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Hidehiro Kawai
ef2cabf7c6 ext4: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext4_abort
Vegard Nossum reported a bug which accesses freed memory (found via
kmemcheck).  When journal has been aborted, ext4_put_super() calls
ext4_abort() after freeing the journal_t object, and then ext4_abort()
accesses it.  This patch fix it.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-27 22:53:05 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
2248485640 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev: (66 commits)
  [PATCH] kill the rest of struct file propagation in block ioctls
  [PATCH] get rid of struct file use in blkdev_ioctl() BLKBSZSET
  [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_locked_ioctl()
  [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_driver_ioctl()
  [PATCH] sanitize blkdev_get() and friends
  [PATCH] remember mode of reiserfs journal
  [PATCH] propagate mode through swsusp_close()
  [PATCH] propagate mode through open_bdev_excl/close_bdev_excl
  [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()
  [PATCH] kill the unused bsize on the send side of /dev/loop
  [PATCH] trim file propagation in block/compat_ioctl.c
  [PATCH] end of methods switch: remove the old ones
  [PATCH] switch sr
  [PATCH] switch sd
  [PATCH] switch ide-scsi
  [PATCH] switch tape_block
  [PATCH] switch dcssblk
  [PATCH] switch dasd
  [PATCH] switch mtd_blkdevs
  [PATCH] switch mmc
  ...
2008-10-23 10:23:07 -07:00
Al Viro
8264613def [PATCH] switch quota_on-related stuff to kern_path()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:44 -04:00
Al Viro
9a1c354276 [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:48:58 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
f287a1a561 ext4: Remove automatic enabling of the HUGE_FILE feature flag
If the HUGE_FILE feature flag is not set, don't allow the creation of
large files, instead of automatically enabling the feature flag.
Recent versions of mke2fs will set the HUGE_FILE flag automatically
anyway for ext4 filesystems.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-16 22:50:48 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
01436ef2e4 ext4: Remove unused mount options: nomballoc, mballoc, nocheck
These mount options don't actually do anything any more, so remove
them.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-17 07:22:35 -04:00
Eric Sesterhenn
5128273a32 ext4: Add missing newlines to printk messages
There are some newlines missing in ext4_check_descriptors, which
cause the printk level to be printed out when the next printk call
is made:

[  778.847265] EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 0
not in group (block 1509949442)!<3>EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
[  802.646630] EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Inode bitmap for group 0
not in group (block 9043971)!<3>EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted!

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-17 09:16:19 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
c2774d84fd ext4: Do mballoc init before doing filesystem recovery
During filesystem recovery we may be doing a truncate
which expects some of the mballoc data structures to
be initialized. So do ext4_mb_init before recovery.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 20:07:20 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
a447c09324 vfs: Use const for kernel parser table
This is a much better version of a previous patch to make the parser
tables constant. Rather than changing the typedef, we put the "const" in
all the various places where its required, allowing the __initconst
exception for nfsroot which was the cause of the previous trouble.

This was posted for review some time ago and I believe its been in -mm
since then.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:10:37 -07:00
Alexander Beregalov
3244fcb1ae ext4: fix build failure without procfs
fs/ext4/super.c: In function 'ext4_fill_super':
fs/ext4/super.c:2226: error: 'ext4_ui_proc_fops' undeclared (first use
in this function)
fs/ext4/super.c:2226: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
only once
fs/ext4/super.c:2226: error: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-12 17:27:49 -04:00
Hidehiro Kawai
5bf5683a33 ext4: add an option to control error handling on file data
If the journal doesn't abort when it gets an IO error in file data
blocks, the file data corruption will spread silently.  Because
most of applications and commands do buffered writes without fsync(),
they don't notice the IO error.  It's scary for mission critical
systems.  On the other hand, if the journal aborts whenever it gets
an IO error in file data blocks, the system will easily become
inoperable.  So this patch introduces a filesystem option to
determine whether it aborts the journal or just call printk() when
it gets an IO error in file data.

If you mount an ext4 fs with data_err=abort option, it aborts on file
data write error.  If you mount it with data_err=ignore, it doesn't
abort, just call printk().  data_err=ignore is the default.

Here is the corresponding patch of the ext3 version:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/9/9/3239374

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 22:12:43 -04:00
Hidehiro Kawai
7ffe1ea894 ext4: add checks for errors from jbd2
If the journal has aborted due to a checkpointing failure, we
have to keep the contents of the journal space.  Otherwise, the
filesystem will lose uncheckpointed metadata completely and
become inconsistent.  To avoid this, we need to keep needs_recovery
flag if checkpoint has failed.

With this patch, ext4_put_super() detects a checkpointing failure
from the return value of journal_destroy(), then it invokes
ext4_abort() to make the filesystem read only and keep
needs_recovery flag.  Errors from jbd2_journal_flush() are also
handled by this patch in some places.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 20:29:21 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
03010a3350 ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4
The ext4 filesystem is getting stable enough that it's time to drop
the "dev" prefix.  Also remove the requirement for the TEST_FILESYS
flag.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 20:02:48 -04:00
Andi Kleen
39d80c33a0 ext4: Avoid double dirtying of super block in ext4_put_super()
While reading code I noticed that ext4_put_super() dirties the 
superblock bh twice. It is always done in ext4_commit_super()
too. Remove the redundant dirty operation.
Should be a nop semantically.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-06 21:37:44 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
ede86cc473 ext4: Add debugging markers that can be used by systemtap
This debugging markers are designed to debug problems such as the
random filesystem latency problems reported by Arjan.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-05 20:50:06 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
c2ea3fde61 ext4: Remove old legacy block allocator
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 09:40:52 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
240799cdf2 ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table
With modern hard drives, reading 64k takes roughly the same time as
reading a 4k block.  So request readahead for adjacent inode table
blocks to reduce the time it takes when iterating over directories
(especially when doing this in htree sort order) in a cold cache case.
With this patch, the time it takes to run "git status" on a kernel
tree after flushing the caches via "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
is reduced by 21%.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-09 23:53:47 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
5e8814f2f7 ext4: Combine proc file handling into a single set of functions
Previously mballoc created a separate set of functions for each proc
file.  This combines the tunables into a single set of functions which
gets used for all of the per-superblock proc files, saving
approximately 2k of compiled object code.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-23 18:07:35 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
9f6200bbfc ext4: move /proc setup and teardown out of mballoc.c
...and into the core setup/teardown code in fs/ext4/super.c so that
other parts of ext4 can define tuning parameters.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-23 09:18:24 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
914258bf2c ext4/jbd2: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write to the superblock
This fixes some very common warnings reported by kerneloops.org

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-06 21:35:40 -04:00
Li Zefan
7ee1ec4ca3 ext4: add missing unlock in ext4_check_descriptors() on error path
If there group descriptors are corrupted we need unlock the block
group lock before returning from the function; else we will oops when
freeing a spinlock which is still being held.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08 10:47:19 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
05496769e5 jbd2: clean up how the journal device name is printed
Calculate the journal device name once and stash it away in the
journal_s structure.  This avoids needing to call bdevname()
everywhere and reduces stack usage by not needing to allocate an
on-stack buffer.  In addition, we eliminate the '/' that can appear in
device names (e.g. "cciss/c0d0p9" --- see kernel bugzilla #11321) that
can cause problems when creating proc directory names, and include the
inode number to support ocfs2 which creates multiple journals with
different inode numbers.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-16 14:36:17 -04:00
Frederic Bohe
c62a11fd95 Update flex_bg free blocks and free inodes counters when resizing.
This fixes a bug which prevented the newly created inodes after a
resize from being used on filesystems with flex_bg.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08 10:20:24 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
6bc6e63fcd ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting.
This patch adds dirty block accounting using percpu_counters.  Delayed
allocation block reservation is now done by updating dirty block
counter.  In a later patch we switch to non delalloc mode if the
filesystem free blocks is greater than 150% of total filesystem dirty
blocks

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao<cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 09:39:00 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
af5bc92dde ext4: Fix whitespace checkpatch warnings/errors
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08 22:25:24 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
e5f8eab885 ext4: Fix long long checkpatch warnings
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08 22:25:04 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
4776004f54 ext4: Add printk priority levels to clean up checkpatch warnings
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08 23:00:52 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
91246c0090 ext4: Initialize writeback_index to 0 when allocating a new inode
The write_cache_pages() function uses the mapping->writeback_index as
the starting index to write out when range_cyclic is set.  Properly
initialize writeback_index so that we start the writeout at index 0.

This was found when debugging the small file fragmentation on ext4.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-19 21:14:52 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8f616cd524 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: remove write-only variables from ext4_ordered_write_end
  ext4: unexport jbd2_journal_update_superblock
  ext4: Cleanup whitespace and other miscellaneous style issues
  ext4: improve ext4_fill_flex_info() a bit
  ext4: Cleanup the block reservation code path
  ext4: don't assume extents can't cross block groups when truncating
  ext4: Fix lack of credits BUG() when deleting a badly fragmented inode
  ext4: Fix ext4_ext_journal_restart()
  ext4: fix ext4_da_write_begin error path
  jbd2: don't abort if flushing file data failed
  ext4: don't read inode block if the buffer has a write error
  ext4: Don't allow lg prealloc list to be grow large.
  ext4: Convert the usage of NR_CPUS to nr_cpu_ids.
  ext4: Improve error handling in mballoc
  ext4: lock block groups when initializing
  ext4: sync up block and inode bitmap reading functions
  ext4: Allow read/only mounts with corrupted block group checksums
  ext4: Fix data corruption when writing to prealloc area
2008-08-03 10:50:44 -07:00
Al Viro
77e69dac3c [PATCH] fix races and leaks in vfs_quota_on() users
* new helper: vfs_quota_on_path(); equivalent of vfs_quota_on() sans the
  pathname resolution.
* callers of vfs_quota_on() that do their own pathname resolution and
  checks based on it are switched to vfs_quota_on_path(); that way we
  avoid the races.
* reiserfs leaked dentry/vfsmount references on several failure exits.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 11:25:25 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
2b2d6d0197 ext4: Cleanup whitespace and other miscellaneous style issues
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-26 16:15:44 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
51cc50685a SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor
Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres.  Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

Non-trivial places are:
	arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
	arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
Li Zefan
ec05e868ac ext4: improve ext4_fill_flex_info() a bit
- use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() + memset()
- improve a printk info

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-24 12:49:59 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
b5f10eed81 ext4: lock block groups when initializing
I noticed when filling a 1T filesystem with 4 threads using the
fs_mark benchmark:

fs_mark -d /mnt/test -D 256 -n 100000 -t 4 -s 20480 -F -S 0

that I occasionally got checksum mismatch errors:

EXT4-fs error (device sdb): ext4_init_inode_bitmap: Checksum bad for group 6935

etc.  I'd reliably get 4-5 of them during the run.

It appears that the problem is likely a race to init the bg's
when the uninit_bg feature is enabled.

With the patch below, which adds sb_bgl_locking around initialization,
I was able to complete several runs with no errors or warnings.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-02 21:21:08 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
8a266467b8 ext4: Allow read/only mounts with corrupted block group checksums
If the block group checksums are corrupted, still allow the mount to
succeed, so e2fsck can have a chance to try to fix things up.  Add
code in the remount r/w path to make sure the block group checksums
are valid before allowing the filesystem to be remounted read/write.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-26 14:34:21 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
e4079a11f5 ext4: do not set extents feature from the kernel
We've talked for a while about getting rid of any feature-
setting from the kernel; this gets rid of the code which would
set the INCOMPAT_EXTENTS flag on the first file write when mounted
as ext4[dev].

With this patch, if the extents feature is not already set on disk,
then mounting as ext4 will fall back to noextents with a warning,
and if -o extents is explicitly requested, the mount will fail,
also with warning.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
c07651b556 ext4: Don't allow nonextenst mount option for large filesystem
The block mapped inode format can address only blocks within 2**32. This
causes a number of issues, the biggest of which is that the block
allocator needs to be taught that certain inodes can not utilize block
numbers > 2**32.  So until this is fixed, it is simplest to fail
mounting of file systems with more than 2**32 blocks if the -o noextents
option is given.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
dd919b9822 ext4: Enable delalloc by default.
Enable delalloc by default to ensure it gets sufficient testing and
because it makes the filesystem much more efficient.  Add a nodealalloc
option to disable delayed allocation, and update ext4_show_options to
show delayed allocation off if it is disabled.

If the data=journal mount option is used, disable delayed allocation
since the delalloc code doesn't support data=journal yet.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Mingming Cao
d2a1763791 ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling
This patch does block reservation for delayed
allocation, to avoid ENOSPC later at page flush time.

Blocks(data and metadata) are reserved at da_write_begin()
time, the freeblocks counter is updated by then, and the number of
reserved blocks is store in per inode counter.
        
At the writepage time, the unused reserved meta blocks are returned
back. At unlink/truncate time, reserved blocks are properly released.

Updated fix from  Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
to fix the oldallocator block reservation accounting with delalloc, added
lock to guard the counters and also fix the reservation for meta blocks.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-14 17:52:37 -04:00
Alex Tomas
64769240bd ext4: Add delayed allocation support in data=writeback mode
Updated with fixes from Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> to unlock and
release the page from page cache if the delalloc write_begin failed, and
properly handle preallocated blocks.  Also added a fix to clear
buffer_delay in block_write_full_page() after allocating a delayed
buffer.

Updated with fixes from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
to update i_disksize properly and to add bmap support for delayed
allocation.

Updated with a fix from Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net> to
avoid filesystem corruption when the filesystem is mounted with the
delalloc option and blocksize < pagesize.

Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by:  Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Jan Kara
678aaf4814 ext4: Use new framework for data=ordered mode in JBD2
This patch makes ext4 use inode-based implementation of data=ordered mode
in JBD2. It allows us to unify some data=ordered and data=writeback paths
(especially writepage since we don't have to start a transaction anymore)
and remove some buffer walking.

Updated fix from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
to fix file system hang due to corrupt jinode values.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Jan Kara
47b4a50beb ext4: Set journal pointer to NULL when journal is released
Set sbi->s_journal to NULL after we call journal_destroy(). This
will be later needed because after journal_destroy() is called,
ext4_clear_inode() can still be called for some inodes (e.g. root
inode) and we'll need to detect there that journal doesn't exists
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
7477827f66 ext4: Fix sparse warning
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Li Zefan
f9a8ac99fd ext4: remove redundant code in ext4_fill_super()
The previous sb_min_blocksize() has already set the block size.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Jose R. Santos
772cb7c83b ext4: New inode allocation for FLEX_BG meta-data groups.
This patch mostly controls the way inode are allocated in order to
make ialloc aware of flex_bg block group grouping.  It achieves this
by bypassing the Orlov allocator when block group meta-data are packed
toghether through mke2fs.  Since the impact on the block allocator is
minimal, this patch should have little or no effect on other block
allocation algorithms. By controlling the inode allocation, it can
basically control where the initial search for new block begins and
thus indirectly manipulate the block allocator.

This allocator favors data and meta-data locality so the disk will
gradually be filled from block group zero upward.  This helps improve
performance by reducing seek time.  Since the group of inode tables
within one flex_bg are treated as one giant inode table, uninitialized
block groups would not need to partially initialize as many inode
table as with Orlov which would help fsck time as the filesystem usage
goes up.

Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
7ad72ca60b ext4: Remove unused variable from ext4_show_options
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Jan Kara
4d04e4fbf8 ext4: add missing unlock to an error path in ext4_quota_write()
When write in ext4_quota_write() fails, we have to properly release
i_mutex.  One error path has been missing the unlock...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04 10:40:05 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
571640cad3 ext4: enable barriers by default
I can't think of any valid reason for ext4 to not use barriers when
they are available;  I believe this is necessary for filesystem
integrity in the face of a volatile write cache on storage.

An administrator who trusts that the cache is sufficiently battery-
backed (and power supplies are sufficiently redundant, etc...)
can always turn it back off again.

SuSE has carried such a patch for ext3 for quite some time now.

Also document the mount option while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-05-26 12:29:46 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
cd0b6a39a1 ext4: Display the journal_async_commit mount option in /proc/mounts
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Girish Shilamkar <girish@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-05-26 10:28:28 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
624080eded jbd2: If a journal checksum error is detected, propagate the error to ext4
If a journal checksum error is detected, the ext4 filesystem will call
ext4_error(), and the mount will either continue, become a read-only
mount, or cause a kernel panic based on the superblock flags
indicating the user's preference of what to do in case of filesystem
corruption being detected.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-06-06 17:50:40 -04:00