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Theodore Ts'o 210ad6aedb ext4: avoid unnecessary spinlock in critical POSIX ACL path
If a filesystem supports POSIX ACL's, the VFS layer expects the filesystem
to do POSIX ACL checks on any files not owned by the caller, and it does
this for every single pathname component that it looks up.

That obviously can be pretty expensive if the filesystem isn't careful
about it, especially with locking. That's doubly sad, since the common
case tends to be that there are no ACL's associated with the files in
question.

ext4 already caches the ACL data so that it doesn't have to look it up
over and over again, but it does so by taking the inode->i_lock spinlock
on every lookup. Which is a noticeable overhead even if it's a private
lock, especially on CPU's where the serialization is expensive (eg Intel
Netburst aka 'P4').

For the special case of not actually having any ACL's, all that locking is
unnecessary. Even if somebody else were to be changing the ACL's on
another CPU, we simply don't care - if we've seen a NULL ACL, we might as
well use it.

So just load the ACL speculatively without any locking, and if it was
NULL, just use it. If it's non-NULL (either because we had a cached
entry, or because the cache hasn't been filled in at all), it means that
we'll need to get the lock and re-load it properly.

(This commit was ported from a patch originally authored by Linus for
ext3.)

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-17 00:36:35 -04:00
Alessio Igor Bogani 337eb00a2c Push BKL down into ->remount_fs()
[xfs, btrfs, capifs, shmem don't need BKL, exempt]

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:11 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig ebc1ac1645 ->write_super lock_super pushdown
Push down lock_super into ->write_super instances and remove it from the
caller.

Following filesystem don't need ->s_lock in ->write_super and are skipped:

 * bfs, nilfs2 - no other uses of s_lock and have internal locks in
	->write_super
 * ext2 - uses BKL in ext2_write_super and has internal calls without s_lock
 * reiserfs - no other uses of s_lock as has reiserfs_write_lock (BKL) in
 	->write_super
 * xfs - no other uses of s_lock and uses internal lock (buffer lock on
	superblock buffer) to serialize ->write_super.  Also xfs_fs_write_super
	is superflous and will go away in the next merge window

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:09 -04:00
Al Viro bbd6851a32 Push lock_super() into the ->remount_fs() of filesystems that care about it
Note that since we can't run into contention between remount_fs and write_super
(due to exclusion on s_umount), we have to care only about filesystems that
touch lock_super() on their own.  Out of those ext3, ext4, hpfs, sysv and ufs
do need it; fat doesn't since its ->remount_fs() only accesses assign-once
data (basically, it's "we have no atime on directories and only have atime on
files for vfat; force nodiratime and possibly noatime into *flags").

[folded a build fix from hch]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:08 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 6cfd014842 push BKL down into ->put_super
Move BKL into ->put_super from the only caller.  A couple of
filesystems had trivial enough ->put_super (only kfree and NULLing of
s_fs_info + stuff in there) to not get any locking: coda, cramfs, efs,
hugetlbfs, omfs, qnx4, shmem, all others got the full treatment.  Most
of them probably don't need it, but I'd rather sort that out individually.
Preferably after all the other BKL pushdowns in that area.

[AV: original used to move lock_super() down as well; these changes are
removed since we don't do lock_super() at all in generic_shutdown_super()
now]
[AV: fuse, btrfs and xfs are known to need no damn BKL, exempt]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:07 -04:00
Al Viro a9e220f832 No need to do lock_super() for exclusion in generic_shutdown_super()
We can't run into contention on it.  All other callers of lock_super()
either hold s_umount (and we have it exclusive) or hold an active
reference to superblock in question, which prevents the call of
generic_shutdown_super() while the reference is held.  So we can
replace lock_super(s) with get_fs_excl() in generic_shutdown_super()
(and corresponding change for unlock_super(), of course).

Since ext4 expects s_lock held for its put_super, take lock_super()
into it.  The rest of filesystems do not care at all.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:07 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 8c85e12512 remove ->write_super call in generic_shutdown_super
We just did a full fs writeout using sync_filesystem before, and if
that's not enough for the filesystem it can perform it's own writeout
in ->put_super, which many filesystems already do.

Move a call to foofs_write_super into every foofs_put_super for now to
guarantee identical behaviour until it's cleaned up by the individual
filesystem maintainers.

Exceptions:

 - affs already has identical copy & pasted code at the beginning of
   affs_put_super so no need to do it twice.
 - xfs does the right thing without it and I have changes pending for
   the xfs tree touching this are so I don't really need conflicts
   here..

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:06 -04:00
Linus Torvalds c9059598ea Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-06-11 11:10:35 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V a41f207169 ext4: Avoid corrupting the uninitialized bit in the extent during truncate
The unitialized bit was not properly getting preserved in in an extent
which is partially truncated because the it was geting set to the
value of the first extent to be removed or truncated as part of the
truncate operation, and if there are multiple extents are getting
removed or modified as part of the truncate operation, it is only the
last extent which will might be partially truncated, and its
uninitalized bit is not necessarily the same as the first extent to be
truncated.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-10 14:22:55 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 0eab928221 ext4: Don't treat a truncation of a zero-length file as replace-via-truncate
If a non-existent file is opened via O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, there's
no need to treat this as a true file truncation, so we shouldn't
activate the replace-via-truncate hueristic.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-09 09:54:40 -04:00
Toshiyuki Okajima 9aee228607 ext4: fix dx_map_entry to support 256k directory blocks
The dx_map_entry structure doesn't support over 64KB block size by
current usage of its member("offs"). Because "offs" treats an offset
of copies of the ext4_dir_entry_2 structure as is. This member size is
16 bits. But real offset for over 64KB(256KB) block size needs 18
bits. However, real offset keeps 4 byte boundary, so lower 2 bits is
not used.

Therefore, we do the following to fix this limitation:
For "store": 
	we divide the real offset by 4 and then store this result to "offs" 
	member.
For "use":
	we multiply "offs" member by 4 and then use this result 
	as real offset.

Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-08 12:41:35 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V f8514083cd ext4: truncate the file properly if we fail to copy data from userspace
In generic_perform_write if we fail to copy the user data we don't
update the inode->i_size.  We should truncate the file in the above
case so that we don't have blocks allocated outside inode->i_size.  Add
the inode to orphan list in the same transaction as block allocation
This ensures that if we crash in between the recovery would do the
truncate.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:  Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-05 00:56:49 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 1938a150c2 ext4: Avoid leaking blocks after a block allocation failure
We should add inode to the orphan list in the same transaction
as block allocation.  This ensures that if we crash after a failed
block allocation and before we do a vmtruncate we don't leak block
(ie block marked as used in bitmap but not claimed by the inode).

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:  Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-05 01:00:26 -04:00
Eric Sandeen b31e15527a ext4: Change all super.c messages to print the device
This patch changes ext4 super.c to include the device name with all 
warning/error messages, by using a new utility function ext4_msg. 
It's a rather large patch, but very mechanic. I left debug printks
alone.

This is a straightforward port of a patch which Andi Kleen did for
ext3.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-04 17:36:36 -04:00
Jan Kara 03f5d8bcf0 ext4: Get rid of EXTEND_DISKSIZE flag of ext4_get_blocks_handle()
Get rid of EXTEND_DISKSIZE flag of ext4_get_blocks_handle(). This
seems to be a relict from some old days and setting disksize in this
function does not make much sense.  Currently it was set only by
ext4_getblk().  Since the parameter has some effect only if create ==
1, it is easy to check by grepping through the sources that the three
callers which end up calling ext4_getblk() with create == 1
(ext4_append, ext4_quota_write, ext4_mkdir) do the right thing and set
disksize themselves.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-09 00:17:05 -04:00
Andreas Dilger 0b8e58a140 ext4: super.c whitespace cleanup
Cleanup of whitespace and formatting.  Initially driven by confusing indents
for the ext4_{block,inode}_bitmap() et. al. helper routines, but figured I'd
cleanup some other 80-column wrapping and other indenting problems at the
same time.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-03 17:59:28 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 88b6edd17c ext4: Clean up calls to ext4_get_group_desc()
If the caller isn't planning on modifying the block group descriptors,
there's no need to pass in a pointer to a struct buffer_head.  Nuking
this saves a tiny amount of CPU time and stack space usage.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-25 11:50:39 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 759d427aa5 ext4: remove unused function __ext4_write_dirty_metadata
The __ext4_write_dirty_metadata() function was introduced by commit
0390131b, "ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journal", but nothing
ever used the function, either then or since.  So let's remove it and
save a bit of space.

Cc: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-25 11:51:00 -04:00
Martin K. Petersen e1defc4ff0 block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Manish Katiyar f68301656b ext4: Fix memory leak in ext4_fill_super() in case of a failed mount
Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-17 23:52:44 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 0568c51893 ext4: down i_data_sem only for read when walking tree for fiemap
Not sure why I put this in as down_write originally; all we are
doing is walking the tree, nothing will change under us and
concurrent reads should be no problem.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-17 23:31:23 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 6fd058f779 ext4: Add a comprehensive block validity check to ext4_get_blocks()
To catch filesystem bugs or corruption which could lead to the
filesystem getting severly damaged, this patch adds a facility for
tracking all of the filesystem metadata blocks by contiguous regions
in a red-black tree.  This allows quick searching of the tree to
locate extents which might overlap with filesystem metadata blocks.

This facility is also used by the multi-block allocator to assure that
it is not allocating blocks out of the system zone, as well as by the
routines used when reading indirect blocks and extents information
from disk to make sure their contents are valid.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-17 15:38:01 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 2ec0ae3ace ext4: Fix race in ext4_inode_info.i_cached_extent
If two CPU's simultaneously call ext4_ext_get_blocks() at the same
time, there is nothing protecting the i_cached_extent structure from
being used and updated at the same time.  This could potentially cause
the wrong location on disk to be read or written to, including
potentially causing the corruption of the block group descriptors
and/or inode table.

This bug has been in the ext4 code since almost the very beginning of
ext4's development.  Fortunately once the data is stored in the page
cache cache, ext4_get_blocks() doesn't need to be called, so trying to
replicate this problem to the point where we could identify its root
cause was *extremely* difficult.  Many thanks to Kevin Shanahan for
working over several months to be able to reproduce this easily so we
could finally nail down the cause of the corruption.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-05-15 09:07:28 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 2a8964d63d ext4: Clear the unwritten buffer_head flag after the extent is initialized
The BH_Unwritten flag indicates that the buffer is allocated on disk
but has not been written; that is, the disk was part of a persistent
preallocation area.  That flag should only be set when a get_blocks()
function is looking up a inode's logical to physical block mapping.

When ext4_get_blocks_wrap() is called with create=1, the uninitialized
extent is converted into an initialized one, so the BH_Unwritten flag
is no longer appropriate.  Hence, we need to make sure the
BH_Unwritten is not left set, since the combination of BH_Mapped and
BH_Unwritten is not allowed; among other things, it will result ext4's
get_block() to be called over and over again during the write_begin
phase of write(2).

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-14 17:05:39 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 2ac3b6e00a ext4: Clean up ext4_get_blocks() so it does not depend on bh_result->b_state
The ext4_get_blocks() function was depending on the value of
bh_result->b_state as an input parameter to decide whether or not
update the delalloc accounting statistics by calling
ext4_da_update_reserve_space().  We now use a separate flag,
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_UPDATE_RESERVE_SPACE, to requests this update, so that
all callers of ext4_get_blocks() can clear map_bh.b_state before
calling ext4_get_blocks() without worrying about any consistency
issues.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-14 13:57:08 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 2fa3cdfb31 ext4: Merge ext4_da_get_block_write() into mpage_da_map_blocks()
The static function ext4_da_get_block_write() was only used by
mpage_da_map_blocks().  So to simplify the code, merge that function
into mpage_da_map_blocks().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-14 09:29:45 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 33b9817e2a ext4: Use a fake block number for delayed new buffer_head
Use a very large unsigned number (~0xffff) as as the fake block number
for the delayed new buffer. The VFS should never try to write out this
number, but if it does, this will make it obvious.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-12 14:40:37 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 9c1ee184a3 ext4: Fix sub-block zeroing for writes into preallocated extents
We need to mark the buffer_head mapping preallocated space as new
during write_begin. Otherwise we don't zero out the page cache content
properly for a partial write. This will cause file corruption with
preallocation.

Now that we mark the buffer_head new we also need to have a valid
buffer_head blocknr so that unmap_underlying_metadata() unmaps the
correct block.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-13 18:36:58 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o a2dc52b5d1 ext4: Add BUG_ON debugging checks to noalloc_get_block_write()
Enforce that noalloc_get_block_write() is only called to map one block
at a time, and that it always is successful in finding a mapping for
given an inode's logical block block number if it is called with
create == 1.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-12 13:51:29 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o b920c75502 ext4: Add documentation to the ext4_*get_block* functions
This adds more documentation to various internal functions in
fs/ext4/inode.c, most notably ext4_ind_get_blocks(),
ext4_da_get_block_write(), ext4_da_get_block_prep(),
ext4_normal_get_block_write().

In addition, the static function ext4_normal_get_block_write() has
been renamed noalloc_get_block_write(), since it is used in many
places far beyond ext4_normal_writepage().

Plenty of warnings have been added to the noalloc_get_block_write()
function, since the way it is used is amazingly fragile.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-14 00:54:29 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o c217705733 ext4: Define a new set of flags for ext4_get_blocks()
The functions ext4_get_blocks(), ext4_ext_get_blocks(), and
ext4_ind_get_blocks() used an ad-hoc set of integer variables used as
boolean flags passed in as arguments.  Use a single flags parameter
and a setandard set of bitfield flags instead.  This saves space on
the call stack, and it also makes the code a bit more understandable.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-14 00:58:52 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 12b7ac1768 ext4: Rename ext4_get_blocks_wrap() to be ext4_get_blocks()
Another function rename for clarity's sake.  The _wrap prefix simply
confuses people, and didn't add much people trying to follow the code
paths.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-14 00:57:44 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o e4d996ca80 ext4: Rename ext4_get_blocks_handle() to be ext4_ind_get_blocks()
The static function ext4_get_blocks_handle() is badly named.  Of
*course* it takes a handle.  Since its counterpart for extent-based
file is ext4_ext_get_blocks(), rename it to be ext4_ind_get_blocks().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-12 00:25:28 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o f888e652d7 ext4: Simplify function signature for ext4_da_get_block_write()
The function ext4_da_get_block_write() is called in exactly one write,
and the last argument, create, is always 1.  Remove it to simplify the
code slightly.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-12 00:21:29 -04:00
Vincent Minet bc8e67409c ext4: Fix spinlock assertions on UP systems
On UP systems without DEBUG_SPINLOCK, ext4_is_group_locked always fails
which triggers a BUG_ON() call.
This patch fixes it by using assert_spin_locked instead.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Minet <vincent@vincent-minet.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-15 08:33:18 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 955ce5f5be ext4: Convert ext4_lock_group to use sb_bgl_lock
We have sb_bgl_lock() and ext4_group_info.bb_state
bit spinlock to protech group information. The later is only
used within mballoc code. Consolidate them to use sb_bgl_lock().
This makes the mballoc.c code much simpler and also avoid
confusion with two locks protecting same info.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-02 20:35:09 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o eefd7f03b8 ext4: fix the length returned by fiemap for an unallocated extent
If the file's blocks have not yet been allocated because of delayed
allocation, the length of the extent returned by fiemap is incorrect.
This commit fixes this bug.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-02 19:05:37 -04:00
Eric Sandeen c9877b205f ext4: fix for fiemap last-block test
Carl Henrik Lunde reported and debugged this; the test for the
last allocated block was comparing bytes to blocks in this test:

	if (logical + length - 1 == EXT_MAX_BLOCK ||
	    ext4_ext_next_allocated_block(path) == EXT_MAX_BLOCK)
		flags |= FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST;

so any extent which ended right at 4G was stopping the extent
walk.  Just replacing these values with the extent block &
length should fix it.

Also give blksize_bits a saner type, and reverse the order 
of the tests to make the more likely case tested first.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Carl Henrik Lunde <chlunde@ping.uio.no>
Tested-by: Carl Henrik Lunde <chlunde@ping.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01 23:32:06 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V abc8746eb9 ext4: hook fiemap operation for directories
Add fiemap callback for directories

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-02 22:54:32 -04:00
Curt Wohlgemuth f40339031b ext4: Make the length of the mb_history file tunable
In memory-constrained systems with many partitions, the ~68K for each
partition for the mb_history buffer can be excessive.

This patch adds a new mount option, mb_history_length, as well as a
way of setting the default via a module parameter (or via a sysfs
parameter in /sys/module/ext4/parameter/default_mb_history_length).
If the mb_history_length is set to zero, the mb_history facility is
disabled entirely.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01 20:27:20 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o bb23c20a85 ext4: Move fs/ext4/group.h into ext4.h
Move the function prototypes in group.h into ext4.h so they are all
defined in one place.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01 19:44:44 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 596397b77c ext4: Move fs/ext4/namei.h into ext4.h
The fs/ext4/namei.h header file had only a single function
declaration, and should have never been a standalone file.  Move it
into ext4.h, where should have been from the beginning.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01 13:49:15 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o ca0faba0e8 ext4: Move the ext4_sb.h header file into ext4.h
There is no longer a reason for a separate ext4_sb.h header file, so
move it into ext4.h just to make life easier for developers to find
the relevant data structures and typedefs.  Should also speed up
compiles slightly, too.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-03 16:33:44 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o d444c3c381 ext4: Move the ext4_i.h header file into ext4.h
There is no longer a reason for a separate ext4_i.h header file, so
move it into ext4.h just to make life easier for developers to find
the relevant data structures and typedefs.  Should also speed up
compiles slightly, too.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01 13:44:33 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 75507efb13 ext4: Don't avoid using BLOCK_UNINIT block groups in mballoc
By avoiding the use of not-yet-used block groups (i.e., block groups
with the BLOCK_UNINIT flag), mballoc had a tendency to create large
files with large non-contiguous gaps.  In addition avoiding the use of
new block groups had a tendency to push regular file data into the
first block group in a flex_bg group, which slows down the speed of
e2fsck pass 2, since it has a tendency to seek much more.  For
example:

               Before Patch                       After Patch
              Time in seconds                   Time in seconds
            Real /  User/  Sys   MB/s      Real /  User/  Sys    MB/s
Pass 1      8.52 / 2.21 / 0.46  20.43      8.84 / 4.97 / 1.11   19.68
Pass 2     21.16 / 1.02 / 1.86  11.30      6.54 / 1.77 / 1.78   36.39
Pass 3      0.01 / 0.00 / 0.00 139.00      0.01 / 0.01 / 0.00  128.90
Pass 4      0.16 / 0.15 / 0.00   0.00      0.17 / 0.17 / 0.00    0.00
Pass 5      2.52 / 1.99 / 0.09   0.79      2.31 / 1.78 / 0.06    0.86
Total      32.40 / 5.11 / 2.49  12.81     17.99 / 8.75 / 2.98   23.01

This was on a sample 80 gig root filesystem which was approximately
50% full.  Note the improved e2fsck pass 2 performance, by over a
factor of 3, due to a decreased number of seeks.  (The total amount of
I/O in pass 2 was unchanged; the layout of the directory blocks was
simply much better from e2fsck's's perspective.)

Other changes as a result of this patch on this sample filesystem:

                             Before Patch    After Patch
# of non-contig files           762             779
# of non-contig directories     571             570
# of BLOCK_UNINIT bg's          307             293
# of INODE_UNINIT bg's          503             503

Out of 640 block groups, of which 333 were in use, this patch caused
an extra 14 block groups to be utilized.  The number of non-contiguous
files did go up slightly, but when measured against the 99.9% of the
files (603,154) which were contiguously allocated, this is pretty
insignificant.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
2009-05-01 12:58:36 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 32ed5058ce ext4: Replace lock/unlock_super() with an explicit lock for resizing
Use a separate lock to protect s_groups_count and the other block
group descriptors which get changed via an on-line resize operation,
so we can stop overloading the use of lock_super().
    
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-25 22:53:39 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 3b9d4ed266 ext4: Replace lock/unlock_super() with an explicit lock for the orphan list
Use a separate lock to protect the orphan list, so we can stop
overloading the use of lock_super().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-25 22:54:04 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o a63c9eb2ce ext4: ext4_mark_recovery_complete() doesn't need to use lock_super
The function ext4_mark_recovery_complete() is called from two call
paths: either (a) while mounting the filesystem, in which case there's
no danger of any other CPU calling write_super() until the mount is
completed, and (b) while remounting the filesystem read-write, in
which case the fs core has already locked the superblock.  This also
allows us to take out a very vile unlock_super()/lock_super() pair in
ext4_remount().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01 01:59:42 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 114e9fc907 ext4: Remove outdated comment about lock_super()
ext4_fill_super() is no longer called by read_super(), and it is no
longer called with the superblock locked.  The
unlock_super()/lock_super() is no longer present, so this comment is
entirely superfluous.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-25 15:48:07 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 8df9675f8b ext4: Avoid races caused by on-line resizing and SMP memory reordering
Ext4's on-line resizing adds a new block group and then, only at the
last step adjusts s_groups_count.  However, it's possible on SMP
systems that another CPU could see the updated the s_group_count and
not see the newly initialized data structures for the just-added block
group.  For this reason, it's important to insert a SMP read barrier
after reading s_groups_count and before reading any (for example) the
new block group descriptors allowed by the increased value of
s_groups_count.

Unfortunately, we rather blatently violate this locking protocol
documented in fs/ext4/resize.c.  Fortunately, (1) on-line resizes
happen relatively rarely, and (2) it seems rare that the filesystem
code will immediately try to use just-added block group before any
memory ordering issues resolve themselves.  So apparently problems
here are relatively hard to hit, since ext3 has been vulnerable to the
same issue for years with no one apparently complaining.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01 08:50:38 -04:00