fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info

Now that we never use the backing_dev_info pointer in struct address_space
we can simply remove it and save 4 to 8 bytes in every inode.

Signed-off-by: Christop

fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info

Now that we never use the backing_dev_info pointer in struct address_space
we can simply remove it and save 4 to 8 bytes in every inode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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nilfs2: fix issue with flush kernel thread after remount in RO mode because of driver's internal error or metadata corruption

The NILFS2 driver remounts itself in RO mode in the case of discovering

nilfs2: fix issue with flush kernel thread after remount in RO mode because of driver's internal error or metadata corruption

The NILFS2 driver remounts itself in RO mode in the case of discovering
metadata corruption (for example, discovering a broken bmap). But
usually, this takes place when there have been file system operations
before remounting in RO mode.

Thereby, NILFS2 driver can be in RO mode with presence of dirty pages in
modified inodes' address spaces. It results in flush kernel thread's
infinite trying to flush dirty pages in RO mode. As a result, it is
possible to see such side effects as: (1) flush kernel thread occupies
50% - 99% of CPU time; (2) system can't be shutdowned without manual
power switch off.

SYMPTOMS:
(1) System log contains error message: "Remounting filesystem read-only".
(2) The flush kernel thread occupies 50% - 99% of CPU time.
(3) The system can't be shutdowned without manual power switch off.

REPRODUCTION PATH:
(1) Create volume group with name "unencrypted" by means of vgcreate utility.
(2) Run script (prepared by Anthony Doggett <Anthony2486@interfaces.org.uk>):

----------------[BEGIN SCRIPT]--------------------
#!/bin/bash

VG=unencrypted
#apt-get install nilfs-tools darcs
lvcreate --size 2G --name ntest $VG
mkfs.nilfs2 -b 1024 -B 8192 /dev/mapper/$VG-ntest
mkdir /var/tmp/n
mkdir /var/tmp/n/ntest
mount /dev/mapper/$VG-ntest /var/tmp/n/ntest
mkdir /var/tmp/n/ntest/thedir
cd /var/tmp/n/ntest/thedir
sleep 2
date
darcs init
sleep 2
dmesg|tail -n 5
date
darcs whatsnew || true
date
sleep 2
dmesg|tail -n 5
----------------[END SCRIPT]--------------------

(3) Try to shutdown the system.

REPRODUCIBILITY: 100%

FIX:

This patch implements checking mount state of NILFS2 driver in
nilfs_writepage(), nilfs_writepages() and nilfs_mdt_write_page()
methods. If it is detected the RO mount state then all dirty pages are
simply discarded with warning messages is written in system log.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Anthony Doggett <Anthony2486@interfaces.org.uk>
Cc: ARAI Shun-ichi <hermes@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Cc: Piotr Szymaniak <szarpaj@grubelek.pl>
Cc: Zahid Chowdhury <zahid.chowdhury@starsolutions.com>
Cc: Elmer Zhang <freeboy6716@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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nilfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()

Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

nilfs2: use mark_buffer_dirty to mark btnode or meta data dirty

This replaces nilfs_mdt_mark_buffer_dirty and nilfs_btnode_mark_dirty
macros with mark_buffer_dirty and gets rid of nilfs_mark_buffer_

nilfs2: use mark_buffer_dirty to mark btnode or meta data dirty

This replaces nilfs_mdt_mark_buffer_dirty and nilfs_btnode_mark_dirty
macros with mark_buffer_dirty and gets rid of nilfs_mark_buffer_dirty,
an own mark buffer dirty function.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: always set back pointer to host inode in mapping->host

In the current nilfs, page cache for btree nodes and meta data files
do not set a valid back pointer to the host inode in mapping->host

nilfs2: always set back pointer to host inode in mapping->host

In the current nilfs, page cache for btree nodes and meta data files
do not set a valid back pointer to the host inode in mapping->host.

This will change it so that every address space in nilfs uses
mapping->host to hold its host inode.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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block: remove per-queue plugging

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old pluggin

block: remove per-queue plugging

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode

Michael Leun reported that running parallel opens on a fuse filesystem
can trigger a "kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475"

Gurudas Pai rep

mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode

Michael Leun reported that running parallel opens on a fuse filesystem
can trigger a "kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475"

Gurudas Pai reported the same bug on NFS.

The reason is, unmap_mapping_range() is not prepared for more than
one concurrent invocation per inode. For example:

thread1: going through a big range, stops in the middle of a vma and
stores the restart address in vm_truncate_count.

thread2: comes in with a small (e.g. single page) unmap request on
the same vma, somewhere before restart_address, finds that the
vma was already unmapped up to the restart address and happily
returns without doing anything.

Another scenario would be two big unmap requests, both having to
restart the unmapping and each one setting vm_truncate_count to its
own value. This could go on forever without any of them being able to
finish.

Truncate and hole punching already serialize with i_mutex. Other
callers of unmap_mapping_range() do not, and it's difficult to get
i_mutex protection for all callers. In particular ->d_revalidate(),
which calls invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in fuse, may be called
with or without i_mutex.

This patch adds a new mutex to 'struct address_space' to prevent
running multiple concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same mapping.

[ We'll hopefully get rid of all this with the upcoming mm
preemptibility series by Peter Zijlstra, the "mm: Remove i_mmap_mutex
lockbreak" patch in particular. But that is for 2.6.39 ]

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Michael Leun <lkml20101129@newton.leun.net>
Reported-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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nilfs2: simplify nilfs_mdt_freeze_buffer

nilfs_page_get_nth_block() function used in nilfs_mdt_freeze_buffer()
always returns a valid buffer head, so its validity check can be
removed.

Signed-off-b

nilfs2: simplify nilfs_mdt_freeze_buffer

nilfs_page_get_nth_block() function used in nilfs_mdt_freeze_buffer()
always returns a valid buffer head, so its validity check can be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: call nilfs_error inside bmap routines

Some functions using nilfs bmap routines can wrongly return invalid
argument error (i.e. -EINVAL) that bmap returns as an internal code
for btree corrup

nilfs2: call nilfs_error inside bmap routines

Some functions using nilfs bmap routines can wrongly return invalid
argument error (i.e. -EINVAL) that bmap returns as an internal code
for btree corruption.

This fixes the issue by catching and converting the internal EINVAL to
EIO and calling nilfs_error function inside bmap routines.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: get rid of bdi from nilfs object

Nilfs now can use sb->s_bdi to get backing_dev_info, so we use it
instead of ns_bdi on the nilfs object and remove ns_bdi.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <k

nilfs2: get rid of bdi from nilfs object

Nilfs now can use sb->s_bdi to get backing_dev_info, so we use it
instead of ns_bdi on the nilfs object and remove ns_bdi.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: remove own inode allocator and destructor for metadata files

This finally removes own inode allocator and destructor functions for
metadata files. Several routines, nilfs_mdt_new(),
nilfs_m

nilfs2: remove own inode allocator and destructor for metadata files

This finally removes own inode allocator and destructor functions for
metadata files. Several routines, nilfs_mdt_new(),
nilfs_mdt_new_common(), nilfs_mdt_clear(), nilfs_mdt_destroy(), and
nilfs_alloc_inode_common() will be gone.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: get rid of back pointer to writable sb instance

Nilfs object holds a back pointer to a writable super block instance
in nilfs->ns_writer, and this became eliminable since sb is now made
per

nilfs2: get rid of back pointer to writable sb instance

Nilfs object holds a back pointer to a writable super block instance
in nilfs->ns_writer, and this became eliminable since sb is now made
per device and all inodes have a valid pointer to it.

This deletes the ns_writer pointer and a reader/writer semaphore
protecting it.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: get rid of mi_nilfs back pointer to nilfs object

This removes a back pointer to nilfs object from nilfs_mdt_info
structure that is attached to metadata files.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: get rid of mi_nilfs back pointer to nilfs object

This removes a back pointer to nilfs object from nilfs_mdt_info
structure that is attached to metadata files.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: use iget for all metadata files

This makes use of iget5_locked to allocate or get inode for metadata
files to stop using own inode allocator.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke

nilfs2: use iget for all metadata files

This makes use of iget5_locked to allocate or get inode for metadata
files to stop using own inode allocator.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: get rid of GCDAT inode

This applies prepared rollback function and redirect function of
metadata file to DAT file, and eliminates GCDAT inode.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuk

nilfs2: get rid of GCDAT inode

This applies prepared rollback function and redirect function of
metadata file to DAT file, and eliminates GCDAT inode.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: add routines to redirect access to buffers of DAT file

During garbage collection (GC), DAT file, which converts virtual block
number to real block number, may return disk block number that i

nilfs2: add routines to redirect access to buffers of DAT file

During garbage collection (GC), DAT file, which converts virtual block
number to real block number, may return disk block number that is not
yet written to the device.

To avoid access to unwritten blocks, the current implementation stores
changes to the caches of GCDAT during GC and atomically commit the
changes into the DAT file after they are written to the device.

This patch, instead, adds a function that makes a copy of specified
buffer and stores it in nilfs_shadow_map, and a function to get the
backup copy as needed (nilfs_mdt_freeze_buffer and
nilfs_mdt_get_frozen_buffer respectively).

Before DAT changes block number in an entry block, it makes a copy and
redirect access to the buffer so that address conversion function
(i.e. nilfs_dat_translate) refers to the old address saved in the
copy.

This patch gives requisites for such redirection.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: add routines to roll back state of DAT file

This adds optional function to metadata files which makes a copy of
bmap, page caches, and b-tree node cache, and rolls back to the copy
as needed

nilfs2: add routines to roll back state of DAT file

This adds optional function to metadata files which makes a copy of
bmap, page caches, and b-tree node cache, and rolls back to the copy
as needed.

This enhancement is intended to displace gcdat inode that provides a
similar function in a different way.

In this patch, nilfs_shadow_map structure is added to store a copy of
the foregoing states. nilfs_mdt_setup_shadow_map relates this
structure to a metadata file. And, nilfs_mdt_save_to_shadow_map() and
nilfs_mdt_restore_from_shadow_map() provides save and restore
functions respectively. Finally, nilfs_mdt_clear_shadow_map() clears
states of nilfs_shadow_map.

The copy of b-tree node cache and page cache is made by duplicating
only dirty pages into corresponding caches in nilfs_shadow_map. Their
restoration is done by clearing dirty pages from original caches and
by copying dirty pages back from nilfs_shadow_map.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: separate initializer of metadata file inode

This separates a part of initialization code of metadata file inode,
and makes it available from the nilfs iget function that a later patch
will a

nilfs2: separate initializer of metadata file inode

This separates a part of initialization code of metadata file inode,
and makes it available from the nilfs iget function that a later patch
will add to.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: allow nilfs_destroy_inode to destroy metadata file inodes

The current nilfs_destroy_inode() doesn't handle metadata file inodes
including gc inodes (dummy inodes used for garbage collection)

nilfs2: allow nilfs_destroy_inode to destroy metadata file inodes

The current nilfs_destroy_inode() doesn't handle metadata file inodes
including gc inodes (dummy inodes used for garbage collection).

This allows nilfs_destroy_inode() to destroy inodes of metadata files.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_bmap_union

This removes nilfs_bmap_union and finally unifies three structures and
the union in bmap/btree code into one.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab

nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_bmap_union

This removes nilfs_bmap_union and finally unifies three structures and
the union in bmap/btree code into one.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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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 bu

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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

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nilfs2: add cache framework for persistent object allocator

This adds setup and cleanup routines of the persistent object
allocator cache.

According to ftrace analyses, accessing buffers of the DAT

nilfs2: add cache framework for persistent object allocator

This adds setup and cleanup routines of the persistent object
allocator cache.

According to ftrace analyses, accessing buffers of the DAT file
suffers indispensable overhead many times. To mitigate the overhead,
This introduce cache framework for the persistent object allocator
(palloc) which the DAT file and ifile are using.

struct nilfs_palloc_cache represents the cache object per metadata
file using palloc.

The cache is initialized through nilfs_palloc_setup_cache() and
destroyed by nilfs_palloc_destroy_cache(); callers of the former
function will be added to individual allocators of DAT and ifile on
successive patches.

nilfs_palloc_destroy_cache() will be called from nilfs_mdt_destroy()
if the cache is attached to a metadata file. A companion function
nilfs_palloc_clear_cache() is provided to allow releasing buffer head
references independently with the cleanup task. This adjunctive
function will be used before invalidating pages of metadata file with
the cache.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: avoid readahead on metadata file for create mode

This turns off readhead action of metadata file if nilfs_mdt_get_block
function was called with a create flag.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konish

nilfs2: avoid readahead on metadata file for create mode

This turns off readhead action of metadata file if nilfs_mdt_get_block
function was called with a create flag.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: hide nilfs_mdt_clear calls in nilfs_mdt_destroy

This will hide a function call of nilfs_mdt_clear() in
nilfs_mdt_destroy().

This ensures nilfs_mdt_destroy() to do cleanup jobs included in
n

nilfs2: hide nilfs_mdt_clear calls in nilfs_mdt_destroy

This will hide a function call of nilfs_mdt_clear() in
nilfs_mdt_destroy().

This ensures nilfs_mdt_destroy() to do cleanup jobs included in
nilfs_mdt_clear().

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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nilfs2: add size option of private object to metadata file allocator

This adds an optional "object size" argument to nilfs_mdt_new_common()
function; the argument specifies the size of private objec

nilfs2: add size option of private object to metadata file allocator

This adds an optional "object size" argument to nilfs_mdt_new_common()
function; the argument specifies the size of private object attached
to a newly allocated metadata file inode.

This will afford space to keep local variables for meta data files.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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