linux.git/fs/ext4/file.c, branch v5.12

iomap: pass a flags argument to iomap_dio_rw

2021-01-23T18:06:09+00:00

Pass a set of flags to iomap_dio_rw instead of the boolean
wait_for_completion argument.  The IOMAP_DIO_FORCE_WAIT flag
replaces the wait_for_completion, but only needs to be passed
when the iocb isn't synchronous to start with to simplify the
callers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner 
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster 
[djwong: rework xfs_file.c so that we can push iomap changes separately]
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong

ext4: don't leak old mountpoint samples

2020-12-22T18:08:46+00:00

When the first file is opened, ext4 samples the mountpoint of the
filesystem in 64 bytes of the super block.  It does so using
strlcpy(), this means that the remaining bytes in the super block
string buffer are untouched.  If the mount point before had a longer
path than the current one, it can be reconstructed.

Consider the case where the fs was mounted to "/media/johnjdeveloper"
and later to "/".  The super block buffer then contains
"/\x00edia/johnjdeveloper".

This case was seen in the wild and caused confusion how the name
of a developer ands up on the super block of a filesystem used
in production...

Fix this by using strncpy() instead of strlcpy().  The superblock
field is defined to be a fixed-size char array, and it is already
marked using __nonstring in fs/ext4/ext4.h.  The consumer of the field
in e2fsprogs already assumes that in the case of a 64+ byte mount
path, that s_last_mounted will not be NUL terminated.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/X9ujIOJG/HqMr88R@mit.edu
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: stable@kernel.org

ext4: drop ext4_handle_dirty_super()

2020-12-22T18:08:46+00:00

The wrapper is now useless since it does what
ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() does. Just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201216101844.22917-9-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: protect superblock modifications with a buffer lock

2020-12-22T18:08:46+00:00

Protect all superblock modifications (including checksum computation)
with a superblock buffer lock. That way we are sure computed checksum
matches current superblock contents (a mismatch could cause checksum
failures in nojournal mode or if an unjournalled superblock update races
with a journalled one). Also we avoid modifying superblock contents
while it is being written out (which can cause DIF/DIX failures if we
are running in nojournal mode).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201216101844.22917-4-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: make s_mount_flags modifications atomic

2020-11-07T04:01:05+00:00

Fast commit file system states are recorded in
sbi->s_mount_flags. Fast commit expects these bit manipulations to be
atomic. This patch adds helpers to make those modifications atomic.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106035911.1942128-21-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: remove unnecessary fast commit calls from ext4_file_mmap

2020-11-07T04:01:05+00:00

Remove unnecessary calls to ext4_fc_start_update() and
ext4_fc_stop_update() from ext4_file_mmap().

Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106035911.1942128-17-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: main fast-commit commit path

2020-10-22T03:22:37+00:00

This patch adds main fast commit commit path handlers. The overall
patch can be divided into two inter-related parts:

(A) Metadata updates tracking

    This part consists of helper functions to track changes that need
    to be committed during a commit operation. These updates are
    maintained by Ext4 in different in-memory queues. Following are
    the APIs and their short description that are implemented in this
    patch:

    - ext4_fc_track_link/unlink/creat() - Track unlink. link and creat
      operations
    - ext4_fc_track_range() - Track changed logical block offsets
      inodes
    - ext4_fc_track_inode() - Track inodes
    - ext4_fc_mark_ineligible() - Mark file system fast commit
      ineligible()
    - ext4_fc_start_update() / ext4_fc_stop_update() /
      ext4_fc_start_ineligible() / ext4_fc_stop_ineligible() These
      functions are useful for co-ordinating inode updates with
      commits.

(B) Main commit Path

    This part consists of functions to convert updates tracked in
    in-memory data structures into on-disk commits. Function
    ext4_fc_commit() is the main entry point to commit path.

Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201015203802.3597742-6-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: flag as supporting buffered async reads

2020-10-18T14:36:12+00:00

ext4 uses generic_file_read_iter(), which already supports this.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fb90cc2d-b12c-738f-21a4-dd7a8ae0556a@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2020-08-21T18:03:38+00:00

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Improvements to ext4's block allocator performance for very large file
  systems, especially when the file system or files which are highly
  fragmented. There is a new mount option, prefetch_block_bitmaps which
  will pull in the block bitmaps and set up the in-memory buddy bitmaps
  when the file system is initially mounted.

  Beyond that, a lot of bug fixes and cleanups. In particular, a number
  of changes to make ext4 more robust in the face of write errors or
  file system corruptions"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (46 commits)
  ext4: limit the length of per-inode prealloc list
  ext4: reorganize if statement of ext4_mb_release_context()
  ext4: add mb_debug logging when there are lost chunks
  ext4: Fix comment typo "the the".
  jbd2: clean up checksum verification in do_one_pass()
  ext4: change to use fallthrough macro
  ext4: remove unused parameter of ext4_generic_delete_entry function
  mballoc: replace seq_printf with seq_puts
  ext4: optimize the implementation of ext4_mb_good_group()
  ext4: delete invalid comments near ext4_mb_check_limits()
  ext4: fix typos in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() comment
  ext4: fix checking of directory entry validity for inline directories
  fs: prevent BUG_ON in submit_bh_wbc()
  ext4: correctly restore system zone info when remount fails
  ext4: handle add_system_zone() failure in ext4_setup_system_zone()
  ext4: fold ext4_data_block_valid_rcu() into the caller
  ext4: check journal inode extents more carefully
  ext4: don't allow overlapping system zones
  ext4: handle error of ext4_setup_system_zone() on remount
  ext4: delete the invalid BUGON in ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp()
  ...

ext4: limit the length of per-inode prealloc list

2020-08-19T16:04:36+00:00

In the scenario of writing sparse files, the per-inode prealloc list may
be very long, resulting in high overhead for ext4_mb_use_preallocated().
To circumvent this problem, we limit the maximum length of per-inode
prealloc list to 512 and allow users to modify it.

After patching, we observed that the sys ratio of cpu has dropped, and
the system throughput has increased significantly. We created a process
to write the sparse file, and the running time of the process on the
fixed kernel was significantly reduced, as follows:

Running time on unfixed kernel：
[root@TENCENT64 ~]# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat
real    0m2.051s
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m2.026s

Running time on fixed kernel：
[root@TENCENT64 ~]# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat
real    0m0.471s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.395s

Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d7a98178-056b-6db5-6bce-4ead23f4a257@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o