linux.git/fs/ext4/inode.c, branch v3.6

ext4: nuke pdflush from comments

2012-08-04T08:15:34+00:00

The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush
from ext4 comments.

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ext4: nuke write_super from comments

2012-08-04T08:15:33+00:00

The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from ext3.

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2012-08-01T17:26:23+00:00

Pull second vfs pile from Al Viro:
 "The stuff in there: fsfreeze deadlock fixes by Jan (essentially, the
  deadlock reproduced by xfstests 068), symlink and hardlink restriction
  patches, plus assorted cleanups and fixes.

  Note that another fsfreeze deadlock (emergency thaw one) is *not*
  dealt with - the series by Fernando conflicts a lot with Jan's, breaks
  userland ABI (FIFREEZE semantics gets changed) and trades the deadlock
  for massive vfsmount leak; this is going to be handled next cycle.
  There probably will be another pull request, but that stuff won't be
  in it."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to unrelated changes next to each other in
drivers/{staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c, usb/gadget/storage_common.c}

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
  delousing target_core_file a bit
  Documentation: Correct s_umount state for freeze_fs/unfreeze_fs
  fs: Remove old freezing mechanism
  ext2: Implement freezing
  btrfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  nilfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  ntfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  fuse: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  gfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  ocfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  xfs: Convert to new freezing code
  ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism
  fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write
  fs: Skip atime update on frozen filesystem
  fs: Add freezing handling to mnt_want_write() / mnt_drop_write()
  fs: Improve filesystem freezing handling
  switch the protection of percpu_counter list to spinlock
  nfsd: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
  btrfs: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
  fat: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
  ...

ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism

2012-07-31T05:45:48+00:00

We remove most of frozen checks since upper layer takes care of blocking all
writes. We have to handle protection in ext4_page_mkwrite() in a special way
because we cannot use generic block_page_mkwrite(). Also we add a freeze
protection to ext4_evict_inode() so that iput() of unlinked inode cannot modify
a frozen filesystem (we cannot easily instrument ext4_journal_start() /
ext4_journal_stop() with freeze protection because we are missing the
superblock pointer in ext4_journal_stop() in nojournal mode).

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: "Theodore Ts'o" 
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa 
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis 
Tested-by: Dann Frazier 
Tested-by: Massimo Morana 
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ext4: undo ext4_calc_metadata_amount if we fail to claim space

2012-07-23T04:00:20+00:00

The function ext4_calc_metadata_amount() has side effects, although
it's not obvious from its function name.  So if we fail to claim
space, regardless of whether we retry to claim the space again, or
return an error, we need to undo these side effects.

Otherwise we can end up incorrectly calculating the number of metadata
blocks needed for the operation, which was responsible for an xfstests
failure for test #271 when using an ext2 file system with delalloc
enabled.

Reported-by: Brian Foster 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

ext4: don't let i_reserved_meta_blocks go negative

2012-07-23T03:59:40+00:00

If we hit a condition where we have allocated metadata blocks that
were not appropriately reserved, we risk underflow of
ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks.  In turn, this can throw
sbi->s_dirtyclusters_counter significantly out of whack and undermine
the nondelalloc fallback logic in ext4_nonda_switch().  Warn if this
occurs and set i_allocated_meta_blocks to avoid this problem.

This condition is reproduced by xfstests 270 against ext2 with
delalloc enabled:

Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [  171.526344] EXT4-fs (loop1): delayed block allocation failed for inode 14 at logical offset 64486 with max blocks 64 with error -28
Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [  171.526346] EXT4-fs (loop1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost

270 ultimately fails with an inconsistent filesystem and requires an
fsck to repair.  The cause of the error is an underflow in
ext4_da_update_reserve_space() due to an unreserved meta block
allocation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

ext4: remove unnecessary argument from __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()

2012-07-23T00:37:31+00:00

The '__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()' does not need the 'now' argument
anymore and we can kill it.

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

ext4: don't take the i_mutex lock when doing DIO overwrites

2012-07-23T00:19:31+00:00

Aligned and overwrite direct I/O can be parallelized.  In
ext4_file_dio_write, we first check whether these conditions are
satisfied or not.  If so, we take i_data_sem and release i_mutex lock
directly.  Meanwhile iocb->private is set to indicate that this is a
dio overwrite, and it will be handled in ext4_ext_direct_IO.

[ Added fix from Dan Carpenter to fix locking bug on the error path. ]

CC: Tao Ma 
CC: Eric Sandeen 
CC: Robin Dong 
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter

ext4: add a new nolock flag in ext4_map_blocks

2012-07-09T20:29:29+00:00

EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_LOCK flag is added to indicate that we don't need
to acquire i_data_sem lock in ext4_map_blocks.  Meanwhile, it changes
ext4_get_block() to not start a new journal because when we do a
overwrite dio, there is no any metadata that needs to be modified.

We define a new function called ext4_get_block_write_nolock, which is
used in dio overwrite nolock.  In this function, it doesn't try to
acquire i_data_sem lock and doesn't start a new journal as it does a
lookup.

CC: Tao Ma 
CC: Eric Sandeen 
CC: Robin Dong 
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

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

2012-06-01T17:12:15+00:00

Pull Ext4 updates from Theodore Ts'o:
 "The major new feature added in this update is Darrick J Wong's
  metadata checksum feature, which adds crc32 checksums to ext4's
  metadata fields.

  There is also the usual set of cleanups and bug fixes."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (44 commits)
  ext4: hole-punch use truncate_pagecache_range
  jbd2: use kmem_cache_zalloc wrapper instead of flag
  ext4: remove mb_groups before tearing down the buddy_cache
  ext4: add ext4_mb_unload_buddy in the error path
  ext4: don't trash state flags in EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS
  ext4: let getattr report the right blocks in delalloc+bigalloc
  ext4: add missing save_error_info() to ext4_error()
  ext4: add debugging trigger for ext4_error()
  ext4: protect group inode free counting with group lock
  ext4: use consistent ssize_t type in ext4_file_write()
  ext4: fix format flag in ext4_ext_binsearch_idx()
  ext4: cleanup in ext4_discard_allocated_blocks()
  ext4: return ENOMEM when mounts fail due to lack of memory
  ext4: remove redundundant "(char *) bh->b_data" casts
  ext4: disallow hard-linked directory in ext4_lookup
  ext4: fix potential integer overflow in alloc_flex_gd()
  ext4: remove needs_recovery in ext4_mb_init()
  ext4: force ro mount if ext4_setup_super() fails
  ext4: fix potential NULL dereference in ext4_free_inodes_counts()
  ext4/jbd2: add metadata checksumming to the list of supported features
  ...