linux-stable.git/include/linux/jbd_common.h, branch master

fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver

2015-07-23T18:59:40+00:00

The functionality of ext3 is fully supported by ext4 driver. Major
distributions (SUSE, RedHat) already use ext4 driver to handle ext3
filesystems for quite some time. There is some ugliness in mm resulting
from jbd cleaning buffers in a dirty page without cleaning page dirty
bit and also support for buffer bouncing in the block layer when stable
pages are required is there only because of jbd. So let's remove the
ext3 driver. This saves us some 28k lines of duplicated code.

Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

jbd/jbd2: relocate bit_spinlock header to jbd_common

2013-06-13T03:02:35+00:00

The bit_spinlock functions are only used for the jbd_lock_bh_state
functions (and friends) in jbd_common.h and are not directly used
by either of jbd.h or jbd2.h content.

The jbd_common file is new as of commit 446066724c36 ("jdb/jbd2: factor
out common functions from the jbd[2] header files") but common
(and isolated) headers were not considered for factoring at that time.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

jbd2: refine waiting for shadow buffers

2013-06-04T16:08:56+00:00

Currently when we add a buffer to a transaction, we wait until the
buffer is removed from BJ_Shadow list (so that we prevent any changes
to the buffer that is just written to the journal).  This can take
unnecessarily long as a lot happens between the time the buffer is
submitted to the journal and the time when we remove the buffer from
BJ_Shadow list.  (e.g.  We wait for all data buffers in the
transaction, we issue a cache flush, etc.)  Also this creates a
dependency of do_get_write_access() on transaction commit (namely
waiting for data IO to complete) which we want to avoid when
implementing transaction reservation.

So we modify commit code to set new BH_Shadow flag when temporary
shadowing buffer is created and we clear that flag once IO on that
buffer is complete.  This allows do_get_write_access() to wait only
for BH_Shadow bit and thus removes the dependency on data IO
completion.

Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: create a new BH_Verified flag to avoid unnecessary metadata validation

2012-04-29T22:21:10+00:00

Create a new BH_Verified flag to indicate that we've verified all the
data in a buffer_head for correctness.  This allows us to bypass
expensive verification steps when they are not necessary without
missing them when they are.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

jdb/jbd2: factor out common functions from the jbd[2] header files

2011-10-27T08:38:18+00:00

The state bits and the lock functions of jbd and jbd2 are
identical.  Share them.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"