Convert the free_blocks to be free_clusters to make the final revised
bigalloc changes easier to read/understand.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Convert the percpu counters s_dirtyblocks_counter and
s_freeblocks_counter in struct ext4_super_info to be
s_dirtyclusters_counter and s_freeclusters_counter.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

The ext4_free_blocks() function now has two new flags that indicate
whether a partial cluster at the beginning or the end of the block
extents should be freed or not.  That will be up the caller (i.e.,
truncate), who can figure out whether partial clusters at the
beginning or the end of a block range can be freed.

We also have to update the ext4_mb_free_metadata() and
release_blocks_on_commit() machinery to be cluster-based, since it is
used by ext4_free_blocks().
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Add bigalloc support to ext4_init_block_bitmap() and
ext4_free_blocks_after_init().
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

The function ext4_free_blocks_after_init() used to be a #define of
ext4_init_block_bitmap().  This actually made it difficult to
understand how the function worked, and made it hard make changes to
support clusters.  So as an initial cleanup, I've separated out the
functionality of initializing block bitmap from calculating the number
of free blocks in the new block group.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

This adds supports for bigalloc file systems.  It teaches the mount
code just enough about bigalloc superblock fields that it will mount
the file system without freaking out that the number of blocks per
group is too big.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

If the user explicitly specifies conflicting mount options for
delalloc or dioread_nolock and data=journal, fail the mount, instead
of printing a warning and continuing (since many user's won't look at
dmesg and notice the warning).

Also, print a single warning that data=journal implies that delayed
allocation is not on by default (since it's not supported), and
furthermore that O_DIRECT is not supported.  Improve the text in
Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt so this is clear there as well.

Similarly, if the dioread_nolock mount option is specified when the
file system block size != PAGE_SIZE, fail the mount instead of
printing a warning message and ignoring the mount option.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

This patch adds two new routines: ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers
and ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers_no_lock.

The ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers routine is a wrapper
function to ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers_no_lock.
The wrapper function locks the page and passes it to
ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers_no_lock.
Calling functions that already have the page locked can call
ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers_no_lock directly.

The ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers_no_lock function
zeros a specified range in a page, and unmaps the
corresponding buffer heads.  Only block aligned regions of the
page will have their buffer heads unmapped.  Unblock aligned regions
will be mapped if needed so that they can be updated with the
partial zero out.  This function is meant to
be used to update a page and its buffer heads to be zeroed
and unmapped when the corresponding blocks have been released
or will be released.

This routine is used in the following scenarios:
* A hole is punched and the non page aligned regions
  of the head and tail of the hole need to be discarded

* The file is truncated and the partial page beyond EOF needs
  to be discarded

* The end of a hole is in the same page as EOF.  After the
  page is flushed, the partial page beyond EOF needs to be
  discarded.

* A write operation begins or ends inside a hole and the partial
  page appearing before or after the write needs to be discarded

* A write operation extends EOF and the partial page beyond EOF
  needs to be discarded

This function takes a flag EXT4_DISCARD_PARTIAL_PG_ZERO_UNMAPPED
which is used when a write operation begins or ends in a hole.
When the EXT4_DISCARD_PARTIAL_PG_ZERO_UNMAPPED flag is used, only
buffer heads that are already unmapped will have the corresponding
regions of the page zeroed.
Signed-off-by: NAllison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

This doesn't make much sense, and it exposes a bug in the kernel where
attempts to create a new file in an append-only directory using
O_CREAT will fail (but still leave a zero-length file).  This was
discovered when xfstests #79 was generalized so it could run on all
file systems.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc:stable@kernel.org

The i_mutex lock and flush_completed_IO() added by commit 2581fdc8
in ext4_evict_inode() causes lockdep complaining about potential
deadlock in several places.  In most/all of these LOCKDEP complaints
it looks like it's a false positive, since many of the potential
circular locking cases can't take place by the time the
ext4_evict_inode() is called; but since at the very least it may mask
real problems, we need to address this.

This change removes the flush_completed_IO() and i_mutex lock in
ext4_evict_inode().  Instead, we take a different approach to resolve
the software lockup that commit 2581fdc8 intends to fix.  Rather
than having ext4-dio-unwritten thread wait for grabing the i_mutex
lock of an inode, we use mutex_trylock() instead, and simply requeue
the work item if we fail to grab the inode's i_mutex lock.

This should speed up work queue processing in general and also
prevents the following deadlock scenario: During page fault,
shrink_icache_memory is called that in turn evicts another inode B.
Inode B has some pending io_end work so it calls ext4_ioend_wait()
that waits for inode B's i_ioend_count to become zero.  However, inode
B's ioend work was queued behind some of inode A's ioend work on the
same cpu's ext4-dio-unwritten workqueue.  As the ext4-dio-unwritten
thread on that cpu is processing inode A's ioend work, it tries to
grab inode A's i_mutex lock.  Since the i_mutex lock of inode A is
still hold before the page fault happened, we enter a deadlock.
Signed-off-by: NJiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Introduce new helper functions which try kmalloc, and then fall back
to vmalloc if necessary, and use them for allocating and deallocating
s_flex_groups.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Rename mb_set_bits() to ext4_set_bits() and make it a global function
so that setup_new_group_blocks() can use it.
Signed-off-by: NYongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

This patch lets ext4_group_add_blocks() return an error code if it
fails, so that upper functions can handle error correctly.
Signed-off-by: NYongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Signed-off-by: NYongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Before this patch, parallel resizers are allowed and protected by a
mutex lock, actually, there is no need to support parallel resizer, so
this patch prevents parallel resizers by atmoic bit ops, like
lock_page() and unlock_page() do.

To do this, the patch removed the mutex lock s_resize_lock from struct
ext4_sb_info and added a unsigned long field named s_resize_flags
which inidicates if there is a resizer.
Signed-off-by: NYongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers.  Some
file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
ocfs2.  For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
Thanks,
Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NJosef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

In ext4, when FITRIM is called every time, we iterate all the
groups and do trim one by one. It is a bit time wasting if the
group has been trimmed and there is no change since the last
trim.

So this patch adds a new flag in ext4_group_info->bb_state to
indicate that the group has been trimmed, and it will be cleared
if some blocks is freed(in release_blocks_on_commit). Another
trim_minlen is added in ext4_sb_info to record the last minlen
we use to trim the volume, so that if the caller provide a small
one, we will go on the trim regardless of the bb_state.

A simple test with my intel x25m ssd:
df -h shows:
/dev/sdb1              40G   21G   17G  56% /mnt/ext4
Block size:               4096

run the FITRIM with the following parameter:
range.start = 0;
range.len = UINT64_MAX;
range.minlen = 1048576;

without the patch:
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m5.505s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m1.224s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m5.359s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m1.178s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m5.228s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m1.151s

with the patch:
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m5.625s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m1.269s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m0.002s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.001s
[root@boyu-tm linux-2.6]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m0.002s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.001s

A big improvement for the 2nd and 3rd run.

Even after I delete some big image files, it is still much
faster than iterating the whole disk.

[root@boyu-tm test]# time ./ftrim /mnt/ext4/a
real	0m1.217s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.196s

Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: NTao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

The current implementation of ext4_free_blocks() always calls
dquot_free_block This looks quite sensible in the most cases: blocks
to be freed are associated with inode and were accounted in quota and
i_blocks some time ago.

However, there is a case when blocks to free were not accounted by the
time calling ext4_free_blocks() yet:

1. delalloc is on, write_begin pre-allocated some space in quota
2. write-back happens, ext4 allocates some blocks in ext4_ext_map_blocks()
3. then ext4_ext_map_blocks() gets an error (e.g.  ENOSPC) from
   ext4_ext_insert_extent() and calls ext4_free_blocks().

In this scenario, ext4_free_blocks() calls dquot_free_block() who, in
turn, decrements i_blocks for blocks which were not accounted yet (due
to delalloc) After clean umount, e2fsck reports something like:

> Inode 21, i_blocks is 5080, should be 5128.  Fix<y>?
because i_blocks was erroneously decremented as explained above.

The patch fixes the problem by passing the new flag
EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_NO_QUOT_UPDATE to ext4_free_blocks(), to request
that the dquot_free_block() call be skipped.
Signed-off-by: NMaxim Patlasov <maxim.patlasov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

I found that ext4_ext_find_goal() and ext4_find_near()
share the same code for returning a coloured start block
based on i_block_group.

We can refactor this into a common function so that they
don't diverge in the future.

Thanks to adilger for suggesting the new function name.
Signed-off-by: NEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

This patch moves functions from inode.c to indirect.c.
The moved functions are ext4_ind_* functions and their helpers.
Functions called from inode.c are declared extern.
Signed-off-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

In preparation for moving the indirect functions to a separate file,
move __ext4_check_blockref() to block_validity.c and rename it to
ext4_check_blockref() which is exported as globally visible function.

Also, rename the cpp macro ext4_check_inode_blockref() to
ext4_ind_check_inode(), to make it clear that it is only valid for use
with non-extent mapped inodes.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

We are about to move all indirect inode functions to a new file.
Before we do that, let's split ext4_ind_truncate() out of ext4_truncate()
leaving only generic code in the latter, so we will be able to move
ext4_ind_truncate() to the new file.
Signed-off-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or
anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it
needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not.

This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet.  I plan
to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting
this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid
tree interdependencies.

Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block.  That
has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Currently, an fallocate request of size slightly larger than a power of
2 is turned into two block requests, each a power of 2, with the extra
blocks pre-allocated for future use. When an application calls
fallocate, it already has an idea about how large the file may grow so
there is usually little benefit to reserve extra blocks on the
preallocation list. This reduces disk fragmentation.

Tested: fsstress. Also verified manually that fallocat'ed files are
contiguously laid out with this change (whereas without it they begin at
power-of-2 boundaries, leaving blocks in between). CPU usage of
fallocate is not appreciably higher.  In a tight fallocate loop, CPU
usage hovers between 5%-8% with this change, and 5%-7% without it.

Using a simulated file system aging program which the file system to
70%, the percentage of free extents larger than 8MB (as measured by
e2freefrag) increased from 38.8% without this change, to 69.4% with
this change.
Signed-off-by: NVivek Haldar <haldar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

This patch adds new routines: "ext4_punch_hole" "ext4_ext_punch_hole"
and "ext4_ext_check_cache"

fallocate has been modified to call ext4_punch_hole when the punch hole
flag is passed.  At the moment, we only support punching holes in
extents, so this routine is pretty much a wrapper for the ext4_ext_punch_hole
routine.

The ext4_ext_punch_hole routine first completes all outstanding writes
with the associated pages, and then releases them.  The unblock
aligned data is zeroed, and all blocks in between are punched out.

The ext4_ext_check_cache routine is very similar to ext4_ext_in_cache
except it accepts a ext4_ext_cache parameter instead of a ext4_extent
parameter.  This routine is used by ext4_ext_punch_hole to check and
see if a block in a hole that has been cached.  The ext4_ext_cache
parameter is necessary because the members ext4_extent structure are
not large enough to hold a 32 bit value.  The existing
ext4_ext_in_cache routine has become a wrapper to this new function.

[ext4 punch hole patch series 5/5 v7] 
Signed-off-by: NAllison Henderson <achender@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: NMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>

This patch modifies the existing ext4_block_truncate_page() function
which was used by the truncate code path, and which zeroes out block
unaligned data, by adding a new length parameter, and renames it to
ext4_block_zero_page_rage().  This function can now be used to zero out the
head of a block, the tail of a block, or the middle
of a block.

The ext4_block_truncate_page() function is now a wrapper to
ext4_block_zero_page_range().

[ext4 punch hole patch series 2/5 v7] 
Signed-off-by: NAllison Henderson <achender@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: NMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>

This patch adds an allocation request flag to the ext4_has_free_blocks
function which enables the use of reserved blocks.  This will allow a
punch hole to proceed even if the disk is full.  Punching a hole may
require additional blocks to first split the extents.

Because ext4_has_free_blocks is a low level function, the flag needs
to be passed down through several functions listed below:

ext4_ext_insert_extent
ext4_ext_create_new_leaf
ext4_ext_grow_indepth
ext4_ext_split
ext4_ext_new_meta_block
ext4_mb_new_blocks
ext4_claim_free_blocks
ext4_has_free_blocks

[ext4 punch hole patch series 1/5 v7]
Signed-off-by: NAllison Henderson <achender@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: NMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>

I am working on patch to add quota as a built-in feature for ext4
filesystem. The implementation is based on the design given at
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Design_For_1st_Class_Quota_in_Ext4.
This patch reserves the inode numbers 3 and 4 for quota purposes and
also reserves EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_QUOTA feature code.
Signed-off-by: NAditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Prevent an ext4 filesystem from being mounted multiple times.
A sequence number is stored on disk and is periodically updated (every 5
seconds by default) by a mounted filesystem.
At mount time, we now wait for s_mmp_update_interval seconds to make sure
that the MMP sequence does not change.
In case of failure, the nodename, bdevname and the time at which the MMP
block was last updated is displayed.
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohann Lombardi <johann@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

The number of hits and misses for each filesystem is exposed in
/sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/extent_cache_{hits, misses}.

Tested: fsstress, manual checks.
Signed-off-by: NVivek Haldar <haldar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

For some reason we have been waiting for lazyinit thread to start in the
ext4_run_lazyinit_thread() but it is not needed since it was jus
unnecessary complexity, so get rid of it. We can also remove li_task and
li_wait_task since it is not used anymore.
Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: NEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

In order to make lazyinit eat approx. 10% of io bandwidth at max, we
are sleeping between zeroing each single inode table. For that purpose
we are using timer which wakes up thread when it expires. It is set
via add_timer() and this may cause troubles in the case that thread
has been woken up earlier and in next iteration we call add_timer() on
still running timer hence hitting BUG_ON in add_timer(). We could fix
that by using mod_timer() instead however we can use
schedule_timeout_interruptible() for waiting and hence simplifying
things a lot.

This commit exchange the old "waiting mechanism" with simple
schedule_timeout_interruptible(), setting the time to sleep. Hence we
do not longer need li_wait_daemon waiting queue and others, so get rid
of it.

Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #699708
Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: NEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

In preparation for the next patch, the function ext4_add_groupblocks()
is moved to mballoc.c, where it could use some static functions.
Signed-off-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Provide better emulation for ext[23] mode by enforcing that the file
system does not have any unsupported file system features as defined
by ext[23] when emulating the ext[23] file system driver when
CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23 is defined.

This causes the file system type information in /proc/mounts to be
correct for the automatically mounted root file system.  This also
means that "mount -t ext2 /dev/sda /mnt" will fail if /dev/sda
contains an ext3 or ext4 file system, just as one would expect if the
original ext2 file system driver were in use.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

As a preparation for removing ext2 non-atomic bit operations from
asm/bitops.h.  This converts ext2 non-atomic bit operations to
little-endian bit operations.
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned
asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated
by xfstest 240.

The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the
hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and 
dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions.  When
more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new"
block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated
and causes data corruption.

Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all
unaligned asynchronous direct IO.  I've done the same here.
The difference is that we only wait on conversions, not all IO.
This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with
stuffing this into ext4_file_write().  But since ext4 is
DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.

I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then
we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the
work queue to do conversions - which must also take the
i_mutex.  So that won't work.

This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to
a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment.  I've
tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does
avoid the corruption.  It is also quite a lot slower
(14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned)
but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.

Mingming suggested that we can track outstanding
conversions, and wait on those so that non-sparse
files won't be affected, and I've implemented that here;
unaligned AIO to nonsparse files won't take a perf hit.

[tytso@mit.edu: Keep the mutex as a hashed array instead
 of bloating the ext4 inode]

[tytso@mit.edu: Fix up namespace issues so that global
 variables are protected with an "ext4_" prefix.]
Signed-off-by: NEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously,
while XFS forced a commit.  Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC
I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE
case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes.  On the
other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path
uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions.   Given
that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from
an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure
available that lets us check for O_SYNC.

This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems,
and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire
up fallocate for regular files.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Ted first found the bug when running 2.6.36 kernel with dioread_nolock
mount option that xfstests #13 complained about wrong file size during fsck.
However, the bug exists in the older kernels as well although it is
somehow harder to trigger.

The problem is that ext4_end_io_work() can happen after we have truncated an
inode to a smaller size. Then when ext4_end_io_work() calls 
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(), we may reallocate some blocks that have 
been truncated, so the inode size becomes inconsistent with the allocated
blocks. 

The following patch flushes the i_completed_io_list during truncate to reduce 
the risk that some pending end_io requests are executed later and convert 
already truncated blocks to initialized. 

Note that although the fix helps reduce the problem a lot there may still 
be a race window between vmtruncate() and ext4_end_io_work(). The fundamental
problem is that if vmtruncate() is called without either i_mutex or i_alloc_sem
held, it can race with an ongoing write request so that the io_end request is
processed later when the corresponding blocks have been truncated.

Ted and I have discussed the problem offline and we saw a few ways to fix
the race completely:

a) We guarantee that i_mutex lock and i_alloc_sem write lock are both hold 
whenever vmtruncate() is called. The i_mutex lock prevents any new write
requests from entering writeback and the i_alloc_sem prevents the race
from ext4_page_mkwrite(). Currently we hold both locks if vmtruncate()
is called from do_truncate(), which is probably the most common case.
However, there are places where we may call vmtruncate() without holding
either i_mutex or i_alloc_sem. I would like to ask for other people's
opinions on what locks are expected to be held before calling vmtruncate().
There seems a disagreement among the callers of that function.

b) We change the ext4 write path so that we change the extent tree to contain 
the newly allocated blocks and update i_size both at the same time --- when 
the write of the data blocks is completed.

c) We add some additional locking to synchronize vmtruncate() and 
ext4_end_io_work(). This approach may have performance implications so we
need to be careful.

All of the above proposals may require more substantial changes, so
we may consider to take the following patch as a bandaid.
Signed-off-by: NJiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Replace the jbd2_inode structure (which is 48 bytes) with a pointer
and only allocate the jbd2_inode when it is needed --- that is, when
the file system has a journal present and the inode has been opened
for writing.  This allows us to further slim down the ext4_inode_info
structure.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

We can store the dynamic inode state flags in the high bits of
EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags, and eliminate i_state_flags.  This saves 8
bytes from the size of ext4_inode_info structure, which when
multiplied by the number of the number of in the inode cache, can save
a lot of memory.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>