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<title>Merge branch 'next' into upstream-merge</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T03:44:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2010-10-28T03:44:47+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	fs/ext4/inode.c
	fs/ext4/mballoc.c
	include/trace/events/ext4.h
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Conflicts:
	fs/ext4/inode.c
	fs/ext4/mballoc.c
	include/trace/events/ext4.h
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<title>ext4: rename mark_bitmap_end() to ext4_mark_bitmap_end()</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T01:30:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2010-10-28T01:30:15+00:00</published>
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Fix a namespace leak from fs/ext4

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


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Fix a namespace leak from fs/ext4

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


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<title>ext4: make various ext4 functions be static</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T01:30:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2010-10-28T01:30:14+00:00</published>
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These functions have no need to be exported beyond file context.

No functions needed to be moved for this commit; just some function
declarations changed to be static and removed from header files.

(A similar patch was submitted by Eric Sandeen, but I wanted to handle
code movement in separate patches to make sure code changes didn't
accidentally get dropped.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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These functions have no need to be exported beyond file context.

No functions needed to be moved for this commit; just some function
declarations changed to be static and removed from header files.

(A similar patch was submitted by Eric Sandeen, but I wanted to handle
code movement in separate patches to make sure code changes didn't
accidentally get dropped.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: add interface to advertise ext4 features in sysfs</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T01:30:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Czerner</name>
<email>lczerner@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-10-28T01:30:05+00:00</published>
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User-space should have the opportunity to check what features doest ext4
support in each particular copy. This adds easy interface by creating new
"features" directory in sys/fs/ext4/. In that directory files
advertising feature names can be created.

Add lazy_itable_init to the feature list.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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User-space should have the opportunity to check what features doest ext4
support in each particular copy. This adds easy interface by creating new
"features" directory in sys/fs/ext4/. In that directory files
advertising feature names can be created.

Add lazy_itable_init to the feature list.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: add support for lazy inode table initialization</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T01:30:05+00:00</updated>
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<name>Lukas Czerner</name>
<email>lczerner@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-10-28T01:30:05+00:00</published>
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When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it
considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are
not zeroed out.  The fact that parts of the inode table are
uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors,
which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has
been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group
checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and
the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to
report false problems.

Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon
as possble.  This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely
use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting
file systems.

This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is
created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed.  There
is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the
first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit
thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the
request list.

This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up
scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule
time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to
zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with
the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10).  We are doing
this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no
longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate
structures and exits (and can be created later later by another
filesystem).

We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not
care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we
have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode
allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we
take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem
in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the
group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait.

This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it
considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are
not zeroed out.  The fact that parts of the inode table are
uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors,
which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has
been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group
checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and
the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to
report false problems.

Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon
as possble.  This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely
use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting
file systems.

This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is
created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed.  There
is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the
first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit
thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the
request list.

This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up
scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule
time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to
zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with
the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10).  We are doing
this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no
longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate
structures and exits (and can be created later later by another
filesystem).

We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not
care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we
have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode
allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we
take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem
in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the
group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait.

This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T18:26:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T18:26:52+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining -&gt;clear_inode() to -&gt;evict_inode()
  Make -&gt;drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining -&gt;clear_inode() to -&gt;evict_inode()
  Make -&gt;drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
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<entry>
<title>convert ext4 to -&gt;evict_inode()</title>
<updated>2010-08-09T20:48:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-07T17:16:22+00:00</published>
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pretty much brute-force...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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pretty much brute-force...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ext4: Clean up s_dirt handling</title>
<updated>2010-06-12T03:14:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2010-06-12T03:14:04+00:00</published>
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We don't need to set s_dirt in most of the ext4 code when journaling
is enabled.  In ext3/4 some of the summary statistics for # of free
inodes, blocks, and directories are calculated from the per-block
group statistics when the file system is mounted or unmounted.  As a
result the superblock doesn't have to be updated, either via the
journal or by setting s_dirt.  There are a few exceptions, most
notably when resizing the file system, where the superblock needs to
be modified --- and in that case it should be done as a journalled
operation if possible, and s_dirt set only in no-journal mode.

This patch will optimize out some unneeded disk writes when using ext4
with a journal.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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We don't need to set s_dirt in most of the ext4 code when journaling
is enabled.  In ext3/4 some of the summary statistics for # of free
inodes, blocks, and directories are calculated from the per-block
group statistics when the file system is mounted or unmounted.  As a
result the superblock doesn't have to be updated, either via the
journal or by setting s_dirt.  There are a few exceptions, most
notably when resizing the file system, where the superblock needs to
be modified --- and in that case it should be done as a journalled
operation if possible, and s_dirt set only in no-journal mode.

This patch will optimize out some unneeded disk writes when using ext4
with a journal.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2010-05-27T17:26:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-27T17:26:37+00:00</published>
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* '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
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* '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
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<entry>
<title>ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T22:31:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-04T14:31:51+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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