linux.git/fs/ext4/fsync.c, branch v2.6.36

rename the generic fsync implementations

2010-05-28T02:06:06+00:00

We don't name our generic fsync implementations very well currently.
The no-op implementation for in-memory filesystems currently is called
simple_sync_file which doesn't make too much sense to start with,
the the generic one for simple filesystems is called simple_fsync
which can lead to some confusion.

This patch renames the generic file fsync method to generic_file_fsync
to match the other generic_file_* routines it is supposed to be used
with, and the no-op implementation to noop_fsync to make it obvious
what to expect.  In addition add some documentation for both methods.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync

2010-05-28T02:05:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2010-05-27T17:26:37+00:00

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (40 commits)
  ext4: Make fsync sync new parent directories in no-journal mode
  ext4: Drop whitespace at end of lines
  ext4: Fix compat EXT4_IOC_ADD_GROUP
  ext4: Conditionally define compat ioctl numbers
  tracing: Convert more ext4 events to DEFINE_EVENT
  ext4: Add new tracepoints to track mballoc's buddy bitmap loads
  ext4: Add a missing trace hook
  ext4: restart ext4_ext_remove_space() after transaction restart
  ext4: Clear the EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL flag only when warranted
  ext4: Avoid crashing on NULL ptr dereference on a filesystem error
  ext4: Use bitops to read/modify i_flags in struct ext4_inode_info
  ext4: Convert calls of ext4_error() to EXT4_ERROR_INODE()
  ext4: Convert callers of ext4_get_blocks() to use ext4_map_blocks()
  ext4: Add new abstraction ext4_map_blocks() underneath ext4_get_blocks()
  ext4: Use our own write_cache_pages()
  ext4: Show journal_checksum option
  ext4: Fix for ext4_mb_collect_stats()
  ext4: check for a good block group before loading buddy pages
  ext4: Prevent creation of files larger than RLIMIT_FSIZE using fallocate
  ext4: Remove extraneous newlines in ext4_msg() calls
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in fs/ext4/fsync.c

ext4: Make fsync sync new parent directories in no-journal mode

2010-05-17T12:00:00+00:00

Add a new ext4 state to tell us when a file has been newly created; use
that state in ext4_sync_file in no-journal mode to tell us when we need
to sync the parent directory as well as the inode and data itself.  This
fixes a problem in which a panic or power failure may lose the entire
file even when using fsync, since the parent directory entry is lost.

Addresses-Google-Bug: #2480057

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: Drop whitespace at end of lines

2010-05-17T11:00:00+00:00

This patch was generated using:

#!/usr/bin/perl -i
while (<>) {
    s/[ 	]+$//;
    print;
}

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

ext4: check missed return value in ext4_sync_file()

2010-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

blkdev: generalize flags for blkdev_issue_fn functions

2010-04-28T17:47:36+00:00

The patch just convert all blkdev_issue_xxx function to common
set of flags. Wait/allocation semantics preserved.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

ext4: mechanical rename some of the direct I/O get_block's identifiers

2010-03-02T18:28:44+00:00

This commit renames some of the direct I/O's block allocation flags,
variables, and functions introduced in Mingming's "Direct IO for holes
and fallocate" patches so that they can be used by ext4's buffered
write path as well.  Also changed the related function comments
accordingly to cover both direct write and buffered write cases.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4, jbd2: Add barriers for file systems with exernal journals

2009-12-23T11:52:08+00:00

This is a bit complicated because we are trying to optimize when we
send barriers to the fs data disk.  We could just throw in an extra
barrier to the data disk whenever we send a barrier to the journal
disk, but that's not always strictly necessary.

We only need to send a barrier during a commit when there are data
blocks which are must be written out due to an inode written in
ordered mode, or if fsync() depends on the commit to force data blocks
to disk.  Finally, before we drop transactions from the beginning of
the journal during a checkpoint operation, we need to guarantee that
any blocks that were flushed out to the data disk are firmly on the
rust platter before we drop the transaction from the journal.

Thanks to Oleg Drokin for pointing out this flaw in ext3/ext4.

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

ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync

2009-12-09T04:51:10+00:00

We cannot rely on buffer dirty bits during fsync because pdflush can come
before fsync is called and clear dirty bits without forcing a transaction
commit. What we do is that we track which transaction has last changed
the inode and which transaction last changed allocation and force it to
disk on fsync.

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