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2012-04-27jbd2: use GFP_NOFS for blkdev_issue_flushShaohua Li
commit 99aa78466777083255b876293e9e83dec7cd809a upstream. flush request is issued in transaction commit code path, so looks using GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory for flush request bio falls into the classic deadlock issue. I saw btrfs and dm get it right, but ext4, xfs and md are using GFP. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2011-06-13jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head()Jan Kara
jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head() can oops when trying to access journal_head returned by bh2jh(). This is caused for example by the following race: TASK1 TASK2 jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() ... processing t_forget list __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(jh); if (!jh->b_transaction) { jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh); jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() jbd2_journal_grab_journal_head(bh) jbd_lock_bh_state(bh) __journal_try_to_free_buffer() jbd2_journal_put_journal_head(jh) jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head(bh); jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() in TASK2 sees that b_jcount == 0 and buffer is not part of any transaction and thus frees journal_head before TASK1 gets to doing so. Note that even buffer_head can be released by try_to_free_buffers() after jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() which adds even larger opportunity for oops (but I didn't see this happen in reality). Fix the problem by making transactions hold their own journal_head reference (in b_jcount). That way we don't have to remove journal_head explicitely via jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head() and instead just remove journal_head when b_jcount drops to zero. The result of this is that [__]jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(), [__]jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer(), and __jdb2_journal_remove_checkpoint() can free journal_head which needs modification of a few callers. Also we have to be careful because once journal_head is removed, buffer_head might be freed as well. So we have to get our own buffer_head reference where it matters. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-05-26Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (61 commits) jbd2: Add MAINTAINERS entry jbd2: fix a potential leak of a journal_head on an error path ext4: teach ext4_ext_split to calculate extents efficiently ext4: Convert ext4 to new truncate calling convention ext4: do not normalize block requests from fallocate() ext4: enable "punch hole" functionality ext4: add "punch hole" flag to ext4_map_blocks() ext4: punch out extents ext4: add new function ext4_block_zero_page_range() ext4: add flag to ext4_has_free_blocks ext4: reserve inodes and feature code for 'quota' feature ext4: add support for multiple mount protection ext4: ensure f_bfree returned by ext4_statfs() is non-negative ext4: protect bb_first_free in ext4_trim_all_free() with group lock ext4: only load buddy bitmap in ext4_trim_fs() when it is needed jbd2: Fix comment to match the code in jbd2__journal_start() ext4: fix waiting and sending of a barrier in ext4_sync_file() jbd2: Add function jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier() jbd2: fix sending of data flush on journal commit ext4: fix ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() to handle blocks before request range correctly ...
2011-05-24jbd2: Add function jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier()Jan Kara
Provide a function which returns whether a transaction with given tid will send a flush to the filesystem device. The function will be used by ext4 to detect whether fsync needs to send a separate flush or not. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-05-24jbd2: fix sending of data flush on journal commitJan Kara
In data=ordered mode, it's theoretically possible (however rare) that an inode is filed to transaction's t_inode_list and a flusher thread writes all the data and inode is reclaimed before the transaction starts to commit. In such a case, we could erroneously omit sending a flush to file system device when it is different from the journal device (because data can still be in disk cache only). Fix the problem by setting a flag in a transaction when some inode is added to it and then send disk flush in the commit code when the flag is set. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-05-17jbd/jbd2: remove obsolete summarise_journal_usage.Tao Ma
summarise_journal_usage seems to be obsolete for a long time, so remove it. Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-05-08jbd2: Fix forever sleeping process in do_get_write_access()Jan Kara
In do_get_write_access() we wait on BH_Unshadow bit for buffer to get from shadow state. The waking code in journal_commit_transaction() has a bug because it does not issue a memory barrier after the buffer is moved from the shadow state and before wake_up_bit() is called. Thus a waitqueue check can happen before the buffer is actually moved from the shadow state and waiting process may never be woken. Fix the problem by issuing proper barrier. Reported-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-04-11Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: ext4: fix data corruption regression by reverting commit 6de9843dab3f ext4: Allow indirect-block file to grow the file size to max file size ext4: allow an active handle to be started when freezing ext4: sync the directory inode in ext4_sync_parent() ext4: init timer earlier to avoid a kernel panic in __save_error_info jbd2: fix potential memory leak on transaction commit ext4: fix a double free in ext4_register_li_request ext4: fix credits computing for indirect mapped files ext4: remove unnecessary [cm]time update of quota file jbd2: move bdget out of critical section
2011-04-05jbd2: fix potential memory leak on transaction commitZhang Huan
There is potential memory leak of journal head in function jbd2_journal_commit_transaction. The problem is that JBD2 will not reclaim the journal head of commit record if error occurs or journal is abotred. I use the following script to reproduce this issue, on a RHEL6 system. I found it very easy to reproduce with async commit enabled. mount /dev/sdb /mnt -o journal_checksum,journal_async_commit touch /mnt/xxx echo offline > /sys/block/sdb/device/state sync umount /mnt rmmod ext4 rmmod jbd2 Removal of the jbd2 module will make slab complaining that "cache `jbd2_journal_head': can't free all objects". Signed-off-by: Zhang Huan <zhhuan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-17jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit pluggingJens Axboe
'write_op' was still used, even though it was always WRITE_SYNC now. Add plugging around the cases where it submits IO, and flush them before we end up waiting for that IO. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10block: kill off REQ_UNPLUGJens Axboe
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just unplug at will. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-27Merge branch 'next' into upstream-mergeTheodore Ts'o
Conflicts: fs/ext4/inode.c fs/ext4/mballoc.c include/trace/events/ext4.h
2010-10-27jbd2: Fix I/O hang in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inodeBrian King
This fixes a hang seen in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode on a lot of Power 6 systems running with ext4. When we get in the hung state, all I/O to the disk in question gets blocked where we stay indefinitely. Looking at the task list, I can see we are stuck in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode waiting on a wake up. I added some debug code to detect this scenario and dump additional data if we were stuck in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode for longer than 30 minutes. When it hit, I was able to see that i_flags was 0, suggesting we missed the wake up. This patch changes i_flags to be an unsigned long, uses bit operators to access it, and adds barriers around the accesses. Prior to applying this patch, we were regularly hitting this hang on numerous systems in our test environment. After applying the patch, the hangs no longer occur. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-22Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (46 commits) xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support Added blk-lib.c and blk-barrier.c was renamed to blk-flush.c block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT aic7xxx_old: removed unused 'req' variable block: remove the BH_Eopnotsupp flag block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag swap: do not send discards as barriers fat: do not send discards as barriers ext4: do not send discards as barriers jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrier jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage nilfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage reiserfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage gfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage btrfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage block: pass gfp_mask and flags to sb_issue_discard dm: convey that all flushes are processed as empty ...
2010-09-20cfq: improve fsync performance for small filesCorrado Zoccolo
Fsync performance for small files achieved by cfq on high-end disks is lower than what deadline can achieve, due to idling introduced between the sync write happening in process context and the journal commit. Moreover, when competing with a sequential reader, a process writing small files and fsync-ing them is starved. This patch fixes the two problems by: - marking journal commits as WRITE_SYNC, so that they get the REQ_NOIDLE flag set, - force all queues that have REQ_NOIDLE requests to be put in the noidle tree. Having the queue associated to the fsync-ing process and the one associated to journal commits in the noidle tree allows: - switching between them without idling, - fairness vs. competing idling queues, since they will be serviced only after the noidle tree expires its slice. Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-16block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAITChristoph Hellwig
All the blkdev_issue_* helpers can only sanely be used for synchronous caller. To issue cache flushes or barriers asynchronously the caller needs to set up a bio by itself with a completion callback to move the asynchronous state machine ahead. So drop the BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag that is always specified when calling blkdev_issue_* and also remove the now unused flags argument to blkdev_issue_flush and blkdev_issue_zeroout. For blkdev_issue_discard we need to keep it for the secure discard flag, which gains a more descriptive name and loses the bitops vs flag confusion. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usageChristoph Hellwig
Switch to the WRITE_FLUSH_FUA flag for journal commits and remove the EOPNOTSUPP detection for barriers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrierJan Kara
Currently JBD2 relies blkdev_issue_flush() draining the queue when ASYNC_COMMIT feature is set. This property is going away so make JBD2 wait for buffers it needs on its own before submitting the cache flush. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-18kill BH_Ordered flagChristoph Hellwig
Instead of abusing a buffer_head flag just add a variant of sync_dirty_buffer which allows passing the exact type of write flag required. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-03jbd2: Remove t_handle_lock from start_this_handle()Theodore Ts'o
This should remove the last exclusive lock from start_this_handle(), so that we should now be able to start multiple transactions at the same time on large SMP systems. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-08-03jbd2: Change j_state_lock to be a rwlock_tTheodore Ts'o
Lockstat reports have shown that j_state_lock is a major source of lock contention, especially on systems with more than 4 CPU cores. So change it to be a read/write spinlock. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-08-02jbd2: Use atomic variables to avoid taking t_handle_lock in jbd2_journal_stopTheodore Ts'o
By using an atomic_t for t_updates and t_outstanding credits, this should allow us to not need to take transaction t_handle_lock in jbd2_journal_stop(). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-07-27jbd2: Make barrier messages less scaryEric Sandeen
Saying things like "sync failed" when a device does not support barriers makes users slightly more worried than they need to be; rather than talking about sync failures, let's just state the barrier-based facts. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-04-28blkdev: generalize flags for blkdev_issue_fn functionsDmitry Monakhov
The patch just convert all blkdev_issue_xxx function to common set of flags. Wait/allocation semantics preserved. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-24jbd2: clean up an assertion in jbd2_journal_commit_transaction()dingdinghua
commit_transaction has the same value as journal->j_running_transaction, so we can simplify the assert statement. Signed-off-by: dingdinghua <dingdinghua@nrchpc.ac.cn> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-02-15jbd2: delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_bufferdingdinghua
Delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer until we know that "add to orphan" operation has definitely been committed, otherwise the log space of committing transation may be freed and reused before truncate get committed, updates may get lost if crash happens. Signed-off-by: dingdinghua <dingdinghua@nrchpc.ac.cn> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-23ext4, jbd2: Add barriers for file systems with exernal journalsTheodore Ts'o
This is a bit complicated because we are trying to optimize when we send barriers to the fs data disk. We could just throw in an extra barrier to the data disk whenever we send a barrier to the journal disk, but that's not always strictly necessary. We only need to send a barrier during a commit when there are data blocks which are must be written out due to an inode written in ordered mode, or if fsync() depends on the commit to force data blocks to disk. Finally, before we drop transactions from the beginning of the journal during a checkpoint operation, we need to guarantee that any blocks that were flushed out to the data disk are firmly on the rust platter before we drop the transaction from the journal. Thanks to Oleg Drokin for pointing out this flaw in ext3/ext4. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-11Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (21 commits) ext3: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in setup_new_group_blocks() ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data ext4: Support for 64-bit quota format ext3: Support for vfsv1 quota format quota: Implement quota format with 64-bit space and inode limits quota: Move definition of QFMT_OCFS2 to linux/quota.h ext2: fix comment in ext2_find_entry about return values ext3: Unify log messages in ext3 ext2: clear uptodate flag on super block I/O error ext2: Unify log messages in ext2 ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload" ext3: Don't update the superblock in ext3_statfs() ext3: journal all modifications in ext3_xattr_set_handle ext2: Explicitly assign values to on-disk enum of filetypes quota: Fix WARN_ON in lookup_one_len const: struct quota_format_ops ubifs: remove manual O_SYNC handling afs: remove manual O_SYNC handling kill wait_on_page_writeback_range vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics ...
2009-12-10kill wait_on_page_writeback_rangeChristoph Hellwig
All callers really want the more logical filemap_fdatawait_range interface, so convert them to use it and merge wait_on_page_writeback_range into filemap_fdatawait_range. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-01jbd2: Add ENOMEM checking in and for jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer()Theodore Ts'o
OOM happens. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30jbd2: Use tracepoints for history fileTheodore Ts'o
The /proc/fs/jbd2/<dev>/history was maintained manually; by using tracepoints, we can get all of the existing functionality of the /proc file plus extra capabilities thanks to the ftrace infrastructure. We save memory as a bonus. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-11ext4: Fix async commit mode to be safe by using a barrierTheodore Ts'o
Previously the journal_async_commit mount option was equivalent to using barrier=0 (and just as unsafe). This patch fixes it so that we eliminate the barrier before the commit block (by not using ordered mode), and explicitly issuing an empty barrier bio after writing the commit block. Because of the journal checksum, it is safe to do this; if the journal blocks are not all written before a power failure, the checksum in the commit block will prevent the last transaction from being replayed. Using the fs_mark benchmark, using journal_async_commit shows a 50% improvement: FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead 8 1000 10240 30.5 28242 vs. FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead 8 1000 10240 45.8 28620 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-16writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepagesJens Axboe
It's only set, it's never checked. Kill it. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-17jbd2: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepointsTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-14jbd2: use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG when writing synchronous revoke recordsTheodore Ts'o
The revoke records must be written using the same way as the rest of the blocks during the commit process; that is, either marked as synchronous writes or as asynchornous writes. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-06jbd2: use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG instead of WRITE_SYNCJens Axboe
When you are going to be submitting several sync writes, we want to give the IO scheduler a chance to merge some of them. Instead of using the implicitly unplugging WRITE_SYNC variant, use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG and rely on sync_buffer() doing the unplug when someone does a wait_on_buffer()/lock_buffer(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-25ext4: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()Theodore Ts'o
If a commit is triggered by fsync(), set a flag indicating the journal blocks associated with the transaction should be flushed out using WRITE_SYNC. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-08Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (57 commits) jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs ext4: Remove "extents" mount option block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: " ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message ext4: Add markers for better debuggability ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode() ext4: code cleanup ...
2009-01-05jbd2: Add buffer triggersJoel Becker
Filesystems often to do compute intensive operation on some metadata. If this operation is repeated many times, it can be very expensive. It would be much nicer if the operation could be performed once before a buffer goes to disk. This adds triggers to jbd2 buffer heads. Just before writing a metadata buffer to the journal, jbd2 will optionally call a commit trigger associated with the buffer. If the journal is aborted, an abort trigger will be called on any dirty buffers as they are dropped from pending transactions. ocfs2 will use this feature. Initially I tried to come up with a more generic trigger that could be used for non-buffer-related events like transaction completion. It doesn't tie nicely, because the information a buffer trigger needs (specific to a journal_head) isn't the same as what a transaction trigger needs (specific to a tranaction_t or perhaps journal_t). So I implemented a buffer set, with the understanding that journal/transaction wide triggers should be implemented separately. There is only one trigger set allowed per buffer. I can't think of any reason to attach more than one set. Contrast this with a journal or transaction in which multiple places may want to watch the entire transaction separately. The trigger sets are considered static allocation from the jbd2 perspective. ocfs2 will just have one trigger set per block type, setting the same set on every bh of the same type. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2009-01-04jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNCTheodore Ts'o
Since we will be waiting the write of the commit record to the journal to complete in journal_submit_commit_record(), submit it using WRITE_SYNC. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-06jbd2: Call journal commit callback without holding j_list_lockAneesh Kumar K.V
Avoid freeing the transaction in __jbd2_journal_drop_transaction() so the journal commit callback can run without holding j_list_lock, to avoid lock contention on this spinlock. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-26jbd2: improve jbd2 fsync batchingJosef Bacik
This patch removes the static sleep time in favor of a more self optimizing approach where we measure the average amount of time it takes to commit a transaction to disk and the ammount of time a transaction has been running. If somebody does a sync write or an fsync() traditionally we would sleep for 1 jiffies, which depending on the value of HZ could be a significant amount of time compared to how long it takes to commit a transaction to the underlying storage. With this patch instead of sleeping for a jiffie, we check to see if the amount of time this transaction has been running is less than the average commit time, and if it is we sleep for the delta using schedule_hrtimeout to give us a higher precision sleep time. This greatly benefits high end storage where you could end up sleeping for longer than it takes to commit the transaction and therefore sitting idle instead of allowing the transaction to be committed by keeping the sleep time to a minimum so you are sure to always be doing something. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05jbd2: Add barrier not supported test to journal_wait_on_commit_recordTheodore Ts'o
Xen doesn't report that barriers are not supported until buffer I/O is reported as completed, instead of when the buffer I/O is submitted. Add a check and a fallback codepath to journal_wait_on_commit_record() to detect this case, so that attempts to mount ext4 filesystems on LVM/devicemapper devices on Xen guests don't blow up with an "Aborting journal on device XXX"; "Remounting filesystem read-only" error. Thanks to Andreas Sundstrom for reporting this issue. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2008-10-28jbd2: Call the commit callback before the transaction could get droppedTheodore Ts'o
The transaction can potentially get dropped if there are no buffers that need to be written. Make sure we call the commit callback before potentially deciding to drop the transaction. Also avoid dereferencing the commit_transaction pointer in the marker for the same reason. This patch fixes the bug reported by Eric Paris at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11838 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2008-10-16ext4: Replace hackish ext4_mb_poll_new_transaction with commit callbackTheodore Ts'o
The multiblock allocator needs to be able to release blocks (and issue a blkdev discard request) when the transaction which freed those blocks is committed. Previously this was done via a polling mechanism when blocks are allocated or freed. A much better way of doing things is to create a jbd2 callback function and attaching the list of blocks to be freed directly to the transaction structure. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10ext4: add an option to control error handling on file dataHidehiro Kawai
If the journal doesn't abort when it gets an IO error in file data blocks, the file data corruption will spread silently. Because most of applications and commands do buffered writes without fsync(), they don't notice the IO error. It's scary for mission critical systems. On the other hand, if the journal aborts whenever it gets an IO error in file data blocks, the system will easily become inoperable. So this patch introduces a filesystem option to determine whether it aborts the journal or just call printk() when it gets an IO error in file data. If you mount an ext4 fs with data_err=abort option, it aborts on file data write error. If you mount it with data_err=ignore, it doesn't abort, just call printk(). data_err=ignore is the default. Here is the corresponding patch of the ext3 version: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/9/9/3239374 Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10jbd2: don't dirty original metadata buffer on abortHidehiro Kawai
Currently, original metadata buffers are dirtied when they are unfiled whether the journal has aborted or not. Eventually these buffers will be written-back to the filesystem by pdflush. This means some metadata buffers are written to the filesystem without journaling if the journal aborts. So if both journal abort and system crash happen at the same time, the filesystem would become inconsistent state. Additionally, replaying journaled metadata can overwrite the latest metadata on the filesystem partly. Because, if the journal gets aborted, journaled metadata are preserved and replayed during the next mount not to lose uncheckpointed metadata. This would also break the consistency of the filesystem. This patch prevents original metadata buffers from being dirtied on abort by clearing BH_JBDDirty flag from those buffers. Thus, no metadata buffers are written to the filesystem without journaling. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-12jbd2: abort when failed to log metadata buffersHidehiro Kawai
If we failed to write metadata buffers to the journal space and succeeded to write the commit record, stale data can be written back to the filesystem as metadata in the recovery phase. To avoid this, when we failed to write out metadata buffers, abort the journal before writing the commit record. We can also avoid this kind of corruption by using the journal checksum feature because it can detect invalid metadata blocks in the journal and avoid them from being replayed. So we don't need to care about asynchronous commit record writeout with a checksum. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-06jbd2: Fix buffer head leak when writing the commit blockTheodore Ts'o
Also make sure the buffer heads are marked clean before submitting bh for writing. The previous code was marking the buffer head dirty, which would have forced an unneeded write (and seek) to the journal for no good reason. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>