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* fs/buffer.c: clean up EXPORT* macrosH Hartley Sweeten2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | According to Documentation/CodingStyle the EXPORT* macro should follow immediately after the closing function brace line. Also, mark_buffer_async_write_endio() and do_thaw_all() are not used elsewhere so they should be marked as static. In addition, file_fsync() is actually in fs/sync.c so move the EXPORT* to that file. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing dataJens Axboe2009-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This gets rid of pdflush for bdi writeout and kupdated style cleaning. pdflush writeout suffers from lack of locality and also requires more threads to handle the same workload, since it has to work in a non-blocking fashion against each queue. This also introduces lumpy behaviour and potential request starvation, since pdflush can be starved for queue access if others are accessing it. A sample ffsb workload that does random writes to files is about 8% faster here on a simple SATA drive during the benchmark phase. File layout also seems a LOT more smooth in vmstat: r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 1 0 608848 2652 375372 0 0 0 71024 604 24 1 10 48 42 0 1 0 549644 2712 433736 0 0 0 60692 505 27 1 8 48 44 1 0 0 476928 2784 505192 0 0 4 29540 553 24 0 9 53 37 0 1 0 457972 2808 524008 0 0 0 54876 331 16 0 4 38 58 0 1 0 366128 2928 614284 0 0 4 92168 710 58 0 13 53 34 0 1 0 295092 3000 684140 0 0 0 62924 572 23 0 9 53 37 0 1 0 236592 3064 741704 0 0 4 58256 523 17 0 8 48 44 0 1 0 165608 3132 811464 0 0 0 57460 560 21 0 8 54 38 0 1 0 102952 3200 873164 0 0 4 74748 540 29 1 10 48 41 0 1 0 48604 3252 926472 0 0 0 53248 469 29 0 7 47 45 where vanilla tends to fluctuate a lot in the creation phase: r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 1 0 678716 5792 303380 0 0 0 74064 565 50 1 11 52 36 1 0 0 662488 5864 319396 0 0 4 352 302 329 0 2 47 51 0 1 0 599312 5924 381468 0 0 0 78164 516 55 0 9 51 40 0 1 0 519952 6008 459516 0 0 4 78156 622 56 1 11 52 37 1 1 0 436640 6092 541632 0 0 0 82244 622 54 0 11 48 41 0 1 0 436640 6092 541660 0 0 0 8 152 39 0 0 51 49 0 1 0 332224 6200 644252 0 0 4 102800 728 46 1 13 49 36 1 0 0 274492 6260 701056 0 0 4 12328 459 49 0 7 50 43 0 1 0 211220 6324 763356 0 0 0 106940 515 37 1 10 51 39 1 0 0 160412 6376 813468 0 0 0 8224 415 43 0 6 49 45 1 1 0 85980 6452 886556 0 0 4 113516 575 39 1 11 54 34 0 2 0 85968 6452 886620 0 0 0 1640 158 211 0 0 46 54 A 10 disk test with btrfs performs 26% faster with per-bdi flushing. A SSD based writeback test on XFS performs over 20% better as well, with the throughput being very stable around 1GB/sec, where pdflush only manages 750MB/sec and fluctuates wildly while doing so. Random buffered writes to many files behave a lot better as well, as does random mmap'ed writes. A separate thread is added to sync the super blocks. In the long term, adding sync_supers_bdi() functionality could get rid of this thread again. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Re-introduce page mapping check in mark_buffer_dirty()Linus Torvalds2009-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit a8e7d49aa7be728c4ae241a75a2a124cdcabc0c5 ("Fix race in create_empty_buffers() vs __set_page_dirty_buffers()"), I removed a test for a NULL page mapping unintentionally when some of the code inside __set_page_dirty() was moved to the callers. That removal generally didn't matter, since a filesystem would serialize truncation (which clears the page mapping) against writing (which marks the buffer dirty), so locking at a higher level (either per-page or an inode at a time) should mean that the buffer page would be stable. And indeed, nothing bad seemed to happen. Except it turns out that apparently reiserfs does something odd when under load and writing out the journal, and we have a number of bugzilla entries that look similar: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13556 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13756 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13876 and it looks like reiserfs depended on that check (the common theme seems to be "data=journal", and a journal writeback during a truncate). I suspect reiserfs should have some additional locking, but in the meantime this should get us back to the pre-2.6.29 behavior. Pattern-pointed-out-by: Roland Kletzing <devzero@web.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.29 and 2.6.30) Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2009-06-11
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits) block: add request clone interface (v2) floppy: fix hibernation ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM" cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled. cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core() cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq() cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages" block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt ... Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in: block/blk-sysfs.c drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c drivers/ide/ide-tape.c include/trace/events/block.h kernel/trace/blktrace.c
| * block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_sizeMartin K. Petersen2009-05-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device. With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain 512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size and the logical ditto. This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-11
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: (49 commits) ext4: Avoid corrupting the uninitialized bit in the extent during truncate ext4: Don't treat a truncation of a zero-length file as replace-via-truncate ext4: fix dx_map_entry to support 256k directory blocks ext4: truncate the file properly if we fail to copy data from userspace ext4: Avoid leaking blocks after a block allocation failure ext4: Change all super.c messages to print the device ext4: Get rid of EXTEND_DISKSIZE flag of ext4_get_blocks_handle() ext4: super.c whitespace cleanup jbd2: Fix minor typos in comments in fs/jbd2/journal.c ext4: Clean up calls to ext4_get_group_desc() ext4: remove unused function __ext4_write_dirty_metadata ext2: Fix memory leak in ext2_fill_super() in case of a failed mount ext3: Fix memory leak in ext3_fill_super() in case of a failed mount ext4: Fix memory leak in ext4_fill_super() in case of a failed mount ext4: down i_data_sem only for read when walking tree for fiemap ext4: Add a comprehensive block validity check to ext4_get_blocks() ext4: Clean up ext4_get_blocks() so it does not depend on bh_result->b_state ext4: Merge ext4_da_get_block_write() into mpage_da_map_blocks() ext4: Add BUG_ON debugging checks to noalloc_get_block_write() ext4: Add documentation to the ext4_*get_block* functions ...
| * | vfs: Add BUG_ON for delayed and unwritten flags in submit_bh()Aneesh Kumar K.V2009-05-12
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The BH_Delay and BH_Unwritten flags should never leak out to submit_bh(). So add some BUG_ON() checks to submit_bh so we can get a stack trace and determine how and why this might have happened. (Note that only XFS and ext4 use these buffer head flags, and XFS does not use submit_bh(). So this patch should only modify behavior for ext4.) Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
* / Fix nobh_truncate_page() to not pass stack garbage to get_block()Theodore Ts'o2009-06-06
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The nobh_truncate_page() function is used by ext2, exofs, and jfs. Of these three, only ext2 and jfs's get_block() function pays attention to bh->b_size --- which is normally always the filesystem blocksize except when the get_block() function is called by either mpage_readpage(), mpage_readpages(), or the direct I/O routines in fs/direct_io.c. Unfortunately, nobh_truncate_page() does not initialize map_bh before calling the filesystem-supplied get_block() function. So ext2 and jfs will try to calculate the number of blocks to map by taking stack garbage and shifting it left by inode->i_blkbits. This should be *mostly* harmless (except the filesystem will do some unnneeded work) unless the stack garbage is less than filesystem's blocksize, in which case maxblocks will be zero, and the attempt to find out whether or not the filesystem has a hole at a given logical block will fail, and the page cache entry might not get zero'ed out. Also if the stack garbage in in map_bh->state happens to have the BH_Mapped bit set, there could be an attempt to call readpage() on a non-existent page, which could cause nobh_truncate_page() to return an error when it should not. Fix this by initializing map_bh->state and map_bh->size. Fortunately, it's probably fairly unlikely that ext2 and jfs users mount with nobh these days. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* mm: close page_mkwrite racesNick Piggin2009-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the lock until the page is marked dirty. This allows the filesystem to have full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM. Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock. The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite. It currently then must return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according to existing page_mkwrite convention). In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty. The filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no longer dirty. It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in ->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail. The filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example. And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail. This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations (page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty) closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being initiated in that window. This provides the filesystem with a strong synchronisation against the VM here. - Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem. - Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913). - I need it for fsblock. - I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs). - I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot be fixed properly without this patch). - Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their page_mkwrite functions themselves. [ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping] Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add block_write_full_page_endio for passing endio handlerChris Mason2009-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | block_write_full_page doesn't allow the caller to control what happens when the IO is over. This adds a new call named block_write_full_page_endio so the buffer head end_io handler can be provided by the caller. This will be used by the ext3 data=guarded mode to do i_size updates in a workqueue based end_io handler. end_buffer_async_write is also exported so it can be called to do the dirty work of managing page writeback for the higher level end_io handler. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Acked-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* buffer: switch do_emergency_thaw() away from pdflush_operation()Jens Axboe2009-04-15
| | | | | | | | | This is (again) a preparatory patch similar to commit a2a9537ac0b37a5da6fbe7e1e9cb06c524d2a9c4. 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>
* block_write_full_page: switch synchronous writes to use WRITE_SYNC_PLUGTheodore Ts'o2009-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* block: switch sync_dirty_buffer() over to WRITE_SYNCJens Axboe2009-04-06
| | | | | | | | | We should now have the logic in place to handle this properly without regressing on the write performance, so re-enable the sync writes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: fsync_buffers_list() should use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUGJens Axboe2009-04-06
| | | | | | | | Then it can submit all the buffers without unplugging for each one. We will kick off the pending IO if we come across a new address space. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'ext3-latency-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-03
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Add replace-on-rename hueristics for data=writeback mode ext3: Add replace-on-truncate hueristics for data=writeback mode ext3: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync() block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacks
| * block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacksTheodore Ts'o2009-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When doing synchronous writes because wbc->sync_mode is set to WBC_SYNC_ALL, send the write request using WRITE_SYNC, so that we don't unduly block system calls such as fsync(). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-03
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * '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 585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225 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()
| * | Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225Al Viro2009-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fsync_bdev() export and a bunch of stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK case had been left behind Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | | vfs: check bh->b_blocknr only if BH_Mapped is setNikanth Karthikesan2009-04-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Check bh->b_blocknr only if BH_Mapped is set. akpm: I doubt if b_blocknr is ever uninitialised here, but it could conceivably cause a problem if we're doing a lookup for block zero. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | filesystem freeze: allow SysRq emergency thaw to thaw frozen filesystemsEric Sandeen2009-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that the filesystem freeze operation has been elevated to the VFS, and is just an ioctl away, some sort of safety net for unintentionally frozen root filesystems may be in order. The timeout thaw originally proposed did not get merged, but perhaps something like this would be useful in emergencies. For example, freeze /path/to/mountpoint may freeze your root filesystem if you forgot that you had that unmounted. I chose 'j' as the last remaining character other than 'h' which is sort of reserved for help (because help is generated on any unknown character). I've tested this on a non-root fs with multiple (nested) freezers, as well as on a system rendered unresponsive due to a frozen root fs. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: emergency thaw only if CONFIG_BLOCK enabled] Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | vmscan: fix it to take care of nodemaskKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2009-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | try_to_free_pages() is used for the direct reclaim of up to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages when watermarks are low. The caller to alloc_pages_nodemask() can specify a nodemask of nodes that are allowed to be used but this is not passed to try_to_free_pages(). This can lead to unnecessary reclaim of pages that are unusable by the caller and int the worst case lead to allocation failure as progress was not been make where it is needed. This patch passes the nodemask used for alloc_pages_nodemask() to try_to_free_pages(). Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | fs: fix page_mkwrite error cases in core code and btrfsNick Piggin2009-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | page_mkwrite is called with neither the page lock nor the ptl held. This means a page can be concurrently truncated or invalidated out from underneath it. Callers are supposed to prevent truncate races themselves, however previously the only thing they can do in case they hit one is to raise a SIGBUS. A sigbus is wrong for the case that the page has been invalidated or truncated within i_size (eg. hole punched). Callers may also have to perform memory allocations in this path, where again, SIGBUS would be wrong. The previous patch ("mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault") made it possible to properly specify errors. Convert the generic buffer.c code and btrfs to return sane error values (in the case of page removed from pagecache, VM_FAULT_NOPAGE will cause the fault handler to exit without doing anything, and the fault will be retried properly). This fixes core code, and converts btrfs as a template/example. All other filesystems defining their own page_mkwrite should be fixed in a similar manner. Acked-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match faultNick Piggin2009-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | vfs: add/use account_page_dirtied()Edward Shishkin2009-04-01
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a helper function account_page_dirtied(). Use that from two callsites. reiser4 adds a function which adds a third callsite. Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin<edward.shishkin@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* / fs: move bdev code out of buffer.cNick Piggin2009-03-27
|/ | | | | | | Move some block device related code out from buffer.c and put it in block_dev.c. I'm trying to move non-buffer_head code out of buffer.c Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Fix race in create_empty_buffers() vs __set_page_dirty_buffers()Linus Torvalds2009-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nick Piggin noticed this (very unlikely) race between setting a page dirty and creating the buffers for it - we need to hold the mapping private_lock until we've set the page dirty bit in order to make sure that create_empty_buffers() might not build up a set of buffers without the dirty bits set when the page is dirty. I doubt anybody has ever hit this race (and it didn't solve the issue Nick was looking at), but as Nick says: "Still, it does appear to solve a real race, which we should close." Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2009-02-18
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: fix deadlock in blk_abort_queue() for drivers that readd to timeout list block: fix booting from partitioned md array block: revert part of 18ce3751ccd488c78d3827e9f6bf54e6322676fb cciss: PCI power management reset for kexec paride/pg.c: xs(): &&/|| confusion fs/bio: bio_alloc_bioset: pass right object ptr to mempool_free block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC bsg: Fix sense buffer bug in SG_IO
| * block: revert part of 18ce3751ccd488c78d3827e9f6bf54e6322676fbJens Axboe2009-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The above commit added WRITE_SYNC and switched various places to using that for committing writes that will be waited upon immediately after submission. However, this causes a performance regression with AS and CFQ for ext3 at least, since sync_dirty_buffer() will submit some writes with WRITE_SYNC while ext3 has sumitted others dependent writes without the sync flag set. This causes excessive anticipation/idling in the IO scheduler because sync and async writes get interleaved, causing a big performance regression for the below test case (which is meant to simulate sqlite like behaviour). ---- test case ---- int main(int argc, char **argv) { int fdes, i; FILE *fp; struct timeval start; struct timeval end; struct timeval res; gettimeofday(&start, NULL); for (i=0; i<ROWS; i++) { fp = fopen("test_file", "a"); fprintf(fp, "Some Text Data\n"); fdes = fileno(fp); fsync(fdes); fclose(fp); } gettimeofday(&end, NULL); timersub(&end, &start, &res); fprintf(stdout, "time to write %d lines is %ld(msec)\n", ROWS, (res.tv_sec*1000000 + res.tv_usec)/1000); return 0; } ------------------- Thanks to Sean.White@APCC.com for tracking down this performance regression and providing a test case. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | mm: task dirty accounting fixNick Piggin2009-02-18
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | YAMAMOTO-san noticed that task_dirty_inc doesn't seem to be called properly for cases where set_page_dirty is not used to dirty a page (eg. mark_buffer_dirty). Additionally, there is some inconsistency about when task_dirty_inc is called. It is used for dirty balancing, however it even gets called for __set_page_dirty_no_writeback. So rather than increment it in a set_page_dirty wrapper, move it down to exactly where the dirty page accounting stats are incremented. Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> 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>
* vfs: Don't call attach_nobh_buffers() with an empty listDave Kleikamp2009-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a modification of a patch by Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu> nobh_write_end() could call attach_nobh_buffers() with head == NULL. This would result in a trap when attach_nobh_buffers() attempted to access bh->b_this_page. This can be illustrated by running the writev01 testcase from LTP on jfs. This error was introduced by commit 5b41e74a "vfs: fix data leak in nobh_write_end()". That patch did not take into account that if PageMappedToDisk() is true upon entry to nobh_write_begin(), then no buffers will be allocated for the page. In that case, we won't have to worry about a failed write leaving unitialized data in the page. Of course, head != NULL implies !page_has_buffers(page), so no need to test both. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu> Cc: Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 10Heiko Carstens2009-01-14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* filesystem freeze: implement generic freeze featureTakashi Sato2009-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ioctls for the generic freeze feature are below. o Freeze the filesystem int ioctl(int fd, int FIFREEZE, arg) fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint FIFREEZE: request code for the freeze arg: Ignored Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1 o Unfreeze the filesystem int ioctl(int fd, int FITHAW, arg) fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint FITHAW: request code for unfreeze arg: Ignored Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1 Error number: If the filesystem has already been unfrozen, errno is set to EINVAL. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_BLOCK=n] 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>
* filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfsTakashi Sato2009-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* block_write_begin(): remove useless gotoFranck Bui-Huu2009-01-06
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fixNick Piggin2009-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could cause filesystem deadlocks. The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS anyway, so turn that into a single flag. Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there, change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive and does away with random leading underscores). This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a random example). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the logic. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: Supress Buffer I/O errors when SCSI REQ_QUIET flag setKeith Mannthey2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow the scsi request REQ_QUIET flag to be propagated to the buffer file system layer. The basic ideas is to pass the flag from the scsi request to the bio (block IO) and then to the buffer layer. The buffer layer can then suppress needless printks. This patch declutters the kernel log by removed the 40-50 (per lun) buffer io error messages seen during a boot in my multipath setup . It is a good chance any real errors will be missed in the "noise" it the logs without this patch. During boot I see blocks of messages like " __ratelimit: 211 callbacks suppressed Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242847 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 1 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242878 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242872 " in my logs. My disk environment is multipath fiber channel using the SCSI_DH_RDAC code and multipathd. This topology includes an "active" and "ghost" path for each lun. IO's to the "ghost" path will never complete and the SCSI layer, via the scsi device handler rdac code, quick returns the IOs to theses paths and sets the REQ_QUIET scsi flag to suppress the scsi layer messages. I am wanting to extend the QUIET behavior to include the buffer file system layer to deal with these errors as well. I have been running this patch for a while now on several boxes without issue. A few runs of bonnie++ show no noticeable difference in performance in my setup. Thanks for John Stultz for the quiet_error finalization. Submitted-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* udf: Fix BUG_ON() in destroy_inode()Jan Kara2008-11-27
| | | | | | | | | | | udf_clear_inode() can leave behind buffers on mapping's i_private list (when we truncated preallocation). Call invalidate_inode_buffers() so that the list is properly cleaned-up before we return from udf_clear_inode(). This is ugly and suggest that we should cleanup preallocation earlier than in clear_inode() but currently there's no such call available since drop_inode() is called under inode lock and thus is unusable for disk operations. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* fs: buffer lock use lock bitopsNick Piggin2008-10-20
| | | | | | | | | trylock_buffer and unlock_buffer open and close a critical section. Hence, we can use the lock bitops to get the desired memory ordering. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: submit_bh() inadvertently discards barrier flag on a sync writeJens Axboe2008-08-27
| | | | | | | | Reported by Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>, commit 18ce3751 inadvertently made submit_bh() discard the barrier bit for a WRITE_SYNC request. Fix that up. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* fs: rename buffer trylockNick Piggin2008-08-05
| | | | | | | | Like the page lock change, this also requires name change, so convert the raw test_and_set bitop to a trylock. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs/buffer.c: uninline __remove_assoc_queue()Thomas Petazzoni2008-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Uninline the __remove_assoc_queue() function in fs/buffer.c, called at too many places and too long to really be inlined. Size results: text data bss dec hex filename 1134606 118840 212992 1466438 166046 vmlinux.old 1134303 118840 212992 1466135 165f17 vmlinux -303 0 0 -303 -12F +/- This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project and has been originally written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksizeHisashi Hifumi2008-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO is issued and this page will be uptodate. I think this is good for pagesize == blocksize environment but there is room for improvement on pagesize != blocksize environment. Because in this case a page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate, some buffers can be uptodate. So I suggest that when all buffers which correspond to a part of a file that we want to read are uptodate, use this pagecache and copy data from this pagecache to user buffer even if a page is not uptodate. This can reduce read IO and improve system throughput. I wrote a benchmark program and got result number with this program. This benchmark do: 1: mount and open a test file. 2: create a 512MB file. 3: close a file and umount. 4: mount and again open a test file. 5: pwrite randomly 300000 times on a test file. offset is aligned by IO size(1024bytes). 6: measure time of preading randomly 100000 times on a test file. The result was: 2.6.26 330 sec 2.6.26-patched 226 sec Arch:i386 Filesystem:ext3 Blocksize:1024 bytes Memory: 1GB On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block. So random read/write mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads are optimized with this patch under pagesize != blocksize environment. This test result showed this. The benchmark program is as follows: #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <time.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/mount.h> #define LEN 1024 #define LOOP 1024*512 /* 512MB */ main(void) { unsigned long i, offset, filesize; int fd; char buf[LEN]; time_t t1, t2; if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) { perror("cannot mount\n"); exit(1); } memset(buf, 0, LEN); fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC); if (fd < 0) { perror("cannot open file\n"); exit(1); } for (i = 0; i < LOOP; i++) write(fd, buf, LEN); close(fd); if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) { perror("cannot umount\n"); exit(1); } if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) { perror("cannot mount\n"); exit(1); } fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_RDWR); if (fd < 0) { perror("cannot open file\n"); exit(1); } filesize = LEN * LOOP; for (i = 0; i < 300000; i++){ offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1)); pwrite(fd, buf, LEN, offset); } printf("start test\n"); time(&t1); for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++){ offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1)); pread(fd, buf, LEN, offset); } time(&t2); printf("%ld sec\n", t2-t1); close(fd); if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) { perror("cannot umount\n"); exit(1); } } Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Use WARN() in fs/Arjan van de Ven2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructorAlexey Dobriyan2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object. Non-trivial places are: arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c This is flag day, yes. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: spinlock tree_lockNick Piggin2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | mapping->tree_lock has no read lockers. convert the lock from an rwlock to a spinlock. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-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>
* Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linusIngo Molnar2008-07-15
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/s390/kernel/time.c arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c arch/x86/xen/smp.c include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h include/asm-x86/smp.h kernel/Makefile Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameterJens Axboe2008-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that was removed. So kill it. Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | vfs: add hooks for ext4's delayed allocation supportAlex Tomas2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Export mpage_bio_submit() and __mpage_writepage() for the benefit of ext4's delayed allocation support. Also change __block_write_full_page so that if buffers that have the BH_Delay flag set it will call get_block() to get the physical block allocated, just as in the !BH_Mapped case. Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | vfs: Move mark_inode_dirty() from under page lock in generic_write_end()Jan Kara2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no need to call mark_inode_dirty() under page lock in generic_write_end(). It unnecessarily makes hold time of page lock longer and more importantly it forces locking order of page lock and transaction start for journaling filesystems. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | Properly notify block layer of sync writesJens Axboe2008-07-01
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fsync_buffers_list() and sync_dirty_buffer() both issue async writes and then immediately wait on them. Conceptually, that makes them sync writes and we should treat them as such so that the IO schedulers can handle them appropriately. This patch fixes a write starvation issue that Lin Ming reported, where xx is stuck for more than 2 minutes because of a large number of synchronous IO in the system: INFO: task kjournald:20558 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. kjournald D ffff810010820978 6712 20558 2 ffff81022ddb1d10 0000000000000046 ffff81022e7baa10 ffffffff803ba6f2 ffff81022ecd0000 ffff8101e6dc9160 ffff81022ecd0348 000000008048b6cb 0000000000000086 ffff81022c4e8d30 0000000000000000 ffffffff80247537 Call Trace: [<ffffffff803ba6f2>] kobject_get+0x12/0x17 [<ffffffff80247537>] getnstimeofday+0x2f/0x83 [<ffffffff8029c1ac>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f [<ffffffff8066d195>] io_schedule+0x5d/0x9f [<ffffffff8029c1e7>] sync_buffer+0x3b/0x3f [<ffffffff8066d3f0>] __wait_on_bit+0x40/0x6f [<ffffffff8029c1ac>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f [<ffffffff8066d48b>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6c/0x78 [<ffffffff80243909>] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23 [<ffffffff8029e3ad>] sync_dirty_buffer+0x98/0xcb [<ffffffff8030056b>] journal_commit_transaction+0x97d/0xcb6 [<ffffffff8023a676>] lock_timer_base+0x26/0x4b [<ffffffff8030300a>] kjournald+0xc1/0x1fb [<ffffffff802438db>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e [<ffffffff80302f49>] kjournald+0x0/0x1fb [<ffffffff802437bb>] kthread+0x47/0x74 [<ffffffff8022de51>] schedule_tail+0x28/0x5d [<ffffffff8020cac8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [<ffffffff80243774>] kthread+0x0/0x74 [<ffffffff8020cabe>] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Lin Ming confirms that this patch fixes the issue. I've run tests with it for the past week and no ill effects have been observed, so I'm proposing it for inclusion into 2.6.26. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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