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2010-08-05ext4: re-inline ext4_rec_len_(to|from)_disk functionsEric Sandeen
commit 3d0518f4, "ext4: New rec_len encoding for very large blocksizes" made several changes to this path, but from a perf perspective, un-inlining ext4_rec_len_from_disk() seems most significant. This function is called from ext4_check_dir_entry(), which on a file-creation workload is called extremely often. I tested this with bonnie: # bonnie++ -u root -s 0 -f -x 200 -d /mnt/test -n 32 (this does 200 iterations) and got this for the file creations: ext4 stock: Average = 21206.8 files/s ext4 inlined: Average = 22346.7 files/s (+5%) Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-07-27ext4: Cleanup ext4_check_dir_entry so __func__ is now implicitTheodore Ts'o
Also start passing the line number to ext4_check_dir since we're going to need it in upcoming patch. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-06-14ext4: remove initialized but not read variablesAndi Kleen
No real bugs found, just removed some dead code. Found by gcc 4.6's new warnings. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-05-17ext4: Make fsync sync new parent directories in no-journal modeFrank Mayhar
Add a new ext4 state to tell us when a file has been newly created; use that state in ext4_sync_file in no-journal mode to tell us when we need to sync the parent directory as well as the inode and data itself. This fixes a problem in which a panic or power failure may lose the entire file even when using fsync, since the parent directory entry is lost. Addresses-Google-Bug: #2480057 Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-05-17ext4: Drop whitespace at end of linesTheodore Ts'o
This patch was generated using: #!/usr/bin/perl -i while (<>) { s/[ ]+$//; print; } Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-05-16ext4: Use bitops to read/modify i_flags in struct ext4_inode_infoDmitry Monakhov
At several places we modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags without holding i_mutex (ext4_do_update_inode, ...). These modifications are racy and we can lose updates to i_flags. So convert handling of i_flags to use bitops which are atomic. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15792 Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-05-16ext4: Convert calls of ext4_error() to EXT4_ERROR_INODE()Theodore Ts'o
EXT4_ERROR_INODE() tends to provide better error information and in a more consistent format. Some errors were not even identifying the inode or directory which was corrupted, which made them not very useful. Addresses-Google-Bug: #2507977 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-03-05Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (33 commits) quota: stop using QUOTA_OK / NO_QUOTA dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystem dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine dquot: move dquot drop responsibility into the filesystem dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine dquot: move dquot transfer responsibility into the filesystem dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines ext3: add writepage sanity checks ext3: Truncate allocated blocks if direct IO write fails to update i_size quota: Properly invalidate caches even for filesystems with blocksize < pagesize quota: generalize quota transfer interface quota: sb_quota state flags cleanup jbd: Delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer ext3: quota_write cross block boundary behaviour quota: drop permission checks from xfs_fs_set_xstate/xfs_fs_set_xquota quota: split out compat_sys_quotactl support from quota.c quota: split out netlink notification support from quota.c quota: remove invalid optimization from quota_sync_all ... Fixed trivial conflicts in fs/namei.c and fs/ufs/inode.c
2010-03-05dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routineChristoph Hellwig
Get rid of the initialize dquot operation - it is now always called from the filesystem and if a filesystem really needs it's own (which none currently does) it can just call into it's own routine directly. Rename the now static low-level dquot_initialize helper to __dquot_initialize and vfs_dq_init to dquot_initialize to have a consistent namespace. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystemChristoph Hellwig
Currently various places in the VFS call vfs_dq_init directly. This means we tie the quota code into the VFS. Get rid of that and make the filesystem responsible for the initialization. For most metadata operations this is a straight forward move into the methods, but for truncate and open it's a bit more complicated. For truncate we currently only call vfs_dq_init for the sys_truncate case because open already takes care of it for ftruncate and open(O_TRUNC) - the new code causes an additional vfs_dq_init for those which is harmless. For open the initialization is moved from do_filp_open into the open method, which means it happens slightly earlier now, and only for regular files. The latter is fine because we don't need to initialize it for operations on special files, and we already do it as part of the namespace operations for directories. Add a dquot_file_open helper that filesystems that support generic quotas can use to fill in ->open. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-01ext4: Handle non empty on-disk orphan linkDmitry Monakhov
In case of truncate errors we explicitly remove inode from in-core orphan list via orphan_del(NULL, inode) without modifying the on-disk list. But later on, the same inode may be inserted in the orphan list again which will result the on-disk linked list getting corrupted. If inode i_dtime contains valid value, then skip on-disk list modification. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> 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>
2009-12-08ext4: quota macros cleanupDmitry Monakhov
Currently all quota block reservation macros contains hard-coded "2" aka MAXQUOTAS value. This is no good because in some places it is not obvious to understand what does this digit represent. Let's introduce new macro with self descriptive name. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-23ext4: fix potential buffer head leak when add_dirent_to_buf() returns ENOSPCTheodore Ts'o
Previously add_dirent_to_buf() did not free its passed-in buffer head in the case of ENOSPC, since in some cases the caller still needed it. However, this led to potential buffer head leaks since not all callers dealt with this correctly. Fix this by making simplifying the freeing convention; now add_dirent_to_buf() *never* frees the passed-in buffer head, and leaves that to the responsibility of its caller. This makes things cleaner and easier to prove that the code is neither leaking buffer heads or calling brelse() one time too many. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-11-08ext4: partial revert to fix double brelse WARNING()Theodore Ts'o
This is a partial revert of commit 6487a9d (only the changes made to fs/ext4/namei.c), since it is causing the following brelse() double-free warning when running fsstress on a file system with 1k blocksize and we run into a block allocation failure while converting a single-block directory to a multi-block hash-tree indexed directory. WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1197 __brelse+0x2e/0x33() Hardware name: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer Modules linked in: Pid: 2226, comm: jbd2/sdd-8 Not tainted 2.6.32-rc6-00577-g0003f55 #101 Call Trace: [<c01587fb>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x95 [<c0158869>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x29/0x2c [<c021168e>] __brelse+0x2e/0x33 [<c0288a9f>] jbd2_journal_refile_buffer+0x67/0x6c [<c028a9ed>] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x319/0x14d8 [<c0164d73>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x58/0x60 [<c0175bcc>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x12a/0x13e [<c017f6b4>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd [<c0175c1f>] ? cpu_clock+0x3f/0x5b [<c017f6ec>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x36/0x137 [<c0664ad0>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x44/0x51 [<c0180af3>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x103/0x124 [<c0180b1f>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd [<c0164d73>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x58/0x60 [<c0290d1c>] kjournald2+0x11a/0x310 [<c017118e>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38 [<c0290c02>] ? kjournald2+0x0/0x310 [<c0170ee6>] kthread+0x66/0x6b [<c0170e80>] ? kthread+0x0/0x6b [<c01251b3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ---[ end trace 5579351b86af61e3 ]--- Commit 6487a9d was an attempt some buffer head leaks in an ENOSPC error path, but in some cases it actually results in an excess ENOSPC, as shown above. Fixing this means cleaning up who is responsible for releasing the buffer heads from the callee to the caller of add_dirent_to_buf(). Since that's a relatively complex change, and we're late in the rcX development cycle, I'm reverting this now, and holding back a more complete fix until after 2.6.32 ships. We've lived with this buffer_head leak on ENOSPC in ext3 and ext4 for a very long time; a few more months won't kill us. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
2009-09-29ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journalCurt Wohlgemuth
This patch fixes a problem with handling nested calls to ext4_journal_start/ext4_journal_stop, when there is no journal present. Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-10ext4: Always set dx_node's fake_dirent explicitly.Andreas Schlick
When ext4_dx_add_entry() has to split an index node, it has to ensure that name_len of dx_node's fake_dirent is also zero, because otherwise e2fsck won't recognise it as an intermediate htree node and consider the htree to be corrupted. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schlick <schlick@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-29ext4: Limit number of links that can be created by ext4_link()Theodore Ts'o
In ext4_link we need to check using EXT4_LINK_MAX, and not EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(), since ext4_link() is creating hard links of regular files, and not directories. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-28ext4: Allow rename to create more than EXT4_LINK_MAX subdirectoriesAneesh Kumar K.V
Use EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX so that rename() can move a directory into new parent directory without running into the EXT4_LINK_MAX limit. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-17ext4: More buffer head reference leaksCurt Wohlgemuth
After the patch I posted last week regarding buffer head ref leaks in no-journal mode, I looked at all the code that uses buffer heads and searched for more potential leaks. The patch below fixes the issues I found; these can occur even when a journal is present. The change to inode.c fixes a double release if ext4_journal_get_create_access() fails. The changes to namei.c are more complicated. add_dirent_to_buf() will release the input buffer head EXCEPT when it returns -ENOSPC. There are some callers of this routine that don't always do the brelse() in the event that -ENOSPC is returned. Unfortunately, to put this fix into ext4_add_entry() required capturing the return value of make_indexed_dir() and add_dirent_to_buf(). Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-08ext[234]: move over to 'check_acl' permission modelLinus Torvalds
Don't implement per-filesystem 'extX_permission()' functions that have to be called for every path component operation, and instead just expose the actual ACL checking so that the VFS layer can now do it for us. Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-13ext4: teach the inode allocator to use a goal inode numberAndreas Dilger
Enhance the inode allocator to take a goal inode number as a paremeter; if it is specified, it takes precedence over Orlov or parent directory inode allocation algorithms. The extents migration function uses the goal inode number so that the extent trees allocated the migration function use the correct flex_bg. In the future, the goal inode functionality will also be used to allocate an adjacent inode for the extended attributes. Also, for testing purposes the goal inode number can be specified via /sys/fs/{dev}/inode_goal. This can be useful for testing inode allocation beyond 2^32 blocks on very large filesystems. Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-13ext4: Use a hash of the topdir directory name for the Orlov parent groupTheodore Ts'o
Instead of using a random number to determine the goal parent grop for the Orlov top directories, use a hash of the directory name. This allows for repeatable results when trying to benchmark filesystem layout algorithms. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-08ext4: fix dx_map_entry to support 256k directory blocksToshiyuki Okajima
The dx_map_entry structure doesn't support over 64KB block size by current usage of its member("offs"). Because "offs" treats an offset of copies of the ext4_dir_entry_2 structure as is. This member size is 16 bits. But real offset for over 64KB(256KB) block size needs 18 bits. However, real offset keeps 4 byte boundary, so lower 2 bits is not used. Therefore, we do the following to fix this limitation: For "store": we divide the real offset by 4 and then store this result to "offs" member. For "use": we multiply "offs" member by 4 and then use this result as real offset. Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-02ext4: hook fiemap operation for directoriesAneesh Kumar K.V
Add fiemap callback for directories Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-01ext4: Move fs/ext4/namei.h into ext4.hTheodore Ts'o
The fs/ext4/namei.h header file had only a single function declaration, and should have never been a standalone file. Move it into ext4.h, where should have been from the beginning. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-25ext4: Replace lock/unlock_super() with an explicit lock for the orphan listTheodore Ts'o
Use a separate lock to protect the orphan list, so we can stop overloading the use of lock_super(). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-16ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount optionTheodore Ts'o
Add a mount option which allows the user to disable automatic allocation of blocks whose allocation by delayed allocation when the file was originally truncated or when the file is renamed over an existing file. This feature is intended to save users from the effects of naive application writers, but it reduces the effectiveness of the delayed allocation code. This mount option disables this safety feature, which may be desirable for prodcutions systems where the risk of unclean shutdowns or unexpected system crashes is low. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-23ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on renameTheodore Ts'o
When renaming a file such that a link to another inode is overwritten, force any delay allocated blocks that to be allocated so that if the filesystem is mounted with data=ordered, the data blocks will be pushed out to disk along with the journal commit. Many application programs expect this, so we do this to avoid zero length files if the system crashes unexpectedly. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-22ext4: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inodeBryan Donlan
ext4_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to report errors to NFS properly. However, in ext4_lookup(), this -ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted such that a directory entry references a deleted inode. This leads to a misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion on the part of the admin. The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making a link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting to ls -l said link. This patch thus changes ext4_lookup to return -EIO if it receives -ESTALE from ext4_iget(), as ext4 does for other filesystem metadata corruption; and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when this case is detected. Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@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>
2009-02-14ext4: New rec_len encoding for very large blocksizesWei Yongjun
The rec_len field in the directory entry is 16 bits, so to encode blocksizes larger than 64k becomes problematic. This patch allows us to supprot block sizes up to 256k, by using the low 2 bits to extend the range of rec_len to 2**18-1 (since valid rec_len sizes must be a multiple of 4). We use the convention that a rec_len of 0 or 65535 means the filesystem block size, for compatibility with older kernels. It's unlikely we'll see VM pages of up to 256k, but at some point we might find that the Linux VM has been enhanced to support filesystem block sizes > than the VM page size, at which point it might be useful for some applications to allow very large filesystem block sizes. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-14ext4: Use unsigned int for blocksize in dx_make_map() and dx_pack_dirents()Theodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-26ext4: Use lowercase names of quota functionsJan Kara
Use lowercase names of quota functions instead of old uppercase ones. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
2009-01-16ext4: Add sanity check to make_indexed_dirTheodore Ts'o
Make sure the rec_len field in the '..' entry is sane, lest we overrun the directory block and cause a kernel oops on a purposefully corrupted filesystem. Thanks to Sami Liedes for reporting this bug. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12430 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-08Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (57 commits) jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs ext4: Remove "extents" mount option block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: " ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message ext4: Add markers for better debuggability ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode() ext4: code cleanup ...
2009-01-08generic swap(): ext4: remove local swap() macroWu Fengguang
Use the new generic implementation. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-04fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fixNick Piggin
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could cause filesystem deadlocks. The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS anyway, so turn that into a single flag. Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there, change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive and does away with random leading underscores). This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a random example). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the logic. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-31nfsd race fixes: ext4Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-11-05ext4: Change unsigned long to unsigned intTheodore Ts'o
Convert the unsigned longs that are most responsible for bloating the stack usage on 64-bit systems. Nearly all places in the ext3/4 code which uses "unsigned long" is probably a bug, since on 32-bit systems a ulong a 32-bits, which means we are wasting stack space on 64-bit systems. 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>
2008-12-06ext3/4: Fix loop index in do_split() so it is signedTheodore Ts'o
This fixes a gcc warning but it doesn't appear able to result in a failure, since the primary way the loop is exited is the first conditional in the for loop, and at least for a consistent filesystem, the signed/unsigned should in practice never be exposed. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-28ext4: Add support for non-native signed/unsigned htree hash algorithmsTheodore Ts'o
The original ext3 hash algorithms assumed that variables of type char were signed, as God and K&R intended. Unfortunately, this assumption is not true on some architectures. Userspace support for marking filesystems with non-native signed/unsigned chars was added two years ago, but the kernel-side support was never added (until now). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-23ext4: remove unused variable in ext4_get_parentChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> [ All users removed in "switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias", aka commit 440037287c5ebb07033ab927ca16bb68c291d309 ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-23[PATCH] switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_aliasChristoph Hellwig
Switch all users of d_alloc_anon to d_obtain_alias. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-10ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4Theodore Ts'o
The ext4 filesystem is getting stable enough that it's time to drop the "dev" prefix. Also remove the requirement for the TEST_FILESYS flag. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-22ext4: Don't use 'struct dentry' for internal lookupsTheodore Ts'o
This is a port of a patch from Linus which fixes a 200+ byte stack usage problem in ext4_get_parent(). It's more efficient to pass down only the actual parts of the dentry that matter: the parent inode and the name, instead of allocating a struct dentry on the stack. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08ext4: Fix whitespace checkpatch warnings/errorsTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08ext4: Add printk priority levels to clean up checkpatch warningsTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11ext4: cleanup never-used magic numbers from htree codeLi Zefan
dx_root_limit() will had some dead code which forced it to always return 20, and dx_node_limit to always return 22 for debugging purposes. Remove it. Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>