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<title>jbd: do not try lock_acquire after handle made invalid</title>
<updated>2008-01-17T23:38:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Bonn</name>
<email>jonas.bonn@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-17T23:21:13+00:00</published>
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This likely fixes the oops in __lock_acquire reported as:

http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=2753&amp;msgid=
http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=2749&amp;msgid=

In these reported oopses, start_this_handle is returning -EROFS.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas.bonn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This likely fixes the oops in __lock_acquire reported as:

http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=2753&amp;msgid=
http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=2749&amp;msgid=

In these reported oopses, start_this_handle is returning -EROFS.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas.bonn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd: Fix assertion failure in fs/jbd/checkpoint.c</title>
<updated>2007-12-05T17:21:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2007-12-05T07:45:27+00:00</published>
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Before we start committing a transaction, we call
__journal_clean_checkpoint_list() to cleanup transaction's written-back
buffers.

If this call happens to remove all of them (and there were already some
buffers), __journal_remove_checkpoint() will decide to free the transaction
because it isn't (yet) a committing transaction and soon we fail some
assertion - the transaction really isn't ready to be freed :).

We change the check in __journal_remove_checkpoint() to free only a
transaction in T_FINISHED state.  The locking there is subtle though (as
everywhere in JBD ;().  We use j_list_lock to protect the check and a
subsequent call to __journal_drop_transaction() and do the same in the end
of journal_commit_transaction() which is the only place where a transaction
can get to T_FINISHED state.

Probably I'm too paranoid here and such locking is not really necessary -
checkpoint lists are processed only from log_do_checkpoint() where a
transaction must be already committed to be processed or from
__journal_clean_checkpoint_list() where kjournald itself calls it and thus
transaction cannot change state either.  Better be safe if something
changes in future...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Before we start committing a transaction, we call
__journal_clean_checkpoint_list() to cleanup transaction's written-back
buffers.

If this call happens to remove all of them (and there were already some
buffers), __journal_remove_checkpoint() will decide to free the transaction
because it isn't (yet) a committing transaction and soon we fail some
assertion - the transaction really isn't ready to be freed :).

We change the check in __journal_remove_checkpoint() to free only a
transaction in T_FINISHED state.  The locking there is subtle though (as
everywhere in JBD ;().  We use j_list_lock to protect the check and a
subsequent call to __journal_drop_transaction() and do the same in the end
of journal_commit_transaction() which is the only place where a transaction
can get to T_FINISHED state.

Probably I'm too paranoid here and such locking is not really necessary -
checkpoint lists are processed only from log_do_checkpoint() where a
transaction must be already committed to be processed or from
__journal_clean_checkpoint_list() where kjournald itself calls it and thus
transaction cannot change state either.  Better be safe if something
changes in future...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>JBD: Fix JBD warnings when compiling with CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG</title>
<updated>2007-10-19T18:53:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jose R. Santos</name>
<email>jrs@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-19T06:39:23+00:00</published>
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Note from Mingming's JBD2 fix:

Noticed all warnings are occurs when the debug level is 0.  Then found the
"jbd2: Move jbd2-debug file to debugfs" patch
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f49d5d019afa4e94253bfc92f0daca3badb990b

changed the jbd2_journal_enable_debug from int type to u8, makes the
jbd_debug comparision is always true when the debugging level is 0.  Thus
the compile warning occurs.

Thought about changing the jbd2_journal_enable_debug data type back to int,
but can't, because the jbd2-debug is moved to debug fs, where calling
debugfs_create_u8() to create the debugfs entry needs the value to be u8
type.

Even if we changed the data type back to int, the code is still buggy,
kernel should not print jbd2 debug message if the jbd2_journal_enable_debug
is set to 0.  But this is not the case.

The fix is change the level of debugging to 1.  The same should fixed in
ext3/JBD, but currently ext3 jbd-debug via /proc fs is broken, so we
probably should fix it all together.

Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos &lt;jrs@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Note from Mingming's JBD2 fix:

Noticed all warnings are occurs when the debug level is 0.  Then found the
"jbd2: Move jbd2-debug file to debugfs" patch
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f49d5d019afa4e94253bfc92f0daca3badb990b

changed the jbd2_journal_enable_debug from int type to u8, makes the
jbd_debug comparision is always true when the debugging level is 0.  Thus
the compile warning occurs.

Thought about changing the jbd2_journal_enable_debug data type back to int,
but can't, because the jbd2-debug is moved to debug fs, where calling
debugfs_create_u8() to create the debugfs entry needs the value to be u8
type.

Even if we changed the data type back to int, the code is still buggy,
kernel should not print jbd2 debug message if the jbd2_journal_enable_debug
is set to 0.  But this is not the case.

The fix is change the level of debugging to 1.  The same should fixed in
ext3/JBD, but currently ext3 jbd-debug via /proc fs is broken, so we
probably should fix it all together.

Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos &lt;jrs@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd: fix commit code to properly abort journal</title>
<updated>2007-10-19T18:53:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-19T06:39:22+00:00</published>
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We should really call journal_abort() and not __journal_abort_hard() in
case of errors.  The latter call does not record the error in the journal
superblock and thus filesystem won't be marked as with errors later (and
user could happily mount it without any warning).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We should really call journal_abort() and not __journal_abort_hard() in
case of errors.  The latter call does not record the error in the journal
superblock and thus filesystem won't be marked as with errors later (and
user could happily mount it without any warning).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jbd: config_jbd_debug cannot create /proc entry</title>
<updated>2007-10-19T18:53:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jose R. Santos</name>
<email>jrs@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-19T06:39:22+00:00</published>
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The jbd-debug file used to be located in /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug, but
create_proc_entry() does not do lookups on file names that are more that
one directory deep.  This causes the entry creation to fail and hence, no
proc file is created.

Instead of fixing this on procfs might as well move the jbd2-debug file to
debugfs which would be the preferred location for this kind of tunable.
The new location is now /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: zillions of cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos &lt;jrs@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The jbd-debug file used to be located in /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug, but
create_proc_entry() does not do lookups on file names that are more that
one directory deep.  This causes the entry creation to fail and hence, no
proc file is created.

Instead of fixing this on procfs might as well move the jbd2-debug file to
debugfs which would be the preferred location for this kind of tunable.
The new location is now /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: zillions of cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos &lt;jrs@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>JBD/ext3 cleanups: convert to kzalloc</title>
<updated>2007-10-19T18:53:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mingming Cao</name>
<email>cmm@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-19T06:39:20+00:00</published>
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Convert kmalloc to kzalloc() and get rid of the memset().

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Convert kmalloc to kzalloc() and get rid of the memset().

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparse pointer use of zero as null</title>
<updated>2007-10-18T21:37:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-18T10:07:05+00:00</published>
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Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL
pointer.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL
pointer.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>JBD: replace jbd_kmalloc with kmalloc directly</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T22:49:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mingming Cao</name>
<email>cmm@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-16T22:38:25+00:00</published>
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This patch cleans up jbd_kmalloc and replace it with kmalloc directly

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
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This patch cleans up jbd_kmalloc and replace it with kmalloc directly

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>JBD: JBD slab allocation cleanups</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T22:49:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mingming Cao</name>
<email>cmm@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-16T22:38:25+00:00</published>
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JBD: Replace slab allocations with page allocations

JBD allocate memory for committed_data and frozen_data from slab. However
JBD should not pass slab pages down to the block layer. Use page allocator pages instead. This will also prepare JBD for the large blocksize patchset.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
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JBD: Replace slab allocations with page allocations

JBD allocate memory for committed_data and frozen_data from slab. However
JBD should not pass slab pages down to the block layer. Use page allocator pages instead. This will also prepare JBD for the large blocksize patchset.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations</title>
<updated>2007-10-16T16:43:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mel@csn.ul.ie</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-16T08:25:52+00:00</published>
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This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as
network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations.  When something
like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to
be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation.

This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a
new MIGRATE_TYPE.  The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be
reclaimed on demand, but not moved.  i.e.  they can be migrated by deleting
them and re-reading the information from elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@shadowen.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as
network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations.  When something
like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to
be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation.

This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a
new MIGRATE_TYPE.  The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be
reclaimed on demand, but not moved.  i.e.  they can be migrated by deleting
them and re-reading the information from elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@shadowen.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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