linux.git/fs/ext4, branch v2.6.37

ext4: fix on-line resizing regression

2010-12-23T20:00:54+00:00

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25352

This regression was caused by commit a31437b85: "ext4: use
sb_issue_zeroout in setup_new_group_blocks", by accidentally dropping
the code which reserved the block group descriptor and inode table
blocks.

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

ext4: fix typo which broke '..' detection in ext4_find_entry()

2010-12-15T02:45:31+00:00

There should be a check for the NUL character instead of '0'.

Fortunately the only thing that cares about this is NFS serving, which
is why we didn't notice this in the merge window testing.

Reported-by: Phil Carmody 
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: Turn off multiple page-io submission by default

2010-12-14T20:27:50+00:00

Jon Nelson has found a test case which causes postgresql to fail with
the error:

psql:t.sql:4: ERROR: invalid page header in block 38269 of relation base/16384/16581

Under memory pressure, it looks like part of a file can end up getting
replaced by zero's.  Until we can figure out the cause, we'll roll
back the change and use block_write_full_page() instead of
ext4_bio_write_page().  The new, more efficient writing function can
be used via the mount option mblk_io_submit, so we can test and fix
the new page I/O code.

To reproduce the problem, install postgres 8.4 or 9.0, and pin enough
memory such that the system just at the end of triggering writeback
before running the following sql script:

begin;
create temporary table foo as select x as a, ARRAY[x] as b FROM
generate_series(1, 10000000 ) AS x;
create index foo_a_idx on foo (a);
create index foo_b_idx on foo USING GIN (b);
rollback;

If the temporary table is created on a hard drive partition which is
encrypted using dm_crypt, then under memory pressure, approximately
30-40% of the time, pgsql will issue the above failure.

This patch should fix this problem, and the problem will come back if
the file system is mounted with the mblk_io_submit mount option.

Reported-by: Jon Nelson 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: Add EXT4_IOC_TRIM ioctl to handle batched discard

2010-11-20T02:47:07+00:00

Filesystem independent ioctl was rejected as not common enough to be in
core vfs ioctl. Since we still need to access to this functionality this
commit adds ext4 specific ioctl EXT4_IOC_TRIM to dispatch
ext4_trim_fs().

It takes fstrim_range structure as an argument. fstrim_range is definec in
the include/linux/fs.h and its definition is as follows.

struct fstrim_range {
	__u64 start;
	__u64 len;
	__u64 minlen;
}

start	- first Byte to trim
len	- number of Bytes to trim from start
minlen	- minimum extent length to trim, free extents shorter than this
  number of Bytes will be ignored. This will be rounded up to fs
  block size.

After the FITRIM is done, the number of actually discarded Bytes is stored
in fstrim_range.len to give the user better insight on how much storage
space has been really released for wear-leveling.

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

fs: Do not dispatch FITRIM through separate super_operation

2010-11-20T02:18:35+00:00

There was concern that FITRIM ioctl is not common enough to be included
in core vfs ioctl, as Christoph Hellwig pointed out there's no real point
in dispatching this out to a separate vector instead of just through
->ioctl.

So this commit removes ioctl_fstrim() from vfs ioctl and trim_fs
from super_operation structure.

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

ext4: ext4_fill_super shouldn't return 0 on corruption

2010-11-19T14:56:44+00:00

At the start of ext4_fill_super, ret is set to -EINVAL, and any failure path
out of that function returns ret.  However, the generic_check_addressable
clause sets ret = 0 (if it passes), which means that a subsequent failure (e.g.
a group checksum error) returns 0 even though the mount should fail.  This
causes vfs_kern_mount in turn to think that the mount succeeded, leading to an
oops.

A simple fix is to avoid using ret for the generic_check_addressable check,
which was last changed in commit 30ca22c70e3ef0a96ff84de69cd7e8561b416cb2.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: missing unlock in ext4_clear_request_list()

2010-11-18T02:46:25+00:00

If the the li_request_list was empty then it returned with the lock
held.  Instead of adding a "goto unlock" I just removed that special
case and let it go past the empty list_for_each_safe().

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

ext4: fix setting random pages PageUptodate

2010-11-18T02:46:06+00:00

ext4_end_bio calls put_page and kmem_cache_free before calling
SetPageUpdate(). This can result in setting the PageUptodate bit on
random pages and causes the following BUG:

 BUG: Bad page state in process rm  pfn:52e54
 page:ffffea0001222260 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
 arch kernel: page flags: 0x4000000000000008(uptodate)

Fix the problem by moving put_io_page() after the SetPageUpdate() call.

Thanks to Hugh Dickins for analyzing this problem.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

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

2010-11-08T19:54:53+00:00

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: Add new ext4 inode tracepoints
  ext4: Don't call sb_issue_discard() in ext4_free_blocks()
  ext4: do not try to grab the s_umount semaphore in ext4_quota_off
  ext4: fix potential race when freeing ext4_io_page structures
  ext4: handle writeback of inodes which are being freed
  ext4: initialize the percpu counters before replaying the journal
  ext4: "ret" may be used uninitialized in ext4_lazyinit_thread()
  ext4: fix lazyinit hang after removing request

ext4: Add new ext4 inode tracepoints

2010-11-08T18:51:33+00:00

Add ext4_evict_inode, ext4_drop_inode, ext4_mark_inode_dirty, and
ext4_begin_ordered_truncate()

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