linux.git/fs/nilfs2, branch v2.6.37

nilfs2: fix regression of garbage collection ioctl

2010-12-16T05:35:18+00:00

On 2.6.37-rc1, garbage collection ioctl of nilfs was broken due to the
commit 263d90cefc7d82a0 ("nilfs2: remove own inode hash used for GC"),
and leading to filesystem corruption.

The patch doesn't queue gc-inodes for log writer if they are reused
through the vfs inode cache.  Here, gc-inode is the inode which
buffers blocks to be relocated on GC.  That patch queues gc-inodes in
nilfs_init_gcinode() function, but this function is not called when
they don't have I_NEW flag.  Thus, some of live blocks are wrongly
overrode without being moved to new logs.

This resolves the problem by moving the gc-inode queueing to an outer
function to ensure it's done right.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: fix typo in comment of nilfs_dat_move function

2010-11-24T03:51:48+00:00

Fixes a typo: "uncommited" -> "uncommitted".

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: nilfs_iget_for_gc() returns ERR_PTR

2010-11-23T07:32:19+00:00

nilfs_iget_for_gc() returns an ERR_PTR() on failure and doesn't return
NULL.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

convert nilfs

2010-10-29T08:16:53+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2010-10-27T00:58:44+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
  split invalidate_inodes()
  fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
  fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
  fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
  fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
  fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
  fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
  fsnotify: use dget_parent
  smbfs: use dget_parent
  exportfs: use dget_parent
  fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
  fs: clean up dentry lru modification
  fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
  fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
  fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
  fs: simplify __d_free
  fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
  fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
  fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
  new helper: ihold()
  ...

mm: add account_page_writeback()

2010-10-26T23:52:06+00:00

To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback
behaviour this patch adds two counters to /proc/vmstat.

  # grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat
  nr_dirtied 3747
  # grep nr_written /proc/vmstat
  nr_written 3618

These entries allow user apps to understand writeback behaviour over time
and learn how it is impacting their performance.  Currently there is no
way to inspect dirty and writeback speed over time.  It's not possible for
nr_dirty/nr_writeback.

These entries are necessary to give visibility into writeback behaviour.
We have /proc/diskstats which lets us understand the io in the block
layer.  We have blktrace for more in depth understanding.  We have
e2fsprogs and debugsfs to give insight into the file systems behaviour,
but we don't offer our users the ability understand what writeback is
doing.  There is no way to know how active it is over the whole system, if
it's falling behind or to quantify it's efforts.  With these values
exported users can easily see how much data applications are sending
through writeback and also at what rates writeback is processing this
data.  Comparing the rates of change between the two allow developers to
see when writeback is not able to keep up with incoming traffic and the
rate of dirty memory being sent to the IO back end.  This allows folks to
understand their io workloads and track kernel issues.  Non kernel
engineers at Google often use these counters to solve puzzling performance
problems.

Patch #4 adds a pernode vmstat file with nr_dirtied and nr_written

Patch #5 add writeback thresholds to /proc/vmstat

Currently these values are in debugfs. But they should be promoted to
/proc since they are useful for developers who are writing databases
and file servers and are not debugging the kernel.

The output is as below:

 # grep threshold /proc/vmstat
 nr_pages_dirty_threshold 409111
 nr_pages_dirty_background_threshold 818223

This patch:

This allows code outside of the mm core to safely manipulate page
writeback state and not worry about the other accounting.  Not using these
routines means that some code will lose track of the accounting and we get
bugs.

Modify nilfs2 to use interface.

Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke 
Cc: Jiro SEKIBA 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

new helper: ihold()

2010-10-26T01:26:11+00:00

Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2

2010-10-23T08:26:47+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (36 commits)
  nilfs2: eliminate sparse warning - "context imbalance"
  nilfs2: eliminate sparse warnings - "symbol not declared"
  nilfs2: get rid of bdi from nilfs object
  nilfs2: change license of exported header file
  nilfs2: add bdev freeze/thaw support
  nilfs2: accept 64-bit checkpoint numbers in cp mount option
  nilfs2: remove own inode allocator and destructor for metadata files
  nilfs2: get rid of back pointer to writable sb instance
  nilfs2: get rid of mi_nilfs back pointer to nilfs object
  nilfs2: see state of root dentry for mount check of snapshots
  nilfs2: use iget for all metadata files
  nilfs2: get rid of GCDAT inode
  nilfs2: add routines to redirect access to buffers of DAT file
  nilfs2: add routines to roll back state of DAT file
  nilfs2: add routines to save and restore bmap state
  nilfs2: do not allocate nilfs_mdt_info structure to gc-inodes
  nilfs2: allow nilfs_clear_inode to clear metadata file inodes
  nilfs2: get rid of snapshot mount flag
  nilfs2: simplify life cycle management of nilfs object
  nilfs2: do not allocate multiple super block instances for a device
  ...

nilfs2: eliminate sparse warning - "context imbalance"

2010-10-23T00:24:40+00:00

insert sparse annotations to fix following sparse warning.

fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2681:3: warning: context imbalance in 'nilfs_segctor_kill_thread' - unexpected unlock

nilfs_segctor_kill_thread is only called inside sc_state_lock lock.
sparse doesn't detect the context and warn "unexpected unlock".
__acquires/__releases pretend to lock/unlock the sc_state_lock for sparse.

Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA 
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: eliminate sparse warnings - "symbol not declared"

2010-10-23T00:24:40+00:00

change nilfs_dat_commit_free and nilfs_inode_cachep static
to fix following warnings

fs/nilfs2/super.c:72:19: warning: symbol 'nilfs_inode_cachep' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/nilfs2/dat.c:106:6: warning: symbol 'nilfs_dat_commit_free' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA 
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi