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The problem with this is that 17d9ddc72fb8bba0d4f678 ("rbtree: Add support
for augmented rbtrees") in the linux-next tree adds a new field to that
struct which needs to be NULLas well. This patch uses RB_ROOT as the
intializer so all of the relevant fields will be NULL'd.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Commit bc8e5f07392f05c47c8bdeff4f7098db440d065c had a typo which caused
quota miscomputation when changing owner group of a file. Linus will hate
me.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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When quota was suspended on remount-ro, finish_unfinished() will try to turn
it on again (which fails) and also turns the quotas off on exit. Fix the
function to check whether quotas are already on at function entry and do
not turn them off in that case.
CC: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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The ENOSPC code will now return ENOSPC to btrfs_start_transaction.
btrfs_dirty_inode needs to check for this and error out appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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In order to support DIO that isn't aligned to the filesystem blocksize,
we fall back to buffered for any unaligned DIOs.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Less printk is good printk.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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After the path is released, the generation number got from block
pointer is no long valid. The race may cause disk corruption, because
verify_parent_transid() calls clear_extent_buffer_uptodate() when
generation numbers mismatch.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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The O_DIRECT code wasn't checking for multiple references
on preallocated or nodatacow extents. This means it
wasn't honoring snapshots properly.
The fix here is to add an explicit check for multiple references
This also fixes the math for selecting the correct disk block,
making sure not to go past the end of the extent.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus:
squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layout
squashfs: fix name reading in squashfs_xattr_get
squashfs: constify xattr handlers
squashfs: xattr fix sparse warnings
squashfs: xattr_lookup sparse fix
squashfs: add xattr support configure option
squashfs: add new extended inode types
squashfs: add support for xattr reading
squashfs: add xattr id support
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fs/fscache/object-list.c: In function 'fscache_objlist_lookup':
fs/fscache/object-list.c:105: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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btrfs_dirty_inode tries to sneak in without much waiting or
space reservation, mostly for performance reasons. This
usually works well but can cause problems when there are
many many writers.
When btrfs_update_inode fails with ENOSPC, we fallback
to a slower btrfs_start_transaction call that will reserve
some space.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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This moves the delalloc space reservation done for O_DIRECT
into btrfs_direct_IO. This way we don't leak reserved space
if the generic O_DIRECT write code errors out before it
calls into btrfs_direct_IO.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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J.R. Okajima reports that the call to sync_inode() in nfs_wb_page() can
deadlock with other writeback flush calls. It boils down to the fact
that we cannot ever call writeback_single_inode() while holding a page
lock (even if we do set nr_to_write to zero) since another process may
already be waiting in the call to do_writepages(), and so will deny us
the I_SYNC lock.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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If we exit from nfs_commit_inode() without ensuring that the COMMIT rpc
call has been completed, we must re-mark the inode as dirty. Otherwise,
future calls to sync_inode() with the WB_SYNC_ALL flag set will fail to
ensure that the data is on the disk.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Commit 9c7e7e23371e629dbb3b341610a418cdf1c19d91 (NFS: Don't call iput() in
nfs_access_cache_shrinker) unintentionally removed the spin unlock for the
inode->i_lock.
Reported-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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This is needed by fuse device code which wants to create pipe buffers.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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This changes O_DIRECT write code to mark extents as delalloc
while it is processing them. Yan Zheng has reworked the
enospc accounting based on tracking delalloc extents and
this makes it much easier to track enospc in the O_DIRECT code.
There are a few space cases with the O_DIRECT code though,
it only sets the EXTENT_DELALLOC bits, instead of doing
EXTENT_DELALLOC | EXTENT_DIRTY | EXTENT_UPTODATE, because
we don't want to mess with clearing the dirty and uptodate
bits when things go wrong. This is important because there
are no pages in the page cache, so any extent state structs
that we put in the tree won't get freed by releasepage. We have
to clear them ourselves as the DIO ends.
With this commit, we reserve space at in btrfs_file_aio_write,
and then as each btrfs_direct_IO call progresses it sets
EXTENT_DELALLOC on the range.
btrfs_get_blocks_direct is responsible for clearing the delalloc
at the same time it drops the extent lock.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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This adds:
alias: devname:<name>
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.
Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.
The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
$ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname
# Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
fuse fuse c10:229
ppp_generic ppp c108:0
tun net/tun c10:200
dm_mod mapper/control c10:235
Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
$ /sbin/udevd --debug
...
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666
A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.
Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.
This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-fixes:
GFS2: Fix permissions checking for setflags ioctl()
GFS2: Don't "get" xattrs for ACLs when ACLs are turned off
GFS2: Rework reclaiming unlinked dinodes
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: Ensure inode allocation buffers are fully replayed
xfs: enable background pushing of the CIL
xfs: forced unmounts need to push the CIL
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code
xfs: Delayed logging design documentation
xfs: Improve scalability of busy extent tracking
xfs: make the log ticket ID available outside the log infrastructure
xfs: clean up log ticket overrun debug output
xfs: Clean up XFS_BLI_* flag namespace
xfs: modify buffer item reference counting
xfs: allow log ticket allocation to take allocation flags
xfs: Don't reuse the same transaction ID for duplicated transactions.
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Remove duplicated #include('s) in fs/smbfs/symlink.c
Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove own implementation of hex_to_bin().
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>
Cc: "Richard Russon (FlatCap)" <ldm@flatcap.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Quote from Nick piggin's about btrfs patch
- http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg04472.html.
"add_to_page_cache_lru is exported, so it should be used. Benefits over
using a private pagevec: neater code, 128 bytes fewer stack used, percpu
lru ordering is preserved, and finally don't need to flush pagevec
before returning so batching may be shared with other LRU insertions."
Let's use it instead of private pagevec in ntfs, too.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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cached_page and lru_pvec have not been used. Let's remove the arguments.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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SHRT_MAX and SHRT_MIN
- C99 knows about USHRT_MAX/SHRT_MAX/SHRT_MIN, not
USHORT_MAX/SHORT_MAX/SHORT_MIN.
- Make SHRT_MIN of type s16, not int, for consistency.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/dma/timb_dma.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix security/keys/keyring.c]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When wb_writeback() hasn't written anything it will re-acquire the inode
lock before calling inode_wait_for_writeback.
This change tests the sync bit first so that is doesn't need to drop &
re-acquire the lock if the inode became available while wb_writeback() was
waiting to get the lock.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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migration by not migrating temporary stacks
Page migration requires rmap to be able to find all ptes mapping a page
at all times, otherwise the migration entry can be instantiated, but it
is possible to leave one behind if the second rmap_walk fails to find
the page. If this page is later faulted, migration_entry_to_page() will
call BUG because the page is locked indicating the page was migrated by
the migration PTE not cleaned up. For example
kernel BUG at include/linux/swapops.h:105!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810e951a>] handle_mm_fault+0x3f8/0x76a
[<ffffffff8130c7a2>] do_page_fault+0x44a/0x46e
[<ffffffff813099b5>] page_fault+0x25/0x30
[<ffffffff8114de33>] load_elf_binary+0x152a/0x192b
[<ffffffff8111329b>] search_binary_handler+0x173/0x313
[<ffffffff81114896>] do_execve+0x219/0x30a
[<ffffffff8100a5c6>] sys_execve+0x43/0x5e
[<ffffffff8100320a>] stub_execve+0x6a/0xc0
RIP [<ffffffff811094ff>] migration_entry_wait+0xc1/0x129
There is a race between shift_arg_pages and migration that triggers this
bug. A temporary stack is setup during exec and later moved. If
migration moves a page in the temporary stack and the VMA is then removed
before migration completes, the migration PTE may not be found leading to
a BUG when the stack is faulted.
This patch causes pages within the temporary stack during exec to be
skipped by migration. It does this by marking the VMA covering the
temporary stack with an otherwise impossible combination of VMA flags.
These flags are cleared when the temporary stack is moved to its final
location.
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: idea for having migration skip temporary stacks]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE, pagemap_hugetlb_range() is never called. So put
it (and its calling function) into #ifdef block.
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The async helper threads offload crc work onto all the
CPUs, and make streaming writes much faster. This
changes the O_DIRECT write code to use them. The only
small complication was that we need to pass in the
logical offset in the file for each bio, because we can't
find it in the bio's pages.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Yan Zheng noticed two places we were doing a lot of work
without task->state set to TASK_RUNNING. This sets the state
properly after we get ready to sleep but decide not to.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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In order for AIO to work, we need to implement aio_write. This patch converts
our btrfs_file_write to btrfs_aio_write. I've tested this with xfstests and
nothing broke, and the AIO stuff magically started working. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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This provides basic DIO support for reading and writing. It does not do the
work to recover from mismatching checksums, that will come later. A few design
changes have been made from Jim's code (sorry Jim!)
1) Use the generic direct-io code. Jim originally re-wrote all the generic DIO
code in order to account for all of BTRFS's oddities, but thanks to that work it
seems like the best bet is to just ignore compression and such and just opt to
fallback on buffered IO.
2) Fallback on buffered IO for compressed or inline extents. Jim's code did
it's own buffering to make dio with compressed extents work. Now we just
fallback onto normal buffered IO.
3) Use ordered extents for the writes so that all of the
lock_extent()
lookup_ordered()
type checks continue to work.
4) Do the lock_extent() lookup_ordered() loop in readpage so we don't race with
DIO writes.
I've tested this with fsx and everything works great. This patch depends on my
dio and filemap.c patches to work. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Btrfs cannot handle having logically non-contiguous requests submitted. For
example if you have
Logical: [0-4095][HOLE][8192-12287]
Physical: [0-4095] [4096-8191]
Normally the DIO code would put these into the same BIO's. The problem is we
need to know exactly what offset is associated with what BIO so we can do our
checksumming and unlocking properly, so putting them in the same BIO doesn't
work. So add another check where we submit the current BIO if the physical
blocks are not contigous OR the logical blocks are not contiguous.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Because BTRFS can do RAID and such, we need our own submit hook so we can setup
the bio's in the correct fashion, and handle checksum errors properly. So there
are a few changes here
1) The submit_io hook. This is straightforward, just call this instead of
submit_bio.
2) Allow the fs to return -ENOTBLK for reads. Usually this has only worked for
writes, since writes can fallback onto buffered IO. But BTRFS needs the option
of falling back on buffered IO if it encounters a compressed extent, since we
need to read the entire extent in and decompress it. So if we get -ENOTBLK back
from get_block we'll return back and fallback on buffered just like the write
case.
I've tested these changes with fsx and everything seems to work. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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This patch adds metadata ENOSPC handling for the balance code.
It is consisted by following major changes:
1. Avoid COW tree leave in the phrase of merging tree.
2. Handle interaction with snapshot creation.
3. make the backref cache can live across transactions.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Pre-allocate space for data relocation. This can detect ENOPSC
condition caused by fragmentation of free space.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Previous patches make the allocater return -ENOSPC if there is no
unreserved free metadata space. This patch updates tree log code
and various other places to propagate/handle the ENOSPC error.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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reserve metadata space for handling orphan inodes
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Reserve metadata space for extent tree, checksum tree and root tree
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Introduce metadata reservation context for delayed allocation
and update various related functions.
This patch also introduces EXTENT_FIRST_DELALLOC control bit for
set/clear_extent_bit. It tells set/clear_bit_hook whether they
are processing the first extent_state with EXTENT_DELALLOC bit
set. This change is important if set/clear_extent_bit involves
multiple extent_state.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Besides simplify the code, this change makes sure all metadata
reservation for normal metadata operations are released after
committing transaction.
Changes since V1:
Add code that check if unlink and rmdir will free space.
Add ENOSPC handling for clone ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Introducing metadata reseravtion contexts has two major advantages.
First, it makes metadata reseravtion more traceable. Second, it can
reclaim freed space and re-add them to the itself after transaction
committed.
Besides add btrfs_block_rsv structure and related helper functions,
This patch contains following changes:
Move code that decides if freed tree block should be pinned into
btrfs_free_tree_block().
Make space accounting more accurate, mainly for handling read only
block groups.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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All code in init_btrfs_i can be moved into btrfs_alloc_inode()
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Shrink delayed allocation space in a synchronized manner is more
controllable than flushing all delay allocated space in an async
thread.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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We already have fs_info->chunk_mutex to avoid concurrent
chunk creation.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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The size of reserved space is stored in space_info. If block groups
of different raid types are linked to separate space_info, changing
allocation profile will corrupt reserved space accounting.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Allow userspace filesystem implementation to use splice() to read from
the fuse device.
The userspace filesystem can now transfer data coming from a WRITE
request to an arbitrary file descriptor (regular file, block device or
socket) without having to go through a userspace buffer.
The semantics of using splice() to read messages are:
1) with a single splice() call move the whole message from the fuse
device to a temporary pipe
2) read the header from the pipe and determine the message type
3a) if message is a WRITE then splice data from pipe to destination
3b) else read rest of message to userspace buffer
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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When splicing buffers to the fuse device with SPLICE_F_MOVE, try to
move pages from the pipe buffer into the page cache. This allows
populating the fuse filesystem's cache without ever touching the page
contents, i.e. zero copy read capability.
The following steps are performed when trying to move a page into the
page cache:
- buf->ops->confirm() to make sure the new page is uptodate
- buf->ops->steal() to try to remove the new page from it's previous place
- remove_from_page_cache() on the old page
- add_to_page_cache_locked() on the new page
If any of the above steps fail (non fatally) then the code falls back
to copying the page. In particular ->steal() will fail if there are
external references (other than the page cache and the pipe buffer) to
the page.
Also since the remove_from_page_cache() + add_to_page_cache_locked()
are non-atomic it is possible that the page cache is repopulated in
between the two and add_to_page_cache_locked() will fail. This could
be fixed by creating a new atomic replace_page_cache_page() function.
fuse_readpages_end() needed to be reworked so it works even if
page->mapping is NULL for some or all pages which can happen if the
add_to_page_cache_locked() failed.
A number of sanity checks were added to make sure the stolen pages
don't have weird flags set, etc... These could be moved into generic
splice/steal code.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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Allow userspace filesystem implementation to use splice() to write to
the fuse device. The semantics of using splice() are:
1) buffer the message header and data in a temporary pipe
2) with a *single* splice() call move the message from the temporary pipe
to the fuse device
The READ reply message has the most interesting use for this, since
now the data from an arbitrary file descriptor (which could be a
regular file, a block device or a socket) can be tranferred into the
fuse device without having to go through a userspace buffer. It will
also allow zero copy moving of pages.
One caveat is that the protocol on the fuse device requires the length
of the whole message to be written into the header. But the length of
the data transferred into the temporary pipe may not be known in
advance. The current library implementation works around this by
using vmplice to write the header and modifying the header after
splicing the data into the pipe (error handling omitted):
struct fuse_out_header out;
iov.iov_base = &out;
iov.iov_len = sizeof(struct fuse_out_header);
vmsplice(pip[1], &iov, 1, 0);
len = splice(input_fd, input_offset, pip[1], NULL, len, 0);
/* retrospectively modify the header: */
out.len = len + sizeof(struct fuse_out_header);
splice(pip[0], NULL, fuse_chan_fd(req->ch), NULL, out.len, flags);
This works since vmsplice only saves a pointer to the data, it does
not copy the data itself.
Since pipes are currently limited to 16 pages and messages need to be
spliced atomically, the length of the data is limited to 15 pages (or
60kB for 4k pages).
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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