Filesystems like ext4 needs to start a new transaction in
the writepages for block allocation. This happens with delayed
allocation and there is limit to how many credits we can request
from the journal layer. So we call write_cache_pages multiple
times with wbc->nr_to_write set to the maximum possible value
limitted by the max journal credits available.
Add a new mode to writeback that enables us to handle this
behaviour. In the new mode we update the wbc->range_start
to point to the new offset to be written. Next call to
call to write_cache_pages will start writeout from specified
range_start offset. In the new mode we also limit writing
to the specified wbc->range_end.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Delayed allocation need to check free blocks at every write time.
percpu_counter_read_positive() is not quit accurate. delayed
allocation need a more accurate accounting, but using
percpu_counter_sum_positive() is frequently is quite expensive.
This patch added a new function to update center counter when sum
per-cpu counter, to increase the accurate rate for next
percpu_counter_read() and require less calling expensive
percpu_counter_sum().
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Export mpage_bio_submit() and __mpage_writepage() for the benefit of
ext4's delayed allocation support. Also change __block_write_full_page
so that if buffers that have the BH_Delay flag set it will call
get_block() to get the physical block allocated, just as in the
!BH_Mapped case.
Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch adds necessary framework into JBD2 to be able to track inodes
with each transaction and write-out their dirty data during transaction
commit time.
This new ordered mode brings all sorts of advantages such as possibility
to get rid of journal heads and buffer heads for data buffers in ordered
mode, better ordering of writes on transaction commit, simplification of
some JBD code, no more anonymous pages when truncate of data being
committed happens. Also with this new ordered mode, delayed allocation
on ordered mode is much simpler.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Make filemap_fdatawrite_range() function public, so that it can later
be used in ordered mode rewrite by JBD/JBD2.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Carlo Wood has demonstrated that it's possible to recover deleted
files from the journal. Something that will make this easier is if we
can put the time of the commit into commit block.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In dwarf2_32.h, test for CONFIG_AS_CFI instead of
CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO. Turns out that searching for UNWIND_INFO
returns no match in any Kconfig or Makefile, so we're really
just throwing everything away regarding dwarf frames for i386.
The test that generates CONFIG_AS_CFI does not have anything
x86_64-specific, and right now, checking V=1 builds shows me
that the flags is there anyway, although unused.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In dwarf_64.h header, use the "ignore" macro the way
i386 does.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
i spent a fair amount of time chasing a 64-bit bootup crash that manifested
itself as bootup segfaults:
S10network[1825]: segfault at 7f3e2b5d16b8 ip 00000031108748c9 sp 00007fffb9c14c70 error 4 in libc-2.7.so[3110800000+14d000]
eventually causing init to die and panic the system:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.26-rc9-tip #13878
after a maratonic bisection session, the bad commit turned out to be:
| b7675791859075418199c7af86a116ea34eaf5bd is first bad commit
| commit b7675791859075418199c7af86a116ea34eaf5bd
| Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
| Date: Wed Jun 25 00:19:00 2008 -0400
|
| x86: remove open-coded save/load segment operations
|
| This removes a pile of buggy open-coded implementations of savesegment
| and loadsegment.
after some more bisection of this patch itself, it turns out that what
makes the difference are the savesegment() changes to __switch_to().
Taking a look at this portion of arch/x86/kernel/process_64.o revealed
this crutial difference:
| good: 99c: 8c e0 mov %fs,%eax
| 99e: 89 45 cc mov %eax,-0x34(%rbp)
|
| bad: 99c: 8c 65 cc mov %fs,-0x34(%rbp)
which is due to:
| unsigned fsindex;
| - asm volatile("movl %%fs,%0" : "=r" (fsindex));
| + savesegment(fs, fsindex);
savesegment() is implemented as:
#define savesegment(seg, value) \
asm("mov %%" #seg ",%0":"=rm" (value) : : "memory")
note the "m" modifier - it allows GCC to generate the segment move
into a memory operand as well.
But regarding segment operands there's a subtle detail in the x86
instruction set: the above 16-bit moves are zero-extend, but only
if it goes to a register.
If it goes to a memory operand, -0x34(%rbp) in the above case, there's
no zero-extend to 32-bit and the instruction will only save 16 bits
instead of the intended 32-bit.
The other 16 bits is random data - which can cause problems when that
value is used later on.
The solution is to only allow segment operands to go to registers.
This fix allows my test-system to boot up without crashing.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Working with ftrace I would get large jumps of 11 millisecs or more with
the clock tracer. This killed the latencing timings of ftrace and also
caused the irqoff self tests to fail.
What was happening is with NO_HZ the idle would stop the jiffy counter and
before the jiffy counter was updated the sched_clock would have a bad
delta jiffies to compare with the gtod with the maximum.
The jiffies would stop and the last sched_tick would record the last gtod.
On wakeup, the sched clock update would compare the gtod + delta jiffies
(which would be zero) and compare it to the TSC. The TSC would have
correctly (with a stable TSC) moved forward several jiffies. But because the
jiffies has not been updated yet the clock would be prevented from moving
forward because it would appear that the TSC jumped too far ahead.
The clock would then virtually stop, until the jiffies are updated. Then
the next sched clock update would see that the clock was very much behind
since the delta jiffies is now correct. This would then jump the clock
forward by several jiffies.
This caused ftrace to report several milliseconds of interrupts off
latency at every resume from NO_HZ idle.
This patch adds hooks into the nohz code to disable the checking of the
maximum clock update when nohz is in effect. It resumes the max check
when nohz has updated the jiffies again.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It has been suggested that I add a way to disable the function tracer
on an oops. This code adds a ftrace_kill_atomic. It is not meant to be
used in normal situations. It will disable the ftrace tracer, but will
not perform the nice shutdown that requires scheduling.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add pseudo-feature bits to describe whether the CPU supports sysenter
and/or syscall from ia32-compat userspace. This removes a hardcoded
test in vdso32-setup.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rename it to sb_start to make sure all users have been converted.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
As other IOMMUs do, this puts dummy pci_swiotlb_init() in swiotlb.h
and remove ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB in pci-dma.c.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Our way to handle gart_* functions for CONFIG_GART_IOMMU and
!CONFIG_GART_IOMMU cases is inconsistent.
We have some dummy gart_* functions in !CONFIG_GART_IOMMU case and
also use ifdef CONFIG_GART_IOMMU tricks in pci-dma.c to call some
gart_* functions in only CONFIG_GART_IOMMU case.
This patch removes ifdef CONFIG_GART_IOMMU in pci-dma.c and always use
dummy gart_* functions in iommu.h.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
gart.h has only GART-specific stuff. Only GART code needs it. Other
IOMMU stuff should include iommu.h instead of gart.h.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Adds netif_napi_del function which is used to remove the napi struct from
the netdev napi_list in cases where CONFIG_NETPOLL was enabled.
The motivation for adding this is to handle the case in which the number of
queues on a device changes due to a configuration change. Previously the
napi structs for each queue would be left in the list until the netdev was
freed.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
tun: Persistent devices can get stuck in xoff state
xfrm: Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to xfrm_usersa_info
ipv6: missed namespace context in ipv6_rthdr_rcv
netlabel: netlink_unicast calls kfree_skb on error path by itself
ipv4: fib_trie: Fix lookup error return
tcp: correct kcalloc usage
ip: sysctl documentation cleanup
Documentation: clarify tcp_{r,w}mem sysctl docs
netfilter: nf_nat_snmp_basic: fix a range check in NAT for SNMP
netfilter: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix endless loop
libertas: fix memory alignment problems on the blackfin
zd1211rw: stop beacons on remove_interface
rt2x00: Disable synchronization during initialization
rc80211_pid: Fix fast_start parameter handling
sctp: Add documentation for sctp sysctl variable
ipv6: fix race between ipv6_del_addr and DAD timer
irda: Fix netlink error path return value
irda: New device ID for nsc-ircc
irda: via-ircc proper dma freeing
sctp: Mark the tsn as received after all allocations finish
...
Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to handle the AF_UNSPEC behavior for
the selector family. Userspace applications can set this flag to leave
the selector family of the xfrm_state unspecified. This can be used
to to handle inter family tunnels if the selector is not set from
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
NR_IRQS: let VISWS be just a sub-case of the generic code.
This can create a somewhat larger irq_desc[] array if NR_CPUS is high
but that should not worry VisWS which has 4 CPUs at most.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
move the SGIVW definitions from setup_arch.h into its own header file.
preparation for turning VISWS into a generic PC architecture.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
move the include/asm-x86/mach-visws/ VISWS specific hardware
details include files into include/asm-x86/visws, to be used from
generic code.
No code changed.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
