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Linus Torvalds
a2c252ebde Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-fixes
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-fixes:
  GFS2: Use DEFINE_SPINLOCK
  GFS2: cleanup file_operations mess
  GFS2: Move umount flush rwsem
  GFS2: Fix symlink creation race
  GFS2: Make quotad's waiting interruptible
2009-04-15 09:04:12 -07:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
b1fffc9ca6 gfs2: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT
Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT.
GFP_NOFS implies __GFP_WAIT.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:13 +02:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
226e7dabf5 ext4: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT
Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT.
GFP_NOIO implies __GFP_WAIT.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:13 +02:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
4d1f9fdb61 dio: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT
Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT.
GFP_KERNEL implies __GFP_WAIT.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:13 +02:00
Jens Axboe
86c824b943 bio: add documentation to bio_alloc()
Explain that with __GFP_WAIT set it will not fail, and that the caller
must never allocate more than 1 bio at the time.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:12 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
61e0d47c33 splice: add helpers for locking pipe inode
There are lots of sequences like this, especially in splice code:

	if (pipe->inode)
		mutex_lock(&pipe->inode->i_mutex);
	/* do something */
	if (pipe->inode)
		mutex_unlock(&pipe->inode->i_mutex);

so introduce helpers which do the conditional locking and unlocking.
Also replace the inode_double_lock() call with a pipe_double_lock()
helper to avoid spreading the use of this functionality beyond the
pipe code.

This patch is just a cleanup, and should cause no behavioral changes.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:12 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
f8cc774ce4 splice: remove generic_file_splice_write_nolock()
Remove the now unused generic_file_splice_write_nolock() function.
It's conceptually broken anyway, because splice may need to wait for
pipe events so holding locks across the whole operation is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:12 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
328eaaba4e ocfs2: fix i_mutex locking in ocfs2_splice_to_file()
Rearrange locking of i_mutex on destination and call to
ocfs2_rw_lock() so locks are only held while buffers are copied with
the pipe_to_file() actor, and not while waiting for more data on the
pipe.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:12 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
eb443e5a25 splice: fix i_mutex locking in generic_splice_write()
Rearrange locking of i_mutex on destination so it's only held while
buffers are copied with the pipe_to_file() actor, and not while
waiting for more data on the pipe.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:11 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
2933970b96 splice: remove i_mutex locking in splice_from_pipe()
splice_from_pipe() is only called from two places:

  - generic_splice_sendpage()
  - splice_write_null()

Neither of these require i_mutex to be taken on the destination inode.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:11 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
b3c2d2ddd6 splice: split up __splice_from_pipe()
Split up __splice_from_pipe() into four helper functions:

  splice_from_pipe_begin()
  splice_from_pipe_next()
  splice_from_pipe_feed()
  splice_from_pipe_end()

splice_from_pipe_next() will wait (if necessary) for more buffers to
be added to the pipe.  splice_from_pipe_feed() will feed the buffers
to the supplied actor and return when there's no more data available
(or if all of the requested data has been copied).

This is necessary so that implementations can do locking around the
non-waiting splice_from_pipe_feed().

This patch should not cause any change in behavior.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 12:10:11 +02:00
Xu Gang
1328df7252 GFS2: Use DEFINE_SPINLOCK
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated, use DEFINE_SPINLOCK instead.
(as suggested in Documentation/spinlocks.txt)

Signed-off-by: Xu Gang <xug@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-04-15 10:18:07 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
10d2198805 GFS2: cleanup file_operations mess
Remove the weird pointer to file_operations mess and replace it with
straight-forward defining of the lockinginstance names to the _nolock
variants.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-04-15 10:17:18 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
a228df6339 GFS2: Move umount flush rwsem
The rwsem, used only on umount, is in the wrong place in glock.c.
This patch moves it up a bit so that it does not get called under
a spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-04-15 10:16:13 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
5cf32524de GFS2: Fix symlink creation race
In certain cases symlinks can appear to have zero size if a lookup
on the inode occurs within a certain (very short) time after the
symlink has been created. The symlink is correctly created on disk
but appears to have zero size when stat()ed. This patch closes the
race and prevents incorrect sizes appearing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-04-15 10:15:38 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
7fa5d20d1a GFS2: Make quotad's waiting interruptible
So we don't count its D state in the loadavg.

Reported-by: Nathan Straz <nstraz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-04-15 10:15:08 +01:00
Jens Axboe
053c525fcf buffer: switch do_emergency_thaw() away from pdflush_operation()
This is (again) a preparatory patch similar to commit
a2a9537ac0. It open codes a simple
async way of executing do_thaw_all() out of context, so we can get
rid of pdflush.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 08:28:12 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e9de427e40 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: fix "direct_io" private mmap
  fuse: fix argument type in fuse_get_user_pages()
2009-04-14 10:12:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9fc0178caa Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: fix possible mismatch of sufile counters on recovery
  nilfs2: segment usage file cleanups
  nilfs2: fix wrong accounting and duplicate brelse in nilfs_sufile_set_error
  nilfs2: simplify handling of active state of segments fix
  nilfs2: remove module version
  nilfs2: fix lockdep recursive locking warning on meta data files
  nilfs2: fix lockdep recursive locking warning on bmap
  nilfs2: return f_fsid for statfs2
2009-04-14 10:10:53 -07:00
Jan Kara
316cb4ef3e ext2: fix data corruption for racing writes
If two writers allocating blocks to file race with each other (e.g.
because writepages races with ordinary write or two writepages race with
each other), ext2_getblock() can be called on the same inode in parallel.
Before we are going to allocate new blocks, we have to recheck the block
chain we have obtained so far without holding truncate_mutex.  Otherwise
we could overwrite the indirect block pointer set by the other writer
leading to data loss.

The below test program by Ying is able to reproduce the data loss with ext2
on in BRD in a few minutes if the machine is under memory pressure:

long kMemSize  = 50 << 20;
int kPageSize = 4096;

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
	int status;
	int count = 0;
	int i;
	char *fname = "/mnt/test.mmap";
	char *mem;
	unlink(fname);
	int fd = open(fname, O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_RDWR, 0600);
	status = ftruncate(fd, kMemSize);
	mem = mmap(0, kMemSize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
	// Fill the memory with 1s.
	memset(mem, 1, kMemSize);
	sleep(2);
	for (i = 0; i < kMemSize; i++) {
		int byte_good = mem[i] != 0;
		if (!byte_good && ((i % kPageSize) == 0)) {
			//printf("%d ", i / kPageSize);
			count++;
		}
	}
	munmap(mem, kMemSize);
	close(fd);
	unlink(fname);

	if (count > 0) {
		printf("Running %d bad page\n", count);
		return 1;
	}
	return 0;
}

Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:33 -07:00
Jan Kara
3243387948 jbd: update locking coments
Update information about locking in JBD revoke code.

Reported-by: Lin Tan <tammy000@gmail.com>.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:32 -07:00
Dave Anderson
eb2e5f452a hfs: fix memory leak when unmounting
When an HFS filesystem is unmounted, it leaks a 2-page bitmap.  Also,
under extreme memory pressure, it's possible that hfs_releasepage() may
use a tree pointer that has not been initialized, and if so, the release
request should just be rejected.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: free_pages(0) is legal, remove obvious comment]
Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3c1795cc4b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: remove xfs_flush_space
  xfs: flush delayed allcoation blocks on ENOSPC in create
  xfs: block callers of xfs_flush_inodes() correctly
  xfs: make inode flush at ENOSPC synchronous
  xfs: use xfs_sync_inodes() for device flushing
  xfs: inform the xfsaild of the push target before sleeping
  xfs: prevent unwritten extent conversion from blocking I/O completion
  xfs: fix double free of inode
  xfs: validate log feature fields correctly
2009-04-13 14:35:13 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
c85399c2da nilfs2: fix possible mismatch of sufile counters on recovery
On-disk counters ndirtysegs and ncleansegs of sufile, can go wrong
after roll-forward recovery because
nilfs_prepare_segment_for_recovery() function marks segments dirty
without adjusting value of these counters.

This fixes the problem by adding a function to sufile which does the
operation adjusting the counters, and by letting the recovery function
use it.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-04-13 09:53:52 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi
a703018f7b nilfs2: segment usage file cleanups
This will simplify sufile.c by sharing common code which repeatedly
appears in routines updating a segment usage entry; a wrapper function
nilfs_sufile_update() is introduced for the purpose, and counter
modifications are integrated to a new function
nilfs_sufile_mod_counter().

This is a preparation for the successive bugfix patch ("nilfs2: fix
possible mismatch of sufile counters on recovery").

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-04-13 09:53:51 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi
88072faf9a nilfs2: fix wrong accounting and duplicate brelse in nilfs_sufile_set_error
The nilfs_sufile_set_error() function wrongly adjusts the number of
dirty segments instead of the number of clean segments.  In addition,
the function calls brelse() twice for the same buffer head.

This fixes these bugs.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-04-13 09:53:51 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi
3efb55b496 nilfs2: simplify handling of active state of segments fix
This fixes a bug of ("nilfs2: simplify handling of active state of
segments") patch.  The patch did not take account that a base index is
increased in nilfs_sufile_get_suinfo() function if requested entries
go across block boundary on sufile.

Due to this bug, the active flag sometimes appears on wrong segments
and has induced malfunction of garbage collection.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-04-13 09:53:51 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi
e7a7402c0d nilfs2: remove module version
A MODULE_VERSION() macro has been used in out-of-tree nilfs modules,
but it's needless and not updated in tree.  So, this removes it along
with the version declaration.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-04-13 09:53:50 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi
c2698e50e3 nilfs2: fix lockdep recursive locking warning on meta data files
This fixes the following false detection of lockdep against nilfs meta
data files:

=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.29 #26
---------------------------------------------
mount.nilfs2/4185 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&mi->mi_sem){----}, at: [<d0c7925b>] nilfs_sufile_get_stat+0x1e/0x105 [nilfs2]
 but task is already holding lock:
  (&mi->mi_sem){----}, at: [<d0c72026>] nilfs_count_free_blocks+0x48/0x84 [nilfs2]

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-04-13 09:53:50 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi
bcb48891b0 nilfs2: fix lockdep recursive locking warning on bmap
The bmap semaphore of DAT file can be held while a bmap of other files
is locked.  This has caused the following false detection of lockdep
check:

mount.nilfs2/4667 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&bmap->b_sem){..--}, at: [<d0c6c4b4>] nilfs_bmap_lookup_at_level+0x1a/0x74 [nilfs2]

but task is already holding lock:
 (&bmap->b_sem){..--}, at: [<d0c6c4b4>] nilfs_bmap_lookup_at_level+0x1a/0x74 [nilfs2]

This will fix the false detection by distinguishing semaphores of the
DAT and other files.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-04-13 09:53:49 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi
c306af23e1 nilfs2: return f_fsid for statfs2
This follows the change of Coly Li's series ("fs: return f_fsid for
statfs(2)"), and make nilfs2 return f_fsid info for statfs(2).

Acked-by: Coly Li <coly.li@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-04-13 09:53:49 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
54f93b74cf Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: check block device size on mount
  ext4: Fix off-by-one-error in ext4_valid_extent_idx()
  ext4: Fix big-endian problem in __ext4_check_blockref()
2009-04-09 16:42:05 -07:00
Felix Blyakher
dc2a5536d6 Merge branch 'master' into for-linus 2009-04-09 14:12:07 -05:00
Stoyan Gaydarov
11ff5f6aff afs: BUG to BUG_ON changes
Signed-off-by: Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-09 10:41:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
3121bfe763 fuse: fix "direct_io" private mmap
MAP_PRIVATE mmap could return stale data from the cache for
"direct_io" files.  Fix this by flushing the cache on mmap. 

Found with a slightly modified fsx-linux.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-09 17:37:53 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
ce60a2f157 fuse: fix argument type in fuse_get_user_pages()
Fix the following warning:

fs/fuse/file.c: In function 'fuse_direct_io':
fs/fuse/file.c:1002: warning: passing argument 3 of 'fuse_get_user_pages' from incompatible pointer type

This was introduced by commit f4975c67 "fuse: allow kernel to access
"direct_io" files".

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-09 17:37:52 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
a7b334de4d Merge branch 'ext3-latency-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'ext3-latency-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext3: Try to avoid starting a transaction in writepage for data=writepage
  block_write_full_page: switch synchronous writes to use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG
2009-04-08 17:42:32 -07:00
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
4c967291fc nommu: fix typo vma->pg_off to vma->vm_pgoff
6260a4b052 ("/proc/pid/maps: don't show
pgoff of pure ANON VMAs" had a typo.

fs/proc/task_nommu.c:138: error: 'struct vm_area_struct' has no member named 'pg_off'
distcc[21484] ERROR: compile fs/proc/task_nommu.c on sprygo/32 failed

Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu.nobuhiro@renesas.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-08 10:21:44 -07:00
Alexander Beregalov
2b3fffefea befs: fix build on parisc
fs/befs/super.c:85: error: 'PAGE_SIZE' undeclared

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-08 10:21:43 -07:00
Jan Kara
430db323fa ext3: Try to avoid starting a transaction in writepage for data=writepage
This does the same as commit 9e80d40773
(avoid starting a transaction when no block allocation is needed)
but for data=writeback mode of ext3. We also cleanup the data=ordered
case a bit to stick to coding style...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-08 13:15:10 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
6e34eeddf7 block_write_full_page: switch synchronous writes to use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG
Now that we have a distinction between WRITE_SYNC and WRITE_SYNC_PLUG,
use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG in __block_write_full_page() to avoid unplugging
the block device I/O queue between each page that gets flushed out.

Otherwise, when we run sync() or fsync() and we need to write out a
large number of pages, the block device queue will get unplugged
between for every page that is flushed out, which will be a pretty
serious performance regression caused by commit a64c8610.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-08 13:15:09 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
2b2ec7554c NFS: Fix the return value in nfs_page_mkwrite()
Commit c2ec175c39 ("mm: page_mkwrite
change prototype to match fault") exposed a bug in the NFS
implementation of page_mkwrite.  We should be returning 0 on success...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 14:07:03 -07:00
From: Thiemo Nagel
0f2ddca66d ext4: check block device size on mount
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-07 14:07:47 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
7bfac9ecf0 splice: fix deadlock in splicing to file
There's a possible deadlock in generic_file_splice_write(),
splice_from_pipe() and ocfs2_file_splice_write():

 - task A calls generic_file_splice_write()
 - this calls inode_double_lock(), which locks i_mutex on both
   pipe->inode and target inode
 - ordering depends on inode pointers, can happen that pipe->inode is
   locked first
 - __splice_from_pipe() needs more data, calls pipe_wait()
 - this releases lock on pipe->inode, goes to interruptible sleep
 - task B calls generic_file_splice_write(), similarly to the first
 - this locks pipe->inode, then tries to lock inode, but that is
   already held by task A
 - task A is interrupted, it tries to lock pipe->inode, but fails, as
   it is already held by task B
 - ABBA deadlock

Fix this by explicitly ordering locks: the outer lock must be on
target inode and the inner lock (which is later unlocked and relocked)
must be on pipe->inode.  This is OK, pipe inodes and target inodes
form two nonoverlapping sets, generic_file_splice_write() and friends
are not called with a target which is a pipe.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:34:46 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
612392307c nilfs2: support nanosecond timestamp
After a review of user's feedback for finding out other compatibility
issues, I found nilfs improperly initializes timestamps in inode;
CURRENT_TIME was used there instead of CURRENT_TIME_SEC even though nilfs
didn't have nanosecond timestamps on disk.  A few users gave us the report
that the tar program sometimes failed to expand symbolic links on nilfs,
and it turned out to be the cause.

Instead of applying the above displacement, I've decided to support
nanosecond timestamps on this occation.  Fortunetaly, a needless 64-bit
field was in the nilfs_inode struct, and I found it's available for this
purpose without impact for the users.

So, this will do the enhancement and resolve the tar problem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:20 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
e339ad31f5 nilfs2: introduce secondary super block
The former versions didn't have extra super blocks.  This improves the
weak point by introducing another super block at unused region in tail of
the partition.

This doesn't break disk format compatibility; older versions just ingore
the secondary super block, and new versions just recover it if it doesn't
exist.  The partition created by an old mkfs may not have unused region,
but in that case, the secondary super block will not be added.

This doesn't make more redundant copies of the super block; it is a future
work.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:20 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
cece552074 nilfs2: simplify handling of active state of segments
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 <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:20 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
c96fa464a5 nilfs2: mark minor flag for checkpoint created by internal operation
Nilfs creates checkpoints even for garbage collection or metadata updates
such as checkpoint mode change.  So, user often sees checkpoints created
only by such internal operations.

This is inconvenient in some situations.  For example, application that
monitors checkpoints and changes them to snapshots, will fall into an
infinite loop because it cannot distinguish internally created
checkpoints.

This patch solves this sort of problem by adding a flag to checkpoint for
identification.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:19 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
458c5b0822 nilfs2: clean up sketch file
The sketch file is a file to mark checkpoints with user data.  It was
experimentally introduced in the original implementation, and now
obsolete.  The file was handled differently with regular files; the file
size got truncated when a checkpoint was created.

This stops the special treatment and will treat it as a regular file.
Most users are not affected because mkfs.nilfs2 no longer makes this file.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:19 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
e626874685 nilfs2: super block operations fix endian bug
This adds a missing endian conversion of checksum field in the super
block.  This fixes compatibility issue on big endian machines which will
come to surface after supporting recovery of super block.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:19 -07:00