linux-toradex.git/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c, branch v3.2.55

nilfs2: ensure proper cache clearing for gc-inodes

2012-07-04T04:44:10+00:00

commit fbb24a3a915f105016f1c828476be11aceac8504 upstream.

A gc-inode is a pseudo inode used to buffer the blocks to be moved by
garbage collection.

Block caches of gc-inodes must be cleared every time a garbage collection
function (nilfs_clean_segments) completes.  Otherwise, stale blocks
buffered in the caches may be wrongly reused in successive calls of the GC
function.

For user files, this is not a problem because their gc-inodes are
distinguished by a checkpoint number as well as an inode number.  They
never buffer different blocks if either an inode number, a checkpoint
number, or a block offset differs.

However, gc-inodes of sufile, cpfile and DAT file can store different data
for the same block offset.  Thus, the nilfs_clean_segments function can
move incorrect block for these meta-data files if an old block is cached.
I found this is really causing meta-data corruption in nilfs.

This fixes the issue by ensuring cache clear of gc-inodes and resolves
reported GC problems including checkpoint file corruption, b-tree
corruption, and the following warning during GC.

  nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 307234 already freed.
  ...

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi 
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

nilfs2: use mark_buffer_dirty to mark btnode or meta data dirty

2011-05-10T13:21:57+00:00

This replaces nilfs_mdt_mark_buffer_dirty and nilfs_btnode_mark_dirty
macros with mark_buffer_dirty and gets rid of nilfs_mark_buffer_dirty,
an own mark buffer dirty function.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: get rid of NILFS_I_NILFS

2011-05-10T13:21:56+00:00

This replaces all references of NILFS_I_NILFS(inode)->ns_bdev with
inode->i_sb->s_bdev and unfolds remaining uses of NILFS_I_NILFS inline
function.

Before 2.6.37, referring to a nilfs object from inodes needed a
conditional judgement, and NILFS_I_NILFS was helpful to simplify it.
But now we can simply do it by going through a super block instance
like inode->i_sb->s_fs_info.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: use empty_aops for gc-inodes

2011-05-10T13:21:56+00:00

Applies empty_aops for address space operations of gc-inodes.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

block: remove per-queue plugging

2011-03-10T07:52:07+00:00

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

nilfs2: fix regression of garbage collection ioctl

2010-12-16T05:35:18+00:00

On 2.6.37-rc1, garbage collection ioctl of nilfs was broken due to the
commit 263d90cefc7d82a0 ("nilfs2: remove own inode hash used for GC"),
and leading to filesystem corruption.

The patch doesn't queue gc-inodes for log writer if they are reused
through the vfs inode cache.  Here, gc-inode is the inode which
buffers blocks to be relocated on GC.  That patch queues gc-inodes in
nilfs_init_gcinode() function, but this function is not called when
they don't have I_NEW flag.  Thus, some of live blocks are wrongly
overrode without being moved to new logs.

This resolves the problem by moving the gc-inode queueing to an outer
function to ensure it's done right.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: do not allocate nilfs_mdt_info structure to gc-inodes

2010-10-23T00:24:37+00:00

GC-inode now doesn't need the nilfs_mdt_info structure and there is no
reason that it is a sort of metadata files.

This stops the allocation and makes them not dependent on metadata
file routines.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: remove own inode hash used for GC

2010-10-23T00:24:34+00:00

This uses inode hash function that vfs provides instead of the own
hash table for caching gc inodes.  This finally removes the own inode
hash from nilfs.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: separate initializer of metadata file inode

2010-10-23T00:24:34+00:00

This separates a part of initialization code of metadata file inode,
and makes it available from the nilfs iget function that a later patch
will add to.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: add read ahead mode to nilfs_btnode_submit_block

2010-07-23T01:02:15+00:00

This adds mode argument to nilfs_btnode_submit_block() function and
allows it to issue a read-ahead request.

An optional submit_ptr argument is also added to store the actual
block address for which bio is sent.  submit_ptr is used for a series
of read-ahead requests, and helps to decide if each requested block is
continous to the previous one on disk.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi