1. 02 Jul, 2013 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 · 9e239bb9
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull ext4 update from Ted Ts'o:
       "Lots of bug fixes, cleanups and optimizations.  In the bug fixes
        category, of note is a fix for on-line resizing file systems where the
        block size is smaller than the page size (i.e., file systems 1k blocks
        on x86, or more interestingly file systems with 4k blocks on Power or
        ia64 systems.)
      
        In the cleanup category, the ext4's punch hole implementation was
        significantly improved by Lukas Czerner, and now supports bigalloc
        file systems.  In addition, Jan Kara significantly cleaned up the
        write submission code path.  We also improved error checking and added
        a few sanity checks.
      
        In the optimizations category, two major optimizations deserve
        mention.  The first is that ext4_writepages() is now used for
        nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode.  This allows writes to be
        submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of
        being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer (which then
        relied on the elevator code to coalesce the requests in the block
        queue).  Secondly, the extent cache shrink mechanism, which was
        introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the
        i_es_lru spinlock.  Other optimizations include some changes to reduce
        CPU usage and to avoid issuing empty commits unnecessarily."
      
      * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (86 commits)
        ext4: optimize starting extent in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
        jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails
        ext4: translate flag bits to strings in tracepoints
        ext4: fix up error handling for mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
        jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
        ext4: only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial_blocks()
        ext4: check error return from ext4_write_inline_data_end()
        ext4: delete unnecessary C statements
        ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file->f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree()
        jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock()
        ext4: pass inode pointer instead of file pointer to punch hole
        ext4: improve free space calculation for inline_data
        ext4: reduce object size when !CONFIG_PRINTK
        ext4: improve extent cache shrink mechanism to avoid to burn CPU time
        ext4: implement error handling of ext4_mb_new_preallocation()
        ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size
        ext4: delete unused variables
        ext4: return FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN for delalloc extents
        jbd2: remove debug dependency on debug_fs and update Kconfig help text
        jbd2: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
        ...
      9e239bb9
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs · 63580e51
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull VFS patches (part 1) from Al Viro:
       "The major change in this pile is ->readdir() replacement with
        ->iterate(), dealing with ->f_pos races in ->readdir() instances for
        good.
      
        There's a lot more, but I'd prefer to split the pull request into
        several stages and this is the first obvious cutoff point."
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (67 commits)
        [readdir] constify ->actor
        [readdir] ->readdir() is gone
        [readdir] convert ecryptfs
        [readdir] convert coda
        [readdir] convert ocfs2
        [readdir] convert fatfs
        [readdir] convert xfs
        [readdir] convert btrfs
        [readdir] convert hostfs
        [readdir] convert afs
        [readdir] convert ncpfs
        [readdir] convert hfsplus
        [readdir] convert hfs
        [readdir] convert befs
        [readdir] convert cifs
        [readdir] convert freevxfs
        [readdir] convert fuse
        [readdir] convert hpfs
        reiserfs: switch reiserfs_readdir_dentry to inode
        reiserfs: is_privroot_deh() needs only directory inode, actually
        ...
      63580e51
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      sync: don't block the flusher thread waiting on IO · 7747bd4b
      Dave Chinner authored
      When sync does it's WB_SYNC_ALL writeback, it issues data Io and
      then immediately waits for IO completion. This is done in the
      context of the flusher thread, and hence completely ties up the
      flusher thread for the backing device until all the dirty inodes
      have been synced. On filesystems that are dirtying inodes constantly
      and quickly, this means the flusher thread can be tied up for
      minutes per sync call and hence badly affect system level write IO
      performance as the page cache cannot be cleaned quickly.
      
      We already have a wait loop for IO completion for sync(2), so cut
      this out of the flusher thread and delegate it to wait_sb_inodes().
      Hence we can do rapid IO submission, and then wait for it all to
      complete.
      
      Effect of sync on fsmark before the patch:
      
      FSUse%        Count         Size    Files/sec     App Overhead
      .....
           0       640000         4096      35154.6          1026984
           0       720000         4096      36740.3          1023844
           0       800000         4096      36184.6           916599
           0       880000         4096       1282.7          1054367
           0       960000         4096       3951.3           918773
           0      1040000         4096      40646.2           996448
           0      1120000         4096      43610.1           895647
           0      1200000         4096      40333.1           921048
      
      And a single sync pass took:
      
        real    0m52.407s
        user    0m0.000s
        sys     0m0.090s
      
      After the patch, there is no impact on fsmark results, and each
      individual sync(2) operation run concurrently with the same fsmark
      workload takes roughly 7s:
      
        real    0m6.930s
        user    0m0.000s
        sys     0m0.039s
      
      IOWs, sync is 7-8x faster on a busy filesystem and does not have an
      adverse impact on ongoing async data write operations.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7747bd4b
  2. 01 Jul, 2013 16 commits
    • Ashish Sangwan's avatar
      ext4: optimize starting extent in ext4_ext_rm_leaf() · 6ae06ff5
      Ashish Sangwan authored
      Both hole punch and truncate use ext4_ext_rm_leaf() for removing
      blocks.  Currently we choose the last extent as the starting
      point for removing blocks:
      
      	ex = EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh);
      
      This is OK for truncate but for hole punch we can optimize the extent
      selection as the path is already initialized.  We could use this
      information to select proper starting extent.  The code change in this
      patch will not affect truncate as for truncate path[depth].p_ext will
      always be NULL.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAshish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNamjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      6ae06ff5
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails · 41a5b913
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      If jbd2_journal_restart() fails the handle will have been disconnected
      from the current transaction.  In this situation, the handle must not
      be used for for any jbd2 function other than jbd2_journal_stop().
      Enforce this with by treating a handle which has a NULL transaction
      pointer as an aborted handle, and issue a kernel warning if
      jbd2_journal_extent(), jbd2_journal_get_write_access(),
      jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(), etc. is called with an invalid handle.
      
      This commit also fixes a bug where jbd2_journal_stop() would trip over
      a kernel jbd2 assertion check when trying to free an invalid handle.
      
      Also move the responsibility of setting current->journal_info to
      start_this_handle(), simplifying the three users of this function.
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Reported-by: default avatarYounger Liu <younger.liu@huawei.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      41a5b913
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: translate flag bits to strings in tracepoints · 21ddd568
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      Translate the bitfields used in various flags argument to strings to
      make the tracepoint output more human-readable.
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      21ddd568
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: fix up error handling for mpage_map_and_submit_extent() · cb530541
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      The function mpage_released_unused_page() must only be called once;
      otherwise the kernel will BUG() when the second call to
      mpage_released_unused_page() tries to unlock the pages which had been
      unlocked by the first call.
      
      Also restructure the error handling so that we only give up on writing
      the dirty pages in the case of ENOSPC where retrying the allocation
      won't help.  Otherwise, a transient failure, such as a kmalloc()
      failure in calling ext4_map_blocks() might cause us to give up on
      those pages, leading to a scary message in /var/log/messages plus data
      loss.
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      cb530541
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart · 39c04153
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      Once we decrement transaction->t_updates, if this is the last handle
      holding the transaction from closing, and once we release the
      t_handle_lock spinlock, it's possible for the transaction to commit
      and be released.  In practice with normal kernels, this probably won't
      happen, since the commit happens in a separate kernel thread and it's
      unlikely this could all happen within the space of a few CPU cycles.
      
      On the other hand, with a real-time kernel, this could potentially
      happen, so save the tid found in transaction->t_tid before we release
      t_handle_lock.  It would require an insane configuration, such as one
      where the jbd2 thread was set to a very high real-time priority,
      perhaps because a high priority real-time thread is trying to read or
      write to a file system.  But some people who use real-time kernels
      have been known to do insane things, including controlling
      laser-wielding industrial robots.  :-)
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      39c04153
    • Lukas Czerner's avatar
      ext4: only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial_blocks() · e1be3a92
      Lukas Czerner authored
      Currently if we pass range into ext4_zero_partial_blocks() which covers
      entire block we would attempt to zero it even though we should only zero
      unaligned part of the block.
      
      Fix this by checking whether the range covers the whole block skip
      zeroing if so.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      e1be3a92
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: check error return from ext4_write_inline_data_end() · 42c832de
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      The function ext4_write_inline_data_end() can return an error.  So we
      need to assign it to a signed integer variable to check for an error
      return (since copied is an unsigned int).
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      42c832de
    • jon ernst's avatar
      ext4: delete unnecessary C statements · 353eefd3
      jon ernst authored
      Comparing unsigned variable with 0 always returns false.
      err = 0 is duplicated and unnecessary.
      
      [ tytso: Also cleaned up error handling in ext4_block_zero_page_range() ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Jon Ernst" <jonernst07@gmx.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      353eefd3
    • Al Viro's avatar
      ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file->f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree() · 64cb9273
      Al Viro authored
      Both ext3 and ext4 htree_dirblock_to_tree() is just filling the
      in-core rbtree for use by call_filldir().  All updates of ->f_pos are
      done by the latter; bumping it here (on error) is obviously wrong - we
      might very well have it nowhere near the block we'd found an error in.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      64cb9273
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock() · fe52d17c
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      Some of the functions which modify the jbd2 superblock were not
      updating the checksum before calling jbd2_write_superblock().  Move
      the call to jbd2_superblock_csum_set() to jbd2_write_superblock(), so
      that the checksum is calculated consistently.
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      fe52d17c
    • Ashish Sangwan's avatar
      ext4: pass inode pointer instead of file pointer to punch hole · aeb2817a
      Ashish Sangwan authored
      No need to pass file pointer when we can directly pass inode pointer.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAshish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNamjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      aeb2817a
    • boxi liu's avatar
      ext4: improve free space calculation for inline_data · c4932dbe
      boxi liu authored
      In ext4 feature inline_data,it use the xattr's space to store the
      inline data in inode.When we calculate the inline data as the xattr,we
      add the pad.But in get_max_inline_xattr_value_size() function we count
      the free space without pad.It cause some contents are moved to a block
      even if it can be
      stored in the inode.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarliulei <lewis.liulei@huawei.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarTao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
      c4932dbe
    • Joe Perches's avatar
      ext4: reduce object size when !CONFIG_PRINTK · e7c96e8e
      Joe Perches authored
      Reduce the object size ~10% could be useful for embedded systems.
      
      Add #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK #else #endif blocks to hold formats and
      arguments, passing " " to functions when !CONFIG_PRINTK and still
      verifying format and arguments with no_printk.
      
      $ size fs/ext4/built-in.o*
         text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
       239375	    610	    888	 240873	  3ace9	fs/ext4/built-in.o.new
       264167	    738	    888	 265793	  40e41	fs/ext4/built-in.o.old
      
          $ grep -E "CONFIG_EXT4|CONFIG_PRINTK" .config
          # CONFIG_PRINTK is not set
          CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
          CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23=y
          CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
          # CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY is not set
          # CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG is not set
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      e7c96e8e
    • Zheng Liu's avatar
      ext4: improve extent cache shrink mechanism to avoid to burn CPU time · d3922a77
      Zheng Liu authored
      Now we maintain an proper in-order LRU list in ext4 to reclaim entries
      from extent status tree when we are under heavy memory pressure.  For
      keeping this order, a spin lock is used to protect this list.  But this
      lock burns a lot of CPU time.  We can use the following steps to trigger
      it.
      
        % cd /dev/shm
        % dd if=/dev/zero of=ext4-img bs=1M count=2k
        % mkfs.ext4 ext4-img
        % mount -t ext4 -o loop ext4-img /mnt
        % cd /mnt
        % for ((i=0;i<160;i++)); do truncate -s 64g $i; done
        % for ((i=0;i<160;i++)); do cp $i /dev/null &; done
        % perf record -a -g
        % perf report
      
      This commit tries to fix this problem.  Now a new member called
      i_touch_when is added into ext4_inode_info to record the last access
      time for an inode.  Meanwhile we never need to keep a proper in-order
      LRU list.  So this can avoid to burns some CPU time.  When we try to
      reclaim some entries from extent status tree, we use list_sort() to get
      a proper in-order list.  Then we traverse this list to discard some
      entries.  In ext4_sb_info, we use s_es_last_sorted to record the last
      time of sorting this list.  When we traverse the list, we skip the inode
      that is newer than this time, and move this inode to the tail of LRU
      list.  When the head of the list is newer than s_es_last_sorted, we will
      sort the LRU list again.
      
      In this commit, we break the loop if s_extent_cache_cnt == 0 because
      that means that all extents in extent status tree have been reclaimed.
      
      Meanwhile in this commit, ext4_es_{un}register_shrinker()'s prototype is
      changed to save a local variable in these functions.
      Reported-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      d3922a77
    • Alexey Khoroshilov's avatar
      ext4: implement error handling of ext4_mb_new_preallocation() · 2c00ef3e
      Alexey Khoroshilov authored
      If memory allocation in ext4_mb_new_group_pa() is failed,
      it returns error code, ext4_mb_new_preallocation() propages it,
      but ext4_mb_new_blocks() ignores it.
      
      An observed result was:
      
      - allocation fail means ext4_mb_new_group_pa() does not update
        ext4_allocation_context;
      
      - ext4_mb_new_blocks() sets ext4_allocation_request->len (ar->len =
        ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len;) to number of blocks preallocated (512) instead
        of number of blocks requested (1);
      
      - that activates update cycle in ext4_splice_branch():
          for (i = 1; i < blks; i++) <-- blks is 512 instead of 1 here
            *(where->p + i) = cpu_to_le32(current_block++);
      
      - it iterates 511 times and corrupts a chunk of memory including inode
        structure;
      
      - page fault happens at EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb) in ext4_mark_inode_dirty();
      
      - system hangs with 'scheduling while atomic' BUG.
      
      The patch implements a check for ext4_mb_new_preallocation() error
      code and handles its failure as if ext4_mb_regular_allocator() fails.
      
      Found by Linux File System Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
      
      [ Patch restructed by tytso to make the flow of control easier to follow. ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      2c00ef3e
    • Maarten ter Huurne's avatar
      ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size · 6ca792ed
      Maarten ter Huurne authored
      Subtracting the number of the first data block places the superblock
      backups one block too early, corrupting the file system. When the block
      size is larger than 1K, the first data block is 0, so the subtraction
      has no effect and no corruption occurs.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMaarten ter Huurne <maarten@treewalker.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
      6ca792ed
  3. 30 Jun, 2013 6 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 3.10 · 8bb495e3
      Linus Torvalds authored
      8bb495e3
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc · f0277dce
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull another powerpc fix from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
       "I mentioned that while we had fixed the kernel crashes, EEH error
        recovery didn't always recover...  It appears that I had a fix for
        that already in powerpc-next (with a stable CC).
      
        I cherry-picked it today and did a few tests and it seems that things
        now work quite well.  The patch is also pretty simple, so I see no
        reason to wait before merging it."
      
      * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
        powerpc/eeh: Fix fetching bus for single-dev-PE
      f0277dce
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi · 4b483802
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
       "This is a set of seven bug fixes.  Several fcoe fixes for locking
        problems, initiator issues and a VLAN API change, all of which could
        eventually lead to data corruption, one fix for a qla2xxx locking
        problem which could lead to multiple completions of the same request
        (and subsequent data corruption) and a use after free in the ipr
        driver.  Plus one minor MAINTAINERS file update"
      
      (only six bugfixes in this pull, since I had already pulled the fcoe API
      fix directly from Robert Love)
      
      * tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
        [SCSI] ipr: Avoid target_destroy accessing memory after it was freed
        [SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix for locking issue between driver ISR and mailbox routines
        MAINTAINERS: Fix fcoe mailing list
        libfc: extend ex_lock to protect all of fc_seq_send
        libfc: Correct check for initiator role
        libfcoe: Fix Conflicting FCFs issue in the fabric
      4b483802
    • Gavin Shan's avatar
      powerpc/eeh: Fix fetching bus for single-dev-PE · ea461abf
      Gavin Shan authored
      While running Linux as guest on top of phyp, we possiblly have
      PE that includes single PCI device. However, we didn't return
      its PCI bus correctly and it leads to failure on recovery from
      EEH errors for single-dev-PE. The patch fixes the issue.
      
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.7+
      Cc: Steve Best <sbest@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      ea461abf
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc · 6c355bea
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull powerpc fixes from Ben Herrenschmidt:
       "We discovered some breakage in our "EEH" (PCI Error Handling) code
        while doing error injection, due to a couple of regressions.  One of
        them is due to a patch (37f02195 "powerpc/pci: fix PCI-e devices
        rescan issue on powerpc platform") that, in hindsight, I shouldn't
        have merged considering that it caused more problems than it solved.
      
        Please pull those two fixes.  One for a simple EEH address cache
        initialization issue.  The other one is a patch from Guenter that I
        had originally planned to put in 3.11 but which happens to also fix
        that other regression (a kernel oops during EEH error handling and
        possibly hotplug).
      
        With those two, the couple of test machines I've hammered with error
        injection are remaining up now.  EEH appears to still fail to recover
        on some devices, so there is another problem that Gavin is looking
        into but at least it's no longer crashing the kernel."
      
      * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
        powerpc/pci: Improve device hotplug initialization
        powerpc/eeh: Add eeh_dev to the cache during boot
      6c355bea
    • Olof Johansson's avatar
      ARM: dt: Only print warning, not WARN() on bad cpu map in device tree · 8d5bc1a6
      Olof Johansson authored
      Due to recent changes and expecations of proper cpu bindings, there are
      now cases for many of the in-tree devicetrees where a WARN() will hit
      on boot due to badly formatted /cpus nodes.
      
      Downgrade this to a pr_warn() to be less alarmist, since it's not a
      new problem.
      
      Tested on Arndale, Cubox, Seaboard and Panda ES. Panda hits the WARN
      without this, the others do not.
      Acked-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8d5bc1a6
  4. 29 Jun, 2013 15 commits