1. 28 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  2. 22 5月, 2010 4 次提交
  3. 17 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      writeback: fix WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from umount · e913fc82
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      When umount calls sync_filesystem(), we first do a WB_SYNC_NONE
      writeback to kick off writeback of pending dirty inodes, then follow
      that up with a WB_SYNC_ALL to wait for it. Since umount already holds
      the sb s_umount mutex, WB_SYNC_NONE ends up doing nothing and all
      writeback happens as WB_SYNC_ALL. This can greatly slow down umount,
      since WB_SYNC_ALL writeback is a data integrity operation and thus
      a bigger hammer than simple WB_SYNC_NONE. For barrier aware file systems
      it's a lot slower.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      e913fc82
  4. 25 4月, 2010 1 次提交
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      Catch filesystems lacking s_bdi · 5129a469
      Jörn Engel 提交于
      noop_backing_dev_info is used only as a flag to mark filesystems that
      don't have any backing store, like tmpfs, procfs, spufs, etc.
      Signed-off-by: NJoern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
      
      Changed the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON(). Note that adding dirty inodes
      to the noop_backing_dev_info is not legal and will not result in
      them being flushed, but we already catch this condition in
      __mark_inode_dirty() when checking for a registered bdi.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      5129a469
  5. 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
  6. 05 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      quota: move code from sync_quota_sb into vfs_quota_sync · 5fb324ad
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Currenly sync_quota_sb does a lot of sync and truncate action that only
      applies to "VFS" style quotas and is actively harmful for the sync
      performance in XFS.  Move it into vfs_quota_sync and add a wait parameter
      to ->quota_sync to tell if we need it or not.
      
      My audit of the GFS2 code says it's also not needed given the way GFS2
      implements quotas, but I'd be happy if this can get a detailed review.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      5fb324ad
  7. 18 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  8. 10 12月, 2009 2 次提交
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      kill wait_on_page_writeback_range · 94004ed7
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      All callers really want the more logical filemap_fdatawait_range interface,
      so convert them to use it and merge wait_on_page_writeback_range into
      filemap_fdatawait_range.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      94004ed7
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      vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics · 6b2f3d1f
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      While Linux provided an O_SYNC flag basically since day 1, it took until
      Linux 2.4.0-test12pre2 to actually get it implemented for filesystems,
      since that day we had generic_osync_around with only minor changes and the
      great "For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give
      O_DSYNC" comment.  This patch intends to actually give us real O_SYNC
      semantics in addition to the O_DSYNC semantics.  After Jan's O_SYNC
      patches which are required before this patch it's actually surprisingly
      simple, we just need to figure out when to set the datasync flag to
      vfs_fsync_range and when not.
      
      This patch renames the existing O_SYNC flag to O_DSYNC while keeping it's
      numerical value to keep binary compatibility, and adds a new real O_SYNC
      flag.  To guarantee backwards compatiblity it is defined as expanding to
      both the O_DSYNC and the new additional binary flag (__O_SYNC) to make
      sure we are backwards-compatible when compiled against the new headers.
      
      This also means that all places that don't care about the differences can
      just check O_DSYNC and get the right behaviour for O_SYNC, too - only
      places that actuall care need to check __O_SYNC in addition.  Drivers and
      network filesystems have been updated in a fail safe way to always do the
      full sync magic if O_DSYNC is set.  The few places setting O_SYNC for
      lower layers are kept that way for now to stay failsafe.
      
      We enforce that O_DSYNC is set when __O_SYNC is set early in the open path
      to make sure we always get these sane options.
      
      Note that parisc really screwed up their headers as they already define a
      O_DSYNC that has always been a no-op.  We try to repair it by using it for
      the new O_DSYNC and redefinining O_SYNC to send both the traditional
      O_SYNC numerical value _and_ the O_DSYNC one.
      
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
      Acked-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Acked-by: NUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      6b2f3d1f
  9. 23 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  10. 16 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  11. 14 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      fsync: wait for data writeout completion before calling ->fsync · 2daea67e
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      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: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      2daea67e
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      vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode · 148f948b
      Jan Kara 提交于
      Introduce new function for generic inode syncing (vfs_fsync_range) and use
      it from fsync() path. Introduce also new helper for syncing after a sync
      write (generic_write_sync) using the generic function.
      
      Use these new helpers for syncing from generic VFS functions. This makes
      O_SYNC writes to block devices acquire i_mutex for syncing. If we really
      care about this, we can make block_fsync() drop the i_mutex and reacquire
      it before it returns.
      
      CC: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
      CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
      CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
      CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
      CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
      CC: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
      CC: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
      CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
      CC: tytso@mit.edu
      Acked-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      148f948b
  12. 11 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data · 03ba3782
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      This gets rid of pdflush for bdi writeout and kupdated style cleaning.
      pdflush writeout suffers from lack of locality and also requires more
      threads to handle the same workload, since it has to work in a
      non-blocking fashion against each queue. This also introduces lumpy
      behaviour and potential request starvation, since pdflush can be starved
      for queue access if others are accessing it. A sample ffsb workload that
      does random writes to files is about 8% faster here on a simple SATA drive
      during the benchmark phase. File layout also seems a LOT more smooth in
      vmstat:
      
       r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
       0  1      0 608848   2652 375372    0    0     0 71024  604    24  1 10 48 42
       0  1      0 549644   2712 433736    0    0     0 60692  505    27  1  8 48 44
       1  0      0 476928   2784 505192    0    0     4 29540  553    24  0  9 53 37
       0  1      0 457972   2808 524008    0    0     0 54876  331    16  0  4 38 58
       0  1      0 366128   2928 614284    0    0     4 92168  710    58  0 13 53 34
       0  1      0 295092   3000 684140    0    0     0 62924  572    23  0  9 53 37
       0  1      0 236592   3064 741704    0    0     4 58256  523    17  0  8 48 44
       0  1      0 165608   3132 811464    0    0     0 57460  560    21  0  8 54 38
       0  1      0 102952   3200 873164    0    0     4 74748  540    29  1 10 48 41
       0  1      0  48604   3252 926472    0    0     0 53248  469    29  0  7 47 45
      
      where vanilla tends to fluctuate a lot in the creation phase:
      
       r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
       1  1      0 678716   5792 303380    0    0     0 74064  565    50  1 11 52 36
       1  0      0 662488   5864 319396    0    0     4   352  302   329  0  2 47 51
       0  1      0 599312   5924 381468    0    0     0 78164  516    55  0  9 51 40
       0  1      0 519952   6008 459516    0    0     4 78156  622    56  1 11 52 37
       1  1      0 436640   6092 541632    0    0     0 82244  622    54  0 11 48 41
       0  1      0 436640   6092 541660    0    0     0     8  152    39  0  0 51 49
       0  1      0 332224   6200 644252    0    0     4 102800  728    46  1 13 49 36
       1  0      0 274492   6260 701056    0    0     4 12328  459    49  0  7 50 43
       0  1      0 211220   6324 763356    0    0     0 106940  515    37  1 10 51 39
       1  0      0 160412   6376 813468    0    0     0  8224  415    43  0  6 49 45
       1  1      0  85980   6452 886556    0    0     4 113516  575    39  1 11 54 34
       0  2      0  85968   6452 886620    0    0     0  1640  158   211  0  0 46 54
      
      A 10 disk test with btrfs performs 26% faster with per-bdi flushing. A
      SSD based writeback test on XFS performs over 20% better as well, with
      the throughput being very stable around 1GB/sec, where pdflush only
      manages 750MB/sec and fluctuates wildly while doing so. Random buffered
      writes to many files behave a lot better as well, as does random mmap'ed
      writes.
      
      A separate thread is added to sync the super blocks. In the long term,
      adding sync_supers_bdi() functionality could get rid of this thread again.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      03ba3782
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      writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export · d8a8559c
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      This adds two new exported functions:
      
      - writeback_inodes_sb(), which only attempts to writeback dirty inodes on
        this super_block, for WB_SYNC_NONE writeout.
      - sync_inodes_sb(), which writes out all dirty inodes on this super_block
        and also waits for the IO to complete.
      Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      d8a8559c
  13. 07 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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      sys_sync(): fix 16% performance regression in ffsb create_4k test · 3beab0b4
      Zhang, Yanmin 提交于
      I run many ffsb test cases on JBODs (typically 13/12 disks).  Comparing
      with kernel 2.6.30, 2.6.31-rc1 has about 16% regression with
      ffsb_create_4k.  The sub test case creates files continuously for 10
      minitues and every file is 1MB.
      
      Bisect located below patch.
      
      5cee5815 is first bad commit
      commit 5cee5815
      Author: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Date:   Mon Apr 27 16:43:51 2009 +0200
      
          vfs: Make sys_sync() use fsync_super() (version 4)
      
          It is unnecessarily fragile to have two places (fsync_super() and do_sync())
          doing data integrity sync of the filesystem. Alter __fsync_super() to
          accommodate needs of both callers and use it. So after this patch
          __fsync_super() is the only place where we gather all the calls needed to
          properly send all data on a filesystem to disk.
      
      As a matter of fact, ffsb calls sys_sync in the end to make sure all data
      is flushed to disks and the flushing is counted into the result.  vmstat
      shows ffsb is blocked when syncing for a long time.  With 2.6.30, ffsb is
      blocked for a short time.
      
      I checked the patch and did experiments to recover the original methods.
      Eventually, the root cause is the patch deletes the calling to
      wakeup_pdflush when syncing, so only ffsb is blocked on disk I/O.
      wakeup_pdflush could ask pdflush to write back pages with ffsb at the
      same time.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore comment too]
      Signed-off-by: NZhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Acked-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3beab0b4
  14. 12 6月, 2009 9 次提交
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      remove the call to ->write_super in __sync_filesystem · 0c95ee19
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Now that all filesystems provide ->sync_fs methods we can change
      __sync_filesystem to only call ->sync_fs.
      
      This gives us a clear separation between periodic writeouts which
      are driven by ->write_super and data integrity syncs that go
      through ->sync_fs. (modulo file_fsync which is also going away)
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      0c95ee19
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      ->write_super lock_super pushdown · ebc1ac16
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Push down lock_super into ->write_super instances and remove it from the
      caller.
      
      Following filesystem don't need ->s_lock in ->write_super and are skipped:
      
       * bfs, nilfs2 - no other uses of s_lock and have internal locks in
      	->write_super
       * ext2 - uses BKL in ext2_write_super and has internal calls without s_lock
       * reiserfs - no other uses of s_lock as has reiserfs_write_lock (BKL) in
       	->write_super
       * xfs - no other uses of s_lock and uses internal lock (buffer lock on
      	superblock buffer) to serialize ->write_super.  Also xfs_fs_write_super
      	is superflous and will go away in the next merge window
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ebc1ac16
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      enforce ->sync_fs is only called for rw superblock · 5af7926f
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Make sure a superblock really is writeable by checking MS_RDONLY
      under s_umount.  sync_filesystems needed some re-arragement for
      that, but all but one sync_filesystem caller had the correct locking
      already so that we could add that check there.  cachefiles grew
      s_umount locking.
      
      I've also added a WARN_ON to sync_filesystem to assert this for
      future callers.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      5af7926f
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      quota: Introduce writeout_quota_sb() (version 4) · c3f8a40c
      Jan Kara 提交于
      Introduce this function which just writes all the quota structures but
      avoids all the syncing and cache pruning work to expose quota structures
      to userspace. Use this function from __sync_filesystem when wait == 0.
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      c3f8a40c
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      quota: cleanup dquota sync functions (version 4) · 850b201b
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Currently the VFS calls vfs_dq_sync to sync out disk quotas for a given
      superblock.  This is a small wrapper around sync_dquots which for the
      case of a non-NULL superblock is a small wrapper around quota_sync_sb.
      
      Just make quota_sync_sb global (rename it to sync_quota_sb) and call it
      directly.  Also call it directly for those cases in quota.c that have a
      superblock and leave sync_dquots purely an iterator over sync_quota_sb and
      remove it's superblock argument.
      
      To make this nicer move the check for the lack of a quota_sync method
      from the callers into sync_quota_sb.
      
      [folded build fix from Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>]
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      850b201b
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      vfs: Rename fsync_super() to sync_filesystem() (version 4) · 60b0680f
      Jan Kara 提交于
      Rename the function so that it better describe what it really does. Also
      remove the unnecessary include of buffer_head.h.
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      60b0680f
    • J
      vfs: Move syncing code from super.c to sync.c (version 4) · c15c54f5
      Jan Kara 提交于
      Move sync_filesystems(), __fsync_super(), fsync_super() from
      super.c to sync.c where it fits better.
      
      [build fixes folded]
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      c15c54f5
    • J
      vfs: Make sys_sync() use fsync_super() (version 4) · 5cee5815
      Jan Kara 提交于
      It is unnecessarily fragile to have two places (fsync_super() and do_sync())
      doing data integrity sync of the filesystem. Alter __fsync_super() to
      accommodate needs of both callers and use it. So after this patch
      __fsync_super() is the only place where we gather all the calls needed to
      properly send all data on a filesystem to disk.
      
      Nice bonus is that we get a complete livelock avoidance and write_supers()
      is now only used for periodic writeback of superblocks.
      
      sync_blockdevs() introduced a couple of patches ago is gone now.
      
      [build fixes folded]
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      5cee5815
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      vfs: Fix sys_sync() and fsync_super() reliability (version 4) · 5a3e5cb8
      Jan Kara 提交于
      So far, do_sync() called:
        sync_inodes(0);
        sync_supers();
        sync_filesystems(0);
        sync_filesystems(1);
        sync_inodes(1);
      
      This ordering makes it kind of hard for filesystems as sync_inodes(0) need not
      submit all the IO (for example it skips inodes with I_SYNC set) so e.g. forcing
      transaction to disk in ->sync_fs() is not really enough. Therefore sys_sync has
      not been completely reliable on some filesystems (ext3, ext4, reiserfs, ocfs2
      and others are hit by this) when racing e.g. with background writeback. A
      similar problem hits also other filesystems (e.g. ext2) because of
      write_supers() being called before the sync_inodes(1).
      
      Change the ordering of calls in do_sync() - this requires a new function
      sync_blockdevs() to preserve the property that block devices are always synced
      after write_super() / sync_fs() call.
      
      The same issue is fixed in __fsync_super() function used on umount /
      remount read-only.
      
      [AV: build fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      5a3e5cb8
  15. 26 3月, 2009 2 次提交
  16. 14 1月, 2009 2 次提交
  17. 07 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  18. 06 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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      add a vfs_fsync helper · 4c728ef5
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Fsync currently has a fdatawrite/fdatawait pair around the method call,
      and a mutex_lock/unlock of the inode mutex.  All callers of fsync have
      to duplicate this, but we have a few and most of them don't quite get
      it right.  This patch adds a new vfs_fsync that takes care of this.
      It's a little more complicated as usual as ->fsync might get a NULL file
      pointer and just a dentry from nfsd, but otherwise gets afile and we
      want to take the mapping and file operations from it when it is there.
      
      Notes on the fsync callers:
      
       - ecryptfs wasn't calling filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait on the
         	lower file
       - coda wasn't calling filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait on the host
      	file, and returning 0 when ->fsync was missing
       - shm wasn't calling either filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait nor
         taking i_mutex.  Now given that shared memory doesn't have disk
         backing not doing anything in fsync seems fine and I left it out of
         the vfs_fsync conversion for now, but in that case we might just
         not pass it through to the lower file at all but just call the no-op
         simple_sync_file directly.
      
      [and now actually export vfs_fsync]
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      4c728ef5
  19. 25 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  20. 29 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  21. 29 6月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Introduce fixed sys_sync_file_range2() syscall, implement on PowerPC and ARM · edd5cd4a
      David Woodhouse 提交于
      Not all the world is an i386.  Many architectures need 64-bit arguments to be
      aligned in suitable pairs of registers, and the original
      sys_sync_file_range(int, loff_t, loff_t, int) was therefore wasting an
      argument register for padding after the first integer.  Since we don't
      normally have more than 6 arguments for system calls, that left no room for
      the final argument on some architectures.
      
      Fix this by introducing sys_sync_file_range2(int, int, loff_t, loff_t) which
      all fits nicely.  In fact, ARM already had that, but called it
      sys_arm_sync_file_range.  Move it to fs/sync.c and rename it, then implement
      the needed compatibility routine.  And stop the missing syscall check from
      bitching about the absence of sys_sync_file_range() if we've implemented
      sys_sync_file_range2() instead.
      
      Tested on PPC32 and with 32-bit and 64-bit userspace on PPC64.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      edd5cd4a
  22. 09 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  23. 27 4月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Turn do_sync_file_range() into do_sync_mapping_range() · 5b04aa3a
      Mark Fasheh 提交于
      do_sync_file_range() accepts a file * from which it takes an address_space to
      sync.  Abstract out the bulk of the function into do_sync_mapping_range()
      which takes the address_space directly.  This way callers who want to sync an
      address_space directly can take advantage of the functionality provided.
      
      do_sync_file_range() is preserved as a small wrapper around
      do_sync_mapping_range().
      
      Ocfs2 in particular would like to use this to initiate a sync of a specific
      inode range during truncate, where a file * may not be available.
      Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      5b04aa3a
  24. 09 12月, 2006 1 次提交