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2018-02-18ext4: shutdown should not prevent get_write_accessTheodore Ts'o
The ext4 forced shutdown flag needs to prevent new handles from being started, but it needs to allow existing handles to complete. So the forced shutdown flag should not force ext4_journal_get_write_access to fail. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
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>
2017-07-17VFS: Convert sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY to sb_rdonly(sb)David Howells
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>
2017-02-05ext4: add shutdown bit and check for itTheodore Ts'o
Add a shutdown bit that will cause ext4 processing to fail immediately with EIO. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2015-10-17ext4: fix potential use after free in __ext4_journal_stopLukas Czerner
There is a use-after-free possibility in __ext4_journal_stop() in the case that we free the handle in the first jbd2_journal_stop() because we're referencing handle->h_err afterwards. This was introduced in 9705acd63b125dee8b15c705216d7186daea4625 and it is wrong. Fix it by storing the handle->h_err value beforehand and avoid referencing potentially freed handle. Fixes: 9705acd63b125dee8b15c705216d7186daea4625 Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2015-05-14ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference when journal restart failsLukas Czerner
Currently when journal restart fails, we'll have the h_transaction of the handle set to NULL to indicate that the handle has been effectively aborted. We handle this situation quietly in the jbd2_journal_stop() and just free the handle and exit because everything else has been done before we attempted (and failed) to restart the journal. Unfortunately there are a number of problems with that approach introduced with commit 41a5b913197c "jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails" First of all in ext4 jbd2_journal_stop() will be called through __ext4_journal_stop() where we would try to get a hold of the superblock by dereferencing h_transaction which in this case would lead to NULL pointer dereference and crash. In addition we're going to free the handle regardless of the refcount which is bad as well, because others up the call chain will still reference the handle so we might potentially reference already freed memory. Moreover it's expected that we'll get aborted handle as well as detached handle in some of the journalling function as the error propagates up the stack, so it's unnecessary to call WARN_ON every time we get detached handle. And finally we might leak some memory by forgetting to free reserved handle in jbd2_journal_stop() in the case where handle was detached from the transaction (h_transaction is NULL). Fix the NULL pointer dereference in __ext4_journal_stop() by just calling jbd2_journal_stop() quietly as suggested by Jan Kara. Also fix the potential memory leak in jbd2_journal_stop() and use proper handle refcounting before we attempt to free it to avoid use-after-free issues. And finally remove all WARN_ON(!transaction) from the code so that we do not get random traces when something goes wrong because when journal restart fails we will get to some of those functions. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-10-01ext4: fix over-defensive complaint after journal abortDmitry Monakhov
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2014-05-12ext4: make local functions staticStephen Hemminger
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>
2014-03-12jbd2: improve error messages for inconsistent journal headsTheodore Ts'o
Fix up error messages printed when the transaction pointers in a journal head are inconsistent. This improves the error messages which are printed when running xfstests generic/068 in data=journal mode. See the bug report at: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60786 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-12-02ext4: call ext4_error_inode() if jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() failsTheodore Ts'o
While it's true that errors can only happen if there is a bug in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(), if a bug does happen, we need to halt the kernel or remount the file system read-only in order to avoid further data loss. The ext4_journal_abort_handle() function doesn't do any of this, and while it's likely that this call (since it doesn't adjust refcounts) will likely result in the file system eventually deadlocking since the current transaction will never be able to close, it's much cleaner to call let ext4's error handling system deal with this situation. There's a separate bug here which is that if certain jbd2 errors errors occur and file system is mounted errors=continue, the file system will probably eventually end grind to a halt as described above. But things have been this way in a long time, and usually when we have these sorts of errors it's pretty much a disaster --- and that's why the jbd2 layer aggressively retries memory allocations, which is the most likely cause of these jbd2 errors. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2013-08-12jbd2: Fix use after free after error in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()Jan Kara
When jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() returns error, __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() stops the handle. However callers of this function do not count with that fact and still happily used now freed handle. This use after free can result in various issues but very likely we oops soon. The motivation of adding __ext4_journal_stop() into __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() in commit 9ea7a0df seems to be only to improve error reporting. So replace __ext4_journal_stop() with ext4_journal_abort_handle() which was there before that commit and add WARN_ON_ONCE() to dump stack to provide useful information. Reported-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2+
2013-06-04ext4: provide wrappers for transaction reservation callsJan Kara
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>
2013-06-04jbd2: transaction reservation supportJan Kara
In some cases we cannot start a transaction because of locking constraints and passing started transaction into those places is not handy either because we could block transaction commit for too long. Transaction reservation is designed to solve these issues. It reserves a handle with given number of credits in the journal and the handle can be later attached to the running transaction without blocking on commit or checkpointing. Reserved handles do not block transaction commit in any way, they only reduce maximum size of the running transaction (because we have to always be prepared to accomodate request for attaching reserved handle). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-04-21ext4: mark metadata blocks using bh flagsTheodore Ts'o
This allows metadata writebacks which are issued via block device writeback to be sent with the current write request flags. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-04-03ext4: add might_sleep() annotationsTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
2013-02-08ext4: pass context information to jbd2__journal_start()Theodore Ts'o
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>
2013-02-08ext4: move the jbd2 wrapper functions out of super.cTheodore Ts'o
Move the jbd2 wrapper functions which start and stop handles out of super.c, where they don't really logically belong, and into ext4_jbd2.c. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-10-10ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblockTheodore Ts'o
The function ext4_handle_dirty_super() was calculating the superblock on the wrong block data. As a result, when the superblock is modified while it is mounted (most commonly, when inodes are added or removed from the orphan list), the superblock checksum would be wrong. We didn't notice because the superblock *was* being correctly calculated in ext4_commit_super(), and this would get called when the file system was unmounted. So the problem only became obvious if the system crashed while the file system was mounted. Fix this by removing the poorly designed function signature for ext4_superblock_csum_set(); if it only took a single argument, the pointer to a struct superblock, the ambiguity which caused this mistake would have been impossible. Reported-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-07-22ext4: remove unnecessary argument from __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()Artem Bityutskiy
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>
2012-07-22ext4: remove unnecessary superblock dirtyingArtem Bityutskiy
This patch changes the 'ext4_handle_dirty_super()' function which submits the superblock for I/O in the following cases: 1. When creating the first large file on a file system without EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature. 2. When re-sizing the file-system. 3. When creating an xattr on a file-system without the EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR feature. If the file-system has journal enabled, the superblock is written via the journal. We do not modify this path. If the file-system has no journal, this function, falls back to just marking the superblock as dirty using the 's_dirt' superblock flag. This means that it delays the actual superblock I/O submission by 5 seconds (default setting). Namely, the 'sync_supers()' kernel thread will call 'ext4_write_super()' later and will actually submit the superblock for I/O. And this is the behavior this patch modifies: we stop using 's_dirt' and just mark the superblock buffer as dirty right away. Indeed, all 3 cases above are extremely rare and it does not add any value to delay the I/O submission for them. Note: 'ext4_handle_dirty_super()' executes '__ext4_handle_dirty_super()' with 'now = 0'. This patch basically makes the 'now' argument unneeded and it will be deleted in one of the next patches. This patch also removes 's_dirt' condition on the unmount path because we never set it anymore, so we should not test it. Tested using xfstests for both journalled and non-journalled ext4. 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>
2012-04-29ext4: calculate and verify superblock checksumDarrick J. Wong
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>
2011-09-04jbd2: add debugging information to jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()Theodore Ts'o
Add debugging information in case jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() is called with a buffer_head which didn't have jbd2_journal_get_write_access() called on it, or if the journal_head has the wrong transaction in it. In addition, return an error code. This won't change anything for ocfs2, which will BUG_ON() the non-zero exit code. For ext4, the caller of this function is ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(), and on seeing a non-zero return code, will call __ext4_journal_stop(), which will print the function and line number of the (buggy) calling function and abort the journal. This will allow us to recover instead of bug halting, which is better from a robustness and reliability point of view. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-05-09ext4: remove unneeded ext4_journal_get_undo_accessTheodore Ts'o
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>
2010-07-27ext4: Save error information to the superblock for analysisTheodore Ts'o
Save number of file system errors, and the time function name, line number, block number, and inode number of the first and most recent errors reported on the file system in the superblock. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-07-27ext4: Pass line numbers to ext4_error() and friendsTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-06-29ext4: Pass line number to ext4_journal_abort_handle()Theodore Ts'o
This allows the error messages to include the line number Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-06-29ext4: clean up ext4_abort() so __func__ is now implicitTheodore Ts'o
Use a macro definition for ext4_abort() to clean up the .c files a wee bit. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-06-11ext4: Clean up s_dirt handlingTheodore Ts'o
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>
2010-02-16ext4: Fix BUG_ON at fs/buffer.c:652 in no journal modeCurt Wohlgemuth
Calls to ext4_handle_dirty_metadata should only pass in an inode pointer for inode-specific metadata, and not for shared metadata blocks such as inode table blocks, block group descriptors, the superblock, etc. The BUG_ON can get tripped when updating a special device (such as a block device) that is opened (so that i_mapping is set in fs/block_dev.c) and the file system is mounted in no journal mode. Addresses-Google-Bug: #2404870 Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-02-15ext4: move __func__ into a macro for ext4_warning, ext4_errorEric Sandeen
Just a pet peeve of mine; we had a mishash of calls with either __func__ or "function_name" and the latter tends to get out of sync. I think it's easier to just hide the __func__ in a macro, and it'll be consistent from then on. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-22ext4: fold ext4_journal_forget() into ext4_forget()Theodore Ts'o
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>
2009-11-24ext4: fold ext4_journal_revoke() into ext4_forget()Theodore Ts'o
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>
2009-11-22ext4: move ext4_forget() to ext4_jbd2.cTheodore Ts'o
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>
2009-09-12ext4: Assure that metadata blocks are written during fsync in no journal modeTheodore Ts'o
When there is no journal present, we must attach buffer heads associated with extent tree and indirect blocks to the inode's mapping->private_list via mark_buffer_dirty_inode() so that ext4_sync_file() --- which is called to service fsync() and fdatasync() system calls --- can write out the inode's metadata blocks by calling sync_mapping_buffers(). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-09ext4: Use bforget() in no journal mode for ext4_journal_{forget,revoke}()Theodore Ts'o
When ext4 is using a journal, a metadata block which is deallocated must be passed into the journal layer so it can be dropped from the current transaction and/or revoked. This is done by calling the functions ext4_journal_forget() and ext4_journal_revoke(), which call jbd2_journal_forget(), and jbd2_journal_revoke(), respectively. Since the jbd2_journal_forget() and jbd2_journal_revoke() call bforget(), if ext4 is not using a journal, ext4_journal_forget() and ext4_journal_revoke() must call bforget() to avoid a dirty metadata block overwriting a block after it has been reallocated and reused for another inode's data block. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-13ext4: Fix buffer head reference leak in no-journal modeCurt Wohlgemuth
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>
2009-01-07ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journalFrank Mayhar
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>
2008-04-29ext4: move headers out of include/linuxChristoph Hellwig
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>
2008-04-17ext4: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2006-12-07[PATCH] ext4: uninline large functionsAndrew Morton
Saves nearly 4kbytes on x86. Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>