The patch titled
retries in ext4_prepare_write() violate ordering requirements
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
retries-in-ext4_prepare_write-violate-ordering-requirements.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: retries in ext4_prepare_write() violate ordering requirements
From: Andrey Savochkin <[email protected]>
In journal=ordered or journal=data mode retry in ext4_prepare_write()
breaks the requirements of journaling of data with respect to metadata.
The fix is to call commit_write to commit allocated zero blocks before
retry.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Ken Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 75 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/ext4/inode.c~retries-in-ext4_prepare_write-violate-ordering-requirements fs/ext4/inode.c
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c~retries-in-ext4_prepare_write-violate-ordering-requirements
+++ a/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1147,37 +1147,102 @@ static int do_journal_get_write_access(h
return ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh);
}
+/*
+ * The idea of this helper function is following:
+ * if prepare_write has allocated some blocks, but not all of them, the
+ * transaction must include the content of the newly allocated blocks.
+ * This content is expected to be set to zeroes by block_prepare_write().
+ * 2006/10/14 SAW
+ */
+static int ext4_prepare_failure(struct file *file, struct page *page,
+ unsigned from, unsigned to)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping;
+ struct buffer_head *bh, *head, *next;
+ unsigned block_start, block_end;
+ unsigned blocksize;
+ int ret;
+ handle_t *handle = ext4_journal_current_handle();
+
+ mapping = page->mapping;
+ if (ext4_should_writeback_data(mapping->host)) {
+ /* optimization: no constraints about data */
+skip:
+ return ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+ }
+
+ head = page_buffers(page);
+ blocksize = head->b_size;
+ for ( bh = head, block_start = 0;
+ bh != head || !block_start;
+ block_start = block_end, bh = next)
+ {
+ next = bh->b_this_page;
+ block_end = block_start + blocksize;
+ if (block_end <= from)
+ continue;
+ if (block_start >= to) {
+ block_start = to;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (!buffer_mapped(bh))
+ /* prepare_write failed on this bh */
+ break;
+ if (ext4_should_journal_data(mapping->host)) {
+ ret = do_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh);
+ if (ret) {
+ ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+ return ret;
+ }
+ }
+ /*
+ * block_start here becomes the first block where the current iteration
+ * of prepare_write failed.
+ */
+ }
+ if (block_start <= from)
+ goto skip;
+
+ /* commit allocated and zeroed buffers */
+ return mapping->a_ops->commit_write(file, page, from, block_start);
+}
+
static int ext4_prepare_write(struct file *file, struct page *page,
unsigned from, unsigned to)
{
struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
- int ret, needed_blocks = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);
+ int ret, ret2;
+ int needed_blocks = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);
handle_t *handle;
int retries = 0;
retry:
handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, needed_blocks);
- if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
- ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
- goto out;
- }
+ if (IS_ERR(handle))
+ return PTR_ERR(handle);
if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && ext4_should_writeback_data(inode))
ret = nobh_prepare_write(page, from, to, ext4_get_block);
else
ret = block_prepare_write(page, from, to, ext4_get_block);
if (ret)
- goto prepare_write_failed;
+ goto failure;
if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) {
ret = walk_page_buffers(handle, page_buffers(page),
from, to, NULL, do_journal_get_write_access);
+ if (ret)
+ /* fatal error, just put the handle and return */
+ journal_stop(handle);
}
-prepare_write_failed:
- if (ret)
- ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+ return ret;
+
+failure:
+ ret2 = ext4_prepare_failure(file, page, from, to);
+ if (ret2 < 0)
+ return ret2;
if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
goto retry;
-out:
+ /* retry number exceeded, or other error like -EDQUOT */
return ret;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
origin.patch