ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned
asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated
by xfstest 240.
The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the
hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and
dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions. When
more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new"
block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated
and causes data corruption.
Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all
unaligned asynchronous direct IO. I've done the same here.
The difference is that we only wait on conversions, not all IO.
This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with
stuffing this into ext4_file_write(). But since ext4 is
DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.
I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then
we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the
work queue to do conversions - which must also take the
i_mutex. So that won't work.
This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to
a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment. I've
tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does
avoid the corruption. It is also quite a lot slower
(14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned)
but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.
Mingming suggested that we can track outstanding
conversions, and wait on those so that non-sparse
files won't be affected, and I've implemented that here;
unaligned AIO to nonsparse files won't take a perf hit.
[tytso@mit.edu: Keep the mutex as a hashed array instead
of bloating the ext4 inode]
[tytso@mit.edu: Fix up namespace issues so that global
variables are protected with an "ext4_" prefix.]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Ext4 features interface was not properly unregistered which led to
problems while unloading/reloading ext4 module. This commit fixes that by
adding proper kobject unregistration code into ext4_exit_fs() as well as
fail-path of ext4_init_fs()
Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27652
If the lazyinit thread is running, the teardown function
ext4_destroy_lazyinit_thread() has problems:
ext4_clear_request_list();
while (ext4_li_info->li_task) {
wake_up(&ext4_li_info->li_wait_daemon);
wait_event(ext4_li_info->li_wait_task,
ext4_li_info->li_task == NULL);
}
Clearing the request list will cause the thread to exit and free
ext4_li_info, so then we're waiting on something which is getting
freed.
Fix this up by making the thread respond to kthread_stop, and exit,
without the need to wait for that exit in some other homegrown way.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-and-Tested-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
block: trace event block fix unassigned field
block: add internal hd part table references
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
kref: add kref_test_and_get
bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
sd: implement sd_check_events()
sr: implement sr_check_events()
...
As Al Viro pointed out path resolution during Q_QUOTAON calls to quotactl
is prone to deadlocks. We hold s_umount semaphore for reading during the
path resolution and resolution itself may need to acquire the semaphore
for writing when e. g. autofs mountpoint is passed.
Solve the problem by performing the resolution before we get hold of the
superblock (and thus s_umount semaphore). The whole thing is complicated
by the fact that some filesystems (OCFS2) ignore the path argument. So to
distinguish between filesystem which want the path and which do not we
introduce new .quota_on_meta callback which does not get the path. OCFS2
then uses this callback instead of old .quota_on.
CC: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
CC: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (44 commits)
ext4: fix trimming starting with block 0 with small blocksize
ext4: revert buggy trim overflow patch
ext4: don't pass entire map to check_eofblocks_fl
ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_free_branches
ext4: remove ext4_mb_return_to_preallocation()
ext4: flush the i_completed_io_list during ext4_truncate
ext4: add error checking to calls to ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()
ext4: fix trimming of a single group
ext4: fix uninitialized variable in ext4_register_li_request
ext4: dynamically allocate the jbd2_inode in ext4_inode_info as necessary
ext4: drop i_state_flags on architectures with 64-bit longs
ext4: reorder ext4_inode_info structure elements to remove unneeded padding
ext4: drop ec_type from the ext4_ext_cache structure
ext4: use ext4_lblk_t instead of sector_t for logical blocks
ext4: replace i_delalloc_reserved_flag with EXT4_STATE_DELALLOC_RESERVED
ext4: fix 32bit overflow in ext4_ext_find_goal()
ext4: add more error checks to ext4_mkdir()
ext4: ext4_ext_migrate should use NULL not 0
ext4: Use ext4_error_file() to print the pathname to the corrupted inode
ext4: use IS_ERR() to check for errors in ext4_error_file
...
fs/ext4/super.c: In function 'ext4_register_li_request':
fs/ext4/super.c:2936: warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function
It looks buggy to me, too.
Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Replace the jbd2_inode structure (which is 48 bytes) with a pointer
and only allocate the jbd2_inode when it is needed --- that is, when
the file system has a journal present and the inode has been opened
for writing. This allows us to further slim down the ext4_inode_info
structure.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Remove the short element i_delalloc_reserved_flag from the
ext4_inode_info structure and replace it a new bit in i_state_flags.
Since we have an ext4_inode_info for every ext4 inode cached in the
inode cache, any savings we can produce here is a very good thing from
a memory utilization perspective.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
d_path() returns an ERR_PTR and it doesn't return NULL. This is in
ext4_error_file() and no one actually calls ext4_error_file().
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:
- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
page lock to follow page->mapping.
The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.
In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.
The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Using %pV reduces the number of printk calls and eliminates any
possible message interleaving from other printk calls.
In function __ext4_grp_locked_error also added KERN_CONT to some
printks.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Change clear_opt() and set_opt() to take a superblock pointer instead
of a pointer to EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_opt. This makes it easier for us
to support a second mount option field.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Jon Nelson has found a test case which causes postgresql to fail with
the error:
psql:t.sql:4: ERROR: invalid page header in block 38269 of relation base/16384/16581
Under memory pressure, it looks like part of a file can end up getting
replaced by zero's. Until we can figure out the cause, we'll roll
back the change and use block_write_full_page() instead of
ext4_bio_write_page(). The new, more efficient writing function can
be used via the mount option mblk_io_submit, so we can test and fix
the new page I/O code.
To reproduce the problem, install postgres 8.4 or 9.0, and pin enough
memory such that the system just at the end of triggering writeback
before running the following sql script:
begin;
create temporary table foo as select x as a, ARRAY[x] as b FROM
generate_series(1, 10000000 ) AS x;
create index foo_a_idx on foo (a);
create index foo_b_idx on foo USING GIN (b);
rollback;
If the temporary table is created on a hard drive partition which is
encrypted using dm_crypt, then under memory pressure, approximately
30-40% of the time, pgsql will issue the above failure.
This patch should fix this problem, and the problem will come back if
the file system is mounted with the mblk_io_submit mount option.
Reported-by: Jon Nelson <jnelson@jamponi.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There was concern that FITRIM ioctl is not common enough to be included
in core vfs ioctl, as Christoph Hellwig pointed out there's no real point
in dispatching this out to a separate vector instead of just through
->ioctl.
So this commit removes ioctl_fstrim() from vfs ioctl and trim_fs
from super_operation structure.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
At the start of ext4_fill_super, ret is set to -EINVAL, and any failure path
out of that function returns ret. However, the generic_check_addressable
clause sets ret = 0 (if it passes), which means that a subsequent failure (e.g.
a group checksum error) returns 0 even though the mount should fail. This
causes vfs_kern_mount in turn to think that the mount succeeded, leading to an
oops.
A simple fix is to avoid using ret for the generic_check_addressable check,
which was last changed in commit 30ca22c70e.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If the the li_request_list was empty then it returned with the lock
held. Instead of adding a "goto unlock" I just removed that special
case and let it go past the empty list_for_each_safe().
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
After recent blkdev_get() modifications, open_by_devnum() and
open_bdev_exclusive() are simple wrappers around blkdev_get().
Replace them with blkdev_get_by_dev() and blkdev_get_by_path().
blkdev_get_by_dev() is identical to open_by_devnum().
blkdev_get_by_path() is slightly different in that it doesn't
automatically add %FMODE_EXCL to @mode.
All users are converted. Most conversions are mechanical and don't
introduce any behavior difference. There are several exceptions.
* btrfs now sets FMODE_EXCL in btrfs_device->mode, so there's no
reason to OR it explicitly on blkdev_put().
* gfs2, nilfs2 and the generic mount_bdev() now set FMODE_EXCL in
sb->s_mode.
* With the above changes, sb->s_mode now always should contain
FMODE_EXCL. WARN_ON_ONCE() added to kill_block_super() to detect
errors.
The new blkdev_get_*() functions are with proper docbook comments.
While at it, add function description to blkdev_get() too.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Over time, block layer has accumulated a set of APIs dealing with bdev
open, close, claim and release.
* blkdev_get/put() are the primary open and close functions.
* bd_claim/release() deal with exclusive open.
* open/close_bdev_exclusive() are combination of open and claim and
the other way around, respectively.
* bd_link/unlink_disk_holder() to create and remove holder/slave
symlinks.
* open_by_devnum() wraps bdget() + blkdev_get().
The interface is a bit confusing and the decoupling of open and claim
makes it impossible to properly guarantee exclusive access as
in-kernel open + claim sequence can disturb the existing exclusive
open even before the block layer knows the current open if for another
exclusive access. Reorganize the interface such that,
* blkdev_get() is extended to include exclusive access management.
@holder argument is added and, if is @FMODE_EXCL specified, it will
gain exclusive access atomically w.r.t. other exclusive accesses.
* blkdev_put() is similarly extended. It now takes @mode argument and
if @FMODE_EXCL is set, it releases an exclusive access. Also, when
the last exclusive claim is released, the holder/slave symlinks are
removed automatically.
* bd_claim/release() and close_bdev_exclusive() are no longer
necessary and either made static or removed.
* bd_link_disk_holder() remains the same but bd_unlink_disk_holder()
is no longer necessary and removed.
* open_bdev_exclusive() becomes a simple wrapper around lookup_bdev()
and blkdev_get(). It also has an unexpected extra bdev_read_only()
test which probably should be moved into blkdev_get().
* open_by_devnum() is modified to take @holder argument and pass it to
blkdev_get().
Most of bdev open/close operations are unified into blkdev_get/put()
and most exclusive accesses are tested atomically at the open time (as
it should). This cleans up code and removes some, both valid and
invalid, but unnecessary all the same, corner cases.
open_bdev_exclusive() and open_by_devnum() can use further cleanup -
rename to blkdev_get_by_path() and blkdev_get_by_devt() and drop
special features. Well, let's leave them for another day.
Most conversions are straight-forward. drbd conversion is a bit more
involved as there was some reordering, but the logic should stay the
same.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
It's not needed to sync the filesystem, and it fixes a lock_dep complaint.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The following BUG can occur when an inode which is getting freed when
it still has dirty pages outstanding, and it gets deleted (in this
because it was the target of a rename). In ordered mode, we need to
make sure the data pages are written just in case we crash before the
rename (or unlink) is committed. If the inode is being freed then
when we try to igrab the inode, we end up tripping the BUG_ON at
fs/ext4/page-io.c:146.
To solve this problem, we need to keep track of the number of io
callbacks which are pending, and avoid destroying the inode until they
have all been completed. That way we don't have to bump the inode
count to keep the inode from being destroyed; an approach which
doesn't work because the count could have already been dropped down to
zero before the inode writeback has started (at which point we're not
allowed to bump the count back up to 1, since it's already started
getting freed).
Thanks to Dave Chinner for suggesting this approach, which is also
used by XFS.
kernel BUG at /scratch_space/linux-2.6/fs/ext4/page-io.c:146!
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff811075b1>] ext4_bio_write_page+0x172/0x307
[<ffffffff811033a7>] mpage_da_submit_io+0x2f9/0x37b
[<ffffffff811068d7>] mpage_da_map_and_submit+0x2cc/0x2e2
[<ffffffff811069b3>] mpage_add_bh_to_extent+0xc6/0xd5
[<ffffffff81106c66>] write_cache_pages_da+0x2a4/0x3ac
[<ffffffff81107044>] ext4_da_writepages+0x2d6/0x44d
[<ffffffff81087910>] do_writepages+0x1c/0x25
[<ffffffff810810a4>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x4b/0x4d
[<ffffffff810815f5>] filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff81122a2e>] jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate+0x7b/0xa2
[<ffffffff8110615d>] ext4_evict_inode+0x57/0x24c
[<ffffffff810c14a3>] evict+0x22/0x92
[<ffffffff810c1a3d>] iput+0x212/0x249
[<ffffffff810bdf16>] dentry_iput+0xa1/0xb9
[<ffffffff810bdf6b>] d_kill+0x3d/0x5d
[<ffffffff810be613>] dput+0x13a/0x147
[<ffffffff810b990d>] sys_renameat+0x1b5/0x258
[<ffffffff81145f71>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x2d/0x4c
[<ffffffff810b2950>] ? cp_new_stat+0xde/0xea
[<ffffffff810b29c1>] ? sys_newlstat+0x2d/0x38
[<ffffffff810b99c6>] sys_rename+0x16/0x18
[<ffffffff81002a2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
We now initialize the percpu counters before replaying the journal,
but after the journal, we recalculate the global counters, to deal
with the possibility of the per-blockgroup counts getting updated by
the journal replay.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Newer GCC's reported the following build warning:
fs/ext4/super.c: In function 'ext4_lazyinit_thread':
fs/ext4/super.c:2702: warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function
Fix it by removing the need for the ret variable in the first place.
Signed-off-by: "Lukas Czerner" <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reported-by: "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When the request has been removed from the list and no other request
has been issued, we will end up with next wakeup scheduled to
MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET which is bad. So check for that.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
These functions have no need to be exported beyond file context.
No functions needed to be moved for this commit; just some function
declarations changed to be static and removed from header files.
(A similar patch was submitted by Eric Sandeen, but I wanted to handle
code movement in separate patches to make sure code changes didn't
accidentally get dropped.)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Commit 84061e0 fixed an accounting bug only to introduce the
possibility of a kernel OOPS if the journal has a non-zero j_errno
field indicating that the file system had detected a fs inconsistency.
After the journal replay, if the journal superblock indicates that the
file system has an error, this indication is transfered to the file
system and then ext4_commit_super() is called to write this to the
disk.
But since the percpu counters are now initialized after the journal
replay, the call to ext4_commit_super() will cause a kernel oops since
it needs to use the percpu counters the ext4 superblock structure.
The fix is to skip setting the ext4 free block and free inode fields
if the percpu counter has not been set.
Thanks to Ken Sumrall for reporting and analyzing the root causes of
this bug.
Addresses-Google-Bug: #3054080
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Should be applied on the top of "lazy inode table initialization"
and "batched discard support" patch-sets.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Walk through allocation groups and trim all free extents. It can be
invoked through FITRIM ioctl on the file system. The main idea is to
provide a way to trim the whole file system if needed, since some SSD's
may suffer from performance loss after the whole device was filled (it
does not mean that fs is full!).
It search for free extents in allocation groups specified by Byte range
start -> start+len. When the free extent is within this range, blocks
are marked as used and then trimmed. Afterwards these blocks are marked
as free in per-group bitmap.
Since fstrim is a long operation it is good to have an ability to
interrupt it by a signal. This was added by Dmitry Monakhov.
Thanks Dimitry.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Call the block I/O layer directly instad of going through the buffer
layer. This should give us much better performance and scalability,
as well as lowering our CPU utilization when doing buffered writeback.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
An ext4 filesystem on a read-only device, with an external journal
which is at a different device number then recorded in the superblock
will fail to honor the read-only setting of the device and trigger
a superblock update (write).
For example:
- ext4 on a software raid which is in read-only mode
- external journal on a read-write device which has changed device num
- attempt to mount with -o journal_dev=<new_number>
- hits BUG_ON(mddev->ro = 1) in md.c
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
User-space should have the opportunity to check what features doest ext4
support in each particular copy. This adds easy interface by creating new
"features" directory in sys/fs/ext4/. In that directory files
advertising feature names can be created.
Add lazy_itable_init to the feature list.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it
considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are
not zeroed out. The fact that parts of the inode table are
uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors,
which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has
been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group
checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and
the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to
report false problems.
Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon
as possble. This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely
use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting
file systems.
This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is
created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed. There
is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the
first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit
thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the
request list.
This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up
scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule
time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to
zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with
the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10). We are doing
this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no
longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate
structures and exits (and can be created later later by another
filesystem).
We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not
care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we
have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode
allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we
take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem
in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the
group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait.
This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl: (30 commits)
BKL: remove BKL from freevxfs
BKL: remove BKL from qnx4
autofs4: Only declare function when CONFIG_COMPAT is defined
autofs: Only declare function when CONFIG_COMPAT is defined
ncpfs: Lock socket in ncpfs while setting its callbacks
fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal
BKL: Remove BKL from ncpfs
BKL: Remove BKL from OCFS2
BKL: Remove BKL from squashfs
BKL: Remove BKL from jffs2
BKL: Remove BKL from ecryptfs
BKL: Remove BKL from afs
BKL: Remove BKL from USB gadgetfs
BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4
BKL: Remove BKL from isofs
BKL: Remove BKL from fat
BKL: Remove BKL from ext2 filesystem
BKL: Remove BKL from do_new_mount()
BKL: Remove BKL from cgroup
BKL: Remove BKL from NTFS
...
The BKL is still used in ext4_put_super(), ext4_fill_super() and
ext4_remount(). All three calles are protected against concurrent calls by
the s_umount rw semaphore of struct super_block.
Therefore the BKL is protecting nothing in this case.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
This patch is a preparation necessary to remove the BKL from do_new_mount().
It explicitly adds calls to lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around
get_sb/fill_super operations for filesystems that still uses the BKL.
I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside
do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL
any more.
do_kern_mount() is already called without the BKL when mounting the rootfs
and in nfsctl. do_kern_mount() calls vfs_kern_mount(), which is called
from various places without BKL: simple_pin_fs(), nfs_do_clone_mount()
through nfs_follow_mountpoint(), afs_mntpt_do_automount() through
afs_mntpt_follow_link(). Both later functions are actually the filesystems
follow_link inode operation. vfs_kern_mount() is calling the specified
get_sb function and lets the filesystem do its job by calling the given
fill_super function.
Therefore I think it is safe to push down the BKL from the VFS to the
low-level filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation.
[arnd: do not add the BKL to those file systems that already
don't use it elsewhere]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
As part of adding support for OCFS2 to mount huge volumes, we need to
check that the sector_t and page cache of the system are capable of
addressing the entire volume.
An identical check already appears in ext3 and ext4. This patch moves
the addressability check into its own function in fs/libfs.c and
modifies ext3 and ext4 to invoke it.
[Edited to -EINVAL instead of BUG_ON() for bad blocksize_bits -- Joel]
Signed-off-by: Patrick LoPresti <lopresti@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
Fix sget() race with failing mount
vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
BFS: clean up the superblock usage
AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
cifs: truncate fallout
mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
mbcache: Remove unused features
add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
update VFS documentation for method changes.
All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
