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Theodore Ts'o
0ef90db93a ext4: Display the mballoc flags in mb_history in hex instead of decimal
Displaying the flags in base 16 makes it easier to see which flags
have been set.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-09 16:46:13 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
6ba495e925 ext4: Add configurable run-time mballoc debugging
Allow mballoc debugging to be enabled at run-time instead of just at
compile time.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-18 13:38:55 -04:00
Peng Tao
91cc219ad9 ext4: fix journal ref count in move_extent_par_page
move_extent_par_page calls a_ops->write_begin() to increase journal
handler's reference count. However, if either mext_replace_branches()
or ext4_get_block fails, the increased reference count isn't
decreased. This will cause a later attempt to umount of the fs to hang
forever. The patch addresses the issue by calling ext4_journal_stop()
if page is not NULL (which means a_ops->write_end() isn't invoked).

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-10 23:05:28 -04:00
Andreas Dilger
b1f485f20e jbd2: round commit timer up to avoid uncommitted transaction
fix jiffie rounding in jbd commit timer setup code.  Rounding down
could cause the timer to be fired before the corresponding transaction
has expired.  That transaction can stay not committed forever if no
new transaction is created or expicit sync/umount happens.

Signed-off-by: Alex Zhuravlev (Tomas) <alex.zhuravlev@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-10 22:51:53 -04:00
Roel Kluin
c333e073b7 ext4: remove redundant test on unsigned
unsigned i_block cannot be less than 0.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-10 22:47:22 -04:00
Peng Tao
785b4b3a5a ext4: fix build warning when EXT4FS_DEBUG is on
When compiling with EXT4FS_DEBUG on, gcc will complain with following warnings:

linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ialloc.c: In function ‘ext4_count_free_inodes’:
linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1192: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects type
‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘ext4_group_t’

So add a type cast to suppress it. 

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-27 21:44:40 -04:00
Akira Fujita
1c71850517 ext4: Fix compile warnings with MB_DEBUG
When MB_DEBUG is enabled, we get some compile warnings because
ext4_group_t is unsigned int.  This patch fixes them.

Signed-off-by Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-05 23:04:36 -04:00
Joe Perches
5a4a798937 ext4: Remove unnecessary semicolons in mballoc.c
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-05 22:33:08 -04:00
Curt Wohlgemuth
6487a9d3b5 ext4: More buffer head reference leaks
After the patch I posted last week regarding buffer head ref leaks in
no-journal mode, I looked at all the code that uses buffer heads and
searched for more potential leaks.

The patch below fixes the issues I found; these can occur even when a
journal is present.

The change to inode.c fixes a double release if
ext4_journal_get_create_access() fails.

The changes to namei.c are more complicated.  add_dirent_to_buf() will
release the input buffer head EXCEPT when it returns -ENOSPC.  There are
some callers of this routine that don't always do the brelse() in the event
that -ENOSPC is returned.  Unfortunately, to put this fix into ext4_add_entry()
required capturing the return value of make_indexed_dir() and
add_dirent_to_buf().

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-17 10:54:08 -04:00
Jan Kara
f6f50e28f0 jbd2: Fail to load a journal if it is too short
Due to on disk corruption, it can happen that journal is too short. Fail
to load it in such case so that we don't oops somewhere later.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-17 10:40:01 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
78f1ddbb49 ext4: Avoid null pointer dereference when decoding EROFS w/o a journal
We need to check to make sure a journal is present before checking the
journal flags in ext4_decode_error().

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <eric.sesterhenn@lsexperts.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-27 23:09:47 -04:00
Manish Katiyar
43b3852029 ext4: Fix typo in ext4/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-27 21:38:17 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
024eab4d5b ext4: Fix memory leak fix when mounting an ext4 filesystem
The allocation of the ext4_group_info array was moved to a new
function ext4_mb_add_group_info() in commit 5f21b0e6 so that online
resize would use a common (and correct) codepath.  Unfortunately, the
call to the new ext4_mb_add_group_info() function was added without
removing the code which originally allocated the array.  This caused a
memory leak each time an ext4 filesystem was mounted.

The fix is simple; remove the code that did the original allocation,
since it is no longer needed.

Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-17 09:01:04 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
ab86e5765d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
  Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
  debugfs: Modify default debugfs directory for debugging pktcdvd.
  debugfs: Modified default dir of debugfs for debugging UHCI.
  debugfs: Change debugfs directory of IWMC3200
  debugfs: Change debuhgfs directory of trace-events-sample.h
  debugfs: Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt
  hpilo: add poll f_op
  hpilo: add interrupt handler
  hpilo: staging for interrupt handling
  driver core: platform_device_add_data(): use kmemdup()
  Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes
  uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices
  driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base
  mem_class: fix bug
  mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array
  driver model: constify attribute groups
  UIO: remove 'default n' from Kconfig
  Driver core: Add accessor for device platform data
  Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c
  Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing
2009-09-16 08:27:10 -07:00
Nick Piggin
1ef7d9aa32 writeback: fix possible bdi writeback refcounting problem
wb_clear_pending AFAIKS should not be called after the item has been
put on the list, except by the worker threads. It could lead to the
situation where the refcount is decremented below 0 and cause lots of
problems.

Presumably the !wb_has_dirty_io case is not a common one, so it can
be discovered when the thread wakes up to check?

Also add a comment in bdi_work_clear.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:53 +02:00
Nick Piggin
77b9d059cb writeback: Fix bdi use after free in wb_work_complete()
By the time bdi_work_on_stack gets evaluated again in bdi_work_free, it
can already have been deallocated and used for something else in the
!on stack case, giving a false positive in this test and causing
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Nick Piggin
77fad5e625 writeback: improve scalability of bdi writeback work queues
If you're going to do an atomic RMW on each list entry, there's not much
point in all the RCU complexities of the list walking. This is only going
to help the multi-thread case I guess, but it doesn't hurt to do now.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Nick Piggin
deed62edff writeback: remove smp_mb(), it's not needed with list_add_tail_rcu()
list_add_tail_rcu contains required barriers.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe
49db041430 writeback: use schedule_timeout_interruptible()
Gets rid of a manual set_current_state().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe
8010c3b634 writeback: add comments to bdi_work structure
And document its retriever, get_next_work_item().

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b6e51316da writeback: separate starting of sync vs opportunistic writeback
bdi_start_writeback() is currently split into two paths, one for
WB_SYNC_NONE and one for WB_SYNC_ALL. Add bdi_sync_writeback()
for WB_SYNC_ALL writeback and let bdi_start_writeback() handle
only WB_SYNC_NONE.

Push down the writeback_control allocation and only accept the
parameters that make sense for each function. This cleans up
the API considerably.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe
bcddc3f01c writeback: inline allocation failure handling in bdi_alloc_queue_work()
This gets rid of work == NULL in bdi_queue_work() and puts the
OOM handling where it belongs.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe
cfc4ba5365 writeback: use RCU to protect bdi_list
Now that bdi_writeback_all() no longer handles integrity writeback,
it doesn't have to block anymore. This means that we can switch
bdi_list reader side protection to RCU.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe
f11fcae840 writeback: only use bdi_writeback_all() for WB_SYNC_NONE writeout
Data integrity writeback must use bdi_start_writeback() and ensure
that wbc->sb and wbc->bdi are set.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe
32a88aa1b6 fs: Assign bdi in super_block
We do this automatically in get_sb_bdev() from the set_bdev_super()
callback. Filesystems that have their own private backing_dev_info
must assign that in ->fill_super().

Note that ->s_bdi assignment is required for proper writeback!

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe
c4a77a6c7d writeback: make wb_writeback() take an argument structure
We need to be able to pass in range_cyclic as well, so instead
of growing yet another argument, split the arguments into a
struct wb_writeback_args structure that we can use internally.
Also makes it easier to just copy all members to an on-stack
struct, since we can't access work after clearing the pending
bit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:25 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
f0fad8a530 writeback: merely wakeup flusher thread if work allocation fails for WB_SYNC_NONE
Since it's an opportunistic writeback and not a data integrity action,
don't punt to blocking writeback. Just wakeup the thread and it will
flush old data.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:16:18 +02:00
Jens Axboe
1fe06ad892 writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepages
It's only set, it's never checked. Kill it.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:16:18 +02:00
Jens Axboe
2c96ce9f20 fs: remove bdev->bd_inode_backing_dev_info
It has been unused since it was introduced in:

commit 520808bf20e90fdbdb320264ba7dd5cf9d47dcac
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date:   Fri May 21 00:46:17 2004 -0700

    [PATCH] block device layer: separate backing_dev_info infrastructure

So lets just kill it.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:16:18 +02:00
David Brownell
a4dbd6740d driver model: constify attribute groups
Let attribute group vectors be declared "const".  We'd
like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only
sections... this is a start.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 09:50:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
355bbd8cb8 Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (29 commits)
  block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
  Make DISCARD_BARRIER and DISCARD_NOBARRIER writes instead of reads
  block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
  block: Optimal I/O limit wrapper
  cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched
  Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
  aoe: end barrier bios with EOPNOTSUPP
  block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs
  block: enable rq CPU completion affinity by default
  cfq: fix the log message after dispatched a request
  block: use printk_once
  cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one()
  splice: update mtime and atime on files
  block: make blk_iopoll_prep_sched() follow normal 0/1 return convention
  cfq-iosched: get rid of must_alloc flag
  block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff()
  block: fix comment in blk-iopoll.c
  block: adjust default budget for blk-iopoll
  block: fix long lines in block/blk-iopoll.c
  block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
  ...
2009-09-14 17:55:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4142e0d1de Merge branch 'osync_cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'osync_cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6:
  fsync: wait for data writeout completion before calling ->fsync
  vfs: Remove generic_osync_inode() and sync_page_range{_nolock}()
  fat: Opencode sync_page_range_nolock()
  pohmelfs: Use new syncing helper
  xfs: Convert sync_page_range() to simple filemap_write_and_wait_range()
  ocfs2: Update syncing after splicing to match generic version
  ntfs: Use new syncing helpers and update comments
  ext4: Remove syncing logic from ext4_file_write
  ext3: Remove syncing logic from ext3_file_write
  ext2: Update comment about generic_osync_inode
  vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode
  vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolock
  ocfs2: Use __generic_file_aio_write instead of generic_file_aio_write_nolock
  pohmelfs: Use __generic_file_aio_write instead of generic_file_aio_write_nolock
  vfs: Remove syncing from generic_file_direct_write() and generic_file_buffered_write()
  vfs: Export __generic_file_aio_write() and add some comments
  vfs: Introduce filemap_fdatawait_range
2009-09-14 14:36:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
33f1de6931 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
  GFS2: Whitespace fixes
  GFS2: Remove unused sysfs file
  GFS2: Be extra careful about deallocating inodes
  GFS2: Remove no_formal_ino generating code
  GFS2: Rename eattr.[ch] as xattr.[ch]
  GFS2: Clean up of extended attribute support
  GFS2: Add explanation of extended attr on-disk format
  GFS2: Add "-o errors=panic|withdraw" mount options
  GFS2: jumping to wrong label?
  GFS2: free disk inode which is deleted by remote node -V2
  GFS2: Add a document explaining GFS2's uevents
  GFS2: Add sysfs link to device
  GFS2: Replace assertion with proper error handling
  GFS2: Improve error handling in inode allocation
  GFS2: Add some more info to uevents
  GFS2: Add online uevent to GFS2
2009-09-14 14:35:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
041d6d0be8 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6:
  udf: Fix possible corruption when close races with write
  udf: Perform preallocation only for regular files
  udf: Remove wrong assignment in udf_symlink
  udf: Remove dead code
2009-09-14 14:35:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
af8cb8aa38 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (21 commits)
  fs/Kconfig: move nilfs2 outside misc filesystems
  nilfs2: convert nilfs_bmap_lookup to an inline function
  nilfs2: allow btree code to directly call dat operations
  nilfs2: add update functions of virtual block address to dat
  nilfs2: remove individual gfp constants for each metadata file
  nilfs2: stop zero-fill of btree path just before free it
  nilfs2: remove unused btree argument from btree functions
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_dat_abort_start and nilfs_dat_abort_free
  nilfs2: shorten freeze period due to GC in write operation v3
  nilfs2: add more check routines in mount process
  nilfs2: An unassigned variable is assigned to a never used structure member
  nilfs2: use GFP_NOIO for bio_alloc instead of GFP_NOWAIT
  nilfs2: stop using periodic write_super callback
  nilfs2: clean up nilfs_write_super
  nilfs2: fix disorder of nilfs_write_super in nilfs_sync_fs
  nilfs2: remove redundant super block commit
  nilfs2: implement nilfs_show_options to display mount options in /proc/mounts
  nilfs2: always lookup disk block address before reading metadata block
  nilfs2: use semaphore to protect pointer to a writable FS-instance
  nilfs2: fix format string compile warning (ino_t)
  ...
2009-09-14 14:34:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6cdb5930a6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  cifs: consolidate reconnect logic in smb_init routines
  cifs: Replace wrtPending with a real reference count
  cifs: protect GlobalOplock_Q with its own spinlock
  cifs: use tcon pointer in cifs_show_options
  cifs: send IPv6 addr in upcall with colon delimiters
  [CIFS] Fix checkpatch warnings
  PATCH] cifs: fix broken mounts when a SSH tunnel is used (try #4)
  [CIFS] Memory leak in ntlmv2 hash calculation
  [CIFS] potential NULL dereference in parse_DFS_referrals()
2009-09-14 14:33:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d7e9660ad9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
  netxen: update copyright
  netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
  netxen: fix file firmware leak
  netxen: improve pci memory access
  netxen: change firmware write size
  tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
  netxen: build fix for INET=n
  cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
  Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
  Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
  ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
  net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
  mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
  ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
  ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
  phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
  drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
  drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
  net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
  Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflicts:

 - arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h

   converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree.  The generic
   header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.

 - drivers/net/tun.c

   fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
   switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
   available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
   to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.

   Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
2009-09-14 10:37:28 -07:00
Jan Kara
cbc8cc3352 udf: Fix possible corruption when close races with write
When we close a file, we remove preallocated blocks from it. But this
truncation was not protected by i_mutex and thus it could have raced with a
write through a different fd and cause crashes or even filesystem corruption.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 19:13:01 +02:00
Jan Kara
81056dd044 udf: Perform preallocation only for regular files
So far we preallocated blocks also for directories but that brings a
problem, when to get rid of preallocated blocks we don't need. So far
we removed them in udf_clear_inode() which has a disadvantage that
1) blocks are unavailable long after writing to a directory finished
   and thus one can get out of space unnecessarily early
2) releasing blocks from udf_clear_inode is problematic because VFS
   does not expect us to redirty inode there and it also slows down
   memory reclaim.

So preallocate blocks only for regular files where we can drop preallocation
in udf_release_file.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 19:13:00 +02:00
Jan Kara
7c6e3d1aae udf: Remove wrong assignment in udf_symlink
Recomputation of the pointer was wrong (it should have been just increment).
Luckily, we never use the computed value. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 19:13:00 +02:00
Jan Kara
5891d9dd2a udf: Remove dead code
Remove code that gets never used.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 19:13:00 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
2daea67e96 fsync: wait for data writeout completion before calling ->fsync
Currenly vfs_fsync(_range) first calls filemap_fdatawrite to write out
the data, the calls into ->fsync to write out the metadata and then finally
calls filemap_fdatawait to wait for the data I/O to complete.  What sounds
like a clever micro-optimization actually is nast trap for many filesystems.

For many modern filesystems i_size or other inode information is only
updated on I/O completion and we need to wait for I/O to finish before
we can write out the metadata.  For old fashionen filesystems that
instanciate blocks during the actual write and also update the metadata
at that point it opens up a large window were we could expose uninitialized
blocks after a crash.  While a few filesystems that need it already wait
for the I/O to finish inside their ->fsync methods it is rather suboptimal
as it is done under the i_mutex and also always for the whole file instead
of just a part as we could do for O_SYNC handling.

Here is a small audit of all fsync instances in the tree:

 - spufs_mfc_fsync:
 - ps3flash_fsync:
 - vol_cdev_fsync:
 - printer_fsync:
 - fb_deferred_io_fsync:
 - bad_file_fsync:
 - simple_sync_file:

	don't care - filesystems/drivers do't use the page cache or are
	purely in-memory.

 - simple_fsync:
 - file_fsync:
 - affs_file_fsync:
 - fat_file_fsync:
 - jfs_fsync:
 - ubifs_fsync:
 - reiserfs_dir_fsync:
 - reiserfs_sync_file:

	never touch pagecache themselves.  We need to wait before if we do
	not want to expose stale data after an allocation.

 - afs_fsync:
 - fuse_fsync_common:

	do the waiting writeback itself in awkward ways, would benefit from
	proper semantics

 - block_fsync:

	Does a filemap_write_and_wait on the block device inode.  Because we
	now have f_mapping that is the same inode we call it on in vfs_fsync.
	So just removing it and letting the VFS do the work in one go would
	be an improvement.

 - btrfs_sync_file:
 - cifs_fsync:
 - xfs_file_fsync:

	need the wait first and currently do it themselves. would benefit from
	doing it outside i_mutex.

 - coda_fsync:
 - ecryptfs_fsync:
 - exofs_file_fsync:
 - shm_fsync:

	only passes the fsync through to the lower layer

 - ext3_sync_file:

	doesn't seem to care, comments are confusing.

 - ext4_sync_file:

	would need the wait to work correctly for delalloc mode with late
	i_size updates.  Otherwise the ext3 comment applies.

	currently implemens it's own writeback and wait in an odd way,
	could benefit from doing it properly.

 - gfs2_fsync:

	not needed for journaled data mode, but probably harmless there.
	Currently writes back data asynchronously itself.  Needs some
	major audit.

 - hostfs_fsync:

	just calls fsync/datasync on the host FD.  Without the wait before
	data might not even be inflight yet if we're unlucky.

 - hpfs_file_fsync:
 - ncp_fsync:

	no-ops.  Dangerous before and after.

 - jffs2_fsync:

	just calls jffs2_flush_wbuf_gc, not sure how this relates to data.

 - nfs_fsync_dir:

	just increments stats, claims all directory operations are synchronous

 - nfs_file_fsync:

	only writes out data???  Looks very odd.

 - nilfs_sync_file:

	looks like it expects all data done, but not sure from the code

 - ntfs_dir_fsync:
 - ntfs_file_fsync:

	appear to do their own data writeback.  Very convoluted code.

 - ocfs2_sync_file:

	does it's own data writeback, but no wait.  probably needs the wait.

 - smb_fsync:

	according to a comment expects all pages written already, probably needs
	the wait before.

This patch only changes vfs_fsync_range, removal of the wait in the methods
that have it is left to the filesystem maintainers.  Note that most
filesystems really do need an audit for their fsync methods given the
gems found in this very brief audit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:17 +02:00
Jan Kara
18f2ee705d vfs: Remove generic_osync_inode() and sync_page_range{_nolock}()
Remove these three functions since nobody uses them anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:17 +02:00
Jan Kara
2f3d675bcd fat: Opencode sync_page_range_nolock()
fat_cont_expand() is the only user of sync_page_range_nolock(). It's also the
only user of generic_osync_inode() which does not have a file open.  So
opencode needed actions for FAT so that we can convert generic_osync_inode() to
a standard syncing path.

Update a comment about generic_osync_inode().

CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:17 +02:00
Jan Kara
af0f4414f3 xfs: Convert sync_page_range() to simple filemap_write_and_wait_range()
Christoph Hellwig says that it is enough for XFS to call
filemap_write_and_wait_range() instead of sync_page_range() because we do
all the metadata syncing when forcing the log.

CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:17 +02:00
Jan Kara
d23c937b0f ocfs2: Update syncing after splicing to match generic version
Update ocfs2 specific splicing code to use generic syncing helper. The sync now
does not happen under rw_lock because generic_write_sync() acquires i_mutex
which ranks above rw_lock. That should not matter because standard fsync path
does not hold it either.

Acked-by: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:16 +02:00
Jan Kara
ebbbf757c6 ntfs: Use new syncing helpers and update comments
Use new syncing helpers in .write and .aio_write functions. Also
remove superfluous syncing in ntfs_file_buffered_write() and update
comments about generic_osync_inode().

CC: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
CC: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:16 +02:00
Jan Kara
0d34ec62e1 ext4: Remove syncing logic from ext4_file_write
The syncing is now properly handled by generic_file_aio_write() so
no special ext4 code is needed.

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:16 +02:00
Jan Kara
e367626b61 ext3: Remove syncing logic from ext3_file_write
Syncing is now properly done by generic_file_aio_write() so no special logic is
needed in ext3.

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:16 +02:00
Jan Kara
a2a735ad66 ext2: Update comment about generic_osync_inode
We rely on generic_write_sync() now.

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:16 +02:00