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2010-11-08ext4: fix potential race when freeing ext4_io_page structuresTheodore Ts'o
Use an atomic_t and make sure we don't free the structure while we might still be submitting I/O for that page. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-11-08ext4: handle writeback of inodes which are being freedTheodore Ts'o
The following BUG can occur when an inode which is getting freed when it still has dirty pages outstanding, and it gets deleted (in this because it was the target of a rename). In ordered mode, we need to make sure the data pages are written just in case we crash before the rename (or unlink) is committed. If the inode is being freed then when we try to igrab the inode, we end up tripping the BUG_ON at fs/ext4/page-io.c:146. To solve this problem, we need to keep track of the number of io callbacks which are pending, and avoid destroying the inode until they have all been completed. That way we don't have to bump the inode count to keep the inode from being destroyed; an approach which doesn't work because the count could have already been dropped down to zero before the inode writeback has started (at which point we're not allowed to bump the count back up to 1, since it's already started getting freed). Thanks to Dave Chinner for suggesting this approach, which is also used by XFS. kernel BUG at /scratch_space/linux-2.6/fs/ext4/page-io.c:146! Call Trace: [<ffffffff811075b1>] ext4_bio_write_page+0x172/0x307 [<ffffffff811033a7>] mpage_da_submit_io+0x2f9/0x37b [<ffffffff811068d7>] mpage_da_map_and_submit+0x2cc/0x2e2 [<ffffffff811069b3>] mpage_add_bh_to_extent+0xc6/0xd5 [<ffffffff81106c66>] write_cache_pages_da+0x2a4/0x3ac [<ffffffff81107044>] ext4_da_writepages+0x2d6/0x44d [<ffffffff81087910>] do_writepages+0x1c/0x25 [<ffffffff810810a4>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x4b/0x4d [<ffffffff810815f5>] filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff81122a2e>] jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate+0x7b/0xa2 [<ffffffff8110615d>] ext4_evict_inode+0x57/0x24c [<ffffffff810c14a3>] evict+0x22/0x92 [<ffffffff810c1a3d>] iput+0x212/0x249 [<ffffffff810bdf16>] dentry_iput+0xa1/0xb9 [<ffffffff810bdf6b>] d_kill+0x3d/0x5d [<ffffffff810be613>] dput+0x13a/0x147 [<ffffffff810b990d>] sys_renameat+0x1b5/0x258 [<ffffffff81145f71>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x2d/0x4c [<ffffffff810b2950>] ? cp_new_stat+0xde/0xea [<ffffffff810b29c1>] ? sys_newlstat+0x2d/0x38 [<ffffffff810b99c6>] sys_rename+0x16/0x18 [<ffffffff81002a2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Tested-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
2010-10-27ext4: rename {exit,init}_ext4_*() to ext4_{exit,init}_*()Theodore Ts'o
This is a cleanup to avoid namespace leaks out of fs/ext4 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27ext4: use bio layer instead of buffer layer in mpage_da_submit_ioTheodore Ts'o
Call the block I/O layer directly instad of going through the buffer layer. This should give us much better performance and scalability, as well as lowering our CPU utilization when doing buffered writeback. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>