Instead of abusing a buffer_head flag just add a variant of
sync_dirty_buffer which allows passing the exact type of write
flag required.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

This should remove the last exclusive lock from start_this_handle(),
so that we should now be able to start multiple transactions at the
same time on large SMP systems.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Lockstat reports have shown that j_state_lock is a major source of
lock contention, especially on systems with more than 4 CPU cores.  So
change it to be a read/write spinlock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

By using an atomic_t for t_updates and t_outstanding credits, this
should allow us to not need to take transaction t_handle_lock in
jbd2_journal_stop().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Saying things like "sync failed" when a device does
not support barriers makes users slightly more worried than
they need to be; rather than talking about sync failures,
let's just state the barrier-based facts.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

The patch just convert all blkdev_issue_xxx function to common
set of flags. Wait/allocation semantics preserved.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

commit_transaction has the same value as journal->j_running_transaction,
so we can simplify the assert statement.

Signed-off-by: dingdinghua <dingdinghua@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer until
we know that "add to orphan" operation has definitely been
committed, otherwise the log space of committing transation
may be freed and reused before truncate get committed, updates
may get lost if crash happens.

Signed-off-by: dingdinghua <dingdinghua@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

This is a bit complicated because we are trying to optimize when we
send barriers to the fs data disk.  We could just throw in an extra
barrier to the data disk whenever we send a barrier to the journal
disk, but that's not always strictly necessary.

We only need to send a barrier during a commit when there are data
blocks which are must be written out due to an inode written in
ordered mode, or if fsync() depends on the commit to force data blocks
to disk.  Finally, before we drop transactions from the beginning of
the journal during a checkpoint operation, we need to guarantee that
any blocks that were flushed out to the data disk are firmly on the
rust platter before we drop the transaction from the journal.

Thanks to Oleg Drokin for pointing out this flaw in ext3/ext4.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (21 commits)
  ext3: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Support for 64-bit quota format
  ext3: Support for vfsv1 quota format
  quota: Implement quota format with 64-bit space and inode limits
  quota: Move definition of QFMT_OCFS2 to linux/quota.h
  ext2: fix comment in ext2_find_entry about return values
  ext3: Unify log messages in ext3
  ext2: clear uptodate flag on super block I/O error
  ext2: Unify log messages in ext2
  ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
  ext3: Don't update the superblock in ext3_statfs()
  ext3: journal all modifications in ext3_xattr_set_handle
  ext2: Explicitly assign values to on-disk enum of filetypes
  quota: Fix WARN_ON in lookup_one_len
  const: struct quota_format_ops
  ubifs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  afs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  kill wait_on_page_writeback_range
  vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics
  ...