ext4: Move the ext4_sb.h header file into ext4.h

There is no longer a reason for a separate ext4_sb.h header file, so
move it into ext4.h just to make life easier for developers to find

ext4: Move the ext4_sb.h header file into ext4.h

There is no longer a reason for a separate ext4_sb.h header file, so
move it into ext4.h just to make life easier for developers to find
the relevant data structures and typedefs. Should also speed up
compiles slightly, too.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Move the ext4_i.h header file into ext4.h

There is no longer a reason for a separate ext4_i.h header file, so
move it into ext4.h just to make life easier for developers to find

ext4: Move the ext4_i.h header file into ext4.h

There is no longer a reason for a separate ext4_i.h header file, so
move it into ext4.h just to make life easier for developers to find
the relevant data structures and typedefs. Should also speed up
compiles slightly, too.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Avoid races caused by on-line resizing and SMP memory reordering

Ext4's on-line resizing adds a new block group and then, only at the
last step adjusts s_groups_count. However, it

ext4: Avoid races caused by on-line resizing and SMP memory reordering

Ext4's on-line resizing adds a new block group and then, only at the
last step adjusts s_groups_count. However, it's possible on SMP
systems that another CPU could see the updated the s_group_count and
not see the newly initialized data structures for the just-added block
group. For this reason, it's important to insert a SMP read barrier
after reading s_groups_count and before reading any (for example) the
new block group descriptors allowed by the increased value of
s_groups_count.

Unfortunately, we rather blatently violate this locking protocol
documented in fs/ext4/resize.c. Fortunately, (1) on-line resizes
happen relatively rarely, and (2) it seems rare that the filesystem
code will immediately try to use just-added block group before any
memory ordering issues resolve themselves. So apparently problems
here are relatively hard to hit, since ext3 has been vulnerable to the
same issue for years with no one apparently complaining.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (33 commits)
ext4: Regul

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (33 commits)
ext4: Regularize mount options
ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs
ext4: fix typo which causes a memory leak on error path
jbd2: Update locking coments
ext4: Rename pa_linear to pa_type
ext4: add checks of block references for non-extent inodes
ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from disk
ext4: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()
ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount option
ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()
ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups
ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs
ext4: Add sysfs support
ext4: Track lifetime disk writes
ext4: Fix discard of inode prealloc space with delayed allocation.
ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on rename
ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on close
ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctl
ext4: Simplify delalloc code by removing mpage_da_writepages()
ext4: Save stack space by removing fake buffer heads
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mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault

Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return
VM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change.

mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault

Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return
VM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change.

This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to
the VM (and also can provide more information eg. virtual_address to the
driver, which might be important in some special cases).

This is required for a subsequent fix. And will also make it easier to
merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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ext4: quota reservation for delayed allocation

Uses quota reservation/claim/release to handle quota properly for delayed
allocation in the three steps: 1) quotas are reserved when data b

ext4: quota reservation for delayed allocation

Uses quota reservation/claim/release to handle quota properly for delayed
allocation in the three steps: 1) quotas are reserved when data being copied
to cache when block allocation is defered 2) when new blocks are allocated.
reserved quotas are converted to the real allocated quota, 2) over-booked
quotas for metadata blocks are released back.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount option

Add a mount option which allows the user to disable automatic
allocation of blocks whose allocation by delayed allocation when the
file was origi

ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount option

Add a mount option which allows the user to disable automatic
allocation of blocks whose allocation by delayed allocation when the
file was originally truncated or when the file is renamed over an
existing file. This feature is intended to save users from the
effects of naive application writers, but it reduces the effectiveness
of the delayed allocation code. This mount option disables this
safety feature, which may be desirable for prodcutions systems where
the risk of unclean shutdowns or unexpected system crashes is low.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()

Instead of looping over all of the block groups in a flex group
summing their summary statistics, start tracking used_dirs in

ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()

Instead of looping over all of the block groups in a flex group
summing their summary statistics, start tracking used_dirs in struct
flex_groups, and use struct flex_groups instead. This should save a
bit of CPU for mkdir-heavy workloads.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups

Reduce pressure on the sb_bgl_lock family of locks by using atomic_t's
to track the number of free blocks and inodes in each flex_group.

ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups

Reduce pressure on the sb_bgl_lock family of locks by using atomic_t's
to track the number of free blocks and inodes in each flex_group.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs

Remove tuning knobs in /proc/fs/ext4/<dev/* since they have been
replaced by knobs in sysfs at /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'

ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs

Remove tuning knobs in /proc/fs/ext4/<dev/* since they have been
replaced by knobs in sysfs at /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Track lifetime disk writes

Add a new superblock value which tracks the lifetime amount of writes
to the filesystem. This is useful in estimating the amount of wear on
solid st

ext4: Track lifetime disk writes

Add a new superblock value which tracks the lifetime amount of writes
to the filesystem. This is useful in estimating the amount of wear on
solid state drives (SSD's) caused by writes to the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on close

When closing a file that had been previously truncated, force any
delay allocated blocks that to be allocated so that if the

ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on close

When closing a file that had been previously truncated, force any
delay allocated blocks that to be allocated so that if the filesystem
is mounted with data=ordered, the data blocks will be pushed out to
disk along with the journal commit. Many application programs expect
this, so we do this to avoid zero length files if the system crashes
unexpectedly.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctl

Add an ioctl which forces all of the delay allocated blocks to be
allocated. This also provides a function ext4_alloc_da_blocks() which
will b

ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctl

Add an ioctl which forces all of the delay allocated blocks to be
allocated. This also provides a function ext4_alloc_da_blocks() which
will be used by the following commits to force files to be fully
allocated to preserve application-expected ext3 behaviour.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: New inode/block allocation algorithms for flex_bg filesystems

The find_group_flex() inode allocator is now only used if the
filesystem is mounted using the "oldalloc" mount option.

ext4: New inode/block allocation algorithms for flex_bg filesystems

The find_group_flex() inode allocator is now only used if the
filesystem is mounted using the "oldalloc" mount option. It is
replaced with the original Orlov allocator that has been updated for
flex_bg filesystems (it should behave the same way if flex_bg is
disabled). The inode allocator now functions by taking into account
each flex_bg group, instead of each block group, when deciding whether
or not it's time to allocate a new directory into a fresh flex_bg.

The block allocator has also been changed so that the first block
group in each flex_bg is preferred for use for storing directory
blocks. This keeps directory blocks close together, which is good for
speeding up e2fsck since large directories are more likely to look
like this:

debugfs: stat /home/tytso/Maildir/cur
Inode: 1844562 Type: directory Mode: 0700 Flags: 0x81000
Generation: 1132745781 Version: 0x00000000:0000ad71
User: 15806 Group: 15806 Size: 1060864
File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0
Links: 2 Blockcount: 2072
Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0
ctime: 0x499c0ff4:164961f4 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
atime: 0x499c0ff4:00000000 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
mtime: 0x49957f51:00000000 -- Fri Feb 13 09:10:25 2009
crtime: 0x499c0f57:00d51440 -- Wed Feb 18 08:38:31 2009
Size of extra inode fields: 28
BLOCKS:
(0):7348651, (1-258):7348654-7348911
TOTAL: 259

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: tighten restrictions on inode flags

At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on
which inodes. Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and

ext4: tighten restrictions on inode flags

At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on
which inodes. Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and
IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links. Tighten that to disallow
TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set
on non-regular file, non-directories.

Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and
use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to
facilitate future consistency.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent

At present INDEX and EXTENTS are the only flags that new ext4 inodes do
NOT inherit from their parent. In addition prevent the

ext4: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent

At present INDEX and EXTENTS are the only flags that new ext4 inodes do
NOT inherit from their parent. In addition prevent the flags DIRTY,
ECOMPR, IMAGIC, TOPDIR, HUGE_FILE and EXT_MIGRATE from being inherited.
List inheritable flags explicitly to prevent future flags from
accidentally being inherited.

This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: New rec_len encoding for very large blocksizes

The rec_len field in the directory entry is 16 bits, so to encode
blocksizes larger than 64k becomes problematic. This patch allows

ext4: New rec_len encoding for very large blocksizes

The rec_len field in the directory entry is 16 bits, so to encode
blocksizes larger than 64k becomes problematic. This patch allows us
to supprot block sizes up to 256k, by using the low 2 bits to extend
the range of rec_len to 2**18-1 (since valid rec_len sizes must be a
multiple of 4). We use the convention that a rec_len of 0 or 65535
means the filesystem block size, for compatibility with older kernels.

It's unlikely we'll see VM pages of up to 256k, but at some point we
might find that the Linux VM has been enhanced to support filesystem
block sizes > than the VM page size, at which point it might be useful
for some applications to allow very large filesystem block sizes.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Fix to read empty directory blocks correctly in 64k

The rec_len field in the directory entry is 16 bits, so there was a
problem representing rec_len for filesystems with a 64k bloc

ext4: Fix to read empty directory blocks correctly in 64k

The rec_len field in the directory entry is 16 bits, so there was a
problem representing rec_len for filesystems with a 64k block size in
the case where the directory entry takes the entire 64k block.
Unfortunately, there were two schemes that were proposed; one where
all zeros meant 65536 and one where all ones (65535) meant 65536.
E2fsprogs used 0, whereas the kernel used 65535. Oops. Fortunately
this case happens extremely rarely, with the most common case being
the lost+found directory, created by mke2fs.

So we will be liberal in what we accept, and accept both encodings,
but we will continue to encode 65536 as 65535. This will require a
change in e2fsprogs, but with fortunately ext4 filesystems normally
have the dir_index feature enabled, which precludes having a
completely empty directory block.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Remove stale block allocator references from ext4.h

Remove some leftovers from when the old block allocator was removed
(c2ea3fde). ext4_sb_info is now a bit lighter. Also remove

ext4: Remove stale block allocator references from ext4.h

Remove some leftovers from when the old block allocator was removed
(c2ea3fde). ext4_sb_info is now a bit lighter. Also remove a dangling
read_block_bitmap() prototype.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: only use i_size_high for regular files

Directories are not allowed to be bigger than 2GB, so don't use
i_size_high for anything other than regular files. E2fsck should
complai

ext4: only use i_size_high for regular files

Directories are not allowed to be bigger than 2GB, so don't use
i_size_high for anything other than regular files. E2fsck should
complain about these inodes, but the simplest thing to do for the
kernel is to only use i_size_high for regular files.

This prevents an intentially corrupted filesystem from causing the
kernel to burn a huge amount of CPU and issuing error messages such
as:

EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_block_to_path: block 135090028 > max

Thanks to David Maciejak from Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
Research Team for reporting this issue.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12375

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

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Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits)
jbd2: Fix o

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits)
jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs
ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "
ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC
jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message
ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems
ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache
ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
ext4: code cleanup
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percpu_counter: FBC_BATCH should be a variable

For NR_CPUS >= 16 values, FBC_BATCH is 2*NR_CPUS

Considering more and more distros are using high NR_CPUS values, it makes
sense t

percpu_counter: FBC_BATCH should be a variable

For NR_CPUS >= 16 values, FBC_BATCH is 2*NR_CPUS

Considering more and more distros are using high NR_CPUS values, it makes
sense to use a more sensible value for FBC_BATCH, and get rid of NR_CPUS.

A sensible value is 2*num_online_cpus(), with a minimum value of 32 (This
minimum value helps branch prediction in __percpu_counter_add())

We already have a hotcpu notifier, so we can adjust FBC_BATCH dynamically.

We rename FBC_BATCH to percpu_counter_batch since its not a constant
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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ext4: Remove "extents" mount option

This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was
implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents
feature

ext4: Remove "extents" mount option

This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was
implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents
feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to
create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag
was not eabled. The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option
entirely. It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new
extent-based files if the filesystem can support it.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization

For uninit block group, the on-disk bitmap is not initialized. That
implies we cannot depend on the uptodate f

ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization

For uninit block group, the on-disk bitmap is not initialized. That
implies we cannot depend on the uptodate flag on the bitmap
buffer_head to find bitmap validity. Use a new buffer_head flag which
would be set after we properly initialize the bitmap. This also
prevents (re-)initializing the uninit group bitmap every time we call
ext4_read_block_bitmap().

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

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ext4: Use high 16 bits of the block group descriptor's free counts fields

Rename the lower bits with suffix _lo and add helper
to access the values. Also rename bg_itable_unused_hi
t

ext4: Use high 16 bits of the block group descriptor's free counts fields

Rename the lower bits with suffix _lo and add helper
to access the values. Also rename bg_itable_unused_hi
to bg_pad as in e2fsprogs.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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