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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/ext4/inode.c, branch linux-3.13.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ext4: atomically set inode-&gt;i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()</title>
<updated>2014-04-03T19:02:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-30T14:20:01+00:00</published>
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commit 00a1a053ebe5febcfc2ec498bd894f035ad2aa06 upstream.

Use cmpxchg() to atomically set i_flags instead of clearing out the
S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. flags and then setting them from the
EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL, EXT4_APPEND_FL flags, since this opens up a race
where an immutable file has the immutable flag cleared for a brief
window of time.

Reported-by: John Sullivan &lt;jsrhbz@kanargh.force9.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 00a1a053ebe5febcfc2ec498bd894f035ad2aa06 upstream.

Use cmpxchg() to atomically set i_flags instead of clearing out the
S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. flags and then setting them from the
EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL, EXT4_APPEND_FL flags, since this opens up a race
where an immutable file has the immutable flag cleared for a brief
window of time.

Reported-by: John Sullivan &lt;jsrhbz@kanargh.force9.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: fix iversion handling</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T06:06:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-19T15:17:07+00:00</published>
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commit dff6efc326a4d5f305797d4a6bba14f374fdd633 upstream.

Currently notify_change directly updates i_version for size updates,
which not only is counter to how all other fields are updated through
struct iattr, but also breaks XFS, which need inode updates to happen
under its own lock, and synchronized to the structure that gets written
to the log.

Remove the update in the common code, and it to btrfs and ext4,
XFS already does a proper updaste internally and currently gets a
double update with the existing code.

IMHO this is 3.13 and -stable material and should go in through the XFS
tree.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers &lt;bpm@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit dff6efc326a4d5f305797d4a6bba14f374fdd633 upstream.

Currently notify_change directly updates i_version for size updates,
which not only is counter to how all other fields are updated through
struct iattr, but also breaks XFS, which need inode updates to happen
under its own lock, and synchronized to the structure that gets written
to the log.

Remove the update in the common code, and it to btrfs and ext4,
XFS already does a proper updaste internally and currently gets a
double update with the existing code.

IMHO this is 3.13 and -stable material and should go in through the XFS
tree.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers &lt;bpm@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix deadlock when writing in ENOSPC conditions</title>
<updated>2013-12-18T05:44:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-18T05:44:44+00:00</published>
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Akira-san has been reporting rare deadlocks of his machine when running
xfstests test 269 on ext4 filesystem. The problem turned out to be in
ext4_da_reserve_metadata() and ext4_da_reserve_space() which called
ext4_should_retry_alloc() while holding i_data_sem. Since
ext4_should_retry_alloc() can force a transaction commit, this is a
lock ordering violation and leads to deadlocks.

Fix the problem by just removing the retry loops. These functions should
just report ENOSPC to the caller (e.g. ext4_da_write_begin()) and that
function must take care of retrying after dropping all necessary locks.

Reported-and-tested-by: Akira Fujita &lt;a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Akira-san has been reporting rare deadlocks of his machine when running
xfstests test 269 on ext4 filesystem. The problem turned out to be in
ext4_da_reserve_metadata() and ext4_da_reserve_space() which called
ext4_should_retry_alloc() while holding i_data_sem. Since
ext4_should_retry_alloc() can force a transaction commit, this is a
lock ordering violation and leads to deadlocks.

Fix the problem by just removing the retry loops. These functions should
just report ENOSPC to the caller (e.g. ext4_da_write_begin()) and that
function must take care of retrying after dropping all necessary locks.

Reported-and-tested-by: Akira Fujita &lt;a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: return non-zero st_blocks for inline data</title>
<updated>2013-11-12T03:38:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Dilger</name>
<email>andreas.dilger@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T03:38:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9206c561554c948111d3cf6fc563a0beaaf790b3'/>
<id>9206c561554c948111d3cf6fc563a0beaaf790b3</id>
<content type='text'>
Return a non-zero st_blocks to userspace for statfs() and friends.
Some versions of tar will assume that files with st_blocks == 0
do not contain any data and will skip reading them entirely.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Return a non-zero st_blocks to userspace for statfs() and friends.
Some versions of tar will assume that files with st_blocks == 0
do not contain any data and will skip reading them entirely.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: pair trace_ext4_writepages &amp; trace_ext4_writepages_result</title>
<updated>2013-10-30T11:27:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-30T11:27:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bbf023c74dcf380769aec00aedd706a266b7d9ef'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pair the two trace events to make troubeshooting writepages
easier, and it should be more convinient to write a simple script
to parse the traces.

Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Pair the two trace events to make troubeshooting writepages
easier, and it should be more convinient to write a simple script
to parse the traces.

Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix performance regression in ext4_writepages</title>
<updated>2013-10-17T22:56:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-17T22:56:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=aeac589a74b91c4c07458272767e089810fbd23d'/>
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Commit 4e7ea81db5(ext4: restructure writeback path) introduces another
performance regression on random write:

- one more page may be added to ext4 extent in
  mpage_prepare_extent_to_map, and will be submitted for I/O so
  nr_to_write will become -1 before 'done' is set

- the worse thing is that dirty pages may still be retrieved from page
  cache after nr_to_write becomes negative, so lots of small chunks
  can be submitted to block device when page writeback is catching up
  with write path, and performance is hurted.

On one arm A15 board with sata 3.0 SSD(CPU: 1.5GHz dura core, RAM:
2GB, SATA controller: 3.0Gbps), this patch can improve below test's
result from 157MB/sec to 174MB/sec(&gt;10%):

	dd if=/dev/zero of=./z.img bs=8K count=512K

The above test is actually prototype of block write in bonnie++
utility.

This patch makes sure no more pages than nr_to_write can be added to
extent for mapping, so that nr_to_write won't become negative.

Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Commit 4e7ea81db5(ext4: restructure writeback path) introduces another
performance regression on random write:

- one more page may be added to ext4 extent in
  mpage_prepare_extent_to_map, and will be submitted for I/O so
  nr_to_write will become -1 before 'done' is set

- the worse thing is that dirty pages may still be retrieved from page
  cache after nr_to_write becomes negative, so lots of small chunks
  can be submitted to block device when page writeback is catching up
  with write path, and performance is hurted.

On one arm A15 board with sata 3.0 SSD(CPU: 1.5GHz dura core, RAM:
2GB, SATA controller: 3.0Gbps), this patch can improve below test's
result from 157MB/sec to 174MB/sec(&gt;10%):

	dd if=/dev/zero of=./z.img bs=8K count=512K

The above test is actually prototype of block write in bonnie++
utility.

This patch makes sure no more pages than nr_to_write can be added to
extent for mapping, so that nr_to_write won't become negative.

Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fixup kerndoc annotation of mpage_map_and_submit_extent()</title>
<updated>2013-10-16T12:26:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T12:26:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7534e854b930a021dedf9e16396ced5e70e1aba3'/>
<id>7534e854b930a021dedf9e16396ced5e70e1aba3</id>
<content type='text'>
Document give_up_on_write argument of mpage_map_and_submit_extent().

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Document give_up_on_write argument of mpage_map_and_submit_extent().

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2013-10-12T19:55:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-12T19:55:15+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "A bug fix and performance regression fix for ext4"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: fix memory leak in xattr
  ext4: fix performance regression in writeback of random writes
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Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "A bug fix and performance regression fix for ext4"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: fix memory leak in xattr
  ext4: fix performance regression in writeback of random writes
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix performance regression in writeback of random writes</title>
<updated>2013-09-16T12:24:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-16T12:24:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9c12a831d73dd938a22418d70b39aed4feb4bdf2'/>
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The Linux Kernel Performance project guys have reported that commit
4e7ea81db5 introduces a performance regression for the following fio
workload:

[global]
direct=0
ioengine=mmap
size=1500M
bs=4k
pre_read=1
numjobs=1
overwrite=1
loops=5
runtime=300
group_reporting
invalidate=0
directory=/mnt/
file_service_type=random:36
file_service_type=random:36

[job0]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f1:data0/f2

[job1]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f2:data0/f1
...

[job7]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f2:data0/f1

The culprit of the problem is that after the commit ext4_writepages()
are more aggressive in writing back pages. Thus we have less consecutive
dirty pages resulting in more seeking.

This increased aggressivity is caused by a bug in the condition
terminating ext4_writepages(). We start writing from the beginning of
the file even if we should have terminated ext4_writepages() because
wbc-&gt;nr_to_write &lt;= 0.

After fixing the condition the throughput of the fio workload is about 20%
better than before writeback reorganization.

Reported-by: "Yan, Zheng" &lt;zheng.z.yan@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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The Linux Kernel Performance project guys have reported that commit
4e7ea81db5 introduces a performance regression for the following fio
workload:

[global]
direct=0
ioengine=mmap
size=1500M
bs=4k
pre_read=1
numjobs=1
overwrite=1
loops=5
runtime=300
group_reporting
invalidate=0
directory=/mnt/
file_service_type=random:36
file_service_type=random:36

[job0]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f1:data0/f2

[job1]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f2:data0/f1
...

[job7]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f2:data0/f1

The culprit of the problem is that after the commit ext4_writepages()
are more aggressive in writing back pages. Thus we have less consecutive
dirty pages resulting in more seeking.

This increased aggressivity is caused by a bug in the condition
terminating ext4_writepages(). We start writing from the beginning of
the file even if we should have terminated ext4_writepages() because
wbc-&gt;nr_to_write &lt;= 0.

After fixing the condition the throughput of the fio workload is about 20%
better than before writeback reorganization.

Reported-by: "Yan, Zheng" &lt;zheng.z.yan@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter</title>
<updated>2013-09-12T22:38:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-12T22:13:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7caef26767c1727d7abfbbbfbe8b2bb473430d48'/>
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<content type='text'>
truncate_pagecache() doesn't care about old size since commit
cedabed49b39 ("vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression").  Let's drop it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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truncate_pagecache() doesn't care about old size since commit
cedabed49b39 ("vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression").  Let's drop it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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