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<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2012-10-07T21:36:39+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-10-07T21:36:39+00:00</published>
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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
  ...
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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
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2012-10-01T16:06:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-10-01T16:06:36+00:00</published>
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Pull the trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "Tiny usual fixes all over the place"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  doc: fix old config name of kprobetrace
  fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldoc
  btrfs: fix the commment for the action flags in delayed-ref.h
  btrfs: fix trivial typo for the comment of BTRFS_FREE_INO_OBJECTID
  vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent()
  treewide: fix comment/printk/variable typos
  ipr: fix small coding style issues
  doc: fix broken utf8 encoding
  nfs: comment fix
  platform/x86: fix asus_laptop.wled_type module parameter
  mfd: printk/comment fixes
  doc: getdelays.c: remember to close() socket on error in create_nl_socket()
  doc: aliasing-test: close fd on write error
  mmc: fix comment typos
  dma: fix comments
  spi: fix comment/printk typos in spi
  Coccinelle: fix typo in memdup_user.cocci
  tmiofb: missing NULL pointer checks
  tools: perf: Fix typo in tools/perf
  tools/testing: fix comment / output typos
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Pull the trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "Tiny usual fixes all over the place"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  doc: fix old config name of kprobetrace
  fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldoc
  btrfs: fix the commment for the action flags in delayed-ref.h
  btrfs: fix trivial typo for the comment of BTRFS_FREE_INO_OBJECTID
  vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent()
  treewide: fix comment/printk/variable typos
  ipr: fix small coding style issues
  doc: fix broken utf8 encoding
  nfs: comment fix
  platform/x86: fix asus_laptop.wled_type module parameter
  mfd: printk/comment fixes
  doc: getdelays.c: remember to close() socket on error in create_nl_socket()
  doc: aliasing-test: close fd on write error
  mmc: fix comment typos
  dma: fix comments
  spi: fix comment/printk typos in spi
  Coccinelle: fix typo in memdup_user.cocci
  tmiofb: missing NULL pointer checks
  tools: perf: Fix typo in tools/perf
  tools/testing: fix comment / output typos
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode</title>
<updated>2012-10-01T03:04:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-01T03:04:56+00:00</published>
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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" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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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" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers</title>
<updated>2012-09-29T04:58:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-29T04:58:26+00:00</published>
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Jan Kara have spotted interesting issue:
There are  potential data corruption issue with  direct IO overwrites
racing with truncate:
 Like:
  dio write                      truncate_task
  -&gt;ext4_ext_direct_IO
   -&gt;overwrite == 1
    -&gt;down_read(&amp;EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_data_sem);
    -&gt;mutex_unlock(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex);
                               -&gt;ext4_setattr()
                                -&gt;inode_dio_wait()
                                -&gt;truncate_setsize()
                                -&gt;ext4_truncate()
                                 -&gt;down_write(&amp;EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_data_sem);
    -&gt;__blockdev_direct_IO
     -&gt;ext4_get_block
     -&gt;submit_io()
    -&gt;up_read(&amp;EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_data_sem);
                                 # truncate data blocks, allocate them to
                                 # other inode - bad stuff happens because
                                 # dio is still in flight.

In order to serialize with truncate dio worker should grab extra i_dio_count
reference before drop i_mutex.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Jan Kara have spotted interesting issue:
There are  potential data corruption issue with  direct IO overwrites
racing with truncate:
 Like:
  dio write                      truncate_task
  -&gt;ext4_ext_direct_IO
   -&gt;overwrite == 1
    -&gt;down_read(&amp;EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_data_sem);
    -&gt;mutex_unlock(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex);
                               -&gt;ext4_setattr()
                                -&gt;inode_dio_wait()
                                -&gt;truncate_setsize()
                                -&gt;ext4_truncate()
                                 -&gt;down_write(&amp;EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_data_sem);
    -&gt;__blockdev_direct_IO
     -&gt;ext4_get_block
     -&gt;submit_io()
    -&gt;up_read(&amp;EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_data_sem);
                                 # truncate data blocks, allocate them to
                                 # other inode - bad stuff happens because
                                 # dio is still in flight.

In order to serialize with truncate dio worker should grab extra i_dio_count
reference before drop i_mutex.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers</title>
<updated>2012-09-29T04:56:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-29T04:56:15+00:00</published>
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If we have enough aggressive DIO readers, truncate and other dio
waiters will wait forever inside inode_dio_wait(). It is reasonable
to disable nonlock DIO read optimization during truncate.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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If we have enough aggressive DIO readers, truncate and other dio
waiters will wait forever inside inode_dio_wait(). It is reasonable
to disable nonlock DIO read optimization during truncate.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate</title>
<updated>2012-09-29T04:55:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-29T04:55:23+00:00</published>
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Current serialization will works only for DIO which holds
i_mutex, but nonlocked DIO following race is possible:

dio_nolock_read_task            truncate_task
				-&gt;ext4_setattr()
				 -&gt;inode_dio_wait()
-&gt;ext4_ext_direct_IO
  -&gt;ext4_ind_direct_IO
    -&gt;__blockdev_direct_IO
      -&gt;ext4_get_block
				 -&gt;truncate_setsize()
				 -&gt;ext4_truncate()
				 #alloc truncated blocks
				 #to other inode
      -&gt;submit_io()
     #INFORMATION LEAK

In order to serialize with unlocked DIO reads we have to
rearrange wait sequence
1) update i_size first
2) if i_size about to be reduced wait for outstanding DIO requests
3) and only after that truncate inode blocks

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Current serialization will works only for DIO which holds
i_mutex, but nonlocked DIO following race is possible:

dio_nolock_read_task            truncate_task
				-&gt;ext4_setattr()
				 -&gt;inode_dio_wait()
-&gt;ext4_ext_direct_IO
  -&gt;ext4_ind_direct_IO
    -&gt;__blockdev_direct_IO
      -&gt;ext4_get_block
				 -&gt;truncate_setsize()
				 -&gt;ext4_truncate()
				 #alloc truncated blocks
				 #to other inode
      -&gt;submit_io()
     #INFORMATION LEAK

In order to serialize with unlocked DIO reads we have to
rearrange wait sequence
1) update i_size first
2) if i_size about to be reduced wait for outstanding DIO requests
3) and only after that truncate inode blocks

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: serialize dio nonlocked reads with defrag workers</title>
<updated>2012-09-29T04:41:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-29T04:41:21+00:00</published>
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Inode's block defrag and ext4_change_inode_journal_flag() may
affect nonlocked DIO reads result, so proper synchronization
required.

- Add missed inode_dio_wait() calls where appropriate
- Check inode state under extra i_dio_count reference.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Inode's block defrag and ext4_change_inode_journal_flag() may
affect nonlocked DIO reads result, so proper synchronization
required.

- Add missed inode_dio_wait() calls where appropriate
- Check inode state under extra i_dio_count reference.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: completed_io locking cleanup</title>
<updated>2012-09-29T04:14:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-29T04:14:55+00:00</published>
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Current unwritten extent conversion state-machine is very fuzzy.
- For unknown reason it performs conversion under i_mutex. What for?
  My diagnosis:
  We already protect extent tree with i_data_sem, truncate and punch_hole
  should wait for DIO, so the only data we have to protect is end_io-&gt;flags
  modification, but only flush_completed_IO and end_io_work modified this
  flags and we can serialize them via i_completed_io_lock.

  Currently all these games with mutex_trylock result in the following deadlock
   truncate:                          kworker:
    ext4_setattr                       ext4_end_io_work
    mutex_lock(i_mutex)
    inode_dio_wait(inode)  -&gt;BLOCK
                             DEADLOCK&lt;- mutex_trylock()
                                        inode_dio_done()
  #TEST_CASE1_BEGIN
  MNT=/mnt_scrach
  unlink $MNT/file
  fallocate -l $((1024*1024*1024)) $MNT/file
  aio-stress -I 100000 -O -s 100m -n -t 1 -c 10 -o 2 -o 3 $MNT/file
  sleep 2
  truncate -s 0 $MNT/file
  #TEST_CASE1_END

Or use 286's xfstests https://github.com/dmonakhov/xfstests/blob/devel/286

This patch makes state machine simple and clean:

(1) xxx_end_io schedule final extent conversion simply by calling
    ext4_add_complete_io(), which append it to ei-&gt;i_completed_io_list
    NOTE1: because of (2A) work should be queued only if
    -&gt;i_completed_io_list was empty, otherwise the work is scheduled already.

(2) ext4_flush_completed_IO is responsible for handling all pending
    end_io from ei-&gt;i_completed_io_list
    Flushing sequence consists of following stages:
    A) LOCKED: Atomically drain completed_io_list to local_list
    B) Perform extents conversion
    C) LOCKED: move converted io's to to_free list for final deletion
       	     This logic depends on context which we was called from.
    D) Final end_io context destruction
    NOTE1: i_mutex is no longer required because end_io-&gt;flags modification
    is protected by ei-&gt;ext4_complete_io_lock

Full list of changes:
- Move all completion end_io related routines to page-io.c in order to improve
  logic locality
- Move open coded logic from various xx_end_xx routines to ext4_add_complete_io()
- remove EXT4_IO_END_FSYNC
- Improve SMP scalability by removing useless i_mutex which does not
  protect io-&gt;flags anymore.
- Reduce lock contention on i_completed_io_lock by optimizing list walk.
- Rename ext4_end_io_nolock to end4_end_io and make it static
- Check flush completion status to ext4_ext_punch_hole(). Because it is
  not good idea to punch blocks from corrupted inode.

Changes since V3 (in request to Jan's comments):
  Fall back to active flush_completed_IO() approach in order to prevent
  performance issues with nolocked DIO reads.
Changes since V2:
  Fix use-after-free caused by race truncate vs end_io_work

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Current unwritten extent conversion state-machine is very fuzzy.
- For unknown reason it performs conversion under i_mutex. What for?
  My diagnosis:
  We already protect extent tree with i_data_sem, truncate and punch_hole
  should wait for DIO, so the only data we have to protect is end_io-&gt;flags
  modification, but only flush_completed_IO and end_io_work modified this
  flags and we can serialize them via i_completed_io_lock.

  Currently all these games with mutex_trylock result in the following deadlock
   truncate:                          kworker:
    ext4_setattr                       ext4_end_io_work
    mutex_lock(i_mutex)
    inode_dio_wait(inode)  -&gt;BLOCK
                             DEADLOCK&lt;- mutex_trylock()
                                        inode_dio_done()
  #TEST_CASE1_BEGIN
  MNT=/mnt_scrach
  unlink $MNT/file
  fallocate -l $((1024*1024*1024)) $MNT/file
  aio-stress -I 100000 -O -s 100m -n -t 1 -c 10 -o 2 -o 3 $MNT/file
  sleep 2
  truncate -s 0 $MNT/file
  #TEST_CASE1_END

Or use 286's xfstests https://github.com/dmonakhov/xfstests/blob/devel/286

This patch makes state machine simple and clean:

(1) xxx_end_io schedule final extent conversion simply by calling
    ext4_add_complete_io(), which append it to ei-&gt;i_completed_io_list
    NOTE1: because of (2A) work should be queued only if
    -&gt;i_completed_io_list was empty, otherwise the work is scheduled already.

(2) ext4_flush_completed_IO is responsible for handling all pending
    end_io from ei-&gt;i_completed_io_list
    Flushing sequence consists of following stages:
    A) LOCKED: Atomically drain completed_io_list to local_list
    B) Perform extents conversion
    C) LOCKED: move converted io's to to_free list for final deletion
       	     This logic depends on context which we was called from.
    D) Final end_io context destruction
    NOTE1: i_mutex is no longer required because end_io-&gt;flags modification
    is protected by ei-&gt;ext4_complete_io_lock

Full list of changes:
- Move all completion end_io related routines to page-io.c in order to improve
  logic locality
- Move open coded logic from various xx_end_xx routines to ext4_add_complete_io()
- remove EXT4_IO_END_FSYNC
- Improve SMP scalability by removing useless i_mutex which does not
  protect io-&gt;flags anymore.
- Reduce lock contention on i_completed_io_lock by optimizing list walk.
- Rename ext4_end_io_nolock to end4_end_io and make it static
- Check flush completion status to ext4_ext_punch_hole(). Because it is
  not good idea to punch blocks from corrupted inode.

Changes since V3 (in request to Jan's comments):
  Fall back to active flush_completed_IO() approach in order to prevent
  performance issues with nolocked DIO reads.
Changes since V2:
  Fix use-after-free caused by race truncate vs end_io_work

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: ext4_inode_info diet</title>
<updated>2012-09-29T03:21:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-29T03:21:09+00:00</published>
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Generic inode has unused i_private pointer which may be used as cur_aio_dio
storage.

TODO: If cur_aio_dio will be passed as an argument to get_block_t this allow
      to have concurent AIO_DIO requests.

Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Generic inode has unused i_private pointer which may be used as cur_aio_dio
storage.

TODO: If cur_aio_dio will be passed as an argument to get_block_t this allow
      to have concurent AIO_DIO requests.

Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix fdatasync() for files with only i_size changes</title>
<updated>2012-09-27T01:52:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-27T01:52:20+00:00</published>
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Code tracking when transaction needs to be committed on fdatasync(2) forgets
to handle a situation when only inode's i_size is changed. Thus in such
situations fdatasync(2) doesn't force transaction with new i_size to disk
and that can result in wrong i_size after a crash.

Fix the issue by updating inode's i_datasync_tid whenever its size is
updated.

CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # &gt;= 2.6.32
Reported-by: Kristian Nielsen &lt;knielsen@knielsen-hq.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Code tracking when transaction needs to be committed on fdatasync(2) forgets
to handle a situation when only inode's i_size is changed. Thus in such
situations fdatasync(2) doesn't force transaction with new i_size to disk
and that can result in wrong i_size after a crash.

Fix the issue by updating inode's i_datasync_tid whenever its size is
updated.

CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # &gt;= 2.6.32
Reported-by: Kristian Nielsen &lt;knielsen@knielsen-hq.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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