16 Sep, 2011

2 commits

  • generic_check_addressable can't deal with hfsplus's larger than page
    size allocation blocks, so simply opencode the checks that we actually
    need in hfsplus_fill_super.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Reported-by: Pavel Ivanov
    Tested-by: Pavel Ivanov
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Hellwig
     
  • Commit 6596528e391a ("hfsplus: ensure bio requests are not smaller than
    the hardware sectors") changed the pointers used for volume header
    allocations but failed to free the correct pointers in the error path
    path of hfsplus_fill_super() and hfsplus_read_wrapper.

    The second hunk came from a separate patch by Pavel Ivanov.

    Reported-by: Pavel Ivanov
    Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Seth Forshee
     

23 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits)
    vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp
    isofs: Remove global fs lock
    jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory
    fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al.
    mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled
    fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure
    Remove dead code in dget_parent()
    AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment
    switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well
    simplify gfs2_lookup()
    jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or ..
    get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link()
    get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
    fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers
    drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations
    fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek
    Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically
    Btrfs: implement our own ->llseek
    fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags
    reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush
    ...

    Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new
    shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to
    start the periodic workers later.

    Linus Torvalds
     

22 Jul, 2011

2 commits


21 Jul, 2011

3 commits

  • Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
    in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
    the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some
    file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
    ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
    sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
    individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
    Thanks,

    Acked-by: Jan Kara
    Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Josef Bacik
     
  • Simple filesystems always pass inode->i_sb_bdev as the block device
    argument, and never need a end_io handler. Let's simply things for
    them and for my grepping activity by dropping these arguments. The
    only thing not falling into that scheme is ext4, which passes and
    end_io handler without needing special flags (yet), but given how
    messy the direct I/O code there is use of __blockdev_direct_IO
    in one instead of two out of three cases isn't going to make a large
    difference anyway.

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

    Christoph Hellwig
     
  • Let filesystems handle waiting for direct I/O requests themselves instead
    of doing it beforehand. This means filesystem-specific locks to prevent
    new dio referenes from appearing can be held. This is important to allow
    generalizing i_dio_count to non-DIO_LOCKING filesystems.

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

    Christoph Hellwig
     

07 Jul, 2011

2 commits


30 Jun, 2011

6 commits


28 May, 2011

1 commit


26 May, 2011

2 commits


25 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • * '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}

    Linus Torvalds
     

24 Mar, 2011

1 commit


10 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • 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

    Jens Axboe
     

04 Feb, 2011

4 commits


13 Jan, 2011

1 commit


08 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hch/hfsplus:
    hfsplus: %L-to-%ll, macro correction, and remove unneeded braces
    hfsplus: spaces/indentation clean-up
    hfsplus: C99 comments clean-up
    hfsplus: over 80 character lines clean-up
    hfsplus: fix an artifact in ioctl flag checking
    hfsplus: flush disk caches in sync and fsync
    hfsplus: optimize fsync
    hfsplus: split up inode flags
    hfsplus: write up fsync for directories
    hfsplus: simplify fsync
    hfsplus: avoid useless work in hfsplus_sync_fs
    hfsplus: make sure sync writes out all metadata
    hfsplus: use raw bio access for partition tables
    hfsplus: use raw bio access for the volume headers
    hfsplus: always use hfsplus_sync_fs to write the volume header
    hfsplus: silence a few debug printks
    hfsplus: fix option parsing during remount

    Fix up conflicts due to VFS changes in fs/hfsplus/{hfsplus_fs.h,unicode.c}

    Linus Torvalds
     

07 Jan, 2011

4 commits

  • Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
    flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
    This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
    situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
    have d_op but not the particular operation.

    Patched with:

    git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     
  • RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

    - Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
    permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
    - sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
    to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
    the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
    - Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
    - Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
    page lock to follow page->mapping.

    The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
    creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
    reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
    kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

    In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
    during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
    not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

    The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
    however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
    so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
    real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
    doubt it will be a problem.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     
  • Change d_hash so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. See similar
    patch for d_compare for details.

    For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     
  • Change d_compare so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. This
    does put significant restrictions on what may be done from the callback,
    however there don't seem to have been any problems with in-tree fses.
    If some strange use case pops up that _really_ cannot cope with the
    rcu-walk rules, we can just add new rcu-unaware callbacks, which would
    cause name lookup to drop out of rcu-walk mode.

    For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     

17 Dec, 2010

5 commits


23 Nov, 2010

3 commits

  • Flush the disk cache in fsync and sync to make sure data actually is
    on disk on completion of these system calls. There is a nobarrier
    mount option to disable this behaviour. It's slightly misnamed now
    that barrier actually are gone, but it matches the name used by all
    major filesystems.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

    Christoph Hellwig
     
  • Avoid doing unessecary work in fsync. Do nothing unless the inode
    was marked dirty, and only write the various metadata inodes out if
    they contain any dirty state from this inode. This is archived by
    adding three new dirty bits to the hfsplus-specific inode which are
    set in the correct places.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

    Christoph Hellwig
     
  • Split the flags field in the hfsplus inode into an extent_state
    flag that is locked by the extent_lock, and a new flags field
    that uses atomic bitops. The second will grow more flags in the
    next patch.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

    Christoph Hellwig