- 12 Apr, 2011 6 commits
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Steve French authored
Ports are __be16 not unsigned short int Eliminates the remaining fixable endian warnings: ~/cifs-2.6$ make modules C=1 M=fs/cifs CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ CHECK fs/cifs/connect.c fs/cifs/connect.c:2408:23: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) fs/cifs/connect.c:2408:23: expected unsigned short *sport fs/cifs/connect.c:2408:23: got restricted __be16 *<noident> fs/cifs/connect.c:2410:23: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) fs/cifs/connect.c:2410:23: expected unsigned short *sport fs/cifs/connect.c:2410:23: got restricted __be16 *<noident> fs/cifs/connect.c:2416:24: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) fs/cifs/connect.c:2416:24: expected unsigned short [unsigned] [short] <noident> fs/cifs/connect.c:2416:24: got restricted __be16 [usertype] <noident> fs/cifs/connect.c:2423:24: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) fs/cifs/connect.c:2423:24: expected unsigned short [unsigned] [short] <noident> fs/cifs/connect.c:2423:24: got restricted __be16 [usertype] <noident> fs/cifs/connect.c:2326:23: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) fs/cifs/connect.c:2326:23: expected unsigned short [unsigned] sport fs/cifs/connect.c:2326:23: got restricted __be16 [usertype] sin6_port fs/cifs/connect.c:2330:23: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) fs/cifs/connect.c:2330:23: expected unsigned short [unsigned] sport fs/cifs/connect.c:2330:23: got restricted __be16 [usertype] sin_port fs/cifs/connect.c:2394:22: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Steve French authored
Max share name was set to 64, and (at least for Windows) can be 80. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Steve French authored
We artificially limited the user name to 32 bytes, but modern servers handle larger. Set the maximum length to a reasonable 256, and make the user name string dynamically allocated rather than a fixed size in session structure. Also clean up old checkpatch warning. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Jeff Layton authored
This flag currently only affects whether we allow "zero-copy" writes with signing enabled. Typically we map pages in the pagecache directly into the write request. If signing is enabled however and the contents of the page change after the signature is calculated but before the write is sent then the signature will be wrong. Servers typically respond to this by closing down the socket. Still, this can provide a performance benefit so the "Experimental" flag was overloaded to allow this. That's really not a good place for this option however since it's not clear what that flag does. Move that flag instead to a new module parameter that better describes its purpose. That's also better since it can be set at module insertion time by configuring modprobe.d. Reviewed-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Jeff Layton authored
cifs_close doesn't check that the filp->private_data is non-NULL before trying to put it. That can cause an oops in certain error conditions that can occur on open or lookup before the private_data is set. Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> CC: Stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- 11 Apr, 2011 13 commits
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git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: use proper interfaces for on-stack plugging xfs: fix xfs_debug warnings xfs: fix variable set but not used warnings xfs: convert log tail checking to a warning xfs: catch bad block numbers freeing extents. xfs: push the AIL from memory reclaim and periodic sync xfs: clean up code layout in xfs_trans_ail.c xfs: convert the xfsaild threads to a workqueue xfs: introduce background inode reclaim work xfs: convert ENOSPC inode flushing to use new syncd workqueue xfs: introduce a xfssyncd workqueue xfs: fix extent format buffer allocation size xfs: fix unreferenced var error in xfs_buf.c Also, applied patch from Tony Luck that fixes ia64: xfs_destroy_workqueues() should not be tagged with__exit in the branch before merging.
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Luck, Tony authored
ia64 throws away .exit sections for the built-in CONFIG case, so routines that are used in other circumstances should not be tagged as __exit. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: fix data corruption regression by reverting commit 6de9843d ext4: Allow indirect-block file to grow the file size to max file size ext4: allow an active handle to be started when freezing ext4: sync the directory inode in ext4_sync_parent() ext4: init timer earlier to avoid a kernel panic in __save_error_info jbd2: fix potential memory leak on transaction commit ext4: fix a double free in ext4_register_li_request ext4: fix credits computing for indirect mapped files ext4: remove unnecessary [cm]time update of quota file jbd2: move bdget out of critical section
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git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: nfsd4: fix oops on lock failure nfsd: fix auth_domain reference leak on nlm operations
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git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: dt/fsldma: fix build warning caused by of_platform_device changes spi: Fix race condition in stop_queue() gpio/pch_gpio: Fix output value of pch_gpio_direction_output() gpio/ml_ioh_gpio: Fix output value of ioh_gpio_direction_output() gpio/pca953x: fix error handling path in probe() call
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Linus Torvalds authored
In commit 13583b16 ("PCI: refactor io size calculation code") Ram had a thinko in the refactorization of the code: the end result used the variable 'align' for the bus alignment, but the original code used 'min_align'. Since then, another use of that 'align' variable got introduced by commit c8adf9a3 ("PCI: pre-allocate additional resources to devices only after successful allocation of essential resources.") Fix both of those uses to use 'min_align' as they should. Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com> Acked-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (34 commits) net: Add support for SMSC LAN9530, LAN9730 and LAN89530 mlx4_en: Restoring RX buffer pointer in case of failure mlx4: Sensing link type at device initialization ipv4: Fix "Set rt->rt_iif more sanely on output routes." MAINTAINERS: add entry for Xen network backend be2net: Fix suspend/resume operation be2net: Rename some struct members for clarity pppoe: drop PPPOX_ZOMBIEs in pppoe_flush_dev dsa/mv88e6131: add support for mv88e6085 switch ipv6: Enable RFS sk_rxhash tracking for ipv6 sockets (v2) be2net: Fix a potential crash during shutdown. bna: Fix for handling firmware heartbeat failure can: mcp251x: Allow pass IRQ flags through platform data. smsc911x: fix mac_lock acquision before calling smsc911x_mac_read iwlwifi: accept EEPROM version 0x423 for iwl6000 rt2x00: fix cancelling uninitialized work rtlwifi: Fix some warnings/bugs p54usb: IDs for two new devices wl12xx: fix potential buffer overflow in testmode nvs push zd1211rw: reset rx idle timer from tasklet ...
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Ira W. Snyder authored
Commit 00006124, "dt/powerpc: Eliminate users of of_platform_{,un}register_driver" forgot to convert the type of structure passed into platform_device_register() when it was converted from of_platform_device_register. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Revert commit 6de9843d, since it caused a data corruption regression with BitTorrent downloads. Thanks to Damien for discovering and bisecting to find the problem commit. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32972Reported-by: Damien Grassart <damien@grassart.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Kazuya Mio authored
We can create 4402345721856 byte file with indirect block mapping. However, if we grow an indirect-block file to the size with ftruncate(), we can see an ext4 warning. The following patch fixes this problem. How to reproduce: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/mp1/hoge bs=1 count=0 seek=4402345721856 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000221428 s, 0.0 kB/s # tail -n 1 /var/log/messages Nov 25 15:10:27 test kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device sda8): ext4_block_to_path:345: block 1074791436 > max in inode 12 Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Yongqiang Yang authored
ext4_journal_start_sb() should not prevent an active handle from being started due to s_frozen. Otherwise, deadlock is easy to happen, below is a situation. ================================================ freeze | truncate ================================================ | ext4_ext_truncate() freeze_super() | starts a handle sets s_frozen | | ext4_ext_truncate() | holds i_data_sem ext4_freeze() | waits for updates | | ext4_free_blocks() | calls dquot_free_block() | | dquot_free_blocks() | calls ext4_dirty_inode() | | ext4_dirty_inode() | trys to start an active | handle | | block due to s_frozen ================================================ Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reported-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
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Curt Wohlgemuth authored
ext4 has taken the stance that, in the absence of a journal, when an fsync/fdatasync of an inode is done, the parent directory should be sync'ed if this inode entry is new. ext4_sync_parent(), which implements this, does indeed sync the dirent pages for parent directories, but it does not sync the directory *inode*. This patch fixes this. Also now return error status from ext4_sync_parent(). I tested this using a power fail test, which panics a machine running a file server getting requests from a client. Without this patch, on about every other test run, the server is missing many, many files that had been synced. With this patch, on > 6 runs, I see zero files being lost. Google-Bug-Id: 4179519 Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Steve Glendinning authored
This patch adds support for SMSC's LAN9530, LAN9730 and LAN89530 USB ethernet controllers to the existing smsc95xx driver by adding their new USB VID/PID pairs. Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 10 Apr, 2011 2 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: hda - Don't query connections for widgets have no connections ALSA: HDA: Fix single internal mic on ALC275 (Sony Vaio VPCSB1C5E) ALSA: hda - HDMI: Fix MCP7x audio infoframe checksums ALSA: usb-audio: define another USB ID for a buggy USB MIDI cable ALSA: HDA: Fix dock mic for Lenovo X220-tablet ASoC: format_register_str: Don't clip register values ASoC: PXA: Fix oops in __pxa2xx_pcm_prepare ASoC: zylonite: set .codec_dai_name in initializer
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J. Bruce Fields authored
Lock stateid's can have access_bmap 0 if they were only partially initialized (due to a failed lock request); handle that case in free_generic_stateid. ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:380! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run Modules linked in: nfs fscache md4 nls_utf8 cifs ip6table_filter ip6_tables ebtable_nat ebtables ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat bridge stp llc nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc ipv6 ppdev parport_pc parport pcnet32 mii pcspkr microcode i2c_piix4 BusLogic floppy [last unloaded: mperf] Pid: 1468, comm: nfsd Not tainted 2.6.38+ #120 VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform EIP: 0060:[<e24f180d>] EFLAGS: 00010297 CPU: 0 EIP is at nfs4_access_to_omode+0x1c/0x29 [nfsd] EAX: ffffffff EBX: dd758120 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000004 ESI: dd758120 EDI: ddfe657c EBP: dd54dde0 ESP: dd54dde0 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 Process nfsd (pid: 1468, ti=dd54c000 task=ddc92580 task.ti=dd54c000) Stack: dd54ddf0 e24f19ca 00000000 ddfe6560 dd54de08 e24f1a5d dd758130 deee3a20 ddfe6560 31270000 dd54df1c e24f52fd 0000000f dd758090 e2505dd0 0be304cf dbb51d68 0000000e ddfe657c ddcd8020 dd758130 dd758128 dd7580d8 dd54de68 Call Trace: [<e24f19ca>] free_generic_stateid+0x1c/0x3e [nfsd] [<e24f1a5d>] release_lockowner+0x71/0x8a [nfsd] [<e24f52fd>] nfsd4_lock+0x617/0x66c [nfsd] [<e24e57b6>] ? nfsd_setuser+0x199/0x1bb [nfsd] [<e24e056c>] ? nfsd_setuser_and_check_port+0x65/0x81 [nfsd] [<c07a0052>] ? _cond_resched+0x8/0x1c [<c04ca61f>] ? slab_pre_alloc_hook.clone.33+0x23/0x27 [<c04cac01>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x1a/0xd2 [<c04835a0>] ? __call_rcu+0xd7/0xdd [<e24e0dfb>] ? fh_verify+0x401/0x452 [nfsd] [<e24f0b61>] ? nfsd4_encode_operation+0x52/0x117 [nfsd] [<e24ea0d7>] ? nfsd4_putfh+0x33/0x3b [nfsd] [<e24f4ce6>] ? nfsd4_delegreturn+0xd4/0xd4 [nfsd] [<e24ea2c9>] nfsd4_proc_compound+0x1ea/0x33e [nfsd] [<e24de6ee>] nfsd_dispatch+0xd1/0x1a5 [nfsd] [<e1d6e1c7>] svc_process_common+0x282/0x46f [sunrpc] [<e1d6e578>] svc_process+0xdc/0xfa [sunrpc] [<e24de0fa>] nfsd+0xd6/0x115 [nfsd] [<e24de024>] ? nfsd_shutdown+0x24/0x24 [nfsd] [<c0454322>] kthread+0x62/0x67 [<c04542c0>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x114/0x114 [<c07a6ebe>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10 Code: eb 05 b8 00 00 27 4f 8d 65 f4 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 83 e0 03 55 83 f8 02 89 e5 74 17 83 f8 03 74 05 48 75 09 eb 09 b8 02 00 00 00 eb 0b <0f> 0b 31 c0 eb 05 b8 01 00 00 00 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 56 89 d6 8d EIP: [<e24f180d>] nfs4_access_to_omode+0x1c/0x29 [nfsd] SS:ESP 0068:dd54dde0 ---[ end trace 2b0bf6c6557cb284 ]--- The trace route is: -> nfsd4_lock() -> if (lock->lk_is_new) { -> alloc_init_lock_stateid() 3739: stp->st_access_bmap = 0; ->if (status && lock->lk_is_new && lock_sop) -> release_lockowner() -> free_generic_stateid() -> nfs4_access_bmap_to_omode() -> nfs4_access_to_omode() 380: BUG(); ***** This problem was introduced by 0997b173. Reported-by: Mi Jinlong <mijinlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Mi Jinlong <mijinlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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- 09 Apr, 2011 3 commits
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git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: mtd: atmel_nand: use CPU I/O when buffer is in vmalloc(ed) region mtd: atmel_nand: modify test case for using DMA operations mtd: atmel_nand: fix support for CPUs that do not support DMA access mtd: atmel_nand: trivial: change DMA usage information trace mtd: mtdswap: fix printk format warning
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Takashi Iwai authored
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- 08 Apr, 2011 16 commits
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git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: NFS: Change initial mount authflavor only when server returns NFS4ERR_WRONGSEC NFS: Fix a signed vs. unsigned secinfo bug Revert "net/sunrpc: Use static const char arrays"
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix erroneous syscall kernel-doc comments in kernel/signal.c. Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] compile fix for latest binutils [S390] cio: prevent purging of CCW devices in the online state [S390] qdio: fix init sequence [S390] Fix parameter passing for smp_switch_to_cpu() [S390] oprofile s390: prevent stack corruption
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: quota: Don't write quota info in dquot_commit() ext3: Fix writepage credits computation for ordered mode
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Add proper blk_start_plug/blk_finish_plug pairs for the two places where we issue buffer I/O, and remove the blk_flush_plug in xfs_buf_lock and xfs_buf_iowait, given that context switches already flush the per-process plugging lists. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
For a CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG=n build gcc complains about statements with no effect in xfs_debug: fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c: In function 'xfs_qm_scall_trunc_qfiles': fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c:291:3: warning: statement with no effect The reason for that is that the various new xfs message functions have a return value which is never used, and in case of the non-debug build xfs_debug the macro evaluates to a plain 0 which produces the above warnings. This can be fixed by turning xfs_debug into an inline function instead of a macro, but in addition to that I've also changed all the message helpers to return void as we never use their return values. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
GCC 4.6 now warnings about variables set but not used. Fix the trivially fixable warnings of this sort. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Yevgeny Petrilin authored
If not done, second attempt to open the RX ring would cause memory corruption. Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Yevgeny Petrilin authored
When bringing the port up, performing a SENSE_PORT command To try and check to which physical link type (IB or Ethernet) the physical port is connected. In case there is no valid link partner, the port will come up as its supported default. Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Dave Chinner authored
On the Power platform, the log tail debug checks fire excessively causing the system to panic early in testing. The debug checks are known to be racy, though on x86_64 there is no evidence that they trigger at all. We want to keep the checks active on debug systems to alert us to problems with log space accounting, but we need to reduce the impact of a racy check on testing on the Power platform. As a result, convert the ASSERT conditions to warnings, and allow them to fire only once per filesystem mount. This will prevent false positives from interfering with testing, whilst still providing us with the indication that they may be a problem with log space accounting should that occur. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Dave Chinner authored
A fuzzed filesystem crashed a kernel when freeing an extent with a block number beyond the end of the filesystem. Convert all the debug asserts in xfs_free_extent() to active checks so that we catch bad extents and return that the filesytsem is corrupted rather than crashing. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Dave Chinner authored
When we are short on memory, we want to expedite the cleaning of dirty objects. Hence when we run short on memory, we need to kick the AIL flushing into action to clean as many dirty objects as quickly as possible. To implement this, sample the lsn of the log item at the head of the AIL and use that as the push target for the AIL flush. Further, we keep items in the AIL that are dirty that are not tracked any other way, so we can get objects sitting in the AIL that don't get written back until the AIL is pushed. Hence to get the filesystem to the idle state, we might need to push the AIL to flush out any remaining dirty objects sitting in the AIL. This requires the same push mechanism as the reclaim push. This patch also renames xfs_trans_ail_tail() to xfs_ail_min_lsn() to match the new xfs_ail_max_lsn() function introduced in this patch. Similarly for xfs_trans_ail_push -> xfs_ail_push. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Dave Chinner authored
This patch rearranges the location of functions in xfs_trans_ail.c to remove the need for forward declarations of those functions in preparation for adding new functions without the need for forward declarations. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Dave Chinner authored
Similar to the xfssyncd, the per-filesystem xfsaild threads can be converted to a global workqueue and run periodically by delayed works. This makes sense for the AIL pushing because it uses variable timeouts depending on the work that needs to be done. By removing the xfsaild, we simplify the AIL pushing code and remove the need to spread the code to implement the threading and pushing across multiple files. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Dave Chinner authored
Background inode reclaim needs to run more frequently that the XFS syncd work is run as 30s is too long between optimal reclaim runs. Add a new periodic work item to the xfs syncd workqueue to run a fast, non-blocking inode reclaim scan. Background inode reclaim is kicked by the act of marking inodes for reclaim. When an AG is first marked as having reclaimable inodes, the background reclaim work is kicked. It will continue to run periodically untill it detects that there are no more reclaimable inodes. It will be kicked again when the first inode is queued for reclaim. To ensure shrinker based inode reclaim throttles to the inode cleaning and reclaim rate but still reclaim inodes efficiently, make it kick the background inode reclaim so that when we are low on memory we are trying to reclaim inodes as efficiently as possible. This kick shoul d not be necessary, but it will protect against failures to kick the background reclaim when inodes are first dirtied. To provide the rate throttling, make the shrinker pass do synchronous inode reclaim so that it blocks on inodes under IO. This means that the shrinker will reclaim inodes rather than just skipping over them, but it does not adversely affect the rate of reclaim because most dirty inodes are already under IO due to the background reclaim work the shrinker kicked. These two modifications solve one of the two OOM killer invocations Chris Mason reported recently when running a stress testing script. The particular workload trigger for the OOM killer invocation is where there are more threads than CPUs all unlinking files in an extremely memory constrained environment. Unlike other solutions, this one does not have a performance impact on performance when memory is not constrained or the number of concurrent threads operating is <= to the number of CPUs. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Dave Chinner authored
On of the problems with the current inode flush at ENOSPC is that we queue a flush per ENOSPC event, regardless of how many are already queued. Thi can result in hundreds of queued flushes, most of which simply burn CPU scanned and do no real work. This simply slows down allocation at ENOSPC. We really only need one active flush at a time, and we can easily implement that via the new xfs_syncd_wq. All we need to do is queue a flush if one is not already active, then block waiting for the currently active flush to complete. The result is that we only ever have a single ENOSPC inode flush active at a time and this greatly reduces the overhead of ENOSPC processing. On my 2p test machine, this results in tests exercising ENOSPC conditions running significantly faster - 042 halves execution time, 083 drops from 60s to 5s, etc - while not introducing test regressions. This allows us to remove the old xfssyncd threads and infrastructure as they are no longer used. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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