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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T18:26:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-08-10T18:26:52+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining -&gt;clear_inode() to -&gt;evict_inode()
  Make -&gt;drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining -&gt;clear_inode() to -&gt;evict_inode()
  Make -&gt;drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
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<entry>
<title>mbcache: Remove unused features</title>
<updated>2010-08-09T20:48:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruen@suse.de</email>
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<published>2010-07-19T16:19:41+00:00</published>
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The mbcache code was written to support a variable number of indexes,
but all the existing users use exactly one index.  Simplify to code to
support only that case.

There are also no users of the cache entry free operation, and none of
the users keep extra data in cache entries.  Remove those features as
well.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruen@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The mbcache code was written to support a variable number of indexes,
but all the existing users use exactly one index.  Simplify to code to
support only that case.

There are also no users of the cache entry free operation, and none of
the users keep extra data in cache entries.  Remove those features as
well.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruen@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>convert ext4 to -&gt;evict_inode()</title>
<updated>2010-08-09T20:48:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2010-06-07T17:16:22+00:00</published>
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pretty much brute-force...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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pretty much brute-force...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>remove inode_setattr</title>
<updated>2010-08-09T20:47:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-04T09:30:02+00:00</published>
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Replace inode_setattr with opencoded variants of it in all callers.  This
moves the remaining call to vmtruncate into the filesystem methods where it
can be replaced with the proper truncate sequence.

In a few cases it was obvious that we would never end up calling vmtruncate
so it was left out in the opencoded variant:

 spufs: explicitly checks for ATTR_SIZE earlier
 btrfs,hugetlbfs,logfs,dlmfs: explicitly clears ATTR_SIZE earlier
 ufs: contains an opencoded simple_seattr + truncate that sets the filesize just above

In addition to that ncpfs called inode_setattr with handcrafted iattrs,
which allowed to trim down the opencoded variant.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Replace inode_setattr with opencoded variants of it in all callers.  This
moves the remaining call to vmtruncate into the filesystem methods where it
can be replaced with the proper truncate sequence.

In a few cases it was obvious that we would never end up calling vmtruncate
so it was left out in the opencoded variant:

 spufs: explicitly checks for ATTR_SIZE earlier
 btrfs,hugetlbfs,logfs,dlmfs: explicitly clears ATTR_SIZE earlier
 ufs: contains an opencoded simple_seattr + truncate that sets the filesize just above

In addition to that ncpfs called inode_setattr with handcrafted iattrs,
which allowed to trim down the opencoded variant.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>introduce __block_write_begin</title>
<updated>2010-08-09T20:47:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-04T09:29:57+00:00</published>
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Split up the block_write_begin implementation - __block_write_begin is a new
trivial wrapper for block_prepare_write that always takes an already
allocated page and can be either called from block_write_begin or filesystem
code that already has a page allocated.  Remove the handling of already
allocated pages from block_write_begin after switching all callers that
do it to __block_write_begin.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Split up the block_write_begin implementation - __block_write_begin is a new
trivial wrapper for block_prepare_write that always takes an already
allocated page and can be either called from block_write_begin or filesystem
code that already has a page allocated.  Remove the handling of already
allocated pages from block_write_begin after switching all callers that
do it to __block_write_begin.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sort out blockdev_direct_IO variants</title>
<updated>2010-08-09T20:47:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-04T09:29:53+00:00</published>
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Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in prepearation of the new truncate calling sequence.  This was only done
for DIO_LOCKING filesystems, so the __blockdev_direct_IO_newtrunc variant
was not needed anyway.  Get rid of blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking and
its _newtrunc variant while at it as just opencoding the two additional
paramters is shorted than the name suffix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in prepearation of the new truncate calling sequence.  This was only done
for DIO_LOCKING filesystems, so the __blockdev_direct_IO_newtrunc variant
was not needed anyway.  Get rid of blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking and
its _newtrunc variant while at it as just opencoding the two additional
paramters is shorted than the name suffix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2010-08-07T20:03:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-07T20:03:53+00:00</published>
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (40 commits)
  ext4: Adding error check after calling ext4_mb_regular_allocator()
  ext4: Fix dirtying of journalled buffers in data=journal mode
  ext4: re-inline ext4_rec_len_(to|from)_disk functions
  jbd2: Remove t_handle_lock from start_this_handle()
  jbd2: Change j_state_lock to be a rwlock_t
  jbd2: Use atomic variables to avoid taking t_handle_lock in jbd2_journal_stop
  ext4: Add mount options in superblock
  ext4: force block allocation on quota_off
  ext4: fix freeze deadlock under IO
  ext4: drop inode from orphan list if ext4_delete_inode() fails
  ext4: check to make make sure bd_dev is set before dereferencing it
  jbd2: Make barrier messages less scary
  ext4: don't print scary messages for allocation failures post-abort
  ext4: fix EFBIG edge case when writing to large non-extent file
  ext4: fix ext4_get_blocks references
  ext4: Always journal quota file modifications
  ext4: Fix potential memory leak in ext4_fill_super
  ext4: Don't error out the fs if the user tries to make a file too big
  ext4: allocate stripe-multiple IOs on stripe boundaries
  ext4: move aio completion after unwritten extent conversion
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/ext4/inode.c as per Ted.

Fix up xfs conflicts as per earlier xfs merge.
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (40 commits)
  ext4: Adding error check after calling ext4_mb_regular_allocator()
  ext4: Fix dirtying of journalled buffers in data=journal mode
  ext4: re-inline ext4_rec_len_(to|from)_disk functions
  jbd2: Remove t_handle_lock from start_this_handle()
  jbd2: Change j_state_lock to be a rwlock_t
  jbd2: Use atomic variables to avoid taking t_handle_lock in jbd2_journal_stop
  ext4: Add mount options in superblock
  ext4: force block allocation on quota_off
  ext4: fix freeze deadlock under IO
  ext4: drop inode from orphan list if ext4_delete_inode() fails
  ext4: check to make make sure bd_dev is set before dereferencing it
  jbd2: Make barrier messages less scary
  ext4: don't print scary messages for allocation failures post-abort
  ext4: fix EFBIG edge case when writing to large non-extent file
  ext4: fix ext4_get_blocks references
  ext4: Always journal quota file modifications
  ext4: Fix potential memory leak in ext4_fill_super
  ext4: Don't error out the fs if the user tries to make a file too big
  ext4: allocate stripe-multiple IOs on stripe boundaries
  ext4: move aio completion after unwritten extent conversion
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/ext4/inode.c as per Ted.

Fix up xfs conflicts as per earlier xfs merge.
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<title>ext4: Adding error check after calling ext4_mb_regular_allocator()</title>
<updated>2010-08-05T20:22:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aditya Kali</name>
<email>adityakali@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-05T20:22:24+00:00</published>
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If the bitmap block on disk is bad, ext4_mb_load_buddy() returns an
error. This error is returned to the caller,
ext4_mb_regular_allocator() and then to ext4_mb_new_blocks().  But
ext4_mb_new_blocks() did not check for the return value of
ext4_mb_regular_allocator() and would repeatedly try to load the
bitmap block. The fix simply catches the return value and exits out of
the 'repeat' loop after cleanup.

We also take the opportunity to clean up the error handling in
ext4_mb_new_blocks().

Google-Bug-Id: 2853530

Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali &lt;adityakali@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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If the bitmap block on disk is bad, ext4_mb_load_buddy() returns an
error. This error is returned to the caller,
ext4_mb_regular_allocator() and then to ext4_mb_new_blocks().  But
ext4_mb_new_blocks() did not check for the return value of
ext4_mb_regular_allocator() and would repeatedly try to load the
bitmap block. The fix simply catches the return value and exits out of
the 'repeat' loop after cleanup.

We also take the opportunity to clean up the error handling in
ext4_mb_new_blocks().

Google-Bug-Id: 2853530

Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali &lt;adityakali@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: Fix dirtying of journalled buffers in data=journal mode</title>
<updated>2010-08-05T18:41:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-05T18:41:42+00:00</published>
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In data=journal mode, we still use block_write_begin() to prepare
page for writing. This function can occasionally mark buffer dirty
which violates journalling assumptions - when a buffer is part of
a transaction, it should be dirty and a buffer can be already part
of a forget list of some transaction when block_write_begin()
gets called. This violation of journalling assumptions then results
in "JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer..." warnings.

In fact, temporary dirtying the buffer while the page is still locked
does not really cause problems to the journalling because we won't write
the buffer until the page gets unlocked. So we just have to make sure
to clear dirty bits before unlocking the page.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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In data=journal mode, we still use block_write_begin() to prepare
page for writing. This function can occasionally mark buffer dirty
which violates journalling assumptions - when a buffer is part of
a transaction, it should be dirty and a buffer can be already part
of a forget list of some transaction when block_write_begin()
gets called. This violation of journalling assumptions then results
in "JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer..." warnings.

In fact, temporary dirtying the buffer while the page is still locked
does not really cause problems to the journalling because we won't write
the buffer until the page gets unlocked. So we just have to make sure
to clear dirty bits before unlocking the page.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: re-inline ext4_rec_len_(to|from)_disk functions</title>
<updated>2010-08-05T05:46:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-05T05:46:37+00:00</published>
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commit 3d0518f4, "ext4: New rec_len encoding for very
large blocksizes" made several changes to this path, but from
a perf perspective, un-inlining ext4_rec_len_from_disk() seems
most significant.  This function is called from ext4_check_dir_entry(),
which on a file-creation workload is called extremely often.

I tested this with bonnie:

# bonnie++ -u root -s 0 -f -x 200 -d /mnt/test -n 32

(this does 200 iterations) and got this for the file creations:

ext4 stock:   Average =  21206.8 files/s
ext4 inlined: Average =  22346.7 files/s  (+5%)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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commit 3d0518f4, "ext4: New rec_len encoding for very
large blocksizes" made several changes to this path, but from
a perf perspective, un-inlining ext4_rec_len_from_disk() seems
most significant.  This function is called from ext4_check_dir_entry(),
which on a file-creation workload is called extremely often.

I tested this with bonnie:

# bonnie++ -u root -s 0 -f -x 200 -d /mnt/test -n 32

(this does 200 iterations) and got this for the file creations:

ext4 stock:   Average =  21206.8 files/s
ext4 inlined: Average =  22346.7 files/s  (+5%)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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