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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/ext3, branch v3.12.29</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ext[34]: fix double put in tmpfile</title>
<updated>2013-10-15T16:14:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-10T14:48:19+00:00</published>
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d_tmpfile() already swallowed the inode ref.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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d_tmpfile() already swallowed the inode ref.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2013-09-06T16:06:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-06T16:06:02+00:00</published>
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Pull ext3, reiserfs, udf &amp; isofs fixes from Jan Kara:
 "The contains a bunch of ext3 cleanups and minor improvements, major
  reiserfs locking changes which should hopefully fix deadlocks
  introduced by BKL removal, and udf/isofs changes to refuse mounting fs
  rw instead of mounting it ro automatically which makes eject button
  work as expected for all media (see the changelog for why userspace
  should be ok with this change)"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  jbd: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
  reiserfs: locking, release lock around quota operations
  reiserfs: locking, handle nested locks properly
  reiserfs: locking, push write lock out of xattr code
  jbd: relocate assert after state lock in journal_commit_transaction()
  udf: Refuse RW mount of the filesystem instead of making it RO
  udf: Standardize return values in mount sequence
  isofs: Refuse RW mount of the filesystem instead of making it RO
  ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
  jbd: remove unneeded semicolon
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Pull ext3, reiserfs, udf &amp; isofs fixes from Jan Kara:
 "The contains a bunch of ext3 cleanups and minor improvements, major
  reiserfs locking changes which should hopefully fix deadlocks
  introduced by BKL removal, and udf/isofs changes to refuse mounting fs
  rw instead of mounting it ro automatically which makes eject button
  work as expected for all media (see the changelog for why userspace
  should be ok with this change)"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  jbd: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
  reiserfs: locking, release lock around quota operations
  reiserfs: locking, handle nested locks properly
  reiserfs: locking, push write lock out of xattr code
  jbd: relocate assert after state lock in journal_commit_transaction()
  udf: Refuse RW mount of the filesystem instead of making it RO
  udf: Standardize return values in mount sequence
  isofs: Refuse RW mount of the filesystem instead of making it RO
  ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
  jbd: remove unneeded semicolon
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Fix misspellings using 'codespell' tool</title>
<updated>2013-08-28T18:40:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anatol Pomozov</name>
<email>anatol.pomozov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-28T18:40:12+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov &lt;anatol.pomozov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov &lt;anatol.pomozov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option</title>
<updated>2013-07-31T20:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-31T19:33:00+00:00</published>
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It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's
device number changes, the filesystem won't mount.
And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number
changes aren't unusual.

The current mechanism to update the journal location is by
passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle;
it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact.

Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would
help, since then we can do i.e.

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ...

and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here:

# losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile
# mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0
# mkfs.ext3 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1

Change the journal device number:

# losetup -d /dev/loop0
# losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile

And today it will fail:

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

# dmesg | tail -n 1
[17343.240702] EXT3-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal

But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

(which does update the encoded device number, incidentally):

# umount /dev/sdb1
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device"
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Journal device:	          0x0701

But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and
it'll always work:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as
the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID),
we can mount.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's
device number changes, the filesystem won't mount.
And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number
changes aren't unusual.

The current mechanism to update the journal location is by
passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle;
it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact.

Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would
help, since then we can do i.e.

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ...

and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here:

# losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile
# mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0
# mkfs.ext3 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1

Change the journal device number:

# losetup -d /dev/loop0
# losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile

And today it will fail:

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

# dmesg | tail -n 1
[17343.240702] EXT3-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal

But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

(which does update the encoded device number, incidentally):

# umount /dev/sdb1
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device"
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Journal device:	          0x0701

But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and
it'll always work:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as
the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID),
we can mount.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext3: fix a BUG when opening a file with O_TMPFILE flag</title>
<updated>2013-07-21T02:03:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zheng Liu</name>
<email>wenqing.lz@taobao.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-21T02:03:20+00:00</published>
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When we try to open a file with O_TMPFILE flag, we will trigger a bug.
The root cause is that in ext4_orphan_add() we check -&gt;i_nlink == 0 and
this check always fails because we set -&gt;i_nlink = 1 in
inode_init_always().  We can use the following program to trigger it:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	int fd;

	fd = open(argv[1], O_TMPFILE, 0666);
	if (fd &lt; 0) {
		perror("open ");
		return -1;
	}
	close(fd);
	return 0;
}

The oops message looks like this:

kernel: kernel BUG at fs/ext3/namei.c:1992!
kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
kernel: Modules linked in: ext4 jbd2 crc16 cpufreq_ondemand ipv6 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod parport_pc parport serio_raw sg dcdbas pcspkr i2c_i801 ehci_pci ehci_hcd button acpi_cpufreq mperf e1000e ptp pps_core ttm drm_kms_helper drm hwmon i2c_algo_bit i2c_core ext3 jbd sd_mod ahci libahci libata scsi_mod uhci_hcd
kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 2882 Comm: tst_tmpfile Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1+ #4
kernel: Hardware name: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 780 /0V4W66, BIOS A05 08/11/2010
kernel: task: ffff880112d30050 ti: ffff8801124d4000 task.ti: ffff8801124d4000
kernel: RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa00db5ae&gt;] [&lt;ffffffffa00db5ae&gt;] ext3_orphan_add+0x6a/0x1eb [ext3]
kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff8801124d5cc8  EFLAGS: 00010202
kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880111510128 RCX: ffff8801114683a0
kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880111510128 RDI: ffff88010fcf65a8
kernel: RBP: ffff8801124d5d18 R08: 0080000000000000 R09: ffffffffa00d3b7f
kernel: R10: ffff8801114683a0 R11: ffff8801032a2558 R12: 0000000000000000
kernel: R13: ffff88010fcf6800 R14: ffff8801032a2558 R15: ffff8801115100d8
kernel: FS:  00007f5d172b5700(0000) GS:ffff880117c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
kernel: CR2: 00007f5d16df15d0 CR3: 0000000110b1d000 CR4: 00000000000407f0
kernel: Stack:
kernel: 000000000000000c ffff8801048a7dc8 ffff8801114685a8 ffffffffa00b80d7
kernel: ffff8801124d5e38 ffff8801032a2558 ffff88010ce24d68 0000000000000000
kernel: ffff88011146b300 ffff8801124d5d44 ffff8801124d5d78 ffffffffa00db7e1
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: [&lt;ffffffffa00b80d7&gt;] ? journal_start+0x8c/0xbd [jbd]
kernel: [&lt;ffffffffa00db7e1&gt;] ext3_tmpfile+0xb2/0x13b [ext3]
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff821076f8&gt;] path_openat+0x11f/0x5e7
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff821c86b4&gt;] ? list_del+0x11/0x30
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff82065fa2&gt;] ?  __dequeue_entity+0x33/0x38
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff82107cd5&gt;] do_filp_open+0x3f/0x8d
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff82112532&gt;] ? __alloc_fd+0x50/0x102
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff820f9296&gt;] do_sys_open+0x13b/0x1cd
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff820f935c&gt;] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff82398c02&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
kernel: Code: 39 c7 0f 85 67 01 00 00 0f b7 03 25 00 f0 00 00 3d 00 40 00 00 74 18 3d 00 80 00 00 74 11 3d 00 a0 00 00 74 0a 83 7b 48 00 74 04 &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb fe 49 8b 85 50 03 00 00 4c 89 f6 48 c7 c7 c0 99 0e a0
kernel: RIP  [&lt;ffffffffa00db5ae&gt;] ext3_orphan_add+0x6a/0x1eb [ext3]
kernel: RSP &lt;ffff8801124d5cc8&gt;

Here we couldn't call clear_nlink() directly because in d_tmpfile() we
will call inode_dec_link_count() to decrease -&gt;i_nlink.  So this commit
tries to call d_tmpfile() before ext4_orphan_add() to fix this problem.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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When we try to open a file with O_TMPFILE flag, we will trigger a bug.
The root cause is that in ext4_orphan_add() we check -&gt;i_nlink == 0 and
this check always fails because we set -&gt;i_nlink = 1 in
inode_init_always().  We can use the following program to trigger it:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	int fd;

	fd = open(argv[1], O_TMPFILE, 0666);
	if (fd &lt; 0) {
		perror("open ");
		return -1;
	}
	close(fd);
	return 0;
}

The oops message looks like this:

kernel: kernel BUG at fs/ext3/namei.c:1992!
kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
kernel: Modules linked in: ext4 jbd2 crc16 cpufreq_ondemand ipv6 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod parport_pc parport serio_raw sg dcdbas pcspkr i2c_i801 ehci_pci ehci_hcd button acpi_cpufreq mperf e1000e ptp pps_core ttm drm_kms_helper drm hwmon i2c_algo_bit i2c_core ext3 jbd sd_mod ahci libahci libata scsi_mod uhci_hcd
kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 2882 Comm: tst_tmpfile Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1+ #4
kernel: Hardware name: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 780 /0V4W66, BIOS A05 08/11/2010
kernel: task: ffff880112d30050 ti: ffff8801124d4000 task.ti: ffff8801124d4000
kernel: RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa00db5ae&gt;] [&lt;ffffffffa00db5ae&gt;] ext3_orphan_add+0x6a/0x1eb [ext3]
kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff8801124d5cc8  EFLAGS: 00010202
kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880111510128 RCX: ffff8801114683a0
kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880111510128 RDI: ffff88010fcf65a8
kernel: RBP: ffff8801124d5d18 R08: 0080000000000000 R09: ffffffffa00d3b7f
kernel: R10: ffff8801114683a0 R11: ffff8801032a2558 R12: 0000000000000000
kernel: R13: ffff88010fcf6800 R14: ffff8801032a2558 R15: ffff8801115100d8
kernel: FS:  00007f5d172b5700(0000) GS:ffff880117c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
kernel: CR2: 00007f5d16df15d0 CR3: 0000000110b1d000 CR4: 00000000000407f0
kernel: Stack:
kernel: 000000000000000c ffff8801048a7dc8 ffff8801114685a8 ffffffffa00b80d7
kernel: ffff8801124d5e38 ffff8801032a2558 ffff88010ce24d68 0000000000000000
kernel: ffff88011146b300 ffff8801124d5d44 ffff8801124d5d78 ffffffffa00db7e1
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: [&lt;ffffffffa00b80d7&gt;] ? journal_start+0x8c/0xbd [jbd]
kernel: [&lt;ffffffffa00db7e1&gt;] ext3_tmpfile+0xb2/0x13b [ext3]
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff821076f8&gt;] path_openat+0x11f/0x5e7
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff821c86b4&gt;] ? list_del+0x11/0x30
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff82065fa2&gt;] ?  __dequeue_entity+0x33/0x38
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff82107cd5&gt;] do_filp_open+0x3f/0x8d
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff82112532&gt;] ? __alloc_fd+0x50/0x102
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff820f9296&gt;] do_sys_open+0x13b/0x1cd
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff820f935c&gt;] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
kernel: [&lt;ffffffff82398c02&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
kernel: Code: 39 c7 0f 85 67 01 00 00 0f b7 03 25 00 f0 00 00 3d 00 40 00 00 74 18 3d 00 80 00 00 74 11 3d 00 a0 00 00 74 0a 83 7b 48 00 74 04 &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb fe 49 8b 85 50 03 00 00 4c 89 f6 48 c7 c7 c0 99 0e a0
kernel: RIP  [&lt;ffffffffa00db5ae&gt;] ext3_orphan_add+0x6a/0x1eb [ext3]
kernel: RSP &lt;ffff8801124d5cc8&gt;

Here we couldn't call clear_nlink() directly because in d_tmpfile() we
will call inode_dec_link_count() to decrease -&gt;i_nlink.  So this commit
tries to call d_tmpfile() before ext4_orphan_add() to fix this problem.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2013-07-09T19:08:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-09T19:08:43+00:00</published>
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Pull ext3 fix and quota cleanup from Jan Kara:
 "A fix of ext3 error reporting from fsync and a quota cleanup"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  quota: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  ext3: Fix fsync error handling after filesystem abort.
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<pre>
Pull ext3 fix and quota cleanup from Jan Kara:
 "A fix of ext3 error reporting from fsync and a quota cleanup"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  quota: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  ext3: Fix fsync error handling after filesystem abort.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext3: Fix fsync error handling after filesystem abort.</title>
<updated>2013-07-04T17:22:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-28T09:19:01+00:00</published>
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If filesystem was aborted we will return success
due to (sb-&gt;s_flags &amp; MS_RDONLY) which is incorrect and
results in data loss.
In order to handle fs abort correctly we have to check
fs state once we discover that it is in MS_RDONLY state

Test case: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/244297/
Changes from V1:
 - fix spelling
 - fix smp_rmb()/debug order

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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If filesystem was aborted we will return success
due to (sb-&gt;s_flags &amp; MS_RDONLY) which is incorrect and
results in data loss.
In order to handle fs abort correctly we have to check
fs state once we discover that it is in MS_RDONLY state

Test case: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/244297/
Changes from V1:
 - fix spelling
 - fix smp_rmb()/debug order

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T23:07:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:02:05+00:00</published>
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Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages.  This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode.  Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.

This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback.  An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode.  By default the
page flags are obeyed.

Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Cc: Zlatko Calusic &lt;zcalusic@bitsync.net&gt;
Cc: dormando &lt;dormando@rydia.net&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages.  This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode.  Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.

This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback.  An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode.  By default the
page flags are obeyed.

Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Cc: Zlatko Calusic &lt;zcalusic@bitsync.net&gt;
Cc: dormando &lt;dormando@rydia.net&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T16:10:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T16:10:19+00:00</published>
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Pull second set of VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "Assorted f_pos race fixes, making do_splice_direct() safe to call with
  i_mutex on parent, O_TMPFILE support, Jeff's locks.c series,
  -&gt;d_hash/-&gt;d_compare calling conventions changes from Linus, misc
  stuff all over the place."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  Document -&gt;tmpfile()
  ext4: -&gt;tmpfile() support
  vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
  lseek_execute() doesn't need an inode passed to it
  block_dev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  cpqphp_sysfs: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  tile-srom: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  proc_powerpc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  ubi/cdev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  pci/proc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  isapnp: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  lpfc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  locks: give the blocked_hash its own spinlock
  locks: add a new "lm_owner_key" lock operation
  locks: turn the blocked_list into a hashtable
  locks: convert fl_link to a hlist_node
  locks: avoid taking global lock if possible when waking up blocked waiters
  locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
  locks: encapsulate the fl_link list handling
  locks: make "added" in __posix_lock_file a bool
  ...
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Pull second set of VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "Assorted f_pos race fixes, making do_splice_direct() safe to call with
  i_mutex on parent, O_TMPFILE support, Jeff's locks.c series,
  -&gt;d_hash/-&gt;d_compare calling conventions changes from Linus, misc
  stuff all over the place."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  Document -&gt;tmpfile()
  ext4: -&gt;tmpfile() support
  vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
  lseek_execute() doesn't need an inode passed to it
  block_dev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  cpqphp_sysfs: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  tile-srom: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  proc_powerpc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  ubi/cdev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  pci/proc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  isapnp: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  lpfc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  locks: give the blocked_hash its own spinlock
  locks: add a new "lm_owner_key" lock operation
  locks: turn the blocked_list into a hashtable
  locks: convert fl_link to a hlist_node
  locks: avoid taking global lock if possible when waking up blocked waiters
  locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
  locks: encapsulate the fl_link list handling
  locks: make "added" in __posix_lock_file a bool
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T16:39:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T16:39:34+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 update from Ted Ts'o:
 "Lots of bug fixes, cleanups and optimizations.  In the bug fixes
  category, of note is a fix for on-line resizing file systems where the
  block size is smaller than the page size (i.e., file systems 1k blocks
  on x86, or more interestingly file systems with 4k blocks on Power or
  ia64 systems.)

  In the cleanup category, the ext4's punch hole implementation was
  significantly improved by Lukas Czerner, and now supports bigalloc
  file systems.  In addition, Jan Kara significantly cleaned up the
  write submission code path.  We also improved error checking and added
  a few sanity checks.

  In the optimizations category, two major optimizations deserve
  mention.  The first is that ext4_writepages() is now used for
  nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode.  This allows writes to be
  submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of
  being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer (which then
  relied on the elevator code to coalesce the requests in the block
  queue).  Secondly, the extent cache shrink mechanism, which was
  introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the
  i_es_lru spinlock.  Other optimizations include some changes to reduce
  CPU usage and to avoid issuing empty commits unnecessarily."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (86 commits)
  ext4: optimize starting extent in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
  jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails
  ext4: translate flag bits to strings in tracepoints
  ext4: fix up error handling for mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
  jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
  ext4: only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial_blocks()
  ext4: check error return from ext4_write_inline_data_end()
  ext4: delete unnecessary C statements
  ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file-&gt;f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree()
  jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock()
  ext4: pass inode pointer instead of file pointer to punch hole
  ext4: improve free space calculation for inline_data
  ext4: reduce object size when !CONFIG_PRINTK
  ext4: improve extent cache shrink mechanism to avoid to burn CPU time
  ext4: implement error handling of ext4_mb_new_preallocation()
  ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size
  ext4: delete unused variables
  ext4: return FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN for delalloc extents
  jbd2: remove debug dependency on debug_fs and update Kconfig help text
  jbd2: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
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Pull ext4 update from Ted Ts'o:
 "Lots of bug fixes, cleanups and optimizations.  In the bug fixes
  category, of note is a fix for on-line resizing file systems where the
  block size is smaller than the page size (i.e., file systems 1k blocks
  on x86, or more interestingly file systems with 4k blocks on Power or
  ia64 systems.)

  In the cleanup category, the ext4's punch hole implementation was
  significantly improved by Lukas Czerner, and now supports bigalloc
  file systems.  In addition, Jan Kara significantly cleaned up the
  write submission code path.  We also improved error checking and added
  a few sanity checks.

  In the optimizations category, two major optimizations deserve
  mention.  The first is that ext4_writepages() is now used for
  nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode.  This allows writes to be
  submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of
  being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer (which then
  relied on the elevator code to coalesce the requests in the block
  queue).  Secondly, the extent cache shrink mechanism, which was
  introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the
  i_es_lru spinlock.  Other optimizations include some changes to reduce
  CPU usage and to avoid issuing empty commits unnecessarily."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (86 commits)
  ext4: optimize starting extent in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
  jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails
  ext4: translate flag bits to strings in tracepoints
  ext4: fix up error handling for mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
  jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
  ext4: only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial_blocks()
  ext4: check error return from ext4_write_inline_data_end()
  ext4: delete unnecessary C statements
  ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file-&gt;f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree()
  jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock()
  ext4: pass inode pointer instead of file pointer to punch hole
  ext4: improve free space calculation for inline_data
  ext4: reduce object size when !CONFIG_PRINTK
  ext4: improve extent cache shrink mechanism to avoid to burn CPU time
  ext4: implement error handling of ext4_mb_new_preallocation()
  ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size
  ext4: delete unused variables
  ext4: return FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN for delalloc extents
  jbd2: remove debug dependency on debug_fs and update Kconfig help text
  jbd2: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
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