31 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi
29 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: stop using the page cache to back the buffer cache
xfs: register the inode cache shrinker before quotachecks
xfs: xfs_trans_read_buf() should return an error on failure
xfs: introduce inode cluster buffer trylocks for xfs_iflush
vmap: flush vmap aliases when mapping fails
xfs: preallocation transactions do not need to be synchronousFix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c due to plug removal.
26 Mar, 2011
5 commits
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Now that the buffer cache has it's own LRU, we do not need to use
the page cache to provide persistent caching and reclaim
infrastructure. Convert the buffer cache to use alloc_pages()
instead of the page cache. This will remove all the overhead of page
cache management from setup and teardown of the buffers, as well as
needing to mark pages accessed as we find buffers in the buffer
cache.By avoiding the page cache, we also remove the need to keep state in
the page_private(page) field for persistant storage across buffer
free/buffer rebuild and so all that code can be removed. This also
fixes the long-standing problem of not having enough bits in the
page_private field to track all the state needed for a 512
sector/64k page setup.It also removes the need for page locking during reads as the pages
are unique to the buffer and nobody else will be attempting to
access them.Finally, it removes the buftarg address space lock as a point of
global contention on workloads that allocate and free buffers
quickly such as when creating or removing large numbers of inodes in
parallel. This remove the 16TB limit on filesystem size on 32 bit
machines as the page index (32 bit) is no longer used for lookups
of metadata buffers - the buffer cache is now solely indexed by disk
address which is stored in a 64 bit field in the buffer.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder -
During mount, we can do a quotacheck that involves a bulkstat pass
on all inodes. If there are more inodes in the filesystem than can
be held in memory, we require the inode cache shrinker to run to
ensure that we don't run out of memory.Unfortunately, the inode cache shrinker is not registered until we
get to the end of the superblock setup process, which is after a
quotacheck is run if it is needed. Hence we need to register the
inode cache shrinker earlier in the mount process so that we don't
OOM during mount. This requires that we also initialise the syncd
work before we register the shrinker, so we nee dto juggle that
around as well.While there, make sure that we have set up the block sizes in the
VFS superblock correctly before the quotacheck is run so that any
inodes that are cached as a result of the quotacheck have their
block size fields set up correctly.Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder -
There is an ABBA deadlock between synchronous inode flushing in
xfs_reclaim_inode and xfs_icluster_free. xfs_icluster_free locks the
buffer, then takes inode ilocks, whilst synchronous reclaim takes
the ilock followed by the buffer lock in xfs_iflush().To avoid this deadlock, separate the inode cluster buffer locking
semantics from the synchronous inode flush semantics, allowing
callers to attempt to lock the buffer but still issue synchronous IO
if it can get the buffer. This requires xfs_iflush() calls that
currently use non-blocking semantics to pass SYNC_TRYLOCK rather
than 0 as the flags parameter.This allows xfs_reclaim_inode to avoid the deadlock on the buffer
lock and detect the failure so that it can drop the inode ilock and
restart the reclaim attempt on the inode. This allows
xfs_ifree_cluster to obtain the inode lock, mark the inode stale and
release it and hence defuse the deadlock situation. It also has the
pleasant side effect of avoiding IO in xfs_reclaim_inode when it
tries to next reclaim the inode as it is now marked stale.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder -
On 32 bit systems, vmalloc space is limited and XFS can chew through
it quickly as the vmalloc space is lazily freed. This can result in
failure to map buffers, even when there is apparently large amounts
of vmalloc space available. Hence, if we fail to map a buffer, purge
the aliases that have not yet been freed to hopefuly free up enough
vmalloc space to allow a retry to succeed.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder -
Preallocation and hole punch transactions are currently synchronous
and this is causing performance problems in some cases. The
transactions don't need to be synchronous as we don't need to
guarantee the preallocation is persistent on disk until a
fdatasync, fsync, sync operation occurs. If the file is opened
O_SYNC or O_DATASYNC, only then should the transaction be issued
synchronously.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder
25 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
...Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
22 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (23 commits)
xfs: don't name variables "panic"
xfs: factor agf counter updates into a helper
xfs: clean up the xfs_alloc_compute_aligned calling convention
xfs: kill support/debug.[ch]
xfs: Convert remaining cmn_err() callers to new API
xfs: convert the quota debug prints to new API
xfs: rename xfs_cmn_err_fsblock_zero()
xfs: convert xfs_fs_cmn_err to new error logging API
xfs: kill xfs_fs_mount_cmn_err() macro
xfs: kill xfs_fs_repair_cmn_err() macro
xfs: convert xfs_cmn_err to xfs_alert_tag
xfs: Convert xlog_warn to new logging interface
xfs: Convert linux-2.6/ files to new logging interface
xfs: introduce new logging API.
xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls
xfs: enable delaylog by default
xfs: more sensible inode refcounting for ialloc
xfs: stop using xfs_trans_iget in the RT allocator
xfs: check if device support discard in xfs_ioc_trim()
xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1
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17 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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…s/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (33 commits)
AppArmor: kill unused macros in lsm.c
AppArmor: cleanup generated files correctly
KEYS: Add an iovec version of KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE
KEYS: Add a new keyctl op to reject a key with a specified error code
KEYS: Add a key type op to permit the key description to be vetted
KEYS: Add an RCU payload dereference macro
AppArmor: Cleanup make file to remove cruft and make it easier to read
SELinux: implement the new sb_remount LSM hook
LSM: Pass -o remount options to the LSM
SELinux: Compute SID for the newly created socket
SELinux: Socket retains creator role and MLS attribute
SELinux: Auto-generate security_is_socket_class
TOMOYO: Fix memory leak upon file open.
Revert "selinux: simplify ioctl checking"
selinux: drop unused packet flow permissions
selinux: Fix packet forwarding checks on postrouting
selinux: Fix wrong checks for selinux_policycap_netpeer
selinux: Fix check for xfrm selinux context algorithm
ima: remove unnecessary call to ima_must_measure
IMA: remove IMA imbalance checking
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16 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: fix build failure introduced by s/freezeable/freezable/
workqueue: add system_freezeable_wq
rds/ib: use system_wq instead of rds_ib_fmr_wq
net/9p: replace p9_poll_task with a work
net/9p: use system_wq instead of p9_mux_wq
xfs: convert to alloc_workqueue()
reiserfs: make commit_wq use the default concurrency level
ocfs2: use system_wq instead of ocfs2_quota_wq
ext4: convert to alloc_workqueue()
scsi/scsi_tgt_lib: scsi_tgtd isn't used in memory reclaim path
scsi/be2iscsi,qla2xxx: convert to alloc_workqueue()
misc/iwmc3200top: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
i2o: use alloc_workqueue() instead of create_workqueue()
acpi: kacpi*_wq don't need WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
fs/aio: aio_wq isn't used in memory reclaim path
input/tps6507x-ts: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueue
cpufreq: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
wireless/ipw2x00: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
arm/omap: use system_wq in mailbox
workqueue: use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead of WQ_RESCUER
14 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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The exportfs encode handle function should return the minimum required
handle size. This helps user to find out the handle size by passing 0
handle size in the first step and then redoing to the call again with
the returned handle size value.Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
12 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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The new xfs_alert_tag() used a variable named "panic",
and that is to be avoided. Rename it.Signed-off-by: Alex Elder
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
10 Mar, 2011
3 commits
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Conflicts:
block/blk-core.c
block/blk-flush.c
drivers/md/raid1.c
drivers/md/raid10.c
drivers/md/raid5.c
fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
fs/nilfs2/mdt.cSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe
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With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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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
08 Mar, 2011
1 commit
07 Mar, 2011
2 commits
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The remaining functionality in debug.[ch] is effectively just assert
handling, conditional debug definitions and hex dumping. The hex
dumping and assert function can be moved into the new printk module,
while the rest can be moved into top-level header files. This allows
fs/xfs/support/debug.[ch] to be completely removed from the
codebase.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig -
Convert the files in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/ to use the new xfs_
logging format that replaces the old Irix inherited cmn_err()
interfaces. While there, also convert naked printk calls to use the
relevant xfs logging function to standardise output format.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
02 Mar, 2011
3 commits
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Commit 493f3358cb289ccf716c5a14fa5bb52ab75943e5 added this call to
xfs_fs_geometry() in order to avoid passing kernel stack data back
to user space:+ memset(geo, 0, sizeof(*geo));
Unfortunately, one of the callers of that function passes the
address of a smaller data type, cast to fit the type that
xfs_fs_geometry() requires. As a result, this can happen:Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted
in: f87aca93Pid: 262, comm: xfs_fsr Not tainted 2.6.38-rc6-493f3358cb2+ #1
Call Trace:[] ? panic+0x50/0x150
[] ? __stack_chk_fail+0x10/0x18
[] ? xfs_ioc_fsgeometry_v1+0x56/0x5d [xfs]Fix this by fixing that one caller to pass the right type and then
copy out the subset it is interested in.Note: This patch is an alternative to one originally proposed by
Eric Sandeen.Reported-by: Jeffrey Hundstad
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen
Tested-by: Jeffrey Hundstad -
Most of the logging infrastructure in XFS is unneccessary and
designed around the infrastructure supplied by Irix rather than
Linux. To rationalise the logging interfaces, start by introducing
simple printk wrappers similar to the dev_printk() infrastructure.
Later patches will convert code to use this new interface.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig -
Commit 493f3358cb289ccf716c5a14fa5bb52ab75943e5 added this call to
xfs_fs_geometry() in order to avoid passing kernel stack data back
to user space:+ memset(geo, 0, sizeof(*geo));
Unfortunately, one of the callers of that function passes the
address of a smaller data type, cast to fit the type that
xfs_fs_geometry() requires. As a result, this can happen:Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted
in: f87aca93Pid: 262, comm: xfs_fsr Not tainted 2.6.38-rc6-493f3358cb2+ #1
Call Trace:[] ? panic+0x50/0x150
[] ? __stack_chk_fail+0x10/0x18
[] ? xfs_ioc_fsgeometry_v1+0x56/0x5d [xfs]Fix this by fixing that one caller to pass the right type and then
copy out the subset it is interested in.Note: This patch is an alternative to one originally proposed by
Eric Sandeen.Reported-by: Jeffrey Hundstad
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen
Tested-by: Jeffrey Hundstad
23 Feb, 2011
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder -
Right now we, are relying on the fact that when we attempt to
actually do the discard, blkdev_issue_discar() returns -EOPNOTSUPP
and the user is informed that the device does not support discard.However, in the case where the we do not hit any suitable free
extent to trim in FITRIM code, it will finish without any error.
This is very confusing, because it seems that FITRIM was successful
even though the device does not actually supports discard.Solution: Check for the discard support before attempt to search for
free extents.Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder
22 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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Right now we, are relying on the fact that when we attempt to
actually do the discard, blkdev_issue_discar() returns -EOPNOTSUPP
and the user is informed that the device does not support discard.However, in the case where the we do not hit any suitable free
extent to trim in FITRIM code, it will finish without any error.
This is very confusing, because it seems that FITRIM was successful
even though the device does not actually supports discard.Solution: Check for the discard support before attempt to search for
free extents.Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder
21 Feb, 2011
1 commit
02 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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SELinux would like to implement a new labeling behavior of newly created
inodes. We currently label new inodes based on the parent and the creating
process. This new behavior would also take into account the name of the
new object when deciding the new label. This is not the (supposed) full path,
just the last component of the path.This is very useful because creating /etc/shadow is different than creating
/etc/passwd but the kernel hooks are unable to differentiate these
operations. We currently require that userspace realize it is doing some
difficult operation like that and than userspace jumps through SELinux hoops
to get things set up correctly. This patch does not implement new
behavior, that is obviously contained in a seperate SELinux patch, but it
does pass the needed name down to the correct LSM hook. If no such name
exists it is fine to pass NULL.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
01 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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Convert from create[_singlethread]_workqueue() to alloc_workqueue().
* xfsdatad_workqueue and xfsconvertd_workqueue are identity converted.
Using higher concurrency limit might be useful but given the
complexity of workqueue usage in xfs, proceeding cautiously seems
better.* xfs_mru_reap_wq is converted to non-ordered workqueue with max
concurrency of 1 as the work items don't require any specific
ordering and already have proper synchronization. It seems it was
singlethreaded to save worker threads, which is no longer a concern.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Alex Elder
Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
28 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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The extent size hint can be set to larger than an AG. This means
that the alignment process can push the range to be allocated
outside the bounds of the AG, resulting in assert failures or
corrupted bmbt records. Similarly, if the extsize is larger than the
maximum extent size supported, the alignment process will produce
extents that are too large to fit into the bmbt records, resulting
in a different type of assert/corruption failure.Fix this by limiting extsize at the time іt is set firstly to be
less than MAXEXTLEN, then to be a maximum of half the size of the
AGs in the filesystem for non-realtime inodes. Realtime inodes do
not allocate out of AGs, so don't have to be restricted by the size
of AGs.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder
17 Jan, 2011
2 commits
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Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously,
while XFS forced a commit. Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC
I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE
case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes. On the
other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path
uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions. Given
that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from
an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure
available that lets us check for O_SYNC.This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems,
and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire
up fallocate for regular files.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Instead of various home grown checks that might need updates for new
flags just check for any bit outside the mask of the features supported
by the filesystem. This makes the check future proof for any newly
added flag.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
15 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: prevent NMI timeouts in cmn_err
xfs: Add log level to assertion printk
xfs: fix an assignment within an ASSERT()
xfs: fix error handling for synchronous writes
xfs: add FITRIM support
xfs: ensure log covering transactions are synchronous
xfs: serialise unaligned direct IOs
xfs: factor common write setup code
xfs: split buffered IO write path from xfs_file_aio_write
xfs: split direct IO write path from xfs_file_aio_write
xfs: introduce xfs_rw_lock() helpers for locking the inode
xfs: factor post-write newsize updates
xfs: factor common post-write isize handling code
xfs: ensure sync write errors are returned
14 Jan, 2011
3 commits
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* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
block: trace event block fix unassigned field
block: add internal hd part table references
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
kref: add kref_test_and_get
bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
sd: implement sd_check_events()
sr: implement sr_check_events()
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (41 commits)
fs: add documentation on fallocate hole punching
Gfs2: fail if we try to use hole punch
Btrfs: fail if we try to use hole punch
Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch
Ocfs2: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
XFS: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
fs: add hole punching to fallocate
vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens (try #2)
fix signedness mess in rw_verify_area() on 64bit architectures
fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::prepend_path
fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::d_validate
sanitize ecryptfs ->mount()
switch afs
move internal-only parts of ncpfs headers to fs/ncpfs
switch ncpfs
switch 9p
pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()
switch hostfs
switch affs
switch configfs
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* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
Fix spelling mistakes in comments
Revert conflicting V4L changes
i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
mm/rmap.c: fix comment
sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
init/Kconfig: fix typo
anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
poll: fix a typo in comment
...Fix up trivial conflicts in:
- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
- fs/ext4/ext4.hAlso fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
13 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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This patch simply allows XFS to handle the hole punching flag in fallocate
properly. I've tested this with a little program that does a bunch of random
hole punching with FL_KEEP_SIZE and without it to make sure it does the right
thing. Thanks,Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
12 Jan, 2011
4 commits
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We currently have a global error message buffer in cmn_err that is
protected by a spin lock that disables interrupts. Recently there
have been reports of NMI timeouts occurring when the console is
being flooded by SCSI error reports due to cmn_err() getting stuck
trying to print to the console while holding this lock (i.e. with
interrupts disabled). The NMI watchdog is seeing this CPU as
non-responding and so is triggering a panic. While the trigger for
the reported case is SCSI errors, pretty much anything that spams
the kernel log could cause this to occur.Realistically the only reason that we have the intemediate message
buffer is to prepend the correct kernel log level prefix to the log
message. The only reason we have the lock is to protect the global
message buffer and the only reason the message buffer is global is
to keep it off the stack. Hence if we can avoid needing a global
message buffer we avoid needing the lock, and we can do this with a
small amount of cleanup and some preprocessor tricks:1. clean up xfs_cmn_err() panic mask functionality to avoid
needing debug code in xfs_cmn_err()
2. remove the couple of "!" message prefixes that still exist that
the existing cmn_err() code steps over.
3. redefine CE_* levels directly to KERN_*
4. redefine cmn_err() and friends to use printk() directly
via variable argument length macros.By doing this, we can completely remove the cmn_err() code and the
lock that is causing the problems, and rely solely on printk()
serialisation to ensure that we don't get garbled messages.A series of followup patches is really needed to clean up all the
cmn_err() calls and related messages properly, but that results in a
series that is not easily back portable to enterprise kernels. Hence
this initial fix is only to address the direct problem in the lowest
impact way possible.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder -
If we get an IO error on a synchronous superblock write, we attach an
error release function to it so that when the last reference goes away
the release function is called and the buffer is invalidated and
unlocked. The buffer is left locked until the release function is
called so that other concurrent users of the buffer will be locked out
until the buffer error is fully processed.Unfortunately, for the superblock buffer the filesyetm itself holds a
reference to the buffer which prevents the reference count from
dropping to zero and the release function being called. As a result,
once an IO error occurs on a sync write, the buffer will never be
unlocked and all future attempts to lock the buffer will hang.To make matters worse, this problems is not unique to such buffers;
if there is a concurrent _xfs_buf_find() running, the lookup will grab
a reference to the buffer and then wait on the buffer lock, preventing
the reference count from ever falling to zero and hence unlocking the
buffer.As such, the whole b_relse function implementation is broken because it
cannot rely on the buffer reference count falling to zero to unlock the
errored buffer. The synchronous write error path is the only path that
uses this callback - it is used to ensure that the synchronous waiter
gets the buffer error before the error state is cleared from the buffer
by the release function.Given that the only sychronous buffer writes now go through xfs_bwrite
and the error path in question can only occur for a write of a dirty,
logged buffer, we can move most of the b_relse processing to happen
inline in xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, just like a normal I/O completion.
In addition to that we make sure the error is not cleared in
xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, so that xfs_bwrite can reliably check it.
Given that xfs_bwrite keeps the buffer locked until it has waited for
it and checked the error this allows to reliably propagate the error
to the caller, and make sure that the buffer is reliably unlocked.Given that xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks was the only instance of the
b_relse callback we can remove it entirely.Based on earlier patches by Dave Chinner and Ajeet Yadav.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reported-by: Ajeet Yadav
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder -
Allow manual discards from userspace using the FITRIM ioctl. This is not
intended to be run during normal workloads, as the freepsace btree walks
can cause large performance degradation.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder -
To ensure the log is covered and the filesystem idles correctly, we
need to ensure that dummy transactions hit the disk and do not stay
pinned in memory. If the superblock is pinned in memory, it can't
be flushed so the log covering cannot make progress. The result is
dependent on timing - more oftent han not we continue to issues a
log covering transaction every 36s rather than idling after ~90s.Fix this by making the log covering transaction synchronous. To
avoid additional log force from xfssyncd, make the log covering
transaction take the place of the existing log force in the xfssyncd
background sync process.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder