When compiling with EXT4FS_DEBUG on, gcc will complain with following warnings:

linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ialloc.c: In function ‘ext4_count_free_inodes’:
linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1192: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects type
‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘ext4_group_t’

So add a type cast to suppress it. 

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

The goal inode is specificed by inode number which belongs
to [1; s_inodes_count].

Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Enhance the inode allocator to take a goal inode number as a
paremeter; if it is specified, it takes precedence over Orlov or
parent directory inode allocation algorithms.

The extents migration function uses the goal inode number so that the
extent trees allocated the migration function use the correct flex_bg.
In the future, the goal inode functionality will also be used to
allocate an adjacent inode for the extended attributes.

Also, for testing purposes the goal inode number can be specified via
/sys/fs/{dev}/inode_goal.  This can be useful for testing inode
allocation beyond 2^32 blocks on very large filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Instead of using a random number to determine the goal parent grop for
the Orlov top directories, use a hash of the directory name.  This
allows for repeatable results when trying to benchmark filesystem
layout algorithms.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

If the caller isn't planning on modifying the block group descriptors,
there's no need to pass in a pointer to a struct buffer_head.  Nuking
this saves a tiny amount of CPU time and stack space usage.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

We have sb_bgl_lock() and ext4_group_info.bb_state
bit spinlock to protech group information. The later is only
used within mballoc code. Consolidate them to use sb_bgl_lock().
This makes the mballoc.c code much simpler and also avoid
confusion with two locks protecting same info.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Move the function prototypes in group.h into ext4.h so they are all
defined in one place.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Ext4's on-line resizing adds a new block group and then, only at the
last step adjusts s_groups_count.  However, it's possible on SMP
systems that another CPU could see the updated the s_group_count and
not see the newly initialized data structures for the just-added block
group.  For this reason, it's important to insert a SMP read barrier
after reading s_groups_count and before reading any (for example) the
new block group descriptors allowed by the increased value of
s_groups_count.

Unfortunately, we rather blatently violate this locking protocol
documented in fs/ext4/resize.c.  Fortunately, (1) on-line resizes
happen relatively rarely, and (2) it seems rare that the filesystem
code will immediately try to use just-added block group before any
memory ordering issues resolve themselves.  So apparently problems
here are relatively hard to hit, since ext3 has been vulnerable to the
same issue for years with no one apparently complaining.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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>