A few weeks ago I posted a patch for discussion that allowed ext4 to run
without a journal. Since that time I've integrated the excellent
comments from Andreas and fixed several serious bugs. We're currently
running with this patch and generating some performance numbers against
both ext2 (with backported reservations code) and ext4 with and without
a journal. It just so happens that running without a journal is
slightly faster for most everything.
We did
iozone -T -t 4 s 2g -r 256k -T -I -i0 -i1 -i2
which creates 4 threads, each of which create and do reads and writes on
a 2G file, with a buffer size of 256K, using O_DIRECT for all file opens
to bypass the page cache. Results:
ext2 ext4, default ext4, no journal
initial writes 13.0 MB/s 15.4 MB/s 15.7 MB/s
rewrites 13.1 MB/s 15.6 MB/s 15.9 MB/s
reads 15.2 MB/s 16.9 MB/s 17.2 MB/s
re-reads 15.3 MB/s 16.9 MB/s 17.2 MB/s
random readers 5.6 MB/s 5.6 MB/s 5.7 MB/s
random writers 5.1 MB/s 5.3 MB/s 5.4 MB/s
So it seems that, so far, this was a useful exercise.
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
I chased the cause of following ext4 oops report which is tested on
ia64 box.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12018
The cause is the size of s_mb_maxs array that is defined as "unsigned
short" in ext4_sb_info structure. If the file system's block size is
8k or greater, an unsigned short is not wide enough to contain the
value fs->blocksize << 3.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
The inode table has been zeroed in setup_new_group_blocks(). Mark it as
such in ext4_group_add(). Since we are currently clearing inode table
for the new block group, we should set the EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED flag.
If at some point in the future we don't immediately zero out the inode
table as part of the resize operation, then obviously we shouldn't do
this.
Signed-off-by: Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Remove some completely unneeded code which which caused an ext4_error
to be generated when mounting a file system with only a single block
group.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
When iterating through the pages which have mapped buffer_heads, we
failed to update the b_state value. This results in allocating blocks
at logical offset 0.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
If the filesystem has errors, ext4_da_writepages() will return a *lot*
of errors, including lots and lots of stack dumps. While it's true
that we are dropping user data on the floor, which is unfortunate, the
stack dumps aren't helpful, and they tend to obscure the true original
root cause of the problem. So in the case where the filesystem has
aborted, return an EROFS right away.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The convenience function do_blk_alloc() is a static function with only
one caller, so fold it into ext4_new_meta_blocks() to simplify the
code and to make it easier to understand.
To save more stack space, if count is a null pointer in
ext4_new_meta_blocks() assume that caller wanted a single block (and
if there is an error, no blocks were allocated).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There were only two one callers of the function ext4_new_meta_block(),
which just a very simpler wrapper function around
ext4_new_meta_blocks(). Change those two functions to call
ext4_new_meta_blocks() directly, to save code and stack space usage.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There was only one caller of the compatibility function
ext4_new_blocks(), in balloc.c's ext4_alloc_blocks(). Change it to
call ext4_mb_new_blocks() directly, and remove ext4_new_blocks()
altogether. This cleans up the code, by removing two extra functions
from the call chain, and hopefully saving some stack usage.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This fixes a gcc warning but it doesn't appear able to result in a
failure, since the primary way the loop is exited is the first
conditional in the for loop, and at least for a consistent filesystem,
the signed/unsigned should in practice never be exposed.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In ext4_sync_fs, we only wait for a commit to finish if we started it,
but there may be one already in progress which will not be synced.
In the case of a data=ordered umount with pending long symlinks which
are delayed due to a long list of other I/O on the backing block
device, this causes the buffer associated with the long symlinks to
not be moved to the inode dirty list in the second phase of
fsync_super. Then, before they can be dirtied again, kjournald exits,
seeing the UMOUNT flag and the dirty pages are never written to the
backing block device, causing long symlink corruption and exposing new
or previously freed block data to userspace.
To ensure all commits are synced, we flush all journal commits now
when sync_fs'ing ext4.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Use le16_to_cpu to read the s_reserved_gdt_blocks values
from super block.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If we try to free a block which is already freed, the code was
returning without first unlocking the group.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The original ext3 hash algorithms assumed that variables of type char
were signed, as God and K&R intended. Unfortunately, this assumption
is not true on some architectures. Userspace support for marking
filesystems with non-native signed/unsigned chars was added two years
ago, but the kernel-side support was never added (until now).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/balloc.c:607: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 's64'
fs/ext4/inode.c:1822: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 's64'
fs/ext4/inode.c:1824: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 's64'
Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
As reported by Eric Paris, the capable() check in ext4_has_free_blocks()
sometimes causes SELinux denials.
We can rearrange the logic so that we only try to use the root-reserved
blocks when necessary, and even then we can move the capable() test
to last, to avoid the check most of the time.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Mingming pointed out that ext4_claim_free_blocks & ext4_has_free_blocks
are largely cut & pasted; they can be collapsed/merged as follows.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
Fix a regression caused by commit d0156417, "ext4: fix ext4_dx_readdir
hash collision handling", where deleting files in a large directory
(requiring more than one getdents system call), results in some
filenames being returned twice. This was caused by a failure to
update info->curr_hash and info->curr_minor_hash, so that if the
directory had gotten modified since the last getdents() system call
(as would be the case if the user is running "rm -r" or "git clean"),
a directory entry would get returned twice to the userspace.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch fixes the bug reported by Markus Trippelsdorf at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11844
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[ All users removed in "switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias",
aka commit 440037287c ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use fs/*/Kconfig more, which is good because everything related to one
filesystem is in one place and fs/Kconfig is quite fat.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
The multiblock allocator needs to be able to release blocks (and issue
a blkdev discard request) when the transaction which freed those
blocks is committed. Previously this was done via a polling mechanism
when blocks are allocated or freed. A much better way of doing things
is to create a jbd2 callback function and attaching the list of blocks
to be freed directly to the transaction structure.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
The range_cyclic writeback mode uses the address_space writeback_index
as the start index for writeback. With delayed allocation we were
updating writeback_index wrongly resulting in highly fragmented file.
This patch reduces the number of extents reduced from 4000 to 27 for a
3GB file.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Let the block device know when unused blocks can be discarded, using
the new sb_issue_discard() interface.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
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>
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>
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>
We need to make sure we don't reuse the data blocks released
during the transaction untill the transaction commits. We force
this mode only for ordered and journalled mode. Writeback mode
already don't provided data consistency.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
With this patch we track the block freed during a transaction using
red-black tree. We also make sure contiguous blocks freed are collected
in one node in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
We should use kmem_cache_free to free memory allocated
via kmem_cache_alloc
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
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>
ext4_ext_walk_space() was reinstated to be used for iterating over file
extents with a callback; it is used by the ext4 fiemap implementation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
ext4_xattr_set_handle() eventually ends up calling
ext4_mark_inode_dirty() which tries to expand the inode by shifting
the EAs. This leads to the xattr_sem being downed again and leading
to a deadlock.
This patch makes sure that if ext4_xattr_set_handle() is in the
call-chain, ext4_mark_inode_dirty() will not expand the inode.
Signed-off-by: Kalpak Shah <kalpak.shah@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
This fixes a bug which caused on-line resizing of filesystems with a
1k blocksize to fail. The root cause of this bug was the fact that if
an uninitalized bitmap block gets read in by userspace (which
e2fsprogs does try to avoid, but can happen when the blocksize is less
than the pagesize and an adjacent blocks is read into memory)
ext4_read_block_bitmap() was erroneously depending on the buffer
uptodate flag to decide whether it needed to initialize the bitmap
block in memory --- i.e., to set the standard set of blocks in use by
a block group (superblock, bitmaps, inode table, etc.). Essentially,
ext4_read_block_bitmap() assumed it was the only routine that might
try to read a block containing a block bitmap, which is simply not
true.
To fix this, ext4_read_block_bitmap() and ext4_read_inode_bitmap()
must always initialize uninitialized bitmap blocks. Once a block or
inode is allocated out of that bitmap, it will be marked as
initialized in the block group descriptor, so in general this won't
result any extra unnecessary work.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
Frank Mayhar