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authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>2012-04-29 18:21:10 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-04-29 18:21:10 -0400
commitf84891289e62a74e9b4942eaad80617368b2d778 (patch)
tree6e86704a9780dd6ed97f25ba1cd32d59ffebf430 /fs
parent69964ea4c7b68c9399f7977aa5b9aa6539a6a98a (diff)
ext4: create a new BH_Verified flag to avoid unnecessary metadata validation
Create a new BH_Verified flag to indicate that we've verified all the data in a buffer_head for correctness. This allows us to bypass expensive verification steps when they are not necessary without missing them when they are. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/extents.c35
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index abcdeab67f52..8c1334ee8c7f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -412,6 +412,26 @@ int ext4_ext_check_inode(struct inode *inode)
return ext4_ext_check(inode, ext_inode_hdr(inode), ext_depth(inode));
}
+static int __ext4_ext_check_block(const char *function, unsigned int line,
+ struct inode *inode,
+ struct ext4_extent_header *eh,
+ int depth,
+ struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ if (buffer_verified(bh))
+ return 0;
+ ret = ext4_ext_check(inode, eh, depth);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ set_buffer_verified(bh);
+ return ret;
+}
+
+#define ext4_ext_check_block(inode, eh, depth, bh) \
+ __ext4_ext_check_block(__func__, __LINE__, inode, eh, depth, bh)
+
#ifdef EXT_DEBUG
static void ext4_ext_show_path(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_ext_path *path)
{
@@ -668,8 +688,6 @@ ext4_ext_find_extent(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t block,
i = depth;
/* walk through the tree */
while (i) {
- int need_to_validate = 0;
-
ext_debug("depth %d: num %d, max %d\n",
ppos, le16_to_cpu(eh->eh_entries), le16_to_cpu(eh->eh_max));
@@ -688,8 +706,6 @@ ext4_ext_find_extent(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t block,
put_bh(bh);
goto err;
}
- /* validate the extent entries */
- need_to_validate = 1;
}
eh = ext_block_hdr(bh);
ppos++;
@@ -703,7 +719,7 @@ ext4_ext_find_extent(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t block,
path[ppos].p_hdr = eh;
i--;
- if (need_to_validate && ext4_ext_check(inode, eh, i))
+ if (ext4_ext_check_block(inode, eh, i, bh))
goto err;
}
@@ -1344,7 +1360,8 @@ got_index:
return -EIO;
eh = ext_block_hdr(bh);
/* subtract from p_depth to get proper eh_depth */
- if (ext4_ext_check(inode, eh, path->p_depth - depth)) {
+ if (ext4_ext_check_block(inode, eh,
+ path->p_depth - depth, bh)) {
put_bh(bh);
return -EIO;
}
@@ -1357,7 +1374,7 @@ got_index:
if (bh == NULL)
return -EIO;
eh = ext_block_hdr(bh);
- if (ext4_ext_check(inode, eh, path->p_depth - depth)) {
+ if (ext4_ext_check_block(inode, eh, path->p_depth - depth, bh)) {
put_bh(bh);
return -EIO;
}
@@ -2644,8 +2661,8 @@ cont:
err = -EIO;
break;
}
- if (ext4_ext_check(inode, ext_block_hdr(bh),
- depth - i - 1)) {
+ if (ext4_ext_check_block(inode, ext_block_hdr(bh),
+ depth - i - 1, bh)) {
err = -EIO;
break;
}