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Linus Torvalds a97b52022a 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:
  ext4: fix data corruption regression by reverting commit 6de9843dab
  ext4: Allow indirect-block file to grow the file size to max file size
  ext4: allow an active handle to be started when freezing
  ext4: sync the directory inode in ext4_sync_parent()
  ext4: init timer earlier to avoid a kernel panic in __save_error_info
  jbd2: fix potential memory leak on transaction commit
  ext4: fix a double free in ext4_register_li_request
  ext4: fix credits computing for indirect mapped files
  ext4: remove unnecessary [cm]time update of quota file
  jbd2: move bdget out of critical section
2011-04-11 15:45:47 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o c820563602 ext4: fix data corruption regression by reverting commit 6de9843dab
Revert commit 6de9843dab, since it
caused a data corruption regression with BitTorrent downloads.  Thanks
to Damien for discovering and bisecting to find the problem commit.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32972

Reported-by: Damien Grassart <damien@grassart.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-04-10 22:30:07 -04:00
Kazuya Mio f80da1e70f ext4: Allow indirect-block file to grow the file size to max file size
We can create 4402345721856 byte file with indirect block mapping.
However, if we grow an indirect-block file to the size with ftruncate(),
we can see an ext4 warning. The following patch fixes this problem.

How to reproduce:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/mp1/hoge bs=1 count=0 seek=4402345721856
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000221428 s, 0.0 kB/s
# tail -n 1 /var/log/messages
Nov 25 15:10:27 test kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device sda8): ext4_block_to_path:345: block 1074791436 > max in inode 12

Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-04-10 22:06:36 -04:00
Yongqiang Yang 5b41395fcc ext4: fix credits computing for indirect mapped files
When writing a contiguous set of blocks, two indirect blocks could be
needed depending on how the blocks are aligned, so we need to increase
the number of credits needed by one.

[ Also fixed a another bug which could further underestimate the
  number of journal credits needed by 1; the code was using integer
  division instead of DIV_ROUND_UP() -- tytso]

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-04-04 15:40:24 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Linus Torvalds ae005cbed1 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: (43 commits)
  ext4: fix a BUG in mb_mark_used during trim.
  ext4: unused variables cleanup in fs/ext4/extents.c
  ext4: remove redundant set_buffer_mapped() in ext4_da_get_block_prep()
  ext4: add more tracepoints and use dev_t in the trace buffer
  ext4: don't kfree uninitialized s_group_info members
  ext4: add missing space in printk's in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
  ext4: add FITRIM to compat_ioctl.
  ext4: handle errors in ext4_clear_blocks()
  ext4: unify the ext4_handle_release_buffer() api
  ext4: handle errors in ext4_rename
  jbd2: add COW fields to struct jbd2_journal_handle
  jbd2: add the b_cow_tid field to journal_head struct
  ext4: Initialize fsync transaction ids in ext4_new_inode()
  ext4: Use single thread to perform DIO unwritten convertion
  ext4: optimize ext4_bio_write_page() when no extent conversion is needed
  ext4: skip orphan cleanup if fs has unknown ROCOMPAT features
  ext4: use the nblocks arg to ext4_truncate_restart_trans()
  ext4: fix missing iput of root inode for some mount error paths
  ext4: make FIEMAP and delayed allocation play well together
  ext4: suppress verbose debugging information if malloc-debug is off
  ...

Fi up conflicts in fs/ext4/super.c due to workqueue changes
2011-03-25 09:57:41 -07:00
Feng Tang 6de9843dab ext4: remove redundant set_buffer_mapped() in ext4_da_get_block_prep()
The map_bh() call will have already set the buffer_head to mapped.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-03-23 14:05:03 -04:00
Jiaying Zhang 0562e0bad4 ext4: add more tracepoints and use dev_t in the trace buffer
- Add more ext4 tracepoints.
- Change ext4 tracepoints to use dev_t field with MAJOR/MINOR macros
so that we can save 4 bytes in the ring buffer on some platforms.
- Add sync_mode to ext4_da_writepages, ext4_da_write_pages, and
ext4_da_writepages_result tracepoints. Also remove for_reclaim
field from ext4_da_writepages since it is usually not very useful.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-03-21 21:38:05 -04:00
Amir Goldstein d67d121834 ext4: handle errors in ext4_clear_blocks()
Checking return code from ext4_journal_get_write_access() is important
with snapshots, because this function invokes COW, so may return new
errors, such as ENOSPC.

ext4_clear_blocks() now returns < 0 for fatal errors, in which case,
ext4_free_data() is aborted.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-03-20 22:59:02 -04:00
Jens Axboe 7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Amir Goldstein 8e8eaabefe ext4: use the nblocks arg to ext4_truncate_restart_trans()
nblocks is passed into ext4_truncate_restart_trans() from
ext4_ext_truncate_extend_restart() with a value different from the default
blocks_for_truncate(), but is being ignored.

The two other calls to ext4_truncate_restart_trans() already pass the
default value, which is then being recalculated inside the function.

Fix the problem by using the passed argument.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
2011-02-27 23:32:12 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 168fc0223c ext4: move setup of the mpd structure to write_cache_pages_da()
Move the initialization of all of the fields of the mpd structure to
write_cache_pages_da().  This simplifies the code considerably.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-02-26 14:09:20 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 78aaced340 ext4: don't lock the next page in write_cache_pages if not needed
If we have accumulated a contiguous region of memory to be written
out, and the next page can added to this region, don't bother locking
(and then unlocking the page) before writing out the memory.  In the
unlikely event that the next page was being written back by some other
CPU, we can also skip waiting that page to finish writeback.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-02-26 14:09:14 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o ee6ecbcc5d ext4: remove page_skipped hackery in ext4_da_writepages()
Because the ext4 page writeback codepath had been prematurely calling
clear_page_dirty_for_io(), if it turned out that a particular page
couldn't be written out during a particular pass of
write_cache_pages_da(), the page would have to get redirtied by
calling redirty_pages_for_writeback().  Not only was this wasted work,
but redirty_page_for_writeback() would increment wbc->pages_skipped to
signal to writeback_sb_inodes() that buffers were locked, and that it
should skip this inode until later.

Since this signal was incorrect in ext4's case --- which was caused by
ext4's historically incorrect use of write_cache_pages() ---
ext4_da_writepages() saved and restored wbc->skipped_pages to avoid
confusing writeback_sb_inodes().

Now that we've fixed ext4 to call clear_page_dirty_for_io() right
before initiating the page I/O, we can nuke the page_skipped
save/restore hackery, and breathe a sigh of relief.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-02-26 14:08:11 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 9749895644 ext4: clear the dirty bit for a page in writeback at the last minute
Move when we call clear_page_dirty_for_io() to just before we actually
write the page.  This simplifies the code somewhat, and avoids marking
pages as clean and then needing to remark them as dirty later.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-02-26 14:08:01 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 4f01b02c8c ext4: simple cleanups to write_cache_pages_da()
Eliminate duplicate code, unneeded variables, etc., to make it easier
to understand the code.  No behavioral changes were made in this patch.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-02-26 14:07:37 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 8eb9e5ce21 ext4: fold __mpage_da_writepage() into write_cache_pages_da()
Fold the __mpage_da_writepage() function into write_cache_pages_da().
This will give us opportunities to clean up and simplify the resulting
code.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-02-26 14:07:31 -05:00
Curt Wohlgemuth c7f5938adc ext4: fix ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() to handle page range properly
If ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() is called because of a
failure from ext4_map_blocks() in mpage_da_map_and_submit(),
it's supposed to clean up -- including unlock -- all the
pages in the mpd structure.  But these values may not match
up, even on a system in which block size == page size:

   mpd->b_blocknr != mpd->first_page
   mpd->b_size != (mpd->next_page - mpd->first_page)

ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() has been using b_blocknr and
b_size; this patch changes it to use first_page and
next_page.

Tested:  I injected a small number (5%) of failures in
ext4_map_blocks() in the case that the flags contain
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_DELALLOC_RESERVE, and ran fsstress on this
kernel.  Without this patch, I got hung tasks every time.
With this patch, I see no hangs in many runs of fsstress.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-02-26 12:27:52 -05:00
Curt Wohlgemuth e0fd9b9076 ext4: mark multi-page IO complete on mapping failure
In mpage_da_map_and_submit(), if we have a delayed block
allocation failure from ext4_map_blocks(), we need to mark
the IO as complete, by setting

      mpd->io_done = 1;

Otherwise, we could end up submitting the pages in an outer
loop; since they are unlocked on mapping failure in
ext4_da_block_invalidatepages(), this will cause a bug check
in mpage_da_submit_io().

I tested this by injected failures into ext4_map_blocks().
Without this patch, a simple fsstress run will bug check;
with the patch, it works fine.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-02-26 12:25:52 -05:00
Peter Huewe 7dc576158d ext4: Fix sparse warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
This patch fixes the warning "Using plain integer as NULL pointer",
generated by sparse, by replacing the offending 0s with NULL.

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-02-21 21:01:42 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 008d23e485 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
Andrew Morton 6db26ffc91 fs/ext4/inode.c: use pr_warn_ratelimited()
pr_warning_ratelimited() doesn't exist.

Also include printk.h, which defines these things.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:05 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o 1c5b9e9065 ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_free_branches
Commit 40389687 moved a call to ext4_forget() out of
ext4_free_branches and let ext4_free_blocks() handle calling
bforget().  But that change unfortunately did not replace the call to
ext4_forget() with brelse(), which was needed to drop the in-use count
of the indirect block's buffer head, which lead to a memory leak when
deleting files that used indirect blocks.  Fix this.

Thanks to Hugh Dickins for pointing this out.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10 12:51:28 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o b40971426a ext4: add error checking to calls to ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()
Call ext4_std_error() in various places when we can't bail out
cleanly, so the file system can be marked as in error.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10 12:46:59 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 8aefcd557d ext4: dynamically allocate the jbd2_inode in ext4_inode_info as necessary
Replace the jbd2_inode structure (which is 48 bytes) with a pointer
and only allocate the jbd2_inode when it is needed --- that is, when
the file system has a journal present and the inode has been opened
for writing.  This allows us to further slim down the ext4_inode_info
structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10 12:29:43 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 353eb83c14 ext4: drop i_state_flags on architectures with 64-bit longs
We can store the dynamic inode state flags in the high bits of
EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags, and eliminate i_state_flags.  This saves 8
bytes from the size of ext4_inode_info structure, which when
multiplied by the number of the number of in the inode cache, can save
a lot of memory.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10 12:18:25 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 01f49d0b9d ext4: use ext4_lblk_t instead of sector_t for logical blocks
This fixes a number of places where we used sector_t instead of
ext4_lblk_t for logical blocks, which for ext4 are still 32-bit data
types.  No point wasting space in the ext4_inode_info structure, and
requiring 64-bit arithmetic on 32-bit systems, when it isn't
necessary.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10 12:13:03 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o f232109773 ext4: replace i_delalloc_reserved_flag with EXT4_STATE_DELALLOC_RESERVED
Remove the short element i_delalloc_reserved_flag from the
ext4_inode_info structure and replace it a new bit in i_state_flags.
Since we have an ext4_inode_info for every ext4 inode cached in the
inode cache, any savings we can produce here is a very good thing from
a memory utilization perspective.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10 12:12:36 -05:00
Jiri Kosina 4b7bd36470 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
	drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c

Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
2010-12-22 18:57:02 +01:00
Theodore Ts'o a8901d3487 ext4: Use pr_warning_ratelimited() instead of printk_ratelimit()
printk_ratelimit() is deprecated since it is a global instead of a
per-printk ratelimit.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-12-17 10:40:47 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 225db7d35c ext4: Fix up comments in inode.c
This fixes up some broken argument descriptions that Namhyung Kim had
originally submitted for ext3.  This fixes the comments that were
still applicable in ext4.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-12-16 16:38:26 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 1449032be1 ext4: Turn off multiple page-io submission by default
Jon Nelson has found a test case which causes postgresql to fail with
the error:

psql:t.sql:4: ERROR: invalid page header in block 38269 of relation base/16384/16581

Under memory pressure, it looks like part of a file can end up getting
replaced by zero's.  Until we can figure out the cause, we'll roll
back the change and use block_write_full_page() instead of
ext4_bio_write_page().  The new, more efficient writing function can
be used via the mount option mblk_io_submit, so we can test and fix
the new page I/O code.

To reproduce the problem, install postgres 8.4 or 9.0, and pin enough
memory such that the system just at the end of triggering writeback
before running the following sql script:

begin;
create temporary table foo as select x as a, ARRAY[x] as b FROM
generate_series(1, 10000000 ) AS x;
create index foo_a_idx on foo (a);
create index foo_b_idx on foo USING GIN (b);
rollback;

If the temporary table is created on a hard drive partition which is
encrypted using dm_crypt, then under memory pressure, approximately
30-40% of the time, pgsql will issue the above failure.

This patch should fix this problem, and the problem will come back if
the file system is mounted with the mblk_io_submit mount option.

Reported-by: Jon Nelson <jnelson@jamponi.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-12-14 15:27:50 -05:00
Wu Fengguang 380cf090f4 ext4: fix redirty_page_for_writepage() typo in comment
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-15 14:14:52 +01:00
Linus Torvalds a7bcf21e60 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:
  ext4: Add new ext4 inode tracepoints
  ext4: Don't call sb_issue_discard() in ext4_free_blocks()
  ext4: do not try to grab the s_umount semaphore in ext4_quota_off
  ext4: fix potential race when freeing ext4_io_page structures
  ext4: handle writeback of inodes which are being freed
  ext4: initialize the percpu counters before replaying the journal
  ext4: "ret" may be used uninitialized in ext4_lazyinit_thread()
  ext4: fix lazyinit hang after removing request
2010-11-08 11:54:53 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o 7ff9c073dd ext4: Add new ext4 inode tracepoints
Add ext4_evict_inode, ext4_drop_inode, ext4_mark_inode_dirty, and
ext4_begin_ordered_truncate()

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-11-08 13:51:33 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o eb8abb927a ext4: Remove useless spinlock in ext4_getattr()
Linus noted, and complained to me, that doing while lots of "git diff"'s
of kernel sources, these spinlocks were responsible for 27% of the
spinlock cost on his two-processor system as reported by perf.

Git was doing lots of parallel stats, and this was putting a lot of
pressure on ext4_getattr().  A spinlock to protect a single
memory-to-memory copy is pointless, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-02 10:38:30 -04:00
Uwe Kleine-König b595076a18 tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos
"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o b1142e8fec ext4: BUG_ON fix: check if page has buffers before calling page_buffers()
We need to make check if a page does not have buffes by checking
page_has_buffers(page) before calling page_buffers(page) in
ext4_writepage().  Otherwise page_buffers() could throw a BUG_ON.

Thanks also to Markus Trippelsdorf and Avinash Kurup who also reported
the problem.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com>
2010-10-28 17:33:57 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o a107e5a3a4 Merge branch 'next' into upstream-merge
Conflicts:
	fs/ext4/inode.c
	fs/ext4/mballoc.c
	include/trace/events/ext4.h
2010-10-27 23:44:47 -04:00
Dmitry Monakhov 3d287de3b8 ext4: optimize orphan_list handling for ext4_setattr
Surprisingly chown() on ext4 is not SMP scalable operation. 
Due to unconditional orphan_del(NULL, inode) in ext4_setattr()
result in significant performance overhead because of global orphan
mutex, especially in no-journal mode (where orphan_add() is noop).
It is possible to skip explicit orphan_del if possible.
Results of fchown() micro-benchmark in no-journal mode
while (1) {
   iteration++;
   fchown(fd, uid, gid);
   fchown(fd, uid + 1, gid + 1)
}
measured: iterations per millisecond
| nr_tasks | w/o patch | with patch |
|        1 |       142 |        185 |
|        4 |       109 |        642 |

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 22:08:46 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 4a873a472b ext4: move flush_completed_IO to fs/ext4/fsync.c and make it static
Fix a namespace leak by moving the function to the file where it is
used and making it static.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:14 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 1f109d5a17 ext4: make various ext4 functions be static
These functions have no need to be exported beyond file context.

No functions needed to be moved for this commit; just some function
declarations changed to be static and removed from header files.

(A similar patch was submitted by Eric Sandeen, but I wanted to handle
code movement in separate patches to make sure code changes didn't
accidentally get dropped.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:14 -04:00
Eric Sandeen 72f84e6560 ext4: update writeback_index based on last page scanned
As pointed out in a prior patch, updating the mapping's
writeback_index based on pages written isn't quite right;
what the writeback index is really supposed to reflect is
the next page which should be scanned for writeback during
periodic flush.

As in write_cache_pages(), write_cache_pages_da() does
this scanning for us as we assemble the mpd for later
writeout.  If we keep track of the next page after the
current scan, we can easily update writeback_index without
worrying about pages written vs. pages skipped, etc.

Without this, an fsync will reset writeback_index to
0 (its starting index) + however many pages it wrote, which
can mess up the progress of periodic flush.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:13 -04:00
Eric Sandeen 5b41d92437 ext4: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging
This is analogous to Jan Kara's commit,
f446daaea9
mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging

but since we forked write_cache_pages, we need to reimplement
it there (and in ext4_da_writepages, since range_cyclic handling
was moved to there)

If you start a large buffered IO to a file, and then set
fsync after it, you'll find that fsync does not complete
until the other IO stops.

If you continue re-dirtying the file (say, putting dd
with conv=notrunc in a loop), when fsync finally completes
(after all IO is done), it reports via tracing that
it has written many more pages than the file contains;
in other words it has synced and re-synced pages in
the file multiple times.

This then leads to problems with our writeback_index
update, since it advances it by pages written, and
essentially sets writeback_index off the end of the
file...

With the following patch, we only sync as much as was
dirty at the time of the sync.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:13 -04:00
Eric Sandeen bbd08344e3 ext4: tidy up a void argument in inode.c
This doesn't fix anything at all, it just removes a vestige
of prior use from __mpage_da_writepage()

__mpage_da_writepage() had a *void argument leftover from
its previous life as a callback; make it reflect the actual type.

Fixing this up makes it slightly more obvious to read, and 
enables proper typechecking.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:12 -04:00
Namhyung Kim 877836905d ext4: Check return value of sb_getblk() and friends
Fail block allocation if sb_getblk() returns NULL. In that case,
sb_find_get_block() also likely to fail so that it should skip
calling ext4_forget().

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:11 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o bd2d0210cf ext4: use bio layer instead of buffer layer in mpage_da_submit_io
Call the block I/O layer directly instad of going through the buffer
layer.  This should give us much better performance and scalability,
as well as lowering our CPU utilization when doing buffered writeback.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:10 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 1de3e3df91 ext4: move mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs()'s functionality to mpage_da_submit_io()
This massively simplifies the ext4_da_writepages() code path by
completely removing mpage_put_bnr_bhs(), which is almost 100 lines of
code iterating over a set of pages using pagevec_lookup(), and folds
that functionality into mpage_da_submit_io()'s existing
pagevec_lookup() loop.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:10 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 3ecdb3a193 ext4: inline walk_page_buffers() into mpage_da_submit_io
Expand the call:

  if (walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_bufs, 0, len, NULL,
                        ext4_bh_delay_or_unwritten))
	goto redirty_page

into mpage_da_submit_io().

This will allow us to merge in mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs() in the next
patch.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:10 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o cb20d51883 ext4: inline ext4_writepage() into mpage_da_submit_io()
As a prepratory step to switching to bio_submit, inline
ext4_writepage() into mpage_da_submit() and then simplify things a
bit.  This makes it clearer what mpage_da_submit needs to do.

Also, move the ClearPageChecked(page) call into
__ext4_journalled_writepage(), as a minor bit of cleanup refactoring.

This also allows us to pull i_size_read() and
ext4_should_journal_data() out of the loop, which should be a very
minor CPU savings.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:09 -04:00