linux-toradex.git/fs/gfs2/inode.c, branch v3.2.28

Merge http://sucs.org/~rohan/git/gfs2-3.0-nmw

2011-10-28T17:44:50+00:00

* http://sucs.org/~rohan/git/gfs2-3.0-nmw: (24 commits)
  GFS2: Move readahead of metadata during deallocation into its own function
  GFS2: Remove two unused variables
  GFS2: Misc fixes
  GFS2: rewrite fallocate code to write blocks directly
  GFS2: speed up delete/unlink performance for large files
  GFS2: Fix off-by-one in gfs2_blk2rgrpd
  GFS2: Clean up ->page_mkwrite
  GFS2: Correctly set goal block after allocation
  GFS2: Fix AIL flush issue during fsync
  GFS2: Use cached rgrp in gfs2_rlist_add()
  GFS2: Call do_strip() directly from recursive_scan()
  GFS2: Remove obsolete assert
  GFS2: Cache the most recently used resource group in the inode
  GFS2: Make resource groups "append only" during life of fs
  GFS2: Use rbtree for resource groups and clean up bitmap buffer ref count scheme
  GFS2: Fix lseek after SEEK_DATA, SEEK_HOLE have been added
  GFS2: Clean up gfs2_create
  GFS2: Use ->dirty_inode()
  GFS2: Fix bug trap and journaled data fsync
  GFS2: Fix inode allocation error path
  ...

GFS2: Cache the most recently used resource group in the inode

2011-10-21T11:39:34+00:00

This means that after the initial allocation for any inode, the
last used resource group is cached in the inode for future use.
This drastically reduces the number of lookups of resource
groups in the common case, and this the contention on that
data structure.

The allocation algorithm is the same as previously, except that we
always check to see if the goal block is within the cached rgrp
first before going to the rbtree to look one up.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Make resource groups "append only" during life of fs

2011-10-21T11:39:33+00:00

Since we have ruled out supporting online filesystem shrink,
it is possible to make the resource group list append only
during the life of a super block. This gives several benefits:

Firstly, we only need to read new rindex elements as they are added
rather than needing to reread the whole rindex file each time one
element is added.

Secondly, the rindex glock can be held for much shorter periods of
time, and is completely removed from the fast path for allocations.
The lock is taken in shared mode only when updating the resource
groups when the first allocation occurs, and after a grow has
taken place.

Thirdly, this results in a reduction in code size, and everything
gets a lot simpler to understand in this area.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Clean up gfs2_create

2011-10-21T11:39:28+00:00

If we pass through knowledge of whether the creation is intended to be
exclusive or not, then we can deal with that in gfs2_create_inode
and remove one set of locking. Also this removes the loop in
gfs2_create and simplifies the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Use ->dirty_inode()

2011-10-21T11:39:26+00:00

The aim of this patch is to use the newly enhanced ->dirty_inode()
super block operation to deal with atime updates, rather than
piggy backing that code into ->write_inode() as is currently
done.

The net result is a simplification of the code in various places
and a reduction of the number of gfs2_dinode_out() calls since
this is now implied by ->dirty_inode().

Some of the mark_inode_dirty() calls have been moved under glocks
in order to take advantage of then being able to avoid locking in
->dirty_inode() when we already have suitable locks.

One consequence is that generic_write_end() now correctly deals
with file size updates, so that we do not need a separate check
for that afterwards. This also, indirectly, means that fdatasync
should work correctly on GFS2 - the current code always syncs the
metadata whether it needs to or not.

Has survived testing with postmark (with and without atime) and
also fsx.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Fix inode allocation error path

2011-10-21T11:39:23+00:00

If we have got far enough through the inode allocation code
path that an inode has already been allocated, then we must
call iput to dispose of it, if an error occurs during a
later part of the process. This will always be the final iput
since there will be no other references to the inode.

Unlike when the inode has been unlinked, its block state will
be GFS2_BLKST_INODE rather than GFS2_BLKST_UNLINKED so we need
to skip the test in ->evict_inode() for this one case in order
to ensure that it will be deallocated correctly. This patch adds
a new flag in order to ensure that this will happen correctly.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

Merge branch 'next-evm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/ima-2.6 into next

2011-08-09T00:31:03+00:00

Conflicts:
	fs/attr.c

Resolve conflict manually.

Signed-off-by: James Morris

fs: take the ACL checks to common code

2011-07-25T18:30:23+00:00

Replace the ->check_acl method with a ->get_acl method that simply reads an
ACL from disk after having a cache miss.  This means we can replace the ACL
checking boilerplate code with a single implementation in namei.c.

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

simplify gfs2_lookup()

2011-07-21T00:48:02+00:00

d_splice_alias() will DTRT when given NULL or ERR_PTR

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission()

2011-07-20T05:43:24+00:00

not used by the instances anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro