linux-toradex.git/fs/ext4/xattr.c, branch v2.6.32.9

ext4: journal all modifications in ext4_xattr_set_handle

2009-12-14T17:44:57+00:00

(cherry picked from commit 86ebfd08a1930ccedb8eac0aeb1ed4b8b6a41dbc)

ext4_xattr_set_handle() was zeroing out an inode outside
of journaling constraints; this is one of the accesses that
was causing the crc errors in journal replay as seen in
kernel.org bugzilla #14354.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger 
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32

2009-09-16T18:45:10+00:00

Today, the ext4 allocator will happily allocate blocks past
2^32 for indirect-block files, which results in the block
numbers getting truncated, and corruption ensues.

This patch limits such allocations to < 2^32, and adds
BUG_ONs if we do get blocks larger than that.

This should address RH Bug 519471, ext4 bitmap allocator 
must limit blocks to < 2^32

* ext4_find_goal() is modified to choose a goal < UINT_MAX,
  so that our starting point is in an acceptable range.

* ext4_xattr_block_set() is modified such that the goal block
  is < UINT_MAX, as above.

* ext4_mb_regular_allocator() is modified so that the group
  search does not continue into groups which are too high

* ext4_mb_use_preallocated() has a check that we don't use
  preallocated space which is too far out

* ext4_alloc_blocks() and ext4_xattr_block_set() add some BUG_ONs

No attempt has been made to limit inode locations to < 2^32,
so we may wind up with blocks far from their inodes.  Doing
this much already will lead to some odd ENOSPC issues when the
"lower 32" gets full, and further restricting inodes could
make that even weirder.

For high inodes, choosing a goal of the original, % UINT_MAX,
may be a bit odd, but then we're in an odd situation anyway,
and I don't know of a better heuristic.

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

ext4: Use lowercase names of quota functions

2009-03-26T01:18:36+00:00

Use lowercase names of quota functions instead of old uppercase ones.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Mingming Cao 
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org

ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journal

2009-01-07T05:06:22+00:00

A few weeks ago I posted a patch for discussion that allowed ext4 to run
without a journal.  Since that time I've integrated the excellent
comments from Andreas and fixed several serious bugs.  We're currently
running with this patch and generating some performance numbers against
both ext2 (with backported reservations code) and ext4 with and without
a journal.  It just so happens that running without a journal is
slightly faster for most everything.

We did
	iozone -T -t 4 s 2g -r 256k -T -I -i0 -i1 -i2

which creates 4 threads, each of which create and do reads and writes on
a 2G file, with a buffer size of 256K, using O_DIRECT for all file opens
to bypass the page cache.  Results:

                     ext2        ext4, default   ext4, no journal
  initial writes   13.0 MB/s        15.4 MB/s          15.7 MB/s
  rewrites         13.1 MB/s        15.6 MB/s          15.9 MB/s
  reads            15.2 MB/s        16.9 MB/s          17.2 MB/s
  re-reads         15.3 MB/s        16.9 MB/s          17.2 MB/s
  random readers    5.6 MB/s         5.6 MB/s           5.7 MB/s
  random writers    5.1 MB/s         5.3 MB/s           5.4 MB/s 

So it seems that, so far, this was a useful exercise.

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

ext4: remove do_blk_alloc()

2008-12-12T17:41:28+00:00

The convenience function do_blk_alloc() is a static function with only
one caller, so fold it into ext4_new_meta_blocks() to simplify the
code and to make it easier to understand.

To save more stack space, if count is a null pointer in
ext4_new_meta_blocks() assume that caller wanted a single block (and
if there is an error, no blocks were allocated).

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

ext4: remove ext4_new_meta_block()

2008-12-07T19:10:54+00:00

There were only two one callers of the function ext4_new_meta_block(),
which just a very simpler wrapper function around
ext4_new_meta_blocks().  Change those two functions to call
ext4_new_meta_blocks() directly, to save code and stack space usage.

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

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"

ext4: fix xattr deadlock

2008-10-09T03:21:54+00:00

ext4_xattr_set_handle() eventually ends up calling
ext4_mark_inode_dirty() which tries to expand the inode by shifting
the EAs.  This leads to the xattr_sem being downed again and leading
to a deadlock.

This patch makes sure that if ext4_xattr_set_handle() is in the
call-chain, ext4_mark_inode_dirty() will not expand the inode.

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

ext4: Cleanup whitespace and other miscellaneous style issues

2008-07-26T20:15:44+00:00

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

ext4: Use inode preallocation with -o noextents

2008-07-11T23:27:31+00:00

When mballoc is enabled, block allocation for old block-based
files are allocated using mballoc allocator instead of old
block-based allocator. The old ext3 block reservation is turned
off when mballoc is turned on.

However, the in-core preallocation is not enabled for block-based/
non-extent based file block allocation. This result in performance
regression, as now we don't have "reservation" ore in-core preallocation
to prevent interleaved fragmentation in multiple writes workload.

This patch fix this by enable per inode in-core preallocation
for non extent files when mballoc is used.

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