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

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2013-05-14T16:30:54+00:00

Pull ext4 update from Ted Ts'o:
 "Fixed regressions (two stability regressions and a performance
  regression) introduced during the 3.10-rc1 merge window.

  Also included is a bug fix relating to allocating blocks after
  resizing an ext3 file system when using the ext4 file system driver"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  jbd,jbd2: fix oops in jbd2_journal_put_journal_head()
  ext4: revert "ext4: use io_end for multiple bios"
  ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files
  ext4: fix fio regression

ext4: revert "ext4: use io_end for multiple bios"

2013-05-11T23:07:42+00:00

This reverts commit 4eec708d263f0ee10861d69251708a225b64cac7.

Multiple users have reported crashes which is apparently caused by
this commit.  Thanks to Dmitry Monakhov for bisecting it.

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

Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

2013-05-08T03:49:51+00:00

Merge more incoming from Andrew Morton:

 - Various fixes which were stalled or which I picked up recently

 - A large rotorooting of the AIO code.  Allegedly to improve
   performance but I don't really have good performance numbers (I might
   have lost the email) and I can't raise Kent today.  I held this out
   of 3.9 and we could give it another cycle if it's all too late/scary.

I ended up taking only the first two thirds of the AIO rotorooting.  I
left the percpu parts and the batch completion for later.  - Linus

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (33 commits)
  aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h
  aio: kill ki_retry
  aio: kill ki_key
  aio: give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines
  aio: kill struct aio_ring_info
  aio: kill batch allocation
  aio: change reqs_active to include unreaped completions
  aio: use cancellation list lazily
  aio: use flush_dcache_page()
  aio: make aio_read_evt() more efficient, convert to hrtimers
  wait: add wait_event_hrtimeout()
  aio: refcounting cleanup
  aio: make aio_put_req() lockless
  aio: do fget() after aio_get_req()
  aio: dprintk() -> pr_debug()
  aio: move private stuff out of aio.h
  aio: add kiocb_cancel()
  aio: kill return value of aio_complete()
  char: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero}
  aio: remove retry-based AIO
  ...

aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

2013-05-08T03:16:25+00:00

Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Zach Brown 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise 
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

make blkdev_put() return void

2013-05-07T06:16:31+00:00

same story as with the previous patches - note that return
value of blkdev_close() is lost, since there's nowhere the
caller (__fput()) could return it to.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files

2013-05-06T03:10:00+00:00

In the case where we are allocating for a non-extent file,
we must limit the groups we allocate from to those below
2^32 blocks, and ext4_mb_regular_allocator() attempts to
do this initially by putting a cap on ngroups for the
subsequent search loop.

However, the initial target group comes in from the 
allocation context (ac), and it may already be beyond
the artificially limited ngroups.  In this case,
the limit

	if (group == ngroups)
		group = 0;

at the top of the loop is never true, and the loop will
run away.

Catch this case inside the loop and reset the search to
start at group 0.

[sandeen@redhat.com: add commit msg & comments]

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

ext4: fix fio regression

2013-05-03T06:15:52+00:00

We (Linux Kernel Performance project) found a regression introduced
by commit:

  f7fec032aa ext4: track all extent status in extent status tree

The commit causes about 20% performance decrease in fio random write
test. Profiler shows that rb_next() uses a lot of CPU time. The call
stack is:

  rb_next
  ext4_es_find_delayed_extent
  ext4_map_blocks
  _ext4_get_block
  ext4_get_block_write
  __blockdev_direct_IO
  ext4_direct_IO
  generic_file_direct_write
  __generic_file_aio_write
  ext4_file_write
  aio_rw_vect_retry
  aio_run_iocb
  do_io_submit
  sys_io_submit
  system_call_fastpath
  io_submit
  td_io_getevents
  io_u_queued_complete
  thread_main
  main
  __libc_start_main

The cause is that ext4_es_find_delayed_extent() doesn't have an
upper bound, it keeps searching until a delayed extent is found.
When there are a lots of non-delayed entries in the extent state
tree, ext4_es_find_delayed_extent() may uses a lot of CPU time.

Reported-by: LKP project 
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng 
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o"

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

2013-05-02T00:51:54+00:00

Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).

7kloc removed.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
  don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
  proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
  proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
  proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
  take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
  ppc: Clean up scanlog
  ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
  hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name
  drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
  zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
  reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
  proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
  airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
  rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
  proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
  proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
  proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
  ...

ext4: fix type-widening bug in inode table readahead code

2013-04-23T12:59:35+00:00

Due to a missing cast, the high 32-bits of a 64-bit block number used
when calculating the readahead block for inode tables can get lost.
This means we can end up fetching the wrong blocks for readahead for
file systems > 16TB.

Linus found this when experimenting with an enhacement to the sparse
static code checker which checks for missing widening casts before
binary "not" operators.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: add check for inodes_count overflow in new resize ioctl

2013-04-22T02:56:32+00:00

Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #913245

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