linux-toradex.git/fs/buffer.c, branch v3.7

vfs: clear to the end of the buffer on partial buffer reads

2012-12-05T18:32:59+00:00

READ is zero so the "rw & READ" test is always false.  The intended test
was "((rw & RW_MASK) == READ)".

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: avoid "attempt to access beyond end of device" warnings

2012-12-04T16:25:11+00:00

The block device access simplification that avoided accessing the (racy)
block size information (commit bbec0270bdd8: "blkdev_max_block: make
private to fs/buffer.c") no longer checks the maximum block size in the
block mapping path.

That was _almost_ as simple as just removing the code entirely, because
the readers and writers all check the size of the device anyway, so
under normal circumstances it "just worked".

However, the block size may be such that the end of the device may
straddle one single buffer_head.  At which point we may still want to
access the end of the device, but the buffer we use to access it
partially extends past the end.

The 'bd_set_size()' function intentionally sets the block size to avoid
this, but mounting the device - or setting the block size by hand to
some other value - can modify that block size.

So instead, teach 'submit_bh()' about the special case of the buffer
head straddling the end of the device, and turning such an access into a
smaller IO access, avoiding the problem.

This, btw, also means that unlike before, we can now access the whole
device regardless of device block size setting.  So now, even if the
device size is only 512-byte aligned, we can read and write even the
last sector even when having a much bigger block size for accessing the
rest of the device.

So with this, we could now get rid of the 'bd_set_size()' block size
code entirely - resulting in faster IO for the common case - but that
would be a separate patch.

Reported-and-tested-by: Romain Francoise 
Reporeted-and-tested-by: Meelis Roos 
Reported-by: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

blkdev_max_block: make private to fs/buffer.c

2012-11-30T01:48:12+00:00

We really don't want to look at the block size for the raw block device
accesses in fs/block-dev.c, because it may be changing from under us.
So get rid of the max_block logic entirely, since the caller should
already have done it anyway.

That leaves the only user of this function in fs/buffer.c, so move the
whole function there and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/buffer.c: make block-size be per-page and protected by the page lock

2012-11-29T18:47:20+00:00

This makes the buffer size handling be a per-page thing, which allows us
to not have to worry about locking too much when changing the buffer
size.  If a page doesn't have buffers, we still need to read the block
size from the inode, but we can do that with ACCESS_ONCE(), so that even
if the size is changing, we get a consistent value.

This doesn't convert all functions - many of the buffer functions are
used purely by filesystems, which in turn results in the buffer size
being fixed at mount-time.  So they don't have the same consistency
issues that the raw device access can have.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2012-10-07T21:36:39+00:00

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "The big new feature added this time is supporting online resizing
  using the meta_bg feature.  This allows us to resize file systems
  which are greater than 16TB.  In addition, the speed of online
  resizing has been improved in general.

  We also fix a number of races, some of which could lead to deadlocks,
  in ext4's Asynchronous I/O and online defrag support, thanks to good
  work by Dmitry Monakhov.

  There are also a large number of more minor bug fixes and cleanups
  from a number of other ext4 contributors, quite of few of which have
  submitted fixes for the first time."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (69 commits)
  ext4: fix ext4_flush_completed_IO wait semantics
  ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode
  ext4: fix ext_remove_space for punch_hole case
  ext4: punch_hole should wait for DIO writers
  ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers
  ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers
  ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate
  ext4: serialize dio nonlocked reads with defrag workers
  ext4: completed_io locking cleanup
  ext4: fix unwritten counter leakage
  ext4: give i_aiodio_unwritten a more appropriate name
  ext4: ext4_inode_info diet
  ext4: convert to use leXX_add_cpu()
  ext4: ext4_bread usage audit
  fs: reserve fallocate flag codepoint
  ext4: remove redundant offset check in mext_check_arguments()
  ext4: don't clear orphan list on ro mount with errors
  jbd2: fix assertion failure in commit code due to lacking transaction credits
  ext4: release donor reference when EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl fails
  ext4: enable FITRIM ioctl on bigalloc file system
  ...

ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode

2012-10-01T03:04:56+00:00

Commits 5e8830dc85d0 and 41c4d25f78c0 introduced a regression into
v3.6-rc1 for ext4 in nodealloc mode, such that mtime updates would not
take place for files modified via mmap if the page was already in the
page cache.  This would also affect ext3 file systems mounted using
the ext4 file system driver.

The problem was that ext4_page_mkwrite() had a shortcut which would
avoid calling __block_page_mkwrite() under some circumstances, and the
above two commit transferred the responsibility of calling
file_update_time() to __block_page_mkwrite --- which woudln't get
called in some circumstances.

Since __block_page_mkwrite() only has three callers,
block_page_mkwrite(), ext4_page_mkwrite, and nilfs_page_mkwrite(), the
best way to solve this is to move the responsibility for calling
file_update_time() to its caller.

This problem was found via xfstests #215 with a file system mounted
with -o nodelalloc.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

block: replace __getblk_slow misfix by grow_dev_page fix

2012-08-23T10:17:36+00:00

Commit 91f68c89d8f3 ("block: fix infinite loop in __getblk_slow")
is not good: a successful call to grow_buffers() cannot guarantee
that the page won't be reclaimed before the immediate next call to
__find_get_block(), which is why there was always a loop there.

Yesterday I got "EXT4-fs error (device loop0): __ext4_get_inode_loc:3595:
inode #19278: block 664: comm cc1: unable to read itable block" on console,
which pointed to this commit.

I've been trying to bisect for weeks, why kbuild-on-ext4-on-loop-on-tmpfs
sometimes fails from a missing header file, under memory pressure on
ppc G5.  I've never seen this on x86, and I've never seen it on 3.5-rc7
itself, despite that commit being in there: bisection pointed to an
irrelevant pinctrl merge, but hard to tell when failure takes between
18 minutes and 38 hours (but so far it's happened quicker on 3.6-rc2).

(I've since found such __ext4_get_inode_loc errors in /var/log/messages
from previous weeks: why the message never appeared on console until
yesterday morning is a mystery for another day.)

Revert 91f68c89d8f3, restoring __getblk_slow() to how it was (plus
a checkpatch nitfix).  Simplify the interface between grow_buffers()
and grow_dev_page(), and avoid the infinite loop beyond end of device
by instead checking init_page_buffers()'s end_block there (I presume
that's more efficient than a repeated call to blkdev_max_block()),
returning -ENXIO to __getblk_slow() in that case.

And remove akpm's ten-year-old "__getblk() cannot fail ... weird"
comment, but that is worrying: are all users of __getblk() really
now prepared for a NULL bh beyond end of device, or will some oops??

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.5
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write

2012-07-31T05:45:47+00:00

There are several entry points which dirty pages in a filesystem.  mmap
(handled by block_page_mkwrite()), buffered write (handled by
__generic_file_aio_write()), splice write (generic_file_splice_write),
truncate, and fallocate (these can dirty last partial page - handled inside
each filesystem separately). Protect these places with sb_start_write() and
sb_end_write().

->page_mkwrite() calls are particularly complex since they are called with
mmap_sem held and thus we cannot use standard sb_start_write() due to lock
ordering constraints. We solve the problem by using a special freeze protection
sb_start_pagefault() which ranks below mmap_sem.

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa 
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis 
Tested-by: Dann Frazier 
Tested-by: Massimo Morana 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: Push file_update_time() into __block_page_mkwrite()

2012-07-30T21:02:44+00:00

Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa 
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis 
Tested-by: Dann Frazier 
Tested-by: Massimo Morana 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

block: fix infinite loop in __getblk_slow

2012-07-13T15:36:35+00:00

Commit 080399aaaf35 ("block: don't mark buffers beyond end of disk as
mapped") exposed a bug in __getblk_slow that causes mount to hang as it
loops infinitely waiting for a buffer that lies beyond the end of the
disk to become uptodate.

The problem was initially reported by Torsten Hilbrich here:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/18/54

and also reported independently here:

    http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4511

and then Richard W.M.  Jones and Marcos Mello noted a few separate
bugzillas also associated with the same issue.  This patch has been
confirmed to fix:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835019

The main problem is here, in __getblk_slow:

        for (;;) {
                struct buffer_head * bh;
                int ret;

                bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
                if (bh)
                        return bh;

                ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size);
                if (ret < 0)
                        return NULL;
                if (ret == 0)
                        free_more_memory();
        }

__find_get_block does not find the block, since it will not be marked as
mapped, and so grow_buffers is called to fill in the buffers for the
associated page.  I believe the for (;;) loop is there primarily to
retry in the case of memory pressure keeping grow_buffers from
succeeding.  However, we also continue to loop for other cases, like the
block lying beond the end of the disk.  So, the fix I came up with is to
only loop when grow_buffers fails due to memory allocation issues
(return value of 0).

The attached patch was tested by myself, Torsten, and Rich, and was
found to resolve the problem in call cases.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer 
Reported-and-Tested-by: Torsten Hilbrich 
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones 
Reviewed-by: Josh Boyer 
Cc: Stable   # 3.0+
[ Jens is on vacation, taking this directly  - Linus ]
--
Stable Notes: this patch requires backport to 3.0, 3.2 and 3.3.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds