Running kernel 2.6.37, my PPC-based device occasionally gets an
order-2 allocation failure in UBIFS, which causes the root FS to
become unwritable:
kswapd0: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x4050
Call Trace:
[c787dc30] [c00085b8] show_stack+0x7c/0x194 (unreliable)
[c787dc70] [c0061aec] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4f0/0x57c
[c787dd00] [c0061b98] __get_free_pages+0x20/0x50
[c787dd10] [c00e4f88] ubifs_jnl_write_data+0x54/0x200
[c787dd50] [c00e82d4] do_writepage+0x94/0x198
[c787dd90] [c00675e4] shrink_page_list+0x40c/0x77c
[c787de40] [c0067de0] shrink_inactive_list+0x1e0/0x370
[c787de90] [c0068224] shrink_zone+0x2b4/0x2b8
[c787df00] [c0068854] kswapd+0x408/0x5d4
[c787dfb0] [c0037bcc] kthread+0x80/0x84
[c787dff0] [c000ef44] kernel_thread+0x4c/0x68
Similar problems were encountered last April by Tomasz Stanislawski:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/50965/
This patch implements Artem's suggested fix: fall back to a
mutex-protected static buffer, allocated at mount time. I tested it
by forcing execution down the failure path, and didn't see any ill
effects.
Artem: massaged the patch a little, improved it so that we'd not
allocate the write reserve buffer when we are in R/O mode.
Signed-off-by: Matthew L. Creech <mlcreech@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Commit 2fde99cb55 "UBIFS: mark VFS SB RO too"
introduced regression. This commit made UBIFS set the 'MS_RDONLY' flag in the
VFS superblock when it switches to R/O mode due to an error. This was done
to make VFS show the R/O UBIFS flag in /proc/mounts.
However, several places in UBIFS relied on the 'MS_RDONLY' flag and assume this
flag can only change when we re-mount. For example, 'ubifs_put_super()'.
This patch introduces new UBIFS flag - 'c->ro_mount' which changes only when
we re-mount, and preserves the way UBIFS was originally mounted (R/W or R/O).
This allows us to de-initialize UBIFS cleanly in 'ubifs_put_super()'.
This patch also changes all 'ubifs_assert(!c->ro_media)' assertions to
'ubifs_assert(!c->ro_media && !c->ro_mount)', because we never should write
anything if the FS was mounter R/O.
All the places where we test for 'MS_RDONLY' flag in the VFS SB were changed
and now we test the 'c->ro_mount' flag instead, because it preserves the
original UBIFS mount type, unlike the 'MS_RDONLY' flag.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The R/O state may have various reasons:
1. The UBI volume is R/O
2. The FS is mounted R/O
3. The FS switched to R/O mode because of an error
However, in UBIFS we have only one variable which represents cases
1 and 3 - 'c->ro_media'. Indeed, we set this to 1 if we switch to
R/O mode due to an error, and then we test it in many places to
make sure that we stop writing as soon as the error happens.
But this is very unclean. One consequence of this, for example, is
that in 'ubifs_remount_fs()' we use 'c->ro_media' to check whether
we are in R/O mode because on an error, and we print a message
in this case. However, if we are in R/O mode because the media
is R/O, our message is bogus.
This patch introduces new flag - 'c->ro_error' which is set when
we switch to R/O mode because of an error. It also changes all
"if (c->ro_media)" checks to "if (c->ro_error)" checks, because
this is what the checks actually mean. We do not need to check
for 'c->ro_media' because if the UBI volume is in R/O mode, we
do not allow R/W mounting, and now writes can happen. This is
guaranteed by VFS. But it is good to double-check this, so this
patch also adds many "ubifs_assert(!c->ro_media)" checks.
In the 'ubifs_remount_fs()' function this patch makes a bit more
changes - it fixes the error messages as well.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Make 'ubifs_find_free_space()' return offset where free space starts,
rather than the amount of free space. This is just more appropriat
for its caller.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
UBIFS wrongly tells UBI that all data is short term. Use proper
hints instead. Thanks to Xiaochuan-Xu for noticing this.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
UBIFS does not disable compression if ui->flags is non-zero, e.g.
if the file has "sync" flag. This is because of the typo which
is fixed by this patch. The patch also adds a couple of useful
debugging prints.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
These are mostly long lines and wrong indentation warning
fixes. But also there are two volatile variables and
checkpatch.pl complains about them:
WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
+ volatile int gc_seq;
WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
+ volatile int gced_lnum;
Well, we anyway use smp_wmb() for c->gc_seq and c->gced_lnum, so
these 'volatile' modifiers can be just dropped.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
We print 'ino_t' type using '%lu' printk() placeholder, but this
results in many warnings when compiling for Alpha platform. Fix
this by adding (unsingned long) casts.
Fixes these warnings:
fs/ubifs/journal.c:693: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/journal.c:1131: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/dir.c:163: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/tnc.c:2680: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/tnc.c:2700: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/replay.c:1066: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 7 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/orphan.c:108: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/orphan.c:135: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/orphan.c:142: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/orphan.c:154: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/orphan.c:159: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/orphan.c:451: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/orphan.c:539: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/orphan.c:612: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/orphan.c:843: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/orphan.c:856: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/recovery.c:1438: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/recovery.c:1443: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/recovery.c:1475: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/recovery.c:1495: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:105: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:105: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:110: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:110: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:114: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:114: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:118: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:118: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1591: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1671: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1674: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1680: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1699: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1788: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1821: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1833: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1924: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1932: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1938: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1945: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1953: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1960: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1967: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1973: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1988: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:1991: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'ino_t'
fs/ubifs/debug.c:2009: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'ino_t'
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Xattr code has not been tested for a while and there were
serveral bugs. One of them is using wrong inode in
'ubifs_jnl_change_xattr()'. The other is a deadlock in
'ubifs_setxattr()': the i_mutex is locked in
'cap_inode_need_killpriv()' path, so deadlock happens when
'ubifs_setxattr()' tries to lock it again.
Thanks to Zoltan Sogor for finding these bugs.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The debug function that checks orphans, does so using the
TNC mutex. That means it will not see a correct picture
if the inode is removed from the orphan tree before it is
removed from TNC.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Every time anything is deleted, UBIFS writes the deletion inode
node twice - once in 'ubifs_jnl_update()' and the second time in
'ubifs_jnl_write_inode()'. However, the second write is not needed
if no commit happened after 'ubifs_jnl_update()'. This patch
checks that condition and avoids writing the deletion inode for
the second time.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The 'last_reference' parameter of 'pack_inode()' is not really
needed because 'inode->i_nlink' may be tested instead. Zap it.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Simplify 'ubifs_jnl_write_inode()' by removing the 'deletion'
parameter which is not really needed because we may test
inode->i_nlink and check whether this is a deletion or not.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This is a new flash file system. See
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
