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2009-05-15ext4: Fix race in ext4_inode_info.i_cached_extentTheodore Ts'o
If two CPU's simultaneously call ext4_ext_get_blocks() at the same time, there is nothing protecting the i_cached_extent structure from being used and updated at the same time. This could potentially cause the wrong location on disk to be read or written to, including potentially causing the corruption of the block group descriptors and/or inode table. This bug has been in the ext4 code since almost the very beginning of ext4's development. Fortunately once the data is stored in the page cache cache, ext4_get_blocks() doesn't need to be called, so trying to replicate this problem to the point where we could identify its root cause was *extremely* difficult. Many thanks to Kevin Shanahan for working over several months to be able to reproduce this easily so we could finally nail down the cause of the corruption. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-05-14ext4: Clear the unwritten buffer_head flag after the extent is initializedAneesh Kumar K.V
The BH_Unwritten flag indicates that the buffer is allocated on disk but has not been written; that is, the disk was part of a persistent preallocation area. That flag should only be set when a get_blocks() function is looking up a inode's logical to physical block mapping. When ext4_get_blocks_wrap() is called with create=1, the uninitialized extent is converted into an initialized one, so the BH_Unwritten flag is no longer appropriate. Hence, we need to make sure the BH_Unwritten is not left set, since the combination of BH_Mapped and BH_Unwritten is not allowed; among other things, it will result ext4's get_block() to be called over and over again during the write_begin phase of write(2). Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-12ext4: Use a fake block number for delayed new buffer_headAneesh Kumar K.V
Use a very large unsigned number (~0xffff) as as the fake block number for the delayed new buffer. The VFS should never try to write out this number, but if it does, this will make it obvious. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-13ext4: Fix sub-block zeroing for writes into preallocated extentsAneesh Kumar K.V
We need to mark the buffer_head mapping preallocated space as new during write_begin. Otherwise we don't zero out the page cache content properly for a partial write. This will cause file corruption with preallocation. Now that we mark the buffer_head new we also need to have a valid buffer_head blocknr so that unmap_underlying_metadata() unmaps the correct block. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-24ext4: Do not try to validate extents on special filesTheodore Ts'o
The EXTENTS_FL flag should never be set on special files, but if it is, don't bother trying to validate that the extents tree is valid, since only files, directories, and non-fast symlinks will ever have an extent data structure. We perhaps should flag the filesystem as being corrupted if we see a special file (named pipes, device nodes, Unix domain sockets, etc.) with the EXTENTS_FL flag, but e2fsck doesn't currently check this case, so we'll just ignore this for now, since it's harmless. Without this fix, a special device with the extents flag is flagged as an error by the kernel, so it is impossible to access or delete the inode, but e2fsck doesn't see it as a problem, leading to confused/frustrated users. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-24ext4: Ignore i_file_acl_high unless EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT is presentTheodore Ts'o
Don't try to look at i_file_acl_high unless the INCOMPAT_64BIT feature bit is set. The field is normally zero, but older versions of e2fsck didn't automatically check to make sure of this, so in the spirit of "be liberal in what you accept", don't look at i_file_acl_high unless we are using a 64-bit filesystem. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-24ext4: Fix softlockup caused by illegal i_file_acl value in on-disk inodeTheodore Ts'o
If the block containing external extended attributes (which is stored in i_file_acl and i_file_acl_high) is larger than the on-disk filesystem, the process which tried to access the extended attributes will endlessly issue kernel printks complaining that "__find_get_block_slow() failed", locking up that CPU until the system is forcibly rebooted. So when we read in the inode, make sure the i_file_acl value is legal, and if not, flag the filesystem as being corrupted. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-24Merge 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: ext4: Fix potential inode allocation soft lockup in Orlov allocator ext4: Make the extent validity check more paranoid jbd: use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG when writing synchronous revoke records jbd2: use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG when writing synchronous revoke records ext4: really print the find_group_flex fallback warning only once
2009-04-22ext4: Fix potential inode allocation soft lockup in Orlov allocatorTheodore Ts'o
If the Orlov allocator is having trouble finding an appropriate block group, the fallback code could loop forever, causing a soft lockup warning in find_group_orlov(): BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [cp:11728] ... Pid: 11728, comm: cp Not tainted (2.6.30-rc1-dirty #77) Lenovo EIP: 0060:[<c021650e>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0 EIP is at ext4_get_group_desc+0x54/0x9d ... Call Trace: [<c0218021>] find_group_orlov+0x2ee/0x334 [<c0120a5f>] ? sched_clock+0x8/0xb [<c02188e3>] ext4_new_inode+0x2cf/0xb1a Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-22ext4: Make the extent validity check more paranoidTheodore Ts'o
Instead of just checking that the extent block number is greater or equal than s_first_data_block, make sure it it is not pointing into the block group descriptors, since that is clearly wrong. This helps prevent filesystem from getting very badly corrupted in case an extent block is corrupted. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-15ext4: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAITNikanth Karthikesan
Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT. GFP_NOIO implies __GFP_WAIT. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-14ext4: really print the find_group_flex fallback warning only onceChuck Ebbert
Missing braces caused the warning to print more than once. Signed-Off-By: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-07ext4: check block device size on mountFrom: Thiemo Nagel
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-04ext4: Fix off-by-one-error in ext4_valid_extent_idx()Thiemo Nagel
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-07ext4: Fix big-endian problem in __ext4_check_blockref()Thiemo Nagel
Commit fe2c8191 introduced a regression on big-endian system, because the checks to make sure block references in non-extent inodes are valid failed to use le32_to_cpu(). Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de> Tested-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-04-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits) trivial: Update my email address trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius". trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file() trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register" ...
2009-04-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225 Trim includes of fdtable.h Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som Trim includes in binfmt_elf Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary() Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h New helper - current_umask() check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing New locking/refcounting for fs_struct Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c) Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2) Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()
2009-04-01Merge 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: (33 commits) ext4: Regularize mount options ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs ext4: fix typo which causes a memory leak on error path jbd2: Update locking coments ext4: Rename pa_linear to pa_type ext4: add checks of block references for non-extent inodes ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from disk ext4: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync() ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount option ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats() ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs ext4: Add sysfs support ext4: Track lifetime disk writes ext4: Fix discard of inode prealloc space with delayed allocation. ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on rename ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on close ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctl ext4: Simplify delalloc code by removing mpage_da_writepages() ext4: Save stack space by removing fake buffer heads ...
2009-04-01mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match faultNick Piggin
Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return VM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change. This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to the VM (and also can provide more information eg. virtual_address to the driver, which might be important in some special cases). This is required for a subsequent fix. And will also make it easier to merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-31New helper - current_umask()Al Viro
current->fs->umask is what most of fs_struct users are doing. Put that into a helper function. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-30trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig textsMatt LaPlante
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-03-28ext4: Regularize mount optionsTheodore Ts'o
Add support for using the mount options "barrier" and "nobarrier", and "auto_da_alloc" and "noauto_da_alloc", which is more consistent than "barrier=<0|1>" or "auto_da_alloc=<0|1>". Most other ext3/ext4 mount options use the foo/nofoo naming convention. We allow the old forms of these mount options for backwards compatibility. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-27ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangsTheodore Ts'o
Smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/) complains about the locking in ext4_mb_add_n_trim() from fs/ext4/mballoc.c 4438 list_for_each_entry_rcu(tmp_pa, &lg->lg_prealloc_list[order], 4439 pa_inode_list) { 4440 spin_lock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock); 4441 if (tmp_pa->pa_deleted) { 4442 spin_unlock(&pa->pa_lock); 4443 continue; 4444 } Brown paper bag time... Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-03-27ext4: fix typo which causes a memory leak on error pathDan Carpenter
This was found by smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/) Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-03-27ext4: Rename pa_linear to pa_typeAneesh Kumar K.V
Impact: code cleanup This patch rename pa_linear to pa_type and add MB_INODE_PA and MB_GROUP_PA to indicate inode and group prealloc space. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-31ext4: add checks of block references for non-extent inodesThiemo Nagel
Check block references in the inode and indorect blocks for non-extent inodes to make sure they are valid, and flag an error if they are invalid. Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-26ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from diskTheodore Ts'o
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
2009-03-26ext4: quota reservation for delayed allocationMingming Cao
Uses quota reservation/claim/release to handle quota properly for delayed allocation in the three steps: 1) quotas are reserved when data being copied to cache when block allocation is defered 2) when new blocks are allocated. reserved quotas are converted to the real allocated quota, 2) over-booked quotas for metadata blocks are released back. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-03-26ext4: Remove unnecessary quota functionsJan Kara
ext4_dquot_initialize() and ext4_dquot_drop() is no longer needed because of modified quota locking. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-03-16ext4: fix bb_prealloc_list corruption due to wrong group lockingEric Sandeen
This is for Red Hat bug 490026: EXT4 panic, list corruption in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa ext4_lock_group(sb, group) is supposed to protect this list for each group, and a common code flow to remove an album is like this: ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(sb, pa->pa_pstart, &grp, NULL); ext4_lock_group(sb, grp); list_del(&pa->pa_group_list); ext4_unlock_group(sb, grp); so it's critical that we get the right group number back for this prealloc context, to lock the right group (the one associated with this pa) and prevent concurrent list manipulation. however, ext4_mb_put_pa() passes in (pa->pa_pstart - 1) with a comment, "-1 is to protect from crossing allocation group". This makes sense for the group_pa, where pa_pstart is advanced by the length which has been used (in ext4_mb_release_context()), and when the entire length has been used, pa_pstart has been advanced to the first block of the next group. However, for inode_pa, pa_pstart is never advanced; it's just set once to the first block in the group and not moved after that. So in this case, if we subtract one in ext4_mb_put_pa(), we are actually locking the *previous* group, and opening the race with the other threads which do not subtract off the extra block. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> 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>
2009-03-14ext4: fix bogus BUG_ONs in in mballoc codeEric Sandeen
Thiemo Nagel reported that: # dd if=/dev/zero of=image.ext4 bs=1M count=2 # mkfs.ext4 -v -F -b 1024 -m 0 -g 512 -G 4 -I 128 -N 1 \ -O large_file,dir_index,flex_bg,extent,sparse_super image.ext4 # mount -o loop image.ext4 mnt/ # dd if=/dev/zero of=mnt/file oopsed, with a BUG_ON in ext4_mb_normalize_request because size == EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP It appears to me (esp. after talking to Andreas) that the BUG_ON is bogus; a request of exactly EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP should be allowed, though larger sizes do indicate a problem. Fix that an another (apparently rare) codepath with a similar check. Reported-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-12ext4: Print the find_group_flex() warning only onceTheodore Ts'o
This is a short-term warning, and even printk_ratelimit() can result in too much noise in system logs. So only print it once as a warning. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-10ext4: fix header check in ext4_ext_search_right() for deep extent trees.Eric Sandeen
The ext4_ext_search_right() function is confusing; it uses a "depth" variable which is 0 at the root and maximum at the leaves, but the on-disk metadata uses a "depth" (actually eh_depth) which is opposite: maximum at the root, and 0 at the leaves. The ext4_ext_check_header() function is given a depth and checks the header agaisnt that depth; it expects the on-disk semantics, but we are giving it the opposite in the while loop in this function. We should be giving it the on-disk notion of "depth" which we can get from (p_depth - depth) - and if you look, the last (more commonly hit) call to ext4_ext_check_header() does just this. Sending in the wrong depth results in (incorrect) messages about corruption: EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_ext_search_right: bad header in inode #2621457: unexpected eh_depth - magic f30a, entries 340, max 340(0), depth 1(2) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12821 Reported-by: David Dindorp <ddi@dubex.dk> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()Theodore Ts'o
Instead of looping over all of the block groups in a flex group summing their summary statistics, start tracking used_dirs in struct flex_groups, and use struct flex_groups instead. This should save a bit of CPU for mkdir-heavy workloads. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groupsTheodore Ts'o
Reduce pressure on the sb_bgl_lock family of locks by using atomic_t's to track the number of free blocks and inodes in each flex_group. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-31ext4: remove /proc tuning knobsTheodore Ts'o
Remove tuning knobs in /proc/fs/ext4/<dev/* since they have been replaced by knobs in sysfs at /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-31ext4: Add sysfs supportTheodore Ts'o
Add basic sysfs support so that information about the mounted filesystem and various tuning parameters can be accessed via /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04ext4: fix ext4_free_inode() vs. ext4_claim_inode() raceEric Sandeen
I was seeing fsck errors on inode bitmaps after a 4 thread dbench run on a 4 cpu machine: Inode bitmap differences: -50736 -(50752--50753) etc... I believe that this is because ext4_free_inode() uses atomic bitops, and although ext4_new_inode() *used* to also use atomic bitops for synchronization, commit 393418676a7602e1d7d3f6e560159c65c8cbd50e changed this to use the sb_bgl_lock, so that we could also synchronize against read_inode_bitmap and initialization of uninit inode tables. However, that change left ext4_free_inode using atomic bitops, which I think leaves no synchronization between setting & unsetting bits in the inode table. The below patch fixes it for me, although I wonder if we're getting at all heavy-handed with this spinlock... Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-28ext4: Track lifetime disk writesTheodore Ts'o
Add a new superblock value which tracks the lifetime amount of writes to the filesystem. This is useful in estimating the amount of wear on solid state drives (SSD's) caused by writes to the filesystem. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-27ext4: Fix discard of inode prealloc space with delayed allocation.Aneesh Kumar K.V
With delayed allocation we should not/cannot discard inode prealloc space during file close. We would still have dirty pages for which we haven't allocated blocks yet. With this fix after each get_blocks request we check whether we have zero reserved blocks and if yes and we don't have any writers on the file we discard inode prealloc space. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-26ext4: don't call jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested without journalEric Sandeen
Running without a journal, I oopsed when I ran out of space, because we called jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested() from ext4_should_retry_alloc() without a journal. This should take care of it, I think. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-28ext4: Remove duplicate call to ext4_commit_super() in ext4_freeze()Theodore Ts'o
Commit c4be0c1d added error checking to ext4_freeze() when calling ext4_commit_super(). Unfortunately the patch failed to remove the original call to ext4_commit_super(), with the net result that when freezing the filesystem, the superblock gets written twice, the first time without error checking. 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>
2009-02-24ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on closeTheodore Ts'o
When closing a file that had been previously truncated, 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>
2009-02-26ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctlTheodore Ts'o
Add an ioctl which forces all of the delay allocated blocks to be allocated. This also provides a function ext4_alloc_da_blocks() which will be used by the following commits to force files to be fully allocated to preserve application-expected ext3 behaviour. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-23ext4: Simplify delalloc code by removing mpage_da_writepages()Theodore Ts'o
The mpage_da_writepages() function is only used in one place, so inline it to simplify the call stack and make the code easier to understand. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-23ext4: Save stack space by removing fake buffer headsTheodore Ts'o
Struct mpage_da_data and mpage_add_bh_to_extent() use a fake struct buffer_head which is 104 bytes on an x86_64 system, but only use 24 bytes of the structure. On systems that use a spinlock for atomic_t, the stack savings will be even greater. It turns out that using a fake struct buffer_head doesn't even save that much code, and it makes the code more confusing since it's not used as a "real" buffer head. So just store pass b_size and b_state in mpage_add_bh_to_extent(), and store b_size, b_state, and b_block_nr in the mpage_da_data structure. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-23ext4: Simplify delalloc implementation by removing mpd.get_blockTheodore Ts'o
This parameter was always set to ext4_da_get_block_write(). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>