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* include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* nilfs2: fix hang-up of cleaner after log writer returned with errorRyusuke Konishi2010-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | According to the report from Andreas Beckmann (Message-ID: <4BA54677.3090902@abeckmann.de>), nilfs in 2.6.33 kernel got stuck after a disk full error. This turned out to be a regression by log writer updates merged at kernel 2.6.33. nilfs_segctor_abort_construction, which is a cleanup function for erroneous cases, was skipping writeback completion for some logs. This fixes the bug and would resolve the hang issue. Reported-by: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.33.x]
* nilfs2: fix duplicate call to nilfs_segctor_cancel_freevRyusuke Konishi2010-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Andreas Beckmann gave me a report that nilfs logged the following warnings when it got a disk full: nilfs_sufile_do_cancel_free: segment 0 must be clean nilfs_sufile_do_cancel_free: segment 1 must be clean These arise from a duplicate call to nilfs_segctor_cancel_freev in an error path of log writer. This will fix the issue. Reported-by: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: fix various typos in commentsRyusuke Konishi2010-03-13
| | | | | | This fixes various typos I found in comments of nilfs2. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: fix function name typos in docbook commentsRyusuke Konishi2010-03-13
| | | | | | | | | Fixes the following typos in docbook comments: nilfs_detroy_transaction_cache -> nilfs_destroy_transaction_cache nilfs_secgtor_start_timer -> nilfs_segctor_start_timer Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: move iterator to write log into segment bufferRyusuke Konishi2010-02-12
| | | | | | | | This moves iterator to submit write requests for a series of logs into segbuf.c, and hides nilfs_segbuf_write() and nilfs_segbuf_wait() in the file. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: get rid of s_dirt flag useRyusuke Konishi2010-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | This replaces s_dirt flag use in nilfs with a new flag added on the nilfs object. The s_dirt flag was used to indicate if sop->write_super() should be called, however the current version of nilfs does not use the callback. Thus, it can be replaced with the own flag. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
* nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_segctor_req structRyusuke Konishi2010-02-12
| | | | | | | This will clean up nilfs_segctor_req struct and the obscure request argument passed among private methods of segment constructor. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: fix potential hang in nilfs_error on errors=remount-roRyusuke Konishi2010-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | nilfs_error() calls nilfs_detach_segment_constructor() if errors=remount-ro option is specified, and this may lead to a hang due to recursive locking of, for instance, nilfs->ns_segctor_sem and others. In this case, detaching segment constructor is not necessary because read-only flag is set to the filesystem and further writes are blocked. This fixes the potential hang issue by removing the nilfs_detach_segment_constructor() call from nilfs_error. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segmentsJiro SEKIBA2010-02-12
| | | | | | | | | This adds a function to send discard requests for given array of segment numbers, and calls the function when garbage collection succeeded. Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: fix potential leak of dirty data on umountRyusuke Konishi2010-01-31
| | | | | | | | | This fixes incorrect usage of nilfs_segctor_confirm() test function in nilfs_segctor_destroy(); nilfs_segctor_confirm() returns zero if the filesystem is not clean, so its use in nilfs_segctor_destroy() needs inversion. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: separate wait function from nilfs_segctor_writeRyusuke Konishi2009-11-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This separates wait function for submitted logs from the write function nilfs_segctor_write(). A new list of segment buffers "sc_write_logs" is added to hold logs under writing, and double buffering is partially applied to hide io latency. At this point, the double buffering is disabled for blocksize < pagesize because page dirty flag is turned off during write and dirty buffers are not properly collected for pages crossing over segments. To receive full benefit of the double buffering, further refinement is needed to move the io wait outside the lock section of log writer. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: add iterator for segment buffersRyusuke Konishi2009-11-30
| | | | | | | This adds a few iterator functions for segment buffers to make it easy to handle multiple series of logs. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: hide nilfs_write_info struct in segment buffer codeRyusuke Konishi2009-11-30
| | | | | | | Hides nilfs_write_info struct and nilfs_segbuf_prepare_write function in segbuf.c to simplify the interface of nilfs_segbuf_write function. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: relocate io status variables to segment bufferRyusuke Konishi2009-11-30
| | | | | | | | | This moves io status variables in nilfs_write_info struct to nilfs_segment_buffer struct. This is a preparation to hide nilfs_write_info in segment buffer code. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: use list_splice_tail or list_splice_tail_initRyusuke Konishi2009-11-28
| | | | | | | | This applies list_splice_tail (or list_splice_tail_init) operation instead of list_splice (or list_splice_init, respectively) to append a new list to tail of an existing list. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: move routine to set segment usage into sufileRyusuke Konishi2009-11-19
| | | | | | | This adds nilfs_sufile_set_segment_usage() function in sufile to replace direct access to the sufile metadata in log writer code. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: move routine marking segment usage dirty into sufileRyusuke Konishi2009-11-19
| | | | | | | | | This adds nilfs_sufile_mark_dirty() function in sufile to replace nilfs_touch_segusage() function in log writer code. This is a preparation for the further cleanup which will move out low level sufile operations in the log writer. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: eliminate inlines to directly read/write inode of metadata filesRyusuke Konishi2009-11-19
| | | | | | | Removes two inline functions: nilfs_mdt_read_inode_direct() and nilfs_mdt_write_inode_direct(). Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: fix irregular checkpoint creation due to data flushRyusuke Konishi2009-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When nilfs flushes out dirty data to reduce memory pressure, creation of checkpoints is wrongly postponed. This bug causes irregular checkpoint creation especially in small footprint systems. To correct this issue, a timer for the checkpoint creation has to be continued if a log writer does not create a checkpoint. This will do the correction. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: stop using periodic write_super callbackJiro SEKIBA2009-09-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes nilfs_write_super and commit super block in nilfs internal thread, instead of periodic write_super callback. VFS layer calls ->write_super callback periodically. However, it looks like that calling back is ommited when disk I/O is busy. And when cleanerd (nilfs GC) is runnig, disk I/O tend to be busy thus nilfs superblock is not synchronized as nilfs designed. To avoid it, syncing superblock by nilfs thread instead of pdflush. Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: fix oops due to inconsistent state in page with discrete b-tree nodesRyusuke Konishi2009-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Andrea Gelmini gave me a report that a kernel oops hit on a nilfs filesystem with a 1KB block size when doing rsync. This turned out to be caused by an inconsistency of dirty state between a page and its buffers storing b-tree node blocks. If the page had multiple buffers split over multiple logs, and if the logs were written at a time, a dirty flag remained in the page even every dirty flag in the buffers was cleared. This will fix the failure by dropping the dirty flag properly for pages with the discrete multiple b-tree nodes. Reported-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Tested-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
* nilfs2: fix hang problem of log writer which occurs after write failuresRyusuke Konishi2009-07-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Leandro Lucarella gave me a report that nilfs gets stuck after its write function fails. The problem turned out to be caused by bugs which leave writeback flag on pages. This fixes the problem by ensuring to clear the writeback flag in error path. Reported-by: Leandro Lucarella <llucax@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: stable@kernel.org
* nilfs2: remove unlikely directive causing mis-conversion of error codeRyusuke Konishi2009-07-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following error code handling in nilfs_segctor_write() function wrongly converted negative error codes to a truth value (i.e. 1): err = unlikely(err) ? : res; which originaly meant to be err = err ? : res; This mis-conversion caused that write or sync functions receive the unexpected error code. This fixes the bug by removing the unlikely directive. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: stable@kernel.org
* nilfs2: eliminate removal list of segmentsRyusuke Konishi2009-06-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | This will clean up the removal list of segments and the related functions from segment.c and ioctl.c, which have hurt code readability. This elimination is applied by using nilfs_sufile_updatev() previously introduced in the patch ("nilfs2: add sufile function that can modify multiple segment usages"). Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: fix lock order reversal in nilfs_clean_segments ioctlRyusuke Konishi2009-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a companion patch to ("nilfs2: fix possible circular locking for get information ioctls"). This corrects lock order reversal between mm->mmap_sem and nilfs->ns_segctor_sem in nilfs_clean_segments() which was detected by lockdep check: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.30-rc3-nilfs-00003-g360bdc1 #7 ------------------------------------------------------- mmap/5294 is trying to acquire lock: (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}, at: [<d0d0e846>] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2] but task is already holding lock: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c043700a>] do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x30a which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}: [<c01470a5>] __lock_acquire+0x1066/0x13b0 [<c01474a9>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd [<c01836bc>] might_fault+0x68/0x88 [<c023c61d>] copy_from_user+0x2a/0x111 [<d0d120d0>] nilfs_ioctl_prepare_clean_segments+0x1d/0xf1 [nilfs2] [<d0d0e2aa>] nilfs_clean_segments+0x6d/0x1b9 [nilfs2] [<d0d11f68>] nilfs_ioctl+0x2ad/0x318 [nilfs2] [<c01a3be7>] vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x69 [<c01a408e>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x460/0x499 [<c01a4107>] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5a [<c01031a4>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38 [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff -> #0 (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}: [<c0146e0b>] __lock_acquire+0xdcc/0x13b0 [<c01474a9>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd [<c0433f1d>] down_read+0x2a/0x3e [<d0d0e846>] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2] [<d0cfe0e5>] nilfs_page_mkwrite+0xe7/0x154 [nilfs2] [<c0183b0b>] __do_fault+0x165/0x376 [<c01855cd>] handle_mm_fault+0x287/0x5d1 [<c043712d>] do_page_fault+0x2fb/0x30a [<c0435462>] error_code+0x72/0x78 [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff where nilfs_clean_segments() holds: nilfs->ns_segctor_sem -> copy_from_user() --> page fault -> mm->mmap_sem And, page fault path may hold: page fault -> mm->mmap_sem --> nilfs_page_mkwrite() -> nilfs->ns_segctor_sem Even though nilfs_clean_segments() does not perform write access on given user pages, it may cause deadlock because nilfs->ns_segctor_sem is shared per device and mm->mmap_sem can be shared with other tasks. To avoid this problem, this patch moves all calls of copy_from_user() outside the nilfs->ns_segctor_sem lock in the ioctl. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: introduce secondary super blockRyusuke Konishi2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The former versions didn't have extra super blocks. This improves the weak point by introducing another super block at unused region in tail of the partition. This doesn't break disk format compatibility; older versions just ingore the secondary super block, and new versions just recover it if it doesn't exist. The partition created by an old mkfs may not have unused region, but in that case, the secondary super block will not be added. This doesn't make more redundant copies of the super block; it is a future work. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: simplify handling of active state of segmentsRyusuke Konishi2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | will reduce some lines of segment constructor. Previously, the state was complexly controlled through a list of segments in order to keep consistency in meta data of usage state of segments. Instead, this presents ``calculated'' active flags to userland cleaner program and stop maintaining its real flag on disk. Only by this fake flag, the cleaner cannot exactly know if each segment is reclaimable or not. However, the recent extension of nilfs_sustat ioctl struct (nilfs2-extend-nilfs_sustat-ioctl-struct.patch) can prevent the cleaner from reclaiming in-use segment wrongly. So, now I can apply this for simplification. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: mark minor flag for checkpoint created by internal operationRyusuke Konishi2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nilfs creates checkpoints even for garbage collection or metadata updates such as checkpoint mode change. So, user often sees checkpoints created only by such internal operations. This is inconvenient in some situations. For example, application that monitors checkpoints and changes them to snapshots, will fall into an infinite loop because it cannot distinguish internally created checkpoints. This patch solves this sort of problem by adding a flag to checkpoint for identification. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: clean up sketch fileRyusuke Konishi2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The sketch file is a file to mark checkpoints with user data. It was experimentally introduced in the original implementation, and now obsolete. The file was handled differently with regular files; the file size got truncated when a checkpoint was created. This stops the special treatment and will treat it as a regular file. Most users are not affected because mkfs.nilfs2 no longer makes this file. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: replace BUG_ON and BUG calls triggerable from ioctlRyusuke Konishi2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pekka Enberg advised me: > It would be nice if BUG(), BUG_ON(), and panic() calls would be > converted to proper error handling using WARN_ON() calls. The BUG() > call in nilfs_cpfile_delete_checkpoints(), for example, looks to be > triggerable from user-space via the ioctl() system call. This will follow the comment and keep them to a minimum. Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: extend nilfs_sustat ioctl structRyusuke Konishi2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a new argument to the nilfs_sustat structure. The extended field allows to delete volatile active state of segments, which was needed to protect freshly-created segments from garbage collection but has confused code dealing with segments. This extension alleviates the mess and gives room for further simplifications. The volatile active flag is not persistent, so it's eliminable on this occasion without affecting compatibility other than the ioctl change. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: remove timedwait ioctl commandRyusuke Konishi2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes NILFS_IOCTL_TIMEDWAIT command from ioctl interface along with the related flags and wait queue. The command is terrible because it just sleeps in the ioctl. I prefer to avoid this by devising means of event polling in userland program. By reconsidering the userland GC daemon, I found this is possible without changing behaviour of the daemon and sacrificing efficiency. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: avoid double error caused by nilfs_transaction_endRyusuke Konishi2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pekka Enberg pointed out that double error handlings found after nilfs_transaction_end() can be avoided by separating abort operation: OK, I don't understand this. The only way nilfs_transaction_end() can fail is if we have NILFS_TI_SYNC set and we fail to construct the segment. But why do we want to construct a segment if we don't commit? I guess what I'm asking is why don't we have a separate nilfs_transaction_abort() function that can't fail for the erroneous case to avoid this double error value tracking thing? This does the separation and renames nilfs_transaction_end() to nilfs_transaction_commit() for clarification. Since, some calls of these functions were used just for exclusion control against the segment constructor, they are replaced with semaphore operations. Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: fix missed-sync issue for do_sync_mapping_range()Ryusuke Konishi2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Chris Mason pointed out that there is a missed sync issue in nilfs_writepages(): On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:52:55 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > It looks like nilfs_writepage ignores WB_SYNC_NONE, which is used by > do_sync_mapping_range(). where WB_SYNC_NONE in do_sync_mapping_range() was replaced with WB_SYNC_ALL by Nick's patch (commit: ee53a891f47444c53318b98dac947ede963db400). This fixes the problem by letting nilfs_writepages() write out the log of file data within the range if sync_mode is WB_SYNC_ALL. This involves removal of nilfs_file_aio_write() which was previously needed to ensure O_SYNC sync writes. Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: segment constructorRyusuke Konishi2009-04-07
This adds the segment constructor (also called log writer). The segment constructor collects dirty buffers for every dirty inode, makes summaries of the buffers, assigns disk block addresses to the buffers, and then submits BIOs for the buffers. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>