linux-stable.git/fs/f2fs/node.c, branch v3.8

f2fs: avoid issuing small bios due to several dirty node pages

2013-01-22T01:48:59+00:00

If some small bios of dirty node pages are supposed to be issued during the
sequential data writes, there-in well-produced consecutive data bios are able
to be split by the small node bios, resulting in performance degradation.
So, let's collect a number of dirty node pages until reaching a threshold.
And, by default, I set the threshold as 2MB, a segment size.

This improves sequential write performance on i5, 512GB SSD (830 w/ SATA2) as
follows.
Before: 231 MB/s -> After: 255 MB/s

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim 
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon

f2fs: add __init to functions in init_f2fs_fs

2013-01-22T01:48:38+00:00

Add __init to functions in init_f2fs_fs for code consistency.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: clean up unused variables and return values

2012-12-28T02:27:52+00:00

This patch cleans up a couple of unnecessary codes related to unused variables
and return values.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: invalidate the node page if allocation is failed

2012-12-28T02:24:09+00:00

The new_node_page() is processed as the following procedure.

1. A new node page is allocated.
2. Set PageUptodate with proper footer information.
3. Check if there is a free space for allocation
 4.a. If there is no space, f2fs returns with -ENOSPC.
 4.b. Otherwise, go next.

In the case of step #4.a, f2fs remains a wrong node page in the page cache
with the uptodate flag.

Also, even though a new node page is allocated successfully, an error can be
occurred afterwards due to allocation failure of the other data structures.
In such a case, remove_inode_page() would be triggered, so that we have to
clear uptodate flag in truncate_node() too.

So, we should remove the uptodate flag, if allocation is failed.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: fix handling errors got by f2fs_write_inode

2012-12-26T01:39:52+00:00

Ruslan reported that f2fs hangs with an infinite loop in f2fs_sync_file():

	while (sync_node_pages(sbi, inode->i_ino, &wbc) == 0)
		f2fs_write_inode(inode, NULL);

The reason was revealed that the cold flag is not set even thought this inode is
a normal file. Therefore, sync_node_pages() skips to write node blocks since it
only writes cold node blocks.

The cold flag is stored to the node_footer in node block, and whenever a new
node page is allocated, it is set according to its file type, file or directory.

But, after sudden-power-off, when recovering the inode page, f2fs doesn't recover
its cold flag.

So, let's assign the cold flag in more right places.

One more thing:
If f2fs_write_inode() returns an error due to whatever situations, there would
be no dirty node pages so that sync_node_pages() returns zero.
(i.e., zero means nothing was written.)

Reported-by: Ruslan N. Marchenko 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: fix the compiler warning for uninitialized use of variable

2012-12-11T04:43:43+00:00

When CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is enabled in the kernel, -Os optimisation
flag is passed to gcc for compilation, and somehow while trying to optimize
the code, compiler is might not able to see the initialisation of variable
ne struct variable inside the get_node_info() function and results into
following warning:

fs/f2fs/node.c: In function 'get_node_info':
fs/f2fs/node.c:175:3: warning: 'ne.block_addr' may be used uninitialized in
this function [-Wuninitialized]
fs/f2fs/node.c:265:24: note: 'ne.block_addr' was declared here
fs/f2fs/node.c:176:3: warning: 'ne.ino' may be used uninitialized in this
function [-Wuninitialized]
fs/f2fs/node.c:265:24: note: 'ne.ino' was declared here
fs/f2fs/node.c:177:3: warning: 'ne.version' may be used uninitialized in
this function [-Wuninitialized]
fs/f2fs/node.c:265:24: note: 'ne.version' was declared here

Hence, lets initialise the ne struct variable to zero, which will remove
this warning and also doing this does not seems to making any impact on the
code behavior.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar

f2fs: adjust kernel coding style

2012-12-11T04:43:42+00:00

As pointed out by Randy Dunlap, this patch removes all usage of "/**" for comment
blocks. Instead, just use "/*".

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: fix endian conversion bugs reported by sparse

2012-12-11T04:43:42+00:00

This patch should resolve the bugs reported by the sparse tool.
Initial reports were written by "kbuild test robot" managed by fengguang.wu.

In my local machines, I've tested also by running:
> make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"

Accordingly, I've found lots of warnings and bugs related to the endian
conversion. And I've fixed all at this moment.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: add node operations

2012-12-11T04:43:40+00:00

This adds specific functions to manage NAT pages, a cache for NAT entries, free
nids, direct/indirect node blocks for indexing data, and address space for node
pages.

- The key information of an NAT entry consists of a node id and a block address.

- An NAT page is composed of block addresses covered by a certain range of NAT
  entries, which is maintained by the address space of meta_inode.

- A radix tree structure is used to cache NAT entries. The index for the tree
  is a node id.

- When there is no free nid, F2FS should scan NAT entries to find new one. In
  order to avoid scanning frequently, F2FS manages a list containing a number of
  free nids in memory. Only when free nids in the list are exhausted, scanning
  process, build_free_nids(), is triggered.

- F2FS has direct and indirect node blocks for indexing data. This patch adds
  fuctions related to the node block management such as getting, allocating, and
  truncating node blocks to index data.

- In order to cache node blocks in memory, F2FS has a node_inode with an address
  space for node pages. This patch also adds the address space operations for
  node_inode.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim