linux-toradex.git/fs/inode.c, branch v3.0.95

mm: fix assertion mapping->nrpages == 0 in end_writeback()

2011-06-28T01:00:13+00:00

Under heavy memory and filesystem load, users observe the assertion
mapping->nrpages == 0 in end_writeback() trigger.  This can be caused by
page reclaim reclaiming the last page from a mapping in the following
race:

	CPU0				CPU1
  ...
  shrink_page_list()
    __remove_mapping()
      __delete_from_page_cache()
        radix_tree_delete()
					evict_inode()
					  truncate_inode_pages()
					    truncate_inode_pages_range()
					      pagevec_lookup() - finds nothing
					  end_writeback()
					    mapping->nrpages != 0 -> BUG
        page->mapping = NULL
        mapping->nrpages--

Fix the problem by doing a reliable check of mapping->nrpages under
mapping->tree_lock in end_writeback().

Analyzed by Jay , lost in LKML, and dug out
by Miklos Szeredi .

Cc: Jay 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: cosmetic inode.c cleanups

2011-05-27T13:43:00+00:00

Move the lock order description after all the includes, remove several
fairly outdated and/or incorrect comments, move Andrea's
copyright/changelog to the top where it belongs, remove the pointless
filename in the top of the file comment, and remove to useless macros.

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

vmscan: change shrinker API by passing shrink_control struct

2011-05-25T15:39:26+00:00

Change each shrinker's API by consolidating the existing parameters into
shrink_control struct.  This will simplify any further features added w/o
touching each file of shrinker.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix up new shrinker API]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix xfs warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update gfs2]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex

2011-05-25T15:39:18+00:00

Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Remove i_mmap_lock lockbreak

2011-05-25T15:39:17+00:00

Hugh says:
 "The only significant loser, I think, would be page reclaim (when
  concurrent with truncation): could spin for a long time waiting for
  the i_mmap_mutex it expects would soon be dropped? "

Counter points:
 - cpu contention makes the spin stop (need_resched())
 - zap pages should be freeing pages at a higher rate than reclaim
   ever can

I think the simplification of the truncate code is definitely worth it.

Effectively reverts: 2aa15890f3c ("mm: prevent concurrent
unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode") and takes out the code that
caused its problem.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: add missing prefetch.h include

2011-05-22T18:26:02+00:00

Fixes this build error on s390 and probably other archs as well:

  fs/inode.c: In function 'new_inode':
  fs/inode.c:894:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'spin_lock_prefetch'

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
[ Happens on architectures that don't define their own prefetch
  functions in , and instead rely on the default
  ones in    - Linus]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: export empty_aops

2011-04-05T21:51:48+00:00

With the ->sync_page() hook gone, we have a few users that
add their own static address_space_operations without any
functions defined.

fs/inode.c already has an empty_aops that it uses for init
purposes. Lets export that and use it in the places where
an otherwise empty aops was defined.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: fix inode.c kernel-doc warning

2011-03-28T02:30:19+00:00

Fix inode.c kernel-doc fatal error: 2 comment sections have the same name:

  Error(fs/inode.c:1171): duplicate section name 'Note'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: simplify iget & friends

2011-03-25T01:17:52+00:00

Merge get_new_inode/get_new_inode_fast into iget5_locked/iget_locked
as those were the only callers.  Remove the internal ifind/ifind_fast
helpers - ifind_fast only had a single caller, and ifind had two
callers wanting it to do different things.  Also clean up the comments
in this area to focus on information important to a developer trying
to use it, instead of overloading them with implementation details.

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

fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock

2011-03-25T01:17:51+00:00

All that remains of the inode_lock is protecting the inode hash list
manipulation and traversals. Rename the inode_lock to
inode_hash_lock to reflect it's actual function.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro