kernel.git/fs/gfs2/aops.c, branch linux-3.3.y

GFS2: decouple quota allocations from block allocations

2011-11-22T10:25:21Z

This patch separates the code pertaining to allocations into two parts: quota-related information and block reservations. This patch also moves all the block reservation structure allocations to function gfs2_inplace_reserve to simplify the code, and moves the frees to function gfs2_inplace_release. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Cache the most recently used resource group in the inode

2011-10-21T11:39:34Z

This means that after the initial allocation for any inode, the last used resource group is cached in the inode for future use. This drastically reduces the number of lookups of resource groups in the common case, and this the contention on that data structure. The allocation algorithm is the same as previously, except that we always check to see if the goal block is within the cached rgrp first before going to the rbtree to look one up. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Use ->dirty_inode()

2011-10-21T11:39:26Z

The aim of this patch is to use the newly enhanced ->dirty_inode() super block operation to deal with atime updates, rather than piggy backing that code into ->write_inode() as is currently done. The net result is a simplification of the code in various places and a reduction of the number of gfs2_dinode_out() calls since this is now implied by ->dirty_inode(). Some of the mark_inode_dirty() calls have been moved under glocks in order to take advantage of then being able to avoid locking in ->dirty_inode() when we already have suitable locks. One consequence is that generic_write_end() now correctly deals with file size updates, so that we do not need a separate check for that afterwards. This also, indirectly, means that fdatasync should work correctly on GFS2 - the current code always syncs the metadata whether it needs to or not. Has survived testing with postmark (with and without atime) and also fsx. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Resolve inode eviction and ail list interaction bug

2011-07-14T07:59:44Z

This patch contains a few misc fixes which resolve a recently reported issue. This patch has been a real team effort and has received a lot of testing. The first issue is that the ail lock needs to be held over a few more operations. The lock thats added into gfs2_releasepage() may possibly be a candidate for replacing with RCU at some future point, but at this stage we've gone for the obvious fix. The second issue is that gfs2_write_inode() can end up calling a glock recursively when called from gfs2_evict_inode() via the syncing code, so it needs a guard added. The third issue is that we either need to not truncate the metadata pages of inodes which have zero link count, but which we cannot deallocate due to them still being in use by other nodes, or we need to ensure that those pages have all made it through the journal and ail lists first. This patch takes the former approach, but the latter has also been tested and there is nothing to choose between them performance-wise. So again, we could revise that decision in the future. Also, the inode eviction process is now better documented. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse Tested-by: Bob Peterson Tested-by: Abhijith Das Reported-by: Barry J. Marson Reported-by: David Teigland

GFS2: Improve bug trap code in ->releasepage()

2011-05-03T10:49:19Z

If the buffer is dirty or pinned, then as well as printing a warning, we should also refuse to release the page in question. Currently this can occur if there is a race between mmap()ed writers and O_DIRECT on the same file. With the addition of ->launder_page() in the future, we should be able to close this gap. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: write_end error path fails to unlock transaction lock

2011-04-18T14:22:35Z

I did an audit of gfs2's transaction glock for bugzilla bug 658619 and ran across this: In function gfs2_write_end, in the unlikely event that gfs2_meta_inode_buffer returns an error, the code may forget to unlock the transaction lock because the "failed" label appears after the call to function gfs2_trans_end. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2011-03-24T17:16:26Z

* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits) Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc. cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt. blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get() cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used. block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout. blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq. ... Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}

GFS2: Adding missing unlock_page()

2011-03-14T13:19:21Z

gfs2_write_begin() calls grab_cache_page_write_begin() that returns *locked* page. Correspondent error-handling path lacks for unlock_page() call: > out: > if (error == 0) > return 0; > > page_cache_release(page); The whole system hangs if gfs2_unstuff_dinode() called from gfs2_write_begin() failed for some reason. Reported-by: Maxim Signed-off-by: Maxim Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

block: remove per-queue plugging

2011-03-10T07:52:07Z

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging, and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that. So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: kill block_prepare_write

2010-10-26T01:18:20Z

__block_write_begin and block_prepare_write are identical except for slightly different calling conventions. Convert all callers to the __block_write_begin calling conventions and drop block_prepare_write. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro