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  1. 28 Oct, 2010 4 commits
    • Curt Wohlgemuth's avatar
      ext4: use dedicated slab caches for group_info structures · fb1813f4
      Curt Wohlgemuth authored 
      ext4_group_info structures are currently allocated with kmalloc().
With a typical 4K block size, these are 136 bytes each -- meaning
they'll each consume a 256-byte slab object.  On a system with many
ext4 large partitions, that's a lot of wasted kernel slab space.
(E.g., a single 1TB partition will have about 8000 block groups, using
about 2MB of slab, of which nearly 1MB is wasted.)

This patch creates an array of slab pointers created as needed --
depending on the superblock block size -- and uses these slabs to
allocate the group info objects.

Google-Bug-Id: 2980809
Signed-off-by: default avatarCurt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      fb1813f4
    • Wen Congyang's avatar
      ext4: avoid null dereference in trace_ext4_mballoc_discard · b853fd36
      Wen Congyang authored 
      ac->inode is set to null in function ext4_mb_release_group_pa(),
and then trace_ext4_mballoc_discard(ac) is called, the kernel
will panic.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000a4
IP: [<f87e1714>] ftrace_raw_event_ext4__mballoc+0x54/0xc0 [ext4]
*pdpt = 0000000000abd001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

Pid: 550, comm: flush-8:16 Not tainted 2.6.36-rc1 #1 SE7320EP2/Altos G530
EIP: 0060:[<f87e1714>] EFLAGS: 00010206 CPU: 1
EIP is at ftrace_raw_event_ext4__mballoc+0x54/0xc0 [ext4]
EAX: f32ac840 EBX: f3f1cf88 ECX: f32ac840 EDX: 00000000
ESI: f32ac83c EDI: f880b9d8 EBP: 00000000 ESP: f4b77ae4
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Process flush-8:16 (pid: 550, ti=f4b76000 task=f613e540 task.ti=f4b76000)
Call Trace:
 [<f87f5ac1>] ? ext4_mb_release_group_pa+0x121/0x150 [ext4]
 [<f87f8356>] ? ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations+0x336/0x400 [ext4]
 [<f87fb7f1>] ? ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x3d1/0x4f0 [ext4]
 [<c05a6c5b>] ? __make_request+0x10b/0x440
 [<f87f1fb4>] ? ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1334/0x1980 [ext4]
 [<c04ac78a>] ? rb_reserve_next_event+0xaa/0x3b0
 [<f87d18d6>] ? ext4_map_blocks+0xd6/0x1d0 [ext4]
 [<f87d2da7>] ? mpage_da_map_blocks+0xc7/0x8a0 [ext4]
 [<c04c8a68>] ? find_get_pages_tag+0x38/0x110
 [<c04d23a5>] ? __pagevec_release+0x15/0x20
 [<f87d3ca5>] ? ext4_da_writepages+0x2b5/0x5d0 [ext4]
 [<c04cfbe0>] ? __writepage+0x0/0x30
 [<c04d0e34>] ? do_writepages+0x14/0x30
 [<c0526600>] ? writeback_single_inode+0xa0/0x240
 [<c0526971>] ? writeback_sb_inodes+0xc1/0x180
 [<c0526ab8>] ? writeback_inodes_wb+0x88/0x140
 [<c0526d7b>] ? wb_writeback+0x20b/0x320
 [<c045aca7>] ? lock_timer_base+0x27/0x50
 [<c0526fe0>] ? wb_do_writeback+0x150/0x190
 [<c05270a8>] ? bdi_writeback_thread+0x88/0x1f0
 [<c043b680>] ? complete+0x40/0x60
 [<c0527020>] ? bdi_writeback_thread+0x0/0x1f0
 [<c0469474>] ? kthread+0x74/0x80
 [<c0469400>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
 [<c040a23e>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
Signed-off-by: default avatarWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      b853fd36
    • Brian King's avatar
      jbd2: Fix I/O hang in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode · 39e3ac25
      Brian King authored 
      This fixes a hang seen in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode
on a lot of Power 6 systems running with ext4. When we get
in the hung state, all I/O to the disk in question gets blocked
where we stay indefinitely. Looking at the task list, I can see
we are stuck in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode waiting on a
wake up. I added some debug code to detect this scenario and
dump additional data if we were stuck in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode
for longer than 30 minutes. When it hit, I was able to see that
i_flags was 0, suggesting we missed the wake up.

This patch changes i_flags to be an unsigned long, uses bit operators
to access it, and adds barriers around the accesses. Prior to applying
this patch, we were regularly hitting this hang on numerous systems
in our test environment. After applying the patch, the hangs no longer
occur.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      39e3ac25
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: fix EOFBLOCKS_FL handling · 58590b06
      Theodore Ts'o authored 
      It turns out we have several problems with how EOFBLOCKS_FL is
handled.  First of all, there was a fencepost error where we were not
clearing the EOFBLOCKS_FL when fill in the last uninitialized block,
but rather when we allocate the next block _after_ the uninitalized
block.  Secondly we were not testing to see if we needed to clear the
EOFBLOCKS_FL when writing to the file O_DIRECT or when were converting
an uninitialized block (which is the most common case).

Google-Bug-Id: 2928259
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      58590b06
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