Jon Nelson has found a test case which causes postgresql to fail with
the error:
psql:t.sql:4: ERROR: invalid page header in block 38269 of relation base/16384/16581
Under memory pressure, it looks like part of a file can end up getting
replaced by zero's. Until we can figure out the cause, we'll roll
back the change and use block_write_full_page() instead of
ext4_bio_write_page(). The new, more efficient writing function can
be used via the mount option mblk_io_submit, so we can test and fix
the new page I/O code.
To reproduce the problem, install postgres 8.4 or 9.0, and pin enough
memory such that the system just at the end of triggering writeback
before running the following sql script:
begin;
create temporary table foo as select x as a, ARRAY[x] as b FROM
generate_series(1, 10000000 ) AS x;
create index foo_a_idx on foo (a);
create index foo_b_idx on foo USING GIN (b);
rollback;
If the temporary table is created on a hard drive partition which is
encrypted using dm_crypt, then under memory pressure, approximately
30-40% of the time, pgsql will issue the above failure.
This patch should fix this problem, and the problem will come back if
the file system is mounted with the mblk_io_submit mount option.
Reported-by: Jon Nelson <jnelson@jamponi.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Use an atomic_t and make sure we don't free the structure while we
might still be submitting I/O for that page.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The following BUG can occur when an inode which is getting freed when
it still has dirty pages outstanding, and it gets deleted (in this
because it was the target of a rename). In ordered mode, we need to
make sure the data pages are written just in case we crash before the
rename (or unlink) is committed. If the inode is being freed then
when we try to igrab the inode, we end up tripping the BUG_ON at
fs/ext4/page-io.c:146.
To solve this problem, we need to keep track of the number of io
callbacks which are pending, and avoid destroying the inode until they
have all been completed. That way we don't have to bump the inode
count to keep the inode from being destroyed; an approach which
doesn't work because the count could have already been dropped down to
zero before the inode writeback has started (at which point we're not
allowed to bump the count back up to 1, since it's already started
getting freed).
Thanks to Dave Chinner for suggesting this approach, which is also
used by XFS.
kernel BUG at /scratch_space/linux-2.6/fs/ext4/page-io.c:146!
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff811075b1>] ext4_bio_write_page+0x172/0x307
[<ffffffff811033a7>] mpage_da_submit_io+0x2f9/0x37b
[<ffffffff811068d7>] mpage_da_map_and_submit+0x2cc/0x2e2
[<ffffffff811069b3>] mpage_add_bh_to_extent+0xc6/0xd5
[<ffffffff81106c66>] write_cache_pages_da+0x2a4/0x3ac
[<ffffffff81107044>] ext4_da_writepages+0x2d6/0x44d
[<ffffffff81087910>] do_writepages+0x1c/0x25
[<ffffffff810810a4>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x4b/0x4d
[<ffffffff810815f5>] filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff81122a2e>] jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate+0x7b/0xa2
[<ffffffff8110615d>] ext4_evict_inode+0x57/0x24c
[<ffffffff810c14a3>] evict+0x22/0x92
[<ffffffff810c1a3d>] iput+0x212/0x249
[<ffffffff810bdf16>] dentry_iput+0xa1/0xb9
[<ffffffff810bdf6b>] d_kill+0x3d/0x5d
[<ffffffff810be613>] dput+0x13a/0x147
[<ffffffff810b990d>] sys_renameat+0x1b5/0x258
[<ffffffff81145f71>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x2d/0x4c
[<ffffffff810b2950>] ? cp_new_stat+0xde/0xea
[<ffffffff810b29c1>] ? sys_newlstat+0x2d/0x38
[<ffffffff810b99c6>] sys_rename+0x16/0x18
[<ffffffff81002a2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
These functions are only used within fs/ext4/mballoc.c, so move them
so they are used after they are defined, and then make them be static.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
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>
Walk through allocation groups and trim all free extents. It can be
invoked through FITRIM ioctl on the file system. The main idea is to
provide a way to trim the whole file system if needed, since some SSD's
may suffer from performance loss after the whole device was filled (it
does not mean that fs is full!).
It search for free extents in allocation groups specified by Byte range
start -> start+len. When the free extent is within this range, blocks
are marked as used and then trimmed. Afterwards these blocks are marked
as free in per-group bitmap.
Since fstrim is a long operation it is good to have an ability to
interrupt it by a signal. This was added by Dmitry Monakhov.
Thanks Dimitry.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
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>
Not that these take up a lot of room, but the structure is long enough
as it is, and there's no need to confuse people with these various
undocumented & unused structure members...
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redaht.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The llseek system call should return EINVAL if passed a seek offset
which results in a write error. What this maximum offset should be
depends on whether or not the huge_file file system feature is set,
and whether or not the file is extent based or not.
If the file has no "EXT4_EXTENTS_FL" flag, the maximum size which can be
written (write systemcall) is different from the maximum size which can be
sought (lseek systemcall).
For example, the following 2 cases demonstrates the differences
between the maximum size which can be written, versus the seek offset
allowed by the llseek system call:
#1: mkfs.ext3 <dev>; mount -t ext4 <dev>
#2: mkfs.ext3 <dev>; tune2fs -Oextent,huge_file <dev>; mount -t ext4 <dev>
Table. the max file size which we can write or seek
at each filesystem feature tuning and file flag setting
+============+===============================+===============================+
| \ File flag| | |
| \ | !EXT4_EXTENTS_FL | EXT4_EXTETNS_FL |
|case \| | |
+------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| #1 | write: 2194719883264 | write: -------------- |
| | seek: 2199023251456 | seek: -------------- |
+------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| #2 | write: 4402345721856 | write: 17592186044415 |
| | seek: 17592186044415 | seek: 17592186044415 |
+------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
The differences exist because ext4 has 2 maxbytes which are sb->s_maxbytes
(= extent-mapped maxbytes) and EXT4_SB(sb)->s_bitmap_maxbytes (= block-mapped
maxbytes). Although generic_file_llseek uses only extent-mapped maxbytes.
(llseek of ext4_file_operations is generic_file_llseek which uses
sb->s_maxbytes.)
Therefore we create ext4 llseek function which uses 2 maxbytes.
The new own function originates from generic_file_llseek().
If the file flag, "EXT4_EXTENTS_FL" is not set, the function alters
inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes into EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_bitmap_maxbytes.
Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
User-space should have the opportunity to check what features doest ext4
support in each particular copy. This adds easy interface by creating new
"features" directory in sys/fs/ext4/. In that directory files
advertising feature names can be created.
Add lazy_itable_init to the feature list.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it
considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are
not zeroed out. The fact that parts of the inode table are
uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors,
which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has
been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group
checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and
the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to
report false problems.
Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon
as possble. This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely
use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting
file systems.
This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is
created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed. There
is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the
first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit
thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the
request list.
This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up
scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule
time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to
zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with
the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10). We are doing
this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no
longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate
structures and exits (and can be created later later by another
filesystem).
We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not
care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we
have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode
allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we
take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem
in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the
group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait.
This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_group_info structures are currently allocated with kmalloc().
With a typical 4K block size, these are 136 bytes each -- meaning
they'll each consume a 256-byte slab object. On a system with many
ext4 large partitions, that's a lot of wasted kernel slab space.
(E.g., a single 1TB partition will have about 8000 block groups, using
about 2MB of slab, of which nearly 1MB is wasted.)
This patch creates an array of slab pointers created as needed --
depending on the superblock block size -- and uses these slabs to
allocate the group info objects.
Google-Bug-Id: 2980809
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
Fix sget() race with failing mount
vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
BFS: clean up the superblock usage
AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
cifs: truncate fallout
mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
mbcache: Remove unused features
add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
update VFS documentation for method changes.
All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
commit 3d0518f4, "ext4: New rec_len encoding for very
large blocksizes" made several changes to this path, but from
a perf perspective, un-inlining ext4_rec_len_from_disk() seems
most significant. This function is called from ext4_check_dir_entry(),
which on a file-creation workload is called extremely often.
I tested this with bonnie:
# bonnie++ -u root -s 0 -f -x 200 -d /mnt/test -n 32
(this does 200 iterations) and got this for the file creations:
ext4 stock: Average = 21206.8 files/s
ext4 inlined: Average = 22346.7 files/s (+5%)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Allow mount options to be stored in the superblock. Also add default
mount option bits for nobarrier, block_validity, discard, and nodelalloc.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_get_blocks got renamed to ext4_map_blocks, but left stale
comments and a prototype littered around.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch is to be applied upon Christoph's "direct-io: move aio_complete
into ->end_io" patch. It adds iocb and result fields to struct ext4_io_end_t,
so that we can call aio_complete from ext4_end_io_nolock() after the extent
conversion has finished.
I have verified with Christoph's aio-dio test that used to fail after a few
runs on an original kernel but now succeeds on the patched kernel.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/19659 for details.
Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This allows us to grab any file system error messages by scraping
/var/log/messages. This will make it easy for us to do error analysis
across the very large number of machines as we deploy ext4 across the
fleet.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Save number of file system errors, and the time function name, line
number, block number, and inode number of the first and most recent
errors reported on the file system in the superblock.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The nobh option was only supported for writeback mode, but given that all
write paths actually create buffer heads it effectively was a no-op already.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We don't need to set s_dirt in most of the ext4 code when journaling
is enabled. In ext3/4 some of the summary statistics for # of free
inodes, blocks, and directories are calculated from the per-block
group statistics when the file system is mounted or unmounted. As a
result the superblock doesn't have to be updated, either via the
journal or by setting s_dirt. There are a few exceptions, most
notably when resizing the file system, where the superblock needs to
be modified --- and in that case it should be done as a journalled
operation if possible, and s_dirt set only in no-journal mode.
This patch will optimize out some unneeded disk writes when using ext4
with a journal.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add a new ext4 state to tell us when a file has been newly created; use
that state in ext4_sync_file in no-journal mode to tell us when we need
to sync the parent directory as well as the inode and data itself. This
fixes a problem in which a panic or power failure may lose the entire
file even when using fsync, since the parent directory entry is lost.
Addresses-Google-Bug: #2480057
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
struct ext4_new_group_input needs to be converted because u64 has
only 32-bit alignment on some 32-bit architectures, notably i386.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
It is unnecessary, and in general impossible, to define the compat
ioctl numbers except when building the filesystem with CONFIG_COMPAT
defined.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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>
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>
This adds a new field in ext4_group_info to cache the largest available
block range in a block group; and don't load the buddy pages until *after*
we've done a sanity check on the block group.
With large allocation requests (e.g., fallocate(), 8MiB) and relatively full
partitions, it's easy to have no block groups with a block extent large
enough to satisfy the input request length. This currently causes the loop
during cr == 0 in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() to load the buddy bitmap pages
for EVERY block group. That can be a lot of pages. The patch below allows
us to call ext4_mb_good_group() BEFORE we load the buddy pages (although we
have check again after we lock the block group).
Addresses-Google-Bug: #2578108
Addresses-Google-Bug: #2704453
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'write_inode2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
pass writeback_control to ->write_inode
make sure data is on disk before calling ->write_inode
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (36 commits)
ext4: fix up rb_root initializations to use RB_ROOT
ext4: Code cleanup for EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl
ext4: Fix the NULL reference in double_down_write_data_sem()
ext4: Fix insertion point of extent in mext_insert_across_blocks()
ext4: consolidate in_range() definitions
ext4: cleanup to use ext4_grp_offs_to_block()
ext4: cleanup to use ext4_group_first_block_no()
ext4: Release page references acquired in ext4_da_block_invalidatepages
ext4: Fix ext4_quota_write cross block boundary behaviour
ext4: Convert BUG_ON checks to use ext4_error() instead
ext4: Use direct_IO_no_locking in ext4 dio read
ext4: use ext4_get_block_write in buffer write
ext4: mechanical rename some of the direct I/O get_block's identifiers
ext4: make "offset" consistent in ext4_check_dir_entry()
ext4: Handle non empty on-disk orphan link
ext4: explicitly remove inode from orphan list after failed direct io
ext4: fix error handling in migrate
ext4: deprecate obsoleted mount options
ext4: Fix fencepost error in chosing choosing group vs file preallocation.
jbd2: clean up an assertion in jbd2_journal_commit_transaction()
...
This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
is happening. Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to
distinguish between the different callers in more detail.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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>
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>
Add __percpu sparse annotations to fs.
These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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>
