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<title>jbd: don't wake kjournald unnecessarily</title>
<updated>2013-01-14T21:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2012-12-18T17:03:57+00:00</published>
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Don't send an extra wakeup to kjournald in the case where we
already have the proper target in j_commit_request, i.e. that
commit has already been requested for commit.

commit d9b0193 "jbd: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug" changed
the logic leading to a wakeup, but it caused some extra wakeups
which were found to lead to a measurable performance regression.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Don't send an extra wakeup to kjournald in the case where we
already have the proper target in j_commit_request, i.e. that
commit has already been requested for commit.

commit d9b0193 "jbd: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug" changed
the logic leading to a wakeup, but it caused some extra wakeups
which were found to lead to a measurable performance regression.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2012-12-13T20:00:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-13T20:00:02+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...
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Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...
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<entry>
<title>jbd: Fix lock ordering bug in journal_unmap_buffer()</title>
<updated>2012-11-23T14:17:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-23T13:03:04+00:00</published>
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Commit 09e05d48 introduced a wait for transaction commit into
journal_unmap_buffer() in the case we are truncating a buffer undergoing commit
in the page stradding i_size on a filesystem with blocksize &lt; pagesize. Sadly
we forgot to drop buffer lock before waiting for transaction commit and thus
deadlock is possible when kjournald wants to lock the buffer.

Fix the problem by dropping the buffer lock before waiting for transaction
commit. Since we are still holding page lock (and that is OK), buffer cannot
disappear under us.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # Wherever commit 09e05d48 was taken
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Commit 09e05d48 introduced a wait for transaction commit into
journal_unmap_buffer() in the case we are truncating a buffer undergoing commit
in the page stradding i_size on a filesystem with blocksize &lt; pagesize. Sadly
we forgot to drop buffer lock before waiting for transaction commit and thus
deadlock is possible when kjournald wants to lock the buffer.

Fix the problem by dropping the buffer lock before waiting for transaction
commit. Since we are still holding page lock (and that is OK), buffer cannot
disappear under us.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # Wherever commit 09e05d48 was taken
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.</title>
<updated>2012-11-19T13:31:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Buchbinder</name>
<email>adam.buchbinder@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-20T01:48:00+00:00</published>
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"Whether" is misspelled in various comments across the tree; this
fixes them. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder &lt;adam.buchbinder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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"Whether" is misspelled in various comments across the tree; this
fixes them. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder &lt;adam.buchbinder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd: Fix assertion failure in commit code due to lacking transaction credits</title>
<updated>2012-09-12T13:52:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-11T21:16:25+00:00</published>
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ext3 users of data=journal mode with blocksize &lt; pagesize were occasionally
hitting assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() checking whether the
transaction has at least as many credits reserved as buffers attached.  The
core of the problem is that when a file gets truncated, buffers that still need
checkpointing or that are attached to the committing transaction are left with
buffer_mapped set. When this happens to buffers beyond i_size attached to a
page stradding i_size, subsequent write extending the file will see these
buffers and as they are mapped (but underlying blocks were freed) things go
awry from here.

The assertion failure just coincidentally (and in this case luckily as we would
start corrupting filesystem) triggers due to journal_head not being properly
cleaned up as well.

Under some rare circumstances this bug could even hit data=ordered mode users.
There the assertion won't trigger and we would end up corrupting the
filesystem.

We fix the problem by unmapping buffers if possible (in lots of cases we just
need a buffer attached to a transaction as a place holder but it must not be
written out anyway). And in one case, we just have to bite the bullet and wait
for transaction commit to finish.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fusionio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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ext3 users of data=journal mode with blocksize &lt; pagesize were occasionally
hitting assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() checking whether the
transaction has at least as many credits reserved as buffers attached.  The
core of the problem is that when a file gets truncated, buffers that still need
checkpointing or that are attached to the committing transaction are left with
buffer_mapped set. When this happens to buffers beyond i_size attached to a
page stradding i_size, subsequent write extending the file will see these
buffers and as they are mapped (but underlying blocks were freed) things go
awry from here.

The assertion failure just coincidentally (and in this case luckily as we would
start corrupting filesystem) triggers due to journal_head not being properly
cleaned up as well.

Under some rare circumstances this bug could even hit data=ordered mode users.
There the assertion won't trigger and we would end up corrupting the
filesystem.

We fix the problem by unmapping buffers if possible (in lots of cases we just
need a buffer attached to a transaction as a place holder but it must not be
written out anyway). And in one case, we just have to bite the bullet and wait
for transaction commit to finish.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fusionio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd: don't write superblock when unmounting an ro filesystem</title>
<updated>2012-08-15T11:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-15T11:50:27+00:00</published>
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This sequence:

results in an IO error when unmounting the RO filesystem. The bug was
introduced by:

commit 9754e39c7bc51328f145e933bfb0df47cd67b6e9
Author: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Date:   Sat Apr 7 12:33:03 2012 +0200

    jbd: Split updating of journal superblock and marking journal empty

which lost some of the magic in journal_update_superblock() which
used to test for a journal with no outstanding transactions.

This is a port of a jbd2 fix by Eric Sandeen.

CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.4.x
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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This sequence:

results in an IO error when unmounting the RO filesystem. The bug was
introduced by:

commit 9754e39c7bc51328f145e933bfb0df47cd67b6e9
Author: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Date:   Sat Apr 7 12:33:03 2012 +0200

    jbd: Split updating of journal superblock and marking journal empty

which lost some of the magic in journal_update_superblock() which
used to test for a journal with no outstanding transactions.

This is a port of a jbd2 fix by Eric Sandeen.

CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.4.x
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd/jbd2: nuke write_super from comments</title>
<updated>2012-08-04T08:15:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-25T15:12:07+00:00</published>
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The '-&gt;write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from various jbd and jbd2.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The '-&gt;write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from various jbd and jbd2.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd: Check return value of blkdev_issue_flush()</title>
<updated>2012-07-09T21:38:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-09T21:38:36+00:00</published>
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blkdev_issue_flush() can fail. Make sure the error gets properly propagated.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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blkdev_issue_flush() can fail. Make sure the error gets properly propagated.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd: Write journal superblock with WRITE_FUA after checkpointing</title>
<updated>2012-05-15T21:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-07T09:05:19+00:00</published>
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If journal superblock is written only in disk's caches and other transaction
starts reusing space of the transaction cleaned from the log, it can happen
blocks of a new transaction reach the disk before journal superblock. When
power failure happens in such case, subsequent journal replay would still try
to replay the old transaction but some of it's blocks may be already
overwritten by the new transaction. For this reason we must use WRITE_FUA when
updating log tail and we must first write new log tail to disk and update
in-memory information only after that.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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If journal superblock is written only in disk's caches and other transaction
starts reusing space of the transaction cleaned from the log, it can happen
blocks of a new transaction reach the disk before journal superblock. When
power failure happens in such case, subsequent journal replay would still try
to replay the old transaction but some of it's blocks may be already
overwritten by the new transaction. For this reason we must use WRITE_FUA when
updating log tail and we must first write new log tail to disk and update
in-memory information only after that.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd: protect all log tail updates with j_checkpoint_mutex</title>
<updated>2012-05-15T21:34:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-07T10:50:13+00:00</published>
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There are some log tail updates that are not protected by j_checkpoint_mutex.
Some of these are harmless because they happen during startup or shutdown but
updates in journal_commit_transaction() and journal_flush() can really race
with other log tail updates (e.g. someone doing journal_flush() with someone
running cleanup_journal_tail()). So protect all log tail updates with
j_checkpoint_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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There are some log tail updates that are not protected by j_checkpoint_mutex.
Some of these are harmless because they happen during startup or shutdown but
updates in journal_commit_transaction() and journal_flush() can really race
with other log tail updates (e.g. someone doing journal_flush() with someone
running cleanup_journal_tail()). So protect all log tail updates with
j_checkpoint_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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