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  1. 01 May, 2009 2 commits
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: Fix and simplify s_dirt handling · 7234ab2a
      Theodore Ts'o authored 
      The s_dirt flag wasn't completely handled correctly, but it didn't
really matter when journalling was enabled.  It turns out that when
ext4 runs without a journal, we don't clear s_dirt in places where we
should have, with the result that the high-level write_super()
function was writing the superblock when it wasn't necessary.

So we fix this by making ext4_commit_super() clear the s_dirt flag,
and removing many of the other places where s_dirt is manipulated.
When journalling is enabled, the s_dirt flag might be left set more
often, but s_dirt really doesn't matter when journalling is enabled.
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      7234ab2a
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: Simplify ext4_commit_super()'s function signature · e2d67052
      Theodore Ts'o authored 
      The ext4_commit_super() function took both a struct super_block * and
a struct ext4_super_block *, but the struct ext4_super_block can be
derived from the struct super_block.
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      e2d67052
  3. 25 Apr, 2009 1 commit
  5. 28 Apr, 2009 1 commit
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: Fallback to vmalloc if kmalloc can't allocate s_flex_groups array · c5ca7c76
      Theodore Ts'o authored 
      For very large filesystems, the s_flex_groups array can get quite big.
For example, a filesystem that can be resized up to 16TB will have
8192 flex groups (assuming the default flex_bg size of 16), so the
array is 96k, which is *very* marginal for kmalloc().  On the other
hand, a 160GB filesystem without the resize_inode feature will only
require 960 bytes.  So we try to allocate the array first using
kmalloc(), and if that fails, we'll try to use vmalloc() instead.
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      c5ca7c76
  7. 12 May, 2009 2 commits
    • Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar
      ext4: Mark the unwritten buffer_head as mapped during write_begin · 29fa89d0
      Aneesh Kumar K.V authored 
      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: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      29fa89d0
    • Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar
      vfs: Add BUG_ON for delayed and unwritten flags in submit_bh() · 8fb0e342
      Aneesh Kumar K.V authored 
      The BH_Delay and BH_Unwritten flags should never leak out to
submit_bh().  So add some BUG_ON() checks to submit_bh so we can get a
stack trace and determine how and why this might have happened.

(Note that only XFS and ext4 use these buffer head flags, and XFS does
not use submit_bh().  So this patch should only modify behavior for
ext4.)
Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
      8fb0e342
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