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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/ext4/extents_status.c, branch v4.4.81</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ext4: move procfs registration code to fs/ext4/sysfs.c</title>
<updated>2015-09-23T16:46:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-23T16:46:17+00:00</published>
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This allows us to refactor the procfs code, which saves a bit of
compiled space.  More importantly it isolates most of the procfs
support code into a single file, so it's easier to #ifdef it out if
the proc file system has been disabled.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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This allows us to refactor the procfs code, which saves a bit of
compiled space.  More importantly it isolates most of the procfs
support code into a single file, so it's easier to #ifdef it out if
the proc file system has been disabled.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents</title>
<updated>2015-05-03T01:36:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Czerner</name>
<email>lczerner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-03T01:36:55+00:00</published>
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Currently it is possible to lose whole file system block worth of data
when we hit the specific interaction with unwritten and delayed extents
in status extent tree.

The problem is that when we insert delayed extent into extent status
tree the only way to get rid of it is when we write out delayed buffer.
However there is a limitation in the extent status tree implementation
so that when inserting unwritten extent should there be even a single
delayed block the whole unwritten extent would be marked as delayed.

At this point, there is no way to get rid of the delayed extents,
because there are no delayed buffers to write out. So when a we write
into said unwritten extent we will convert it to written, but it still
remains delayed.

When we try to write into that block later ext4_da_map_blocks() will set
the buffer new and delayed and map it to invalid block which causes
the rest of the block to be zeroed loosing already written data.

For now we can fix this by simply not allowing to set delayed status on
written extent in the extent status tree. Also add WARN_ON() to make
sure that we notice if this happens in the future.

This problem can be easily reproduced by running the following xfs_io.

xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xaa 4096 2048" \
          -c "falloc 0 131072" \
          -c "pwrite -S 0xbb 65536 2048" \
          -c "fsync" /mnt/test/fff

echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xdd 67584 2048" /mnt/test/fff

This can be theoretically also reproduced by at random by running fsx,
but it's not very reliable, though on machines with bigger page size
(like ppc) this can be seen more often (especially xfstest generic/127)

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Currently it is possible to lose whole file system block worth of data
when we hit the specific interaction with unwritten and delayed extents
in status extent tree.

The problem is that when we insert delayed extent into extent status
tree the only way to get rid of it is when we write out delayed buffer.
However there is a limitation in the extent status tree implementation
so that when inserting unwritten extent should there be even a single
delayed block the whole unwritten extent would be marked as delayed.

At this point, there is no way to get rid of the delayed extents,
because there are no delayed buffers to write out. So when a we write
into said unwritten extent we will convert it to written, but it still
remains delayed.

When we try to write into that block later ext4_da_map_blocks() will set
the buffer new and delayed and map it to invalid block which causes
the rest of the block to be zeroed loosing already written data.

For now we can fix this by simply not allowing to set delayed status on
written extent in the extent status tree. Also add WARN_ON() to make
sure that we notice if this happens in the future.

This problem can be easily reproduced by running the following xfs_io.

xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xaa 4096 2048" \
          -c "falloc 0 131072" \
          -c "pwrite -S 0xbb 65536 2048" \
          -c "fsync" /mnt/test/fff

echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xdd 67584 2048" /mnt/test/fff

This can be theoretically also reproduced by at random by running fsx,
but it's not very reliable, though on machines with bigger page size
(like ppc) this can be seen more often (especially xfstest generic/127)

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>ext4: remove unused header files</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T03:47:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sheng Yong</name>
<email>shengyong1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-03T03:47:42+00:00</published>
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Remove unused header files and header files which are included in
ext4.h.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong &lt;shengyong1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Remove unused header files and header files which are included in
ext4.h.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong &lt;shengyong1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: introduce aging to extent status tree</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T16:55:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-25T16:55:24+00:00</published>
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Introduce a simple aging to extent status tree. Each extent has a
REFERENCED bit which gets set when the extent is used. Shrinker then
skips entries with referenced bit set and clears the bit. Thus
frequently used extents have higher chances of staying in memory.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Introduce a simple aging to extent status tree. Each extent has a
REFERENCED bit which gets set when the extent is used. Shrinker then
skips entries with referenced bit set and clears the bit. Thus
frequently used extents have higher chances of staying in memory.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: cleanup flag definitions for extent status tree</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T16:53:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-25T16:53:47+00:00</published>
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Currently flags for extent status tree are defined twice, once shifted
and once without a being shifted. Consolidate these definitions into one
place and make some computations automatic to make adding flags less
error prone. Compiler should be clever enough to figure out these are
constants and generate the same code.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Currently flags for extent status tree are defined twice, once shifted
and once without a being shifted. Consolidate these definitions into one
place and make some computations automatic to make adding flags less
error prone. Compiler should be clever enough to figure out these are
constants and generate the same code.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: limit number of scanned extents in status tree shrinker</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T16:51:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-25T16:51:23+00:00</published>
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Currently we scan extent status trees of inodes until we reclaim nr_to_scan
extents. This can however require a lot of scanning when there are lots
of delayed extents (as those cannot be reclaimed).

Change shrinker to work as shrinkers are supposed to and *scan* only
nr_to_scan extents regardless of how many extents did we actually
reclaim. We however need to be careful and avoid scanning each status
tree from the beginning - that could lead to a situation where we would
not be able to reclaim anything at all when first nr_to_scan extents in
the tree are always unreclaimable. We remember with each inode offset
where we stopped scanning and continue from there when we next come
across the inode.

Note that we also need to update places calling __es_shrink() manually
to pass reasonable nr_to_scan to have a chance of reclaiming anything and
not just 1.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Currently we scan extent status trees of inodes until we reclaim nr_to_scan
extents. This can however require a lot of scanning when there are lots
of delayed extents (as those cannot be reclaimed).

Change shrinker to work as shrinkers are supposed to and *scan* only
nr_to_scan extents regardless of how many extents did we actually
reclaim. We however need to be careful and avoid scanning each status
tree from the beginning - that could lead to a situation where we would
not be able to reclaim anything at all when first nr_to_scan extents in
the tree are always unreclaimable. We remember with each inode offset
where we stopped scanning and continue from there when we next come
across the inode.

Note that we also need to update places calling __es_shrink() manually
to pass reasonable nr_to_scan to have a chance of reclaiming anything and
not just 1.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: move handling of list of shrinkable inodes into extent status code</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T16:49:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-25T16:49:25+00:00</published>
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Currently callers adding extents to extent status tree were responsible
for adding the inode to the list of inodes with freeable extents. This
is error prone and puts list handling in unnecessarily many places.

Just add inode to the list automatically when the first non-delay extent
is added to the tree and remove inode from the list when the last
non-delay extent is removed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Currently callers adding extents to extent status tree were responsible
for adding the inode to the list of inodes with freeable extents. This
is error prone and puts list handling in unnecessarily many places.

Just add inode to the list automatically when the first non-delay extent
is added to the tree and remove inode from the list when the last
non-delay extent is removed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: change LRU to round-robin in extent status tree shrinker</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T16:45:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zheng Liu</name>
<email>wenqing.lz@taobao.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-25T16:45:37+00:00</published>
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In this commit we discard the lru algorithm for inodes with extent
status tree because it takes significant effort to maintain a lru list
in extent status tree shrinker and the shrinker can take a long time to
scan this lru list in order to reclaim some objects.

We replace the lru ordering with a simple round-robin.  After that we
never need to keep a lru list.  That means that the list needn't be
sorted if the shrinker can not reclaim any objects in the first round.

Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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In this commit we discard the lru algorithm for inodes with extent
status tree because it takes significant effort to maintain a lru list
in extent status tree shrinker and the shrinker can take a long time to
scan this lru list in order to reclaim some objects.

We replace the lru ordering with a simple round-robin.  After that we
never need to keep a lru list.  That means that the list needn't be
sorted if the shrinker can not reclaim any objects in the first round.

Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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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>2014-10-20T16:50:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-20T16:50:11+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A large number of cleanups and bug fixes, with some (minor) journal
  optimizations"

[ This got sent to me before -rc1, but was stuck in my spam folder.   - Linus ]

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (67 commits)
  ext4: check s_chksum_driver when looking for bg csum presence
  ext4: move error report out of atomic context in ext4_init_block_bitmap()
  ext4: Replace open coded mdata csum feature to helper function
  ext4: delete useless comments about ext4_move_extents
  ext4: fix reservation overflow in ext4_da_write_begin
  ext4: add ext4_iget_normal() which is to be used for dir tree lookups
  ext4: don't orphan or truncate the boot loader inode
  ext4: grab missed write_count for EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
  ext4: optimize block allocation on grow indepth
  ext4: get rid of code duplication
  ext4: fix over-defensive complaint after journal abort
  ext4: fix return value of ext4_do_update_inode
  ext4: fix mmap data corruption when blocksize &lt; pagesize
  vfs: fix data corruption when blocksize &lt; pagesize for mmaped data
  ext4: fold ext4_nojournal_sops into ext4_sops
  ext4: support freezing ext2 (nojournal) file systems
  ext4: fold ext4_sync_fs_nojournal() into ext4_sync_fs()
  ext4: don't check quota format when there are no quota files
  jbd2: simplify calling convention around __jbd2_journal_clean_checkpoint_list
  jbd2: avoid pointless scanning of checkpoint lists
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A large number of cleanups and bug fixes, with some (minor) journal
  optimizations"

[ This got sent to me before -rc1, but was stuck in my spam folder.   - Linus ]

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (67 commits)
  ext4: check s_chksum_driver when looking for bg csum presence
  ext4: move error report out of atomic context in ext4_init_block_bitmap()
  ext4: Replace open coded mdata csum feature to helper function
  ext4: delete useless comments about ext4_move_extents
  ext4: fix reservation overflow in ext4_da_write_begin
  ext4: add ext4_iget_normal() which is to be used for dir tree lookups
  ext4: don't orphan or truncate the boot loader inode
  ext4: grab missed write_count for EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
  ext4: optimize block allocation on grow indepth
  ext4: get rid of code duplication
  ext4: fix over-defensive complaint after journal abort
  ext4: fix return value of ext4_do_update_inode
  ext4: fix mmap data corruption when blocksize &lt; pagesize
  vfs: fix data corruption when blocksize &lt; pagesize for mmaped data
  ext4: fold ext4_nojournal_sops into ext4_sops
  ext4: support freezing ext2 (nojournal) file systems
  ext4: fold ext4_sync_fs_nojournal() into ext4_sync_fs()
  ext4: don't check quota format when there are no quota files
  jbd2: simplify calling convention around __jbd2_journal_clean_checkpoint_list
  jbd2: avoid pointless scanning of checkpoint lists
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ext4: track extent status tree shrinker delay statictics</title>
<updated>2014-09-02T02:26:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zheng Liu</name>
<email>wenqing.lz@taobao.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-02T02:26:49+00:00</published>
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This commit adds some statictics in extent status tree shrinker.  The
purpose to add these is that we want to collect more details when we
encounter a stall caused by extent status tree shrinker.  Here we count
the following statictics:
  stats:
    the number of all objects on all extent status trees
    the number of reclaimable objects on lru list
    cache hits/misses
    the last sorted interval
    the number of inodes on lru list
  average:
    scan time for shrinking some objects
    the number of shrunk objects
  maximum:
    the inode that has max nr. of objects on lru list
    the maximum scan time for shrinking some objects

The output looks like below:
  $ cat /proc/fs/ext4/sda1/es_shrinker_info
  stats:
    28228 objects
    6341 reclaimable objects
    5281/631 cache hits/misses
    586 ms last sorted interval
    250 inodes on lru list
  average:
    153 us scan time
    128 shrunk objects
  maximum:
    255 inode (255 objects, 198 reclaimable)
    125723 us max scan time

If the lru list has never been sorted, the following line will not be
printed:
    586ms last sorted interval
If there is an empty lru list, the following lines also will not be
printed:
    250 inodes on lru list
  ...
  maximum:
    255 inode (255 objects, 198 reclaimable)
    0 us max scan time

Meanwhile in this commit a new trace point is defined to print some
details in __ext4_es_shrink().

Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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This commit adds some statictics in extent status tree shrinker.  The
purpose to add these is that we want to collect more details when we
encounter a stall caused by extent status tree shrinker.  Here we count
the following statictics:
  stats:
    the number of all objects on all extent status trees
    the number of reclaimable objects on lru list
    cache hits/misses
    the last sorted interval
    the number of inodes on lru list
  average:
    scan time for shrinking some objects
    the number of shrunk objects
  maximum:
    the inode that has max nr. of objects on lru list
    the maximum scan time for shrinking some objects

The output looks like below:
  $ cat /proc/fs/ext4/sda1/es_shrinker_info
  stats:
    28228 objects
    6341 reclaimable objects
    5281/631 cache hits/misses
    586 ms last sorted interval
    250 inodes on lru list
  average:
    153 us scan time
    128 shrunk objects
  maximum:
    255 inode (255 objects, 198 reclaimable)
    125723 us max scan time

If the lru list has never been sorted, the following line will not be
printed:
    586ms last sorted interval
If there is an empty lru list, the following lines also will not be
printed:
    250 inodes on lru list
  ...
  maximum:
    255 inode (255 objects, 198 reclaimable)
    0 us max scan time

Meanwhile in this commit a new trace point is defined to print some
details in __ext4_es_shrink().

Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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