linux.git/fs/ext4, branch v3.0-rc4

fs: pass exact type of data dirties to ->dirty_inode

2011-05-27T11:04:40+00:00

Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or
anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it
needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not.

This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet.  I plan
to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting
this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid
tree interdependencies.

Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block.  That
has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it.

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

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

2011-05-26T17:50:56+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem:
  xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory
  ocfs2: add cleancache support
  ext4: add cleancache support
  btrfs: add cleancache support
  ext3: add cleancache support
  mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache
  mm: cleancache core ops functions and config
  fs: add field to superblock to support cleancache
  mm/fs: cleancache documentation

Fix up trivial conflict in fs/btrfs/extent_io.c due to includes

ext4: add cleancache support

2011-05-26T16:02:03+00:00

This seventh patch of eight in this cleancache series "opts-in"
cleancache for ext4.  Filesystems must explicitly enable cleancache
by calling cleancache_init_fs anytime an instance of the filesystem
is mounted. For ext4, all other cleancache hooks are in
the VFS layer including the matching cleancache_flush_fs
hook which must be called on unmount.

Details and a FAQ can be found in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt

[v6-v8: no changes]
[v5: jeremy@goop.org: simplify init hook and any future fs init changes]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer 
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Ted Ts'o 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik Van Riel 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Nitin Gupta

ext4: teach ext4_ext_split to calculate extents efficiently

2011-05-25T21:41:48+00:00

Make ext4_ext_split() get extents to be moved by calculating in a statement
instead of counting in a loop.

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

ext4: Convert ext4 to new truncate calling convention

2011-05-25T21:39:48+00:00

Trivial conversion.  Fixup one error handling case calling vmtruncate()
and remove ->truncate callback. We also fix a bug that IS_IMMUTABLE and
IS_APPEND files could not be truncated during failed writes. In fact, the
test can be completely removed as upper layers do necessary permission
checks for truncate in do_sys_[f]truncate() and may_open() anyway.

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

ext4: do not normalize block requests from fallocate()

2011-05-25T11:41:54+00:00

Currently, an fallocate request of size slightly larger than a power of
2 is turned into two block requests, each a power of 2, with the extra
blocks pre-allocated for future use. When an application calls
fallocate, it already has an idea about how large the file may grow so
there is usually little benefit to reserve extra blocks on the
preallocation list. This reduces disk fragmentation.

Tested: fsstress. Also verified manually that fallocat'ed files are
contiguously laid out with this change (whereas without it they begin at
power-of-2 boundaries, leaving blocks in between). CPU usage of
fallocate is not appreciably higher.  In a tight fallocate loop, CPU
usage hovers between 5%-8% with this change, and 5%-7% without it.

Using a simulated file system aging program which the file system to
70%, the percentage of free extents larger than 8MB (as measured by
e2freefrag) increased from 38.8% without this change, to 69.4% with
this change.

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

ext4: enable "punch hole" functionality

2011-05-25T11:41:50+00:00

This patch adds new routines: "ext4_punch_hole" "ext4_ext_punch_hole"
and "ext4_ext_check_cache"

fallocate has been modified to call ext4_punch_hole when the punch hole
flag is passed.  At the moment, we only support punching holes in
extents, so this routine is pretty much a wrapper for the ext4_ext_punch_hole
routine.

The ext4_ext_punch_hole routine first completes all outstanding writes
with the associated pages, and then releases them.  The unblock
aligned data is zeroed, and all blocks in between are punched out.

The ext4_ext_check_cache routine is very similar to ext4_ext_in_cache
except it accepts a ext4_ext_cache parameter instead of a ext4_extent
parameter.  This routine is used by ext4_ext_punch_hole to check and
see if a block in a hole that has been cached.  The ext4_ext_cache
parameter is necessary because the members ext4_extent structure are
not large enough to hold a 32 bit value.  The existing
ext4_ext_in_cache routine has become a wrapper to this new function.

[ext4 punch hole patch series 5/5 v7] 

Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao

ext4: add "punch hole" flag to ext4_map_blocks()

2011-05-25T11:41:46+00:00

This patch adds a new flag to ext4_map_blocks() that specifies the
given range of blocks should be punched out.  Extents are first
converted to uninitialized extents before they are punched
out. Because punching a hole may require that the extent be split, it
is possible that the splitting may need more blocks than are
available.  To deal with this, use of reserved blocks are enabled to
allow the split to proceed.

The routine then returns the number of blocks successfully
punched out.

[ext4 punch hole patch series 4/5 v7]

Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao

ext4: punch out extents

2011-05-25T11:41:43+00:00

This patch modifies the truncate routines to support hole punching
Below is a brief summary of the patches changes:

- Added end param to ext_ext4_rm_leaf
        This function has been modified to accept an end parameter
        which enables it to punch holes in leafs instead of just
        truncating them.

- Implemented the "remove head" case in the ext_remove_blocks routine
        This routine is used by ext_ext4_rm_leaf to remove the tail
        of an extent during a truncate.  The new ext_ext4_rm_leaf
        routine will now also use it to remove the head of an extent in the
        case that the hole covers a region of blocks at the beginning
        of an extent.

- Added "end" param to ext4_ext_remove_space routine
        This function has been modified to accept a stop parameter, which
        is passed through to ext4_ext_rm_leaf.

[ext4 punch hole patch series 3/5 v6] 

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

ext4: add new function ext4_block_zero_page_range()

2011-05-25T11:41:32+00:00

This patch modifies the existing ext4_block_truncate_page() function
which was used by the truncate code path, and which zeroes out block
unaligned data, by adding a new length parameter, and renames it to
ext4_block_zero_page_rage().  This function can now be used to zero out the
head of a block, the tail of a block, or the middle
of a block.

The ext4_block_truncate_page() function is now a wrapper to
ext4_block_zero_page_range().

[ext4 punch hole patch series 2/5 v7] 

Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao