linux/fs/ext4
Jan Kara 7fb5409df0 ext4: Fix Direct I/O locking
We cannot start transaction in ext4_direct_IO() and just let it last
during the whole write because dio_get_page() acquires mmap_sem which
ranks above transaction start (e.g. because we have dependency chain
mmap_sem->PageLock->journal_start, or because we update atime while
holding mmap_sem) and thus deadlocks could happen. We solve the problem
by starting a transaction separately for each ext4_get_block() call.

We *could* have a problem that we allocate a block and before its data
are written out the machine crashes and thus we expose stale data. But
that does not happen because for hole-filling generic code falls back to
buffered writes and for file extension, we add inode to orphan list and
thus in case of crash, journal replay will truncate inode back to the
original size.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-02-10 01:08:38 -05:00
..
acl.c Introduce is_owner_or_cap() to wrap CAP_FOWNER use with fsuid check 2007-07-17 12:00:03 -07:00
acl.h [PATCH] ext4: rename ext4 symbols to avoid duplication of ext3 symbols 2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
balloc.c ext[234]: cleanup ext[234]_bg_num_gdb() 2008-02-06 10:41:21 -08:00
bitmap.c fs: mark nibblemap const 2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
dir.c ext4: Introduce ext4_lblk_t 2008-01-28 23:58:27 -05:00
ext4_jbd2.c [PATCH] ext4: uninline large functions 2006-12-07 08:39:35 -08:00
extents.c ext4: Use the ext4_ext_actual_len() helper function 2008-01-28 23:58:27 -05:00
file.c ext4: store maxbytes for bitmapped files and return EFBIG as appropriate 2008-01-28 23:58:27 -05:00
fsync.c ext4: sparse fixes 2007-10-17 18:50:03 -04:00
group.h ext4: add ext4_group_t, and change all group variables to this type. 2008-01-28 23:58:27 -05:00
hash.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
ialloc.c iget: stop EXT4 from using iget() and read_inode() 2008-02-07 08:42:27 -08:00
inode.c ext4: Fix Direct I/O locking 2008-02-10 01:08:38 -05:00
ioctl.c ext4: Add EXT4_IOC_MIGRATE ioctl 2008-01-28 23:58:26 -05:00
Makefile ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4 2008-01-29 00:19:52 -05:00
mballoc.c ext4: Fix null bh pointer dereference in mballoc 2008-02-10 01:07:28 -05:00
migrate.c ext4: Fix circular locking dependency with migrate and rm. 2008-02-10 01:20:05 -05:00
namei.c ext4: Don't set EXTENTS_FL flag for fast symlinks 2008-02-05 10:56:37 -05:00
namei.h [PATCH] ext4: rename ext4 symbols to avoid duplication of ext3 symbols 2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
resize.c iget: stop EXT4 from using iget() and read_inode() 2008-02-07 08:42:27 -08:00
super.c iget: stop EXT4 from using iget() and read_inode() 2008-02-07 08:42:27 -08:00
symlink.c [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1 2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
xattr_security.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
xattr_trusted.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
xattr_user.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
xattr.c ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4 2008-01-29 00:19:52 -05:00
xattr.h ext4: Expand extra_inodes space per the s_{want,min}_extra_isize fields 2007-07-18 09:19:57 -04:00