Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which
suspends write requests. So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the
filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and
replication) while it is mounted.
In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g. VxFS) has the freeze feature
and it would be used to get the consistent backup.
If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it
without a commercial filesystem.
So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature.
I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps.
1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl.
2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot
with the storage device's feature.
3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl.
4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume
or the snapshot.
This patch:
VFS:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that they can return an error.
Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation
freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion.
ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed,
and unlockfs always returns 0.
reiserfs:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com>
Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kernels that don't support ELF coredumps at all surely can't be supporting
new partial-segment flavored ELF coredumps ... don't make folk answer
Kconfig questions about that flavor.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2:
async: make async a command line option for now
partial revert of asynchronous inode delete
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu:
NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs
NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions.
FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated
FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated
NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs
NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable.
NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux
NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables
NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region
NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
'rb_prev()', 'rb_next()' and 'rb_replace_node()' are declared in
include/linux/rbtree.h, no need for JFFS2 to re-declare them. I
believe these are left-overs from the old days when the common
RB tree code did not have those call and JFFS2 had private
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (864 commits)
Btrfs: explicitly mark the tree log root for writeback
Btrfs: Drop the hardware crc32c asm code
Btrfs: Add Documentation/filesystem/btrfs.txt, remove old COPYING
Btrfs: kmap_atomic(KM_USER0) is safe for btrfs_readpage_end_io_hook
Btrfs: Don't use kmap_atomic(..., KM_IRQ0) during checksum verifies
Btrfs: tree logging checksum fixes
Btrfs: don't change file extent's ram_bytes in btrfs_drop_extents
Btrfs: Use btrfs_join_transaction to avoid deadlocks during snapshot creation
Btrfs: drop remaining LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION checks and compat code
Btrfs: drop EXPORT symbols from extent_io.c
Btrfs: Fix checkpatch.pl warnings
Btrfs: Fix free block discard calls down to the block layer
Btrfs: avoid orphan inode caused by log replay
Btrfs: avoid potential super block corruption
Btrfs: do not call kfree if kmalloc failed in btrfs_sysfs_add_super
Btrfs: fix a memory leak in btrfs_get_sb
Btrfs: Fix typo in clear_state_cb
Btrfs: Fix memset length in btrfs_file_write
Btrfs: update directory's size when creating subvol/snapshot
Btrfs: add permission checks to the ioctls
...
Neil writes:
Hi Jens,
I've found a little bug for you. It was introduced by
a6f23657d3
block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup
and has the effect of killing my machine whenever I try to assemble
an md array :-(
One of the devices in the array has partitions, and mdadm always
deletes partitions before putting a whole-device in an array (as it
can cause confusion). The next IO to that device locks the machine.
I don't really understand exactly why it locks up, but it happens in
disk_map_sector_rcu(). This patch fixes it.
Which is due to a missing clear of the (now) stale partition lookup
data. So clear that when we delete a partition.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (67 commits)
[MTD] [MAPS] Fix printk format warning in nettel.c
[MTD] [NAND] add cmdline parsing (mtdparts=) support to cafe_nand
[MTD] CFI: remove major/minor version check for command set 0x0002
[MTD] [NAND] ndfc driver
[MTD] [TESTS] Fix some size_t printk format warnings
[MTD] LPDDR Makefile and KConfig
[MTD] LPDDR extended physmap driver to support LPDDR flash
[MTD] LPDDR added new pfow_base parameter
[MTD] LPDDR Command set driver
[MTD] LPDDR PFOW definition
[MTD] LPDDR QINFO records definitions
[MTD] LPDDR qinfo probing.
[MTD] [NAND] pxa3xx: convert from ns to clock ticks more accurately
[MTD] [NAND] pxa3xx: fix non-page-aligned reads
[MTD] [NAND] fix nandsim sched.h references
[MTD] [NAND] alauda: use USB API functions rather than constants
[MTD] struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
[MTD] fix m25p80 64-bit divisions
[MTD] fix dataflash 64-bit divisions
[MTD] [NAND] Set the fsl elbc ECCM according the settings in bootloader.
...
Fixed up trivial debug conflicts in drivers/mtd/devices/{m25p80.c,mtd_dataflash.c}
Each subvolume has an extent_state_tree used to mark metadata
that needs to be sent to disk while syncing the tree. This is
used in addition to the dirty bits on the pages themselves so that
a single subvolume can be sent to disk efficiently in disk order.
Normally this marking happens in btrfs_alloc_free_block, which also does
special recording of dirty tree blocks for the tree log roots.
Yan Zheng noticed that when the root of the log tree is allocated, it is added
to the wrong writeback list. The fix used here is to explicitly set
it dirty as part of tree log creation.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits)
jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs
ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "
ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC
jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message
ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems
ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache
ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
ext4: code cleanup
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (45 commits)
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.03.00-k1.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add ISP81XX support.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Use proper request/response queues with MQ instantiations.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct MQ-chain information retrieval during a firmware dump.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Collapse EFT/FCE copy procedures during a firmware dump.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't pollute kernel logs with ZIO/RIO status messages.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't fallback to interrupt-polling during re-initialization with MSI-X enabled.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Remove support for reading/writing HW-event-log.
[SCSI] cxgb3i: add missing include
[SCSI] scsi_lib: fix DID_RESET status problems
[SCSI] fc transport: restore missing dev_loss_tmo callback to LLDD
[SCSI] aha152x_cs: Fix regression that keeps driver from using shared interrupts
[SCSI] sd: Correctly handle 6-byte commands with DIX
[SCSI] sd: DIF: Fix tagging on platforms with signed char
[SCSI] sd: DIF: Show app tag on error
[SCSI] Fix error handling for DIF/DIX
[SCSI] scsi_lib: don't decrement busy counters when inserting commands
[SCSI] libsas: fix test for negative unsigned and typos
[SCSI] a2091, gvp11: kill warn_unused_result warnings
[SCSI] fusion: Move a dereference below a NULL test
...
Fixed up trivial conflict due to moving the async part of sd_probe
around in the async probes vs using dev_set_name() in naming.
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: don't retry recovery of raid1 that fails due to error on source drive.
md: Allow md devices to be created by name.
md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed.
md: centralise all freeing of an 'mddev' in 'md_free'
md: move allocation of ->queue from mddev_find to md_probe
md: need another print_sb for mdp_superblock_1
md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly
md: raid0: make hash_spacing and preshift sector-based.
md: raid0: Represent the size of strip zones in sectors.
md: raid0 create_strip_zones(): Add KERN_INFO/KERN_ERR to printk's.
md: raid0 create_strip_zones(): Make two local variables sector-based.
md: raid0: Represent zone->zone_offset in sectors.
md: raid0: Represent device offset in sectors.
md: raid0_make_request(): Replace local variable block by sector.
md: raid0_make_request(): Remove local variable chunk_size.
md: raid0_make_request(): Replace chunksize_bits by chunksect_bits.
md: use sysfs_notify_dirent to notify changes to md/sync_action.
md: fix bitmap-on-external-file bug.
Currently md devices, once created, never disappear until the module
is unloaded. This is essentially because the gendisk holds a
reference to the mddev, and the mddev holds a reference to the
gendisk, this a circular reference.
If we drop the reference from mddev to gendisk, then we need to ensure
that the mddev is destroyed when the gendisk is destroyed. However it
is not possible to hook into the gendisk destruction process to enable
this.
So we drop the reference from the gendisk to the mddev and destroy the
gendisk when the mddev gets destroyed. However this has a
complication.
Between the call
__blkdev_get->get_gendisk->kobj_lookup->md_probe
and the call
__blkdev_get->md_open
there is no obvious way to hold a reference on the mddev any more, so
unless something is done, it will disappear and gendisk will be
destroyed prematurely.
Also, once we decide to destroy the mddev, there will be an unlockable
moment before the gendisk is unlinked (blk_unregister_region) during
which a new reference to the gendisk can be created. We need to
ensure that this reference can not be used. i.e. the ->open must
fail.
So:
1/ in md_probe we set a flag in the mddev (hold_active) which
indicates that the array should be treated as active, even
though there are no references, and no appearance of activity.
This is cleared by md_release when the device is closed if it
is no longer needed.
This ensures that the gendisk will survive between md_probe and
md_open.
2/ In md_open we check if the mddev we expect to open matches
the gendisk that we did open.
If there is a mismatch we return -ERESTARTSYS and modify
__blkdev_get to retry from the top in that case.
In the -ERESTARTSYS sys case we make sure to wait until
the old gendisk (that we succeeded in opening) is really gone so
we loop at most once.
Some udev configurations will always open an md device when it first
appears. If we allow an md device that was just created by an open
to disappear on an immediate close, then this can race with such udev
configurations and result in an infinite loop the device being opened
and closed, then re-open due to the 'ADD' even from the first open,
and then close and so on.
So we make sure an md device, once created by an open, remains active
at least until some md 'ioctl' has been made on it. This means that
all normal usage of md devices will allow them to disappear promptly
when not needed, but the worst that an incorrect usage will do it
cause an inactive md device to be left in existence (it can easily be
removed).
As an array can be stopped by writing to a sysfs attribute
echo clear > /sys/block/mdXXX/md/array_state
we need to use scheduled work for deleting the gendisk and other
kobjects. This allows us to wait for any pending gendisk deletion to
complete by simply calling flush_scheduled_work().
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When I review ocfs2 code, find there are 2 typos to "successfull". After
doing grep "successfull " in kernel tree, 22 typos found totally -- great
minds always think alike :)
This patch fixes all the similar typos. Thanks for Randy's ack and comments.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use the new generic implementation.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the saved_max_pfn check from the /proc/vmcore function
read_from_oldmem(). No need to verify, we should be able to just trust
that "elfcorehdr=" is correctly passed to the crash kernel on the kernel
command line like we do with other parameters.
The read_from_oldmem() function in fs/proc/vmcore.c is quite similar to
read_from_oldmem() in drivers/char/mem.c, but only in the latter it makes
sense to use saved_max_pfn. For oldmem it is used to determine when to
stop reading. For vmcore we already have the elf header info pointing out
the physical memory regions, no need to pass the end-of- old-memory twice.
Removing the saved_max_pfn check from vmcore makes it possible for
architectures to skip oldmem but still support crash dump through vmcore -
without the need for the old saved_max_pfn cruft.
Architectures that want to play safe can do the saved_max_pfn check in
copy_oldmem_page(). Not sure why anyone would want to do that, but that's
even safer than today - the saved_max_pfn check in vmcore removed by this
patch only checks the first page.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While discussing[1] the need for glibc to have access to random bytes
during program load, it seems that an earlier attempt to implement
AT_RANDOM got stalled. This implements a random 16 byte string, available
to every ELF program via a new auxv AT_RANDOM vector.
[1] http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2008-10/msg00006.html
Ulrich said:
glibc needs right after startup a bit of random data for internal
protections (stack canary etc). What is now in upstream glibc is that we
always unconditionally open /dev/urandom, read some data, and use it. For
every process startup. That's slow.
...
The solution is to provide a limited amount of random data to the
starting process in the aux vector. I suggested 16 bytes and this is
what the patch implements. If we need only 16 bytes or less we use the
data directly. If we need more we'll use the 16 bytes to see a PRNG.
This avoids the costly /dev/urandom use and it allows the kernel to use
the most adequate source of random data for this purpose. It might not
be the same pool as that for /dev/urandom.
Concerns were expressed about the depletion of the randomness pool. But
this patch doesn't make the situation worse, it doesn't deplete entropy
more than happens now.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A big patch for changing memcg's LRU semantics.
Now,
- page_cgroup is linked to mem_cgroup's its own LRU (per zone).
- LRU of page_cgroup is not synchronous with global LRU.
- page and page_cgroup is one-to-one and statically allocated.
- To find page_cgroup is on what LRU, you have to check pc->mem_cgroup as
- lru = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc, nid_of_pc, zid_of_pc);
- SwapCache is handled.
And, when we handle LRU list of page_cgroup, we do following.
pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
lock_page_cgroup(pc); .....................(1)
mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
spin_lock(&mz->lru_lock);
.....add to LRU
spin_unlock(&mz->lru_lock);
unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
But (1) is spin_lock and we have to be afraid of dead-lock with zone->lru_lock.
So, trylock() is used at (1), now. Without (1), we can't trust "mz" is correct.
This is a trial to remove this dirty nesting of locks.
This patch changes mz->lru_lock to be zone->lru_lock.
Then, above sequence will be written as
spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU
mem_cgroup_add/remove/etc_lru() {
pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
if (PageCgroupUsed(pc)) {
....add to LRU
}
spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU
This is much simpler.
(*) We're safe even if we don't take lock_page_cgroup(pc). Because..
1. When pc->mem_cgroup can be modified.
- at charge.
- at account_move().
2. at charge
the PCG_USED bit is not set before pc->mem_cgroup is fixed.
3. at account_move()
the page is isolated and not on LRU.
Pros.
- easy for maintenance.
- memcg can make use of laziness of pagevec.
- we don't have to duplicated LRU/Active/Unevictable bit in page_cgroup.
- LRU status of memcg will be synchronized with global LRU's one.
- # of locks are reduced.
- account_move() is simplified very much.
Cons.
- may increase cost of LRU rotation.
(no impact if memcg is not configured.)
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
do_set_dqblk() allowed SETDQBLK quotactl to set user's grace time even if
user was not above his softlimit. This does not make much sence and by
coincidence causes quota code to omit softlimit warning when user really
exceeds softlimit. This patch makes do_set_dqblk() reset user's grace
time if he has not exceeded softlimit.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix
fs/coda/sysctl.c:14: warning: 'fs_table_header' defined but not used
fs/coda/sysctl.c:44: warning: 'fs_table' defined but not used
these are only used when CONFIG_SYSCTL is defined.
Signed-off-by: Richard A. Holden III <aciddeath@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove excess kernel-doc from fs/jbd/transaction.c:
Warning(linux-2.6.28-git5//fs/jbd/transaction.c:764): Excess function parameter 'credits' description in 'journal_get_write_access'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on
which inodes. Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and
IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links. Tighten that to disallow
TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set
on non-regular file, non-directories.
Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and
use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to
facilitate future consistency.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
At present INDEX is the only flag that new ext3 inodes do NOT inherit from
their parent. In addition prevent the flags DIRTY, ECOMPR, IMAGIC and
TOPDIR from being inherited. List inheritable flags explicitly to prevent
future flags from accidentally being inherited.
This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As spotted by kmemtrace, struct ext3_sb_info is 17152 bytes on 64-bit
which makes it a very bad fit for SLAB allocators. The culprit of the
wasted memory is ->s_blockgroup_lock which can be as big as 16 KB when
NR_CPUS >= 32.
To fix that, allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock, which fits nicely in a order 2
page in the worst case, separately. This shinks down struct ext3_sb_info
enough to fit a 1 KB slab cache so now we allocate 16 KB + 1 KB instead of
32 KB saving 15 KB of memory.
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is a flaw with the way jbd handles fsync batching. If we fsync() a
file and we were not the last person to run fsync() on this fs then we
automatically sleep for 1 jiffie in order to wait for new writers to join
into the transaction before forcing the commit. The problem with this is
that with really fast storage (ie a Clariion) the time it takes to commit
a transaction to disk is way faster than 1 jiffie in most cases, so
sleeping means waiting longer with nothing to do than if we just committed
the transaction and kept going. Ric Wheeler noticed this when using
fs_mark with more than 1 thread, the throughput would plummet as he added
more threads.
This patch attempts to fix this problem by recording the average time in
nanoseconds that it takes to commit a transaction to disk, and what time
we started the transaction. If we run an fsync() and we have been running
for less time than it takes to commit the transaction to disk, we sleep
for the delta amount of time and then commit to disk. We acheive
sub-jiffie sleeping using schedule_hrtimeout. This means that the wait
time is auto-tuned to the speed of the underlying disk, instead of having
this static timeout. I weighted the average according to somebody's
comments (Andreas Dilger I think) in order to help normalize random
outliers where we take way longer or way less time to commit than the
average. I also have a min() check in there to make sure we don't sleep
longer than a jiffie in case our storage is super slow, this was requested
by Andrew.
I unfortunately do not have access to a Clariion, so I had to use a
ramdisk to represent a super fast array. I tested with a SATA drive with
barrier=1 to make sure there was no regression with local disks, I tested
with a 4 way multipathed Apple Xserve RAID array and of course the
ramdisk. I ran the following command
fs_mark -d /mnt/ext3-test -s 4096 -n 2000 -D 64 -t $i
where $i was 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32. I mkfs'ed the fs each time. Here are my
results
type threads with patch without patch
sata 2 24.6 26.3
sata 4 49.2 48.1
sata 8 70.1 67.0
sata 16 104.0 94.1
sata 32 153.6 142.7
xserve 2 246.4 222.0
xserve 4 480.0 440.8
xserve 8 829.5 730.8
xserve 16 1172.7 1026.9
xserve 32 1816.3 1650.5
ramdisk 2 2538.3 1745.6
ramdisk 4 2942.3 661.9
ramdisk 8 2882.5 999.8
ramdisk 16 2738.7 1801.9
ramdisk 32 2541.9 2394.0
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on
which inodes. Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and
IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links. Tighten that to disallow
TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set
on non-regular file, non-directories.
Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and
use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to
facilitate future consistency.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
At present BTREE/INDEX is the only flag that new ext2 inodes do NOT
inherit from their parent. In addition prevent the flags DIRTY, ECOMPR,
INDEX, IMAGIC and TOPDIR from being inherited. List inheritable flags
explicitly to prevent future flags from accidentally being inherited.
This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As spotted by kmemtrace, struct ext2_sb_info is 17024 bytes on 64-bit
which makes it a very bad fit for SLAB allocators. The culprit of the
wasted memory is ->s_blockgroup_lock which can be as big as 16 KB when
NR_CPUS >= 32.
To fix that, allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock, which fits nicely in a order 2
page in the worst case, separately. This shinks down struct ext2_sb_info
enough to fit a 1 KB slab cache so now we allocate 16 KB + 1 KB instead of
32 KB saving 15 KB of memory.
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no argument named @chain in ext2_splice_branch, remove references
to it.
Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sync_filesystems() shouldn't be calling async_synchronize_full_special
while holding a spinlock. The second while loop in that function is the
right place for this anyway.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Grissiom <chaos.proton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stop the FLAT binfmt from attempting to expand the userspace stack and brk
segments to fill the space actually allocated for it. The space allocated may
be rounded up by mmap(), and may be wasted.
However, finding out how much space we actually obtained uses the contentious
kobjsize() function which we'd like to get rid of as it doesn't necessarily
work for all slab allocators.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Stop the ELF-FDPIC binfmt from attempting to expand the userspace stack and brk
segments to fill the space actually allocated for it. The space allocated may
be rounded up by mmap(), and may be wasted.
However, finding out how much space we actually obtained uses the contentious
kobjsize() function which we'd like to get rid of as it doesn't necessarily
work for all slab allocators.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs for process memory accounting.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux. This solves two problems:
(1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of
shmat's (and forks) done.
(2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an
exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact
that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another
process or a dead process.
A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember
the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure
is discarded as it's no longer required.
This patch makes the following additional changes:
(1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and
with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite. Instead,
each page has a reference on it held by the region. Anything else that is
interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it.
When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to
put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero.
(2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be
made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages.
(3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists. As an MM may
end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is
appended to the sort key.
(4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list.
(5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of
the backing region. The VMA and region structs will be split if
necessary.
(6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory
segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss. Multiple
shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different
virtual addresses as under MMU-mode.
(7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode.
(8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits
that aren't actually mapped anywhere.
(9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount
of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be
mapped directly. These are copies of the backing device or file if not
anonymous.
These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode. The downside is that
NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this
patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area() by only freeing the
number of pages that find_get_pages() said it had returned (nr) rather than
attempting to free the number of pages we asked for (lpages) - thus avoiding
the situation whereby put_page() may be handed NULL pointers if
find_get_pages() returned fewer pages that were requested.
Also avoid a warning about nr being uninitialised and the need for an
if-statement in the cleanup path by using appropriate gotos.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* 'for-2.6.29' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (67 commits)
nfsd: get rid of NFSD_VERSION
nfsd: last_byte_offset
nfsd: delete wrong file comment from nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
nfsd: git rid of nfs4_cb_null_ops declaration
nfsd: dprint each op status in nfsd4_proc_compound
nfsd: add etoosmall to nfserrno
NFSD: FIDs need to take precedence over UUIDs
SUNRPC: The sunrpc server code should not be used by out-of-tree modules
svc: Clean up deferred requests on transport destruction
nfsd: fix double-locks of directory mutex
svc: Move kfree of deferral record to common code
CRED: Fix NFSD regression
NLM: Clean up flow of control in make_socks() function
NLM: Refactor make_socks() function
nfsd: Ensure nfsv4 calls the underlying filesystem on LOCKT
SUNRPC: Ensure the server closes sockets in a timely fashion
NFSD: Add documenting comments for nfsctl interface
NFSD: Replace open-coded integer with macro
NFSD: Fix a handful of coding style issues in write_filehandle()
NFSD: clean up failover sysctl function naming
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (123 commits)
wimax/i2400m: add CREDITS and MAINTAINERS entries
wimax: export linux/wimax.h and linux/wimax/i2400m.h with headers_install
i2400m: Makefile and Kconfig
i2400m/SDIO: TX and RX path backends
i2400m/SDIO: firmware upload backend
i2400m/SDIO: probe/disconnect, dev init/shutdown and reset backends
i2400m/SDIO: header for the SDIO subdriver
i2400m/USB: TX and RX path backends
i2400m/USB: firmware upload backend
i2400m/USB: probe/disconnect, dev init/shutdown and reset backends
i2400m/USB: header for the USB bus driver
i2400m: debugfs controls
i2400m: various functions for device management
i2400m: RX and TX data/control paths
i2400m: firmware loading and bootrom initialization
i2400m: linkage to the networking stack
i2400m: Generic probe/disconnect, reset and message passing
i2400m: host/device procotol and core driver definitions
i2400m: documentation and instructions for usage
wimax: Makefile, Kconfig and docbook linkage for the stack
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async:
async: don't do the initcall stuff post boot
bootchart: improve output based on Dave Jones' feedback
async: make the final inode deletion an asynchronous event
fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async
fastboot: make the libata port scan asynchronous
fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous
async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot
refactor the nfs4 server lock code to use last_byte_offset
to compute the last byte covered by the lock. Check for overflow
so that the last byte is set to NFS4_MAX_UINT64 if offset + len
wraps around.
Also, use NFS4_MAX_UINT64 for ~(u64)0 where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
There's no use for nfs4_cb_null_ops's declaration in fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
