This patch fixes the warning "Using plain integer as NULL pointer",
generated by sparse, by replacing the offending 0s with NULL.
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
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>
Instead of various home grown checks that might need updates for new
flags just check for any bit outside the mask of the features supported
by the filesystem. This makes the check future proof for any newly
added flag.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (41 commits)
fs: add documentation on fallocate hole punching
Gfs2: fail if we try to use hole punch
Btrfs: fail if we try to use hole punch
Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch
Ocfs2: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
XFS: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
fs: add hole punching to fallocate
vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens (try #2)
fix signedness mess in rw_verify_area() on 64bit architectures
fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::prepend_path
fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::d_validate
sanitize ecryptfs ->mount()
switch afs
move internal-only parts of ncpfs headers to fs/ncpfs
switch ncpfs
switch 9p
pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()
switch hostfs
switch affs
switch configfs
...
Ext4 doesn't have the ability to punch holes yet, so make sure we return
EOPNOTSUPP if we try to use hole punching through fallocate. This support can
be added later. Thanks,
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Since check_eofblocks_fl() only uses the m_lblk portion of the map
structure, we may as well pass that directly, rather than passing the
entire map, which IMHO obfuscates what parameters check_eofblocks_fl()
cares about. Not a big deal, but seems tidier and less confusing, to
me.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
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>
This fixes a number of places where we used sector_t instead of
ext4_lblk_t for logical blocks, which for ext4 are still 32-bit data
types. No point wasting space in the ext4_inode_info structure, and
requiring 64-bit arithmetic on 32-bit systems, when it isn't
necessary.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_ext_find_goal() returns an ideal physical block number that the block
allocator tries to allocate first. However, if a required file offset is
smaller than the existing extent's one, ext4_ext_find_goal() returns
a wrong block number because it may overflow at
"block - le32_to_cpu(ex->ee_block)". This patch fixes the problem.
ext4_ext_find_goal() will also return a wrong block number in case
a file offset of the existing extent is too big. In this case,
the ideal physical block number is fixed in ext4_mb_initialize_context(),
so it's no problem.
reproduce:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/mp1/tmp bs=127M count=1 oflag=sync
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/mp1/file bs=512K count=1 seek=1 oflag=sync
# filefrag -v /mnt/mp1/file
Filesystem type is: ef53
File size of /mnt/mp1/file is 1048576 (256 blocks, blocksize 4096)
ext logical physical expected length flags
0 128 67456 128 eof
/mnt/mp1/file: 2 extents found
# rm -rf /mnt/mp1/tmp
# echo $((512*4096)) > /sys/fs/ext4/loop0/mb_stream_req
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/mp1/file bs=512K count=1 oflag=sync conv=notrunc
result (linux-2.6.37-rc2 + ext4 patch queue):
# filefrag -v /mnt/mp1/file
Filesystem type is: ef53
File size of /mnt/mp1/file is 1048576 (256 blocks, blocksize 4096)
ext logical physical expected length flags
0 0 33280 128
1 128 67456 33407 128 eof
/mnt/mp1/file: 2 extents found
result(apply this patch):
# filefrag -v /mnt/mp1/file
Filesystem type is: ef53
File size of /mnt/mp1/file is 1048576 (256 blocks, blocksize 4096)
ext logical physical expected length flags
0 0 66560 128
1 128 67456 66687 128 eof
/mnt/mp1/file: 2 extents found
Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When I compiled 2.6.36-rc3 kernel with EXT4FS_DEBUG definition, I got
the following compile error.
CC [M] fs/ext4/extents.o
fs/ext4/extents.c: In function 'ext4_fallocate':
fs/ext4/extents.c:3772: error: 'block' undeclared (first use in this function)
fs/ext4/extents.c:3772: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
fs/ext4/extents.c:3772: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [fs/ext4/extents.o] Error 1
The patch fixes this problem.
Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cleanup namespace leaks from fs/ext4 and the inline trivial functions
ext4_{ext,idx}_pblock() and ext4_{ext,idx}_store_pblock() since the
code size actually shrinks when we make these functions inline,
they're so trivial.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
These functions have no need to be exported beyond file context.
No functions needed to be moved for this commit; just some function
declarations changed to be static and removed from header files.
(A similar patch was submitted by Eric Sandeen, but I wanted to handle
code movement in separate patches to make sure code changes didn't
accidentally get dropped.)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Call the block I/O layer directly instad of going through the buffer
layer. This should give us much better performance and scalability,
as well as lowering our CPU utilization when doing buffered writeback.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Change ext4_ext_zeroout to use sb_issue_zeroout instead of its
own approach to zero out extents.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
It turns out we have several problems with how EOFBLOCKS_FL is
handled. First of all, there was a fencepost error where we were not
clearing the EOFBLOCKS_FL when fill in the last uninitialized block,
but rather when we allocate the next block _after_ the uninitalized
block. Secondly we were not testing to see if we needed to clear the
EOFBLOCKS_FL when writing to the file O_DIRECT or when were converting
an uninitialized block (which is the most common case).
Google-Bug-Id: 2928259
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (40 commits)
ext4: Adding error check after calling ext4_mb_regular_allocator()
ext4: Fix dirtying of journalled buffers in data=journal mode
ext4: re-inline ext4_rec_len_(to|from)_disk functions
jbd2: Remove t_handle_lock from start_this_handle()
jbd2: Change j_state_lock to be a rwlock_t
jbd2: Use atomic variables to avoid taking t_handle_lock in jbd2_journal_stop
ext4: Add mount options in superblock
ext4: force block allocation on quota_off
ext4: fix freeze deadlock under IO
ext4: drop inode from orphan list if ext4_delete_inode() fails
ext4: check to make make sure bd_dev is set before dereferencing it
jbd2: Make barrier messages less scary
ext4: don't print scary messages for allocation failures post-abort
ext4: fix EFBIG edge case when writing to large non-extent file
ext4: fix ext4_get_blocks references
ext4: Always journal quota file modifications
ext4: Fix potential memory leak in ext4_fill_super
ext4: Don't error out the fs if the user tries to make a file too big
ext4: allocate stripe-multiple IOs on stripe boundaries
ext4: move aio completion after unwritten extent conversion
...
Fix up conflicts in fs/ext4/inode.c as per Ted.
Fix up xfs conflicts as per earlier xfs merge.
No real bugs found, just removed some dead code.
Found by gcc 4.6's new warnings.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If i_data_sem was internally dropped due to transaction restart, it is
necessary to restart path look-up because extents tree was possibly
modified by ext4_get_block().
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15827
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Dimitry Monakhov discovered an edge case where it was possible for the
EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL flag could get cleared unnecessarily. This is true;
I have a test case that can be exercised via downloading and
decompressing the file:
wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/ext4-testcases/eofblocks-fl-test-case.img.bz2
bunzip2 eofblocks-fl-test-case.img
dd if=/dev/zero of=eofblocks-fl-test-case.img bs=1k seek=17925 bs=1k count=1 conv=notrunc
However, triggering it in real life is highly unlikely since it
requires an extremely fragmented sparse file with a hole in exactly
the right place in the extent tree. (It actually took quite a bit of
work to generate this test case.) Still, it's nice to get even
extreme corner cases to be correct, so this patch makes sure that we
don't clear the EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL incorrectly even in this corner
case.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If the EOFBLOCK_FL flag is set when it should not be and the inode is
zero length, then eh_entries is zero, and ex is NULL, so dereferencing
ex to print ex->ee_block causes a kernel OOPS in
ext4_ext_map_blocks().
On top of that, the error message which is printed isn't very helpful.
So we fix this by printing something more explanatory which doesn't
involve trying to print ex->ee_block.
Addresses-Google-Bug: #2655740
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
At several places we modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags without holding
i_mutex (ext4_do_update_inode, ...). These modifications are racy and
we can lose updates to i_flags. So convert handling of i_flags to use
bitops which are atomic.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15792
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
EXT4_ERROR_INODE() tends to provide better error information and in a
more consistent format. Some errors were not even identifying the inode
or directory which was corrupted, which made them not very useful.
Addresses-Google-Bug: #2507977
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This saves a huge amount of stack space by avoiding unnecesary struct
buffer_head's from being allocated on the stack.
In addition, to make the code easier to understand, collapse and
refactor ext4_get_block(), ext4_get_block_write(),
noalloc_get_block_write(), into a single function.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Jack up ext4_get_blocks() and add a new function, ext4_map_blocks()
which uses a much smaller structure, struct ext4_map_blocks which is
20 bytes, as opposed to a struct buffer_head, which nearly 5 times
bigger on an x86_64 machine. By switching things to use
ext4_map_blocks(), we can save stack space by using ext4_map_blocks()
since we can avoid allocating a struct buffer_head on the stack.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently using posix_fallocate one can bypass an RLIMIT_FSIZE limit
and create a file larger than the limit. Add a check for that.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The extents code will sometimes zero out blocks and mark them as
initialized instead of splitting an extent into several smaller ones.
This optimization however, causes problems if the extent is beyond
i_size because fsck will complain if there are uninitialized blocks
after i_size as this can not be distinguished from an inode that has
an incorrect i_size field.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15742
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When EIO occurs after bio is submitted, there is no memory free
operation for bio, which results in memory leakage. And there is also
no check against bio_alloc() for bio.
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang <zj.barak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Calls to ext4_get_inode_loc() returns with a reference to a buffer
head in iloc->bh. The callers of this function in ext4_write_inode()
when in no journal mode and in ext4_xattr_fiemap() don't release the
buffer head after using it.
Addresses-Google-Bug: #2548165
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There are duplicate macro definitions of in_range() in mballoc.h and
balloc.c. This consolidates these two definitions into ext4.h, and
changes extents.c to use in_range() as well.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
This is a cleanup and simplification patch which takes some open-coded
calculations to calculate the first block number of a group and
converts them to use the (already defined) ext4_group_first_block_no()
function.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Convert a bunch of BUG_ONs to emit a ext4_error() message and return
EIO. This is a first pass and most notably does _not_ cover
mballoc.c, which is a morass of void functions.
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Allocate uninitialized extent before ext4 buffer write and
convert the extent to initialized after io completes.
The purpose is to make sure an extent can only be marked
initialized after it has been written with new data so
we can safely drop the i_mutex lock in ext4 DIO read without
exposing stale data. This helps to improve multi-thread DIO
read performance on high-speed disks.
Skip the nobh and data=journal mount cases to make things simple for now.
Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This commit renames some of the direct I/O's block allocation flags,
variables, and functions introduced in Mingming's "Direct IO for holes
and fallocate" patches so that they can be used by ext4's buffered
write path as well. Also changed the related function comments
accordingly to cover both direct write and buffered write cases.
Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fallocate() may potentially instantiate blocks past EOF, depending
on the flags used when it is called.
e2fsck currently has a test for blocks past i_size, and it
sometimes trips up - noticeably on xfstests 013 which runs fsstress.
This patch from Jiayang does fix it up - it (along with
e2fsprogs updates and other patches recently from Aneesh) has
survived many fsstress runs in a row.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_fiemap() rounds the length of the requested range down to
blocksize, which is is not the true number of blocks that cover the
requested region. This problem is especially impressive if the user
requests only the first byte of a file: not a single extent will be
reported.
We fix this by calculating the last block of the region and then
subtract to find the number of blocks in the extents.
Signed-off-by: Leonard Michlmayr <leonard.michlmayr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Just a pet peeve of mine; we had a mishash of calls with either __func__
or "function_name" and the latter tends to get out of sync.
I think it's easier to just hide the __func__ in a macro, and it'll
be consistent from then on.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
At several places we modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_state without holding
i_mutex (ext4_release_file, ext4_bmap, ext4_journalled_writepage,
ext4_do_update_inode, ...). These modifications are racy and we can
lose updates to i_state. So convert handling of i_state to use bitops
which are atomic.
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The "offset" member in ext4_io_end holds bytes, not blocks, so
ext4_lblk_t is wrong - and too small (u32).
This caused the async i/o writes to sparse files beyond 4GB to fail
when they wrapped around to 0.
Also fix up the type of arguments to ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(),
it gets ssize_t from ext4_end_aio_dio_nolock() and
ext4_ext_direct_IO().
Reported-by: Giel de Nijs <giel@vectorwise.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
We should update reserve space if it is delalloc buffer
and that is indicated by EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_DELALLOC_RESERVE flag.
So use EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_DELALLOC_RESERVE in place of
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_UPDATE_RESERVE_SPACE
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When we fallocate a region of the file which we had recently written,
and which is still in the page cache marked as delayed allocated blocks
we need to make sure we don't do the quota update on writepage path.
This is because the needed quota updated would have already be done
by fallocate.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In the past, ext4_calc_metadata_amount(), and its sub-functions
ext4_ext_calc_metadata_amount() and ext4_indirect_calc_metadata_amount()
badly over-estimated the number of metadata blocks that might be
required for delayed allocation blocks. This didn't matter as much
when functions which managed the reserved metadata blocks were more
aggressive about dropping reserved metadata blocks as delayed
allocation blocks were written, but unfortunately they were too
aggressive. This was fixed in commit 0637c6f, but as a result the
over-estimation by ext4_calc_metadata_amount() would lead to reserving
2-3 times the number of pending delayed allocation blocks as
potentially required metadata blocks. So if there are 1 megabytes of
blocks which have been not yet been allocation, up to 3 megabytes of
space would get reserved out of the user's quota and from the file
system free space pool until all of the inode's data blocks have been
allocated.
This commit addresses this problem by much more accurately estimating
the number of metadata blocks that will be required. It will still
somewhat over-estimate the number of blocks needed, since it must make
a worst case estimate not knowing which physical blocks will be
needed, but it is much more accurate than before.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This fixes a bug (found by Curt Wohlgemuth) in which new blocks
returned from an extent created with ext4_ext_zeroout() can have dirty
metadata still associated with them.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch fixes the Kernel BZ #14286. When the address of an extent
corresponding to a valid block is corrupted, a -EIO should be reported
instead of a BUG(). This situation should not normally not occur
except in the case of a corrupted filesystem. If however it does,
then the system should not panic directly but depending on the mount
time options appropriate action should be taken. If the mount options
so permit, the I/O should be gracefully aborted by returning a -EIO.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14286
Signed-off-by: Surbhi Palande <surbhi.palande@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We cannot rely on buffer dirty bits during fsync because pdflush can come
before fsync is called and clear dirty bits without forcing a transaction
commit. What we do is that we track which transaction has last changed
the inode and which transaction last changed allocation and force it to
disk on fsync.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently all quota block reservation macros contains hard-coded "2"
aka MAXQUOTAS value. This is no good because in some places it is not
obvious to understand what does this digit represent. Let's introduce
new macro with self descriptive name.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add the facility for ext4_forget() to be called from
ext4_free_blocks(). This simplifies the code in a large number of
places, and centralizes most of the work of calling ext4_forget() into
a single place.
Also fix a bug in the extents migration code; it wasn't calling
ext4_forget() when releasing the indirect blocks during the
conversion. As a result, if the system cashed during or shortly after
the extents migration, and the released indirect blocks get reused as
data blocks, the journal replay would corrupt the data blocks. With
this new patch, fixing this bug was as simple as adding the
EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_FORGET flags to the call to ext4_free_blocks().
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When an inode gets unlinked, the functions ext4_clear_blocks() and
ext4_remove_blocks() call ext4_forget() for all the buffer heads
corresponding to the deleted inode's data blocks. If the inode is a
directory or a symlink, the is_metadata parameter must be non-zero so
ext4_forget() will revoke them via jbd2_journal_revoke(). Otherwise,
if these blocks are reused for a data file, and the system crashes
before a journal checkpoint, the journal replay could end up
corrupting these data blocks.
Thanks to Curt Wohlgemuth for pointing out potential problems in this
area.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
To prepare for a direct I/O write, we need to split the unwritten
extents before submitting the I/O. When no extents needed to be
split, ext4_split_unwritten_extents() was incorrectly returning 0
instead of the size of uninitialized extents. This bug caused the
wrong return value sent back to VFS code when it gets called from
async IO path, leading to an unnecessary fall back to buffered IO.
This bug also hid the fact that the check to see whether or not a
split would be necessary was incorrect; we can only skip splitting the
extent if the write completely covers the uninitialized extent.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
At the end of direct I/O operation, ext4_ext_direct_IO() always called
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(), regardless of whether there were any
unwritten extents involved in the I/O or not.
This commit adds a state flag so that ext4_ext_direct_IO() only calls
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents() when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
After a direct I/O request covering an uninitalized extent (i.e.,
created using the fallocate system call) or a hole in a file, ext4
will convert the uninitialized extent so it is marked as initialized
by calling ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(). This function returns
zero on success.
This return value was getting returned by ext4_direct_IO(); however
the file system's direct_IO function is supposed to return the number
of bytes read or written on a success. By returning zero, it confused
the direct I/O code into falling back to buffered I/O unnecessarily.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There are a number of kernel printk's which are printed when an ext4
filesystem is mounted and unmounted. Disable them to economize space
in the system logs. In addition, disabling the mballoc stats by
default saves a number of unneeded atomic operations for every block
allocation or deallocation.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
For async direct IO that covers holes or fallocate, the end_io
callback function now queued the convertion work on workqueue but
don't flush the work rightaway as it might take too long to afford.
But when fsync is called after all the data is completed, user expects
the metadata also being updated before fsync returns.
Thus we need to flush the conversion work when fsync() is called.
This patch keep track of a listed of completed async direct io that
has a work queued on workqueue. When fsync() is called, it will go
through the list and do the conversion.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
When writing into an unitialized extent via direct I/O, and the direct
I/O doesn't exactly cover the unitialized extent, split the extent
into uninitialized and initialized extents before submitting the I/O.
This avoids needing to deal with an ENOSPC error in the end_io
callback that gets used for direct I/O.
When the IO is complete, the written extent will be marked as initialized.
Singed-Off-By: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The extents sanity-checking code depends on the ext4_ext_space_*()
functions returning the maximum alloable size for eh_max; however,
when the debugging #ifdef AGGRESSIVE_TEST is enabled to test the
extent tree handling code, this prevents a normally created ext4
filesystem from being mounted with the errors:
Aug 26 15:43:50 bsd086 kernel: [ 96.070277] EXT4-fs error (device sda8): ext4_ext_check_inode: bad header/extent in inode #8: too large eh_max - magic f30a, entries 1, max 4(3), depth 0(0)
Aug 26 15:43:50 bsd086 kernel: [ 96.070526] EXT4-fs (sda8): no journal found
Bug reported by Akira Fujita.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
During truncate we are sometimes forced to start a new transaction as
the amount of blocks to be journaled is both quite large and hard to
predict. So far we restarted a transaction while holding i_data_sem
and that violates lock ordering because i_data_sem ranks below a
transaction start (and it can lead to a real deadlock with
ext4_get_blocks() mapping blocks in some page while having a
transaction open).
We fix the problem by dropping the i_data_sem before restarting the
transaction and acquire it afterwards. It's slightly subtle that this
works:
1) By the time ext4_truncate() is called, all the page cache for the
truncated part of the file is dropped so get_block() should not be
called on it (we only have to invalidate extent cache after we
reacquire i_data_sem because some extent from not-truncated part could
extend also into the part we are going to truncate).
2) Writes, migrate or defrag hold i_mutex so they are stopped for all
the time of the truncate.
This bug has been found and analyzed by Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_ext_show_leaf() will display the leaf extents when extent
debugging is enabled.
Printing out the unwritten bit is useful for debugging unwritten
extent, allow us to see the unwritten extents vs written extents,
after the unwritten extents are splitted or converted.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
When EXT_DEBUG is enabled I received the following compile warning on
PPC64:
CC [M] fs/ext4/inode.o
CC [M] fs/ext4/extents.o
fs/ext4/extents.c: In function ‘ext4_ext_rm_leaf’:
fs/ext4/extents.c:2097: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘ext4_lblk_t’
fs/ext4/extents.c: In function ‘ext4_ext_get_blocks’:
fs/ext4/extents.c:2789: warning: format ‘%u’ expects type ‘unsigned int’, but argument 4 has type ‘long unsigned int’
fs/ext4/extents.c:2852: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 3 has type ‘ext4_lblk_t’
fs/ext4/extents.c:2953: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 4 has type ‘unsigned int’
CC [M] fs/ext4/migrate.o
The patch fixes compile warning.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Index: linux-2.6.31-rc4/fs/ext4/extents.c
===================================================================
When we have space in the extent tree leaf node we should be able to
insert the extent with much less journal credits. The code was doing
proper calculation but missed a return statement.
Reported-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT exchanges the blocks between orig_fd and donor_fd,
and then write the file data of orig_fd to donor_fd.
ext4_mext_move_extent() is the main fucntion of ext4 online defrag,
and this patch includes all functions related to ext4 online defrag.
Signed-off-by: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The unitialized bit was not properly getting preserved in in an extent
which is partially truncated because the it was geting set to the
value of the first extent to be removed or truncated as part of the
truncate operation, and if there are multiple extents are getting
removed or modified as part of the truncate operation, it is only the
last extent which will might be partially truncated, and its
uninitalized bit is not necessarily the same as the first extent to be
truncated.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Get rid of EXTEND_DISKSIZE flag of ext4_get_blocks_handle(). This
seems to be a relict from some old days and setting disksize in this
function does not make much sense. Currently it was set only by
ext4_getblk(). Since the parameter has some effect only if create ==
1, it is easy to check by grepping through the sources that the three
callers which end up calling ext4_getblk() with create == 1
(ext4_append, ext4_quota_write, ext4_mkdir) do the right thing and set
disksize themselves.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Not sure why I put this in as down_write originally; all we are
doing is walking the tree, nothing will change under us and
concurrent reads should be no problem.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To catch filesystem bugs or corruption which could lead to the
filesystem getting severly damaged, this patch adds a facility for
tracking all of the filesystem metadata blocks by contiguous regions
in a red-black tree. This allows quick searching of the tree to
locate extents which might overlap with filesystem metadata blocks.
This facility is also used by the multi-block allocator to assure that
it is not allocating blocks out of the system zone, as well as by the
routines used when reading indirect blocks and extents information
from disk to make sure their contents are valid.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The functions ext4_get_blocks(), ext4_ext_get_blocks(), and
ext4_ind_get_blocks() used an ad-hoc set of integer variables used as
boolean flags passed in as arguments. Use a single flags parameter
and a setandard set of bitfield flags instead. This saves space on
the call stack, and it also makes the code a bit more understandable.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Another function rename for clarity's sake. The _wrap prefix simply
confuses people, and didn't add much people trying to follow the code
paths.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If the file's blocks have not yet been allocated because of delayed
allocation, the length of the extent returned by fiemap is incorrect.
This commit fixes this bug.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Carl Henrik Lunde reported and debugged this; the test for the
last allocated block was comparing bytes to blocks in this test:
if (logical + length - 1 == EXT_MAX_BLOCK ||
ext4_ext_next_allocated_block(path) == EXT_MAX_BLOCK)
flags |= FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST;
so any extent which ended right at 4G was stopping the extent
walk. Just replacing these values with the extent block &
length should fix it.
Also give blksize_bits a saner type, and reverse the order
of the tests to make the more likely case tested first.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Carl Henrik Lunde <chlunde@ping.uio.no>
Tested-by: Carl Henrik Lunde <chlunde@ping.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Setting BH_Unwritten buffer_heads as BH_Mapped avoids multiple
(unnecessary) calls to get_block() during the call to the write(2)
system call. Setting BH_Unwritten buffer heads as BH_Mapped requires
that the writepages() functions can handle BH_Unwritten buffer_heads.
After this commit, things work as follows:
ext4_ext_get_block() returns unmapped, unwritten, buffer head when
called with create = 0 for prealloc space. This makes sure we handle
the read path and non-delayed allocation case correctly. Even though
the buffer head is marked unmapped we have valid b_blocknr and b_bdev
values in the buffer_head.
ext4_da_get_block_prep() called for block resrevation will now return
mapped, unwritten, new buffer_head for prealloc space. This avoids
multiple calls to get_block() for write to same offset. By making such
buffers as BH_New, we also assure that sub-block zeroing of buffered
writes happens correctly.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
These struct buffer_heads are allocated on the stack (and hence are
initialized with stack garbage). They are only used to call a
get_blocks() function, so that's mostly OK, but b_state must be
initialized to be 0 so we don't have any unexpected BH_* flags set by
accident, such as BH_Unwritten or BH_Delay.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If two CPU's simultaneously call ext4_ext_get_blocks() at the same
time, there is nothing protecting the i_cached_extent structure from
being used and updated at the same time. This could potentially cause
the wrong location on disk to be read or written to, including
potentially causing the corruption of the block group descriptors
and/or inode table.
This bug has been in the ext4 code since almost the very beginning of
ext4's development. Fortunately once the data is stored in the page
cache cache, ext4_get_blocks() doesn't need to be called, so trying to
replicate this problem to the point where we could identify its root
cause was *extremely* difficult. Many thanks to Kevin Shanahan for
working over several months to be able to reproduce this easily so we
could finally nail down the cause of the corruption.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
We need to mark the buffer_head mapping preallocated space as new
during write_begin. Otherwise we don't zero out the page cache content
properly for a partial write. This will cause file corruption with
preallocation.
Now that we mark the buffer_head new we also need to have a valid
buffer_head blocknr so that unmap_underlying_metadata() unmaps the
correct block.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: Fix potential inode allocation soft lockup in Orlov allocator
ext4: Make the extent validity check more paranoid
jbd: use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG when writing synchronous revoke records
jbd2: use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG when writing synchronous revoke records
ext4: really print the find_group_flex fallback warning only once
Instead of just checking that the extent block number is greater or
equal than s_first_data_block, make sure it it is not pointing into
the block group descriptors, since that is clearly wrong. This helps
prevent filesystem from getting very badly corrupted in case an extent
block is corrupted.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Make sure we validate extent details only when read from the disk.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch adds checks to validate the extent entries along with extent
headers, to avoid crashes caused by corrupt filesystems.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The find_group_flex() inode allocator is now only used if the
filesystem is mounted using the "oldalloc" mount option. It is
replaced with the original Orlov allocator that has been updated for
flex_bg filesystems (it should behave the same way if flex_bg is
disabled). The inode allocator now functions by taking into account
each flex_bg group, instead of each block group, when deciding whether
or not it's time to allocate a new directory into a fresh flex_bg.
The block allocator has also been changed so that the first block
group in each flex_bg is preferred for use for storing directory
blocks. This keeps directory blocks close together, which is good for
speeding up e2fsck since large directories are more likely to look
like this:
debugfs: stat /home/tytso/Maildir/cur
Inode: 1844562 Type: directory Mode: 0700 Flags: 0x81000
Generation: 1132745781 Version: 0x00000000:0000ad71
User: 15806 Group: 15806 Size: 1060864
File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0
Links: 2 Blockcount: 2072
Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0
ctime: 0x499c0ff4:164961f4 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
atime: 0x499c0ff4:00000000 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
mtime: 0x49957f51:00000000 -- Fri Feb 13 09:10:25 2009
crtime: 0x499c0f57:00d51440 -- Wed Feb 18 08:38:31 2009
Size of extra inode fields: 28
BLOCKS:
(0):7348651, (1-258):7348654-7348911
TOTAL: 259
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The ext4_ext_search_right() function is confusing; it uses a
"depth" variable which is 0 at the root and maximum at the leaves,
but the on-disk metadata uses a "depth" (actually eh_depth) which
is opposite: maximum at the root, and 0 at the leaves.
The ext4_ext_check_header() function is given a depth and checks
the header agaisnt that depth; it expects the on-disk semantics,
but we are giving it the opposite in the while loop in this
function. We should be giving it the on-disk notion of "depth"
which we can get from (p_depth - depth) - and if you look, the last
(more commonly hit) call to ext4_ext_check_header() does just this.
Sending in the wrong depth results in (incorrect) messages
about corruption:
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_ext_search_right: bad header
in inode #2621457: unexpected eh_depth - magic f30a, entries 340,
max 340(0), depth 1(2)
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12821
Reported-by: David Dindorp <ddi@dubex.dk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When bg_free_blocks_count was renamed to bg_free_blocks_count_lo in
560671a0, its uses under EXT4FS_DEBUG were not changed to the helper
ext4_free_blks_count.
Another commit, 498e5f24, also did not change everything needed under
EXT4FS_DEBUG, thus making it spill some warnings related to printing
format.
This commit fixes both issues and makes ext4 build again when
EXT4FS_DEBUG is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits)
jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs
ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "
ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC
jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message
ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems
ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache
ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
ext4: code cleanup
...
When I review ocfs2 code, find there are 2 typos to "successfull". After
doing grep "successfull " in kernel tree, 22 typos found totally -- great
minds always think alike :)
This patch fixes all the similar typos. Thanks for Randy's ack and comments.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was
implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents
feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to
create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag
was not eabled. The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option
entirely. It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new
extent-based files if the filesystem can support it.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* Change EXT4_HAS_*_FEATURE to return a boolean
* Add a function prototype for ext4_fiemap() in ext4.h
* Make ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() and ext4_xattr_fiemap() be static functions
* Add lock annotations to mb_free_blocks()
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Convert the unsigned longs that are most responsible for bloating the
stack usage on 64-bit systems.
Nearly all places in the ext3/4 code which uses "unsigned long" is
probably a bug, since on 32-bit systems a ulong a 32-bits, which means
we are wasting stack space on 64-bit systems.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The i_ext_generation was incremented, but never used. Remove it to
slim down the ext4_inode_info structure.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
