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>
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>
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
With delayed allocation we use i_data_sem to update i_disksize. We need
to update i_disksize only if the new size specified is greater than the
current value and we need to make sure we don't race with other
i_disksize update. With delayed allocation we will switch to the
write_begin function for non-delayed allocation if we are low on free
blocks. This means the write_begin function for non-delayed allocation
also needs to use the same locking.
We also need to check and update i_disksize even if the new size is less
that inode.i_size because of delayed allocation.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Previous delalloc writepages implementation started a new transaction
outside of a loop which called get_block() to do the block allocation.
Since we didn't know exactly how many blocks would need to be allocated,
the estimated journal credits required was very conservative and caused
many issues.
With the reworked delayed allocation, a new transaction is created for
each get_block(), thus we don't need to guess how many credits for the
multiple chunk of allocation. We start every transaction with enough
credits for inserting a single exent. When estimate the credits for
indirect blocks to allocate a chunk of blocks, we need to know the
number of data blocks to allocate. We use the total number of reserved
delalloc datablocks; if that is too big, for non-extent files, we need
to limit the number of blocks to EXT4_MAX_TRANS_BLOCKS.
Code cleanup from Aneesh.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
DIO and fallocate credit calculation is different than writepage, as
they do start a new journal right for each call to ext4_get_blocks_wrap().
This patch uses the helper function in DIO and fallocate case, passing
a flag indicating that the modified data are contigous thus could account
less indirect/index blocks.
This patch also fixed the journal credit reservation for direct I/O
(DIO). Previously the estimated credits for DIO only was calculated for
non-extent files, which was not enough if the file is extent-based.
Also fixed was fallocate double-counting credits for modifying the the
superblock.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch modified the writepage/write_begin credit calculation for
extent files, to use the credits caculation helper function.
The current calculation of how many index/leaf blocks should be
accounted is too conservetive, it always considered the worse case,
where the tree level is 5, and in the case of multiple chunk
allocations, it always assumed no blocks were dirtied in common across
the allocations. This path uses the accurate depth of the inode with
some extras to calculate the index blocks, and also less conservative in
the case of multiple allocation accounting.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In ext4_ext_truncate(), we should use the more generic
ext4_discard_reservations() call so we do the right thing when the
filesystem is mounted with the nomballoc option.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
With the FLEX_BG layout, there is no reason why extents can't cross
block groups, so make the truncate code reserve enough credits so we
don't BUG if we come across such an extent.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The ext4_ext_journal_restart() is a convenience function which checks
to see if the requested number of credits is present, and if so it
closes the current transaction and attaches the current handle to the
new transaction. Unfortunately, it wasn't proprely checking the
return value from ext4_journal_extend(), so it was starting a new
transaction when one was not necessary, and returning an error when
all that was necessary was to restart the handle with a new
transaction.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Inserting an extent can cause a new entry in the already existing index
block. That doesn't increase the depth of the instead. Instead it adds a
new leaf block. Now with the new leaf block the path information
corresponding to the logical block should be fetched from the new block.
The old path will be pointing to the old leaf block.
We need to recalucate the path information on extent insert
even if depth doesn't change. Without this change, the extent merge
after converting an unwritten extent to initialized extent takes the wrong
extent and cause data corruption.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
With the reverse locking, we need to start a transation before taking
the page lock, so in ext4_da_writepages() we need to break the write-out
into chunks, and restart the journal for each chunck to ensure the
write-out fits in a single transaction.
Updated patch from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
which fixes delalloc sync hang with journal lock inversion, and address
the performance regression issue.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch does block reservation for delayed
allocation, to avoid ENOSPC later at page flush time.
Blocks(data and metadata) are reserved at da_write_begin()
time, the freeblocks counter is updated by then, and the number of
reserved blocks is store in per inode counter.
At the writepage time, the unused reserved meta blocks are returned
back. At unlink/truncate time, reserved blocks are properly released.
Updated fix from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
to fix the oldallocator block reservation accounting with delalloc, added
lock to guard the counters and also fix the reservation for meta blocks.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
We cannot call ext4_orphan_add() from under i_data_sem because that
causes a lock ordering violation between i_data_sem and and the
superblock lock.
Updated with Aneesh's locking order fix
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This changes are needed to support data=ordered mode handling via
inodes. This enables us to get rid of the journal heads and buffer
heads for data buffers in the ordered mode. With the changes, during
tranasaction commit we writeout the inode pages using the
writepages()/writepage(). That implies we take page lock during
transaction commit. This can cause a deadlock with the locking order
page_lock -> jbd2_journal_start, since the jbd2_journal_start can wait
for the journal_commit to happen and the journal_commit now needs to
take the page lock. To avoid this dead lock reverse the locking order.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Use the BUFFER_FNS functions (set_buffer_foo) to set buffer
head state atomically instead of nonatomic __set_bit().
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Move the code related to block allocation to a single function and add helper
funtions to differient allocation for data and meta data blocks
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When mballoc is enabled, block allocation for old block-based
files are allocated using mballoc allocator instead of old
block-based allocator. The old ext3 block reservation is turned
off when mballoc is turned on.
However, the in-core preallocation is not enabled for block-based/
non-extent based file block allocation. This result in performance
regression, as now we don't have "reservation" ore in-core preallocation
to prevent interleaved fragmentation in multiple writes workload.
This patch fix this by enable per inode in-core preallocation
for non extent files when mballoc is used.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Fix ext4_ext_journal_restart() so it returns any errors reported by
ext4_journal_extend() and ext4_journal_restart().
Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When pos=0 or depth, the fields of ext4_ext_path is are not
completely filled. This patch also removes some unnecessary code.
Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When allocating unitialized space at the end of file which had been
preallocated with the FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE option, the file size is not
updated at that time. But the later we are not updating the file size
when writing to that preallocated space.
These changes are for code correctness. This patch allows us to update
the i_disksize at the write_end() callback of filesystem properly.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The recently announced "Linux POSIX file system test suite"
caught a truncate issue when using extents:
mtime and ctime are not updated when truncate is successful.
This is the single issue caught with "default" ext4 (mkfs and mount
with minimal options).
The testsuite does not report failure with -o noextents.
With the following patch, all tests of the testsuite pass.
Signed-off-by: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Move ext4 headers out of include/linux. This is just the trivial move,
there's some more thing that could be done later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This fixes the allocations with GFP_KERNEL while under a transaction problems
in ext4. This patch is the same as its ext3 counterpart, just switches these
to GFP_NOFS.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When we convert an uninitialized extent to an initialized extent
we need to make sure we return the number of blocks in the
extent from the file system block corresponding to logical
file block. Otherwise we cache wrong extent details and this
results in file system corruption.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_ext_get_blocks() returns the number of blocks allocated with buffer
head unmapped for a read from prealloc space. This is needed so that
delayed allocation doesn't do block reservation for prealloc space
since the blocks are already reserved on disk. Mark the buffer head
unwritten. Some code paths try to read the block if the buffer_head is
not new and no uptodate. Marking the buffer head unwritten avoids this
reading.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_ext_get_blocks() returns number of blocks allocated with buffer
heads unmapped for a read from prealloc space. This is needed so that
delayed allocation doesn't do block reservation for prealloc space since
the blocks are already resevred on disk. Fix ext4_ext_get_blocks to not
return greater than max_blocks, since some of the code paths cannot
handle such a return value.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_fallocate needs to update file size in each transaction. Otherwise
if we crash the file size won't be seen. We were also not marking
the inode dirty after updating file size before. Also when we try to
retry allocation due to ENOSPC, make sure we reset the variable ret so
that we actually do a retry.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If the preallocated area is small zero out the full extent
instead of splitting them. This should avoid the "write
every alternate block" problem that could grow the number
of extents dramatically.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch handles possible ENOSPC errors when writing to an
uninitialized extent in case the filesystem is full.
A write to a prealloc area causes the split of an unititalized extent
into initialized and uninitialized extents. If we don't have
space to add new extent information, instead of returning error,
convert the existing uninitialized extent to initialized one. We
need to zero out the blocks corresponding to the entire extent to
prevent uninitialized data reaching userspace.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Put the old extent details back if we fail to split the
uninitialized extent.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If we fail to allocate blocks don't call ext4_error. Also don't hide
errors from ext4_get_blocks_wrap
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch fixes a bug when writing to preallocated but uninitialized
blocks, which resulted in a BUG in fs/buffer.c saying that the buffer
is not mapped.
When writing to a file, ext4_get_block_wrap() is called with create=1 in
order to request that blocks be allocated if necessary. It currently
calls ext4_get_blocks() with create=0 in order to do a lookup first. If
the inode contains an unitialized data block, the buffer head is left
unampped, which ext4_get_blocks_wrap() returns, causing the BUG.
We fix this by checking to see if the buffer head is unmapped, and if
so, we make sure the the buffer head is mapped by calling
ext4_ext_get_blocks with create=1.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When a directory inode is allocated in the last group and the last group
contains less than s_blocks_per_group blocks, the initial block allocated
for the directory is not always allocated in the same group as the
directory inode, but in one of the first groups of the filesystem (group 1
for example).
Depending on the current process's pid, ext4_find_near() and
ext4_ext_find_goal() can return a block number greater than the maximum
blocks count in the filesystem and in that case the block will be not
allocated in the same group as the inode.
The following patch fixes the problem.
Should the modification also be done in ext2/3 code?
Signed-off-by: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When the user was writing into an unitialized extent,
ext4_ext_convert_to_initialize() was not requesting journal write access
before it started to modify the extent tree. Fix this oversight.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The path variable returned via ext4_ext_find_extent is a kmalloc
variable and needs to be freeded. It also contains a reference to
buffer_head which needs to be dropped.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_fallocate() was trying to acquire i_data_sem outside of
jbd2_start_transaction/jbd2_journal_stop, which violates ext4's locking
hierarchy. So we take i_mutex to prevent writes and truncates during
the complete fallocate operation, and use ext4_get_block_wrap() which
acquires and releases i_data_sem for each block allocation.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4 uses the high bit of the extent length to encode whether the extent
is intialized or not. The helper function ext4_ext_get_actual_len should
be used to get the actual length of the extent.
This addresses the kernel bug documented here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9732
kernel BUG at fs/ext4/extents.c:1056!
....
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff88366073>] :ext4dev:ext4_ext_get_blocks+0x5ba/0x8c1
[<ffffffff81053c91>] lock_release_holdtime+0x27/0x49
[<ffffffff812748f6>] _spin_unlock+0x17/0x20
[<ffffffff883400a6>] :jbd2:start_this_handle+0x4e0/0x4fe
[<ffffffff88366564>] :ext4dev:ext4_fallocate+0x175/0x39a
[<ffffffff81053c91>] lock_release_holdtime+0x27/0x49
[<ffffffff81056480>] __lock_acquire+0x4e7/0xc4d
[<ffffffff81053c91>] lock_release_holdtime+0x27/0x49
[<ffffffff810a8de7>] sys_fallocate+0xe4/0x10d
[<ffffffff8100c043>] tracesys+0xd5/0xda
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Fix bug reported by Dmitry Monakhov caused by lost error code
Testcase:
blksize = 0x1000;
fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0700);
unsigned long long sz = 0x10000000UL;
/* allocating big blocks chunk */
syscall(__NR_fallocate, fd, 0, 0UL, sz)
/* grab all other available filesystem space */
tfd = open("tmp", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_DIRECT, 0700);
while( write(tfd, buf, 4096) > 0); /* loop untill ENOSPC */
fsync(fd); /* just in case */
while (pos < sz) {
/* each seek+ write operation result in splits uninitialized extent
in three extents. Splitting may result in new extent allocation
which probably will fail because of ENOSPC*/
lseek(fd, blksize*2 -1, SEEK_CUR);
if ((ret = write(fd, 'a', 1)) != 1)
exit(1);
pos += blksize * 2;
}
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Theodore Ts'o