linux-toradex.git/fs/ext4/super.c, branch v3.12.11

ext4: Do not reserve clusters when fs doesn't support extents

2014-01-09T20:25:10+00:00

commit 30fac0f75da24dd5bb43c9e911d2039a984ac815 upstream.

When the filesystem doesn't support extents (like in ext2/3
compatibility modes), there is no need to reserve any clusters. Space
estimates for writing are exact, hole punching doesn't need new
metadata, and there are no unwritten extents to convert.

This fixes a problem when filesystem still having some free space when
accessed with a native ext2/3 driver suddently reports ENOSPC when
accessed with ext4 driver.

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: fix del_timer() misuse for ->s_err_report

2014-01-09T20:25:10+00:00

commit 9105bb149bbbc555d2e11ba5166dfe7a24eae09e upstream.

That thing should be del_timer_sync(); consider what happens
if ext4_put_super() call of del_timer() happens to come just as it's
getting run on another CPU.  Since that timer reschedules itself
to run next day, you are pretty much guaranteed that you'll end up
with kfree'd scheduled timer, with usual fun consequences.  AFAICS,
that's -stable fodder all way back to 2010... [the second del_timer_sync()
is almost certainly not needed, but it doesn't hurt either]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2013-09-06T16:36:28+00:00

Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual trivial updates all over the tree -- mostly typo fixes and
  documentation updates"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (52 commits)
  doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo
  treewide: Convert retrun typos to return
  Fix comment typo for init_cma_reserved_pageblock
  Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation
  mm/hotplug: fix a typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
  power: Documentation: Update s2ram link
  doc: fix a typo in Documentation/00-INDEX
  Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64
  doc: Fix typo "is is" in Documentations
  treewide: Fix printks with 0x%#
  zram: doc fixes
  Documentation/kmemcheck: update kmemcheck documentation
  doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo
  PM / Hibernate: add section for resume options
  doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems
  scsi/megaraid fixed several typos in comments
  ppc: init_32: Fix error typo "CONFIG_START_KERNEL"
  treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks
  page_isolation: Fix a comment typo in test_pages_isolated()
  doc: fix a typo about irq affinity
  ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-09-05T15:50:26+00:00

Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
 "Unfortunately, this merge window it'll have a be a lot of small piles -
  my fault, actually, for not keeping #for-next in anything that would
  resemble a sane shape ;-/

  This pile: assorted fixes (the first 3 are -stable fodder, IMO) and
  cleanups + %pd/%pD formats (dentry/file pathname, up to 4 last
  components) + several long-standing patches from various folks.

  There definitely will be a lot more (starting with Miklos'
  check_submount_and_drop() series)"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (26 commits)
  direct-io: Handle O_(D)SYNC AIO
  direct-io: Implement generic deferred AIO completions
  add formats for dentry/file pathnames
  kvm eventfd: switch to fdget
  powerpc kvm: use fdget
  switch fchmod() to fdget
  switch epoll_ctl() to fdget
  switch copy_module_from_fd() to fdget
  git simplify nilfs check for busy subtree
  ibmasmfs: don't bother passing superblock when not needed
  don't pass superblock to hypfs_{mkdir,create*}
  don't pass superblock to hypfs_diag_create_files
  don't pass superblock to hypfs_vm_create_files()
  oprofile: get rid of pointless forward declarations of struct super_block
  oprofilefs_create_...() do not need superblock argument
  oprofilefs_mkdir() doesn't need superblock argument
  don't bother with passing superblock to oprofile_create_stats_files()
  oprofile: don't bother with passing superblock to ->create_files()
  don't bother passing sb to oprofile_create_files()
  coh901318: don't open-code simple_read_from_buffer()
  ...

direct-io: Implement generic deferred AIO completions

2013-09-04T13:23:46+00:00

Add support to the core direct-io code to defer AIO completions to user
context using a workqueue.  This replaces opencoded and less efficient
code in XFS and ext4 (we save a memory allocation for each direct IO)
and will be needed to properly support O_(D)SYNC for AIO.

The communication between the filesystem and the direct I/O code requires
a new buffer head flag, which is a bit ugly but not avoidable until the
direct I/O code stops abusing the buffer_head structure for communicating
with the filesystems.

Currently this creates a per-superblock unbound workqueue for these
completions, which is taken from an earlier patch by Jan Kara.  I'm
not really convinced about this use and would prefer a "normal" global
workqueue with a high concurrency limit, but this needs further discussion.

JK: Fixed ext4 part, dynamic allocation of the workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ext4: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option

2013-08-28T23:05:07+00:00

It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's
device number changes, the filesystem won't mount.
And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number
changes aren't unusual.

The current mechanism to update the journal location is by
passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle;
it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact.

Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would
help, since then we can do i.e.

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ...

and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here:

# losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile
# mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0 
# mkfs.ext4 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1

Change the journal device number:

# losetup -d /dev/loop0
# losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile 

And today it will fail:

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

# dmesg | tail -n 1
[17343.240702] EXT4-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal

But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

(which does update the encoded device number, incidentally):

# umount /dev/sdb1
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device"
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Journal device:	          0x0701

But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and
it'll always work:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as
the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID),
we can mount.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino

treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks

2013-08-20T11:06:40+00:00

Don't emit OOM warnings when k.alloc calls fail when
there there is a v.alloc immediately afterwards.

Converted a kmalloc/vmalloc with memset to kzalloc/vzalloc.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

ext4: fix mount/remount error messages for incompatible mount options

2013-08-09T03:02:24+00:00

Commit 5688978 ("ext4: improve handling of conflicting mount options")
introduced incorrect messages shown while choosing wrong mount options.

First of all, both cases of incorrect mount options,
"data=journal,delalloc" and "data=journal,dioread_nolock" result in
the same error message.

Secondly, the problem above isn't solved for remount option: the
mismatched parameter is simply ignored.  Moreover, ext4_msg states
that remount with options "data=journal,delalloc" succeeded, which is
not true.

To fix it up, I added a simple check after parse_options() call to
ensure that data=journal and delalloc/dioread_nolock parameters are
not present at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Piotr Sarna 
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

ext4: allow the mount options nodelalloc and data=journal

2013-08-09T03:01:24+00:00

Commit 26092bf ("ext4: use a table-driven handler for mount options")
wrongly disallows the specifying the mount options nodelalloc and
data=journal simultaneously.  This is incorrect; it should have only
disallowed the combination of delalloc and data=journal
simultaneously.

Reported-by: Piotr Sarna 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

ext4: destroy ext4_es_cachep on module unload

2013-07-26T19:21:11+00:00

Without this, module can't be reloaded.

[  500.521980] kmem_cache_sanity_check (ext4_extent_status): Cache name already exists.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # v3.8+