linux-toradex.git/fs/ext4/inode.c, branch v2.6.28.2

fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix

2009-01-18T18:43:46+00:00

commit 54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e upstream.

With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened.  They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim.  This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.

The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called.  It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock.  The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.

Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS.  Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function.  Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).

This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg.  ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
  untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function.  That
  just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
  logic.   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: Mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate after prepare_write

2008-11-07T14:06:45+00:00

We need to make sure we mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate
so that block_write_full_page write them correctly.

This fixes mmap corruptions that can occur in low memory situations.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: calculate journal credits correctly

2008-11-06T21:49:36+00:00

This fixes a 2.6.27 regression which was introduced in commit a02908f1.

We weren't passing the chunk parameter down to the two subections,
ext4_indirect_trans_blocks() and ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(), with
the result that massively overestimate the amount of credits needed by
ext4_da_writepages, especially in the non-extents case.  This causes
failures especially on /boot partitions, which tend to be small and
non-extent using since GRUB doesn't handle extents.

This patch fixes the bug reported by Joseph Fannin at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11964

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: Remove automatic enabling of the HUGE_FILE feature flag

2008-10-17T02:50:48+00:00

If the HUGE_FILE feature flag is not set, don't allow the creation of
large files, instead of automatically enabling the feature flag.
Recent versions of mke2fs will set the HUGE_FILE flag automatically
anyway for ext4 filesystems.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: Fix file fragmentation during large file write.

2008-10-16T14:10:36+00:00

The range_cyclic writeback mode uses the address_space writeback_index
as the start index for writeback.  With delayed allocation we were
updating writeback_index wrongly resulting in highly fragmented file.
This patch reduces the number of extents reduced from 4000 to 27 for a
3GB file.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: Use tag dirty lookup during mpage_da_submit_io

2008-10-14T13:20:19+00:00

This enables us to drop the range_cont writeback mode
use from ext4_da_writepages.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V

ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4

2008-10-11T00:02:48+00:00

The ext4 filesystem is getting stable enough that it's time to drop
the "dev" prefix.  Also remove the requirement for the TEST_FILESYS
flag.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

Hook ext4 to the vfs fiemap interface.

2008-10-07T04:46:36+00:00

ext4_ext_walk_space() was reinstated to be used for iterating over file
extents with a callback; it is used by the ext4 fiemap implementation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org

ext4: Remove old legacy block allocator

2008-10-10T13:40:52+00:00

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table

2008-10-10T03:53:47+00:00

With modern hard drives, reading 64k takes roughly the same time as
reading a 4k block.  So request readahead for adjacent inode table
blocks to reduce the time it takes when iterating over directories
(especially when doing this in htree sort order) in a cold cache case.
With this patch, the time it takes to run "git status" on a kernel
tree after flushing the caches via "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
is reduced by 21%.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"