linux/fs/buffer.c, branch v2.6.28

udf: Fix BUG_ON() in destroy_inode()

2008-11-27T16:38:28Z

udf_clear_inode() can leave behind buffers on mapping's i_private list (when we truncated preallocation). Call invalidate_inode_buffers() so that the list is properly cleaned-up before we return from udf_clear_inode(). This is ugly and suggest that we should cleanup preallocation earlier than in clear_inode() but currently there's no such call available since drop_inode() is called under inode lock and thus is unusable for disk operations. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fs: buffer lock use lock bitops

2008-10-20T15:52:32Z

trylock_buffer and unlock_buffer open and close a critical section. Hence, we can use the lock bitops to get the desired memory ordering. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: submit_bh() inadvertently discards barrier flag on a sync write

2008-08-27T07:50:19Z

Reported by Milan Broz , commit 18ce3751 inadvertently made submit_bh() discard the barrier bit for a WRITE_SYNC request. Fix that up. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: rename buffer trylock

2008-08-05T04:56:09Z

Like the page lock change, this also requires name change, so convert the raw test_and_set bitop to a trylock. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/buffer.c: uninline __remove_assoc_queue()

2008-07-30T16:41:46Z

Uninline the __remove_assoc_queue() function in fs/buffer.c, called at too many places and too long to really be inlined. Size results: text data bss dec hex filename 1134606 118840 212992 1466438 166046 vmlinux.old 1134303 118840 212992 1466135 165f17 vmlinux -303 0 0 -303 -12F +/- This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project and has been originally written by Matt Mackall . Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize

2008-07-28T23:30:21Z

When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO is issued and this page will be uptodate. I think this is good for pagesize == blocksize environment but there is room for improvement on pagesize != blocksize environment. Because in this case a page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate, some buffers can be uptodate. So I suggest that when all buffers which correspond to a part of a file that we want to read are uptodate, use this pagecache and copy data from this pagecache to user buffer even if a page is not uptodate. This can reduce read IO and improve system throughput. I wrote a benchmark program and got result number with this program. This benchmark do: 1: mount and open a test file. 2: create a 512MB file. 3: close a file and umount. 4: mount and again open a test file. 5: pwrite randomly 300000 times on a test file. offset is aligned by IO size(1024bytes). 6: measure time of preading randomly 100000 times on a test file. The result was: 2.6.26 330 sec 2.6.26-patched 226 sec Arch:i386 Filesystem:ext3 Blocksize:1024 bytes Memory: 1GB On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block. So random read/write mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads are optimized with this patch under pagesize != blocksize environment. This test result showed this. The benchmark program is as follows: #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define LEN 1024 #define LOOP 1024*512 /* 512MB */ main(void) { unsigned long i, offset, filesize; int fd; char buf[LEN]; time_t t1, t2; if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) { perror("cannot mount\n"); exit(1); } memset(buf, 0, LEN); fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC); if (fd < 0) { perror("cannot open file\n"); exit(1); } for (i = 0; i < LOOP; i++) write(fd, buf, LEN); close(fd); if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) { perror("cannot umount\n"); exit(1); } if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) { perror("cannot mount\n"); exit(1); } fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_RDWR); if (fd < 0) { perror("cannot open file\n"); exit(1); } filesize = LEN * LOOP; for (i = 0; i < 300000; i++){ offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1)); pwrite(fd, buf, LEN, offset); } printf("start test\n"); time(&t1); for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++){ offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1)); pread(fd, buf, LEN, offset); } time(&t2); printf("%ld sec\n", t2-t1); close(fd); if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) { perror("cannot umount\n"); exit(1); } } Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Use WARN() in fs/

2008-07-26T19:00:07Z

Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor

2008-07-26T19:00:07Z

Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object. Non-trivial places are: arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c This is flag day, yes. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Jon Tollefson Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Matt Mackall [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: spinlock tree_lock

2008-07-26T19:00:06Z

mapping->tree_lock has no read lockers. convert the lock from an rwlock to a spinlock. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus

2008-07-15T19:55:59Z

Conflicts: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/s390/kernel/time.c arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c arch/x86/xen/smp.c include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h include/asm-x86/smp.h kernel/Makefile Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar