Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages. This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode. Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.
This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback. An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode. By default the
page flags are obeyed.
Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
->invalidatepage() aop now accepts range to invalidate so we can make
use of it in journal_invalidatepage() and all the users in ext3 file
system. Also update ext3 trace point to print out length argument.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Currently there is no way to truncate partial page where the end
truncate point is not at the end of the page. This is because it was not
needed and the functionality was enough for file system truncate
operation to work properly. However more file systems now support punch
hole feature and it can benefit from mm supporting truncating page just
up to the certain point.
Specifically, with this functionality truncate_inode_pages_range() can
be changed so it supports truncating partial page at the end of the
range (currently it will BUG_ON() if 'end' is not at the end of the
page).
This commit changes the invalidatepage() address space operation
prototype to accept range to be invalidated and update all the instances
for it.
We also change the block_invalidatepage() in the same way and actually
make a use of the new length argument implementing range invalidation.
Actual file system implementations will follow except the file systems
where the changes are really simple and should not change the behaviour
in any way .Implementation for truncate_page_range() which will be able
to accept page unaligned ranges will follow as well.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
In data=journal mode, if we unmount the file system before a
transaction has a chance to complete, when the journal inode is being
evicted, we can end up calling into log_wait_commit() for the
last transaction, after the journalling machinery has been shut down.
That triggers the WARN_ONCE in __log_start_commit().
Arguably we should adjust ext3_should_journal_data() to return FALSE
for the journal inode, but the only place it matters is
ext3_evict_inode(), and so it's to save a bit of CPU time, and to make
the patch much more obviously correct by inspection(tm), we'll fix it
by explicitly not trying to waiting for a journal commit when we are
evicting the journal inode, since it's guaranteed to never succeed in
this case.
This can be easily replicated via:
mount -t ext3 -o data=journal /dev/vdb /vdb ; umount /vdb
This is a port of ext4 fix from Ted Ts'o.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
It will be better to use ENOMEM rather than EIO, because the only
reason that sb_getblk fails is that allocation fails.
Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Because the function 'sb_getblk' seldomly fails to return
NULL value,it will be better to use unlikely to check it.
Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
As we know io error may happen when the function 'sb_getblk'
is called.Add necessary check for it
The patch also fix a coding style problem.
Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Just use WARN_ON rather than an if containing only WARN_ON(1).
A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this transformation
is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression e;
@@
- if (e) WARN_ON(1);
+ WARN_ON(e);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Pull the trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"Tiny usual fixes all over the place"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
doc: fix old config name of kprobetrace
fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldoc
btrfs: fix the commment for the action flags in delayed-ref.h
btrfs: fix trivial typo for the comment of BTRFS_FREE_INO_OBJECTID
vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent()
treewide: fix comment/printk/variable typos
ipr: fix small coding style issues
doc: fix broken utf8 encoding
nfs: comment fix
platform/x86: fix asus_laptop.wled_type module parameter
mfd: printk/comment fixes
doc: getdelays.c: remember to close() socket on error in create_nl_socket()
doc: aliasing-test: close fd on write error
mmc: fix comment typos
dma: fix comments
spi: fix comment/printk typos in spi
Coccinelle: fix typo in memdup_user.cocci
tmiofb: missing NULL pointer checks
tools: perf: Fix typo in tools/perf
tools/testing: fix comment / output typos
...
Code tracking when transaction needs to be committed on fdatasync(2) forgets
to handle a situation when only inode's i_size is changed. Thus in such
situations fdatasync(2) doesn't force transaction with new i_size to disk
and that can result in wrong i_size after a crash.
Fix the issue by updating inode's i_datasync_tid whenever its size is
updated.
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= 2.6.32
Reported-by: Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@knielsen-hq.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from ext3.
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang:
"Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads."
* tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread
vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()
writeback: Remove wb->list_lock from writeback_single_inode()
writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback
writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling
writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()
writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit
fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Currently ext3 updates ctime in ext3_splice_branch() which is called whenever
we allocate one block. But it is wasteful because ext3 doesn't support
nanosecond timestamp. This leads to a performance loss.
Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
ext2/3/4: delete unneeded includes of module.h
ext{3,4}: Fix potential race when setversion ioctl updates inode
udf: Mark LVID buffer as uptodate before marking it dirty
ext3: Don't warn from writepage when readonly inode is spotted after error
jbd: Remove j_barrier mutex
reiserfs: Force inode evictions before umount to avoid crash
reiserfs: Fix quota mount option parsing
udf: Treat symlink component of type 2 as /
udf: Fix deadlock when converting file from in-ICB one to normal one
udf: Cleanup calling convention of inode_getblk()
ext2: Fix error handling on inode bitmap corruption
ext3: Fix error handling on inode bitmap corruption
ext3: replace ll_rw_block with other functions
ext3: NULL dereference in ext3_evict_inode()
jbd: clear revoked flag on buffers before a new transaction started
ext3: call ext3_mark_recovery_complete() when recovery is really needed
Delete any instances of include module.h that were not strictly
required. In the case of ext2, the declaration of MODULE_LICENSE
etc. were in inode.c but the module_init/exit were in super.c, so
relocate the MODULE_LICENCE/AUTHOR block to super.c which makes it
consistent with ext3 and ext4 at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_RDONLY(inode)) tends to trip when filesystem hits error and is
remounted read-only. This unnecessarily scares users (well, they should be
scared because of filesystem error, but the stack trace distracts them from the
right source of their fear ;-). We could as well just remove the WARN_ON but
it's not hard to fix it to not trip on filesystem with errors and not use more
cycles in the common case so that's what we do.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
ll_rw_block() is deprecated. Thus we replace it with other functions.
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The below patch fixes some typos in various parts of the kernel, as well as fixes some comments.
Please let me know if I missed anything, and I will try to get it changed and resent.
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a new REQ_PRIO to let requests preempt others in the cfq I/O schedule,
and lave REQ_META purely for marking requests as metadata in blktrace.
All existing callers of REQ_META except for XFS are updated to also
set REQ_PRIO for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Replace all occurnanced of the undocumented READ_META with READ | REQ_META
and remove the unused WRITE_META define.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6:
jbd: change the field "b_cow_tid" of struct journal_head from type unsigned to tid_t
ext3.txt: update the links in the section "useful links" to the latest ones
ext3: Fix data corruption in inodes with journalled data
ext2: check xattr name_len before acquiring xattr_sem in ext2_xattr_get
ext3: Fix compilation with -DDX_DEBUG
quota: Remove unused declaration
jbd: Use WRITE_SYNC in journal checkpoint.
jbd: Fix oops in journal_remove_journal_head()
ext3: Return -EINVAL when start is beyond the end of fs in ext3_trim_fs()
ext3/ioctl.c: silence sparse warnings about different address spaces
ext3/ext4 Documentation: remove bh/nobh since it has been deprecated
ext3: Improve truncate error handling
ext3: use proper little-endian bitops
ext2: include fs.h into ext2_fs.h
ext3: Fix oops in ext3_try_to_allocate_with_rsv()
jbd: fix a bug of leaking jh->b_jcount
jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
ext3: Convert ext3 to new truncate calling convention
jbd: Add fixed tracepoints
ext3: Add fixed tracepoints
Resolve conflicts in fs/ext3/fsync.c due to fsync locking push-down and
new fixed tracepoints.
When journalling data for an inode (either because it is a symlink or
because the filesystem is mounted in data=journal mode), ext3_evict_inode()
can discard unwritten data by calling truncate_inode_pages(). This is
because we don't mark the buffer / page dirty when journalling data but only
add the buffer to the running transaction and thus mm does not know there
are still unwritten data.
Fix the problem by carefully tracking transaction containing inode's data,
committing this transaction, and writing uncheckpointed buffers when inode
should be reaped.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Simple filesystems always pass inode->i_sb_bdev as the block device
argument, and never need a end_io handler. Let's simply things for
them and for my grepping activity by dropping these arguments. The
only thing not falling into that scheme is ext4, which passes and
end_io handler without needing special flags (yet), but given how
messy the direct I/O code there is use of __blockdev_direct_IO
in one instead of two out of three cases isn't going to make a large
difference anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Let filesystems handle waiting for direct I/O requests themselves instead
of doing it beforehand. This means filesystem-specific locks to prevent
new dio referenes from appearing can be held. This is important to allow
generalizing i_dio_count to non-DIO_LOCKING filesystems.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
New truncate calling convention allows us to handle errors from
ext3_block_truncate_page(). So reorganize the code so that
ext3_block_truncate_page() is called before we change inode size.
This also removes unnecessary block zeroing from error recovery after failed
buffered writes (zeroing isn't needed because we could have never written
non-zero data to disk). We have to be careful and keep zeroing in direct IO
write error recovery because there we might have already overwritten end of the
last file block.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Mostly trivial conversion. We fix a bug that IS_IMMUTABLE and IS_APPEND files
could not be truncated during failed writes as we change the code. In fact the
test is not needed at all because both IS_IMMUTABLE and IS_APPEND is tested in
upper layers in do_sys_[f]truncate(), may_write(), etc.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
This commit adds fixed tracepoints to the ext3 code. It is based on ext4
tracepoints, however due to the differences of both file systems, there
are some tracepoints missing (those for delaloc and for multi-block
allocator) and there are some ext3 specific as well (for reservation
windows).
Here is a list:
ext3_free_inode
ext3_request_inode
ext3_allocate_inode
ext3_evict_inode
ext3_drop_inode
ext3_mark_inode_dirty
ext3_write_begin
ext3_ordered_write_end
ext3_writeback_write_end
ext3_journalled_write_end
ext3_ordered_writepage
ext3_writeback_writepage
ext3_journalled_writepage
ext3_readpage
ext3_releasepage
ext3_invalidatepage
ext3_discard_blocks
ext3_request_blocks
ext3_allocate_blocks
ext3_free_blocks
ext3_sync_file_enter
ext3_sync_file_exit
ext3_sync_fs
ext3_rsv_window_add
ext3_discard_reservation
ext3_alloc_new_reservation
ext3_reserved
ext3_forget
ext3_read_block_bitmap
ext3_direct_IO_enter
ext3_direct_IO_exit
ext3_unlink_enter
ext3_unlink_exit
ext3_truncate_enter
ext3_truncate_exit
ext3_get_blocks_enter
ext3_get_blocks_exit
ext3_load_inode
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or
anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it
needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not.
This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet. I plan
to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting
this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid
tree interdependencies.
Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block. That
has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6:
quota: Don't write quota info in dquot_commit()
ext3: Fix writepage credits computation for ordered mode
Original computation forgets to count writes of indirect block themselves
(it only counts with blocks necessary for their allocation) in ordered mode.
Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by:Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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>
Check return value of ext3_journal_get_write_acccess() and
ext3_journal_dirty_metadata().
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (24 commits)
quota: Fix possible oops in __dquot_initialize()
ext3: Update kernel-doc comments
jbd/2: fixed typos
ext2: fixed typo.
ext3: Fix debug messages in ext3_group_extend()
jbd: Convert atomic_inc() to get_bh()
ext3: Remove misplaced BUFFER_TRACE() in ext3_truncate()
jbd: Fix debug message in do_get_write_access()
jbd: Check return value of __getblk()
ext3: Use DIV_ROUND_UP() on group desc block counting
ext3: Return proper error code on ext3_fill_super()
ext3: Remove unnecessary casts on bh->b_data
ext3: Cleanup ext3_setup_super()
quota: Fix issuing of warnings from dquot_transfer
quota: fix dquot_disable vs dquot_transfer race v2
jbd: Convert bitops to buffer fns
ext3/jbd: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write the superblock
jbd: Use offset_in_page() instead of manual calculation
jbd: Remove unnecessary goto statement
jbd: Use printk_ratelimited() in journal_alloc_journal_head()
...
Update missing/broken argument descriptions and fix formatting.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
__block_write_begin and block_prepare_write are identical except for slightly
different calling conventions. Convert all callers to the __block_write_begin
calling conventions and drop block_prepare_write.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
Fix sget() race with failing mount
vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
BFS: clean up the superblock usage
AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
cifs: truncate fallout
mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
mbcache: Remove unused features
add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
update VFS documentation for method changes.
All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
Replace inode_setattr with opencoded variants of it in all callers. This
moves the remaining call to vmtruncate into the filesystem methods where it
can be replaced with the proper truncate sequence.
In a few cases it was obvious that we would never end up calling vmtruncate
so it was left out in the opencoded variant:
spufs: explicitly checks for ATTR_SIZE earlier
btrfs,hugetlbfs,logfs,dlmfs: explicitly clears ATTR_SIZE earlier
ufs: contains an opencoded simple_seattr + truncate that sets the filesize just above
In addition to that ncpfs called inode_setattr with handcrafted iattrs,
which allowed to trim down the opencoded variant.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Split up the block_write_begin implementation - __block_write_begin is a new
trivial wrapper for block_prepare_write that always takes an already
allocated page and can be either called from block_write_begin or filesystem
code that already has a page allocated. Remove the handling of already
allocated pages from block_write_begin after switching all callers that
do it to __block_write_begin.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in prepearation of the new truncate calling sequence. This was only done
for DIO_LOCKING filesystems, so the __blockdev_direct_IO_newtrunc variant
was not needed anyway. Get rid of blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking and
its _newtrunc variant while at it as just opencoding the two additional
paramters is shorted than the name suffix.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
In data=journal mode, we still use block_write_begin() to prepare page for
writing. This function can occasionally mark buffer dirty which violates
journalling assumptions - when a buffer is part of a transaction, it should be
dirty and a buffer can be already part of a forget list of some transaction
when block_write_begin() gets called. This violation of journalling assumptions
then results in "JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer..." warnings.
In fact, temporary dirtying the buffer while the page is still locked does not
really cause problems to the journalling because we won't write the buffer
until the page gets unlocked. So we just have to make sure to clear dirty bits
before unlocking the page.
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Mel Gorman