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Andrew Morton
105fd108a6 [PATCH] "ext[34]: EA block reference count racing fix" performance fix
A little mistake in 8a2bfdcbfa is making all
transactions synchronous, which reduces ext3 performance to comical levels.

Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-23 11:01:22 -07:00
Mingming Cao
8a2bfdcbfa [PATCH] ext[34]: EA block reference count racing fix
There are race issues around ext[34] xattr block release code.

ext[34]_xattr_release_block() checks the reference count of xattr block
(h_refcount) and frees that xattr block if it is the last one reference it.
 Unlike ext2, the check of this counter is unprotected by any lock.
ext[34]_xattr_release_block() will free the mb_cache entry before freeing
that xattr block.  There is a small window between the check for the re
h_refcount ==1 and the call to mb_cache_entry_free().  During this small
window another inode might find this xattr block from the mbcache and reuse
it, racing a refcount updates.  The xattr block will later be freed by the
first inode without notice other inode is still use it.  Later if that
block is reallocated as a datablock for other file, then more serious
problem might happen.

We need put a lock around places checking the refount as well to avoid
racing issue.  Another place need this kind of protection is in
ext3_xattr_block_set(), where it will modify the xattr block content in-
the-fly if the refcount is 1 (means it's the only inode reference it).

This will also fix another issue: the xattr block may not get freed at all
if no lock is to protect the refcount check at the release time.  It is
possible that the last two inodes could release the shared xattr block at
the same time.  But both of them think they are not the last one so only
decreased the h_refcount without freeing xattr block at all.

We need to call lock_buffer() after ext3_journal_get_write_access() to
avoid deadlock (because the later will call lock_buffer()/unlock_buffer
() as well).

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01 14:53:38 -08:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
ed2908f313 [PATCH] Remove superfluous lock_super() in extN xattr code
lock_super() is unnecessary for setting super-block feature flags.  Use the
provided *_SET_COMPAT_FEATURE() macros as well.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:32 -08:00
Eric Sandeen
eee194e76c [PATCH] ext3: inode numbers are unsigned long
This is primarily format string fixes, with changes to ialloc.c where large
inode counts could overflow, and also pass around journal_inum as an
unsigned long, just to be pedantic about it....

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:09 -07:00
Mingming Cao
43d23f9039 [PATCH] ext3_fsblk_t: the rest of in-kernel filesystem blocks conversion
Convert the ext3 in-kernel filesystem blocks to ext3_fsblk_t.  Convert the
rest of all unsigned long type in-kernel filesystem blocks to ext3_fsblk_t,
and replace the printk format string respondingly.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:10 -07:00
Mingming Cao
1c2bf374a4 [PATCH] ext3_fsblk_t: filesystem, group blocks and bug fixes
Some of the in-kernel ext3 block variable type are treated as signed 4 bytes
int type, thus limited ext3 filesystem to 8TB (4kblock size based).  While
trying to fix them, it seems quite confusing in the ext3 code where some
blocks are filesystem-wide blocks, some are group relative offsets that need
to be signed value (as -1 has special meaning).  So it seem saner to define
two types of physical blocks: one is filesystem wide blocks, another is
group-relative blocks.  The following patches clarify these two types of
blocks in the ext3 code, and fix the type bugs which limit current 32 bit ext3
filesystem limit to 8TB.

With this series of patches and the percpu counter data type changes in the mm
tree, we are able to extend exts filesystem limit to 16TB.

This work is also a pre-request for the recent >32 bit ext3 work, and makes
the kernel to able to address 48 bit ext3 block a lot easier: Simply redefine
ext3_fsblk_t from unsigned long to sector_t and redefine the format string for
ext3 filesystem block corresponding.

Two RFC with a series patches have been posted to ext2-devel list and have
been reviewed and discussed:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel&m=114722190816690&w=2

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel&m=114784919525942&w=2

Patches are tested on both 32 bit machine and 64 bit machine, <8TB ext3 and
>8TB ext3 filesystem(with the latest to be released e2fsprogs-1.39).  Tests
includes overnight fsx, tiobench, dbench and fsstress.

This patch:

Defines ext3_fsblk_t and ext3_grpblk_t, and the printk format string for
filesystem wide blocks.

This patch classifies all block group relative blocks, and ext3_fsblk_t blocks
occurs in the same function where used to be confusing before.  Also include
kernel bug fixes for filesystem wide in-kernel block variables.  There are
some fileystem wide blocks are treated as int/unsigned int type in the kernel
currently, especially in ext3 block allocation and reservation code.  This
patch fixed those bugs by converting those variables to ext3_fsblk_t(unsigned
long) type.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:10 -07:00
akpm@osdl.org
c37ef806a3 [PATCH] remove ext3 xattr permission checks
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

remove checks now in the VFS

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:30 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
1b1dcc1b57 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
Ben Dooks
381be25458 [PATCH] ext3: sparse fixes
Fix warnings from sparse due to un-declared functions that should either
have a header file or have been declared static

 fs/ext2/bitmap.c:14:15: warning: symbol 'ext2_count_free' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext2/namei.c:92:15: warning: symbol 'ext2_get_parent' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/bitmap.c:15:15: warning: symbol 'ext3_count_free' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/namei.c:1013:15: warning: symbol 'ext3_get_parent' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/xattr.c:214:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_get' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/xattr.c:358:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_list' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/xattr.c:630:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_find' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/xattr.c:863:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_ibody_find' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:25 -08:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
8c52ab42c1 [PATCH] mbcache: Remove unused mb_cache_shrink parameter
The cache parameter to mb_cache_shrink isn't used.  We may as well remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:07 -07:00
Jan Kara
1f54587bea [PATCH] quota: ext3: Improve quota credit estimates
Use improved credits estimates for quota operations.  Also reserve a space
for a quota operation in a transaction only if filesystem was mounted with
some quota options.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00