linux-toradex.git/fs, branch v3.0.16

xfs: log all dirty inodes in xfs_fs_sync_fs

2012-01-06T22:14:12+00:00

Commit be4f1ac828776bbc7868a68b465cd8eedb733cfd upstream.

Since Linux 2.6.36 the writeback code has introduces various measures for
live lock prevention during sync().  Unfortunately some of these are
actively harmful for the XFS model, where the inode gets marked dirty for
metadata from the data I/O handler.

The older_than_this checks that are now more strictly enforced since

    writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback

by only calling into __writeback_inodes_sb and thus only sampling the
current cut off time once.  But on a slow enough devices the previous
asynchronous sync pass might not have fully completed yet, and thus XFS
might mark metadata dirty only after that sampling of the cut off time for
the blocking pass already happened.  I have not myself reproduced this
myself on a real system, but by introducing artificial delay into the
XFS I/O completion workqueues it can be reproduced easily.

Fix this by iterating over all XFS inodes in ->sync_fs and log all that
are dirty.  This might log inode that only got redirtied after the
previous pass, but given how cheap delayed logging of inodes is it
isn't a major concern for performance.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner 
Tested-by: Mark Tinguely 
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely 
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xfs: log the inode in ->write_inode calls for kupdate

2012-01-06T22:14:12+00:00

Commit 0b8fd3033c308e4088760aa1d38ce77197b4e074 upstream.

If the writeback code writes back an inode because it has expired we currently
use the non-blockin ->write_inode path.  This means any inode that is pinned
is skipped.  With delayed logging and a workload that has very little log
traffic otherwise it is very likely that an inode that gets constantly
written to is always pinned, and thus we keep refusing to write it.  The VM
writeback code at that point redirties it and doesn't try to write it again
for another 30 seconds.  This means under certain scenarious time based
metadata writeback never happens.

Fix this by calling into xfs_log_inode for kupdate in addition to data
integrity syncs, and thus transfer the inode to the log ASAP.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner 
Tested-by: Mark Tinguely 
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely 
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

nilfs2: unbreak compat ioctl

2012-01-06T22:13:52+00:00

commit 695c60f21c69e525a89279a5f35bae4ff237afbc upstream.

commit 828b1c50ae ("nilfs2: add compat ioctl") incidentally broke all
other NILFS compat ioctls.  Make them work again.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer 
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi 
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

NFSv4.1: Ensure that we handle _all_ SEQUENCE status bits.

2012-01-06T22:13:52+00:00

commit 111d489f0fb431f4ae85d96851fbf8d3248c09d8 upstream.

Currently, the code assumes that the SEQUENCE status bits are mutually
exclusive. They are not...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: fix fuse_retrieve

2011-12-21T20:57:44+00:00

commit 48706d0a91583d08c56e7ef2a7602d99c8d4133f upstream.

Fix two bugs in fuse_retrieve():

 - retrieving more than one page would yield repeated instances of the
   first page

 - if more than FUSE_MAX_PAGES_PER_REQ pages were requested than the
   request page array would overflow

fuse_retrieve() was added in 2.6.36 and these bugs had been there since the
beginning.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: handle EOF correctly in ext4_bio_write_page()

2011-12-21T20:57:44+00:00

commit 5a0dc7365c240795bf190766eba7a27600be3b3e upstream.

We need to zero out part of a page which beyond EOF before setting uptodate,
otherwise, mapread or write will see non-zero data beyond EOF.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: avoid potential hang in mpage_submit_io() when blocksize < pagesize

2011-12-21T20:57:44+00:00

commit 13a79a4741d37fda2fbafb953f0f301dc007928f upstream.

If there is an unwritten but clean buffer in a page and there is a
dirty buffer after the buffer, then mpage_submit_io does not write the
dirty buffer out.  As a result, da_writepages loops forever.

This patch fixes the problem by checking dirty flag.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: avoid hangs in ext4_da_should_update_i_disksize()

2011-12-21T20:57:44+00:00

commit ea51d132dbf9b00063169c1159bee253d9649224 upstream.

If the pte mapping in generic_perform_write() is unmapped between
iov_iter_fault_in_readable() and iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(), the
"copied" parameter to ->end_write can be zero. ext4 couldn't cope with
it with delayed allocations enabled. This skips the i_disksize
enlargement logic if copied is zero and no new data was appeneded to
the inode.

 gdb> bt
 #0  0xffffffff811afe80 in ext4_da_should_update_i_disksize (file=0xffff88003f606a80, mapping=0xffff88001d3824e0, pos=0x1\
 08000, len=0x1000, copied=0x0, page=0xffffea0000d792e8, fsdata=0x0) at fs/ext4/inode.c:2467
 #1  ext4_da_write_end (file=0xffff88003f606a80, mapping=0xffff88001d3824e0, pos=0x108000, len=0x1000, copied=0x0, page=0\
 xffffea0000d792e8, fsdata=0x0) at fs/ext4/inode.c:2512
 #2  0xffffffff810d97f1 in generic_perform_write (iocb=, iov=, nr_segs=, pos=0x108000, ppos=0xffff88001e26be40, count=, written=0x0) at mm/filemap.c:2440
 #3  generic_file_buffered_write (iocb=, iov=, nr_segs=, p\
 os=0x108000, ppos=0xffff88001e26be40, count=, written=0x0) at mm/filemap.c:2482
 #4  0xffffffff810db5d1 in __generic_file_aio_write (iocb=0xffff88001e26bde8, iov=0xffff88001e26bec8, nr_segs=0x1, ppos=0\
 xffff88001e26be40) at mm/filemap.c:2600
 #5  0xffffffff810db853 in generic_file_aio_write (iocb=0xffff88001e26bde8, iov=0xffff88001e26bec8, nr_segs=, pos=) at mm/filemap.c:2632
 #6  0xffffffff811a71aa in ext4_file_write (iocb=0xffff88001e26bde8, iov=0xffff88001e26bec8, nr_segs=0x1, pos=0x108000) a\
 t fs/ext4/file.c:136
 #7  0xffffffff811375aa in do_sync_write (filp=0xffff88003f606a80, buf=, len=, \
 ppos=0xffff88001e26bf48) at fs/read_write.c:406
 #8  0xffffffff81137e56 in vfs_write (file=0xffff88003f606a80, buf=0x1ec2960 , count=0x4\
 000, pos=0xffff88001e26bf48) at fs/read_write.c:435
 #9  0xffffffff8113816c in sys_write (fd=, buf=0x1ec2960 , count=0x\
 4000) at fs/read_write.c:487
 #10 
 #11 0x00007f120077a390 in __brk_reservation_fn_dmi_alloc__ ()
 #12 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
 gdb> print offset
 $22 = 0xffffffffffffffff
 gdb> print idx
 $23 = 0xffffffff
 gdb> print inode->i_blkbits
 $24 = 0xc
 gdb> up
 #1  ext4_da_write_end (file=0xffff88003f606a80, mapping=0xffff88001d3824e0, pos=0x108000, len=0x1000, copied=0x0, page=0\
 xffffea0000d792e8, fsdata=0x0) at fs/ext4/inode.c:2512
 2512                    if (ext4_da_should_update_i_disksize(page, end)) {
 gdb> print start
 $25 = 0x0
 gdb> print end
 $26 = 0xffffffffffffffff
 gdb> print pos
 $27 = 0x108000
 gdb> print new_i_size
 $28 = 0x108000
 gdb> print ((struct ext4_inode_info *)((char *)inode-((int)(&((struct ext4_inode_info *)0)->vfs_inode))))->i_disksize
 $29 = 0xd9000
 gdb> down
 2467            for (i = 0; i < idx; i++)
 gdb> print i
 $30 = 0xd44acbee

This is 100% reproducible with some autonuma development code tuned in
a very aggressive manner (not normal way even for knumad) which does
"exotic" changes to the ptes. It wouldn't normally trigger but I don't
see why it can't happen normally if the page is added to swap cache in
between the two faults leading to "copied" being zero (which then
hangs in ext4). So it should be fixed. Especially possible with lumpy
reclaim (albeit disabled if compaction is enabled) as that would
ignore the young bits in the ptes.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: display the correct mount option in /proc/mounts for [no]init_itable

2011-12-21T20:57:43+00:00

commit fc6cb1cda5db7b2d24bf32890826214b857c728e upstream.

/proc/mounts was showing the mount option [no]init_inode_table when
the correct mount option that will be accepted by parse_options() is
[no]init_itable.

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

xfs: avoid synchronous transactions when deleting attr blocks

2011-12-21T20:57:42+00:00

commit 859f57ca00805e6c482eef1a7ab073097d02c8ca upstream.

[slightly different from the upstream version because of a previous cleanup]

Currently xfs_attr_inactive causes a synchronous transactions if we are
removing a file that has any extents allocated to the attribute fork, and
thus makes XFS extremely slow at removing files with out of line extended
attributes. The code looks a like a relict from the days before the busy
extent list, but with the busy extent list we avoid reusing data and attr
extents that have been freed but not commited yet, so this code is just
as superflous as the synchronous transactions for data blocks.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reported-by: Bernd Schubert 
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner 
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman