I found that ext4_ext_find_goal() and ext4_find_near()
share the same code for returning a coloured start block
based on i_block_group.
We can refactor this into a common function so that they
don't diverge in the future.
Thanks to adilger for suggesting the new function name.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch moves functions from inode.c to indirect.c.
The moved functions are ext4_ind_* functions and their helpers.
Functions called from inode.c are declared extern.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In preparation for moving the indirect functions to a separate file,
move __ext4_check_blockref() to block_validity.c and rename it to
ext4_check_blockref() which is exported as globally visible function.
Also, rename the cpp macro ext4_check_inode_blockref() to
ext4_ind_check_inode(), to make it clear that it is only valid for use
with non-extent mapped inodes.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We are about to move all indirect inode functions to a new file.
Before we do that, let's split ext4_ind_truncate() out of ext4_truncate()
leaving only generic code in the latter, so we will be able to move
ext4_ind_truncate() to the new file.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or
anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it
needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not.
This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet. I plan
to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting
this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid
tree interdependencies.
Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block. That
has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Currently, an fallocate request of size slightly larger than a power of
2 is turned into two block requests, each a power of 2, with the extra
blocks pre-allocated for future use. When an application calls
fallocate, it already has an idea about how large the file may grow so
there is usually little benefit to reserve extra blocks on the
preallocation list. This reduces disk fragmentation.
Tested: fsstress. Also verified manually that fallocat'ed files are
contiguously laid out with this change (whereas without it they begin at
power-of-2 boundaries, leaving blocks in between). CPU usage of
fallocate is not appreciably higher. In a tight fallocate loop, CPU
usage hovers between 5%-8% with this change, and 5%-7% without it.
Using a simulated file system aging program which the file system to
70%, the percentage of free extents larger than 8MB (as measured by
e2freefrag) increased from 38.8% without this change, to 69.4% with
this change.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Haldar <haldar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch adds new routines: "ext4_punch_hole" "ext4_ext_punch_hole"
and "ext4_ext_check_cache"
fallocate has been modified to call ext4_punch_hole when the punch hole
flag is passed. At the moment, we only support punching holes in
extents, so this routine is pretty much a wrapper for the ext4_ext_punch_hole
routine.
The ext4_ext_punch_hole routine first completes all outstanding writes
with the associated pages, and then releases them. The unblock
aligned data is zeroed, and all blocks in between are punched out.
The ext4_ext_check_cache routine is very similar to ext4_ext_in_cache
except it accepts a ext4_ext_cache parameter instead of a ext4_extent
parameter. This routine is used by ext4_ext_punch_hole to check and
see if a block in a hole that has been cached. The ext4_ext_cache
parameter is necessary because the members ext4_extent structure are
not large enough to hold a 32 bit value. The existing
ext4_ext_in_cache routine has become a wrapper to this new function.
[ext4 punch hole patch series 5/5 v7]
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
This patch modifies the existing ext4_block_truncate_page() function
which was used by the truncate code path, and which zeroes out block
unaligned data, by adding a new length parameter, and renames it to
ext4_block_zero_page_rage(). This function can now be used to zero out the
head of a block, the tail of a block, or the middle
of a block.
The ext4_block_truncate_page() function is now a wrapper to
ext4_block_zero_page_range().
[ext4 punch hole patch series 2/5 v7]
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
This patch adds an allocation request flag to the ext4_has_free_blocks
function which enables the use of reserved blocks. This will allow a
punch hole to proceed even if the disk is full. Punching a hole may
require additional blocks to first split the extents.
Because ext4_has_free_blocks is a low level function, the flag needs
to be passed down through several functions listed below:
ext4_ext_insert_extent
ext4_ext_create_new_leaf
ext4_ext_grow_indepth
ext4_ext_split
ext4_ext_new_meta_block
ext4_mb_new_blocks
ext4_claim_free_blocks
ext4_has_free_blocks
[ext4 punch hole patch series 1/5 v7]
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Prevent an ext4 filesystem from being mounted multiple times.
A sequence number is stored on disk and is periodically updated (every 5
seconds by default) by a mounted filesystem.
At mount time, we now wait for s_mmp_update_interval seconds to make sure
that the MMP sequence does not change.
In case of failure, the nodename, bdevname and the time at which the MMP
block was last updated is displayed.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The number of hits and misses for each filesystem is exposed in
/sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/extent_cache_{hits, misses}.
Tested: fsstress, manual checks.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Haldar <haldar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
For some reason we have been waiting for lazyinit thread to start in the
ext4_run_lazyinit_thread() but it is not needed since it was jus
unnecessary complexity, so get rid of it. We can also remove li_task and
li_wait_task since it is not used anymore.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
In order to make lazyinit eat approx. 10% of io bandwidth at max, we
are sleeping between zeroing each single inode table. For that purpose
we are using timer which wakes up thread when it expires. It is set
via add_timer() and this may cause troubles in the case that thread
has been woken up earlier and in next iteration we call add_timer() on
still running timer hence hitting BUG_ON in add_timer(). We could fix
that by using mod_timer() instead however we can use
schedule_timeout_interruptible() for waiting and hence simplifying
things a lot.
This commit exchange the old "waiting mechanism" with simple
schedule_timeout_interruptible(), setting the time to sleep. Hence we
do not longer need li_wait_daemon waiting queue and others, so get rid
of it.
Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #699708
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
In preparation for the next patch, the function ext4_add_groupblocks()
is moved to mballoc.c, where it could use some static functions.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Provide better emulation for ext[23] mode by enforcing that the file
system does not have any unsupported file system features as defined
by ext[23] when emulating the ext[23] file system driver when
CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23 is defined.
This causes the file system type information in /proc/mounts to be
correct for the automatically mounted root file system. This also
means that "mount -t ext2 /dev/sda /mnt" will fail if /dev/sda
contains an ext3 or ext4 file system, just as one would expect if the
original ext2 file system driver were in use.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned
asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated
by xfstest 240.
The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the
hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and
dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions. When
more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new"
block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated
and causes data corruption.
Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all
unaligned asynchronous direct IO. I've done the same here.
The difference is that we only wait on conversions, not all IO.
This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with
stuffing this into ext4_file_write(). But since ext4 is
DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.
I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then
we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the
work queue to do conversions - which must also take the
i_mutex. So that won't work.
This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to
a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment. I've
tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does
avoid the corruption. It is also quite a lot slower
(14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned)
but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.
Mingming suggested that we can track outstanding
conversions, and wait on those so that non-sparse
files won't be affected, and I've implemented that here;
unaligned AIO to nonsparse files won't take a perf hit.
[tytso@mit.edu: Keep the mutex as a hashed array instead
of bloating the ext4 inode]
[tytso@mit.edu: Fix up namespace issues so that global
variables are protected with an "ext4_" prefix.]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously,
while XFS forced a commit. Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC
I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE
case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes. On the
other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path
uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions. Given
that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from
an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure
available that lets us check for O_SYNC.
This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems,
and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire
up fallocate for regular files.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Ted first found the bug when running 2.6.36 kernel with dioread_nolock
mount option that xfstests #13 complained about wrong file size during fsck.
However, the bug exists in the older kernels as well although it is
somehow harder to trigger.
The problem is that ext4_end_io_work() can happen after we have truncated an
inode to a smaller size. Then when ext4_end_io_work() calls
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(), we may reallocate some blocks that have
been truncated, so the inode size becomes inconsistent with the allocated
blocks.
The following patch flushes the i_completed_io_list during truncate to reduce
the risk that some pending end_io requests are executed later and convert
already truncated blocks to initialized.
Note that although the fix helps reduce the problem a lot there may still
be a race window between vmtruncate() and ext4_end_io_work(). The fundamental
problem is that if vmtruncate() is called without either i_mutex or i_alloc_sem
held, it can race with an ongoing write request so that the io_end request is
processed later when the corresponding blocks have been truncated.
Ted and I have discussed the problem offline and we saw a few ways to fix
the race completely:
a) We guarantee that i_mutex lock and i_alloc_sem write lock are both hold
whenever vmtruncate() is called. The i_mutex lock prevents any new write
requests from entering writeback and the i_alloc_sem prevents the race
from ext4_page_mkwrite(). Currently we hold both locks if vmtruncate()
is called from do_truncate(), which is probably the most common case.
However, there are places where we may call vmtruncate() without holding
either i_mutex or i_alloc_sem. I would like to ask for other people's
opinions on what locks are expected to be held before calling vmtruncate().
There seems a disagreement among the callers of that function.
b) We change the ext4 write path so that we change the extent tree to contain
the newly allocated blocks and update i_size both at the same time --- when
the write of the data blocks is completed.
c) We add some additional locking to synchronize vmtruncate() and
ext4_end_io_work(). This approach may have performance implications so we
need to be careful.
All of the above proposals may require more substantial changes, so
we may consider to take the following patch as a bandaid.
Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Replace the jbd2_inode structure (which is 48 bytes) with a pointer
and only allocate the jbd2_inode when it is needed --- that is, when
the file system has a journal present and the inode has been opened
for writing. This allows us to further slim down the ext4_inode_info
structure.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We can store the dynamic inode state flags in the high bits of
EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags, and eliminate i_state_flags. This saves 8
bytes from the size of ext4_inode_info structure, which when
multiplied by the number of the number of in the inode cache, can save
a lot of memory.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
By reordering the elements in the ext4_inode_info structure, we can
reduce the padding needed on an x86_64 system by 16 bytes.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We can encode the ec_type information by using ee_len == 0 to denote
EXT4_EXT_CACHE_NO, ee_start == 0 to denote EXT4_EXT_CACHE_GAP, and if
neither is true, then the cache type must be EXT4_EXT_CACHE_EXTENT.
This allows us to reduce the size of ext4_ext_inode by another 8
bytes. (ec_type is 4 bytes, plus another 4 bytes of padding)
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Eric Sandeen
Amir Goldstein
Theodore Ts'o
Christoph Hellwig
Vivek Haldar
Allison Henderson
Aditya Kali
Johann Lombardi
Lukas Czerner
Akinobu Mita
Christoph Hellwig
Linus Torvalds
Jiaying Zhang