room for them. In the worst case scenario (which admittedly is almost impossible to reproduce) this will result in the journal running out of space. The fix is to only refile buffers from the committing transaction to the running transactions BJ_Modified list when b_modified is set on that journal, which is the only way to be sure if the running transaction has modified that buffer. This patch also fixes an accounting error in journal_forget, it is possible that we can call journal_forget on a buffer without having modified it, only gotten write access to it, so instead of freeing a credit, we only do so if the buffer was modified. The assert will help catch if this problem occurs. Without these two patches I could hit this assert within minutes of running postmark, with them this issue no longer arises. Thank you, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28jbd: fix the way the b_modified flag is clearedJosef Bacik
Currently at the start of a journal commit we loop through all of the buffers on the committing transaction and clear the b_modified flag (the flag that is set when a transaction modifies the buffer) under the j_list_lock. The problem is that everywhere else this flag is modified only under the jbd lock buffer flag, so it will race with a running transaction who could potentially set it, and have it unset by the committing transaction. This is also a big waste, you can have several thousands of buffers that you are clearing the modified flag on when you may not need to. This patch removes this code and instead clears the b_modified flag upon entering do_get_write_access/journal_get_create_access, so if that transaction does indeed use the buffer then it will be accounted for properly, and if it does not then we know we didn't use it. That will be important for the next patch in this series. Tested thoroughly by myself using postmark/iozone/bonnie++. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19fs: fix kernel-doc notation warningsRandy Dunlap
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>
2008-03-19jbd: fix jbd kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc notation in jbd. 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>
2008-03-03docbook: fix filesystems.tmpl source filesRandy Dunlap
Fix docbook problems in filesystems.tmpl. These cause the generated docbook to be incorrect. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-17jbd: do not try lock_acquire after handle made invalidJonas Bonn
This likely fixes the oops in __lock_acquire reported as: http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=2753&msgid= http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=2749&msgid= In these reported oopses, start_this_handle is returning -EROFS. Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas.bonn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19JBD/ext3 cleanups: convert to kzallocMingming Cao
Convert kmalloc to kzalloc() and get rid of the memset(). Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18sparse pointer use of zero as nullStephen Hemminger
Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL pointer. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17JBD: replace jbd_kmalloc with kmalloc directlyMingming Cao
This patch cleans up jbd_kmalloc and replace it with kmalloc directly Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
2007-10-17JBD: JBD slab allocation cleanupsMingming Cao
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>
2007-10-11lockdep: annotate journal_start()Peter Zijlstra
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>
2007-05-09fix file specification in commentsUwe Kleine-König
Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-08header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). 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>
2006-12-10[PATCH] user of the jiffies rounding code: JBDArjan van de Ven
This patch introduces a user: of the round_jiffies() function; the "5 second" ext3/jbd wakeup. While "every 5 seconds" doesn't sound as a problem, there can be many of these (and these timers do add up over all the kernel). The "5 second" wakeup isn't really timing sensitive; in addition even with rounding it'll still happen every 5 seconds (with the exception of the very first time, which is likely to be rounded up to somewhere closer to 6 seconds) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] make fs/jbd/transaction.c:__journal_temp_unlink_buffer() staticAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-28[PATCH] jbd: journal_dirty_data re-check for unmapped buffersEric Sandeen
When running several fsx's and other filesystem stress tests, we found cases where an unmapped buffer was still being sent to submit_bh by the ext3 dirty data journaling code. I saw this happen in two ways, both related to another thread doing a truncate which would unmap the buffer in question. Either we would get into journal_dirty_data with a bh which was already unmapped (although journal_dirty_data_fn had checked for this earlier, the state was not locked at that point), or it would get unmapped in the middle of journal_dirty_data when we dropped locks to call sync_dirty_buffer. By re-checking for mapped state after we've acquired the bh state lock, we should avoid these races. If we find a buffer which is no longer mapped, we essentially ignore it, because journal_unmap_buffer has already decided that this buffer can go away. I've also added tracepoints in these two cases, and made a couple other tracepoint changes that I found useful in debugging this. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20[PATCH] ext3/4: fix J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0) in journal_stop()OGAWA Hirofumi
A disk generated some I/O error, after it, I hitted J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0) in journal_stop(). It seems to happened on ext3_truncate() path from stack trace. Then, maybe the following case may trigger J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0). ext3_truncate() -> ext3_free_branches() -> ext3_journal_test_restart() -> ext3_journal_restart() -> journal_restart() transaction->t_updates--; /* another process aborted journal */ -> start_this_handle() returns -EROFS without transaction->t_updates++; -> ext3_journal_stop() -> journal_stop() J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0) If journal was aborted in middle of journal_restart(), ext3_truncate() may trigger J_ASSERT(). Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27[PATCH] ext3: More whitespace cleanupsDave Kleikamp
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>
2006-09-27[PATCH] ext3 and jbd cleanup: remove whitespaceMingming Cao
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>
2006-09-01[PATCH] manage-jbd-its-own-slab fixBadari Pulavarty
Missed a place where I forgot to convert kfree() to kmem_cache_free() as part of jbd-manage-its-own-slab changes. 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>
2006-08-27[PATCH] Manage jbd allocations from its own slabsBadari Pulavarty
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>
2006-06-23[PATCH] jbd: avoid kfree(NULL)Andrew Morton
There are a couple of places where JBD has to check to see whether an unneeded memory allocation was performed. Usually it _was_ needed, so we end up calling kfree(NULL). We can micro-optimise that by checking the pointer before calling kfree(). Thanks to Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> for identifying this. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] jbd: fix BUG in journal_commit_transaction()Jan Kara
Fix possible assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() on jh->b_next_transaction == NULL (when we are processing BJ_Forget list and buffer is not jbddirty). !jbddirty buffers can be placed on BJ_Forget list for example by journal_forget() or by __dispose_buffer() - generally such buffer means that it has been freed by this transaction. Freed buffers should not be reallocated until the transaction has committed (that's why we have the assertion there) but they *can* be reallocated when the transaction has already been committed to disk and we are just processing the BJ_Forget list (as soon as we remove b_committed_data from the bitmap bh, ext3 will be able to reallocate buffers freed by the committing transaction). So we have to also count with the case that the buffer has been reallocated and b_next_transaction has been already set. And one more subtle point: it can happen that we manage to reallocate the buffer and also mark it jbddirty. Then we also add the freed buffer to the checkpoint list of the committing trasaction. But that should do no harm. Non-jbddirty buffers should be filed to BJ_Reserved and not BJ_Metadata list. It can actually happen that we refile such buffers during the commit phase when we reallocate in the running transaction blocks deleted in committing transaction (and that can happen if the committing transaction already wrote all the data and is just cleaning up BJ_Forget list). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26[PATCH] Make address_space_operations->invalidatepage return voidNeilBrown
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>
2006-03-25[PATCH] jbd: embed j_commit_timer in journal structAndrew Morton
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>
2006-03-23[PATCH] sem2mutex: jbd, j_checkpoint_mutexArjan van de Ven
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>
2006-02-05[PATCH] jbd: fix transaction batchingAndrew Morton
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>
2005-11-07[PATCH] kfree cleanup: fsJesper Juhl
This is the fs/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch. Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in fs/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28[PATCH] gfp_t: fs/*Al Viro
- ->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>
2005-09-10[PATCH] fs: fix-up schedule_timeout() usageNishanth Aravamudan
Use schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Also use helper functions to convert between human time units and jiffies rather than constant HZ division to avoid rounding errors. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Fix race in do_get_write_access()Jan Kara
attached patch should fix the following race: Proc 1 Proc 2 __flush_batch() ll_rw_block() do_get_write_access() lock_buffer jh is only waiting for checkpoint -> b_transaction == NULL -> do nothing unlock_buffer test_set_buffer_locked() test_clear_buffer_dirty() __journal_file_buffer() change the data submit_bh() and we have sent wrong data to disk... We now clean the dirty buffer flag under buffer lock in all cases and hence we know that whenever a buffer is starting to be journaled we either finish the pending write-out before attaching a buffer to a transaction or we won't write the buffer until the transaction is going to be committed. The test in jbd_unexpected_dirty_buffer() is redundant - remove it. Furthermore we have to clear the buffer dirty bit under the buffer lock to prevent races with buffer write-out (and hence prevent returning a buffer with IO happening). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] jbd dirty buffer leak fixakpm@osdl.org
This fixes the lots-of-fsx-linux-instances-cause-a-slow-leak bug. It's been there since 2.6.6, caused by: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.5/2.6.5-mm4/broken-out/jbd-move-locked-buffers.patch That patch moves under-writeout ordered-data buffers onto a separate journal list during commit. It took out the old code which was based on a single list. The old code (necessarily) had logic which would restart I/O against buffers which had been redirtied while they were on the committing transaction's t_sync_datalist list. The new code only writes buffers once, ignoring redirtyings by a later transaction, which is good. But over on the truncate side of things, in journal_unmap_buffer(), we're treating buffers on the t_locked_list as inviolable things which belong to the committing transaction, and we just leave them alone during concurrent truncate-vs-commit. The net effect is that when truncate tries to invalidate a page whose buffers are on t_locked_list and have been redirtied, journal_unmap_buffer() just leaves those buffers alone. truncate will remove the page from its mapping and we end up with an anonymous clean page with dirty buffers, which is an illegal state for a page. The JBD commit will not clean those buffers as they are removed from t_locked_list. The VM (try_to_free_buffers) cannot reclaim these pages. The patch teaches journal_unmap_buffer() about buffers which are on the committing transaction's t_locked_list. These buffers have been written and I/O has completed. We can take them off the transaction and undirty them within the context of journal_invalidatepage()->journal_unmap_buffer(). Acked-by: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!