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2011-08-19ext4: flush any pending end_io requests before DIO reads w/dioread_nolockJiaying Zhang
There is a race between ext4 buffer write and direct_IO read with dioread_nolock mount option enabled. The problem is that we clear PageWriteback flag during end_io time but will do uninitialized-to-initialized extent conversion later with dioread_nolock. If an O_direct read request comes in during this period, ext4 will return zero instead of the recently written data. This patch checks whether there are any pending uninitialized-to-initialized extent conversion requests before doing O_direct read to close the race. Note that this is just a bandaid fix. The fundamental issue is that we clear PageWriteback flag before we really complete an IO, which is problem-prone. To fix the fundamental issue, we may need to implement an extent tree cache that we can use to look up pending to-be-converted extents. Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-08-01Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (60 commits) ext4: prevent memory leaks from ext4_mb_init_backend() on error path ext4: use EXT4_BAD_INO for buddy cache to avoid colliding with valid inode # ext4: use ext4_msg() instead of printk in mballoc ext4: use ext4_kvzalloc()/ext4_kvmalloc() for s_group_desc and s_group_info ext4: introduce ext4_kvmalloc(), ext4_kzalloc(), and ext4_kvfree() ext4: use the correct error exit path in ext4_init_inode_table() ext4: add missing kfree() on error return path in add_new_gdb() ext4: change umode_t in tracepoint headers to be an explicit __u16 ext4: fix races in ext4_sync_parent() ext4: Fix overflow caused by missing cast in ext4_fallocate() ext4: add action of moving index in ext4_ext_rm_idx for Punch Hole ext4: simplify parameters of reserve_backup_gdb() ext4: simplify parameters of add_new_gdb() ext4: remove lock_buffer in bclean() and setup_new_group_blocks() ext4: simplify journal handling in setup_new_group_blocks() ext4: let setup_new_group_blocks() set multiple bits at a time ext4: fix a typo in ext4_group_extend() ext4: let ext4_group_add_blocks() handle 0 blocks quickly ext4: let ext4_group_add_blocks() return an error code ext4: rename ext4_add_groupblocks() to ext4_group_add_blocks() ... Fix up conflict in fs/ext4/inode.c: commit aacfc19c626e ("fs: simplify the blockdev_direct_IO prototype") had changed the ext4_ind_direct_IO() function for the new simplified calling convention, while commit dae1e52cb126 ("ext4: move ext4_ind_* functions from inode.c to indirect.c") moved the function to another file.
2011-06-28ext4: refactor duplicated block placement codeEric Sandeen
I found that ext4_ext_find_goal() and ext4_find_near() share the same code for returning a coloured start block based on i_block_group. We can refactor this into a common function so that they don't diverge in the future. Thanks to adilger for suggesting the new function name. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-06-27ext4: move ext4_ind_* functions from inode.c to indirect.cAmir Goldstein
This patch moves functions from inode.c to indirect.c. The moved functions are ext4_ind_* functions and their helpers. Functions called from inode.c are declared extern. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>