- Remove the IO error warning in end_buffer_io_sync(). Failed READA
attempts trigger it.
- Emit a warning when an ext2 is mounting an ext3 filesystem.
We have had quite a few problem reports related to this, mainly
arising from initrd problems. And mount(8) tends to report the
fstype from /etc/fstab rather than reporting what has really
happened.
Fixes some bogosity which I added to max_block():
- `size' doesn't need to be sector_t
- `retval' should not be initialised to "~0UL" because that is
0x00000000ffffffff with 64-bit sector_t.
- /proc/partitions shows wrong number of blocks (Badari Pulavarty)
- Allocate task_structs with GFP_KERNEL, as discussed.
- Convert the EXPORT_SYMBOL for generic_file_direct_IO() to
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. That was only exported as a practicality for the
raw driver.
- Make the loop thread run balance_dirty_pages() after dirtying the
backing file. So it will perform writeback of the backing file when
dirty memory levels are high. Export balance_dirty_pages to GPL
modules for this.
This makes loop work a lot better - I suspect it broke when callers
of balance_dirty_pages() started writing back only their own queue.
There are many page allocation failures under heavy loop writeout.
Coming from blk_queue_bounce()'s allocation from the page_pool
mempool. So...
- Disable page allocation warnings around the initial atomic
allocation attempt in mempool_alloc() - the one where __GFP_WAIT and
__GFP_IO were turned off. That one can easily fail.
- Add some commentary in block_write_full_page()
drivers/block/genhd.c | 2 +-
drivers/block/loop.c | 2 ++
fs/block_dev.c | 6 +++---
fs/buffer.c | 13 +++++++++++--
fs/ext2/super.c | 3 +++
kernel/fork.c | 5 +++--
kernel/ksyms.c | 2 +-
mm/mempool.c | 2 ++
mm/page-writeback.c | 1 +
9 files changed, 27 insertions, 9 deletions
--- 2.5.30/fs/buffer.c~misc Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
+++ 2.5.30-akpm/fs/buffer.c Fri Aug 9 17:37:02 2002
@@ -180,7 +180,10 @@ void end_buffer_io_sync(struct buffer_he
if (uptodate) {
set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
} else {
- buffer_io_error(bh);
+ /*
+ * This happens, due to failed READA attempts.
+ * buffer_io_error(bh);
+ */
clear_buffer_uptodate(bh);
}
unlock_buffer(bh);
@@ -2283,7 +2286,13 @@ int block_write_full_page(struct page *p
return -EIO;
}
- /* The page straddles i_size */
+ /*
+ * The page straddles i_size. It must be zeroed out on each and every
+ * writepage invokation because it may be mmapped. "A file is mapped
+ * in multiples of the page size. For a file that is not a multiple of
+ * the page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when mapped, and
+ * writes to that region are not written out to the file."
+ */
kaddr = kmap(page);
memset(kaddr + offset, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset);
flush_dcache_page(page);
--- 2.5.30/fs/block_dev.c~misc Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
+++ 2.5.30-akpm/fs/block_dev.c Fri Aug 9 17:37:00 2002
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@
static sector_t max_block(struct block_device *bdev)
{
- sector_t retval = ~0U;
+ sector_t retval = ~0;
loff_t sz = bdev->bd_inode->i_size;
if (sz) {
- sector_t size = block_size(bdev);
- unsigned sizebits = blksize_bits(size);
+ unsigned int size = block_size(bdev);
+ unsigned int sizebits = blksize_bits(size);
retval = (sz >> sizebits);
}
return retval;
--- 2.5.30/fs/ext2/super.c~misc Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
+++ 2.5.30-akpm/fs/ext2/super.c Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
@@ -698,6 +698,9 @@ static int ext2_fill_super(struct super_
printk(KERN_ERR "EXT2-fs: get root inode failed\n");
goto failed_mount2;
}
+ if (EXT2_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL))
+ ext2_warning(sb, __FUNCTION__,
+ "mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2\n");
ext2_setup_super (sb, es, sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY);
return 0;
failed_mount2:
--- 2.5.30/drivers/block/genhd.c~misc Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
+++ 2.5.30-akpm/drivers/block/genhd.c Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static int show_partition(struct seq_fil
continue;
seq_printf(part, "%4d %4d %10ld %s\n",
sgp->major, n + sgp->first_minor,
- sgp->part[n].nr_sects << 1,
+ sgp->part[n].nr_sects >> 1,
disk_name(sgp, n + sgp->first_minor, buf));
}
--- 2.5.30/kernel/fork.c~misc Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
+++ 2.5.30-akpm/kernel/fork.c Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
@@ -106,9 +106,10 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_stru
struct thread_info *ti;
ti = alloc_thread_info();
- if (!ti) return NULL;
+ if (!ti)
+ return NULL;
- tsk = kmem_cache_alloc(task_struct_cachep,GFP_ATOMIC);
+ tsk = kmem_cache_alloc(task_struct_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tsk) {
free_thread_info(ti);
return NULL;
--- 2.5.30/kernel/ksyms.c~misc Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
+++ 2.5.30-akpm/kernel/ksyms.c Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_disk);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(read_dev_sector);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_buffer);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(wipe_partitions);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_direct_IO);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_file_direct_IO);
/* tty routines */
EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_hangup);
--- 2.5.30/drivers/block/loop.c~misc Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
+++ 2.5.30-akpm/drivers/block/loop.c Fri Aug 9 17:37:02 2002
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/loop.h>
#include <linux/suspend.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* for invalidate_bdev() */
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -235,6 +236,7 @@ do_lo_send(struct loop_device *lo, struc
up(&mapping->host->i_sem);
out:
kunmap(bvec->bv_page);
+ balance_dirty_pages(mapping);
return ret;
unlock:
--- 2.5.30/mm/page-writeback.c~misc Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
+++ 2.5.30-akpm/mm/page-writeback.c Fri Aug 9 17:37:00 2002
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_
if (!writeback_in_progress(bdi) && ps.nr_dirty > background_thresh)
pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(balance_dirty_pages);
/**
* balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state
--- 2.5.30/mm/mempool.c~misc Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
+++ 2.5.30-akpm/mm/mempool.c Fri Aug 9 17:36:38 2002
@@ -189,7 +189,9 @@ void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t *pool, in
int gfp_nowait = gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO);
repeat_alloc:
+ current->flags |= PF_NOWARN;
element = pool->alloc(gfp_nowait, pool->pool_data);
+ current->flags &= ~PF_NOWARN;
if (likely(element != NULL))
return element;
.
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