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Linus Torvalds 4515c3069d 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: (47 commits)
  ext4: Fix potential fiemap deadlock (mmap_sem vs. i_data_sem)
  ext4: Do not override ext2 or ext3 if built they are built as modules
  jbd2: Export jbd2_log_start_commit to fix ext4 build
  ext4: Fix insufficient checks in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
  ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync
  ext4: fix incorrect block reservation on quota transfer.
  ext4: quota macros cleanup
  ext4: ext4_get_reserved_space() must return bytes instead of blocks
  ext4: remove blocks from inode prealloc list on failure
  ext4: wait for log to commit when umounting
  ext4: Avoid data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Use ext4 file system driver for ext2/ext3 file system mounts
  ext4: Return the PTR_ERR of the correct pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  jbd2: Add ENOMEM checking in and for jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer()
  ext4: remove unused parameter wbc from __ext4_journalled_writepage()
  ext4: remove encountered_congestion trace
  ext4: move_extent_per_page() cleanup
  ext4: initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents()
  ext4: Fix double-free of blocks with EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
  ext4: use ext4_data_block_valid() in ext4_free_blocks()
  ...
2009-12-10 09:33:29 -08:00
Jiri Kosina d014d04386 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:

	kernel/irq/chip.c
2009-12-07 18:36:35 +01:00
Jan Kara b436b9bef8 ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync
We cannot rely on buffer dirty bits during fsync because pdflush can come
before fsync is called and clear dirty bits without forcing a transaction
commit. What we do is that we track which transaction has last changed
the inode and which transaction last changed allocation and force it to
disk on fsync.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-08 23:51:10 -05:00
Dmitry Monakhov 194074acac ext4: fix incorrect block reservation on quota transfer.
Inside ->setattr() call both ATTR_UID and ATTR_GID may be valid
This means that we may end-up with transferring all quotas. Add
we have to reserve QUOTA_DEL_BLOCKS for all quotas, as we do in
case of QUOTA_INIT_BLOCKS.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-08 22:42:28 -05:00
Dmitry Monakhov 5aca07eb7d ext4: quota macros cleanup
Currently all quota block reservation macros contains hard-coded "2"
aka MAXQUOTAS value. This is no good because in some places it is not
obvious to understand what does this digit represent. Let's introduce
new macro with self descriptive name.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-08 22:42:15 -05:00
Dmitry Monakhov 8aa6790f87 ext4: ext4_get_reserved_space() must return bytes instead of blocks
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-08 22:41:52 -05:00
Jan Kara b9a4207d5e ext4: Avoid data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
When ext4_write_begin fails after allocating some blocks or
generic_perform_write fails to copy data to write, we truncate blocks
already instantiated beyond i_size.  Although these blocks were never
inside i_size, we have to truncate the pagecache of these blocks so
that corresponding buffers get unmapped.  Otherwise subsequent
__block_prepare_write (called because we are retrying the write) will
find the buffers mapped, not call ->get_block, and thus the page will
be backed by already freed blocks leading to filesystem and data
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-08 21:24:33 -05:00
André Goddard Rosa af901ca181 tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
Uwe Kleine-König bf48aabb89 tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset"
This patch was generated by

	git grep -E -i -l 'offest' | xargs -r perl -p -i -e 's/offest/offset/'

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-04 15:39:50 +01:00
Wu Fengguang 3f0ca30985 ext4: remove unused parameter wbc from __ext4_journalled_writepage()
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> 
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-24 11:15:44 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o e6362609b6 ext4: call ext4_forget() from ext4_free_blocks()
Add the facility for ext4_forget() to be called from
ext4_free_blocks().  This simplifies the code in a large number of
places, and centralizes most of the work of calling ext4_forget() into
a single place.

Also fix a bug in the extents migration code; it wasn't calling
ext4_forget() when releasing the indirect blocks during the
conversion.  As a result, if the system cashed during or shortly after
the extents migration, and the released indirect blocks get reused as
data blocks, the journal replay would corrupt the data blocks.  With
this new patch, fixing this bug was as simple as adding the
EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_FORGET flags to the call to ext4_free_blocks().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-11-23 07:17:05 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o b7e57e7c2a ext4: fold ext4_journal_forget() into ext4_forget()
Convert the last two callers of ext4_journal_forget() to use
ext4_forget() instead, and then fold ext4_journal_forget() into
ext4_forget().  This reduces are code complexity and shortens our call
stack.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-22 21:00:13 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o d6797d14b1 ext4: move ext4_forget() to ext4_jbd2.c
The ext4_forget() function better belongs in ext4_jbd2.c.  This will
allow us to do some cleanup of the ext4_journal_revoke() and
ext4_journal_forget() functions, as well as giving us better error
reporting since we can report the caller of ext4_forget() when things
go wrong.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-22 20:52:12 -05:00
Jan Kara 2bba702d4f ext4: fix error handling in ext4_ind_get_blocks()
When an error happened in ext4_splice_branch we failed to notice that
in ext4_ind_get_blocks and mapped the buffer anyway. Fix the problem
by checking for error properly.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-11-23 07:24:48 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 1032988c71 ext4: fix block validity checks so they work correctly with meta_bg
The block validity checks used by ext4_data_block_valid() wasn't
correctly written to check file systems with the meta_bg feature.  Fix
this.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-11-15 15:29:56 -05:00
Julia Lawall 30c6e07a92 ext4: fix i_flags access in ext4_da_writepages_trans_blocks()
We need to be testing the i_flags field in the ext4 specific portion
of the inode, instead of the (confusingly aliased) i_flags field in
the generic struct inode.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-11-15 15:30:58 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 5068969686 ext4: make sure directory and symlink blocks are revoked
When an inode gets unlinked, the functions ext4_clear_blocks() and
ext4_remove_blocks() call ext4_forget() for all the buffer heads
corresponding to the deleted inode's data blocks.  If the inode is a
directory or a symlink, the is_metadata parameter must be non-zero so
ext4_forget() will revoke them via jbd2_journal_revoke().  Otherwise,
if these blocks are reused for a data file, and the system crashes
before a journal checkpoint, the journal replay could end up
corrupting these data blocks.

Thanks to Curt Wohlgemuth for pointing out potential problems in this
area.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-11-23 07:17:34 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o beac2da756 ext4: add tracepoint for ext4_forget()
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-23 07:25:08 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 567f3e9a70 ext4: plug a buffer_head leak in an error path of ext4_iget()
One of the invalid error paths in ext4_iget() forgot to brelse() the
inode buffer head.  Fix it by adding a brelse() in the common error
return path, which also simplifies function.

Thanks to Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> reporting the problem.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-14 08:19:05 -05:00
Mingming 4b70df1816 ext4: code clean up for dio fallocate handling
The ext4_debug() call in ext4_end_io_dio() should be moved after the
check to make sure that io_end is non-NULL.

The comment above ext4_get_block_dio_write() ("Maximum number of
blocks...") is a duplicate; the original and correct comment is above
the #define DIO_MAX_BLOCKS up above.

Based on review comments from Curt Wohlgemuth.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-03 14:44:54 -05:00
Mingming 5f5249507e ext4: skip conversion of uninit extents after direct IO if there isn't any
At the end of direct I/O operation, ext4_ext_direct_IO() always called
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(), regardless of whether there were any
unwritten extents involved in the I/O or not.

This commit adds a state flag so that ext4_ext_direct_IO() only calls
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents() when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-10 10:48:04 -05:00
Mingming 109f556519 ext4: fix ext4_ext_direct_IO()'s return value after converting uninit extents
After a direct I/O request covering an uninitalized extent (i.e.,
created using the fallocate system call) or a hole in a file, ext4
will convert the uninitialized extent so it is marked as initialized
by calling ext4_convert_unwritten_extents().  This function returns
zero on success.

This return value was getting returned by ext4_direct_IO(); however
the file system's direct_IO function is supposed to return the number
of bytes read or written on a success.  By returning zero, it confused
the direct I/O code into falling back to buffered I/O unnecessarily.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-10 10:48:08 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V fa5d11133b ext4: discard preallocation when restarting a transaction during truncate
When restart a transaction during a truncate operation, we drop and
reacquire i_data_sem.  After reacquiring i_data_sem, we need to
discard any inode-based preallocation that might have been grabbed
while we released i_data_sem (for example, if pdflush is allocating
blocks and racing against the truncate).

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-02 18:50:49 -05:00
Eric Sandeen fbbf694566 [PATCH] ext4: retry failed direct IO allocations
On a 256M filesystem, doing this in a loop:

        xfs_io -F -f -d -c 'pwrite 0 64m' test
        rm -f test

eventually leads to ENOSPC.  (the xfs_io command does a
64m direct IO write to the file "test")

As with other block allocation callers, it looks like we need to
potentially retry the allocations on the initial ENOSPC.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-10-02 21:20:55 -04:00
Curt Wohlgemuth 74072d0a63 ext4: Fix build warning in ext4_dirty_inode()
This fixes the following warning:

fs/ext4/inode.c: In function 'ext4_dirty_inode':
fs/ext4/inode.c:5615: warning: unused variable 'current_handle'

We remove the jbd_debug() statement which does use current_handle, as
it's not terribly important in the grand scheme of things.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell for pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-10-02 21:08:32 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 1f94533d9c ext4: fix a BUG_ON crash by checking that page has buffers attached to it
In ext4_num_dirty_pages() we were calling page_buffers() before
checking to see if the page actually had pages attached to it; this
would cause a BUG check crash in the inline function page_buffers().

Thanks to Markus Trippelsdorf for reporting this bug.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30 22:57:41 -04:00
Curt Wohlgemuth f3dc272fd5 ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode
This patch a problem that ext4_dirty_inode() was not calling
ext4_mark_inode_dirty() if the current_handle is not valid, which it
is the case in no journal mode.

It also removes a test for non-matching transaction which can never
happen.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29 16:06:01 -04:00
Frank Mayhar 830156c79b ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode
This is a cleanup of commit 91ac6f4.  Since ext4_mark_inode_dirty()
has already called ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(), which in turn calls
ext4_do_update_inode(), it's not necessary to have ext4_write_inode()
call ext4_do_update_inode() in no journal mode.  Indeed, it would be
duplicated work.

Reviewed-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29 10:07:47 -04:00
Mingming Cao 8d5d02e6b1 ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support
For async direct IO that covers holes or fallocate, the end_io
callback function now queued the convertion work on workqueue but
don't flush the work rightaway as it might take too long to afford.

But when fsync is called after all the data is completed, user expects
the metadata also being updated before fsync returns.

Thus we need to flush the conversion work when fsync() is called.
This patch keep track of a listed of completed async direct io that
has a work queued on workqueue.  When fsync() is called, it will go
through the list and do the conversion.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
2009-09-28 15:48:29 -04:00
Mingming Cao 4c0425ff68 ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O
Currently the DIO VFS code passes create = 0 when writing to the
middle of file.  It does this to avoid block allocation for holes, so
as not to expose stale data out when there is a parallel buffered read
(which does not hold the i_mutex lock).  Direct I/O writes into holes
falls back to buffered IO for this reason.

Since preallocated extents are treated as holes when doing a
get_block() look up (buffer is not mapped), direct IO over fallocate
also falls back to buffered IO.  Thus ext4 actually silently falls
back to buffered IO in above two cases, which is undesirable.

To fix this, this patch creates unitialized extents when a direct I/O
write into holes in sparse files, and registering an end_io callback which
converts the uninitialized extent to an initialized extent after the
I/O is completed.

Singed-Off-By: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-28 15:48:41 -04:00
Mingming Cao 0031462b5b ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O
When writing into an unitialized extent via direct I/O, and the direct
I/O doesn't exactly cover the unitialized extent, split the extent
into uninitialized and initialized extents before submitting the I/O.
This avoids needing to deal with an ENOSPC error in the end_io
callback that gets used for direct I/O.

When the IO is complete, the written extent will be marked as initialized.

Singed-Off-By: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-28 15:49:08 -04:00
Mingming Cao 9f0ccfd8e0 ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry
ext4_da_reserve_space() can reserve quota blocks multiple times if
ext4_claim_free_blocks() fail and we retry the allocation. We should
release the quota reservation before restarting.

Bug found by Jan Kara.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-28 15:49:52 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 55138e0bc2 ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks
Work around problems in the writeback code to force out writebacks in
larger chunks than just 4mb, which is just too small.  This also works
around limitations in the ext4 block allocator, which can't allocate
more than 2048 blocks at a time.  So we need to defeat the round-robin
characteristics of the writeback code and try to write out as many
blocks in one inode before allowing the writeback code to move on to
another inode.  We add a a new per-filesystem tunable,
max_writeback_mb_bump, which caps this to a default of 128mb per
inode.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29 13:31:31 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 1693918e0b ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors
This allows the user to see what filesystem was involved with a
particular ext4_da_writepage() error.  Also, use KERN_CRIT which is
more appropriate than KERN_EMERG.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-26 17:43:59 -04:00
Linus Torvalds db16826367 Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
  HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
  HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
  HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
  HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
  HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
  HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
  HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
  HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
  HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
  HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
  HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
  HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
  HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
  HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
  HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
  HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
  HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
  HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
  ...
2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Anand Gadiyar fd589a8f0a trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o 5534fb5bb3 ext4: Fix the alloc on close after a truncate hueristic
In an attempt to avoid doing an unneeded flush after opening a
(previously non-existent) file with O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, the code only
triggered the hueristic if ei->disksize was non-zero.  Turns out that
the VFS doesn't call ->truncate() if the file doesn't exist, and
ei->disksize is always zero even if the file previously existed.  So
remove the test, since it isn't necessary and in fact disabled the
hueristic.

Thanks to Clemens Eisserer that he was seeing problems with files
written using kwrite and eclipse after sudden crashes caused by a
buggy Intel video driver.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-17 09:34:16 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o fb40ba0d98 ext4: Add a tracepoint for ext4_alloc_da_blocks()
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-16 19:30:40 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 1b9c12f44c ext4: store EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE in i_state instead of i_flags
EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE is only intended to be used for an in-memory flag,
and the hex value assigned to it collides with FS_DIRECTIO_FL (which
is also stored in i_flags).  There's no reason for the
EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE bit to be stored in i_flags, so we switch it to use
i_state instead.

Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-17 08:32:22 -04:00
Eric Sandeen fb0a387dcd ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32
Today, the ext4 allocator will happily allocate blocks past
2^32 for indirect-block files, which results in the block
numbers getting truncated, and corruption ensues.

This patch limits such allocations to < 2^32, and adds
BUG_ONs if we do get blocks larger than that.

This should address RH Bug 519471, ext4 bitmap allocator 
must limit blocks to < 2^32

* ext4_find_goal() is modified to choose a goal < UINT_MAX,
  so that our starting point is in an acceptable range.

* ext4_xattr_block_set() is modified such that the goal block
  is < UINT_MAX, as above.

* ext4_mb_regular_allocator() is modified so that the group
  search does not continue into groups which are too high

* ext4_mb_use_preallocated() has a check that we don't use
  preallocated space which is too far out

* ext4_alloc_blocks() and ext4_xattr_block_set() add some BUG_ONs

No attempt has been made to limit inode locations to < 2^32,
so we may wind up with blocks far from their inodes.  Doing
this much already will lead to some odd ENOSPC issues when the
"lower 32" gets full, and further restricting inodes could
make that even weirder.

For high inodes, choosing a goal of the original, % UINT_MAX,
may be a bit odd, but then we're in an odd situation anyway,
and I don't know of a better heuristic.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-16 14:45:10 -04:00
Andi Kleen aa261f549d HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
Enable removing of corrupted pages through truncation
for a bunch of file systems: ext*, xfs, gfs2, ocfs2, ntfs
These should cover most server needs.

I chose the set of migration aware file systems for this
for now, assuming they have been especially audited.
But in general it should be safe for all file systems
on the data area that support read/write and truncate.

Caveat: the hardware error handler does not take i_mutex
for now before calling the truncate function. Is that ok?

Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: mfasheh@suse.com
Cc: aia21@cantab.net
Cc: hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk
Cc: swhiteho@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:16 +02:00
Frank Mayhar 91ac6f4331 ext4: Make non-journal fsync work properly
Teach ext4_write_inode() and ext4_do_update_inode() about non-journal
mode:  If we're not using a journal, ext4_write_inode() now calls
ext4_do_update_inode() (after getting the iloc via ext4_get_inode_loc())
with a new "do_sync" parameter.  If that parameter is nonzero _and_ we're
not using a journal, ext4_do_update_inode() calls sync_dirty_buffer()
instead of ext4_handle_dirty_metadata().

This problem was found in power-fail testing, checking the amount of
loss of files and blocks after a power failure when using fsync() and
when not using fsync().  It turned out that using fsync() was actually
worse than not doing so, possibly because it increased the likelihood
that the inodes would remain unflushed and would therefore be lost at
the power failure.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-09 22:33:47 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 80e42468d6 ext4: print more sysadmin-friendly message in check_block_validity()
Drop the WARN_ON(1), as he stack trace is not appropriate, since it is
triggered by file system corruption, and it misleads users into
thinking there is a kernel bug.  In addition, change the message
displayed by ext4_error() to make it clear that this is a file system
corruption problem.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-08 08:21:26 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V a827eaffff ext4: Take page lock before looking at attached buffer_heads flags
In order to check whether the buffer_heads are mapped we need to hold
page lock. Otherwise a reclaim can cleanup the attached buffer_heads.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-09 22:36:03 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o b3a3ca8ca0 ext4: Add new tracepoint: trace_ext4_da_write_pages()
Add a new tracepoint which shows the pages that will be written using
write_cache_pages() by ext4_da_writepages().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-31 23:13:11 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o de89de6e0c ext4: Restore wbc->range_start in ext4_da_writepages()
To solve a lock inversion problem, we implement part of the
range_cyclic algorithm in ext4_da_writepages().  (See commit 2acf2c26
for more details.)

As part of that change wbc->range_start was modified by ext4's
writepages function, which causes its callers to get confused since
they aren't expecting the filesystem to modify it.  The simplest fix
is to save and restore wbc->range_start in ext4_da_writepages.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-31 17:00:59 -04:00
Jan Kara 487caeef9f ext4: Fix possible deadlock between ext4_truncate() and ext4_get_blocks()
During truncate we are sometimes forced to start a new transaction as
the amount of blocks to be journaled is both quite large and hard to
predict. So far we restarted a transaction while holding i_data_sem
and that violates lock ordering because i_data_sem ranks below a
transaction start (and it can lead to a real deadlock with
ext4_get_blocks() mapping blocks in some page while having a
transaction open).

We fix the problem by dropping the i_data_sem before restarting the
transaction and acquire it afterwards. It's slightly subtle that this
works:

1) By the time ext4_truncate() is called, all the page cache for the
truncated part of the file is dropped so get_block() should not be
called on it (we only have to invalidate extent cache after we
reacquire i_data_sem because some extent from not-truncated part could
extend also into the part we are going to truncate).

2) Writes, migrate or defrag hold i_mutex so they are stopped for all
the time of the truncate.

This bug has been found and analyzed by Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-17 22:17:20 -04:00
Roel Kluin c333e073b7 ext4: remove redundant test on unsigned
unsigned i_block cannot be less than 0.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-10 22:47:22 -04:00
Curt Wohlgemuth e6b5d30104 ext4: Fix buffer head reference leak in no-journal mode
We found a problem with buffer head reference leaks when using an ext4
partition without a journal.  In particular, calls to ext4_forget() would
not to a brelse() on the input buffer head, which will cause pages they
belong to to not be reclaimable.

Further investigation showed that all places where ext4_journal_forget() and
ext4_journal_revoke() are called are subject to the same problem.  The patch
below changes __ext4_journal_forget/__ext4_journal_revoke to do an explicit
release of the buffer head when the journal handle isn't valid.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-13 09:07:20 -04:00
Curt Wohlgemuth 6487a9d3b5 ext4: More buffer head reference leaks
After the patch I posted last week regarding buffer head ref leaks in
no-journal mode, I looked at all the code that uses buffer heads and
searched for more potential leaks.

The patch below fixes the issues I found; these can occur even when a
journal is present.

The change to inode.c fixes a double release if
ext4_journal_get_create_access() fails.

The changes to namei.c are more complicated.  add_dirent_to_buf() will
release the input buffer head EXCEPT when it returns -ENOSPC.  There are
some callers of this routine that don't always do the brelse() in the event
that -ENOSPC is returned.  Unfortunately, to put this fix into ext4_add_entry()
required capturing the return value of make_indexed_dir() and
add_dirent_to_buf().

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-17 10:54:08 -04:00