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<title>lwn.git/fs/ext4/ioctl.c, branch v3.11-rc5</title>
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<updated>2013-04-10T02:48:36+00:00</updated>
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<title>ext4: fix usless declarations</title>
<updated>2013-04-10T02:48:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitri Monakho</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
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<published>2013-04-10T02:48:36+00:00</published>
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This patch should fix sparse complains about shadow declatations.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: implementation of a new ioctl called EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT</title>
<updated>2013-04-08T16:54:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dr. Tilmann Bubeck</name>
<email>t.bubeck@reinform.de</email>
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<published>2013-04-08T16:54:05+00:00</published>
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Add a new ioctl, EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT which swaps i_blocks and
associated attributes (like i_blocks, i_size, i_flags, ...) from the
specified inode with inode EXT4_BOOT_LOADER_INO (#5). This is
typically used to store a boot loader in a secure part of the
filesystem, where it can't be changed by a normal user by accident.
The data blocks of the previous boot loader will be associated with
the given inode.

This usercode program is a simple example of the usage:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int fd;
  int err;

  if ( argc != 2 ) {
    printf("usage: ext4-swap-boot-inode FILE-TO-SWAP\n");
    exit(1);
  }

  fd = open(argv[1], O_WRONLY);
  if ( fd &lt; 0 ) {
    perror("open");
    exit(1);
  }

  err = ioctl(fd, EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT);
  if ( err &lt; 0 ) {
    perror("ioctl");
    exit(1);
  }

  close(fd);
  exit(0);
}

[ Modified by Theodore Ts'o to fix a number of bugs in the original code.]

Signed-off-by: Dr. Tilmann Bubeck &lt;t.bubeck@reinform.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: support simple conversion of extent-mapped inodes to use i_blocks</title>
<updated>2013-04-04T02:04:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-04T02:04:52+00:00</published>
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In order to make it simpler to test the code which support
i_blocks/indirect-mapped inodes, support the conversion of inodes
which are less than 12 blocks and which are contained in no more than
a single extent.

The primary intended use of this code is to converting freshly created
zero-length files and empty directories.

Note that the version of chattr in e2fsprogs 1.42.7 and earlier has a
check that prevents the clearing of the extent flag.  A simple patch
which allows "chattr -e &lt;file&gt;" to work will be checked into the
e2fsprogs git repository.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2013-02-27T04:16:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-27T04:16:07+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing -&gt;d_name/-&gt;d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has -&gt;d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both -&gt;f_pos and -&gt;f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>new helper: file_inode(file)</title>
<updated>2013-02-23T04:31:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-23T22:07:38+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: pass context information to jbd2__journal_start()</title>
<updated>2013-02-09T02:59:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-09T02:59:22+00:00</published>
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So we can better understand what bits of ext4 are responsible for
long-running jbd2 handles, use jbd2__journal_start() so we can pass
context information for logging purposes.

The recommended way for finding the longer-running handles is:

   T=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
   EVENT=$T/events/jbd2/jbd2_handle_stats
   echo "interval &gt; 5" &gt; $EVENT/filter
   echo 1 &gt; $EVENT/enable

   ./run-my-fs-benchmark

   cat $T/trace &gt; /tmp/problem-handles

This will list handles that were active for longer than 20ms.  Having
longer-running handles is bad, because a commit started at the wrong
time could stall for those 20+ milliseconds, which could delay an
fsync() or an O_SYNC operation.  Here is an example line from the
trace file describing a handle which lived on for 311 jiffies, or over
1.2 seconds:

postmark-2917  [000] ....   196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32 
   tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1
   dirtied_blocks 0

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: trigger the lazy inode table initialization after resize</title>
<updated>2013-01-13T13:41:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-13T13:41:45+00:00</published>
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After we have finished extending the file system, we need to trigger a
the lazy inode table thread to zero out the inode tables.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2012-10-07T21:36:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-07T21:36:39+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "The big new feature added this time is supporting online resizing
  using the meta_bg feature.  This allows us to resize file systems
  which are greater than 16TB.  In addition, the speed of online
  resizing has been improved in general.

  We also fix a number of races, some of which could lead to deadlocks,
  in ext4's Asynchronous I/O and online defrag support, thanks to good
  work by Dmitry Monakhov.

  There are also a large number of more minor bug fixes and cleanups
  from a number of other ext4 contributors, quite of few of which have
  submitted fixes for the first time."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (69 commits)
  ext4: fix ext4_flush_completed_IO wait semantics
  ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode
  ext4: fix ext_remove_space for punch_hole case
  ext4: punch_hole should wait for DIO writers
  ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers
  ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers
  ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate
  ext4: serialize dio nonlocked reads with defrag workers
  ext4: completed_io locking cleanup
  ext4: fix unwritten counter leakage
  ext4: give i_aiodio_unwritten a more appropriate name
  ext4: ext4_inode_info diet
  ext4: convert to use leXX_add_cpu()
  ext4: ext4_bread usage audit
  fs: reserve fallocate flag codepoint
  ext4: remove redundant offset check in mext_check_arguments()
  ext4: don't clear orphan list on ro mount with errors
  jbd2: fix assertion failure in commit code due to lacking transaction credits
  ext4: release donor reference when EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl fails
  ext4: enable FITRIM ioctl on bigalloc file system
  ...
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<title>ext4: release donor reference when EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl fails</title>
<updated>2012-09-27T02:58:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Djalal Harouni</name>
<email>tixxdz@opendz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-27T02:58:50+00:00</published>
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When the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl() fails on bigalloc file systems, we
should jump to the 'mext_out' label to release the donor file reference.

Signed-off-by: Djalal Harouni &lt;tixxdz@opendz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: enable FITRIM ioctl on bigalloc file system</title>
<updated>2012-09-27T02:21:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Czerner</name>
<email>lczerner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-27T02:21:21+00:00</published>
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With a minor tweaks regarding minimum extent size to discard and
discarded bytes reporting the FITRIM can be enabled on bigalloc file
system and it works without any problem.

This patch fixes minlen handling and discarded bytes reporting to
take into consideration bigalloc enabled file systems and finally
removes the restriction and allow FITRIM to be used on file system with
bigalloc feature enabled.

Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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