10 May, 2011

2 commits

  • The size of super root structure depends on inode size, so
    NILFS_SR_BYTES macro should be a function of the inode size. This
    fixes the issue.

    Even though a different size value will be written for a possible
    future filesystem with extended inode, but fortunately this does not
    break disk format compatibility.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

    Ryusuke Konishi
     
  • Previously, nilfs was cloning pages for mmapped region to freeze their
    data and ensure consistency of checksum during writeback cycles. A
    private page allocator was used for this page cloning. But, we no
    longer need to do that since clear_page_dirty_for_io function sets up
    pte so that vm_ops->page_mkwrite function is called right before the
    mmapped pages are modified and nilfs_page_mkwrite function can safely
    wait for the pages to be written back to disk.

    So, this stops making a copy of mmapped pages during writeback, and
    eliminates the private page allocation and deallocation functions from
    nilfs.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

    Ryusuke Konishi
     

10 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • 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

    Jens Axboe
     

23 Oct, 2010

1 commit


08 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
    This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
    down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were
    missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've
    renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

    Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
    blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

    Christoph Hellwig
     

10 May, 2010

4 commits


30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

24 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • nilfs_wait_on_logs has a potential to slip out before completion of
    all bio requests when it met an error. This synchronization fault may
    cause unexpected results, for instance, violative access to freed
    segment buffers from an end-bio callback routine.

    This fixes the issue by ensuring that nilfs_wait_on_logs waits all
    given logs.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

    Ryusuke Konishi
     

14 Mar, 2010

3 commits


13 Feb, 2010

1 commit


30 Nov, 2009

4 commits


29 Nov, 2009

1 commit


14 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • Alberto Bertogli advised me about bio_alloc() use in nilfs:
    On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:52:40 -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
    > By the way, those bio_alloc()s are using GFP_NOWAIT but it looks
    > like they could use at least GFP_NOIO or GFP_NOFS, since the caller
    > can (and sometimes do) sleep. The only caller is nilfs_submit_bh(),
    > which calls nilfs_submit_seg_bio() which can sleep calling
    > wait_for_completion().

    This takes in the comment and replaces the use of GFP_NOWAIT flag with
    GFP_NOIO.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

    Ryusuke Konishi
     

10 Jun, 2009

2 commits


07 Apr, 2009

2 commits

  • will reduce some lines of segment constructor. Previously, the state was
    complexly controlled through a list of segments in order to keep
    consistency in meta data of usage state of segments. Instead, this
    presents ``calculated'' active flags to userland cleaner program and stop
    maintaining its real flag on disk.

    Only by this fake flag, the cleaner cannot exactly know if each segment is
    reclaimable or not. However, the recent extension of nilfs_sustat ioctl
    struct (nilfs2-extend-nilfs_sustat-ioctl-struct.patch) can prevent the
    cleaner from reclaiming in-use segment wrongly.

    So, now I can apply this for simplification.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ryusuke Konishi
     
  • This adds the segment buffer which is used to constuct logs.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: BIO_RW_SYNC got removed]
    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ryusuke Konishi