13 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
window.Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
work. There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
(mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
mainline and with some I want more testing.This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
usual beating. BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
positive, might be a real regression..."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
kill generic_file_buffered_write()
ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write()
generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument
btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos
kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write()
kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()
lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends
lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg()
ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg()
take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c
process_vm_access: tidy up a bit
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02 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
20 Feb, 2014
1 commit
19 Feb, 2014
1 commit
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This patch fix spelling typo in Documentation/DocBook.
It is because .html and .xml files are generated by make htmldocs,
I have to fix a typo within the source files.Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
07 Feb, 2014
1 commit
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To use spin_{un}lock_irq is dangerous if caller disabled interrupt.
During aio buffer migration, we have a possibility to see the following
call stack.aio_migratepage [disable interrupt]
migrate_page_copy
clear_page_dirty_for_io
set_page_dirty
__set_page_dirty_buffers
__set_page_dirty
spin_lock_irqThis mean, current aio migration is a deadlockable. spin_lock_irqsave
is a safer alternative and we should use it.Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Reported-by: David Rientjes rientjes@google.com>
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Dec, 2013
1 commit
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__this_cpu_ptr is being phased out.
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
24 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin"
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Lars Ellenberg
Cc: Jiri Kosina
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Geoff Levand
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh
Cc: Sage Weil
Cc: Alex Elder
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris
Cc: Philip Kelleher
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: Alasdair Kergon
Cc: Mike Snitzer
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh
Cc: Benny Halevy
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley"
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger"
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Chris Mason
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o"
Cc: Andreas Dilger
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim
Cc: Steven Whitehouse
Cc: Dave Kleikamp
Cc: Joern Engel
Cc: Prasad Joshi
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke
Cc: Mark Fasheh
Cc: Joel Becker
Cc: Ben Myers
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Len Brown
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
Cc: Ben Hutchings
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Guo Chao
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Asai Thambi S P
Cc: Selvan Mani
Cc: Sam Bradshaw
Cc: Wei Yongjun
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné"
Cc: Jan Beulich
Cc: Stefano Stabellini
Cc: Ian Campbell
Cc: Sebastian Ott
Cc: Christian Borntraeger
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Jiang Liu
Cc: Nitin Gupta
Cc: Jerome Marchand
Cc: Joe Perches
Cc: Peng Tao
Cc: Andy Adamson
Cc: fanchaoting
Cc: Jie Liu
Cc: Sunil Mushran
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen"
Cc: Namjae Jeon
Cc: Pankaj Kumar
Cc: Dan Magenheimer
Cc: Mel Gorman 6
17 Oct, 2013
1 commit
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Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the
flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can
not handle allocation failures.The most immediate problem with this is that the allocation may fail due
to a memory cgroup limit, where flushers + direct reclaim might not make
any progress towards resolving the situation at all. Because unlike the
global case, a memory cgroup may not have any cache at all, only
anonymous pages but no swap. This situation will lead to a reclaim
livelock with insane IO from waking the flushers and thrashing unrelated
filesystem cache in a tight loop.Use __GFP_NOFAIL allocations for buffers for now. This makes sure that
any looping happens in the page allocator, which knows how to
orchestrate kswapd, direct reclaim, and the flushers sensibly. It also
allows memory cgroups to detect allocations that can't handle failure
and will allow them to ultimately bypass the limit if reclaim can not
make progress.Reported-by: azurIt
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages. This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode. Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback. An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode. By default the
page flags are obeyed.Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Jiri Slaby
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks
Cc: Zlatko Calusic
Cc: dormando
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 May, 2013
1 commit
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Currently there is no way to truncate partial page where the end
truncate point is not at the end of the page. This is because it was not
needed and the functionality was enough for file system truncate
operation to work properly. However more file systems now support punch
hole feature and it can benefit from mm supporting truncating page just
up to the certain point.Specifically, with this functionality truncate_inode_pages_range() can
be changed so it supports truncating partial page at the end of the
range (currently it will BUG_ON() if 'end' is not at the end of the
page).This commit changes the invalidatepage() address space operation
prototype to accept range to be invalidated and update all the instances
for it.We also change the block_invalidatepage() in the same way and actually
make a use of the new length argument implementing range invalidation.Actual file system implementations will follow except the file systems
where the changes are really simple and should not change the behaviour
in any way .Implementation for truncate_page_range() which will be able
to accept page unaligned ranges will follow as well.Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Hugh Dickins
09 May, 2013
1 commit
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Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:
- Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.
- Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
bypass operation.- Fix for the hang on exceeded rq->datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
discard bios.- Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
workqueue mechanism.- Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
tree.- A few random fixes.
* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
block: fix max discard sectors limit
blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
raid1: use bio_copy_data()
pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
block: Add bio_copy_data()
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01 May, 2013
1 commit
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Mostly performance and bug fixes, plus some cleanups. The one new
feature this merge window is a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT which
allows installation of a hidden inode designed for boot loaders."* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (50 commits)
ext4: fix type-widening bug in inode table readahead code
ext4: add check for inodes_count overflow in new resize ioctl
ext4: fix Kconfig documentation for CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG
ext4: fix online resizing for ext3-compat file systems
jbd2: trace when lock_buffer in do_get_write_access takes a long time
ext4: mark metadata blocks using bh flags
buffer: add BH_Prio and BH_Meta flags
ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META
ext4: fix readdir error in case inline_data+^dir_index.
ext4: fix readdir error in the case of inline_data+dir_index
jbd2: use kmem_cache_zalloc instead of kmem_cache_alloc/memset
ext4: mext_insert_extents should update extent block checksum
ext4: move quota initialization out of inode allocation transaction
ext4: reserve xattr index for Rich ACL support
jbd2: reduce journal_head size
ext4: clear buffer_uninit flag when submitting IO
ext4: use io_end for multiple bios
ext4: make ext4_bio_write_page() use BH_Async_Write flags
ext4: Use kstrtoul() instead of parse_strtoul()
ext4: defragmentation code cleanup
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30 Apr, 2013
2 commits
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bh allocation uses kmem_cache_zalloc() so we needn't call
'init_buffer(bh, NULL, NULL)' and perform other set-zero-operations.Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: Theodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Walking a bio's page mappings has proved problematic, so create a new
bio flag to indicate that a bio's data needs to be snapshotted in order
to guarantee stable pages during writeback. Next, for the one user
(ext3/jbd) of snapshotting, hook all the places where writes can be
initiated without PG_writeback set, and set BIO_SNAP_STABLE there.We must also flag journal "metadata" bios for stable writeout, since
file data can be written through the journal. Finally, the
MS_SNAP_STABLE mount flag (only used by ext3) is now superfluous, so get
rid of it.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename _submit_bh()'s `flags' to `bio_flags', delobotomize the _submit_bh declaration]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: teeny cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Adrian Hunter
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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Add buffer_head flags so that buffer cache writebacks can be marked
with the the appropriate request flags, so that metadata blocks can be
marked appropriately in blktrace.Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
24 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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For immutable bvecs, all bi_idx usage needs to be audited - so here
we're removing all the unnecessary uses.Most of these are places where it was being initialized on a bio that
was just allocated, a few others are conversions to standard macros.Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet
CC: Jens Axboe
01 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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Pull block IO core bits from Jens Axboe:
"Below are the core block IO bits for 3.9. It was delayed a few days
since my workstation kept crashing every 2-8h after pulling it into
current -git, but turns out it is a bug in the new pstate code (divide
by zero, will report separately). In any case, it contains:- The big cfq/blkcg update from Tejun and and Vivek.
- Additional block and writeback tracepoints from Tejun.
- Improvement of the should sort (based on queues) logic in the plug
flushing.- _io() variants of the wait_for_completion() interface, using
io_schedule() instead of schedule() to contribute to io wait
properly.- Various little fixes.
You'll get two trivial merge conflicts, which should be easy enough to
fix up"Fix up the trivial conflicts due to hlist traversal cleanups (commit
b67bfe0d42ca: "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators").* 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (39 commits)
block: remove redundant check to bd_openers()
block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size()
cfq: fix lock imbalance with failed allocations
drivers/block/swim3.c: fix null pointer dereference
block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM
block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request
sched: add wait_for_completion_io[_timeout]
writeback: add more tracepoints
block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint
buffer: make touch_buffer() an exported function
block: add @req to bio_{front|back}_merge tracepoints
block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint
block: Remove should_sort judgement when flush blk_plug
block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation
cfq-iosched: add hierarchical cfq_group statistics
cfq-iosched: collect stats from dead cfqgs
cfq-iosched: separate out cfqg_stats_reset() from cfq_pd_reset_stats()
blkcg: make blkcg_print_blkgs() grab q locks instead of blkcg lock
block: RCU free request_queue
blkcg: implement blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() and blkg_[rw]stat_merge()
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27 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
"Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
locking violations, etc.The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
"has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
to inode. Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
kill f_vfsmnt
vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
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24 Feb, 2013
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max_buffer_heads is calculated from nr_free_buffer_pages(), so change
its type to unsigned long in case of overflow.Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
22 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Create a helper function to check if a backing device requires stable
page writes and, if so, performs the necessary wait. Then, make it so
that all points in the memory manager that handle making pages writable
use the helper function. This should provide stable page write support
to most filesystems, while eliminating unnecessary waiting for devices
that don't require the feature.Before this patchset, all filesystems would block, regardless of whether
or not it was necessary. ext3 would wait, but still generate occasional
checksum errors. The network filesystems were left to do their own
thing, so they'd wait too.After this patchset, all the disk filesystems except ext3 and btrfs will
wait only if the hardware requires it. ext3 (if necessary) snapshots
pages instead of blocking, and btrfs provides its own bdi so the mm will
never wait. Network filesystems haven't been touched, so either they
provide their own stable page guarantees or they don't block at all.
The blocking behavior is back to what it was before 3.0 if you don't
have a disk requiring stable page writes.Here's the result of using dbench to test latency on ext2:
3.8.0-rc3:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
WriteX 109347 0.028 59.817
ReadX 347180 0.004 3.391
Flush 15514 29.828 287.283Throughput 57.429 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=287.290 ms
3.8.0-rc3 + patches:
WriteX 105556 0.029 4.273
ReadX 335004 0.005 4.112
Flush 14982 30.540 298.634Throughput 55.4496 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=298.650 ms
As you can see, the maximum write latency drops considerably with this
patch enabled. The other filesystems (ext3/ext4/xfs/btrfs) behave
similarly, but see the cover letter for those results.Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Cc: Adrian Hunter
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy
Cc: Joel Becker
Cc: Mark Fasheh
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen
Cc: Ron Minnich
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Jan, 2013
1 commit
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Andrew Morton pointed this out a month ago, and then I completely forgot
about it.If we read a partial last page of a block device, we will zero out the
end of the page, but since that page can then be mapped into user space,
we should also make sure to flush the cache on architectures that have
virtual caches. We have the flush_dcache_page() function for this, so
use it.Now, in practice this really never matters, because nobody sane uses
virtual caches to begin with, and they largely exist on old broken RISC
arhitectures.And even if you did run on one of those obsolete CPU's, the whole "mmap
and access the last partial page of a block device" behavior probably
doesn't actually exist. The normal IO functions (read/write) will never
see the zeroed-out part of the page that migth not be coherent in the
cache, because they honor the size of the device.So I'm marking this for stable (3.7 only), but I'm not sure anybody will
ever care.Pointed-out-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.7
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Jan, 2013
2 commits
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The former is triggered from touch_buffer() and the latter
mark_buffer_dirty().This is part of tracepoint additions to improve visiblity into
dirtying / writeback operations for io tracer and userland.v2: Transformed writeback_dirty_buffer to block_dirty_buffer and made
it share TP definition with block_touch_buffer.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Fengguang Wu
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
We want to add a trace point to touch_buffer() but macros and inline
functions defined in header files can't have tracing points. Move
touch_buffer() to fs/buffer.c and make it a proper function.The new exported function is also declared inline. As most uses of
touch_buffer() are inside buffer.c with nilfs2 as the only other user,
the effect of this change should be negligible.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
13 Dec, 2012
2 commits
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buffer_head comes from kmem_cache_zalloc(), no need to zero its fields.
Signed-off-by: Yan Hong
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It makes no sense to inline an exported function.
Signed-off-by: Yan Hong
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Overhaul struct address_space.assoc_mapping renaming it to
address_space.private_data and its type is redefined to void*. By this
approach we consistently name the .private_* elements from struct
address_space as well as allow extended usage for address_space
association with other data structures through ->private_data.Also, all users of old ->assoc_mapping element are converted to reflect
its new name and type change (->private_data).Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Cc: Minchan Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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READ is zero so the "rw & READ" test is always false. The intended test
was "((rw & RW_MASK) == READ)".Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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The block device access simplification that avoided accessing the (racy)
block size information (commit bbec0270bdd8: "blkdev_max_block: make
private to fs/buffer.c") no longer checks the maximum block size in the
block mapping path.That was _almost_ as simple as just removing the code entirely, because
the readers and writers all check the size of the device anyway, so
under normal circumstances it "just worked".However, the block size may be such that the end of the device may
straddle one single buffer_head. At which point we may still want to
access the end of the device, but the buffer we use to access it
partially extends past the end.The 'bd_set_size()' function intentionally sets the block size to avoid
this, but mounting the device - or setting the block size by hand to
some other value - can modify that block size.So instead, teach 'submit_bh()' about the special case of the buffer
head straddling the end of the device, and turning such an access into a
smaller IO access, avoiding the problem.This, btw, also means that unlike before, we can now access the whole
device regardless of device block size setting. So now, even if the
device size is only 512-byte aligned, we can read and write even the
last sector even when having a much bigger block size for accessing the
rest of the device.So with this, we could now get rid of the 'bd_set_size()' block size
code entirely - resulting in faster IO for the common case - but that
would be a separate patch.Reported-and-tested-by: Romain Francoise
Reporeted-and-tested-by: Meelis Roos
Reported-by: Tony Luck
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Nov, 2012
2 commits
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We really don't want to look at the block size for the raw block device
accesses in fs/block-dev.c, because it may be changing from under us.
So get rid of the max_block logic entirely, since the caller should
already have done it anyway.That leaves the only user of this function in fs/buffer.c, so move the
whole function there and make it static.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
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This makes the buffer size handling be a per-page thing, which allows us
to not have to worry about locking too much when changing the buffer
size. If a page doesn't have buffers, we still need to read the block
size from the inode, but we can do that with ACCESS_ONCE(), so that even
if the size is changing, we get a consistent value.This doesn't convert all functions - many of the buffer functions are
used purely by filesystems, which in turn results in the buffer size
being fixed at mount-time. So they don't have the same consistency
issues that the raw device access can have.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"The big new feature added this time is supporting online resizing
using the meta_bg feature. This allows us to resize file systems
which are greater than 16TB. In addition, the speed of online
resizing has been improved in general.We also fix a number of races, some of which could lead to deadlocks,
in ext4's Asynchronous I/O and online defrag support, thanks to good
work by Dmitry Monakhov.There are also a large number of more minor bug fixes and cleanups
from a number of other ext4 contributors, quite of few of which have
submitted fixes for the first time."* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (69 commits)
ext4: fix ext4_flush_completed_IO wait semantics
ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode
ext4: fix ext_remove_space for punch_hole case
ext4: punch_hole should wait for DIO writers
ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers
ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers
ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate
ext4: serialize dio nonlocked reads with defrag workers
ext4: completed_io locking cleanup
ext4: fix unwritten counter leakage
ext4: give i_aiodio_unwritten a more appropriate name
ext4: ext4_inode_info diet
ext4: convert to use leXX_add_cpu()
ext4: ext4_bread usage audit
fs: reserve fallocate flag codepoint
ext4: remove redundant offset check in mext_check_arguments()
ext4: don't clear orphan list on ro mount with errors
jbd2: fix assertion failure in commit code due to lacking transaction credits
ext4: release donor reference when EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl fails
ext4: enable FITRIM ioctl on bigalloc file system
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01 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Commits 5e8830dc85d0 and 41c4d25f78c0 introduced a regression into
v3.6-rc1 for ext4 in nodealloc mode, such that mtime updates would not
take place for files modified via mmap if the page was already in the
page cache. This would also affect ext3 file systems mounted using
the ext4 file system driver.The problem was that ext4_page_mkwrite() had a shortcut which would
avoid calling __block_page_mkwrite() under some circumstances, and the
above two commit transferred the responsibility of calling
file_update_time() to __block_page_mkwrite --- which woudln't get
called in some circumstances.Since __block_page_mkwrite() only has three callers,
block_page_mkwrite(), ext4_page_mkwrite, and nilfs_page_mkwrite(), the
best way to solve this is to move the responsibility for calling
file_update_time() to its caller.This problem was found via xfstests #215 with a file system mounted
with -o nodelalloc.Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
23 Aug, 2012
1 commit
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Commit 91f68c89d8f3 ("block: fix infinite loop in __getblk_slow")
is not good: a successful call to grow_buffers() cannot guarantee
that the page won't be reclaimed before the immediate next call to
__find_get_block(), which is why there was always a loop there.Yesterday I got "EXT4-fs error (device loop0): __ext4_get_inode_loc:3595:
inode #19278: block 664: comm cc1: unable to read itable block" on console,
which pointed to this commit.I've been trying to bisect for weeks, why kbuild-on-ext4-on-loop-on-tmpfs
sometimes fails from a missing header file, under memory pressure on
ppc G5. I've never seen this on x86, and I've never seen it on 3.5-rc7
itself, despite that commit being in there: bisection pointed to an
irrelevant pinctrl merge, but hard to tell when failure takes between
18 minutes and 38 hours (but so far it's happened quicker on 3.6-rc2).(I've since found such __ext4_get_inode_loc errors in /var/log/messages
from previous weeks: why the message never appeared on console until
yesterday morning is a mystery for another day.)Revert 91f68c89d8f3, restoring __getblk_slow() to how it was (plus
a checkpatch nitfix). Simplify the interface between grow_buffers()
and grow_dev_page(), and avoid the infinite loop beyond end of device
by instead checking init_page_buffers()'s end_block there (I presume
that's more efficient than a repeated call to blkdev_max_block()),
returning -ENXIO to __getblk_slow() in that case.And remove akpm's ten-year-old "__getblk() cannot fail ... weird"
comment, but that is worrying: are all users of __getblk() really
now prepared for a NULL bh beyond end of device, or will some oops??Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.5
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
31 Jul, 2012
2 commits
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There are several entry points which dirty pages in a filesystem. mmap
(handled by block_page_mkwrite()), buffered write (handled by
__generic_file_aio_write()), splice write (generic_file_splice_write),
truncate, and fallocate (these can dirty last partial page - handled inside
each filesystem separately). Protect these places with sb_start_write() and
sb_end_write().->page_mkwrite() calls are particularly complex since they are called with
mmap_sem held and thus we cannot use standard sb_start_write() due to lock
ordering constraints. We solve the problem by using a special freeze protection
sb_start_pagefault() which ranks below mmap_sem.BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis
Tested-by: Dann Frazier
Tested-by: Massimo Morana
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis
Tested-by: Dann Frazier
Tested-by: Massimo Morana
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
13 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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Commit 080399aaaf35 ("block: don't mark buffers beyond end of disk as
mapped") exposed a bug in __getblk_slow that causes mount to hang as it
loops infinitely waiting for a buffer that lies beyond the end of the
disk to become uptodate.The problem was initially reported by Torsten Hilbrich here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/18/54
and also reported independently here:
http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4511
and then Richard W.M. Jones and Marcos Mello noted a few separate
bugzillas also associated with the same issue. This patch has been
confirmed to fix:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835019
The main problem is here, in __getblk_slow:
for (;;) {
struct buffer_head * bh;
int ret;bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
if (bh)
return bh;ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size);
if (ret < 0)
return NULL;
if (ret == 0)
free_more_memory();
}__find_get_block does not find the block, since it will not be marked as
mapped, and so grow_buffers is called to fill in the buffers for the
associated page. I believe the for (;;) loop is there primarily to
retry in the case of memory pressure keeping grow_buffers from
succeeding. However, we also continue to loop for other cases, like the
block lying beond the end of the disk. So, the fix I came up with is to
only loop when grow_buffers fails due to memory allocation issues
(return value of 0).The attached patch was tested by myself, Torsten, and Rich, and was
found to resolve the problem in call cases.Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer
Reported-and-Tested-by: Torsten Hilbrich
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones
Reviewed-by: Josh Boyer
Cc: Stable # 3.0+
[ Jens is on vacation, taking this directly - Linus ]
--
Stable Notes: this patch requires backport to 3.0, 3.2 and 3.3.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 May, 2012
1 commit
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bh_cachep is only written to once on initialization, so move it to the
__read_mostly section.Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim
Signed-off-by: Vlad Zolotarov
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
11 May, 2012
1 commit
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Hi,
We have a bug report open where a squashfs image mounted on ppc64 would
exhibit errors due to trying to read beyond the end of the disk. It can
easily be reproduced by doing the following:[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# ls -l install.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142032896 Apr 30 16:46 install.img
[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# mount -o loop ./install.img /mnt/test
[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# dd if=/dev/loop0 of=/dev/null
dd: reading `/dev/loop0': Input/output error
277376+0 records in
277376+0 records out
142016512 bytes (142 MB) copied, 0.9465 s, 150 MB/sIn dmesg, you'll find the following:
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 43.106012] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106029] loop0: rw=0, want=277410, limit=277408
[ 43.106039] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138704
[ 43.106053] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106057] loop0: rw=0, want=277412, limit=277408
[ 43.106061] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138705
[ 43.106066] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106070] loop0: rw=0, want=277414, limit=277408
[ 43.106073] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138706
[ 43.106078] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106081] loop0: rw=0, want=277416, limit=277408
[ 43.106085] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138707
[ 43.106089] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106093] loop0: rw=0, want=277418, limit=277408
[ 43.106096] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138708
[ 43.106101] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106104] loop0: rw=0, want=277420, limit=277408
[ 43.106108] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138709
[ 43.106112] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106116] loop0: rw=0, want=277422, limit=277408
[ 43.106120] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138710
[ 43.106124] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106128] loop0: rw=0, want=277424, limit=277408
[ 43.106131] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138711
[ 43.106135] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106139] loop0: rw=0, want=277426, limit=277408
[ 43.106143] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138712
[ 43.106147] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106151] loop0: rw=0, want=277428, limit=277408
[ 43.106154] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138713
[ 43.106158] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106162] loop0: rw=0, want=277430, limit=277408
[ 43.106166] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106169] loop0: rw=0, want=277432, limit=277408
...
[ 43.106307] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106311] loop0: rw=0, want=277470, limit=2774Squashfs manages to read in the end block(s) of the disk during the
mount operation. Then, when dd reads the block device, it leads to
block_read_full_page being called with buffers that are beyond end of
disk, but are marked as mapped. Thus, it would end up submitting read
I/O against them, resulting in the errors mentioned above. I fixed the
problem by modifying init_page_buffers to only set the buffer mapped if
it fell inside of i_size.Cheers,
JeffSigned-off-by: Jeff Moyer
Acked-by: Nick Piggin--
Changes from v1->v2: re-used max_block, as suggested by Nick Piggin.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
26 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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While stressing the kernel with with failing allocations today, I hit the
following chain of events:alloc_page_buffers():
bh = alloc_buffer_head(GFP_NOFS);
if (!bh)
goto no_grow;
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
