Unfortunately perf can't deal with anything other than direct structure
accesses in the TP_printk() section. It will drop dead when it sees
jbd2_dev_to_name() in the "print fmt" section of the tracepoint.
Addresses-Google-Bug: 3138508
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Surprisingly chown() on ext4 is not SMP scalable operation.
Due to unconditional orphan_del(NULL, inode) in ext4_setattr()
result in significant performance overhead because of global orphan
mutex, especially in no-journal mode (where orphan_add() is noop).
It is possible to skip explicit orphan_del if possible.
Results of fchown() micro-benchmark in no-journal mode
while (1) {
iteration++;
fchown(fd, uid, gid);
fchown(fd, uid + 1, gid + 1)
}
measured: iterations per millisecond
| nr_tasks | w/o patch | with patch |
| 1 | 142 | 185 |
| 4 | 109 | 642 |
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (48 commits)
DMAENGINE: move COH901318 to arch_initcall
dma: imx-dma: fix signedness bug
dma/timberdale: simplify conditional
ste_dma40: remove channel_type
ste_dma40: remove enum for endianess
ste_dma40: remove TIM_FOR_LINK option
ste_dma40: move mode_opt to separate config
ste_dma40: move channel mode to a separate field
ste_dma40: move priority to separate field
ste_dma40: add variable to indicate valid dma_cfg
async_tx: make async_tx channel switching opt-in
move async raid6 test to lib/Kconfig.debug
dmaengine: Add Freescale i.MX1/21/27 DMA driver
intel_mid_dma: change the slave interface
intel_mid_dma: fix the WARN_ONs
intel_mid_dma: Add sg list support to DMA driver
intel_mid_dma: Allow DMAC2 to share interrupt
intel_mid_dma: Allow IRQ sharing
intel_mid_dma: Add runtime PM support
DMAENGINE: define a dummy filter function for ste_dma40
...
* 'viafb-next' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6: (29 commits)
viafb: add initial VX900 support
viafb: fix hardware acceleration for suspend & resume
viafb: make suspend and resume work (on all machines?)
viafb: restore display on resume
Minimal support for viafb suspend/resume
viafb: use proper register for colour when doing fill ops
viafb: add documentation for proc interface
viafb: rename output devices
viafb: add a mapping of supported output devices
viafb: set sync polarity for all output devices
viafb: add function to change sync polarity per device
viafb: reduce I2C timeout and delay
viafb: enable I2C for CRT
viafb: fix i2c_transfer error handling
viafb: vt1636 cleanup
viafb: introduce per output device power management
viafb: limit LCD code impact
viafb: add interface for output device configuration
viafb: merge the remaining output path with enable functions
viafb: use new device routing
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-mn10300: (44 commits)
MN10300: Save frame pointer in thread_info struct rather than global var
MN10300: Change "Matsushita" to "Panasonic".
MN10300: Create a defconfig for the ASB2364 board
MN10300: Update the ASB2303 defconfig
MN10300: ASB2364: Add support for SMSC911X and SMC911X
MN10300: ASB2364: Handle the IRQ multiplexer in the FPGA
MN10300: Generic time support
MN10300: Specify an ELF HWCAP flag for MN10300 Atomic Operations Unit support
MN10300: Map userspace atomic op regs as a vmalloc page
MN10300: And Panasonic AM34 subarch and implement SMP
MN10300: Delete idle_timestamp from irq_cpustat_t
MN10300: Make various interrupt priority settings configurable
MN10300: Optimise do_csum()
MN10300: Implement atomic ops using atomic ops unit
MN10300: Make the FPU operate in non-lazy mode under SMP
MN10300: SMP TLB flushing
MN10300: Use the [ID]PTEL2 registers rather than [ID]PTEL for TLB control
MN10300: Make the use of PIDR to mark TLB entries controllable
MN10300: Rename __flush_tlb*() to local_flush_tlb*()
MN10300: AM34 erratum requires MMUCTR read and write on exception entry
...
* 'module' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
NULL-terminate all pci_device_id tables
(trivial) Fix compiler warning in kernel/modules.c
* akpm-incoming-2: (139 commits)
epoll: make epoll_wait() use the hrtimer range feature
select: rename estimate_accuracy() to select_estimate_accuracy()
Remove duplicate includes from many files
ramoops: use the platform data structure instead of module params
kernel/resource.c: handle reinsertion of an already-inserted resource
kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() to return a signed int value
w1: don't allow arbitrary users to remove w1 devices
alpha: remove dma64_addr_t usage
mips: remove dma64_addr_t usage
sparc: remove dma64_addr_t usage
fuse: use release_pages()
taskstats: use real microsecond granularity for CPU times
taskstats: split fill_pid function
taskstats: separate taskstats commands
delayacct: align to 8 byte boundary on 64-bit systems
delay-accounting: reimplement -c for getdelays.c to report information on a target command
namespaces Kconfig: move namespace menu location after the cgroup
namespaces Kconfig: remove the cgroup device whitelist experimental tag
namespaces Kconfig: remove pointless cgroup dependency
namespaces Kconfig: make namespace a submenu
...
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
percpu: Remove the multi-page alignment facility
x86-32: Allocate irq stacks seperate from percpu area
x86-32, mm: Remove duplicated #include
x86, printk: Get rid of <0> from stack output
x86, kexec: Make sure to stop all CPUs before exiting the kernel
x86/vsmp: Eliminate kconfig dependency warning
The BKL was pushed into this function when it was converted to use the
unlocked_ioctl interface, but nothing that the function touches is
actually protected by the BKL. So just remove the BKL entirely, so that
we finally can get a realistic system build without the BKL being
enabled at all.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When I compiled 2.6.36-rc3 kernel with EXT4FS_DEBUG definition, I got
the following compile error.
CC [M] fs/ext4/extents.o
fs/ext4/extents.c: In function 'ext4_fallocate':
fs/ext4/extents.c:3772: error: 'block' undeclared (first use in this function)
fs/ext4/extents.c:3772: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
fs/ext4/extents.c:3772: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [fs/ext4/extents.o] Error 1
The patch fixes this problem.
Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
These functions are only used within fs/ext4/mballoc.c, so move them
so they are used after they are defined, and then make them be static.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cleanup namespace leaks from fs/ext4 and the inline trivial functions
ext4_{ext,idx}_pblock() and ext4_{ext,idx}_store_pblock() since the
code size actually shrinks when we make these functions inline,
they're so trivial.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
These functions have no need to be exported beyond file context.
No functions needed to be moved for this commit; just some function
declarations changed to be static and removed from header files.
(A similar patch was submitted by Eric Sandeen, but I wanted to handle
code movement in separate patches to make sure code changes didn't
accidentally get dropped.)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Commit 84061e0 fixed an accounting bug only to introduce the
possibility of a kernel OOPS if the journal has a non-zero j_errno
field indicating that the file system had detected a fs inconsistency.
After the journal replay, if the journal superblock indicates that the
file system has an error, this indication is transfered to the file
system and then ext4_commit_super() is called to write this to the
disk.
But since the percpu counters are now initialized after the journal
replay, the call to ext4_commit_super() will cause a kernel oops since
it needs to use the percpu counters the ext4 superblock structure.
The fix is to skip setting the ext4 free block and free inode fields
if the percpu counter has not been set.
Thanks to Ken Sumrall for reporting and analyzing the root causes of
this bug.
Addresses-Google-Bug: #3054080
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
As pointed out in a prior patch, updating the mapping's
writeback_index based on pages written isn't quite right;
what the writeback index is really supposed to reflect is
the next page which should be scanned for writeback during
periodic flush.
As in write_cache_pages(), write_cache_pages_da() does
this scanning for us as we assemble the mpd for later
writeout. If we keep track of the next page after the
current scan, we can easily update writeback_index without
worrying about pages written vs. pages skipped, etc.
Without this, an fsync will reset writeback_index to
0 (its starting index) + however many pages it wrote, which
can mess up the progress of periodic flush.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This is analogous to Jan Kara's commit,
f446daaea9
mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging
but since we forked write_cache_pages, we need to reimplement
it there (and in ext4_da_writepages, since range_cyclic handling
was moved to there)
If you start a large buffered IO to a file, and then set
fsync after it, you'll find that fsync does not complete
until the other IO stops.
If you continue re-dirtying the file (say, putting dd
with conv=notrunc in a loop), when fsync finally completes
(after all IO is done), it reports via tracing that
it has written many more pages than the file contains;
in other words it has synced and re-synced pages in
the file multiple times.
This then leads to problems with our writeback_index
update, since it advances it by pages written, and
essentially sets writeback_index off the end of the
file...
With the following patch, we only sync as much as was
dirty at the time of the sync.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This doesn't fix anything at all, it just removes a vestige
of prior use from __mpage_da_writepage()
__mpage_da_writepage() had a *void argument leftover from
its previous life as a callback; make it reflect the actual type.
Fixing this up makes it slightly more obvious to read, and
enables proper typechecking.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Should be applied on the top of "lazy inode table initialization"
and "batched discard support" patch-sets.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Walk through allocation groups and trim all free extents. It can be
invoked through FITRIM ioctl on the file system. The main idea is to
provide a way to trim the whole file system if needed, since some SSD's
may suffer from performance loss after the whole device was filled (it
does not mean that fs is full!).
It search for free extents in allocation groups specified by Byte range
start -> start+len. When the free extent is within this range, blocks
are marked as used and then trimmed. Afterwards these blocks are marked
as free in per-group bitmap.
Since fstrim is a long operation it is good to have an ability to
interrupt it by a signal. This was added by Dmitry Monakhov.
Thanks Dimitry.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Adds an filesystem independent ioctl to allow implementation of file
system batched discard support. I takes fstrim_range structure as an
argument. fstrim_range is definec in the include/fs.h and its
definition is as follows.
struct fstrim_range {
start;
len;
minlen;
}
start - first Byte to trim
len - number of Bytes to trim from start
minlen - minimum extent length to trim, free extents shorter than this
number of Bytes will be ignored. This will be rounded up to fs
block size.
It is also possible to specify NULL as an argument. In this case the
arguments will set itself as follows:
start = 0;
len = ULLONG_MAX;
minlen = 0;
So it will trim the whole file system at one run.
After the FITRIM is done, the number of actually discarded Bytes is stored
in fstrim_range.len to give the user better insight on how much storage
space has been really released for wear-leveling.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Use return value from sb_issue_discard() as return value in
ext4_issue_discard(). Since sb_issue_discard() may result in more
serious errors than just -EOPNOTSUPP it is worth to inform user of this
function about them to handle error cases properly.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Fail block allocation if sb_getblk() returns NULL. In that case,
sb_find_get_block() also likely to fail so that it should skip
calling ext4_forget().
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Call the block I/O layer directly instad of going through the buffer
layer. This should give us much better performance and scalability,
as well as lowering our CPU utilization when doing buffered writeback.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This massively simplifies the ext4_da_writepages() code path by
completely removing mpage_put_bnr_bhs(), which is almost 100 lines of
code iterating over a set of pages using pagevec_lookup(), and folds
that functionality into mpage_da_submit_io()'s existing
pagevec_lookup() loop.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Expand the call:
if (walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_bufs, 0, len, NULL,
ext4_bh_delay_or_unwritten))
goto redirty_page
into mpage_da_submit_io().
This will allow us to merge in mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs() in the next
patch.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
As a prepratory step to switching to bio_submit, inline
ext4_writepage() into mpage_da_submit() and then simplify things a
bit. This makes it clearer what mpage_da_submit needs to do.
Also, move the ClearPageChecked(page) call into
__ext4_journalled_writepage(), as a minor bit of cleanup refactoring.
This also allows us to pull i_size_read() and
ext4_should_journal_data() out of the loop, which should be a very
minor CPU savings.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The actual code in ext4_writepage() is unnecessarily convoluted.
Simplify it so it is easier to understand, but otherwise logically
equivalent.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Eventually we need to completely reorganize the ext4 writepage
callpath, but for now, we simplify things a little by calling
mpage_da_submit_io() from mpage_da_map_blocks(), since all of the
places where we call mpage_da_map_blocks() it is followed up by a call
to mpage_da_submit_io().
We're also a wee bit better with respect to error handling, but there
are still a number of issues where it's not clear what the right thing
is to do with ext4 functions deep in the writeback codepath fails.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Also remove the SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT flag from the system zone kmem
cache. This slab tends to be fairly static, so it shouldn't be marked
as likely to have free pages that can be reclaimed.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Use the search_dirblock() in ext4_dx_find_entry(). It makes the code
easier to read, and it takes advantage of common code. It also saves
100 bytes or so of text space.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
If the first block of htree directory is missing '.' or '..' but is
otherwise a valid directory, and we do a lookup for '.' or '..', it's
possible to dereference an uninitialized memory pointer in
ext4_htree_next_block().
We avoid this by moving the special case from ext4_dx_find_entry() to
ext4_find_entry(); this also means we can optimize ext4_find_entry()
slightly when NFS looks up "..".
Thanks to Brad Spengler for pointing a Clang warning that led me to
look more closely at this code. The warning was harmless, but it was
useful in pointing out code that was too ugly to live. This warning was
also reported by Roman Borisov.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Not that these take up a lot of room, but the structure is long enough
as it is, and there's no need to confuse people with these various
undocumented & unused structure members...
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redaht.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
By queuing the io end on the unwritten workqueue before adding it
to our inode's list of completed IOs, I think we run the risk
of the work getting completed, and the IO freed, before we try
to add it to the inode's i_completed_io_list.
It should be safe to add it to the inode's list of completed
IOs, and -then- queue it for completion, I think.
Thanks to Dave Chinner for pointing out the race.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Many tracepoints were populating an ext4_allocation_context
to pass in, but this requires a slab allocation even when
tracepoints are off. In fact, 4 of 5 of these allocations
were only for tracing. In addition, we were only using a
small fraction of the 144 bytes of this structure for this
purpose.
We can do away with all these alloc/frees of the ac and
simply pass in the bits we care about, instead.
I tested this by turning on tracing and running through
xfstests on x86_64. I did not actually do anything with
the trace output, however.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Our QA reported an oops in the ext4_mb_release_group_pa tracing,
and Josef Bacik pointed out that it was because we may have a
non-null but uninitialized ac_inode in the allocation context.
I can reproduce it when running xfstests with ext4 tracepoints on,
on a CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG kernel.
We call trace_ext4_mb_release_group_pa from 2 places,
ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations and
ext4_mb_discard_lg_preallocations
In both cases we allocate an ac as a container just for tracing (!)
and never fill in the ac_inode. There's no reason to be assigning,
testing, or printing it as far as I can see, so just remove it from
the tracepoint.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
On linux-2.6.36-rc2, if we execute the following script, we can hang
the system when the /bin/sync command is executed:
========================================================================
#!/bin/sh
echo -n "HANG UP TEST: "
/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/img bs=1k count=1 seek=1M 2> /dev/null
/sbin/mkfs.ext4 -Fq /tmp/img
/bin/mount -o loop -t ext4 /tmp/img /mnt
/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file bs=1 count=1 \
seek=$((16*1024*1024*1024*1024-4096)) 2> /dev/null
/bin/sync
/bin/umount /mnt
echo "DONE"
exit 0
========================================================================
We can see the following backtrace if we get the kdump when this
hangup occurs:
======================================================================
kthread()
=> bdi_writeback_thread()
=> wb_do_writeback()
=> wb_writeback()
=> writeback_inodes_wb()
=> writeback_sb_inodes()
=> writeback_single_inode()
=> ext4_da_writepages() ---+
^ infinite |
| loop |
+-------------+
======================================================================
The reason why this hangup happens is described as follows:
1) We write the last extent block of the file whose size is the filesystem
maximum size.
2) "BH_Delay" flag is set on the buffer_head of its block.
3) - the member, "m_lblk" of struct mpage_da_data is 4294967295 (UINT_MAX)
- the member, "m_len" of struct mpage_da_data is 1
mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs() which is called via ext4_da_writepages()
cannot clear "BH_Delay" flag of the buffer_head because the type of
m_lblk is ext4_lblk_t and then m_lblk + m_len is overflow.
Therefore an infinite loop occurs because ext4_da_writepages()
cannot write the page (which corresponds to the block) since
"BH_Delay" flag isn't cleared.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
static void mpage_put_bnr_to_bhs(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
struct ext4_map_blocks *map)
{
...
int blocks = map->m_len;
...
do {
// cur_logical = 4294967295
// map->m_lblk = 4294967295
// blocks = 1
// *** map->m_lblk + blocks == 0 (OVERFLOW!) ***
// (cur_logical >= map->m_lblk + blocks) => true
if (cur_logical >= map->m_lblk + blocks)
break;
----------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE: Mounting with the nodelalloc option will avoid this codepath,
and thus, avoid this hang
Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The llseek system call should return EINVAL if passed a seek offset
which results in a write error. What this maximum offset should be
depends on whether or not the huge_file file system feature is set,
and whether or not the file is extent based or not.
If the file has no "EXT4_EXTENTS_FL" flag, the maximum size which can be
written (write systemcall) is different from the maximum size which can be
sought (lseek systemcall).
For example, the following 2 cases demonstrates the differences
between the maximum size which can be written, versus the seek offset
allowed by the llseek system call:
#1: mkfs.ext3 <dev>; mount -t ext4 <dev>
#2: mkfs.ext3 <dev>; tune2fs -Oextent,huge_file <dev>; mount -t ext4 <dev>
Table. the max file size which we can write or seek
at each filesystem feature tuning and file flag setting
+============+===============================+===============================+
| \ File flag| | |
| \ | !EXT4_EXTENTS_FL | EXT4_EXTETNS_FL |
|case \| | |
+------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| #1 | write: 2194719883264 | write: -------------- |
| | seek: 2199023251456 | seek: -------------- |
+------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| #2 | write: 4402345721856 | write: 17592186044415 |
| | seek: 17592186044415 | seek: 17592186044415 |
+------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
The differences exist because ext4 has 2 maxbytes which are sb->s_maxbytes
(= extent-mapped maxbytes) and EXT4_SB(sb)->s_bitmap_maxbytes (= block-mapped
maxbytes). Although generic_file_llseek uses only extent-mapped maxbytes.
(llseek of ext4_file_operations is generic_file_llseek which uses
sb->s_maxbytes.)
Therefore we create ext4 llseek function which uses 2 maxbytes.
The new own function originates from generic_file_llseek().
If the file flag, "EXT4_EXTENTS_FL" is not set, the function alters
inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes into EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_bitmap_maxbytes.
Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
An ext4 filesystem on a read-only device, with an external journal
which is at a different device number then recorded in the superblock
will fail to honor the read-only setting of the device and trigger
a superblock update (write).
For example:
- ext4 on a software raid which is in read-only mode
- external journal on a read-write device which has changed device num
- attempt to mount with -o journal_dev=<new_number>
- hits BUG_ON(mddev->ro = 1) in md.c
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Change ext4_ext_zeroout to use sb_issue_zeroout instead of its
own approach to zero out extents.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Use sb_issue_zeroout to zero out inode table and descriptor table
blocks instead of old approach which involves journaling.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
User-space should have the opportunity to check what features doest ext4
support in each particular copy. This adds easy interface by creating new
"features" directory in sys/fs/ext4/. In that directory files
advertising feature names can be created.
Add lazy_itable_init to the feature list.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it
considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are
not zeroed out. The fact that parts of the inode table are
uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors,
which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has
been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group
checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and
the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to
report false problems.
Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon
as possble. This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely
use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting
file systems.
This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is
created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed. There
is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the
first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit
thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the
request list.
This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up
scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule
time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to
zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with
the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10). We are doing
this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no
longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate
structures and exits (and can be created later later by another
filesystem).
We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not
care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we
have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode
allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we
take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem
in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the
group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait.
This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This is done the same way as helper sb_issue_discard for
blkdev_issue_discard.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
