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Jiayuan ChenandTheodore Ts'o d15e4b0a41 ext4: fix use-after-free in update_super_work when racing with umount
Commit b98535d091 ("ext4: fix bug_on in start_this_handle during umount
filesystem") moved ext4_unregister_sysfs() before flushing s_sb_upd_work
to prevent new error work from being queued via /proc/fs/ext4/xx/mb_groups
reads during unmount. However, this introduced a use-after-free because
update_super_work calls ext4_notify_error_sysfs() -> sysfs_notify() which
accesses the kobject's kernfs_node after it has been freed by kobject_del()
in ext4_unregister_sysfs():

  update_super_work                ext4_put_super
  -----------------                --------------
                                   ext4_unregister_sysfs(sb)
                                     kobject_del(&sbi->s_kobj)
                                       __kobject_del()
                                         sysfs_remove_dir()
                                           kobj->sd = NULL
                                         sysfs_put(sd)
                                           kernfs_put()  // RCU free
  ext4_notify_error_sysfs(sbi)
    sysfs_notify(&sbi->s_kobj)
      kn = kobj->sd              // stale pointer
      kernfs_get(kn)             // UAF on freed kernfs_node
                                   ext4_journal_destroy()
                                     flush_work(&sbi->s_sb_upd_work)

Instead of reordering the teardown sequence, fix this by making
ext4_notify_error_sysfs() detect that sysfs has already been torn down
by checking s_kobj.state_in_sysfs, and skipping the sysfs_notify() call
in that case. A dedicated mutex (s_error_notify_mutex) serializes
ext4_notify_error_sysfs() against kobject_del() in ext4_unregister_sysfs()
to prevent TOCTOU races where the kobject could be deleted between the
state_in_sysfs check and the sysfs_notify() call.

Fixes: b98535d091 ("ext4: fix bug_on in start_this_handle during umount filesystem")
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319120336.157873-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2026-03-27 23:37:39 -04:00
Linus Torvalds bf4afc53b7 Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
Kees Cook 69050f8d6d treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
Baolin LiuandTheodore Ts'o d518215c27 ext4: add sysfs attribute err_report_sec to control s_err_report timer
Add a new sysfs attribute "err_report_sec" to control the s_err_report
timer in ext4_sb_info. Writing '0' disables the timer, while writing
a non-zero value enables the timer and sets the timeout in seconds.

Signed-off-by: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@kylinos.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211030256.28613-1-liubaolin12138@163.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-01-19 19:26:35 -05:00
Baokun LiandTheodore Ts'o cab8cbcb92 ext4: enable block size larger than page size
Since block device (See commit 3c20917120 ("block/bdev: enable large
folio support for large logical block sizes")) and page cache (See commit
ab95d23bab ("filemap: allocate mapping_min_order folios in the page
cache")) has the ability to have a minimum order when allocating folio,
and ext4 has supported large folio in commit 7ac67301e8 ("ext4: enable
large folio for regular file"), now add support for block_size > PAGE_SIZE
in ext4.

set_blocksize() -> bdev_validate_blocksize() already validates the block
size, so ext4_load_super() does not need to perform additional checks.
Here we only need to add the FS_LBS bit to fs_flags.

In addition, block sizes larger than the page size are currently supported
only when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is enabled. To make this explicit,
a blocksize_gt_pagesize entry has been added under /sys/fs/ext4/feature/,
indicating whether bs > ps is supported. This allows mke2fs to check the
interface and determine whether a warning should be issued when formatting
a filesystem with block size larger than the page size.

Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <20251121090654.631996-25-libaokun@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2025-11-28 22:35:28 -05:00
Ojaswin MujooandTheodore Ts'o 896b02d0b9 ext4: Make sb update interval tunable
Currently, outside error paths, we auto commit the super block after 1
hour has passed and 16MB worth of updates have been written since last
commit. This is a policy decision so make this tunable while keeping the
defaults same. This is useful if user wants to tweak the superblock
behavior or for debugging the codepath by allowing to trigger it more
frequently.

We can now tweak the super block update using sb_update_sec and
sb_update_kb files in /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/950fb8c9b2905620e16f02a3b9eeea5a5b6cb87e.1742279837.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2025-03-21 01:12:33 -04:00
Baokun LiandTheodore Ts'o 63bfe84105 ext4: add positive int attr pointer to avoid sysfs variables overflow
The following variables controlled by the sysfs interface are of type
int and are normally used in the range [0, INT_MAX], but are declared as
attr_pointer_ui, and thus may be set to values that exceed INT_MAX and
result in overflows to get negative values.

  err_ratelimit_burst
  msg_ratelimit_burst
  warning_ratelimit_burst
  err_ratelimit_interval_ms
  msg_ratelimit_interval_ms
  warning_ratelimit_interval_ms

Therefore, we add attr_pointer_pi (aka positive int attr pointer) with a
value range of 0-INT_MAX to avoid overflow.

Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319113325.3110393-7-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2024-05-02 23:48:30 -04:00
Baokun LiandTheodore Ts'o b7b2a5799b ext4: add new attr pointer attr_mb_order
The s_mb_best_avail_max_trim_order is of type unsigned int, and has a
range of values well beyond the normal use of the mb_order. Although the
mballoc code is careful enough that large numbers don't matter there, but
this can mislead the sysadmin into thinking that it's normal to set such
values. Hence add a new attr_id attr_mb_order with values in the range
[0, 64] to avoid storing garbage values and make us more resilient to
surprises in the future.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319113325.3110393-6-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2024-05-02 23:48:30 -04:00
Baokun LiandTheodore Ts'o 13df4d44a3 ext4: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists()
We can trigger a slab-out-of-bounds with the following commands:

    mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/$disk 10G
    mount /dev/$disk /tmp/test
    echo 2147483647 > /sys/fs/ext4/$disk/mb_group_prealloc
    echo test > /tmp/test/file && sync

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists+0x8a/0x200 [ext4]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888121b9d0f0 by task kworker/u2:0/11
CPU: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u2:0 Tainted: GL 6.7.0-next-20240118 #521
Call Trace:
 dump_stack_lvl+0x2c/0x50
 kasan_report+0xb6/0xf0
 ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists+0x8a/0x200 [ext4]
 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x19e9/0x2370 [ext4]
 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x88a/0x1370 [ext4]
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x14f7/0x2390 [ext4]
 ext4_map_blocks+0x569/0xea0 [ext4]
 ext4_do_writepages+0x10f6/0x1bc0 [ext4]
[...]
==================================================================

The flow of issue triggering is as follows:

// Set s_mb_group_prealloc to 2147483647 via sysfs
ext4_mb_new_blocks
  ext4_mb_normalize_request
    ext4_mb_normalize_group_request
      ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mb_group_prealloc
  ext4_mb_regular_allocator
    ext4_mb_choose_next_group
      ext4_mb_choose_next_group_best_avail
        mb_avg_fragment_size_order
          order = fls(len) - 2 = 29
        ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists
          frag_list = &sbi->s_mb_avg_fragment_size[order]
          if (list_empty(frag_list)) // Trigger SOOB!

At 4k block size, the length of the s_mb_avg_fragment_size list is 14,
but an oversized s_mb_group_prealloc is set, causing slab-out-of-bounds
to be triggered by an attempt to access an element at index 29.

Add a new attr_id attr_clusters_in_group with values in the range
[0, sbi->s_clusters_per_group] and declare mb_group_prealloc as
that type to fix the issue. In addition avoid returning an order
from mb_avg_fragment_size_order() greater than MB_NUM_ORDERS(sb)
and reduce some useless loops.

Fixes: 7e170922f0 ("ext4: Add allocation criteria 1.5 (CR1_5)")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319113325.3110393-5-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2024-05-02 23:48:30 -04:00
Baokun LiandTheodore Ts'o 57341fe317 ext4: refactor out ext4_generic_attr_show()
Refactor out the function ext4_generic_attr_show() to handle the reading
of values of various common types, with no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319113325.3110393-4-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2024-05-02 23:48:30 -04:00
Baokun LiandTheodore Ts'o f536808adc ext4: refactor out ext4_generic_attr_store()
Refactor out the function ext4_generic_attr_store() to handle the setting
of values of various common types, with no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319113325.3110393-3-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2024-05-02 23:48:30 -04:00
Baokun LiandTheodore Ts'o 9e8e819f8f ext4: avoid overflow when setting values via sysfs
When setting values of type unsigned int through sysfs, we use kstrtoul()
to parse it and then truncate part of it as the final set value, when the
set value is greater than UINT_MAX, the set value will not match what we
see because of the truncation. As follows:

  $ echo 4294967296 > /sys/fs/ext4/sda/mb_max_linear_groups
  $ cat /sys/fs/ext4/sda/mb_max_linear_groups
    0

So we use kstrtouint() to parse the attr_pointer_ui type to avoid the
inconsistency described above. In addition, a judgment is added to avoid
setting s_resv_clusters less than 0.

Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319113325.3110393-2-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2024-05-02 23:48:30 -04:00
Ojaswin MujooandTheodore Ts'o f52f3d2b9f ext4: Give symbolic names to mballoc criterias
mballoc criterias have historically been called by numbers
like CR0, CR1... however this makes it confusing to understand
what each criteria is about.

Change these criterias from numbers to symbolic names and add
relevant comments. While we are at it, also reformat and add some
comments to ext4_seq_mb_stats_show() for better readability.

Additionally, define CR_FAST which signifies the criteria
below which we can make quicker decisions like:
  * quitting early if (free block < requested len)
  * avoiding to scan free extents smaller than required len.
  * avoiding to initialize buddy cache and work with existing cache
  * limiting prefetches

Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a2dc6ec5aea5e5e68cf8e788c2a964ffead9c8b0.1685449706.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2023-06-26 19:34:56 -04:00
Ojaswin MujooandTheodore Ts'o 7e170922f0 ext4: Add allocation criteria 1.5 (CR1_5)
CR1_5 aims to optimize allocations which can't be satisfied in CR1. The
fact that we couldn't find a group in CR1 suggests that it would be
difficult to find a continuous extent to compleltely satisfy our
allocations. So before falling to the slower CR2, in CR1.5 we
proactively trim the the preallocations so we can find a group with
(free / fragments) big enough.  This speeds up our allocation at the
cost of slightly reduced preallocation.

The patch also adds a new sysfs tunable:

* /sys/fs/ext4/<partition>/mb_cr1_5_max_trim_order

This controls how much CR1.5 can trim a request before falling to CR2.
For example, for a request of order 7 and max trim order 2, CR1.5 can
trim this upto order 5.

Suggested-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/150fdf65c8e4cc4dba71e020ce0859bcf636a5ff.1685449706.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2023-06-26 19:34:56 -04:00
Ojaswin MujooandTheodore Ts'o 361eb69fc9 ext4: Remove the logic to trim inode PAs
Earlier, inode PAs were stored in a linked list. This caused a need to
periodically trim the list down inorder to avoid growing it to a very
large size, as this would severly affect performance during list
iteration.

Recent patches changed this list to an rbtree, and since the tree scales
up much better, we no longer need to have the trim functionality, hence
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c409addceaa3ade4b40328e28e3b54b2f259689e.1679731817.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2023-04-06 01:13:13 -04:00
Thomas WeißschuhandTheodore Ts'o 60db00e0a1 ext4: make kobj_type structures constant
Since commit ee6d3dd4ed ("driver core: make kobj_type constant.")
the driver core allows the usage of const struct kobj_type.

Take advantage of this to constify the structure definitions to prevent
modification at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230209-kobj_type-ext4-v1-1-6865fb05c1f8@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2023-03-07 20:20:48 -05:00
Kees CookandTheodore Ts'o d99a55a94a ext4: fix function prototype mismatch for ext4_feat_ktype
With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG),
indirect call targets are validated against the expected function
pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate
ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time,
which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed.

ext4_feat_ktype was setting the "release" handler to "kfree", which
doesn't have a matching function prototype. Add a simple wrapper
with the correct prototype.

This was found as a result of Clang's new -Wcast-function-type-strict
flag, which is more sensitive than the simpler -Wcast-function-type,
which only checks for type width mismatches.

Note that this code is only reached when ext4 is a loadable module and
it is being unloaded:

 CFI failure at kobject_put+0xbb/0x1b0 (target: kfree+0x0/0x180; expected type: 0x7c4aa698)
 ...
 RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0xbb/0x1b0
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ext4_exit_sysfs+0x14/0x60 [ext4]
  cleanup_module+0x67/0xedb [ext4]

Fixes: b99fee58a2 ("ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically")
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Build-tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230103234616.never.915-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104210908.gonna.388-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2023-02-19 00:09:59 -05:00
Christoph HellwigandGabriel Krisman Bertazi 5298d4bfe8 unicode: clean up the Kconfig symbol confusion
Turn the CONFIG_UNICODE symbol into a tristate that generates some always
built in code and remove the confusing CONFIG_UNICODE_UTF8_DATA symbol.

Note that a lot of the IS_ENABLED() checks could be turned from cpp
statements into normal ifs, but this change is intended to be fairly
mechanic, so that should be cleaned up later.

Fixes: 2b3d047870 ("unicode: Add utf8-data module")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
2022-01-20 19:57:24 -05:00
Lukas CzernerandTheodore Ts'o 4a69aecbfb ext4: allow to change s_last_trim_minblks via sysfs
Ext4 has an optimization mechanism for batched disacrd (FITRIM) that
should help speed up subsequent calls of FITRIM ioctl by skipping the
groups that were previously trimmed. However because the FITRIM allows
to set the minimum size of an extent to trim, ext4 stores the last
minimum extent size and only avoids trimming the group if it was
previously trimmed with minimum extent size equal to, or smaller than
the current call.

There is currently no way to bypass the optimization without
umount/mount cycle. This becomes a problem when the file system is
live migrated to a different storage, because the optimization will
prevent possibly useful discard calls to the storage.

Fix it by exporting the s_last_trim_minblks via sysfs interface which
will allow us to set the minimum size to the number of blocks larger
than subsequent FITRIM call, effectively bypassing the optimization.

By setting the s_last_trim_minblks to ULONG_MAX the optimization will be
effectively cleared regardless of the previous state, or file system
configuration.

For example:
getconf ULONG_MAX > /sys/fs/ext4/dm-1/last_trim_minblks

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211103145122.17338-2-lczerner@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2022-01-10 13:25:55 -05:00
Qing WangandTheodore Ts'o dfac1a1670 ext4: replace snprintf in show functions with sysfs_emit
coccicheck complains about the use of snprintf() in sysfs show functions.

Fix the coccicheck warning:
WARNING: use scnprintf or sprintf.

Use sysfs_emit instead of scnprintf or sprintf makes more sense.

Signed-off-by: Qing Wang <wangqing@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1634095731-4528-1-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2022-01-10 13:25:55 -05:00
Jonathan DaviesandTheodore Ts'o d578b99443 ext4: notify sysfs on errors_count value change
After s_error_count is incremented, signal the change in the
corresponding sysfs attribute via sysfs_notify. This allows userspace to
poll() on changes to /sys/fs/ext4/*/errors_count.

[ Moved call of ext4_notify_error_sysfs() to flush_stashed_error_work()
  to avoid BUG's caused by calling sysfs_notify trying to sleep after
  being called from an invalid context. -- TYT ]

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Davies <jonathan.davies@nutanix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611140209.28903-1-jonathan.davies@nutanix.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2021-06-29 21:06:02 -04:00
Daniel RosenbergandTheodore Ts'o e71f99f2df ext4: Only advertise encrypted_casefold when encryption and unicode are enabled
Encrypted casefolding is only supported when both encryption and
casefolding are both enabled in the config.

Fixes: 471fbbea7f ("ext4: handle casefolding with encryption")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.13+
Signed-off-by: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210603094849.314342-1-drosen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2021-06-06 10:10:23 -04:00
Harshad ShirwadkarandTheodore Ts'o f68f406385 ext4: add proc files to monitor new structures
This patch adds a new file "mb_structs_summary" which allows us to see
the summary of the new allocator structures added in this
series. Here's the sample output of file:

optimize_scan: 1
max_free_order_lists:
        list_order_0_groups: 0
        list_order_1_groups: 0
        list_order_2_groups: 0
        list_order_3_groups: 0
        list_order_4_groups: 0
        list_order_5_groups: 0
        list_order_6_groups: 0
        list_order_7_groups: 0
        list_order_8_groups: 0
        list_order_9_groups: 0
        list_order_10_groups: 0
        list_order_11_groups: 0
        list_order_12_groups: 0
        list_order_13_groups: 40
fragment_size_tree:
        tree_min: 16384
        tree_max: 32768
        tree_nodes: 40

Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401172129.189766-7-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2021-04-09 11:34:59 -04:00
Harshad ShirwadkarandTheodore Ts'o 196e402adf ext4: improve cr 0 / cr 1 group scanning
Instead of traversing through groups linearly, scan groups in specific
orders at cr 0 and cr 1. At cr 0, we want to find groups that have the
largest free order >= the order of the request. So, with this patch,
we maintain lists for each possible order and insert each group into a
list based on the largest free order in its buddy bitmap. During cr 0
allocation, we traverse these lists in the increasing order of largest
free orders. This allows us to find a group with the best available cr
0 match in constant time. If nothing can be found, we fallback to cr 1
immediately.

At CR1, the story is slightly different. We want to traverse in the
order of increasing average fragment size. For CR1, we maintain a rb
tree of groupinfos which is sorted by average fragment size. Instead
of traversing linearly, at CR1, we traverse in the order of increasing
average fragment size, starting at the most optimal group. This brings
down cr 1 search complexity to log(num groups).

For cr >= 2, we just perform the linear search as before. Also, in
case of lock contention, we intermittently fallback to linear search
even in CR 0 and CR 1 cases. This allows us to proceed during the
allocation path even in case of high contention.

There is an opportunity to do optimization at CR2 too. That's because
at CR2 we only consider groups where bb_free counter (number of free
blocks) is greater than the request extent size. That's left as future
work.

All the changes introduced in this patch are protected under a new
mount option "mb_optimize_scan".

With this patchset, following experiment was performed:

Created a highly fragmented disk of size 65TB. The disk had no
contiguous 2M regions. Following command was run consecutively for 3
times:

time dd if=/dev/urandom of=file bs=2M count=10

Here are the results with and without cr 0/1 optimizations introduced
in this patch:

|---------+------------------------------+---------------------------|
|         | Without CR 0/1 Optimizations | With CR 0/1 Optimizations |
|---------+------------------------------+---------------------------|
| 1st run | 5m1.871s                     | 2m47.642s                 |
| 2nd run | 2m28.390s                    | 0m0.611s                  |
| 3rd run | 2m26.530s                    | 0m1.255s                  |
|---------+------------------------------+---------------------------|

Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401172129.189766-6-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2021-04-09 11:34:59 -04:00
Harshad ShirwadkarandTheodore Ts'o a6c75eaf11 ext4: add mballoc stats proc file
Add new stats for measuring the performance of mballoc. This patch is
forked from Artem Blagodarenko's work that can be found here:

https://github.com/lustre/lustre-release/blob/master/ldiskfs/kernel_patches/patches/rhel8/ext4-simple-blockalloc.patch

This patch reorganizes the stats by cr level. This is how the output
looks like:

mballoc:
	reqs: 0
	success: 0
	groups_scanned: 0
	cr0_stats:
		hits: 0
		groups_considered: 0
		useless_loops: 0
		bad_suggestions: 0
	cr1_stats:
		hits: 0
		groups_considered: 0
		useless_loops: 0
		bad_suggestions: 0
	cr2_stats:
		hits: 0
		groups_considered: 0
		useless_loops: 0
	cr3_stats:
		hits: 0
		groups_considered: 0
		useless_loops: 0
	extents_scanned: 0
		goal_hits: 0
		2^n_hits: 0
		breaks: 0
		lost: 0
	buddies_generated: 0/40
	buddies_time_used: 0
	preallocated: 0
	discarded: 0

Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401172129.189766-4-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2021-04-09 11:34:59 -04:00