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<title>jbd2: fix descriptor block size handling errors with journal_csum</title>
<updated>2014-08-29T02:22:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>darrick.wong@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-27T22:40:07+00:00</published>
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It turns out that there are some serious problems with the on-disk
format of journal checksum v2.  The foremost is that the function to
calculate descriptor tag size returns sizes that are too big.  This
causes alignment issues on some architectures and is compounded by the
fact that some parts of jbd2 use the structure size (incorrectly) to
determine the presence of a 64bit journal instead of checking the
feature flags.

Therefore, introduce journal checksum v3, which enlarges the
descriptor block tag format to allow for full 32-bit checksums of
journal blocks, fix the journal tag function to return the correct
sizes, and fix the jbd2 recovery code to use feature flags to
determine 64bitness.

Add a few function helpers so we don't have to open-code quite so
many pieces.

Switching to a 16-byte block size was found to increase journal size
overhead by a maximum of 0.1%, to convert a 32-bit journal with no
checksumming to a 32-bit journal with checksum v3 enabled.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: TR Reardon &lt;thomas_reardon@hotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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It turns out that there are some serious problems with the on-disk
format of journal checksum v2.  The foremost is that the function to
calculate descriptor tag size returns sizes that are too big.  This
causes alignment issues on some architectures and is compounded by the
fact that some parts of jbd2 use the structure size (incorrectly) to
determine the presence of a 64bit journal instead of checking the
feature flags.

Therefore, introduce journal checksum v3, which enlarges the
descriptor block tag format to allow for full 32-bit checksums of
journal blocks, fix the journal tag function to return the correct
sizes, and fix the jbd2 recovery code to use feature flags to
determine 64bitness.

Add a few function helpers so we don't have to open-code quite so
many pieces.

Switching to a 16-byte block size was found to increase journal size
overhead by a maximum of 0.1%, to convert a 32-bit journal with no
checksumming to a 32-bit journal with checksum v3 enabled.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: TR Reardon &lt;thomas_reardon@hotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>jbd2: fix infinite loop when recovering corrupt journal blocks</title>
<updated>2014-08-29T02:22:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>darrick.wong@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-27T22:40:05+00:00</published>
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When recovering the journal, don't fall into an infinite loop if we
encounter a corrupt journal block.  Instead, just skip the block and
return an error, which fails the mount and thus forces the user to run
a full filesystem fsck.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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When recovering the journal, don't fall into an infinite loop if we
encounter a corrupt journal block.  Instead, just skip the block and
return an error, which fails the mount and thus forces the user to run
a full filesystem fsck.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions</title>
<updated>2014-07-16T13:10:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-07T05:16:04+00:00</published>
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The current "wait_on_bit" interface requires an 'action'
function to be provided which does the actual waiting.
There are over 20 such functions, many of them identical.
Most cases can be satisfied by one of just two functions, one
which uses io_schedule() and one which just uses schedule().

So:
 Rename wait_on_bit and        wait_on_bit_lock to
        wait_on_bit_action and wait_on_bit_lock_action
 to make it explicit that they need an action function.

 Introduce new wait_on_bit{,_lock} and wait_on_bit{,_lock}_io
 which are *not* given an action function but implicitly use
 a standard one.
 The decision to error-out if a signal is pending is now made
 based on the 'mode' argument rather than being encoded in the action
 function.

 All instances of the old wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock which
 can use the new version have been changed accordingly and their
 action functions have been discarded.
 wait_on_bit{_lock} does not return any specific error code in the
 event of a signal so the caller must check for non-zero and
 interpolate their own error code as appropriate.

The wait_on_bit() call in __fscache_wait_on_invalidate() was
ambiguous as it specified TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE but used
fscache_wait_bit_interruptible as an action function.
David Howells confirms this should be uniformly
"uninterruptible"

The main remaining user of wait_on_bit{,_lock}_action is NFS
which needs to use a freezer-aware schedule() call.

A comment in fs/gfs2/glock.c notes that having multiple 'action'
functions is useful as they display differently in the 'wchan'
field of 'ps'. (and /proc/$PID/wchan).
As the new bit_wait{,_io} functions are tagged "__sched", they
will not show up at all, but something higher in the stack.  So
the distinction will still be visible, only with different
function names (gds2_glock_wait versus gfs2_glock_dq_wait in the
gfs2/glock.c case).

Since first version of this patch (against 3.15) two new action
functions appeared, on in NFS and one in CIFS.  CIFS also now
uses an action function that makes the same freezer aware
schedule call as NFS.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt; (fscache, keys)
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt; (gfs2)
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051603.28027.72349.stgit@notabene.brown
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The current "wait_on_bit" interface requires an 'action'
function to be provided which does the actual waiting.
There are over 20 such functions, many of them identical.
Most cases can be satisfied by one of just two functions, one
which uses io_schedule() and one which just uses schedule().

So:
 Rename wait_on_bit and        wait_on_bit_lock to
        wait_on_bit_action and wait_on_bit_lock_action
 to make it explicit that they need an action function.

 Introduce new wait_on_bit{,_lock} and wait_on_bit{,_lock}_io
 which are *not* given an action function but implicitly use
 a standard one.
 The decision to error-out if a signal is pending is now made
 based on the 'mode' argument rather than being encoded in the action
 function.

 All instances of the old wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock which
 can use the new version have been changed accordingly and their
 action functions have been discarded.
 wait_on_bit{_lock} does not return any specific error code in the
 event of a signal so the caller must check for non-zero and
 interpolate their own error code as appropriate.

The wait_on_bit() call in __fscache_wait_on_invalidate() was
ambiguous as it specified TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE but used
fscache_wait_bit_interruptible as an action function.
David Howells confirms this should be uniformly
"uninterruptible"

The main remaining user of wait_on_bit{,_lock}_action is NFS
which needs to use a freezer-aware schedule() call.

A comment in fs/gfs2/glock.c notes that having multiple 'action'
functions is useful as they display differently in the 'wchan'
field of 'ps'. (and /proc/$PID/wchan).
As the new bit_wait{,_io} functions are tagged "__sched", they
will not show up at all, but something higher in the stack.  So
the distinction will still be visible, only with different
function names (gds2_glock_wait versus gfs2_glock_dq_wait in the
gfs2/glock.c case).

Since first version of this patch (against 3.15) two new action
functions appeared, on in NFS and one in CIFS.  CIFS also now
uses an action function that makes the same freezer aware
schedule call as NFS.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt; (fscache, keys)
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt; (gfs2)
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051603.28027.72349.stgit@notabene.brown
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: disable synchronous transaction batching if max_batch_time==0</title>
<updated>2014-07-05T23:18:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-05T23:18:22+00:00</published>
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The mount manpage says of the max_batch_time option,

	This optimization can be turned off entirely
	by setting max_batch_time to 0.

But the code doesn't do that.  So fix the code to do
that.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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The mount manpage says of the max_batch_time option,

	This optimization can be turned off entirely
	by setting max_batch_time to 0.

But the code doesn't do that.  So fix the code to do
that.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()</title>
<updated>2014-04-18T12:20:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-17T17:06:10+00:00</published>
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Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd2: improve error messages for inconsistent journal heads</title>
<updated>2014-03-12T20:38:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-12T20:38:03+00:00</published>
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Fix up error messages printed when the transaction pointers in a
journal head are inconsistent.  This improves the error messages which
are printed when running xfstests generic/068 in data=journal mode.
See the bug report at: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60786

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;

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Fix up error messages printed when the transaction pointers in a
journal head are inconsistent.  This improves the error messages which
are printed when running xfstests generic/068 in data=journal mode.
See the bug report at: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60786

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;

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<entry>
<title>jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in jbd2_journal_forget()</title>
<updated>2014-03-09T05:56:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-09T05:56:58+00:00</published>
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It's not needed until we start trying to modifying fields in the
journal_head which are protected by j_list_lock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;

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It's not needed until we start trying to modifying fields in the
journal_head which are protected by j_list_lock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;

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<entry>
<title>jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in journal_get_create_access()</title>
<updated>2014-03-09T05:46:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-09T05:46:23+00:00</published>
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It's not needed until we start trying to modifying fields in the
journal_head which are protected by j_list_lock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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It's not needed until we start trying to modifying fields in the
journal_head which are protected by j_list_lock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>jbd2: check jh-&gt;b_transaction without taking j_list_lock</title>
<updated>2014-03-09T05:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-09T05:07:19+00:00</published>
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jh-&gt;b_transaction is adequately protected for reading by the
jbd_lock_bh_state(bh), so we don't need to take j_list_lock in
__journal_try_to_free_buffer().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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jh-&gt;b_transaction is adequately protected for reading by the
jbd_lock_bh_state(bh), so we don't need to take j_list_lock in
__journal_try_to_free_buffer().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd2: add transaction to checkpoint list earlier</title>
<updated>2014-03-09T03:34:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-09T03:34:10+00:00</published>
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We don't otherwise need j_list_lock during the rest of commit phase
#7, so add the transaction to the checkpoint list at the very end of
commit phase #6.  This allows us to drop j_list_lock earlier, which is
a good thing since it is a super hot lock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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We don't otherwise need j_list_lock during the rest of commit phase
#7, so add the transaction to the checkpoint list at the very end of
commit phase #6.  This allows us to drop j_list_lock earlier, which is
a good thing since it is a super hot lock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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