- 30 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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Theodore Ts'o authored
The /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mb_history was maintained manually, and had a number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock introduced a CPU contention problem. By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4 tracepoints, etc. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 29 Sep, 2009 4 commits
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Theodore Ts'o authored
There are a number of kernel printk's which are printed when an ext4 filesystem is mounted and unmounted. Disable them to economize space in the system logs. In addition, disabling the mballoc stats by default saves a number of unneeded atomic operations for every block allocation or deallocation. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Curt Wohlgemuth authored
This patch fixes a problem with handling nested calls to ext4_journal_start/ext4_journal_stop, when there is no journal present. Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Curt Wohlgemuth authored
This patch a problem that ext4_dirty_inode() was not calling ext4_mark_inode_dirty() if the current_handle is not valid, which it is the case in no journal mode. It also removes a test for non-matching transaction which can never happen. Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Frank Mayhar authored
This is a cleanup of commit 91ac6f43. Since ext4_mark_inode_dirty() has already called ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(), which in turn calls ext4_do_update_inode(), it's not necessary to have ext4_write_inode() call ext4_do_update_inode() in no journal mode. Indeed, it would be duplicated work. Reviewed-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 28 Sep, 2009 5 commits
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Move the check to make sure the original and donor inodes are different earlier, to avoid a potential deadlock by trying to lock the same inode twice. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Mingming Cao authored
For async direct IO that covers holes or fallocate, the end_io callback function now queued the convertion work on workqueue but don't flush the work rightaway as it might take too long to afford. But when fsync is called after all the data is completed, user expects the metadata also being updated before fsync returns. Thus we need to flush the conversion work when fsync() is called. This patch keep track of a listed of completed async direct io that has a work queued on workqueue. When fsync() is called, it will go through the list and do the conversion. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
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Mingming Cao authored
Currently the DIO VFS code passes create = 0 when writing to the middle of file. It does this to avoid block allocation for holes, so as not to expose stale data out when there is a parallel buffered read (which does not hold the i_mutex lock). Direct I/O writes into holes falls back to buffered IO for this reason. Since preallocated extents are treated as holes when doing a get_block() look up (buffer is not mapped), direct IO over fallocate also falls back to buffered IO. Thus ext4 actually silently falls back to buffered IO in above two cases, which is undesirable. To fix this, this patch creates unitialized extents when a direct I/O write into holes in sparse files, and registering an end_io callback which converts the uninitialized extent to an initialized extent after the I/O is completed. Singed-Off-By: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Mingming Cao authored
When writing into an unitialized extent via direct I/O, and the direct I/O doesn't exactly cover the unitialized extent, split the extent into uninitialized and initialized extents before submitting the I/O. This avoids needing to deal with an ENOSPC error in the end_io callback that gets used for direct I/O. When the IO is complete, the written extent will be marked as initialized. Singed-Off-By: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Mingming Cao authored
ext4_da_reserve_space() can reserve quota blocks multiple times if ext4_claim_free_blocks() fail and we retry the allocation. We should release the quota reservation before restarting. Bug found by Jan Kara. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 29 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Work around problems in the writeback code to force out writebacks in larger chunks than just 4mb, which is just too small. This also works around limitations in the ext4 block allocator, which can't allocate more than 2048 blocks at a time. So we need to defeat the round-robin characteristics of the writeback code and try to write out as many blocks in one inode before allowing the writeback code to move on to another inode. We add a a new per-filesystem tunable, max_writeback_mb_bump, which caps this to a default of 128mb per inode. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 28 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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Theodore Ts'o authored
The hueristic was designed to avoid using locality group preallocation when writing the last segment of a closed file. Fix it by move setting size to the maximum of size and isize until after we check whether size == isize. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 26 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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Theodore Ts'o authored
This allows the user to see what filesystem was involved with a particular ext4_da_writepage() error. Also, use KERN_CRIT which is more appropriate than KERN_EMERG. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 29 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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Jan Kara authored
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 25 Sep, 2009 26 commits
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: writeback: writeback_inodes_sb() should use bdi_start_writeback() writeback: don't delay inodes redirtied by a fast dirtier writeback: make the super_block pinning more efficient writeback: don't resort for a single super_block in move_expired_inodes() writeback: move inodes from one super_block together writeback: get rid to incorrect references to pdflush in comments writeback: improve readability of the wb_writeback() continue/break logic writeback: cleanup writeback_single_inode() writeback: kupdate writeback shall not stop when more io is possible writeback: stop background writeback when below background threshold writeback: balance_dirty_pages() shall write more than dirtied pages fs: Fix busyloop in wb_writeback()
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Jens Axboe authored
Pointless to iterate other devices looking for a super, when we have a bdi mapping. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Wu Fengguang authored
Debug traces show that in per-bdi writeback, the inode under writeback almost always get redirtied by a busy dirtier. We used to call redirty_tail() in this case, which could delay inode for up to 30s. This is unacceptable because it now happens so frequently for plain cp/dd, that the accumulated delays could make writeback of big files very slow. So let's distinguish between data redirty and metadata only redirty. The first one is caused by a busy dirtier, while the latter one could happen in XFS, NFS, etc. when they are doing delalloc or updating isize. The inode being busy dirtied will now be requeued for next io, while the inode being redirtied by fs will continue to be delayed to avoid repeated IO. CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> CC: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Currently we pin the inode->i_sb for every single inode. This increases cache traffic on sb->s_umount sem. Lets instead cache the inode sb pin state and keep the super_block pinned for as long as keep writing out inodes from the same super_block. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
If we only moved inodes from a single super_block to the temporary list, there's no point in doing a resort for multiple super_blocks. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Shaohua Li authored
__mark_inode_dirty adds inode to wb dirty list in random order. If a disk has several partitions, writeback might keep spindle moving between partitions. To reduce the move, better write big chunk of one partition and then move to another. Inodes from one fs usually are in one partion, so idealy move indoes from one fs together should reduce spindle move. This patch tries to address this. Before per-bdi writeback is added, the behavior is write indoes from one fs first and then another, so the patch restores previous behavior. The loop in the patch is a bit ugly, should we add a dirty list for each superblock in bdi_writeback? Test in a two partition disk with attached fio script shows about 3% ~ 6% improvement. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
And throw some comments in there, too. Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Wu Fengguang authored
Make the if-else straight in writeback_single_inode(). No behavior change. Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Wu Fengguang authored
Fix the kupdate case, which disregards wbc.more_io and stop writeback prematurely even when there are more inodes to be synced. wbc.more_io should always be respected. Also remove the pages_skipped check. It will set when some page(s) of some inode(s) cannot be written for now. Such inodes will be delayed for a while. This variable has nothing to do with whether there are other writeable inodes. CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Wu Fengguang authored
Treat bdi_start_writeback(0) as a special request to do background write, and stop such work when we are below the background dirty threshold. Also simplify the (nr_pages <= 0) checks. Since we already pass in nr_pages=LONG_MAX for WB_SYNC_ALL and background writes, we don't need to worry about it being decreased to zero. Reported-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Wu Fengguang authored
Some filesystem may choose to write much more than ratelimit_pages before calling balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(). So it is safer to determine number to write based on real number of dirtied pages. Otherwise it is possible that loop { btrfs_file_write(): dirty 1024 pages balance_dirty_pages(): write up to 48 pages (= ratelimit_pages * 1.5) } in which the writeback rate cannot keep up with dirty rate, and the dirty pages go all the way beyond dirty_thresh. The increased write_chunk may make the dirtier more bumpy. So filesystems shall be take care not to dirty too much at a time (eg. > 4MB) without checking the ratelimit. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jan Kara authored
If all inodes are under writeback (e.g. in case when there's only one inode with dirty pages), wb_writeback() with WB_SYNC_NONE work basically degrades to busylooping until I_SYNC flags of the inode is cleared. Fix the problem by waiting on I_SYNC flags of an inode on b_more_io list in case we failed to write anything. Tested-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: sh_mobile_ceu_camera: fix compile breakage, caused by a bad merge sh: Add support DMA Engine to SH7780 sh: Add support DMA Engine to SH7722 sh: enable onenand support in kfr2r09 defconfig. sh: update defconfigs. sh: add FSI driver support for ms7724se sh: Fix up uninitialized variable use caught by gcc 4.4. sh: Handle unaligned 16-bit instructions on SH-2A. sh: mach-ecovec24: Add active low setting for sh_eth sh: includecheck fix: dwarf.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: [WATCHDOG] Add support for the Avionic Design Xanthos watchdog timer.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (94 commits) genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2) 3c59x: Get rid of "Trying to free already-free IRQ" tunnel: eliminate recursion field ems_pci: fix size of CAN controllers BAR mapping for CPC-PCI v2 net: fix htmldocs sunrpc, clnt.c Phonet: error on broadcast sending (unimplemented) Phonet: fix race for port number in concurrent bind() pktgen: better scheduler friendliness pktgen: T_TERMINATE flag is unused ipv4: check optlen for IP_MULTICAST_IF option ath9k: Initialize txgain and rxgain for newer AR9287 chipsets. iwlagn: fix panic in iwl{5000,4965}_rx_reply_tx ath9k: Fix RFKILL bugs drivers/net/wireless: Use usb_endpoint_dir_out cfg80211: don't overwrite privacy setting wl12xx: fix kconfig/link errors rt2x00: fix the definition of rt2x00crypto_rx_insert_iv iwlwifi: reduce noise when skb allocation fails iwlwifi: do not send sync command while holding spinlock mac80211: fix DTIM setting ...
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Thierry Reding authored
This patch adds support for the watchdog timer on Avionic Design Xanthos boards. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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Guennadi Liakhovetski authored
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Nobuhiro Iwamatsu authored
Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu.nobuhiro@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Nobuhiro Iwamatsu authored
Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu.nobuhiro@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Paul Mundt authored
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Paul Mundt authored
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Kuninori Morimoto authored
Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <morimoto.kuninori@renesas.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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git://www.linux-m32r.org/git/takata/linux-2.6_devLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://www.linux-m32r.org/git/takata/linux-2.6_dev: m32r: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros. m32r: Move the spi_stack_top and spu_stack_top into .init.data section. m32r: Remove unused .altinstructions and .exit.* code from linker script. m32r: Move GET_THREAD_INFO definition out of asm/thread_info.h. m32r: Define THREAD_SIZE only once. m32r: make PAGE_SIZE available to assembly.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: Fix build of cpm_uart due to core changes powerpc/8xx: Fix regression introduced by cache coherency rewrite powerpc/4xx: Fix erroneous xmon warning on PowerPC 4xx powerpc/mm: Fix 40x and 8xx vs. _PAGE_SPECIAL powerpc: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros. powerpc: Fix ibm,client-architecture-support printout powerpc: Increase NODES_SHIFT on 64bit from 4 to 8 powerpc/perf_counter: Fix vdso detection powerpc: Move 64bit heap above 1TB on machines with 1TB segments powerpc: Change archdata dma_data to a union powerpc: Rename get_dma_direct_offset get_dma_offset powerpc/mm: Remove duplicated #include powerpc/book3e-64: Remove duplicated #include powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE powerpc/pmc: Don't access lppaca on Book3E powerpc: kmalloc failure ignored in vio_build_iommu_table() hvc_console: Provide (un)locked version for hvc_resize()
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