In memory-constrained systems with many partitions, the ~68K for each
partition for the mb_history buffer can be excessive.
This patch adds a new mount option, mb_history_length, as well as a
way of setting the default via a module parameter (or via a sysfs
parameter in /sys/module/ext4/parameter/default_mb_history_length).
If the mb_history_length is set to zero, the mb_history facility is
disabled entirely.
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The fs/ext4/namei.h header file had only a single function
declaration, and should have never been a standalone file. Move it
into ext4.h, where should have been from the beginning.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There is no longer a reason for a separate ext4_sb.h header file, so
move it into ext4.h just to make life easier for developers to find
the relevant data structures and typedefs. Should also speed up
compiles slightly, too.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There is no longer a reason for a separate ext4_i.h header file, so
move it into ext4.h just to make life easier for developers to find
the relevant data structures and typedefs. Should also speed up
compiles slightly, too.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
By avoiding the use of not-yet-used block groups (i.e., block groups
with the BLOCK_UNINIT flag), mballoc had a tendency to create large
files with large non-contiguous gaps. In addition avoiding the use of
new block groups had a tendency to push regular file data into the
first block group in a flex_bg group, which slows down the speed of
e2fsck pass 2, since it has a tendency to seek much more. For
example:
Before Patch After Patch
Time in seconds Time in seconds
Real / User/ Sys MB/s Real / User/ Sys MB/s
Pass 1 8.52 / 2.21 / 0.46 20.43 8.84 / 4.97 / 1.11 19.68
Pass 2 21.16 / 1.02 / 1.86 11.30 6.54 / 1.77 / 1.78 36.39
Pass 3 0.01 / 0.00 / 0.00 139.00 0.01 / 0.01 / 0.00 128.90
Pass 4 0.16 / 0.15 / 0.00 0.00 0.17 / 0.17 / 0.00 0.00
Pass 5 2.52 / 1.99 / 0.09 0.79 2.31 / 1.78 / 0.06 0.86
Total 32.40 / 5.11 / 2.49 12.81 17.99 / 8.75 / 2.98 23.01
This was on a sample 80 gig root filesystem which was approximately
50% full. Note the improved e2fsck pass 2 performance, by over a
factor of 3, due to a decreased number of seeks. (The total amount of
I/O in pass 2 was unchanged; the layout of the directory blocks was
simply much better from e2fsck's's perspective.)
Other changes as a result of this patch on this sample filesystem:
Before Patch After Patch
# of non-contig files 762 779
# of non-contig directories 571 570
# of BLOCK_UNINIT bg's 307 293
# of INODE_UNINIT bg's 503 503
Out of 640 block groups, of which 333 were in use, this patch caused
an extra 14 block groups to be utilized. The number of non-contiguous
files did go up slightly, but when measured against the 99.9% of the
files (603,154) which were contiguously allocated, this is pretty
insignificant.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
If a filesystem supports POSIX ACL's, the VFS layer expects the filesystem
to do POSIX ACL checks on any files not owned by the caller, and it does
this for every single pathname component that it looks up.
That obviously can be pretty expensive if the filesystem isn't careful
about it, especially with locking. That's doubly sad, since the common
case tends to be that there are no ACL's associated with the files in
question.
ext4 already caches the ACL data so that it doesn't have to look it up
over and over again, but it does so by taking the inode->i_lock spinlock
on every lookup. Which is a noticeable overhead even if it's a private
lock, especially on CPU's where the serialization is expensive (eg Intel
Netburst aka 'P4').
For the special case of not actually having any ACL's, all that locking is
unnecessary. Even if somebody else were to be changing the ACL's on
another CPU, we simply don't care - if we've seen a NULL ACL, we might as
well use it.
So just load the ACL speculatively without any locking, and if it was
NULL, just use it. If it's non-NULL (either because we had a cached
entry, or because the cache hasn't been filled in at all), it means that
we'll need to get the lock and re-load it properly.
(This commit was ported from a patch originally authored by Linus for
ext3.)
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Use a separate lock to protect s_groups_count and the other block
group descriptors which get changed via an on-line resize operation,
so we can stop overloading the use of lock_super().
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The function ext4_mark_recovery_complete() is called from two call
paths: either (a) while mounting the filesystem, in which case there's
no danger of any other CPU calling write_super() until the mount is
completed, and (b) while remounting the filesystem read-write, in
which case the fs core has already locked the superblock. This also
allows us to take out a very vile unlock_super()/lock_super() pair in
ext4_remount().
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_fill_super() is no longer called by read_super(), and it is no
longer called with the superblock locked. The
unlock_super()/lock_super() is no longer present, so this comment is
entirely superfluous.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Ext4's on-line resizing adds a new block group and then, only at the
last step adjusts s_groups_count. However, it's possible on SMP
systems that another CPU could see the updated the s_group_count and
not see the newly initialized data structures for the just-added block
group. For this reason, it's important to insert a SMP read barrier
after reading s_groups_count and before reading any (for example) the
new block group descriptors allowed by the increased value of
s_groups_count.
Unfortunately, we rather blatently violate this locking protocol
documented in fs/ext4/resize.c. Fortunately, (1) on-line resizes
happen relatively rarely, and (2) it seems rare that the filesystem
code will immediately try to use just-added block group before any
memory ordering issues resolve themselves. So apparently problems
here are relatively hard to hit, since ext3 has been vulnerable to the
same issue for years with no one apparently complaining.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
By using a separate super_operations structure for filesystems that
have and don't have journals, we can simply ext4_write_super() ---
which is only needed when no journal is present --- and ext4_freeze(),
ext4_unfreeze(), and ext4_sync_fs(), which are only needed when the
journal is present.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The s_dirt flag wasn't completely handled correctly, but it didn't
really matter when journalling was enabled. It turns out that when
ext4 runs without a journal, we don't clear s_dirt in places where we
should have, with the result that the high-level write_super()
function was writing the superblock when it wasn't necessary.
So we fix this by making ext4_commit_super() clear the s_dirt flag,
and removing many of the other places where s_dirt is manipulated.
When journalling is enabled, the s_dirt flag might be left set more
often, but s_dirt really doesn't matter when journalling is enabled.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The ext4_commit_super() function took both a struct super_block * and
a struct ext4_super_block *, but the struct ext4_super_block can be
derived from the struct super_block.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
For very large filesystems, the s_flex_groups array can get quite big.
For example, a filesystem that can be resized up to 16TB will have
8192 flex groups (assuming the default flex_bg size of 16), so the
array is 96k, which is *very* marginal for kmalloc(). On the other
hand, a 160GB filesystem without the resize_inode feature will only
require 960 bytes. So we try to allocate the array first using
kmalloc(), and if that fails, we'll try to use vmalloc() instead.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Setting BH_Unwritten buffer_heads as BH_Mapped avoids multiple
(unnecessary) calls to get_block() during the call to the write(2)
system call. Setting BH_Unwritten buffer heads as BH_Mapped requires
that the writepages() functions can handle BH_Unwritten buffer_heads.
After this commit, things work as follows:
ext4_ext_get_block() returns unmapped, unwritten, buffer head when
called with create = 0 for prealloc space. This makes sure we handle
the read path and non-delayed allocation case correctly. Even though
the buffer head is marked unmapped we have valid b_blocknr and b_bdev
values in the buffer_head.
ext4_da_get_block_prep() called for block resrevation will now return
mapped, unwritten, new buffer_head for prealloc space. This avoids
multiple calls to get_block() for write to same offset. By making such
buffers as BH_New, we also assure that sub-block zeroing of buffered
writes happens correctly.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
These struct buffer_heads are allocated on the stack (and hence are
initialized with stack garbage). They are only used to call a
get_blocks() function, so that's mostly OK, but b_state must be
initialized to be 0 so we don't have any unexpected BH_* flags set by
accident, such as BH_Unwritten or BH_Delay.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The EXTENTS_FL flag should never be set on special files, but if it
is, don't bother trying to validate that the extents tree is valid,
since only files, directories, and non-fast symlinks will ever have an
extent data structure. We perhaps should flag the filesystem as being
corrupted if we see a special file (named pipes, device nodes, Unix
domain sockets, etc.) with the EXTENTS_FL flag, but e2fsck doesn't
currently check this case, so we'll just ignore this for now, since
it's harmless.
Without this fix, a special device with the extents flag is flagged as
an error by the kernel, so it is impossible to access or delete the
inode, but e2fsck doesn't see it as a problem, leading to
confused/frustrated users.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Don't try to look at i_file_acl_high unless the INCOMPAT_64BIT feature
bit is set. The field is normally zero, but older versions of e2fsck
didn't automatically check to make sure of this, so in the spirit of
"be liberal in what you accept", don't look at i_file_acl_high unless
we are using a 64-bit filesystem.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If the block containing external extended attributes (which is stored
in i_file_acl and i_file_acl_high) is larger than the on-disk
filesystem, the process which tried to access the extended attributes
will endlessly issue kernel printks complaining that
"__find_get_block_slow() failed", locking up that CPU until the system
is forcibly rebooted.
So when we read in the inode, make sure the i_file_acl value is legal,
and if not, flag the filesystem as being corrupted.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: Fix potential inode allocation soft lockup in Orlov allocator
ext4: Make the extent validity check more paranoid
jbd: use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG when writing synchronous revoke records
jbd2: use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG when writing synchronous revoke records
ext4: really print the find_group_flex fallback warning only once
Instead of just checking that the extent block number is greater or
equal than s_first_data_block, make sure it it is not pointing into
the block group descriptors, since that is clearly wrong. This helps
prevent filesystem from getting very badly corrupted in case an extent
block is corrupted.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Missing braces caused the warning to print more than once.
Signed-Off-By: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Commit fe2c8191 introduced a regression on big-endian system, because
the checks to make sure block references in non-extent inodes are
valid failed to use le32_to_cpu().
Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de>
Tested-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
trivial: Update my email address
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c
Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f
Trim includes of fdtable.h
Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som
Trim includes in binfmt_elf
Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary()
Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h
New helper - current_umask()
check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing
New locking/refcounting for fs_struct
Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c)
Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2)
Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (33 commits)
ext4: Regularize mount options
ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs
ext4: fix typo which causes a memory leak on error path
jbd2: Update locking coments
ext4: Rename pa_linear to pa_type
ext4: add checks of block references for non-extent inodes
ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from disk
ext4: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()
ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount option
ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()
ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups
ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs
ext4: Add sysfs support
ext4: Track lifetime disk writes
ext4: Fix discard of inode prealloc space with delayed allocation.
ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on rename
ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on close
ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctl
ext4: Simplify delalloc code by removing mpage_da_writepages()
ext4: Save stack space by removing fake buffer heads
...
Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return
VM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change.
This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to
the VM (and also can provide more information eg. virtual_address to the
driver, which might be important in some special cases).
This is required for a subsequent fix. And will also make it easier to
merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for using the mount options "barrier" and "nobarrier", and
"auto_da_alloc" and "noauto_da_alloc", which is more consistent than
"barrier=<0|1>" or "auto_da_alloc=<0|1>". Most other ext3/ext4 mount
options use the foo/nofoo naming convention. We allow the old forms
of these mount options for backwards compatibility.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Impact: code cleanup
This patch rename pa_linear to pa_type and add MB_INODE_PA
and MB_GROUP_PA to indicate inode and group prealloc space.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Check block references in the inode and indorect blocks for non-extent
inodes to make sure they are valid, and flag an error if they are
invalid.
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Use lowercase names of quota functions instead of old uppercase ones.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Uses quota reservation/claim/release to handle quota properly for delayed
allocation in the three steps: 1) quotas are reserved when data being copied
to cache when block allocation is defered 2) when new blocks are allocated.
reserved quotas are converted to the real allocated quota, 2) over-booked
quotas for metadata blocks are released back.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
This is for Red Hat bug 490026: EXT4 panic, list corruption in
ext4_mb_new_inode_pa
ext4_lock_group(sb, group) is supposed to protect this list for
each group, and a common code flow to remove an album is like
this:
ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(sb, pa->pa_pstart, &grp, NULL);
ext4_lock_group(sb, grp);
list_del(&pa->pa_group_list);
ext4_unlock_group(sb, grp);
so it's critical that we get the right group number back for
this prealloc context, to lock the right group (the one
associated with this pa) and prevent concurrent list manipulation.
however, ext4_mb_put_pa() passes in (pa->pa_pstart - 1) with a
comment, "-1 is to protect from crossing allocation group".
This makes sense for the group_pa, where pa_pstart is advanced
by the length which has been used (in ext4_mb_release_context()),
and when the entire length has been used, pa_pstart has been
advanced to the first block of the next group.
However, for inode_pa, pa_pstart is never advanced; it's just
set once to the first block in the group and not moved after
that. So in this case, if we subtract one in ext4_mb_put_pa(),
we are actually locking the *previous* group, and opening the
race with the other threads which do not subtract off the extra
block.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add a mount option which allows the user to disable automatic
allocation of blocks whose allocation by delayed allocation when the
file was originally truncated or when the file is renamed over an
existing file. This feature is intended to save users from the
effects of naive application writers, but it reduces the effectiveness
of the delayed allocation code. This mount option disables this
safety feature, which may be desirable for prodcutions systems where
the risk of unclean shutdowns or unexpected system crashes is low.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Thiemo Nagel reported that:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=image.ext4 bs=1M count=2
# mkfs.ext4 -v -F -b 1024 -m 0 -g 512 -G 4 -I 128 -N 1 \
-O large_file,dir_index,flex_bg,extent,sparse_super image.ext4
# mount -o loop image.ext4 mnt/
# dd if=/dev/zero of=mnt/file
oopsed, with a BUG_ON in ext4_mb_normalize_request because
size == EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP
It appears to me (esp. after talking to Andreas) that the BUG_ON
is bogus; a request of exactly EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP should
be allowed, though larger sizes do indicate a problem.
Fix that an another (apparently rare) codepath with a similar check.
Reported-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This is a short-term warning, and even printk_ratelimit() can result
in too much noise in system logs. So only print it once as a warning.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The ext4_ext_search_right() function is confusing; it uses a
"depth" variable which is 0 at the root and maximum at the leaves,
but the on-disk metadata uses a "depth" (actually eh_depth) which
is opposite: maximum at the root, and 0 at the leaves.
The ext4_ext_check_header() function is given a depth and checks
the header agaisnt that depth; it expects the on-disk semantics,
but we are giving it the opposite in the while loop in this
function. We should be giving it the on-disk notion of "depth"
which we can get from (p_depth - depth) - and if you look, the last
(more commonly hit) call to ext4_ext_check_header() does just this.
Sending in the wrong depth results in (incorrect) messages
about corruption:
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_ext_search_right: bad header
in inode #2621457: unexpected eh_depth - magic f30a, entries 340,
max 340(0), depth 1(2)
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12821
Reported-by: David Dindorp <ddi@dubex.dk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Instead of looping over all of the block groups in a flex group
summing their summary statistics, start tracking used_dirs in struct
flex_groups, and use struct flex_groups instead. This should save a
bit of CPU for mkdir-heavy workloads.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reduce pressure on the sb_bgl_lock family of locks by using atomic_t's
to track the number of free blocks and inodes in each flex_group.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Remove tuning knobs in /proc/fs/ext4/<dev/* since they have been
replaced by knobs in sysfs at /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add basic sysfs support so that information about the mounted
filesystem and various tuning parameters can be accessed via
/sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
I was seeing fsck errors on inode bitmaps after a 4 thread
dbench run on a 4 cpu machine:
Inode bitmap differences: -50736 -(50752--50753) etc...
I believe that this is because ext4_free_inode() uses atomic
bitops, and although ext4_new_inode() *used* to also use atomic
bitops for synchronization, commit
393418676a changed this to use
the sb_bgl_lock, so that we could also synchronize against
read_inode_bitmap and initialization of uninit inode tables.
However, that change left ext4_free_inode using atomic bitops,
which I think leaves no synchronization between setting &
unsetting bits in the inode table.
The below patch fixes it for me, although I wonder if we're
getting at all heavy-handed with this spinlock...
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add a new superblock value which tracks the lifetime amount of writes
to the filesystem. This is useful in estimating the amount of wear on
solid state drives (SSD's) caused by writes to the filesystem.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
With delayed allocation we should not/cannot discard inode prealloc
space during file close. We would still have dirty pages for which we
haven't allocated blocks yet. With this fix after each get_blocks
request we check whether we have zero reserved blocks and if yes and
we don't have any writers on the file we discard inode prealloc space.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Running without a journal, I oopsed when I ran out of space,
because we called jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested() from
ext4_should_retry_alloc() without a journal.
This should take care of it, I think.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Commit c4be0c1d added error checking to ext4_freeze() when calling
ext4_commit_super(). Unfortunately the patch failed to remove the
original call to ext4_commit_super(), with the net result that when
freezing the filesystem, the superblock gets written twice, the first
time without error checking.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When renaming a file such that a link to another inode is overwritten,
force any delay allocated blocks that to be allocated so that if the
filesystem is mounted with data=ordered, the data blocks will be
pushed out to disk along with the journal commit. Many application
programs expect this, so we do this to avoid zero length files if the
system crashes unexpectedly.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When closing a file that had been previously truncated, force any
delay allocated blocks that to be allocated so that if the filesystem
is mounted with data=ordered, the data blocks will be pushed out to
disk along with the journal commit. Many application programs expect
this, so we do this to avoid zero length files if the system crashes
unexpectedly.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add an ioctl which forces all of the delay allocated blocks to be
allocated. This also provides a function ext4_alloc_da_blocks() which
will be used by the following commits to force files to be fully
allocated to preserve application-expected ext3 behaviour.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The mpage_da_writepages() function is only used in one place, so
inline it to simplify the call stack and make the code easier to
understand.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Struct mpage_da_data and mpage_add_bh_to_extent() use a fake struct
buffer_head which is 104 bytes on an x86_64 system, but only use 24
bytes of the structure. On systems that use a spinlock for atomic_t,
the stack savings will be even greater.
It turns out that using a fake struct buffer_head doesn't even save
that much code, and it makes the code more confusing since it's not
used as a "real" buffer head. So just store pass b_size and b_state
in mpage_add_bh_to_extent(), and store b_size, b_state, and b_block_nr
in the mpage_da_data structure.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Make sure we validate extent details only when read from the disk.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch adds checks to validate the extent entries along with extent
headers, to avoid crashes caused by corrupt filesystems.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to
report errors to NFS properly. However, in ext4_lookup(), this
-ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted
such that a directory entry references a deleted inode. This leads to
a misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion
on the part of the admin.
The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making
a link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting
to ls -l said link.
This patch thus changes ext4_lookup to return -EIO if it receives
-ESTALE from ext4_iget(), as ext4 does for other filesystem metadata
corruption; and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when
this case is detected.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The find_group_flex() inode allocator is now only used if the
filesystem is mounted using the "oldalloc" mount option. It is
replaced with the original Orlov allocator that has been updated for
flex_bg filesystems (it should behave the same way if flex_bg is
disabled). The inode allocator now functions by taking into account
each flex_bg group, instead of each block group, when deciding whether
or not it's time to allocate a new directory into a fresh flex_bg.
The block allocator has also been changed so that the first block
group in each flex_bg is preferred for use for storing directory
blocks. This keeps directory blocks close together, which is good for
speeding up e2fsck since large directories are more likely to look
like this:
debugfs: stat /home/tytso/Maildir/cur
Inode: 1844562 Type: directory Mode: 0700 Flags: 0x81000
Generation: 1132745781 Version: 0x00000000:0000ad71
User: 15806 Group: 15806 Size: 1060864
File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0
Links: 2 Blockcount: 2072
Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0
ctime: 0x499c0ff4:164961f4 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
atime: 0x499c0ff4:00000000 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
mtime: 0x49957f51:00000000 -- Fri Feb 13 09:10:25 2009
crtime: 0x499c0f57:00d51440 -- Wed Feb 18 08:38:31 2009
Size of extra inode fields: 28
BLOCKS:
(0):7348651, (1-258):7348654-7348911
TOTAL: 259
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Functions ext4_write_begin() and ext4_da_write_begin() call
grab_cache_page_write_begin() without AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Thus it
can happen that page reclaim is triggered in that function
and it recurses back into the filesystem (or some other filesystem).
But this can lead to various problems as a transaction is already
started at that point. Add the necessary flag.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11688
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This is a workaround for find_group_flex() which badly needs to be
replaced. One of its problems (besides ignoring the Orlov algorithm)
is that it is a bit hyperactive about returning failure under
suspicious circumstances. This can lead to spurious ENOSPC failures
even when there are inodes still available.
Work around this for now by retrying the search using
find_group_other() if find_group_flex() returns -1. If
find_group_other() succeeds when find_group_flex() has failed, log a
warning message.
A better block/inode allocator that will fix this problem for real has
been queued up for the next merge window.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This was found through a code checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/).
It looks like you might be able to trigger the error by trying to migrate
a readonly file system.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on
which inodes. Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and
IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links. Tighten that to disallow
TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set
on non-regular file, non-directories.
Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and
use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to
facilitate future consistency.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
At present INDEX and EXTENTS are the only flags that new ext4 inodes do
NOT inherit from their parent. In addition prevent the flags DIRTY,
ECOMPR, IMAGIC, TOPDIR, HUGE_FILE and EXT_MIGRATE from being inherited.
List inheritable flags explicitly to prevent future flags from
accidentally being inherited.
This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
As spotted by kmemtrace, struct ext4_sb_info is 17664 bytes on 64-bit
which makes it a very bad fit for SLAB allocators. The culprit of the
wasted memory is ->s_blockgroup_lock which can be as big as 16 KB when
NR_CPUS >= 32.
To fix that, allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock, which fits nicely in a order 2
page in the worst case, separately. This shinks down struct ext4_sb_info
enough to fit a 2 KB slab cache so now we allocate 16 KB + 2 KB instead of
32 KB saving 14 KB of memory.
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The rec_len field in the directory entry is 16 bits, so to encode
blocksizes larger than 64k becomes problematic. This patch allows us
to supprot block sizes up to 256k, by using the low 2 bits to extend
the range of rec_len to 2**18-1 (since valid rec_len sizes must be a
multiple of 4). We use the convention that a rec_len of 0 or 65535
means the filesystem block size, for compatibility with older kernels.
It's unlikely we'll see VM pages of up to 256k, but at some point we
might find that the Linux VM has been enhanced to support filesystem
block sizes > than the VM page size, at which point it might be useful
for some applications to allow very large filesystem block sizes.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
With delayed allocation we lock the page in write_cache_pages() and
try to build an in memory extent of contiguous blocks. This is needed
so that we can get large contiguous blocks request. If range_cyclic
mode is enabled, write_cache_pages() will loop back to the 0 index if
no I/O has been done yet, and try to start writing from the beginning
of the range. That causes an attempt to take the page lock of lower
index page while holding the page lock of higher index page, which can
cause a dead lock with another writeback thread.
The solution is to implement the range_cyclic behavior in
ext4_da_writepages() instead.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12579
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When creating a new ext4_prealloc_space structure, we have to
initialize its list_head pointers before we add them to any prealloc
lists. Otherwise, with list debug enabled, we will get list
corruption warnings.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The rec_len field in the directory entry is 16 bits, so there was a
problem representing rec_len for filesystems with a 64k block size in
the case where the directory entry takes the entire 64k block.
Unfortunately, there were two schemes that were proposed; one where
all zeros meant 65536 and one where all ones (65535) meant 65536.
E2fsprogs used 0, whereas the kernel used 65535. Oops. Fortunately
this case happens extremely rarely, with the most common case being
the lost+found directory, created by mke2fs.
So we will be liberal in what we accept, and accept both encodings,
but we will continue to encode 65536 as 65535. This will require a
change in e2fsprogs, but with fortunately ext4 filesystems normally
have the dir_index feature enabled, which precludes having a
completely empty directory block.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If we race with commit code setting i_transaction to NULL, we could
possibly dereference it. Proper locking requires the journal pointer
(to access journal->j_list_lock), which we don't have. So we have to
change the prototype of the function so that filesystem passes us the
journal pointer. Also add a more detailed comment about why the
function jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() does what it does and
how it should be used.
Thanks to Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> for pointing to the
suspitious code.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: mfasheh@suse.de
CC: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
This undoes commit 14ce0cb411.
Since jbd2_journal_start_commit() is now fixed to return 1 when we
started a transaction commit, there's some transaction waiting to be
committed or there's a transaction already committing, we don't
need to call ext4_force_commit() in ext4_sync_fs(). Furthermore
ext4_force_commit() can unnecessarily create sync transaction which is
expensive so it's worthwhile to remove it when we can.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12224
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
The static function ext4_group_used_meta_blocks() only has one caller,
who already has access to the block group's group descriptor. So it's
better to have ext4_init_block_bitmap() pass the group descriptor to
ext4_group_used_meta_blocks(), so it doesn't need to call
ext4_group_desc(). Previously this function did not check if
ext4_group_desc() returned NULL due to an error, potentially causing a
kernel OOPS report. This avoids the issue entirely.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Remove some leftovers from when the old block allocator was removed
(c2ea3fde). ext4_sb_info is now a bit lighter. Also remove a dangling
read_block_bitmap() prototype.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The code to support journal-less ext4 operation added a BUG to
ext4_bmap() which fired if there was no journal and the
EXT4_STATE_JDATA bit was set in the i_state field. This caused
running the filefrag program (which uses the FIMBAP ioctl) to trigger
a BUG().
The EXT4_STATE_JDATA bit is only used for ext4_bmap(), and it's
harmless for the bit to be set. We could add a check in
__ext4_journalled_writepage() and ext4_journalled_write_end() to only
set the EXT4_STATE_JDATA bit if the journal is present, but that adds
an extra test and jump instruction. It's easier to simply remove the
BUG check.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12568
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
When bg_free_blocks_count was renamed to bg_free_blocks_count_lo in
560671a0, its uses under EXT4FS_DEBUG were not changed to the helper
ext4_free_blks_count.
Another commit, 498e5f24, also did not change everything needed under
EXT4FS_DEBUG, thus making it spill some warnings related to printing
format.
This commit fixes both issues and makes ext4 build again when
EXT4FS_DEBUG is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Make sure all of the fields of the group descriptor are properly
initialized. Previously, we allowed bg_flags field to be contain
random garbage, which could trigger non-deterministic behavior,
including a kernel OOPS.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12433
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
When trying to unlink a file with indirect blocks on a filesystem
without a journal, the "circular indirect block" sanity test was
getting falsely triggered.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Make sure the rec_len field in the '..' entry is sane, lest we overrun
the directory block and cause a kernel oops on a purposefully
corrupted filesystem.
Thanks to Sami Liedes for reporting this bug.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12430
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Directories are not allowed to be bigger than 2GB, so don't use
i_size_high for anything other than regular files. E2fsck should
complain about these inodes, but the simplest thing to do for the
kernel is to only use i_size_high for regular files.
This prevents an intentially corrupted filesystem from causing the
kernel to burn a huge amount of CPU and issuing error messages such
as:
EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_block_to_path: block 135090028 > max
Thanks to David Maciejak from Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
Research Team for reporting this issue.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12375
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which
suspends write requests. So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the
filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and
replication) while it is mounted.
In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g. VxFS) has the freeze feature
and it would be used to get the consistent backup.
If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it
without a commercial filesystem.
So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature.
I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps.
1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl.
2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot
with the storage device's feature.
3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl.
4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume
or the snapshot.
This patch:
VFS:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that they can return an error.
Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation
freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion.
ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed,
and unlockfs always returns 0.
reiserfs:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com>
Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits)
jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs
ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "
ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC
jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message
ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems
ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache
ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
ext4: code cleanup
...
When I review ocfs2 code, find there are 2 typos to "successfull". After
doing grep "successfull " in kernel tree, 22 typos found totally -- great
minds always think alike :)
This patch fixes all the similar typos. Thanks for Randy's ack and comments.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For NR_CPUS >= 16 values, FBC_BATCH is 2*NR_CPUS
Considering more and more distros are using high NR_CPUS values, it makes
sense to use a more sensible value for FBC_BATCH, and get rid of NR_CPUS.
A sensible value is 2*num_online_cpus(), with a minimum value of 32 (This
minimum value helps branch prediction in __percpu_counter_add())
We already have a hotcpu notifier, so we can adjust FBC_BATCH dynamically.
We rename FBC_BATCH to percpu_counter_batch since its not a constant
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was
implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents
feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to
create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag
was not eabled. The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option
entirely. It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new
extent-based files if the filesystem can support it.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Previously, some were "ext4: ", and some were "EXT4: "; change them to
be consistent with most ext4 printk's, which is to use "EXT4-fs: ".
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This avoids insane superblock configurations that could lead to kernel
oops due to null pointer derefences.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12371
Thanks to David Maciejak at Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
Research Team who discovered this bug independently (but at
approximately the same time) as Thiemo Nagel, who submitted the patch.
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
