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Removes sci->sc_sbi which is a back pointer to nilfs_sb_info struct
from log writer object (nilfs_sc_info).
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Log writer is held by the nilfs_sb_info structure. This moves it into
nilfs object and replaces all uses of NILFS_SC() accessor.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Moves s_next_generation counter and a spinlock protecting it to nilfs
object from nilfs_sb_info structure.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Moves s_inode_lock spinlock and s_dirty_files list to nilfs object
from nilfs_sb_info structure.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This moves four parameter variables on nilfs_sb_info s_resuid,
s_resgid, s_interval and s_watermark to the nilfs object.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This moves mount_opt local variable to nilfs object from nilfs_sb_info
struct.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This records the number of used blocks per checkpoint in each
checkpoint entry of cpfile. Even though userland tools can get the
block count via nilfs_get_cpinfo ioctl, it was not updated by the
nilfs2 kernel code. This fixes the issue and makes it available for
userland tools to calculate used amount per checkpoint.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
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This is a similar change to those in ext2/ext3 codebase (commit
40a063f6691ce937 and a4ae3094869f18e2, respectively).
The addition of 64k block capability in the rec_len_from_disk and
rec_len_to_disk functions added a bit of math overhead which slows
down file create workloads needlessly when the architecture cannot
even support 64k blocks. This will cut the corner.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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At present, the same warning message can be output twice when nilfs
detected a problem on super blocks:
NILFS warning: broken superblock. using spare superblock.
NILFS warning: broken superblock. using spare superblock.
...
This is because these super blocks are reloaded with the block size
written in a super block if it differs from the first block size, but
this repetition looks somewhat confusing. So, we hint at what is
going on by appending block size information to those messages.
Reported-by: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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The current FS_IOC_GETFLAGS/SETFLAGS/GETVERSION will fail if
application is 32 bit and kernel is 64 bit.
This issue is avoidable by adding compat_ioctl method.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Add support for the standard attributes set via chattr and read via
lsattr. These attributes are already in the flags value in the nilfs2
inode, but currently we don't have any ioctl commands that expose them
to the userland.
Collaterally, this adds the FS_IOC_GETVERSION ioctl for getting
i_generation, which allows users to list the file's generation number
with "lsattr -v".
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Nilfs has few rectrictions on which flags may be set on which inodes
like ext2/3/4 filesystems used to be. Specifically DIRSYNC may only
be set on directories and IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on
links. Tighten that to disallow TOPDIR being set on non-directories
and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set on non-regular file,
non-directories.
This introduces a flags masking function like those of extN and uses
it during inode creation.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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At present, nilfs marks S_NOATIME flag on all inodes. This restricts
nilfs_set_inode_flags function so that it marks S_NOATIME only if a
given inode has an FS_NOATIME_FL flag.
Although nilfs does not support atime yet, touch_atime() still safely
returns on IS_NOATIME check since MS_NOATIME is always set on sb.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Replaces uses of own inode flags (i.e. NILFS_SECRM_FL, NILFS_UNRM_FL,
NILFS_COMPR_FL, and so forth) with common inode flags, and removes the
own flag declarations.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Three functions of the current persistent object allocator,
nilfs_palloc_commit_free_entry, nilfs_palloc_abort_alloc_entry, and
nilfs_palloc_freev functions unconditionally add a counter after doing
clear bit operation on a bitmap block.
If the clear bit operation overlapped, the counter will not add up.
This fixes the issue by making the counter operations conditional.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This fixes the issue that inodes count will not add up after removal
of raw inodes fails. Hence, this prevents possible under flow of the
inodes count.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'i_nlink' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
hfs: fix rename() over non-empty directory
udf: fix i_nlink limit
fix reiserfs mkdir() breakage
exofs: i_nlink races in rename()
nilfs2: i_nlink races in rename()
minix: i_nlink races in rename()
ufs: i_nlink races in rename()
sysv: i_nlink races in rename()
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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According to the report from Jiro SEKIBA titled "regression in
2.6.37?" (Message-Id: <8739n8vs1f.wl%jir@sekiba.com>), on 2.6.37 and
later kernels, lscp command no longer displays "i" flag on checkpoints
that snapshot operations or garbage collection created.
This is a regression of nilfs2 checkpointing function, and it's
critical since it broke behavior of a part of nilfs2 applications.
For instance, snapshot manager of TimeBrowse gets to create
meaningless snapshots continuously; snapshot creation triggers another
checkpoint, but applications cannot distinguish whether the new
checkpoint contains meaningful changes or not without the i-flag.
This patch fixes the regression and brings that application behavior
back to normal.
Reported-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.37]
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Michael Leun reported that running parallel opens on a fuse filesystem
can trigger a "kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475"
Gurudas Pai reported the same bug on NFS.
The reason is, unmap_mapping_range() is not prepared for more than
one concurrent invocation per inode. For example:
thread1: going through a big range, stops in the middle of a vma and
stores the restart address in vm_truncate_count.
thread2: comes in with a small (e.g. single page) unmap request on
the same vma, somewhere before restart_address, finds that the
vma was already unmapped up to the restart address and happily
returns without doing anything.
Another scenario would be two big unmap requests, both having to
restart the unmapping and each one setting vm_truncate_count to its
own value. This could go on forever without any of them being able to
finish.
Truncate and hole punching already serialize with i_mutex. Other
callers of unmap_mapping_range() do not, and it's difficult to get
i_mutex protection for all callers. In particular ->d_revalidate(),
which calls invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in fuse, may be called
with or without i_mutex.
This patch adds a new mutex to 'struct address_space' to prevent
running multiple concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same mapping.
[ We'll hopefully get rid of all this with the upcoming mm
preemptibility series by Peter Zijlstra, the "mm: Remove i_mmap_mutex
lockbreak" patch in particular. But that is for 2.6.39 ]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Michael Leun <lkml20101129@newton.leun.net>
Reported-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fixes the following kernel oops in nilfs_setup_super() which could
arise if one of two super-blocks is unavailable.
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
> Pid: 3529, comm: mount.nilfs2 Not tainted 2.6.37 #1 /
> EIP: 0060:[<c03196bc>] EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 3
> EIP is at memcpy+0xc/0x1b
> Call Trace:
> [<f953720e>] ? nilfs_setup_super+0x6c/0xa5 [nilfs2]
> [<f95369e9>] ? nilfs_get_root_dentry+0x81/0xcb [nilfs2]
> [<f9537a08>] ? nilfs_mount+0x4f9/0x62c [nilfs2]
> [<c02745cf>] ? kstrdup+0x36/0x3f
> [<f953750f>] ? nilfs_mount+0x0/0x62c [nilfs2]
> [<c0293940>] ? vfs_kern_mount+0x4d/0x12c
> [<c02a5100>] ? get_fs_type+0x76/0x8f
> [<c0293a68>] ? do_kern_mount+0x33/0xbf
> [<c02a784a>] ? do_mount+0x2ed/0x714
> [<c02a6171>] ? copy_mount_options+0x28/0xfc
> [<c02a7ce3>] ? sys_mount+0x72/0xaf
> [<c0473085>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Reported-by: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.37, 2.6.36]
LKML-Reference: <20110121024918.GA29598@animx.eu.org>
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* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
block: trace event block fix unassigned field
block: add internal hd part table references
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
kref: add kref_test_and_get
bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
sd: implement sd_check_events()
sr: implement sr_check_events()
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Remove kobject.h from files which don't need it, notably,
sched.h and fs.h.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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nilfs_dat_inode function was a wrapper to switch between normal dat
inode and gcdat, a clone of the dat inode for garbage collection.
This function got obsolete when the gcdat inode was removed, and now
we can access the dat inode directly from a nilfs object. So, we will
unfold the wrapper and remove it.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This removes argument for passing nilfs_sb_info structure from
nilfs_set_file_dirty and nilfs_load_inode_block functions. We can get
a pointer to the structure from inodes.
[Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>: fix conflict with commit
b74c79e99389cd79b31fcc08f82c24e492e63c7e]
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Only mount_opt member is used in the nilfs_mount_options structure,
and we can simplify it.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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nilfs_page_get_nth_block() function used in nilfs_mdt_freeze_buffer()
always returns a valid buffer head, so its validity check can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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NILFS_LOADED flag of the nilfs object is not used now, so this will
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Will correct the following checkpatch error:
ERROR: trailing whitespace
#494: FILE: page.c:494:
+ $
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This adds fiemap to nilfs. Two new functions, nilfs_fiemap and
nilfs_find_uncommitted_extent are added.
nilfs_fiemap() implements the fiemap inode operation, and
nilfs_find_uncommitted_extent() helps to get a range of data blocks
whose physical location has not been determined.
nilfs_fiemap() collects extent information by looping through
nilfs_bmap_lookup_contig and nilfs_find_uncommitted_extent routines.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Nilfs does not allocate new blocks on disk until they are actually
written to. To implement fiemap, we need to deal with such blocks.
To allow successive fiemap patch to distinguish mapped but unallocated
regions, this marks buffer heads of those new blocks as delayed and
clears the flag after the blocks are written to disk.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Some functions using nilfs bmap routines can wrongly return invalid
argument error (i.e. -EINVAL) that bmap returns as an internal code
for btree corruption.
This fixes the issue by catching and converting the internal EINVAL to
EIO and calling nilfs_error function inside bmap routines.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Using %pV reduces the number of printk calls and
eliminates any possible message interleaving from
other printk calls.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:
- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
page lock to follow page->mapping.
The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.
In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.
The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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Make d_count non-atomic and protect it with d_lock. This allows us to ensure a
0 refcount dentry remains 0 without dcache_lock. It is also fairly natural when
we start protecting many other dentry members with d_lock.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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On 2.6.37-rc1, garbage collection ioctl of nilfs was broken due to the
commit 263d90cefc7d82a0 ("nilfs2: remove own inode hash used for GC"),
and leading to filesystem corruption.
The patch doesn't queue gc-inodes for log writer if they are reused
through the vfs inode cache. Here, gc-inode is the inode which
buffers blocks to be relocated on GC. That patch queues gc-inodes in
nilfs_init_gcinode() function, but this function is not called when
they don't have I_NEW flag. Thus, some of live blocks are wrongly
overrode without being moved to new logs.
This resolves the problem by moving the gc-inode queueing to an outer
function to ensure it's done right.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Fixes a typo: "uncommited" -> "uncommitted".
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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nilfs_iget_for_gc() returns an ERR_PTR() on failure and doesn't return
NULL.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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After recent blkdev_get() modifications, open_by_devnum() and
open_bdev_exclusive() are simple wrappers around blkdev_get().
Replace them with blkdev_get_by_dev() and blkdev_get_by_path().
blkdev_get_by_dev() is identical to open_by_devnum().
blkdev_get_by_path() is slightly different in that it doesn't
automatically add %FMODE_EXCL to @mode.
All users are converted. Most conversions are mechanical and don't
introduce any behavior difference. There are several exceptions.
* btrfs now sets FMODE_EXCL in btrfs_device->mode, so there's no
reason to OR it explicitly on blkdev_put().
* gfs2, nilfs2 and the generic mount_bdev() now set FMODE_EXCL in
sb->s_mode.
* With the above changes, sb->s_mode now always should contain
FMODE_EXCL. WARN_ON_ONCE() added to kill_block_super() to detect
errors.
The new blkdev_get_*() functions are with proper docbook comments.
While at it, add function description to blkdev_get() too.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Over time, block layer has accumulated a set of APIs dealing with bdev
open, close, claim and release.
* blkdev_get/put() are the primary open and close functions.
* bd_claim/release() deal with exclusive open.
* open/close_bdev_exclusive() are combination of open and claim and
the other way around, respectively.
* bd_link/unlink_disk_holder() to create and remove holder/slave
symlinks.
* open_by_devnum() wraps bdget() + blkdev_get().
The interface is a bit confusing and the decoupling of open and claim
makes it impossible to properly guarantee exclusive access as
in-kernel open + claim sequence can disturb the existing exclusive
open even before the block layer knows the current open if for another
exclusive access. Reorganize the interface such that,
* blkdev_get() is extended to include exclusive access management.
@holder argument is added and, if is @FMODE_EXCL specified, it will
gain exclusive access atomically w.r.t. other exclusive accesses.
* blkdev_put() is similarly extended. It now takes @mode argument and
if @FMODE_EXCL is set, it releases an exclusive access. Also, when
the last exclusive claim is released, the holder/slave symlinks are
removed automatically.
* bd_claim/release() and close_bdev_exclusive() are no longer
necessary and either made static or removed.
* bd_link_disk_holder() remains the same but bd_unlink_disk_holder()
is no longer necessary and removed.
* open_bdev_exclusive() becomes a simple wrapper around lookup_bdev()
and blkdev_get(). It also has an unexpected extra bdev_read_only()
test which probably should be moved into blkdev_get().
* open_by_devnum() is modified to take @holder argument and pass it to
blkdev_get().
Most of bdev open/close operations are unified into blkdev_get/put()
and most exclusive accesses are tested atomically at the open time (as
it should). This cleans up code and removes some, both valid and
invalid, but unnecessary all the same, corner cases.
open_bdev_exclusive() and open_by_devnum() can use further cleanup -
rename to blkdev_get_by_path() and blkdev_get_by_devt() and drop
special features. Well, let's leave them for another day.
Most conversions are straight-forward. drbd conversion is a bit more
involved as there was some reordering, but the logic should stay the
same.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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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: (52 commits)
split invalidate_inodes()
fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
fsnotify: use dget_parent
smbfs: use dget_parent
exportfs: use dget_parent
fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
fs: clean up dentry lru modification
fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
fs: simplify __d_free
fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
new helper: ihold()
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To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback
behaviour this patch adds two counters to /proc/vmstat.
# grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat
nr_dirtied 3747
# grep nr_written /proc/vmstat
nr_written 3618
These entries allow user apps to understand writeback behaviour over time
and learn how it is impacting their performance. Currently there is no
way to inspect dirty and writeback speed over time. It's not possible for
nr_dirty/nr_writeback.
These entries are necessary to give visibility into writeback behaviour.
We have /proc/diskstats which lets us understand the io in the block
layer. We have blktrace for more in depth understanding. We have
e2fsprogs and debugsfs to give insight into the file systems behaviour,
but we don't offer our users the ability understand what writeback is
doing. There is no way to know how active it is over the whole system, if
it's falling behind or to quantify it's efforts. With these values
exported users can easily see how much data applications are sending
through writeback and also at what rates writeback is processing this
data. Comparing the rates of change between the two allow developers to
see when writeback is not able to keep up with incoming traffic and the
rate of dirty memory being sent to the IO back end. This allows folks to
understand their io workloads and track kernel issues. Non kernel
engineers at Google often use these counters to solve puzzling performance
problems.
Patch #4 adds a pernode vmstat file with nr_dirtied and nr_written
Patch #5 add writeback thresholds to /proc/vmstat
Currently these values are in debugfs. But they should be promoted to
/proc since they are useful for developers who are writing databases
and file servers and are not debugging the kernel.
The output is as below:
# grep threshold /proc/vmstat
nr_pages_dirty_threshold 409111
nr_pages_dirty_background_threshold 818223
This patch:
This allows code outside of the mm core to safely manipulate page
writeback state and not worry about the other accounting. Not using these
routines means that some code will lose track of the accounting and we get
bugs.
Modify nilfs2 to use interface.
Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
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Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (36 commits)
nilfs2: eliminate sparse warning - "context imbalance"
nilfs2: eliminate sparse warnings - "symbol not declared"
nilfs2: get rid of bdi from nilfs object
nilfs2: change license of exported header file
nilfs2: add bdev freeze/thaw support
nilfs2: accept 64-bit checkpoint numbers in cp mount option
nilfs2: remove own inode allocator and destructor for metadata files
nilfs2: get rid of back pointer to writable sb instance
nilfs2: get rid of mi_nilfs back pointer to nilfs object
nilfs2: see state of root dentry for mount check of snapshots
nilfs2: use iget for all metadata files
nilfs2: get rid of GCDAT inode
nilfs2: add routines to redirect access to buffers of DAT file
nilfs2: add routines to roll back state of DAT file
nilfs2: add routines to save and restore bmap state
nilfs2: do not allocate nilfs_mdt_info structure to gc-inodes
nilfs2: allow nilfs_clear_inode to clear metadata file inodes
nilfs2: get rid of snapshot mount flag
nilfs2: simplify life cycle management of nilfs object
nilfs2: do not allocate multiple super block instances for a device
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insert sparse annotations to fix following sparse warning.
fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2681:3: warning: context imbalance in 'nilfs_segctor_kill_thread' - unexpected unlock
nilfs_segctor_kill_thread is only called inside sc_state_lock lock.
sparse doesn't detect the context and warn "unexpected unlock".
__acquires/__releases pretend to lock/unlock the sc_state_lock for sparse.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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change nilfs_dat_commit_free and nilfs_inode_cachep static
to fix following warnings
fs/nilfs2/super.c:72:19: warning: symbol 'nilfs_inode_cachep' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/nilfs2/dat.c:106:6: warning: symbol 'nilfs_dat_commit_free' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Nilfs now can use sb->s_bdi to get backing_dev_info, so we use it
instead of ns_bdi on the nilfs object and remove ns_bdi.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Nilfs hasn't supported the freeze/thaw feature because it didn't work
due to the peculiar design that multiple super block instances could
be allocated for a device. This limitation was removed by the patch
"nilfs2: do not allocate multiple super block instances for a device".
So now this adds the freeze/thaw support to nilfs.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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