linux.git/fs/ext4/ialloc.c, branch v3.10

ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META

2013-04-20T19:46:17+00:00

As Dave Chinner pointed out at the 2013 LSF/MM workshop, it's
important that metadata I/O requests are marked as such to avoid
priority inversions caused by I/O bandwidth throttling.

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

ext4: move quota initialization out of inode allocation transaction

2013-04-19T17:38:14+00:00

Inode allocation transaction is pretty heavy (246 credits with quotas
and extents before previous patch, still around 200 after it).  This is
mostly due to credits required for allocation of quota structures
(credits there are heavily overestimated but it's difficult to make
better estimates if we don't want to wire non-trivial assumptions about
quota format into filesystem).

So move quota initialization out of allocation transaction. That way
transaction for quota structure allocation will be started only if we
need to look up quota structure on disk (rare) and furthermore it will
be started for each quota type separately, not for all of them at once.
This reduces maximum transaction size to 34 is most cases and to 73 in
the worst case.

[ Modified by tytso to clean up the cleanup paths for error handling.
  Also use a separate call to ext4_std_error() for each failure so it
  is easier for someone who is debugging a problem in this function to
  determine which function call failed. ]

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

ext4: fix usless declarations

2013-04-10T02:48:36+00:00

This patch should fix sparse complains about shadow declatations.

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

ext4: use atomic64_t for the per-flexbg free_clusters count

2013-03-12T03:39:59+00:00

A user who was using a 8TB+ file system and with a very large flexbg
size (> 65536) could cause the atomic_t used in the struct flex_groups
to overflow.  This was detected by PaX security patchset:

http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3289&p=12551#p12551

This bug was introduced in commit 9f24e4208f7e, so it's been around
since 2.6.30.  :-(

Fix this by using an atomic64_t for struct orlav_stats's
free_clusters.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

ext4: use KERN_WARNING for warning messages

2013-02-14T20:11:41+00:00

Some messages printed related to a WARN_ON(1) were printed using
KERN_NOTICE.  Use KERN_WARNING or ext4_warning() instead so that
context related to the WARN_ON() is printed at the same printk warning
level (and log files, etc.)

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

ext4: start handle at the last possible moment when creating inodes

2013-02-09T21:27:09+00:00

In ext4_{create,mknod,mkdir,symlink}(), don't start the journal handle
until the inode has been succesfully allocated.  In order to do this,
we need to start the handle in the ext4_new_inode().  So create a new
variant of this function, ext4_new_inode_start_handle(), so the handle
can be created at the last possible minute, before we need to modify
the inode allocation bitmap block.

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

ext4: pass context information to jbd2__journal_start()

2013-02-09T02:59:22+00:00

So we can better understand what bits of ext4 are responsible for
long-running jbd2 handles, use jbd2__journal_start() so we can pass
context information for logging purposes.

The recommended way for finding the longer-running handles is:

   T=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
   EVENT=$T/events/jbd2/jbd2_handle_stats
   echo "interval > 5" > $EVENT/filter
   echo 1 > $EVENT/enable

   ./run-my-fs-benchmark

   cat $T/trace > /tmp/problem-handles

This will list handles that were active for longer than 20ms.  Having
longer-running handles is bad, because a commit started at the wrong
time could stall for those 20+ milliseconds, which could delay an
fsync() or an O_SYNC operation.  Here is an example line from the
trace file describing a handle which lived on for 311 jiffies, or over
1.2 seconds:

postmark-2917  [000] ....   196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32 
   tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1
   dirtied_blocks 0

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

ext4: enable ext4 inline support

2012-12-10T19:06:03+00:00

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

ext4: fix possible use after free with metadata csum

2012-11-30T02:21:22+00:00

Commit fa77dcfafeaa introduces block bitmap checksum calculation into
ext4_new_inode() in the case that block group was uninitialized.
However we brelse() the bitmap buffer before we attempt to checksum it
so we have no guarantee that the buffer is still there.

Fix this by releasing the buffer after the possible checksum
computation.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

ext4: fix unjournaled inode bitmap modification

2012-10-29T02:24:57+00:00

commit 119c0d4460b001e44b41dcf73dc6ee794b98bd31 changed
ext4_new_inode() such that the inode bitmap was being modified
outside a transaction, which could lead to corruption, and was
discovered when journal_checksum found a bad checksum in the
journal during log replay.

Nix ran into this when using the journal_async_commit mount
option, which enables journal checksumming.  The ensuing
journal replay failures due to the bad checksums led to
filesystem corruption reported as the now infamous
"Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug"

[ Changed by tytso to only call ext4_journal_get_write_access() only
  when we're fairly certain that we're going to allocate the inode. ]

I've tested this by mounting with journal_checksum and
running fsstress then dropping power; I've also tested by
hacking DM to create snapshots w/o first quiescing, which
allows me to test journal replay repeatedly w/o actually
power-cycling the box.  Without the patch I hit a journal
checksum error every time.  With this fix it survives
many iterations.

Reported-by: Nix 
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org