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Author SHA1 Message Date
Christoph Hellwig
c6bf3f0e25 block: use an on-stack bio in blkdev_issue_flush
There is no point in allocating memory for a synchronous flush.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-27 09:51:48 -07:00
Chunguang Xu
837c23fbc1 ext4: use ASSERT() to replace J_ASSERT()
There are currently multiple forms of assertion, such as J_ASSERT().
J_ASEERT() is provided for the jbd module, which is a public module.
Maybe we should use custom ASSERT() like other file systems, such as
xfs, which would be better.

Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <brookxu@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1604764698-4269-1-git-send-email-brookxu@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-12-03 09:36:57 -05:00
Harshad Shirwadkar
9b5f6c9b83 ext4: make s_mount_flags modifications atomic
Fast commit file system states are recorded in
sbi->s_mount_flags. Fast commit expects these bit manipulations to be
atomic. This patch adds helpers to make those modifications atomic.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106035911.1942128-21-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-11-06 23:01:05 -05:00
Harshad Shirwadkar
aa75f4d3da ext4: main fast-commit commit path
This patch adds main fast commit commit path handlers. The overall
patch can be divided into two inter-related parts:

(A) Metadata updates tracking

    This part consists of helper functions to track changes that need
    to be committed during a commit operation. These updates are
    maintained by Ext4 in different in-memory queues. Following are
    the APIs and their short description that are implemented in this
    patch:

    - ext4_fc_track_link/unlink/creat() - Track unlink. link and creat
      operations
    - ext4_fc_track_range() - Track changed logical block offsets
      inodes
    - ext4_fc_track_inode() - Track inodes
    - ext4_fc_mark_ineligible() - Mark file system fast commit
      ineligible()
    - ext4_fc_start_update() / ext4_fc_stop_update() /
      ext4_fc_start_ineligible() / ext4_fc_stop_ineligible() These
      functions are useful for co-ordinating inode updates with
      commits.

(B) Main commit Path

    This part consists of functions to convert updates tracked in
    in-memory data structures into on-disk commits. Function
    ext4_fc_commit() is the main entry point to commit path.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201015203802.3597742-6-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-10-21 23:22:37 -04:00
Zhang Qilong
2be7d717ca ext4: add trace exit in exception path.
Missing trace exit in exception path of ext4_sync_file and
ext4_ind_map_blocks.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Qilong <zhangqilong3@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200921124738.23352-1-zhangqilong3@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-10-18 10:36:59 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
0b166a57e6 A lot of bug fixes and cleanups for ext4, including:
* Fix performance problems found in dioread_nolock now that it is the
   default, caused by transaction leaks.
 * Clean up fiemap handling in ext4
 * Clean up and refactor multiple block allocator (mballoc) code
 * Fix a problem with mballoc with a smaller file systems running out
   of blocks because they couldn't properly use blocks that had been
   reserved by inode preallocation.
 * Fixed a race in ext4_sync_parent() versus rename()
 * Simplify the error handling in the extent manipulation code
 * Make sure all metadata I/O errors are felected to ext4_ext_dirty()'s and
   ext4_make_inode_dirty()'s callers.
 * Avoid passing an error pointer to brelse in ext4_xattr_set()
 * Fix race which could result to freeing an inode on the dirty last
   in data=journal mode.
 * Fix refcount handling if ext4_iget() fails
 * Fix a crash in generic/019 caused by a corrupted extent node
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A lot of bug fixes and cleanups for ext4, including:

   - Fix performance problems found in dioread_nolock now that it is the
     default, caused by transaction leaks.

   - Clean up fiemap handling in ext4

   - Clean up and refactor multiple block allocator (mballoc) code

   - Fix a problem with mballoc with a smaller file systems running out
     of blocks because they couldn't properly use blocks that had been
     reserved by inode preallocation.

   - Fixed a race in ext4_sync_parent() versus rename()

   - Simplify the error handling in the extent manipulation code

   - Make sure all metadata I/O errors are felected to
     ext4_ext_dirty()'s and ext4_make_inode_dirty()'s callers.

   - Avoid passing an error pointer to brelse in ext4_xattr_set()

   - Fix race which could result to freeing an inode on the dirty last
     in data=journal mode.

   - Fix refcount handling if ext4_iget() fails

   - Fix a crash in generic/019 caused by a corrupted extent node"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (58 commits)
  ext4: avoid unnecessary transaction starts during writeback
  ext4: don't block for O_DIRECT if IOCB_NOWAIT is set
  ext4: remove the access_ok() check in ext4_ioctl_get_es_cache
  fs: remove the access_ok() check in ioctl_fiemap
  fs: handle FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC in fiemap_prep
  fs: move fiemap range validation into the file systems instances
  iomap: fix the iomap_fiemap prototype
  fs: move the fiemap definitions out of fs.h
  fs: mark __generic_block_fiemap static
  ext4: remove the call to fiemap_check_flags in ext4_fiemap
  ext4: split _ext4_fiemap
  ext4: fix fiemap size checks for bitmap files
  ext4: fix EXT4_MAX_LOGICAL_BLOCK macro
  add comment for ext4_dir_entry_2 file_type member
  jbd2: avoid leaking transaction credits when unreserving handle
  ext4: drop ext4_journal_free_reserved()
  ext4: mballoc: use lock for checking free blocks while retrying
  ext4: mballoc: refactor ext4_mb_good_group()
  ext4: mballoc: introduce pcpu seqcnt for freeing PA to improve ENOSPC handling
  ext4: mballoc: refactor ext4_mb_discard_preallocations()
  ...
2020-06-05 16:19:28 -07:00
Eric Biggers
08adf452e6 ext4: fix race between ext4_sync_parent() and rename()
'igrab(d_inode(dentry->d_parent))' without holding dentry->d_lock is
broken because without d_lock, d_parent can be concurrently changed due
to a rename().  Then if the old directory is immediately deleted, old
d_parent->inode can be NULL.  That causes a NULL dereference in igrab().

To fix this, use dget_parent() to safely grab a reference to the parent
dentry, which pins the inode.  This also eliminates the need to use
d_find_any_alias() other than for the initial inode, as we no longer
throw away the dentry at each step.

This is an extremely hard race to hit, but it is possible.  Adding a
udelay() in between the reads of ->d_parent and its ->d_inode makes it
reproducible on a no-journal filesystem using the following program:

    #include <fcntl.h>
    #include <unistd.h>

    int main()
    {
        if (fork()) {
            for (;;) {
                mkdir("dir1", 0700);
                int fd = open("dir1/file", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_SYNC);
                write(fd, "X", 1);
                close(fd);
            }
        } else {
            mkdir("dir2", 0700);
            for (;;) {
                rename("dir1/file", "dir2/file");
                rmdir("dir1");
            }
        }
    }

Fixes: d59729f4e7 ("ext4: fix races in ext4_sync_parent()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506183140.541194-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-06-03 23:16:51 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
9398554fb3 block: remove the error_sector argument to blkdev_issue_flush
The argument isn't used by any caller, and drivers don't fill out
bi_sector for flush requests either.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-05-22 08:45:46 -06:00
Matthew Bobrowski
3eaf9cc62f ext4: update ext4_sync_file() to not use __generic_file_fsync()
When the filesystem is created without a journal, we eventually call
into __generic_file_fsync() in order to write out all the modified
in-core data to the permanent storage device. This function happens to
try and obtain an inode_lock() while synchronizing the files buffer
and it's associated metadata.

Generally, this is fine, however it becomes a problem when there is
higher level code that has already obtained an inode_lock() as this
leads to a recursive lock situation. This case is especially true when
porting across direct I/O to iomap infrastructure as we obtain an
inode_lock() early on in the I/O within ext4_dio_write_iter() and hold
it until the I/O has been completed. Consequently, to not run into
this specific issue, we move away from calling into
__generic_file_fsync() and perform the necessary synchronization tasks
within ext4_sync_file().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3495f35ef67f2021b567e28e6f59222e583689b8.1572949325.git.mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2019-11-05 11:31:40 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
8fdd60f2ae Revert "ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal"
This reverts commit ad211f3e94.

As Jan Kara pointed out, this change was unsafe since it means we lose
the call to sync_mapping_buffers() in the nojournal case.  The
original point of the commit was avoid taking the inode mutex (since
it causes a lockdep warning in generic/113); but we need the mutex in
order to call sync_mapping_buffers().

The real fix to this problem was discussed here:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181025150540.259281-4-bvanassche@acm.org

The proposed patch was to fix a syzbot complaint, but the problem can
also demonstrated via "kvm-xfstests -c nojournal generic/113".
Multiple solutions were discused in the e-mail thread, but none have
landed in the kernel as of this writing.  Anyway, commit
ad211f3e94 is absolutely the wrong way to suppress the lockdep, so
revert it.

Fixes: ad211f3e94 ("ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal")
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2019-01-31 23:41:11 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
95cb671387 ext4: track writeback errors using the generic tracking infrastructure
We already using mapping_set_error() in fs/ext4/page_io.c, so all we
need to do is to use file_check_and_advance_wb_err() when handling
fsync() requests in ext4_sync_file().

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2018-12-31 00:11:07 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
ad211f3e94 ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal
In no-journal mode, we previously used __generic_file_fsync() in
no-journal mode.  This triggers a lockdep warning, and in addition,
it's not safe to depend on the inode writeback mechanism in the case
ext4.  We can solve both problems by calling ext4_write_inode()
directly.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2018-12-31 00:10:48 -05:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
David Howells
bc98a42c1f VFS: Convert sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY to sb_rdonly(sb)
Firstly by applying the following with coccinelle's spatch:

	@@ expression SB; @@
	-SB->s_flags & MS_RDONLY
	+sb_rdonly(SB)

to effect the conversion to sb_rdonly(sb), then by applying:

	@@ expression A, SB; @@
	(
	-(!sb_rdonly(SB)) && A
	+!sb_rdonly(SB) && A
	|
	-A != (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A != sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-A == (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A == sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-!(sb_rdonly(SB))
	+!sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-A && (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A && sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-A || (sb_rdonly(SB))
	+A || sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) != A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) != A
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) == A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) == A
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) && A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) && A
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) || A
	+sb_rdonly(SB) || A
	)

	@@ expression A, B, SB; @@
	(
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) ? 1 : 0
	+sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-(sb_rdonly(SB)) ? A : B
	+sb_rdonly(SB) ? A : B
	)

to remove left over excess bracketage and finally by applying:

	@@ expression A, SB; @@
	(
	-(A & MS_RDONLY) != sb_rdonly(SB)
	+(bool)(A & MS_RDONLY) != sb_rdonly(SB)
	|
	-(A & MS_RDONLY) == sb_rdonly(SB)
	+(bool)(A & MS_RDONLY) == sb_rdonly(SB)
	)

to make comparisons against the result of sb_rdonly() (which is a bool)
work correctly.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2017-07-17 08:45:34 +01:00
Jeff Layton
6acec592c6 ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors
Add a call to filemap_report_wb_err at the end of ext4_sync_file. This
will ensure that we check and advance the errseq_t in the file, which
allows us to track and report errors on all open fds when they occur.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2017-07-06 07:02:30 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
0db1ff222d ext4: add shutdown bit and check for it
Add a shutdown bit that will cause ext4 processing to fail immediately
with EIO.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2017-02-05 01:28:48 -05:00
Jan Kara
6ae4c5a698 ext4: cleanup ext4_sync_parent()
A condition !hlist_empty(&inode->i_dentry) is always true for open file.
Just remove it. Also ext4_sync_parent() could use some explanation why
races with rmdir() are not an issue - add a comment explaining that.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2016-09-05 23:21:43 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
78d9625107 ext4: respect the nobarrier mount option in nojournal mode
Also, if we are going to issue the barrier, we should do this after we
write out the parent directories if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2016-06-26 18:25:01 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
9ec3a646fe Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
 "d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
  the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
  fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
  direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems
  fs/9p: fix readdir()
  VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: Fix up some ->d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
  VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
  VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
David Howells
2b0143b5c9 VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-15 15:06:57 -04:00
Sheng Yong
72b8e0f9fa ext4: remove unused header files
Remove unused header files and header files which are included in
ext4.h.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2015-04-02 23:47:42 -04:00
Dmitry Monakhov
4418e14112 ext4: Fix fsync error handling after filesystem abort
If filesystem was aborted after inode's write back is complete
but before its metadata was updated we may return success
results in data loss.
In order to handle fs abort correctly we have to check
fs state once we discover that it is in MS_RDONLY state

Test case: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/244297

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-06-12 22:38:04 -04:00
Jan Kara
92e6222dfb ext4: remove i_mutex from ext4_file_sync()
After removal of ext4_flush_unwritten_io() call, ext4_file_sync()
doesn't need i_mutex anymore. Forcing of transaction commits doesn't
need i_mutex as there's nothing inode specific in that code apart from
grabbing transaction ids from the inode. So remove the lock.

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 14:40:39 -04:00
Jan Kara
37b10dd063 ext4: use generic_file_fsync() in ext4_file_fsync() in nojournal mode
Just use the generic function instead of duplicating it.  We only need
to reshuffle the read-only check a bit (which is there to prevent
writing to a filesystem which has been remounted read-only after error
I assume).

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 14:40:09 -04:00
Jan Kara
b0857d309f ext4: defer clearing of PageWriteback after extent conversion
Currently PageWriteback bit gets cleared from put_io_page() called
from ext4_end_bio().  This is somewhat inconvenient as extent tree is
not fully updated at that time (unwritten extents are not marked as
written) so we cannot read the data back yet.  This design was
dictated by lock ordering as we cannot start a transaction while
PageWriteback bit is set (we could easily deadlock with
ext4_da_writepages()).  But now that we use transaction reservation
for extent conversion, locking issues are solved and we can move
PageWriteback bit clearing after extent conversion is done.  As a
result we can remove wait for unwritten extent conversion from
ext4_sync_file() because it already implicitely happens through
wait_on_page_writeback().

We implement deferring of PageWriteback clearing by queueing completed
bios to appropriate io_end and processing all the pages when io_end is
going to be freed instead of at the moment ext4_io_end() is called.

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 14:23:41 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
d76a3a7711 ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound
In the case where an inode has a very stale transaction id (tid) in
i_datasync_tid or i_sync_tid, it's possible that after a very large
(2**31) number of transactions, that the tid number space might wrap,
causing tid_geq()'s calculations to fail.

Commit deeeaf13 "jbd2: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug", later modified
by commit e7b04ac0 "jbd2: don't wake kjournald unnecessarily",
attempted to fix this problem, but it only avoided kjournald spinning
forever by fixing the logic in jbd2_log_start_commit().

Unfortunately, in the codepaths in fs/ext4/fsync.c and fs/ext4/inode.c
that might call jbd2_log_start_commit() with a stale tid, those
functions will subsequently call jbd2_log_wait_commit() with the same
stale tid, and then wait for a very long time.  To fix this, we
replace the calls to jbd2_log_start_commit() and
jbd2_log_wait_commit() with a call to a new function,
jbd2_complete_transaction(), which will correctly handle stale tid's.

As a bonus, jbd2_complete_transaction() will avoid locking
j_state_lock for writing unless a commit needs to be started.  This
should have a small (but probably not measurable) improvement for
ext4's scalability.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reported-by: George Barnett <gbarnett@atlassian.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2013-04-03 22:02:52 -04:00
Andy Lutomirski
ad96f71155 ext4: fix an incorrect comment about i_mutex
i_mutex is not held when ->sync_file is called.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-12-25 13:31:52 -05:00
Guo Chao
64744e03c6 ext4: use sync_inode_metadata() when syncing inode metadata
We have a dedicated interface to sync inode metadata.  Use it to
simplify ext4's code some.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
2012-12-10 14:06:03 -05:00
Dmitry Monakhov
c278531d39 ext4: fix ext4_flush_completed_IO wait semantics
BUG #1) All places where we call ext4_flush_completed_IO are broken
    because buffered io and DIO/AIO goes through three stages
    1) submitted io,
    2) completed io (in i_completed_io_list) conversion pended
    3) finished  io (conversion done)
    And by calling ext4_flush_completed_IO we will flush only
    requests which were in (2) stage, which is wrong because:
     1) punch_hole and truncate _must_ wait for all outstanding unwritten io
      regardless to it's state.
     2) fsync and nolock_dio_read should also wait because there is
        a time window between end_page_writeback() and ext4_add_complete_io()
        As result integrity fsync is broken in case of buffered write
        to fallocated region:
        fsync                                      blkdev_completion
	 ->filemap_write_and_wait_range
                                                   ->ext4_end_bio
                                                     ->end_page_writeback
          <-- filemap_write_and_wait_range return
	 ->ext4_flush_completed_IO
   	 sees empty i_completed_io_list but pended
   	 conversion still exist
                                                     ->ext4_add_complete_io

BUG #2) Race window becomes wider due to the 'ext4: completed_io
locking cleanup V4' patch series

This patch make following changes:
1) ext4_flush_completed_io() now first try to flush completed io and when
   wait for any outstanding unwritten io via ext4_unwritten_wait()
2) Rename function to more appropriate name.
3) Assert that all callers of ext4_flush_unwritten_io should hold i_mutex to
   prevent endless wait

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2012-10-05 11:31:55 -04:00
Dmitry Monakhov
28a535f9a0 ext4: completed_io locking cleanup
Current unwritten extent conversion state-machine is very fuzzy.
- For unknown reason it performs conversion under i_mutex. What for?
  My diagnosis:
  We already protect extent tree with i_data_sem, truncate and punch_hole
  should wait for DIO, so the only data we have to protect is end_io->flags
  modification, but only flush_completed_IO and end_io_work modified this
  flags and we can serialize them via i_completed_io_lock.

  Currently all these games with mutex_trylock result in the following deadlock
   truncate:                          kworker:
    ext4_setattr                       ext4_end_io_work
    mutex_lock(i_mutex)
    inode_dio_wait(inode)  ->BLOCK
                             DEADLOCK<- mutex_trylock()
                                        inode_dio_done()
  #TEST_CASE1_BEGIN
  MNT=/mnt_scrach
  unlink $MNT/file
  fallocate -l $((1024*1024*1024)) $MNT/file
  aio-stress -I 100000 -O -s 100m -n -t 1 -c 10 -o 2 -o 3 $MNT/file
  sleep 2
  truncate -s 0 $MNT/file
  #TEST_CASE1_END

Or use 286's xfstests https://github.com/dmonakhov/xfstests/blob/devel/286

This patch makes state machine simple and clean:

(1) xxx_end_io schedule final extent conversion simply by calling
    ext4_add_complete_io(), which append it to ei->i_completed_io_list
    NOTE1: because of (2A) work should be queued only if
    ->i_completed_io_list was empty, otherwise the work is scheduled already.

(2) ext4_flush_completed_IO is responsible for handling all pending
    end_io from ei->i_completed_io_list
    Flushing sequence consists of following stages:
    A) LOCKED: Atomically drain completed_io_list to local_list
    B) Perform extents conversion
    C) LOCKED: move converted io's to to_free list for final deletion
       	     This logic depends on context which we was called from.
    D) Final end_io context destruction
    NOTE1: i_mutex is no longer required because end_io->flags modification
    is protected by ei->ext4_complete_io_lock

Full list of changes:
- Move all completion end_io related routines to page-io.c in order to improve
  logic locality
- Move open coded logic from various xx_end_xx routines to ext4_add_complete_io()
- remove EXT4_IO_END_FSYNC
- Improve SMP scalability by removing useless i_mutex which does not
  protect io->flags anymore.
- Reduce lock contention on i_completed_io_lock by optimizing list walk.
- Rename ext4_end_io_nolock to end4_end_io and make it static
- Check flush completion status to ext4_ext_punch_hole(). Because it is
  not good idea to punch blocks from corrupted inode.

Changes since V3 (in request to Jan's comments):
  Fall back to active flush_completed_IO() approach in order to prevent
  performance issues with nolocked DIO reads.
Changes since V2:
  Fix use-after-free caused by race truncate vs end_io_work

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-09-29 00:14:55 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
a4a39040e9 ext4: check return value of blkdev_issue_flush()
blkdev_issue_flush() can fail; make sure the error gets properly
propagated.
    
This is a port of the equivalent ext3 patch from commit 44f4f729e7.
    
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-08-17 09:58:17 -04:00
Al Viro
b3d9b7a3c7 vfs: switch i_dentry/d_alias to hlist
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:32:55 +04:00
Al Viro
9f713878f2 ext4: get rid of open-coded d_find_any_alias()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:32:54 +04:00
Jeff Moyer
491caa4363 ext4: fix race between sync and completed io work
The following command line will leave the aio-stress process unkillable
on an ext4 file system (in my case, mounted on /mnt/test):

aio-stress -t 20 -s 10 -O -S -o 2 -I 1000 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.20 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.19 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.18 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.17 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.16 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.15 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.14 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.13 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.12 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.11 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.10 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.9 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.8 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.7 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.6 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.5 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.4 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.3 /mnt/test/aiostress.3561.4.2

This is using the aio-stress program from the xfstests test suite.
That particular command line tells aio-stress to do random writes to
20 files from 20 threads (one thread per file).  The files are NOT
preallocated, so you will get writes to random offsets within the
file, thus creating holes and extending i_size.  It also opens the
file with O_DIRECT and O_SYNC.

On to the problem.  When an I/O requires unwritten extent conversion,
it is queued onto the completed_io_list for the ext4 inode.  Two code
paths will pull work items from this list.  The first is the
ext4_end_io_work routine, and the second is ext4_flush_completed_IO,
which is called via the fsync path (and O_SYNC handling, as well).
There are two issues I've found in these code paths.  First, if the
fsync path beats the work routine to a particular I/O, the work
routine will free the io_end structure!  It does not take into account
the fact that the io_end may still be in use by the fsync path.  I've
fixed this issue by adding yet another IO_END flag, indicating that
the io_end is being processed by the fsync path.

The second problem is that the work routine will make an assignment to
io->flag outside of the lock.  I have witnessed this result in a hang
at umount.  Moving the flag setting inside the lock resolved that
problem.

The problem was introduced by commit b82e384c7b ("ext4: optimize
locking for end_io extent conversion"), which first appeared in 3.2.
As such, the fix should be backported to that release (probably along
with the unwritten extent conversion race fix).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: stable@kernel.org
2012-03-05 10:29:52 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
b82e384c7b ext4: optimize locking for end_io extent conversion
Now that we are doing the locking correctly, we need to grab the
i_completed_io_lock() twice per end_io.  We can clean this up by
removing the structure from the i_complted_io_list, and use this as
the locking mechanism to prevent ext4_flush_completed_IO() racing
against ext4_end_io_work(), instead of clearing the
EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN in io->flag.

In addition, if the ext4_convert_unwritten_extents() returns an error,
we no longer keep the end_io structure on the linked list.  This
doesn't help, because it tends to lock up the file system and wedges
the system.  That's one way to call attention to the problem, but it
doesn't help the overall robustness of the system.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-10-31 10:56:32 -04:00
Tao Ma
d73d5046a7 ext4: Use correct locking for ext4_end_io_nolock()
We must hold i_completed_io_lock when manipulating anything on the
i_completed_io_list linked list.  This includes io->lock, which we
were checking in ext4_end_io_nolock().

So move this check to ext4_end_io_work().  This also has the bonus of
avoiding extra work if it is already done without needing to take the
mutex.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-10-30 18:26:08 -04:00
H Hartley Sweeten
e0cbee3e14 ext4: functions should not be declared extern
The function declarations in ext4.h are already marked extern, so it's
not necessary to do so in the .c files.

This quiets the sparse noise:

warning: function 'ext4_flush_completed_IO' with external linkage has definition
warning: function 'ext4_init_inode_table' with external linkage has definition

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-10-18 10:57:51 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
60ad446682 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (60 commits)
  ext4: prevent memory leaks from ext4_mb_init_backend() on error path
  ext4: use EXT4_BAD_INO for buddy cache to avoid colliding with valid inode #
  ext4: use ext4_msg() instead of printk in mballoc
  ext4: use ext4_kvzalloc()/ext4_kvmalloc() for s_group_desc and s_group_info
  ext4: introduce ext4_kvmalloc(), ext4_kzalloc(), and ext4_kvfree()
  ext4: use the correct error exit path in ext4_init_inode_table()
  ext4: add missing kfree() on error return path in add_new_gdb()
  ext4: change umode_t in tracepoint headers to be an explicit __u16
  ext4: fix races in ext4_sync_parent()
  ext4: Fix overflow caused by missing cast in ext4_fallocate()
  ext4: add action of moving index in ext4_ext_rm_idx for Punch Hole
  ext4: simplify parameters of reserve_backup_gdb()
  ext4: simplify parameters of add_new_gdb()
  ext4: remove lock_buffer in bclean() and setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext4: simplify journal handling in setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext4: let setup_new_group_blocks() set multiple bits at a time
  ext4: fix a typo in ext4_group_extend()
  ext4: let ext4_group_add_blocks() handle 0 blocks quickly
  ext4: let ext4_group_add_blocks() return an error code
  ext4: rename ext4_add_groupblocks() to ext4_group_add_blocks()
  ...

Fix up conflict in fs/ext4/inode.c: commit aacfc19c62 ("fs: simplify
the blockdev_direct_IO prototype") had changed the ext4_ind_direct_IO()
function for the new simplified calling convention, while commit
dae1e52cb1 ("ext4: move ext4_ind_* functions from inode.c to
indirect.c") moved the function to another file.
2011-08-01 13:56:03 -10:00
Theodore Ts'o
d59729f4e7 ext4: fix races in ext4_sync_parent()
Fix problems if fsync() races against a rename of a parent directory
as pointed out by Al Viro in his own inimitable way:

>While we are at it, could somebody please explain what the hell is ext4
>doing in
>static int ext4_sync_parent(struct inode *inode)
>{
>        struct writeback_control wbc;
>        struct dentry *dentry = NULL;
>        int ret = 0;
>
>        while (inode && ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY)) {
>                ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY);
>                dentry = list_entry(inode->i_dentry.next,
>                                    struct dentry, d_alias);
>                if (!dentry || !dentry->d_parent || !dentry->d_parent->d_inode)
>                        break;
>                inode = dentry->d_parent->d_inode;
>                ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
>                ...
>Note that dentry obviously can't be NULL there.  dentry->d_parent is never
>NULL.  And dentry->d_parent would better not be negative, for crying out
>loud!  What's worse, there's no guarantees that dentry->d_parent will
>remain our parent over that sync_mapping_buffers() *and* that inode won't
>just be freed under us (after rename() and memory pressure leading to
>eviction of what used to be our dentry->d_parent)......

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-07-30 12:34:19 -04:00
Josef Bacik
02c24a8218 fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers
Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers.  Some
file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
ocfs2.  For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
Thanks,

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:59 -04:00
Jan Kara
93628ffb9b ext4: fix waiting and sending of a barrier in ext4_sync_file()
jbd2_log_start_commit() returns 1 only when we really start a
transaction.  But we also need to wait for a transaction when the
commit is already running.  Fix this problem by waiting for
transaction commit unconditionally (which is just a quick check if the
transaction is already committed).

Also we have to be more careful with sending of a barrier because when
transaction is being committed in parallel to ext4_sync_file()
running, we cannot be sure that the barrier the journalling code sends
happens after we wrote all the data for fsync (note that not every
data writeout needs to trigger metadata changes thus commit of some
metadata changes can be running while other data is still written
out). So use jbd2_will_send_data_barrier() helper to detect the common
cases when we can be sure barrier will be issued by the commit code
and issue the barrier ourselves in the remaining cases.

Reported-by: Edward Goggin <egoggin@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-05-24 12:00:54 -04:00
Tao Ma
e8bbe8c401 ext4: use EXT4FS_DEBUG instead of EXT4_DEBUG in fsync.c
We have EXT4FS_DEBUG for some old debug and CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG
for the new mballoc debug, but there isn't any EXT4_DEBUG.

As CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG seems to be only used in mballoc, use
EXT4FS_DEBUG in fsync.c.

[ It doesn't really matter; although I'm including this commit for
  consistency's sake.  The whole point of the #ifdef's is to disable
  the debugging code.  In general you're not going to want to enable
  all of the code protected by EXT4FS_DEBUG at the same time.  -- Ted ]

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-05-09 10:25:54 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
a97b52022a Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: fix data corruption regression by reverting commit 6de9843dab
  ext4: Allow indirect-block file to grow the file size to max file size
  ext4: allow an active handle to be started when freezing
  ext4: sync the directory inode in ext4_sync_parent()
  ext4: init timer earlier to avoid a kernel panic in __save_error_info
  jbd2: fix potential memory leak on transaction commit
  ext4: fix a double free in ext4_register_li_request
  ext4: fix credits computing for indirect mapped files
  ext4: remove unnecessary [cm]time update of quota file
  jbd2: move bdget out of critical section
2011-04-11 15:45:47 -07:00
Curt Wohlgemuth
0893ed458b ext4: sync the directory inode in ext4_sync_parent()
ext4 has taken the stance that, in the absence of a journal,
when an fsync/fdatasync of an inode is done, the parent
directory should be sync'ed if this inode entry is new.
ext4_sync_parent(), which implements this, does indeed sync
the dirent pages for parent directories, but it does not
sync the directory *inode*.  This patch fixes this.

Also now return error status from ext4_sync_parent().

I tested this using a power fail test, which panics a
machine running a file server getting requests from a
client.  Without this patch, on about every other test run,
the server is missing many, many files that had been synced.
With this patch, on > 6 runs, I see zero files being lost.

Google-Bug-Id: 4179519
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-04-10 22:05:31 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Jiaying Zhang
0562e0bad4 ext4: add more tracepoints and use dev_t in the trace buffer
- Add more ext4 tracepoints.
- Change ext4 tracepoints to use dev_t field with MAJOR/MINOR macros
so that we can save 4 bytes in the ring buffer on some platforms.
- Add sync_mode to ext4_da_writepages, ext4_da_write_pages, and
ext4_da_writepages_result tracepoints. Also remove for_reclaim
field from ext4_da_writepages since it is usually not very useful.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-03-21 21:38:05 -04:00
Jiaying Zhang
3889fd57ea ext4: flush the i_completed_io_list during ext4_truncate
Ted first found the bug when running 2.6.36 kernel with dioread_nolock
mount option that xfstests #13 complained about wrong file size during fsck.
However, the bug exists in the older kernels as well although it is
somehow harder to trigger.

The problem is that ext4_end_io_work() can happen after we have truncated an
inode to a smaller size. Then when ext4_end_io_work() calls 
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(), we may reallocate some blocks that have 
been truncated, so the inode size becomes inconsistent with the allocated
blocks. 

The following patch flushes the i_completed_io_list during truncate to reduce 
the risk that some pending end_io requests are executed later and convert 
already truncated blocks to initialized. 

Note that although the fix helps reduce the problem a lot there may still 
be a race window between vmtruncate() and ext4_end_io_work(). The fundamental
problem is that if vmtruncate() is called without either i_mutex or i_alloc_sem
held, it can race with an ongoing write request so that the io_end request is
processed later when the corresponding blocks have been truncated.

Ted and I have discussed the problem offline and we saw a few ways to fix
the race completely:

a) We guarantee that i_mutex lock and i_alloc_sem write lock are both hold 
whenever vmtruncate() is called. The i_mutex lock prevents any new write
requests from entering writeback and the i_alloc_sem prevents the race
from ext4_page_mkwrite(). Currently we hold both locks if vmtruncate()
is called from do_truncate(), which is probably the most common case.
However, there are places where we may call vmtruncate() without holding
either i_mutex or i_alloc_sem. I would like to ask for other people's
opinions on what locks are expected to be held before calling vmtruncate().
There seems a disagreement among the callers of that function.

b) We change the ext4 write path so that we change the extent tree to contain 
the newly allocated blocks and update i_size both at the same time --- when 
the write of the data blocks is completed.

c) We add some additional locking to synchronize vmtruncate() and 
ext4_end_io_work(). This approach may have performance implications so we
need to be careful.

All of the above proposals may require more substantial changes, so
we may consider to take the following patch as a bandaid.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10 12:47:05 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
a107e5a3a4 Merge branch 'next' into upstream-merge
Conflicts:
	fs/ext4/inode.c
	fs/ext4/mballoc.c
	include/trace/events/ext4.h
2010-10-27 23:44:47 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
4a873a472b ext4: move flush_completed_IO to fs/ext4/fsync.c and make it static
Fix a namespace leak by moving the function to the file where it is
used and making it static.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:14 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
dd3932eddf block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
All the blkdev_issue_* helpers can only sanely be used for synchronous
caller.  To issue cache flushes or barriers asynchronously the caller needs
to set up a bio by itself with a completion callback to move the asynchronous
state machine ahead.  So drop the BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag that is always
specified when calling blkdev_issue_* and also remove the now unused flags
argument to blkdev_issue_flush and blkdev_issue_zeroout.  For
blkdev_issue_discard we need to keep it for the secure discard flag, which
gains a more descriptive name and loses the bitops vs flag confusion.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-16 20:52:58 +02:00