1. 04 8月, 2010 1 次提交
  2. 17 5月, 2010 5 次提交
  3. 16 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  4. 14 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  5. 13 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  6. 21 4月, 2010 1 次提交
  7. 30 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  8. 05 3月, 2010 2 次提交
  9. 04 3月, 2010 2 次提交
  10. 02 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      ext4: Fix fencepost error in chosing choosing group vs file preallocation. · cc483f10
      Tao Ma 提交于
      The ext4 multiblock allocator decides whether to use group or file
      preallocation based on the file size.  When the file size reaches
      s_mb_stream_request (default is 16 blocks), it changes to use a
      file-specific preallocation. This is cool, but it has a tiny problem.
      
      See a simple script:
      mkfs.ext4 -b 1024 /dev/sda8 1000000
      mount -t ext4 -o nodelalloc /dev/sda8 /mnt/ext4
      for((i=0;i<5;i++))
      do
      cat /mnt/4096>>/mnt/ext4/a	#4096 is a file with 4096 characters.
      cat /mnt/4096>>/mnt/ext4/b
      done
      debuge4fs -R 'stat a' /dev/sda8|grep BLOCKS -A 1
      
      And you get
      BLOCKS:
      (0-14):8705-8719, (15):2356, (16-19):8465-8468
      
      So there are 3 extents, a bit strange for the lonely 15th logical
      block.  As we write to the 16 blocks, we choose file preallocation in
      ext4_mb_group_or_file, but in ext4_mb_normalize_request, we meet with
      the 16*1024 range, so no preallocation will be carried. file b then
      reserves the space after '2356', so when when write 16, we start from
      another part.
      
      This patch just change the check in ext4_mb_group_or_file, so
      that for the lonely 15 we will still use group preallocation.
      After the patch, we will get:
      debuge4fs -R 'stat a' /dev/sda8|grep BLOCKS -A 1
      BLOCKS:
      (0-15):8705-8720, (16-19):8465-8468
      
      Looks more sane. Thanks.
      Signed-off-by: NTao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      cc483f10
  11. 16 2月, 2010 1 次提交
  12. 05 2月, 2010 1 次提交
  13. 23 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      ext4: Fix potential quota deadlock · d21cd8f1
      Dmitry Monakhov 提交于
      We have to delay vfs_dq_claim_space() until allocation context destruction.
      Currently we have following call-trace:
      ext4_mb_new_blocks()
        /* task is already holding ac->alloc_semp */
       ->ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used
          ->vfs_dq_claim_space()  /*  acquire dqptr_sem here. Possible deadlock */
       ->ext4_mb_release_context() /* drop ac->alloc_semp here */
      
      Let's move quota claiming to ext4_da_update_reserve_space()
      
       =======================================================
       [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
       2.6.32-rc7 #18
       -------------------------------------------------------
       write-truncate-/3465 is trying to acquire lock:
        (&s->s_dquot.dqptr_sem){++++..}, at: [<c025e73b>] dquot_claim_space+0x3b/0x1b0
      
       but task is already holding lock:
        (&meta_group_info[i]->alloc_sem){++++..}, at: [<c02ce962>] ext4_mb_load_buddy+0xb2/0x370
      
       which lock already depends on the new lock.
      
       the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
      
       -> #3 (&meta_group_info[i]->alloc_sem){++++..}:
              [<c017d04b>] __lock_acquire+0xd7b/0x1260
              [<c017d5ea>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xd0
              [<c0527191>] down_read+0x51/0x90
              [<c02ce962>] ext4_mb_load_buddy+0xb2/0x370
              [<c02d0c1c>] ext4_mb_free_blocks+0x46c/0x870
              [<c029c9d3>] ext4_free_blocks+0x73/0x130
              [<c02c8cfc>] ext4_ext_truncate+0x76c/0x8d0
              [<c02a8087>] ext4_truncate+0x187/0x5e0
              [<c01e0f7b>] vmtruncate+0x6b/0x70
              [<c022ec02>] inode_setattr+0x62/0x190
              [<c02a2d7a>] ext4_setattr+0x25a/0x370
              [<c022ee81>] notify_change+0x151/0x340
              [<c021349d>] do_truncate+0x6d/0xa0
              [<c0221034>] may_open+0x1d4/0x200
              [<c022412b>] do_filp_open+0x1eb/0x910
              [<c021244d>] do_sys_open+0x6d/0x140
              [<c021258e>] sys_open+0x2e/0x40
              [<c0103100>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32
      
       -> #2 (&ei->i_data_sem){++++..}:
              [<c017d04b>] __lock_acquire+0xd7b/0x1260
              [<c017d5ea>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xd0
              [<c0527191>] down_read+0x51/0x90
              [<c02a5787>] ext4_get_blocks+0x47/0x450
              [<c02a74c1>] ext4_getblk+0x61/0x1d0
              [<c02a7a7f>] ext4_bread+0x1f/0xa0
              [<c02bcddc>] ext4_quota_write+0x12c/0x310
              [<c0262d23>] qtree_write_dquot+0x93/0x120
              [<c0261708>] v2_write_dquot+0x28/0x30
              [<c025d3fb>] dquot_commit+0xab/0xf0
              [<c02be977>] ext4_write_dquot+0x77/0x90
              [<c02be9bf>] ext4_mark_dquot_dirty+0x2f/0x50
              [<c025e321>] dquot_alloc_inode+0x101/0x180
              [<c029fec2>] ext4_new_inode+0x602/0xf00
              [<c02ad789>] ext4_create+0x89/0x150
              [<c0221ff2>] vfs_create+0xa2/0xc0
              [<c02246e7>] do_filp_open+0x7a7/0x910
              [<c021244d>] do_sys_open+0x6d/0x140
              [<c021258e>] sys_open+0x2e/0x40
              [<c0103100>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32
      
       -> #1 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/4){+.+...}:
              [<c017d04b>] __lock_acquire+0xd7b/0x1260
              [<c017d5ea>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xd0
              [<c0526505>] mutex_lock_nested+0x65/0x2d0
              [<c0260c9d>] vfs_load_quota_inode+0x4bd/0x5a0
              [<c02610af>] vfs_quota_on_path+0x5f/0x70
              [<c02bc812>] ext4_quota_on+0x112/0x190
              [<c026345a>] sys_quotactl+0x44a/0x8a0
              [<c0103100>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32
      
       -> #0 (&s->s_dquot.dqptr_sem){++++..}:
              [<c017d361>] __lock_acquire+0x1091/0x1260
              [<c017d5ea>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xd0
              [<c0527191>] down_read+0x51/0x90
              [<c025e73b>] dquot_claim_space+0x3b/0x1b0
              [<c02cb95f>] ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used+0x36f/0x380
              [<c02d210a>] ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x34a/0x530
              [<c02c83fb>] ext4_ext_get_blocks+0x122b/0x13c0
              [<c02a5966>] ext4_get_blocks+0x226/0x450
              [<c02a5ff3>] mpage_da_map_blocks+0xc3/0xaa0
              [<c02a6ed6>] ext4_da_writepages+0x506/0x790
              [<c01de272>] do_writepages+0x22/0x50
              [<c01d766d>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x6d/0x80
              [<c01d7b9b>] filemap_flush+0x2b/0x30
              [<c02a40ac>] ext4_alloc_da_blocks+0x5c/0x60
              [<c029e595>] ext4_release_file+0x75/0xb0
              [<c0216b59>] __fput+0xf9/0x210
              [<c0216c97>] fput+0x27/0x30
              [<c02122dc>] filp_close+0x4c/0x80
              [<c014510e>] put_files_struct+0x6e/0xd0
              [<c01451b7>] exit_files+0x47/0x60
              [<c0146a24>] do_exit+0x144/0x710
              [<c0147028>] do_group_exit+0x38/0xa0
              [<c0159abc>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x2ac/0x410
              [<c0102849>] do_notify_resume+0xb9/0x890
              [<c01032d2>] work_notifysig+0x13/0x21
      
       other info that might help us debug this:
      
       3 locks held by write-truncate-/3465:
        #0:  (jbd2_handle){+.+...}, at: [<c02e1f8f>] start_this_handle+0x38f/0x5c0
        #1:  (&ei->i_data_sem){++++..}, at: [<c02a57f6>] ext4_get_blocks+0xb6/0x450
        #2:  (&meta_group_info[i]->alloc_sem){++++..}, at: [<c02ce962>] ext4_mb_load_buddy+0xb2/0x370
      
       stack backtrace:
       Pid: 3465, comm: write-truncate- Not tainted 2.6.32-rc7 #18
       Call Trace:
        [<c0524cb3>] ? printk+0x1d/0x22
        [<c017ac9a>] print_circular_bug+0xca/0xd0
        [<c017d361>] __lock_acquire+0x1091/0x1260
        [<c016bca2>] ? sched_clock_local+0xd2/0x170
        [<c0178fd0>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x20/0xd0
        [<c017d5ea>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xd0
        [<c025e73b>] ? dquot_claim_space+0x3b/0x1b0
        [<c0527191>] down_read+0x51/0x90
        [<c025e73b>] ? dquot_claim_space+0x3b/0x1b0
        [<c025e73b>] dquot_claim_space+0x3b/0x1b0
        [<c02cb95f>] ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used+0x36f/0x380
        [<c02d210a>] ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x34a/0x530
        [<c02c601d>] ? ext4_ext_find_extent+0x25d/0x280
        [<c02c83fb>] ext4_ext_get_blocks+0x122b/0x13c0
        [<c016bca2>] ? sched_clock_local+0xd2/0x170
        [<c016be60>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x120/0x160
        [<c016beef>] ? cpu_clock+0x4f/0x60
        [<c0178fd0>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x20/0xd0
        [<c052712c>] ? down_write+0x8c/0xa0
        [<c02a5966>] ext4_get_blocks+0x226/0x450
        [<c016be60>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x120/0x160
        [<c016beef>] ? cpu_clock+0x4f/0x60
        [<c017908b>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0x10
        [<c02a5ff3>] mpage_da_map_blocks+0xc3/0xaa0
        [<c01d69cc>] ? find_get_pages_tag+0x16c/0x180
        [<c01d6860>] ? find_get_pages_tag+0x0/0x180
        [<c02a73bd>] ? __mpage_da_writepage+0x16d/0x1a0
        [<c01dfc4e>] ? pagevec_lookup_tag+0x2e/0x40
        [<c01ddf1b>] ? write_cache_pages+0xdb/0x3d0
        [<c02a7250>] ? __mpage_da_writepage+0x0/0x1a0
        [<c02a6ed6>] ext4_da_writepages+0x506/0x790
        [<c016beef>] ? cpu_clock+0x4f/0x60
        [<c016bca2>] ? sched_clock_local+0xd2/0x170
        [<c016be60>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x120/0x160
        [<c016be60>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x120/0x160
        [<c02a69d0>] ? ext4_da_writepages+0x0/0x790
        [<c01de272>] do_writepages+0x22/0x50
        [<c01d766d>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x6d/0x80
        [<c01d7b9b>] filemap_flush+0x2b/0x30
        [<c02a40ac>] ext4_alloc_da_blocks+0x5c/0x60
        [<c029e595>] ext4_release_file+0x75/0xb0
        [<c0216b59>] __fput+0xf9/0x210
        [<c0216c97>] fput+0x27/0x30
        [<c02122dc>] filp_close+0x4c/0x80
        [<c014510e>] put_files_struct+0x6e/0xd0
        [<c01451b7>] exit_files+0x47/0x60
        [<c0146a24>] do_exit+0x144/0x710
        [<c017b163>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x33/0x210
        [<c0528137>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x27/0x30
        [<c0147028>] do_group_exit+0x38/0xa0
        [<c017babb>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
        [<c0159abc>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x2ac/0x410
        [<c0102849>] do_notify_resume+0xb9/0x890
        [<c0178fd0>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x20/0xd0
        [<c017b163>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x33/0x210
        [<c0165b50>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
        [<c017ba54>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x134/0x190
        [<c017babb>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
        [<c0300ba4>] ? security_file_permission+0x14/0x20
        [<c0215761>] ? vfs_write+0x131/0x190
        [<c0214f50>] ? do_sync_write+0x0/0x120
        [<c0103115>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x27/0x32
        [<c01032d2>] work_notifysig+0x13/0x21
      
      CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      d21cd8f1
  14. 23 1月, 2010 1 次提交
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      ext4: Add block validity check when truncating indirect block mapped inodes · 1f2acb60
      Theodore Ts'o 提交于
      Add checks to ext4_free_branches() to make sure a block number found
      in an indirect block are valid before trying to free it.  If a bad
      block number is found, stop freeing the indirect block immediately,
      since the file system is corrupt and we will need to run fsck anyway.
      This also avoids spamming the logs, and specifically avoids
      driver-level "attempt to access beyond end of device" errors obscure
      what is really going on.
      
      If you get *really*, *really*, *really* unlucky, without this patch, a
      supposed indirect block containing garbage might contain a reference
      to a primary block group descriptor, in which case
      ext4_free_branches() could end up zero'ing out a block group
      descriptor block, and if then one of the block bitmaps for a block
      group described by that bg descriptor block is not in memory, and is
      read in by ext4_read_block_bitmap().  This function calls
      ext4_valid_block_bitmap(), which assumes that bg_inode_table() was
      validated at mount time and hasn't been modified since.  Since this
      assumption is no longer valid, it's possible for the value
      (ext4_inode_table(sb, desc) - group_first_block) to go negative, which
      will cause ext4_find_next_zero_bit() to trigger a kernel GPF.
      
      Addresses-Google-Bug: #2220436
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      1f2acb60
  15. 09 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  16. 04 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  17. 23 11月, 2009 2 次提交
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      ext4: use ext4_data_block_valid() in ext4_free_blocks() · 9084d471
      Theodore Ts'o 提交于
      The block validity framework does a more comprehensive set of checks,
      and it saves object code space to use the ext4_data_block_valid() than
      the limited open-coded version that had been in ext4_free_blocks().
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      9084d471
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      ext4: call ext4_forget() from ext4_free_blocks() · e6362609
      Theodore Ts'o 提交于
      Add the facility for ext4_forget() to be called from
      ext4_free_blocks().  This simplifies the code in a large number of
      places, and centralizes most of the work of calling ext4_forget() into
      a single place.
      
      Also fix a bug in the extents migration code; it wasn't calling
      ext4_forget() when releasing the indirect blocks during the
      conversion.  As a result, if the system cashed during or shortly after
      the extents migration, and the released indirect blocks get reused as
      data blocks, the journal replay would corrupt the data blocks.  With
      this new patch, fixing this bug was as simple as adding the
      EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_FORGET flags to the call to ext4_free_blocks().
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      e6362609
  18. 22 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  19. 20 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  20. 03 10月, 2009 1 次提交
  21. 30 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file · 296c355c
      Theodore Ts'o 提交于
      The /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mb_history was maintained manually, and had a
      number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be
      allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock
      introduced a CPU contention problem.  
      
      By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace
      tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event
      filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4
      tracepoints, etc.
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      296c355c
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      ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time · 90576c0b
      Theodore Ts'o 提交于
      There are a number of kernel printk's which are printed when an ext4
      filesystem is mounted and unmounted.  Disable them to economize space
      in the system logs.  In addition, disabling the mballoc stats by
      default saves a number of unneeded atomic operations for every block
      allocation or deallocation.
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      90576c0b
  22. 28 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  23. 17 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32 · fb0a387d
      Eric Sandeen 提交于
      Today, the ext4 allocator will happily allocate blocks past
      2^32 for indirect-block files, which results in the block
      numbers getting truncated, and corruption ensues.
      
      This patch limits such allocations to < 2^32, and adds
      BUG_ONs if we do get blocks larger than that.
      
      This should address RH Bug 519471, ext4 bitmap allocator 
      must limit blocks to < 2^32
      
      * ext4_find_goal() is modified to choose a goal < UINT_MAX,
        so that our starting point is in an acceptable range.
      
      * ext4_xattr_block_set() is modified such that the goal block
        is < UINT_MAX, as above.
      
      * ext4_mb_regular_allocator() is modified so that the group
        search does not continue into groups which are too high
      
      * ext4_mb_use_preallocated() has a check that we don't use
        preallocated space which is too far out
      
      * ext4_alloc_blocks() and ext4_xattr_block_set() add some BUG_ONs
      
      No attempt has been made to limit inode locations to < 2^32,
      so we may wind up with blocks far from their inodes.  Doing
      this much already will lead to some odd ENOSPC issues when the
      "lower 32" gets full, and further restricting inodes could
      make that even weirder.
      
      For high inodes, choosing a goal of the original, % UINT_MAX,
      may be a bit odd, but then we're in an odd situation anyway,
      and I don't know of a better heuristic.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      fb0a387d
  24. 10 9月, 2009 3 次提交
  25. 05 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  26. 26 8月, 2009 2 次提交
  27. 18 8月, 2009 2 次提交
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      simplify some logic in ext4_mb_normalize_request · 38877f4e
      Eric Sandeen 提交于
      While reading through some of the mballoc code it seems that a couple
      spots in the size normalization function could be streamlined.
      
      The test for non-overlapping PAs can be or'd for the start & end
      conditions, and the tests for adjacent PAs can be else-if'd - 
      it's essentially independently testing:
      
      	if (A + B <= C)
      		...
      	if (A > C)
      		...
      
      These cannot both be true so it seems like the else-if might
      be slightly more efficient and/or informative.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      38877f4e
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      ext4: open-code ext4_mb_update_group_info · 0373130d
      Eric Sandeen 提交于
      ext4_mb_update_group_info is only called in one place, and it's
      extremely simple.  There's no reason to have it in a separate function
      in a separate file as far as I can tell, it just obfuscates what's
      really going on.
      
      Perhaps it was intended to keep the grp->bb_* manipulation local to
      mballoc.c but we're already accessing other grp-> fields in balloc.c
      directly so this seems ok.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      0373130d
  28. 19 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      ext4: Avoid group preallocation for closed files · 50797481
      Theodore Ts'o 提交于
      Currently the group preallocation code tries to find a large (512)
      free block from which to do per-cpu group allocation for small files.
      The problem with this scheme is that it leaves the filesystem horribly
      fragmented.  In the worst case, if the filesystem is unmounted and
      remounted (after a system shutdown, for example) we forget the fact
      that wee were using a particular (now-partially filled) 512 block
      extent.  So the next time we try to allocate space for a small file,
      we will find *another* completely free 512 block chunk to allocate
      small files.  Given that there are 32,768 blocks in a block group,
      after 64 iterations of "mount, write one 4k file in a directory,
      unmount", the block group will have 64 files, each separated by 511
      blocks, and the block group will no longer have any free 512
      completely free chunks of blocks for group preallocation space.
      
      So if we try to allocate blocks for a file that has been closed, such
      that we know the final size of the file, and the filesystem is not
      busy, avoid using group preallocation.
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      50797481