linux-toradex.git/fs/ext4/page-io.c, branch v3.0.37

ext4: handle EOF correctly in ext4_bio_write_page()

2011-12-21T20:57:44+00:00

commit 5a0dc7365c240795bf190766eba7a27600be3b3e upstream.

We need to zero out part of a page which beyond EOF before setting uptodate,
otherwise, mapread or write will see non-zero data beyond EOF.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: remove i_mutex lock in ext4_evict_inode to fix lockdep complaining

2011-11-11T17:37:16+00:00

commit 8c0bec2151a47906bf779c6715a10ce04453ab77 upstream.

The i_mutex lock and flush_completed_IO() added by commit 2581fdc810
in ext4_evict_inode() causes lockdep complaining about potential
deadlock in several places.  In most/all of these LOCKDEP complaints
it looks like it's a false positive, since many of the potential
circular locking cases can't take place by the time the
ext4_evict_inode() is called; but since at the very least it may mask
real problems, we need to address this.

This change removes the flush_completed_IO() and i_mutex lock in
ext4_evict_inode().  Instead, we take a different approach to resolve
the software lockup that commit 2581fdc810 intends to fix.  Rather
than having ext4-dio-unwritten thread wait for grabing the i_mutex
lock of an inode, we use mutex_trylock() instead, and simply requeue
the work item if we fail to grab the inode's i_mutex lock.

This should speed up work queue processing in general and also
prevents the following deadlock scenario: During page fault,
shrink_icache_memory is called that in turn evicts another inode B.
Inode B has some pending io_end work so it calls ext4_ioend_wait()
that waits for inode B's i_ioend_count to become zero.  However, inode
B's ioend work was queued behind some of inode A's ioend work on the
same cpu's ext4-dio-unwritten workqueue.  As the ext4-dio-unwritten
thread on that cpu is processing inode A's ioend work, it tries to
grab inode A's i_mutex lock.  Since the i_mutex lock of inode A is
still hold before the page fault happened, we enter a deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: Resolve the hang of direct i/o read in handling EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN.

2011-08-29T20:29:11+00:00

commit 32c80b32c053dc52712dedac5e4d0aa7c93fc353 upstream.

EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN flag set and the increase of i_aiodio_unwritten
should be done simultaneously since ext4_end_io_nolock always clear
the flag and decrease the counter in the same time.

We don't increase i_aiodio_unwritten when setting
EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN so it will go nagative and causes some process
to wait forever.

Part of the patch came from Eric in his e-mail, but it doesn't fix the
problem met by Michael actually.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=131316851417460&w=2

Reported-and-Tested-by: Michael Tokarev
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen 
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: don't set PageUptodate in ext4_end_bio()

2011-04-30T17:26:26+00:00

In the bio completion routine, we should not be setting
PageUptodate at all -- it's set at sys_write() time, and is
unaffected by success/failure of the write to disk.

This can cause a page corruption bug when the file system's
block size is less than the architecture's VM page size.

if we have only written a single block -- we might end up
setting the page's PageUptodate flag, indicating that page
is completely read into memory, which may not be true.
This could cause subsequent reads to get bad data.

This commit also takes the opportunity to clean up error
handling in ext4_end_bio(), and remove some extraneous code:

   - fixes ext4_end_bio() to set AS_EIO in the
     page->mapping->flags on error, which was left out by
     mistake.  This is needed so that fsync() will
     return an error if there was an I/O error.
   - remove the clear_buffer_dirty() call on unmapped
     buffers for each page.
   - consolidate page/buffer error handling in a single
     section.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Reported-by: Jim Meyering 
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Mingming Cao

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2011-03-25T16:57:41+00:00

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (43 commits)
  ext4: fix a BUG in mb_mark_used during trim.
  ext4: unused variables cleanup in fs/ext4/extents.c
  ext4: remove redundant set_buffer_mapped() in ext4_da_get_block_prep()
  ext4: add more tracepoints and use dev_t in the trace buffer
  ext4: don't kfree uninitialized s_group_info members
  ext4: add missing space in printk's in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
  ext4: add FITRIM to compat_ioctl.
  ext4: handle errors in ext4_clear_blocks()
  ext4: unify the ext4_handle_release_buffer() api
  ext4: handle errors in ext4_rename
  jbd2: add COW fields to struct jbd2_journal_handle
  jbd2: add the b_cow_tid field to journal_head struct
  ext4: Initialize fsync transaction ids in ext4_new_inode()
  ext4: Use single thread to perform DIO unwritten convertion
  ext4: optimize ext4_bio_write_page() when no extent conversion is needed
  ext4: skip orphan cleanup if fs has unknown ROCOMPAT features
  ext4: use the nblocks arg to ext4_truncate_restart_trans()
  ext4: fix missing iput of root inode for some mount error paths
  ext4: make FIEMAP and delayed allocation play well together
  ext4: suppress verbose debugging information if malloc-debug is off
  ...

Fi up conflicts in fs/ext4/super.c due to workqueue changes

block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG

2011-03-10T07:52:27+00:00

With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

ext4: optimize ext4_bio_write_page() when no extent conversion is needed

2011-02-28T18:12:38+00:00

If no extent conversion is required, wake up any processes waiting for
the page's writeback to be complete and free the ext4_io_end structure
directly in ext4_end_bio() instead of dropping it on the linked list
(which requires taking a spinlock to queue and dequeue the io_end
structure), and waiting for the workqueue to do this work.

This removes an extra scheduling delay before process waiting for an
fsync() to complete gets woken up, and it also reduces the CPU
overhead for a random write workload.

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

ext4: don't leave PageWriteback set after memory failure

2011-02-27T21:43:24+00:00

In ext4_bio_write_page(), if the memory allocation for the struct
ext4_io_page fails, it returns with the page's PageWriteback flag set.
This will end up causing the page not to skip writeback in
WB_SYNC_NONE mode, and in WB_SYNC_ALL mode (i.e., on a sync, fsync, or
umount) the writeback daemon will get stuck forever on the
wait_on_page_writeback() function in write_cache_pages_da().

Or, if journalling is enabled and the file gets deleted, it the
journal thread can get stuck in journal_finish_inode_data_buffers()
call to filemap_fdatawait().

Another place where things can get hung up is in
truncate_inode_pages(), called out of ext4_evict_inode().

Fix this by not setting PageWriteback until after we have successfully
allocated the struct ext4_io_page.

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

ext4: Fix sparse warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

2011-02-22T02:01:42+00:00

This patch fixes the warning "Using plain integer as NULL pointer",
generated by sparse, by replacing the offending 0s with NULL.

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

ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

2011-02-12T13:17:34+00:00

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned
asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated
by xfstest 240.

The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the
hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and 
dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions.  When
more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new"
block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated
and causes data corruption.

Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all
unaligned asynchronous direct IO.  I've done the same here.
The difference is that we only wait on conversions, not all IO.
This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with
stuffing this into ext4_file_write().  But since ext4 is
DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.

I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then
we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the
work queue to do conversions - which must also take the
i_mutex.  So that won't work.

This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to
a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment.  I've
tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does
avoid the corruption.  It is also quite a lot slower
(14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned)
but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.

Mingming suggested that we can track outstanding
conversions, and wait on those so that non-sparse
files won't be affected, and I've implemented that here;
unaligned AIO to nonsparse files won't take a perf hit.

[tytso@mit.edu: Keep the mutex as a hashed array instead
 of bloating the ext4 inode]

[tytso@mit.edu: Fix up namespace issues so that global
 variables are protected with an "ext4_" prefix.]

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