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James Morris cbacc2c7f0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-12-25 11:40:09 +11:00
Andrew Morton 02d2116887 revert "percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set"
Revert

    commit e8ced39d5e
    Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
    Date:   Fri Jul 11 19:27:31 2008 -0400

        percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set

As described in

	revert "percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()"

the new percpu_counter_sum_and_set() is racy against updates to the
cpu-local accumulators on other CPUs.  Revert that change.

This means that ext4 will be slow again.  But correct.

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10 08:01:52 -08:00
Andrew Morton 71c5576fbd revert "percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()"
Revert

    commit 1f7c14c62c
    Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
    Date:   Thu Oct 9 12:50:59 2008 -0400

        percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()

Before this patch we had the following:

percpu_counter_sum(): return the percpu_counter's value

percpu_counter_sum_and_set(): return the percpu_counter's value, copying
that value into the central value and zeroing the per-cpu counters before
returning.

After this patch, percpu_counter_sum_and_set() has gone, and
percpu_counter_sum() gets the old percpu_counter_sum_and_set()
functionality.

Problem is, as Eric points out, the old percpu_counter_sum_and_set()
functionality was racy and wrong.  It zeroes out counters on "other" cpus,
without holding any locks which will prevent races agaist updates from
those other CPUS.

This patch reverts 1f7c14c62c.  This means
that percpu_counter_sum_and_set() still has the race, but
percpu_counter_sum() does not.

Note that this is not a simple revert - ext4 has since started using
percpu_counter_sum() for its dirty_blocks counter as well.

Note that this revert patch changes percpu_counter_sum() semantics.

Before the patch, a call to percpu_counter_sum() will bring the counter's
central counter mostly up-to-date, so a following percpu_counter_read()
will return a close value.

After this patch, a call to percpu_counter_sum() will leave the counter's
central accumulator unaltered, so a subsequent call to
percpu_counter_read() can now return a significantly inaccurate result.

If there is any code in the tree which was introduced after
e8ced39d5e was merged, and which depends
upon the new percpu_counter_sum() semantics, that code will break.

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.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>
2008-12-10 08:01:52 -08:00
James Morris 2b82892565 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	security/keys/internal.h
	security/keys/process_keys.c
	security/keys/request_key.c

Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 11:29:12 +11:00
David Howells 4c9c544e49 CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the Ext4 filesystem
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: adilger@sun.com
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:38:51 +11:00
Frederic Bohe 23712a9c28 ext4: add checksum calculation when clearing UNINIT flag in ext4_new_inode
When initializing an uninitialized block group in ext4_new_inode(),
its block group checksum must be re-calculated.  This fixes a race
when several threads try to allocate a new inode in an UNINIT'd group.

There is some question whether we need to be initializing the block
bitmap in ext4_new_inode() at all, but for now, if we are going to
init the block group, let's eliminate the race.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-07 09:21:01 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V ed9b3e3379 ext4: Mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate after prepare_write
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>
2008-11-07 09:06:45 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o ac51d83705 ext4: calculate journal credits correctly
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>
2008-11-06 16:49:36 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 14ce0cb411 ext4: wait on all pending commits in ext4_sync_fs()
In ext4_sync_fs, we only wait for a commit to finish if we started it,
but there may be one already in progress which will not be synced.

In the case of a data=ordered umount with pending long symlinks which
are delayed due to a long list of other I/O on the backing block
device, this causes the buffer associated with the long symlinks to
not be moved to the inode dirty list in the second phase of
fsync_super.  Then, before they can be dirtied again, kjournald exits,
seeing the UMOUNT flag and the dirty pages are never written to the
backing block device, causing long symlink corruption and exposing new
or previously freed block data to userspace.

To ensure all commits are synced, we flush all journal commits now
when sync_fs'ing ext4.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
2008-11-03 18:10:55 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V d94e99a64c ext4: Convert to host order before using the values.
Use le16_to_cpu to read the s_reserved_gdt_blocks values
from super block.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-04 09:11:26 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V ae2d9fb18e ext4: fix missing ext4_unlock_group in error path
If we try to free a block which is already freed, the code was
returning without first unlocking the group.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-04 09:10:50 -05:00
Eric Sandeen a996031c87 delay capable() check in ext4_has_free_blocks()
As reported by Eric Paris, the capable() check in ext4_has_free_blocks()
sometimes causes SELinux denials.

We can rearrange the logic so that we only try to use the root-reserved
blocks when necessary, and even then we can move the capable() test
to last, to avoid the check most of the time.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-28 00:08:17 -04:00
Eric Sandeen 8c3bf8a01c merge ext4_claim_free_blocks & ext4_has_free_blocks
Mingming pointed out that ext4_claim_free_blocks & ext4_has_free_blocks
are largely cut & pasted; they can be collapsed/merged as follows.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-28 00:08:12 -04:00
Hidehiro Kawai ef2cabf7c6 ext4: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext4_abort
Vegard Nossum reported a bug which accesses freed memory (found via
kmemcheck).  When journal has been aborted, ext4_put_super() calls
ext4_abort() after freeing the journal_t object, and then ext4_abort()
accesses it.  This patch fix it.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-27 22:53:05 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 3c37fc86d2 ext4: Fix duplicate entries returned from getdents() system call
Fix a regression caused by commit d0156417, "ext4: fix ext4_dx_readdir
hash collision handling", where deleting files in a large directory
(requiring more than one getdents system call), results in some
filenames being returned twice.  This was caused by a failure to
update info->curr_hash and info->curr_minor_hash, so that if the
directory had gotten modified since the last getdents() system call
(as would be the case if the user is running "rm -r" or "git clean"),
a directory entry would get returned twice to the userspace.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

This patch fixes the bug reported by Markus Trippelsdorf at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11844

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
2008-10-25 22:37:55 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 3856d30ded ext4: remove unused variable in ext4_get_parent
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[ All users removed in "switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias",
  aka commit 440037287c ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-23 12:03:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2248485640 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev: (66 commits)
  [PATCH] kill the rest of struct file propagation in block ioctls
  [PATCH] get rid of struct file use in blkdev_ioctl() BLKBSZSET
  [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_locked_ioctl()
  [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_driver_ioctl()
  [PATCH] sanitize blkdev_get() and friends
  [PATCH] remember mode of reiserfs journal
  [PATCH] propagate mode through swsusp_close()
  [PATCH] propagate mode through open_bdev_excl/close_bdev_excl
  [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()
  [PATCH] kill the unused bsize on the send side of /dev/loop
  [PATCH] trim file propagation in block/compat_ioctl.c
  [PATCH] end of methods switch: remove the old ones
  [PATCH] switch sr
  [PATCH] switch sd
  [PATCH] switch ide-scsi
  [PATCH] switch tape_block
  [PATCH] switch dcssblk
  [PATCH] switch dasd
  [PATCH] switch mtd_blkdevs
  [PATCH] switch mmc
  ...
2008-10-23 10:23:07 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 440037287c [PATCH] switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias
Switch all users of d_alloc_anon to d_obtain_alias.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:01 -04:00
Al Viro 8264613def [PATCH] switch quota_on-related stuff to kern_path()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:44 -04:00
Al Viro 9a1c354276 [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:48:58 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6da0b38f44 fs/Kconfig: move ext2, ext3, ext4, JBD, JBD2 out
Use fs/*/Kconfig more, which is good because everything related to one
filesystem is in one place and fs/Kconfig is quite fat.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 11:43:59 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o f287a1a561 ext4: Remove automatic enabling of the HUGE_FILE feature flag
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>
2008-10-16 22:50:48 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 3e624fc72f ext4: Replace hackish ext4_mb_poll_new_transaction with commit callback
The multiblock allocator needs to be able to release blocks (and issue
a blkdev discard request) when the transaction which freed those
blocks is committed.  Previously this was done via a polling mechanism
when blocks are allocated or freed.  A much better way of doing things
is to create a jbd2 callback function and attaching the list of blocks
to be freed directly to the transaction structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-16 20:00:24 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 01436ef2e4 ext4: Remove unused mount options: nomballoc, mballoc, nocheck
These mount options don't actually do anything any more, so remove
them.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-17 07:22:35 -04:00
Manish Katiyar 0b09923eab ext4: Remove compile warnings when building w/o CONFIG_PROC_FS
Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-17 14:58:45 -04:00
Eric Sesterhenn 5128273a32 ext4: Add missing newlines to printk messages
There are some newlines missing in ext4_check_descriptors, which
cause the printk level to be printed out when the next printk call
is made:

[  778.847265] EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 0
not in group (block 1509949442)!<3>EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
[  802.646630] EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Inode bitmap for group 0
not in group (block 9043971)!<3>EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted!

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-17 09:16:19 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 22208dedbd ext4: Fix file fragmentation during large file write.
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>
2008-10-16 10:10:36 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V af6f029d38 ext4: Use tag dirty lookup during mpage_da_submit_io
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>
2008-10-14 09:20:19 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 8a0aba733d ext4: let the block device know when unused blocks can be discarded
Let the block device know when unused blocks can be discarded, using
the new sb_issue_discard() interface.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-16 10:06:27 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V a1aebc1e2d ext4: Don't reuse released data blocks until transaction commits
We need to make sure we don't reuse the data blocks released
during the transaction untill the transaction commits. We force
this mode only for ordered and journalled mode. Writeback mode
already don't provided data consistency.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 20:13:31 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V c894058d66 ext4: Use an rbtree for tracking blocks freed during transaction.
With this patch we track the block freed during a transaction using
red-black tree.  We also make sure contiguous blocks freed are collected
in one node in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-16 10:14:27 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V c2774d84fd ext4: Do mballoc init before doing filesystem recovery
During filesystem recovery we may be doing a truncate
which expects some of the mballoc data structures to
be initialized. So do ext4_mb_init before recovery.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 20:07:20 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 688f05a019 ext4: Free ext4_prealloc_space using kmem_cache_free
We should use kmem_cache_free to free memory allocated
via kmem_cache_alloc

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-13 12:14:14 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse a447c09324 vfs: Use const for kernel parser table
This is a much better version of a previous patch to make the parser
tables constant. Rather than changing the typedef, we put the "const" in
all the various places where its required, allowing the __initconst
exception for nfsroot which was the cause of the previous trouble.

This was posted for review some time ago and I believe its been in -mm
since then.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:10:37 -07:00
Alexander Beregalov 3244fcb1ae ext4: fix build failure without procfs
fs/ext4/super.c: In function 'ext4_fill_super':
fs/ext4/super.c:2226: error: 'ext4_ui_proc_fops' undeclared (first use
in this function)
fs/ext4/super.c:2226: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
only once
fs/ext4/super.c:2226: error: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-12 17:27:49 -04:00
Hidehiro Kawai 5bf5683a33 ext4: add an option to control error handling on file data
If the journal doesn't abort when it gets an IO error in file data
blocks, the file data corruption will spread silently.  Because
most of applications and commands do buffered writes without fsync(),
they don't notice the IO error.  It's scary for mission critical
systems.  On the other hand, if the journal aborts whenever it gets
an IO error in file data blocks, the system will easily become
inoperable.  So this patch introduces a filesystem option to
determine whether it aborts the journal or just call printk() when
it gets an IO error in file data.

If you mount an ext4 fs with data_err=abort option, it aborts on file
data write error.  If you mount it with data_err=ignore, it doesn't
abort, just call printk().  data_err=ignore is the default.

Here is the corresponding patch of the ext3 version:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/9/9/3239374

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 22:12:43 -04:00
Hidehiro Kawai 7ffe1ea894 ext4: add checks for errors from jbd2
If the journal has aborted due to a checkpointing failure, we
have to keep the contents of the journal space.  Otherwise, the
filesystem will lose uncheckpointed metadata completely and
become inconsistent.  To avoid this, we need to keep needs_recovery
flag if checkpoint has failed.

With this patch, ext4_put_super() detects a checkpointing failure
from the return value of journal_destroy(), then it invokes
ext4_abort() to make the filesystem read only and keep
needs_recovery flag.  Errors from jbd2_journal_flush() are also
handled by this patch in some places.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 20:29:21 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 03010a3350 ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4
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>
2008-10-10 20:02:48 -04:00
Andi Kleen 39d80c33a0 ext4: Avoid double dirtying of super block in ext4_put_super()
While reading code I noticed that ext4_put_super() dirties the 
superblock bh twice. It is always done in ext4_commit_super()
too. Remove the redundant dirty operation.
Should be a nop semantically.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-06 21:37:44 -04:00
Eric Sandeen 6873fa0de1 Hook ext4 to the vfs fiemap interface.
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
2008-10-07 00:46:36 -04:00
Kalpak Shah 4d20c685fa ext4: fix xattr deadlock
ext4_xattr_set_handle() eventually ends up calling
ext4_mark_inode_dirty() which tries to expand the inode by shifting
the EAs.  This leads to the xattr_sem being downed again and leading
to a deadlock.

This patch makes sure that if ext4_xattr_set_handle() is in the
call-chain, ext4_mark_inode_dirty() will not expand the inode.

Signed-off-by: Kalpak Shah <kalpak.shah@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-08 23:21:54 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o ede86cc473 ext4: Add debugging markers that can be used by systemtap
This debugging markers are designed to debug problems such as the
random filesystem latency problems reported by Arjan.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-05 20:50:06 -04:00
Frederic Bohe c806e68f56 ext4: fix initialization of UNINIT bitmap blocks
This fixes a bug which caused on-line resizing of filesystems with a
1k blocksize to fail.  The root cause of this bug was the fact that if
an uninitalized bitmap block gets read in by userspace (which
e2fsprogs does try to avoid, but can happen when the blocksize is less
than the pagesize and an adjacent blocks is read into memory)
ext4_read_block_bitmap() was erroneously depending on the buffer
uptodate flag to decide whether it needed to initialize the bitmap
block in memory --- i.e., to set the standard set of blocks in use by
a block group (superblock, bitmaps, inode table, etc.).  Essentially,
ext4_read_block_bitmap() assumed it was the only routine that might
try to read a block containing a block bitmap, which is simply not
true.  

To fix this, ext4_read_block_bitmap() and ext4_read_inode_bitmap()
must always initialize uninitialized bitmap blocks.  Once a block or
inode is allocated out of that bitmap, it will be marked as
initialized in the block group descriptor, so in general this won't
result any extra unnecessary work.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 08:09:18 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o c2ea3fde61 ext4: Remove old legacy block allocator
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 09:40:52 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 240799cdf2 ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table
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>
2008-10-09 23:53:47 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 5e8814f2f7 ext4: Combine proc file handling into a single set of functions
Previously mballoc created a separate set of functions for each proc
file.  This combines the tunables into a single set of functions which
gets used for all of the per-superblock proc files, saving
approximately 2k of compiled object code.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-23 18:07:35 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 9f6200bbfc ext4: move /proc setup and teardown out of mballoc.c
...and into the core setup/teardown code in fs/ext4/super.c so that
other parts of ext4 can define tuning parameters.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-23 09:18:24 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o f702ba0fd7 ext4: Don't use 'struct dentry' for internal lookups
This is a port of a patch from Linus which fixes a 200+ byte stack
usage problem in ext4_get_parent().

It's more efficient to pass down only the actual parts of the dentry
that matter: the parent inode and the name, instead of allocating a
struct dentry on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-22 15:21:01 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 914258bf2c ext4/jbd2: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write to the superblock
This fixes some very common warnings reported by kerneloops.org

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-06 21:35:40 -04:00
Eric Sandeen 730c213c79 ext4: use percpu data structures for lg_prealloc_list
lg_prealloc_list seems to cry out for a per-cpu data structure; on a large
smp system I think this should be better.  I've lightly tested this change
on a 4-cpu system.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-13 15:23:29 -04:00