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Author SHA1 Message Date
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
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
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
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
Linus Torvalds
395d73413c 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: (33 commits)
  ext4: Regularize mount options
  ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs
  ext4: fix typo which causes a memory leak on error path
  jbd2: Update locking coments
  ext4: Rename pa_linear to pa_type
  ext4: add checks of block references for non-extent inodes
  ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from disk
  ext4: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()
  ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount option
  ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()
  ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups
  ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs
  ext4: Add sysfs support
  ext4: Track lifetime disk writes
  ext4: Fix discard of inode prealloc space with delayed allocation.
  ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on rename
  ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on close
  ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctl
  ext4: Simplify delalloc code by removing mpage_da_writepages()
  ext4: Save stack space by removing fake buffer heads
  ...
2009-04-01 10:57:49 -07:00
Nick Piggin
c2ec175c39 mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault
Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return
VM_FAULT_xxx flags.  There should be no functional change.

This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to
the VM (and also can provide more information eg.  virtual_address to the
driver, which might be important in some special cases).

This is required for a subsequent fix.  And will also make it easier to
merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
Mingming Cao
60e58e0f30 ext4: quota reservation for delayed allocation
Uses quota reservation/claim/release to handle quota properly for delayed
allocation in the three steps: 1) quotas are reserved when data being copied
to cache when block allocation is defered 2) when new blocks are allocated.
reserved quotas are converted to the real allocated quota, 2) over-booked
quotas for metadata blocks are released back.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-03-26 02:18:34 +01:00
Theodore Ts'o
afd4672dc7 ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount option
Add a mount option which allows the user to disable automatic
allocation of blocks whose allocation by delayed allocation when the
file was originally truncated or when the file is renamed over an
existing file.  This feature is intended to save users from the
effects of naive application writers, but it reduces the effectiveness
of the delayed allocation code.  This mount option disables this
safety feature, which may be desirable for prodcutions systems where
the risk of unclean shutdowns or unexpected system crashes is low.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-16 23:12:23 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
7d39db14a4 ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()
Instead of looping over all of the block groups in a flex group
summing their summary statistics, start tracking used_dirs in struct
flex_groups, and use struct flex_groups instead.  This should save a
bit of CPU for mkdir-heavy workloads.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04 19:31:53 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
9f24e4208f ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups
Reduce pressure on the sb_bgl_lock family of locks by using atomic_t's
to track the number of free blocks and inodes in each flex_group.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04 19:09:10 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
b713a5ec55 ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs
Remove tuning knobs in /proc/fs/ext4/<dev/* since they have been
replaced by knobs in sysfs at /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-31 09:11:14 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
afc32f7ee9 ext4: Track lifetime disk writes
Add a new superblock value which tracks the lifetime amount of writes
to the filesystem.  This is useful in estimating the amount of wear on
solid state drives (SSD's) caused by writes to the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-28 19:39:58 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
7d8f9f7d15 ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on close
When closing a file that had been previously truncated, force any
delay allocated blocks that to be allocated so that if the filesystem
is mounted with data=ordered, the data blocks will be pushed out to
disk along with the journal commit.  Many application programs expect
this, so we do this to avoid zero length files if the system crashes
unexpectedly.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-24 08:21:14 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
ccd2506bd4 ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctl
Add an ioctl which forces all of the delay allocated blocks to be
allocated.  This also provides a function ext4_alloc_da_blocks() which
will be used by the following commits to force files to be fully
allocated to preserve application-expected ext3 behaviour.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-26 01:04:07 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
a4912123b6 ext4: New inode/block allocation algorithms for flex_bg filesystems
The find_group_flex() inode allocator is now only used if the
filesystem is mounted using the "oldalloc" mount option.  It is
replaced with the original Orlov allocator that has been updated for
flex_bg filesystems (it should behave the same way if flex_bg is
disabled).  The inode allocator now functions by taking into account
each flex_bg group, instead of each block group, when deciding whether
or not it's time to allocate a new directory into a fresh flex_bg.

The block allocator has also been changed so that the first block
group in each flex_bg is preferred for use for storing directory
blocks.  This keeps directory blocks close together, which is good for
speeding up e2fsck since large directories are more likely to look
like this:

debugfs:  stat /home/tytso/Maildir/cur
Inode: 1844562   Type: directory    Mode:  0700   Flags: 0x81000
Generation: 1132745781    Version: 0x00000000:0000ad71
User: 15806   Group: 15806   Size: 1060864
File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
Links: 2   Blockcount: 2072
Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
 ctime: 0x499c0ff4:164961f4 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
 atime: 0x499c0ff4:00000000 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
 mtime: 0x49957f51:00000000 -- Fri Feb 13 09:10:25 2009
crtime: 0x499c0f57:00d51440 -- Wed Feb 18 08:38:31 2009
Size of extra inode fields: 28
BLOCKS:
(0):7348651, (1-258):7348654-7348911
TOTAL: 259

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-12 12:18:34 -04:00
Duane Griffin
2dc6b0d48c ext4: tighten restrictions on inode flags
At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on
which inodes.  Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and
IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links.  Tighten that to disallow
TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set
on non-regular file, non-directories.

Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and
use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to
facilitate future consistency.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-15 18:09:20 -05:00
Duane Griffin
8fa43a81b9 ext4: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent
At present INDEX and EXTENTS are the only flags that new ext4 inodes do
NOT inherit from their parent.  In addition prevent the flags DIRTY,
ECOMPR, IMAGIC, TOPDIR, HUGE_FILE and EXT_MIGRATE from being inherited. 
List inheritable flags explicitly to prevent future flags from
accidentally being inherited.

This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-15 18:57:26 -05:00
Wei Yongjun
3d0518f475 ext4: New rec_len encoding for very large blocksizes
The rec_len field in the directory entry is 16 bits, so to encode
blocksizes larger than 64k becomes problematic.  This patch allows us
to supprot block sizes up to 256k, by using the low 2 bits to extend
the range of rec_len to 2**18-1 (since valid rec_len sizes must be a
multiple of 4).  We use the convention that a rec_len of 0 or 65535
means the filesystem block size, for compatibility with older kernels.

It's unlikely we'll see VM pages of up to 256k, but at some point we
might find that the Linux VM has been enhanced to support filesystem
block sizes > than the VM page size, at which point it might be useful
for some applications to allow very large filesystem block sizes.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-14 23:01:36 -05:00
Wei Yongjun
7be2baaa03 ext4: Fix to read empty directory blocks correctly in 64k
The rec_len field in the directory entry is 16 bits, so there was a
problem representing rec_len for filesystems with a 64k block size in
the case where the directory entry takes the entire 64k block.
Unfortunately, there were two schemes that were proposed; one where
all zeros meant 65536 and one where all ones (65535) meant 65536.
E2fsprogs used 0, whereas the kernel used 65535.  Oops.  Fortunately
this case happens extremely rarely, with the most common case being
the lost+found directory, created by mke2fs.

So we will be liberal in what we accept, and accept both encodings,
but we will continue to encode 65536 as 65535.  This will require a
change in e2fsprogs, but with fortunately ext4 filesystems normally
have the dir_index feature enabled, which precludes having a
completely empty directory block.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-10 09:53:42 -05:00
Mike Snitzer
074ca44283 ext4: Remove stale block allocator references from ext4.h
Remove some leftovers from when the old block allocator was removed
(c2ea3fde).  ext4_sb_info is now a bit lighter.  Also remove a dangling
read_block_bitmap() prototype.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-06 16:23:37 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
06a279d636 ext4: only use i_size_high for regular files
Directories are not allowed to be bigger than 2GB, so don't use
i_size_high for anything other than regular files.  E2fsck should
complain about these inodes, but the simplest thing to do for the
kernel is to only use i_size_high for regular files.

This prevents an intentially corrupted filesystem from causing the
kernel to burn a huge amount of CPU and issuing error messages such
as:

EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_block_to_path: block 135090028 > max

Thanks to David Maciejak from Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
Research Team for reporting this issue.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12375

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-17 18:41:37 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
2150edc6c5 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: (57 commits)
  jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs
  ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
  block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
  ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "
  ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
  ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
  jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC
  jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message
  ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
  ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
  ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems
  ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
  ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache
  ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
  ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
  ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
  ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
  ext4: code cleanup
  ...
2009-01-08 17:14:59 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
179f7ebff6 percpu_counter: FBC_BATCH should be a variable
For NR_CPUS >= 16 values, FBC_BATCH is 2*NR_CPUS

Considering more and more distros are using high NR_CPUS values, it makes
sense to use a more sensible value for FBC_BATCH, and get rid of NR_CPUS.

A sensible value is 2*num_online_cpus(), with a minimum value of 32 (This
minimum value helps branch prediction in __percpu_counter_add())

We already have a hotcpu notifier, so we can adjust FBC_BATCH dynamically.

We rename FBC_BATCH to percpu_counter_batch since its not a constant
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:13 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o
83982b6f47 ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was
implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents
feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to
create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag
was not eabled.  The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option
entirely.  It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new
extent-based files if the filesystem can support it.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 14:53:16 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
2ccb5fb9f1 ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
For uninit block group, the on-disk bitmap is not initialized. That
implies we cannot depend on the uptodate flag on the bitmap
buffer_head to find bitmap validity.  Use a new buffer_head flag which
would be set after we properly initialize the bitmap.  This also
prevents (re-)initializing the uninit group bitmap every time we call 
ext4_read_block_bitmap().

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-05 21:49:55 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
560671a0d3 ext4: Use high 16 bits of the block group descriptor's free counts fields
Rename the lower bits with suffix _lo and add helper
to access the values. Also rename bg_itable_unused_hi
to bg_pad as in e2fsprogs.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05 22:20:24 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
5d1b1b3f49 ext4: fix BUG when calling ext4_error with locked block group
The mballoc code likes to call ext4_error while it is holding locked
block groups.  This can causes a scheduling in atomic context BUG.  We
can't just unlock the block group and relock it after/if ext4_error
returns since that might result in race conditions in the case where
the filesystem is set to continue after finding errors.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05 22:19:52 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
920313a726 ext4: Use EXT4_GROUP_INFO_NEED_INIT_BIT during resize
The new groups added during resize are flagged as
need_init group. Make sure we properly initialize these
groups. When we have block size < page size and we are adding
new groups the page may still be marked uptodate even though
we haven't initialized the group. While forcing the init
of buddy cache we need to make sure other groups part of the
same page of buddy cache is not using the cache.
group_info->alloc_sem is added to ensure the same.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-05 21:36:19 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
e21675d4b6 ext4: Add blocks added during resize to bitmap
With this change new blocks added during resize
are marked as free in the block bitmap and the
group is flagged with EXT4_GROUP_INFO_NEED_INIT_BIT
flag.  This makes sure when mballoc tries to allocate
blocks from the new group we would reload the
buddy information using the bitmap present in the disk.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-05 21:36:02 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
3a06d778df ext4: sparse fixes
* Change EXT4_HAS_*_FEATURE to return a boolean
* Add a function prototype for ext4_fiemap() in ext4.h
* Make ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() and ext4_xattr_fiemap() be static functions
* Add lock annotations to mb_free_blocks()

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-22 15:04:59 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
498e5f2415 ext4: Change unsigned long to unsigned int
Convert the unsigned longs that are most responsible for bloating the
stack usage on 64-bit systems.

Nearly all places in the ext3/4 code which uses "unsigned long" is
probably a bug, since on 32-bit systems a ulong a 32-bits, which means
we are wasting stack space on 64-bit systems.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-05 00:14:04 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
a9df9a4910 ext4: Make ext4_group_t be an unsigned int
Nearly all places in the ext3/4 code which uses "unsigned long" is
probably a bug, since on 32-bit systems a ulong a 32-bits, which means
we are wasting stack space on 64-bit systems.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05 22:18:16 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
30773840c1 ext4: add fsync batch tuning knobs
Add new mount options, min_batch_time and max_batch_time, which
controls how long the jbd2 layer should wait for additional filesystem
operations to get batched with a synchronous write transaction.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-03 20:27:38 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
cfe82c8567 ext4: remove ext4_new_meta_block()
There were only two one callers of the function ext4_new_meta_block(),
which just a very simpler wrapper function around
ext4_new_meta_blocks().  Change those two functions to call
ext4_new_meta_blocks() directly, to save code and stack space usage.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-12-07 14:10:54 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
815a113068 ext4: remove ext4_new_blocks() and call ext4_mb_new_blocks() directly
There was only one caller of the compatibility function
ext4_new_blocks(), in balloc.c's ext4_alloc_blocks().  Change it to
call ext4_mb_new_blocks() directly, and remove ext4_new_blocks()
altogether.  This cleans up the code, by removing two extra functions
from the call chain, and hopefully saving some stack usage.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-01 23:59:43 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
f99b25897a ext4: Add support for non-native signed/unsigned htree hash algorithms
The original ext3 hash algorithms assumed that variables of type char
were signed, as God and K&R intended.  Unfortunately, this assumption
is not true on some architectures.  Userspace support for marking
filesystems with non-native signed/unsigned chars was added two years
ago, but the kernel-side support was never added (until now).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-28 13:21:44 -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
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
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
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
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
8eea80d52b ext4: Renumber EXT4_IOC_MIGRATE
Pick an ioctl number for EXT4_IOC_MIGRATE that won't conflict with
other ext4 ioctl's.  Since there haven't been any major userspace
users of this ioctl, we can afford to change this now, to avoid
potential problems later.

Also, reorder the ioctl numbers in ext4.h to avoid this sort of
mistake in the future.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-13 19:54:35 -04:00