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Darrick J. Wong
e2b911c535 ext4: clean up feature test macros with predicate functions
Create separate predicate functions to test/set/clear feature flags,
thereby replacing the wordy old macros.  Furthermore, clean out the
places where we open-coded feature tests.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2015-10-17 16:18:43 -04:00
Jan Kara
a2d4a646e6 ext4: don't use MAXQUOTAS value
MAXQUOTAS value defines maximum number of quota types VFS supports.
This isn't necessarily the number of types ext4 supports. Although
ext4 will support project quotas, use ext4 private definition for
consistency with other filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2014-09-11 11:15:15 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
c197855ea1 ext4: make local functions static
I have been running make namespacecheck to look for unneeded globals, and
found these in ext4.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2014-05-12 10:50:23 -04:00
Anatol Pomozov
70261f568f ext4: Fix misspellings using 'codespell' tool
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-08-28 14:40:12 -04:00
Jan Kara
6b523df4fb ext4: use transaction reservation for extent conversion in ext4_end_io
Later we would like to clear PageWriteback bit only after extent
conversion from unwritten to written extents is performed.  However it
is not possible to start a transaction after PageWriteback is set
because that violates lock ordering (and is easy to deadlock).  So we
have to reserve a transaction before locking pages and sending them
for IO and later we use the transaction for extent conversion from
ext4_end_io().

Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-06-04 13:21:11 -04:00
Jan Kara
5fe2fe895a ext4: provide wrappers for transaction reservation calls
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-06-04 12:37:50 -04:00
Jan Kara
f45a5ef91b ext4: improve credit estimate for EXT4_SINGLEDATA_TRANS_BLOCKS
Estimate of 27 credits for allocation of a block in extent based inode
is unnecessarily high. We can easily argue 20 is enough.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-04-09 12:39:26 -04:00
Dmitry Monakhov
5d3ee20855 ext4: fix journal callback list traversal
It is incorrect to use list_for_each_entry_safe() for journal callback
traversial because ->next may be removed by other task:
->ext4_mb_free_metadata()
  ->ext4_mb_free_metadata()
    ->ext4_journal_callback_del()

This results in the following issue:

WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:62 __list_del_entry+0x1c0/0x250()
Hardware name:
list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffff88019a4ec198, but was 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
Modules linked in: cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf coretemp kvm_intel kvm crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel microcode sg xhci_hcd button sd_mod crc_t10dif aesni_intel ablk_helper cryptd lrw aes_x86_64 xts gf128mul ahci libahci pata_acpi ata_generic dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
Pid: 16400, comm: jbd2/dm-1-8 Tainted: G        W    3.8.0-rc3+ #107
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8106fb0d>] warn_slowpath_common+0xad/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8106fc06>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
 [<ffffffff813637e9>] ? ext4_journal_commit_callback+0x99/0xc0
 [<ffffffff8148cae0>] __list_del_entry+0x1c0/0x250
 [<ffffffff813637bf>] ext4_journal_commit_callback+0x6f/0xc0
 [<ffffffff813ca336>] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x23a6/0x2570
 [<ffffffff8108aa42>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x82/0xa0
 [<ffffffff8108b491>] ? del_timer_sync+0x91/0x1e0
 [<ffffffff813d3ecf>] kjournald2+0x19f/0x6a0
 [<ffffffff810ad630>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
 [<ffffffff813d3d30>] ? bit_spin_lock+0x80/0x80
 [<ffffffff810ac6be>] kthread+0x10e/0x120
 [<ffffffff810ac5b0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
 [<ffffffff818ff6ac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
 [<ffffffff810ac5b0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70

This patch fix the issue as follows:
- ext4_journal_commit_callback() make list truly traversial safe
  simply by always starting from list_head
- fix race between two ext4_journal_callback_del() and
  ext4_journal_callback_try_del()

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.com
2013-04-03 22:08:52 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
95eaefbdec ext4: fix the number of credits needed for acl ops with inline data
Operations which modify extended attributes may need extra journal
credits if inline data is used, since there is a chance that some
extended attributes may need to get pushed to an external attribute
block.

Changes to reflect this was made in xattr.c, but they were missed in
fs/ext4/acl.c.  To fix this, abstract the calculation of the number of
credits needed for xattr operations to an inline function defined in
ext4_jbd2.h, and use it in acl.c and xattr.c.

Also move the function declarations used in inline.c from xattr.h
(where they are non-obviously hidden, and caused problems since
ext4_jbd2.h needs to use the function ext4_has_inline_data), and move
them to ext4.h.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2013-02-09 15:23:03 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
64044abf05 ext4: fix the number of credits needed for ext4_unlink() and ext4_rmdir()
The ext4_unlink() and ext4_rmdir() don't actually release the blocks
associated with the file/directory.  This gets done in a separate jbd2
handle called via ext4_evict_inode().  Thus, we don't need to reserve
lots of journal credits for the truncate.

Note that using too many journal credits is non-optimal because it can
leading to the journal transmit getting closed too early, before it is
strictly necessary.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2013-02-09 15:06:24 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
9924a92a8c ext4: pass context information to jbd2__journal_start()
So we can better understand what bits of ext4 are responsible for
long-running jbd2 handles, use jbd2__journal_start() so we can pass
context information for logging purposes.

The recommended way for finding the longer-running handles is:

   T=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
   EVENT=$T/events/jbd2/jbd2_handle_stats
   echo "interval > 5" > $EVENT/filter
   echo 1 > $EVENT/enable

   ./run-my-fs-benchmark

   cat $T/trace > /tmp/problem-handles

This will list handles that were active for longer than 20ms.  Having
longer-running handles is bad, because a commit started at the wrong
time could stall for those 20+ milliseconds, which could delay an
fsync() or an O_SYNC operation.  Here is an example line from the
trace file describing a handle which lived on for 311 jiffies, or over
1.2 seconds:

postmark-2917  [000] ....   196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32 
   tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1
   dirtied_blocks 0

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-02-08 21:59:22 -05:00
Eric Sandeen
37be2f59d3 ext4: remove ext4_handle_release_buffer()
ext4_handle_release_buffer() was intended to remove journal
write access from a buffer, but it doesn't actually do anything
at all other than add a BUFFER_TRACE point, but it's not reliably
used for that either.  Remove all the associated dead code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
2012-11-08 11:22:46 -05:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b50924c2c6 ext4: remove unnecessary argument from __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()
The '__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()' does not need the 'now' argument
anymore and we can kill it.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2012-07-22 20:37:31 -04:00
Aditya Kali
7c319d3285 ext4: make quota as first class supported feature
This patch adds support for quotas as a first class feature in ext4;
which is to say, the quota files are stored in hidden inodes as file
system metadata, instead of as separate files visible in the file system
directory hierarchy.

It is based on the proposal at:                                                                                                           
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Design_For_1st_Class_Quota_in_Ext4

This patch introduces a new feature - EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_QUOTA
which, when turned on, enables quota accounting at mount time
iteself. Also, the quota inodes are stored in two additional superblock
fields.  Some changes introduced by this patch that should be pointed
out are:

1) Two new ext4-superblock fields - s_usr_quota_inum and
   s_grp_quota_inum for storing the quota inodes in use.
2) Default quota inodes are: inode#3 for tracking userquota and inode#4
   for tracking group quota. The superblock fields can be set to use
   other inodes as well.
3) If the QUOTA feature and corresponding quota inodes are set in
   superblock, the quota usage tracking is turned on at mount time. On
   'quotaon' ioctl, the quota limits enforcement is turned
   on. 'quotaoff' ioctl turns off only the limits enforcement in this
   case.
4) When QUOTA feature is in use, the quota mount options 'quota',
   'usrquota', 'grpquota' are ignored by the kernel.
5) mke2fs or tune2fs can be used to set the QUOTA feature and initialize
   quota inodes. The default reserved inodes will not be visible to user
   as regular files.
6) The quota-tools will need to be modified to support hidden quota
   files on ext4. E2fsprogs will also include support for creating and
   fixing quota files.
7) Support is only for the new V2 quota file format.

Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Johann Lombardi <johann@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-07-22 20:21:31 -04:00
Darrick J. Wong
a9c4731780 ext4: calculate and verify superblock checksum
Calculate and verify the superblock checksum.  Since the UUID and
block group number are embedded in each copy of the superblock, we
need only checksum the entire block.  Refactor some of the code to
eliminate open-coding of the checksum update call.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-04-29 18:29:10 -04:00
Bobi Jam
18aadd47f8 ext4: expand commit callback and
The per-commit callback was used by mballoc code to manage free space
bitmaps after deleted blocks have been released.  This patch expands
it to support multiple different callbacks, to allow other things to
be done after the commit has been completed.

Signed-off-by: Bobi Jam <bobijam@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-02-20 17:53:02 -05:00
Lukas Czerner
3d2b158262 ext4: ignore EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA flag with delalloc
Ext4 does not support data journalling with delayed allocation enabled.
We even do not allow to mount the file system with delayed allocation
and data journalling enabled, however it can be set via FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
so we can hit the inode with EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA set even on file
system mounted with delayed allocation (default) and that's where
problem arises. The easies way to reproduce this problem is with the
following set of commands:

 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd
 mount /dev/sdd /mnt/test1
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test1/file bs=1M count=4
 chattr +j /mnt/test1/file
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test1/file bs=1M count=4 conv=notrunc
 chattr -j /mnt/test1/file

Additionally it can be reproduced quite reliably with xfstests 272 and
269. In fact the above reproducer is a part of test 272.

To fix this we should ignore the EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA inode flag if
the file system is mounted with delayed allocation. This can be easily
done by fixing ext4_should_*_data() functions do ignore data journal
flag when delalloc is set (suggested by Ted). We also have to set the
appropriate address space operations for the inode (again, ignoring data
journal flag if delalloc enabled).

Additionally this commit introduces ext4_inode_journal_mode() function
because ext4_should_*_data() has already had a lot of common code and
this change is putting it all into one function so it is easier to
read.

Successfully tested with xfstests in following configurations:

delalloc + data=ordered
delalloc + data=writeback
data=journal
nodelalloc + data=ordered
nodelalloc + data=writeback
nodelalloc + data=journal

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-02-20 17:53:00 -05:00
Curt Wohlgemuth
441c850857 ext4: Fix ext4_should_writeback_data() for no-journal mode
ext4_should_writeback_data() had an incorrect sequence of
tests to determine if it should return 0 or 1: in
particular, even in no-journal mode, 0 was being returned
for a non-regular-file inode.

This meant that, in non-journal mode, we would use
ext4_journalled_aops for directories, symlinks, and other
non-regular files.  However, calling journalled aop
callbacks when there is no valid handle, can cause problems.

This would cause a kernel crash with Jan Kara's commit
2d859db3e4 ("ext4: fix data corruption in inodes with
journalled data"), because we now dereference 'handle' in
ext4_journalled_write_end().

I also added BUG_ONs to check for a valid handle in the
obviously journal-only aops callbacks.

I tested this running xfstests with a scratch device in
these modes:

   - no-journal
   - data=ordered
   - data=writeback
   - data=journal

All work fine; the data=journal run has many failures and a
crash in xfstests 074, but this is no different from a
vanilla kernel.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-08-13 11:25:18 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
2cd05cc393 ext4: remove unneeded ext4_journal_get_undo_access
The block allocation code used to use jbd2_journal_get_undo_access as
a way to make changes that wouldn't show up until the commit took
place.  The new multi-block allocation code has a its own way of
preventing newly freed blocks from getting reused until the commit
takes place (it avoids updating the buddy bitmaps until the commit is
done), so we don't need to use jbd2_journal_get_undo_access(), which
has extra overhead compared to jbd2_journal_get_write_access().

There was one last vestigal use of ext4_journal_get_undo_access() in
ext4_add_groupblocks(); change it to use ext4_journal_get_write_access()
and then remove the ext4_journal_get_undo_access() support.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-05-09 10:58:45 -04:00
Jan Kara
21f976975c ext4: remove unnecessary [cm]time update of quota file
It is not necessary to update [cm]time of quota file on each quota
file write and it wastes journal space and IO throughput with inode
writes. So just remove the updating from ext4_quota_write() and only
update times when quotas are being turned off. Userspace cannot get
anything reliable from quota files while they are used by the kernel
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-04-04 15:33:39 -04:00
Amir Goldstein
537a03103c ext4: unify the ext4_handle_release_buffer() api
There are two wrapper functions which do exactly the same thing:
ext4_journal_release_buffer(), and ext4_handle_release_buffer().  In
addition, ext4_xattr_block_set() calls jbd2_journal_release_buffer()
directly.

Unify all of the code to use ext4_handle_release_buffer(), and get rid
of ext4_journal_release_buffer().

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-03-20 22:57:02 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
8aefcd557d ext4: dynamically allocate the jbd2_inode in ext4_inode_info as necessary
Replace the jbd2_inode structure (which is 48 bytes) with a pointer
and only allocate the jbd2_inode when it is needed --- that is, when
the file system has a journal present and the inode has been opened
for writing.  This allows us to further slim down the ext4_inode_info
structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10 12:29:43 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
c398eda0e4 ext4: Pass line numbers to ext4_error() and friends
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-07-27 11:56:40 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
90c7201b97 ext4: Pass line number to ext4_journal_abort_handle()
This allows the error messages to include the line number

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-06-29 14:53:24 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
206f7ab4f4 ext4: remove vestiges of nobh support
The nobh option was only supported for writeback mode, but given that all
write paths actually create buffer heads it effectively was a no-op already.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-06-14 14:42:49 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
a0375156ca ext4: Clean up s_dirt handling
We don't need to set s_dirt in most of the ext4 code when journaling
is enabled.  In ext3/4 some of the summary statistics for # of free
inodes, blocks, and directories are calculated from the per-block
group statistics when the file system is mounted or unmounted.  As a
result the superblock doesn't have to be updated, either via the
journal or by setting s_dirt.  There are a few exceptions, most
notably when resizing the file system, where the superblock needs to
be modified --- and in that case it should be done as a journalled
operation if possible, and s_dirt set only in no-journal mode.

This patch will optimize out some unneeded disk writes when using ext4
with a journal.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-06-11 23:14:04 -04:00
Dmitry Monakhov
12e9b89200 ext4: Use bitops to read/modify i_flags in struct ext4_inode_info
At several places we modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags without holding
i_mutex (ext4_do_update_inode, ...). These modifications are racy and
we can lose updates to i_flags. So convert handling of i_flags to use
bitops which are atomic.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15792

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-05-16 22:00:00 -04:00
Jiaying Zhang
744692dc05 ext4: use ext4_get_block_write in buffer write
Allocate uninitialized extent before ext4 buffer write and
convert the extent to initialized after io completes.
The purpose is to make sure an extent can only be marked
initialized after it has been written with new data so
we can safely drop the i_mutex lock in ext4 DIO read without
exposing stale data. This helps to improve multi-thread DIO
read performance on high-speed disks.

Skip the nobh and data=journal mount cases to make things simple for now.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-03-04 16:14:02 -05:00
Jan Kara
b436b9bef8 ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync
We cannot rely on buffer dirty bits during fsync because pdflush can come
before fsync is called and clear dirty bits without forcing a transaction
commit. What we do is that we track which transaction has last changed
the inode and which transaction last changed allocation and force it to
disk on fsync.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-08 23:51:10 -05:00
Dmitry Monakhov
5aca07eb7d ext4: quota macros cleanup
Currently all quota block reservation macros contains hard-coded "2"
aka MAXQUOTAS value. This is no good because in some places it is not
obvious to understand what does this digit represent. Let's introduce
new macro with self descriptive name.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-08 22:42:15 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
b7e57e7c2a ext4: fold ext4_journal_forget() into ext4_forget()
Convert the last two callers of ext4_journal_forget() to use
ext4_forget() instead, and then fold ext4_journal_forget() into
ext4_forget().  This reduces are code complexity and shortens our call
stack.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-22 21:00:13 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
e4684b3fbb ext4: fold ext4_journal_revoke() into ext4_forget()
The only caller of ext4_journal_revoke() is ext4_forget(), so we can
fold ext4_journal_revoke() into ext4_forget() to simplify the code and
shorten the call stack.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-24 11:05:59 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
d6797d14b1 ext4: move ext4_forget() to ext4_jbd2.c
The ext4_forget() function better belongs in ext4_jbd2.c.  This will
allow us to do some cleanup of the ext4_journal_revoke() and
ext4_journal_forget() functions, as well as giving us better error
reporting since we can report the caller of ext4_forget() when things
go wrong.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-22 20:52:12 -05:00
Curt Wohlgemuth
d3d1faf6a7 ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal
This patch fixes a problem with handling nested calls to
ext4_journal_start/ext4_journal_stop, when there is no journal present.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29 11:01:03 -04:00
Curt Wohlgemuth
e6b5d30104 ext4: Fix buffer head reference leak in no-journal mode
We found a problem with buffer head reference leaks when using an ext4
partition without a journal.  In particular, calls to ext4_forget() would
not to a brelse() on the input buffer head, which will cause pages they
belong to to not be reclaimable.

Further investigation showed that all places where ext4_journal_forget() and
ext4_journal_revoke() are called are subject to the same problem.  The patch
below changes __ext4_journal_forget/__ext4_journal_revoke to do an explicit
release of the buffer head when the journal handle isn't valid.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-13 09:07:20 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
5adfee9c17 ext4: fix no journal corruption with locale-gen
If there is no journal, ext4_should_writeback_data() should return
TRUE.  This will fix ext4_set_aops() to set ext4_da_ops in the case of
delayed allocation; otherwise ext4_journaled_aops gets used by
default, which doesn't handle delayed allocation properly.

The advantage of using ext4_should_writeback_data() approach is that
it should handle nobh better as well.

Thanks to Curt Wohlgemuth for investigating this problem, and Aneesh
Kumar for suggesting this approach.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-08 17:11:24 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
83982b6f47 ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was
implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents
feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to
create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag
was not eabled.  The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option
entirely.  It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new
extent-based files if the filesystem can support it.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 14:53:16 -05:00
Frank Mayhar
0390131ba8 ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journal
A few weeks ago I posted a patch for discussion that allowed ext4 to run
without a journal.  Since that time I've integrated the excellent
comments from Andreas and fixed several serious bugs.  We're currently
running with this patch and generating some performance numbers against
both ext2 (with backported reservations code) and ext4 with and without
a journal.  It just so happens that running without a journal is
slightly faster for most everything.

We did
	iozone -T -t 4 s 2g -r 256k -T -I -i0 -i1 -i2

which creates 4 threads, each of which create and do reads and writes on
a 2G file, with a buffer size of 256K, using O_DIRECT for all file opens
to bypass the page cache.  Results:

                     ext2        ext4, default   ext4, no journal
  initial writes   13.0 MB/s        15.4 MB/s          15.7 MB/s
  rewrites         13.1 MB/s        15.6 MB/s          15.9 MB/s
  reads            15.2 MB/s        16.9 MB/s          17.2 MB/s
  re-reads         15.3 MB/s        16.9 MB/s          17.2 MB/s
  random readers    5.6 MB/s         5.6 MB/s           5.7 MB/s
  random writers    5.1 MB/s         5.3 MB/s           5.4 MB/s 

So it seems that, so far, this was a useful exercise.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-07 00:06:22 -05:00
Mingming Cao
a02908f19c ext4: journal credits calulation cleanup and fix for non-extent writepage
When considering how many journal credits are needed for modifying a
chunk of data, we need to account for the super block, inode block,
quota blocks and xattr block, indirect/index blocks, also, group bitmap
and group descriptor blocks for new allocation (including data and
indirect/index blocks). There are many places in ext4 do the calculation
on their own and often missed one or two meta blocks, and often they
assume single block allocation, and did not considering the multile
chunk of allocation case.

This patch is trying to cleanup current journal credit code, provides
some common helper funtion to calculate the journal credits, to be used
for writepage, writepages, DIO, fallocate, migration, defrag, and for
both nonextent and extent files.

This patch modified the writepage/write_begin credit caculation for
nonextent files, to use the new helper function. It also fixed the
problem that writepage on nonextent files did not consider the case
blocksize <pagesize, thus could possibelly need multiple block
allocation in a single transaction.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-19 22:16:07 -04:00
Jan Kara
678aaf4814 ext4: Use new framework for data=ordered mode in JBD2
This patch makes ext4 use inode-based implementation of data=ordered mode
in JBD2. It allows us to unify some data=ordered and data=writeback paths
(especially writepage since we don't have to start a transaction anymore)
and remove some buffer walking.

Updated fix from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
to fix file system hang due to corrupt jinode values.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Stoyan Gaydarov
4db9c54a53 ext4: replace __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ instead

Signed-off-by: Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-13 21:03:29 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
3dcf54515a ext4: move headers out of include/linux
Move ext4 headers out of include/linux.  This is just the trivial move,
there's some more thing that could be done later. 

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-04-29 18:13:32 -04:00