History log of /linux-master/fs/nilfs2/alloc.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# af6eae64 22-Jan-2024 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>

nilfs2: convert persistent object allocator to use kmap_local

Regarding the allocator code that is commonly used in the ondisk inode
metadata file ifile and the disk address translation metadata file DAT,
convert the parts that use the deprecated kmap_atomic() and kmap() to use
kmap_local.

Most can be converted directly, but only
nilfs_palloc_prepare_alloc_entry() needs to be rewritten to change mapping
sections so that multiple kmap_local/kunmap_local calls are nested and
disk I/O can be avoided within the mapping sections.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240122140202.6950-7-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# cdaac8e7 18-Aug-2023 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>

nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse

A syzbot stress test using a corrupted disk image reported that
mark_buffer_dirty() called from __nilfs_mark_inode_dirty() or
nilfs_palloc_commit_alloc_entry() may output a kernel warning, and can
panic if the kernel is booted with panic_on_warn.

This is because nilfs2 keeps buffer pointers in local structures for some
metadata and reuses them, but such buffers may be forcibly discarded by
nilfs_clear_dirty_page() in some critical situations.

This issue is reported to appear after commit 28a65b49eb53 ("nilfs2: do
not write dirty data after degenerating to read-only"), but the issue has
potentially existed before.

Fix this issue by checking the uptodate flag when attempting to reuse an
internally held buffer, and reloading the metadata instead of reusing the
buffer if the flag was lost.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230818131804.7758-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+cdfcae656bac88ba0e2d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0000000000003da75f05fdeffd12@google.com
Fixes: 8c26c4e2694a ("nilfs2: fix issue with flush kernel thread after remount in RO mode because of driver's internal error or metadata corruption")
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# 94ee1d91 08-Nov-2021 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>

nilfs2: remove filenames from file comments

Remove filenames that are not particularly useful in file comments, and
suppress checkpatch warnings

WARNING: It's generally not useful to have the filename in the file

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1635151862-11547-3-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Cc: Qing Wang <wangqing@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# a1d0747a 11-Aug-2020 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

nilfs2: use a more common logging style

Add macros for nilfs_<level>(sb, fmt, ...) and convert the uses of
'nilfs_msg(sb, KERN_<LEVEL>, ...)' to 'nilfs_<level>(sb, ...)' so nilfs2
uses a logging style more like the typical kernel logging style.

Miscellanea:

o Realign arguments for these uses

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1595860111-3920-4-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ae98043f 04-Sep-2018 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: convert to SPDX license tags

Remove the verbose license text from NILFS2 files and replace them with
SPDX tags. This does not change the license of any of the code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1535624528-5982-1-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# f3048d17 27-Feb-2017 Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com>

nilfs2: use i_blocksize()

Since i_blocksize() helper has been defined in fs.h, use it instead of
open-coding.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485184655-3895-3-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d6517deb 02-Aug-2016 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: replace nilfs_warning() with nilfs_msg()

Use nilfs_msg() to output warning messages and get rid of
nilfs_warning() function. This also removes function names from the
messages unless we embed them explicitly in format strings. Instead,
some messages are revised to clarify the context.

[arnd@arndb.de: avoid warning about unused variables]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160615201945.3348205-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464875891-5443-6-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 076a378b 23-May-2016 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: fix block comments

This fixes block comments with proper formatting to eliminate the
following checkpatch.pl warnings:

"WARNING: Block comments use * on subsequent lines"
"WARNING: Block comments use a trailing */ on a separate line"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462886671-3521-8-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0c6c44cb 23-May-2016 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: avoid bare use of 'unsigned'

This fixes checkpatch.pl warning "WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned int' to
bare use of 'unsigned'".

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462886671-3521-5-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 06f4abf6 23-May-2016 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: do not emit extra newline on nilfs_warning() and nilfs_error()

This updates call sites of nilfs_warning() and nilfs_error() so that they
don't add a duplicate newline. These output functions are already
designed to add a trailing newline to the message.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462886671-3521-2-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 4b420ab4 23-May-2016 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: clean up old e-mail addresses

E-mail addresses of osrg.net domain are no longer available. This
removes them from authorship notices and prevents reporters from being
confused.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461935747-10380-5-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 5726d0b4 23-May-2016 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: remove FSF mailing address from GPL notices

This removes the extra paragraph which mentions FSF address in GPL
notices from source code of nilfs2 and avoids the checkpatch.pl error
related to it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461935747-10380-4-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 09ef29e0 06-Nov-2015 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: fix gcc unused-but-set-variable warnings

Fix the following build warnings:

$ make W=1
[...]
CC [M] fs/nilfs2/btree.o
fs/nilfs2/btree.c: In function 'nilfs_btree_split':
fs/nilfs2/btree.c:923:8: warning: variable 'newptr' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
__u64 newptr;
^
fs/nilfs2/btree.c:922:8: warning: variable 'newkey' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
__u64 newkey;
^
CC [M] fs/nilfs2/dat.o
fs/nilfs2/dat.c: In function 'nilfs_dat_prepare_end':
fs/nilfs2/dat.c:158:8: warning: variable 'start' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
__u64 start;
^
CC [M] fs/nilfs2/segment.o
fs/nilfs2/segment.c: In function 'nilfs_segctor_do_immediate_flush':
fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2433:6: warning: variable 'err' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
int err;
^
CC [M] fs/nilfs2/sufile.o
fs/nilfs2/sufile.c: In function 'nilfs_sufile_alloc':
fs/nilfs2/sufile.c:320:27: warning: variable 'ncleansegs' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
unsigned long nsegments, ncleansegs, nsus, cnt;
^
CC [M] fs/nilfs2/alloc.o
fs/nilfs2/alloc.c: In function 'nilfs_palloc_prepare_alloc_entry':
fs/nilfs2/alloc.c:478:38: warning: variable 'groups_per_desc_block' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
unsigned long n, entries_per_group, groups_per_desc_block;
^

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d0c14a9e 06-Nov-2015 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: free unused dat file blocks during garbage collection

As a nilfs2 volume ages, the amount of available disk space decreases
little by little due to bloat of DAT (disk address translation) metadata
file. Even if we delete all files in a file system and free their block
addresses from the DAT file through a garbage collection, empty DAT blocks
are not freed.

This fixes the issue by extending the deallocator of block addresses so
that empty data blocks and empty bitmap blocks of DAT are deleted.

The following comparison shows the effect of this patch. Each shows disk
amount information of a nilfs2 volume that we cleaned out by deleting all
files and running gc after having filled 90% of its capacity.

Before:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 500105212 3022844 472072192 1% /test

After:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 500105212 16380 475078656 1% /test

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# da019954 06-Nov-2015 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: add helper functions to delete blocks from dat file

This adds delete functions for data blocks of metadata files using bitmap
based allocator. nilfs_palloc_delete_entry_block() deletes an entry block
(e.g. block storing dat entries), and nilfs_palloc_delete_bitmap_block()
deletes a bitmap block, respectively.

These helpers are intended to be used in the successive change on
deallocator of block addresses ("nilfs2: free unused dat file blocks
during garbage collection").

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b2258094 06-Nov-2015 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_palloc_group_is_in()

This unfolds nilfs_palloc_group_is_in() helper function into
nilfs_palloc_freev() function to simplify a range check and an index
calculation repeatedy performed in a loop of the function.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 18c41b37 06-Nov-2015 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: refactor nilfs_palloc_find_available_slot()

The current implementation of nilfs_palloc_find_available_slot() function
is overkill. The underlying bit search routine is well optimized, so this
uses it more simply in nilfs_palloc_find_available_slot().

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 4e9e63a6 06-Nov-2015 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: do not call nilfs_mdt_bgl_lock() needlessly

In the bitmap based allocator implementation, nilfs_mdt_bgl_lock() helper
is frequently used to get a spinlock protecting a target block group.
This reduces its usage and simplifies arguments of some related functions
by directly passing a pointer to the spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b7bed712 06-Nov-2015 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: use nilfs_warning() in allocator implementation

This uses nilfs_warning() to replace "printk(KERN_WARNING ...);" in the
bitmap based allocator implementation of nilfs2. The warning messages are
modified to include the device name and the inode number in each message.
This makes it clear which metadata file of which device has output
warnings such as "entry number xxxx already freed".

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3568a13f 16-Apr-2015 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: unify type of key arguments in bmap interface

The type of key arguments in block mapping interface varies depending
on function. For instance, nilfs_bmap_lookup_at_level() takes "__u64"
for its key argument whereas nilfs_bmap_lookup() takes "unsigned
long".

This fits them to "__u64" to eliminate the variation.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c7ef972c 03-Jul-2013 Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>

nilfs2: implement calculation of free inodes count

Currently, NILFS2 returns 0 as free inodes count (f_ffree) and current
used inodes count as total file nodes in file system (f_files):

df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 2 2 0 100% /mnt/nilfs2

This patch implements real calculation of free inodes count. First of
all, it is calculated total file nodes in file system as
(desc_blocks_count * groups_per_desc_block * entries_per_group). Then, it
is calculated free inodes count as difference the total file nodes and
used inodes count. As a result, we have such output for NILFS2:

df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 4194304 2114701 2079603 51% /mnt/nilfs2

Reported-by: Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 5fc7b141 04-May-2011 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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>


# 349dbc36 10-May-2011 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: fix infinite loop in nilfs_palloc_freev function

After having applied commit 9954e7af14868b8b ("nilfs2: add free
entries count only if clear bit operation succeeded"), a free routine
of nilfs came to fall into an infinite loop, outputting the same
message endlessly:

nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 29497 already freed
nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 29497 already freed
nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 29497 already freed
nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 29497 already freed
nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 29497 already freed ...

That patch broke the routine so that a loop counter is never updated
in an abnormal state. This fixes the regression.

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


# 9954e7af 22-Feb-2011 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: add free entries count only if clear bit operation succeeded

Three functions of the current persistent object allocator,
nilfs_palloc_commit_free_entry, nilfs_palloc_abort_alloc_entry, and
nilfs_palloc_freev functions unconditionally add a counter after doing
clear bit operation on a bitmap block.

If the clear bit operation overlapped, the counter will not add up.
This fixes the issue by making the counter operations conditional.

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


# db55d922 11-Apr-2010 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: add kernel doc comments to persistent object allocator functions

The implementation of persistent object allocator (alloc.c) is poorly
documented. This adds kernel doc style comments on that functions.

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


# be3bd222 11-Apr-2010 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: fix typo "numer" -> "number" in alloc.c

Fixes the typo found in a warning message of a persistent object
allocator function.

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


# 5a0e3ad6 24-Mar-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

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>


# 70622a20 14-Nov-2009 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: insert cache operation in palloc get block routines

This implements cache operation in get block routines of palloc code:
nilfs_palloc_get_desc_block(), nilfs_palloc_get_bitmap_block(), and
nilfs_palloc_get_entry_block().

This will complete the palloc cache.

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


# db38d5ad 13-Nov-2009 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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>


# 141bbdba 13-Nov-2009 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: unfold nilfs_palloc_block_get_bitmap function

This expands a trivial address calculation in the function into its
every callsite. This expansion improves readability of the callers.

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


# 5442680f 06-Apr-2009 Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

nilfs2: persistent object allocator

This adds common functions to allocate or deallocate entries with bitmaps
on a meta data file. This feature is used by the DAT and ifile.

Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Yoshiji Amagai <amagai.yoshiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>