When UBIFS is in the failure mode (used for power cut emulation testing) we for
some reasons do not dump the stack in many places, e.g., in assertions.
Probably at early days we had too many of them and disabled this to make the
development easier, but then never enabled. Nowadays I sometimes observe
assertion failures during power cut testing, but the useful stackdump is not
printed, which is bad. This patch makes UBIFS always print the stackdump when
debugging is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
If we fail to recover the gc_lnum we just return an error and it then
it is difficult to figure out why this happened. This patch adds useful
debugging information which should make it easier to debug the failure.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch removes a piece of code in 'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()' which is never
executed. We call 'ubifs_find_dirty_leb()' function with min_space =
wbuf->offs, so if it returns us an LEB, it is guaranteed to have at lease
'wbuf->offs' bytes of free+dirty space. So we can remove the subsequent code
which deals with "returned LEB has less than 'wbuf->offs' bytes of free+dirty
space". This simplifies 'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()' a little.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
We have duplicated code in 'ubifs_garbage_collect()' and
'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()', which is about handling the special case of free
LEB. In both cases we just want to garbage-collect the LEB using
'ubifs_garbage_collect_leb()'.
This patch teaches 'ubifs_garbage_collect_leb()' to handle free LEB's so that
the caller does not have to do this and the duplicated code is removed.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Remove the following commentary from 'ubifs_file_mmap()':
/* 'generic_file_mmap()' takes care of NOMMU case */
I do not understand what it means, and I could not find anything relater to
NOMMU in 'generic_file_mmap()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch is a tiny improvement which removes few bytes of code.
UBIFS debugfs files are non-seekable and the file position is ignored,
so do not increase it in the write handler.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The 'dbg_dump_lprop()' is trying to detect journal head LEBs when printing,
so it looks at the write-buffers. However, if we are in R/O mode, we
de-allocate the write-buffers, so 'dbg_dump_lprop()' oopses. This patch fixes
the issue.
Note, this patch is not critical, it is only about the debugging code path, and
it is unlikely that anyone but UBIFS developers would ever hit this issue.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
We have our own flags indicating R/O mode, and c->ro_mode is equivalent
to MS_RDONLY. Let's be consistent and use UBIFS flags everywhere.
This patch is just a minor cleanup.
Additionally, add a comment that we are surprised with VFS behavior -
as a reminder to look at this some day.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
When the debugging failure emulation is enabled and UBIFS decides to
emulate an I/O error, it uses EIO error code. In which case UBIFS
switches into R/O mode later on. The for the user-space is that when
a failure is emulated, the file-system sometimes returns EIO and
sometimes EROFS. This makes it more difficult to implement user-space
tests for the failure mode. Let's be consistent and return EROFS in
all the cases.
This patch is an improvement for the debugging code and does not affect
the functionality at all.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This is just a tiny clean-up patch. The variable name for empty address
space operations is "empty_aops". Let's use consistent names for empty
inode and file operations: "empty_iops" and "empty_fops", instead of
inconsistent "none_inode_operations" and "none_file_operations".
Artem: re-write the commit message.
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Try to improve UBIFS testing coverage by randomly picking LEBs to
store in lsave, rather than picking them optimally. Create a debugging
version of 'populate_lsave()' for these purposes and enable it when
general debugging self-checks are enabled.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
UBIFS can force itself to use the 'in-the-gaps' commit method - the last resort
method which is normally invoced very very rarely. Currently this "force
int-the-gaps" debugging feature is a separate test mode. But it is a bit saner
to make it to be the "general" self-test check instead.
This patch is just a clean-up which should make the debugging code look a bit
nicer and easier to use - we have way too many debugging options.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch improves the 'dbg_check_space_info()' function which checks
whether the amount of space before re-mounting and after re-mounting
is the same (remounting from R/O to R/W modes and vice-versa).
The problem is that 'dbg_check_space_info()' does not save the budgeting
information before re-mounting, so when an error is reported, we do not
know why the amount of free space changed.
This patches makes the following changes:
1. Teaches 'dbg_dump_budg()' function to accept a 'struct ubifs_budg_info'
argument and print out the this argument. This way we may ask it to
print any saved budgeting info, no only the current one.
2. Accordingly changes all the callers of 'dbg_dump_budg()' to comply with
the changed interface.
3. Introduce a 'saved_bi' (saved budgeting info) field to
'struct ubifs_debug_info' and save the budgeting info before re-mounting
there.
4. Change 'dbg_check_space_info()' and make it print both old and new
budgeting information.
5. Additionally, save 'c->igx_gc_cnt' and print it if and error happens. This
value contributes to the amount of free space, so we have to print it.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Re-arrange the budget dump and make sure we first dump all
the 'struct ubifs_budg_info' fields, and then the other information.
Additionally, print the 'uncommitted_idx' variable.
This change is required for to the following dumping function
enhancement where it will be possible to dump saved
'struct ubifs_budg_info' objects, not only the current one.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The current 'dbg_dump_budg()' calling convention is that the
'c->space_lock' spinlock is held. However, none of the callers
actually use it from contects which have 'c->space_lock' locked,
so all callers have to explicitely lock and unlock the spinlock.
This is not very sensible convention. This patch changes it and
makes 'dbg_dump_budg()' lock the spinlock instead of imposing this
to the callers. This simplifies the code a little.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch separates out all the budgeting-related information
from 'struct ubifs_info' to 'struct ubifs_budg_info'. This way the
code looks a bit cleaner. However, the main driver for this is
that we want to save budgeting information and print it later,
so a separate data structure for this is helpful.
This patch is a preparation for the further debugging output
improvements.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
There was an attempt to standartize various "__attribute__" and
other macros in order to have potentially portable and more
consistent code, see commit 82ddcb0405.
Note, that commit refers Rober Love's blog post, but the URL
is broken, the valid URL is:
http://blog.rlove.org/2005/10/with-little-help-from-your-compiler.html
Moreover, nowadays checkpatch.pl warns about using
__attribute__((packed)):
"WARNING: __packed is preferred over __attribute__((packed))"
It is not a big deal for UBIFS to use __packed, so let's do it.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Fix several minor stylistic issues:
* lines longer than 80 characters
* space before closing parenthesis ')'
* spaces in the indentations
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Turn the debufs files UBIFS maintains into non-seekable. Indeed, none
of them is supposed to be seek'ed.
Do this by making the '.lseek()' handler to be 'no_llseek()' and by
using 'nonseekable_open()' in the '.open()' operation.
This does mean an API break but this debugging API is only used by a couple
of test scripts which do not rely in the 'llseek()' operation.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This is the second fix of the following symptom:
UBIFS error (pid 34456): could not find an empty LEB
which sometimes happens after power cuts when we mount the file-system - UBIFS
refuses it with the above error message which comes from the
'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()' function. I can reproduce this using the integck test
with the UBIFS power cut emulation enabled.
Analysis of the problem.
Currently UBIFS replay seeks the journal heads to the last _replayed_ bud.
But the buds are replayed out-of-order, so the replay basically seeks journal
heads to the "random" bud belonging to this head, and not to the _last_ one.
The result of this is that the GC head may be seeked to a full LEB with no free
space, or very little free space. And 'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()' tries to find a
fully or mostly dirty LEB to match the current GC head (because we need to
garbage-collect that dirty LEB at one go, because we do not have @c->gc_lnum).
So 'ubifs_find_dirty_leb()' fails and we fall back to finding an empty LEB and
also fail. As a result - recovery fails and mounting fails.
This patch teaches the replay to initialize the GC heads exactly to the latest
buds, i.e. the buds which have the largest sequence number in corresponding
log reference nodes.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Currently UBIFS has a small optimization - it frees write-buffers when it is
re-mounted from R/W mode to R/O mode. Of course, when it is mounted R/O, it
does not allocate write-buffers as well.
This optimization is nice but it leads to subtle problems and complications
in recovery, which I can reproduce using the integck test. The symptoms are
that after a power cut the file-system cannot be mounted if we first mount
it R/O, and then re-mount R/W - 'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()' prints:
UBIFS error (pid 34456): could not find an empty LEB
Analysis of the problem.
When mounting R/W, the reply process sets journal heads to buds [1], but
when mounting R/O - it does not do this, because the write-buffers are not
allocated. So 'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()' works completely differently for the
same file-system but for the following 2 cases:
1. mounting R/W after a power cut and recover
2. mounting R/O after a power cut, re-mounting R/W and run deferred recovery
In the former case, we have journal heads seeked to the a bud, in the latter
case, they are non-seeked (wbuf->lnum == -1). So in the latter case we do not
try to recover the GC LEB by garbage-collecting to the GC head, but we just
try to find an empty LEB, and there may be no empty LEBs, so we just fail.
On the other hand, in the former case (mount R/W), we are able to make a GC LEB
(@c->gc_lnum) by garbage-collecting.
Thus, let's remove this small nice optimization and always allocate
write-buffers. This should not make too big difference - we have only 3
of them, each of max. write unit size, which is usually 2KiB. So this is
about 6KiB of RAM for the typical case, and only when mounted R/O.
[1]: Note, currently the replay process is setting (seeking) the journal heads
to _some_ buds, not necessarily to the buds which had been the journal heads
before the power cut happened. This will be fixed separately.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
This patch fixes the following symptoms:
1. Unmount UBIFS cleanly.
2. Start mounting UBIFS R/W and have a power cut immediately
3. Start mounting UBIFS R/O, this succeeds
4. Try to re-mount UBIFS R/W - this fails immediately or later on,
because UBIFS will write the master node to the flash area
which has been written before.
The analysis of the problem:
1. UBIFS is unmounted cleanly, both copies of the master node are clean.
2. UBIFS is being mounter R/W, starts changing master node copy 1, and
a power cut happens. The copy N1 becomes corrupted.
3. UBIFS is being mounted R/O. It notices the copy N1 is corrupted and
reads copy N2. Copy N2 is clean.
4. Because of R/O mode, UBIFS cannot recover copy 1.
5. The mount code (ubifs_mount()) sees that the master node is clean,
so it decides that no recovery is needed.
6. We are re-mounting R/W. UBIFS believes no recovery is needed and
starts updating the master node, but copy N1 is still corrupted
and was not recovered!
Fix this problem by marking the master node as dirty every time we
recover it and we are in R/O mode. This forces further recovery and
the UBIFS cleans-up the corruptions and recovers the copy N1 when
re-mounting R/W later.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
When UBIFS switches to R/O mode because it detects I/O failures, then
when we unmount, we still may have allocated budget, and the assertions
which verify that we have not budget will fire. But it is expected to
have the budget in case of I/O failures, so the assertion warnings will
be false. Suppress them for the I/O failure case.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch fixes UBIFS mount failure when the debugging support is enabled,
we are recovering from a power cut, we were first mounter R/O and we are
re-mounting R/W. In this case we should not assume that the amount of free
space before we have re-mounted R/W and after are equivalent, because
when we have mounted R/O the file-system is in a non-committed state so
the amount of free space is slightly smaller, due to the fact that we cannot
predict the amount of free space precisely before we commit.
This patch fixes the issue by skipping the debugging check in case of
recovery. This issue was reported by Caizhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/34350/focus=34387
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reported-by: Caizhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.30+]
When compiling UBIFS with CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_DEBUG not set,
gcc-4.5.2 generates a slew of "warning: statement with no effect"
on references to non-void functions defined as 0.
To avoid these warnings, replace #defines with dummy inline functions.
Artem: massage the patch a bit, also remove the duplicate
'dbg_check_lprops()' prototype.
Signed-off-by: Maksim Rayskiy <maksim.rayskiy@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch fixes severe UBIFS bug: UBIFS oopses when we 'fsync()' an
file on R/O-mounter file-system. We (the UBIFS authors) incorrectly
thought that VFS would not propagate 'fsync()' down to the file-system
if it is read-only, but this is not the case.
It is easy to exploit this bug using the following simple perl script:
use strict;
use File::Sync qw(fsync sync);
die "File path is not specified" if not defined $ARGV[0];
my $path = $ARGV[0];
open FILE, "<", "$path" or die "Cannot open $path: $!";
fsync(\*FILE) or die "cannot fsync $path: $!";
close FILE or die "Cannot close $path: $!";
Thanks to Reuben Dowle <Reuben.Dowle@navico.com> for reporting about this
issue.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reported-by: Reuben Dowle <Reuben.Dowle@navico.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
UBI: do not select KALLSYMS_ALL
UBI: do not compare array with NULL
UBI: check if we are in RO mode in the erase routine
UBIFS: fix debugging failure in dbg_check_space_info
UBIFS: fix error path in dbg_debugfs_init_fs
UBIFS: unify error path dbg_debugfs_init_fs
UBIFS: do not select KALLSYMS_ALL
UBIFS: fix assertion warnings
UBIFS: fix oops on error path in read_pnode
UBIFS: do not read flash unnecessarily
With the ->sync_page() hook gone, we have a few users that
add their own static address_space_operations without any
functions defined.
fs/inode.c already has an empty_aops that it uses for init
purposes. Lets export that and use it in the places where
an otherwise empty aops was defined.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This patch fixes a debugging failure with which looks like this:
UBIFS error (pid 32313): dbg_check_space_info: free space changed from 6019344 to 6022654
The reason for this failure is described in the comment this patch adds
to the code. But in short - 'c->freeable_cnt' may be different before
and after re-mounting, and this is normal. So the debugging code should
make sure that free space calculations do not depend on 'c->freeable_cnt'.
A similar issue has been reported here:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-April/034647.html
This patch should fix it.
For the -stable guys: this patch is only relevant for kernels 2.6.30
onwards.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.30+]
The debug interface is substandard and on error returns either
NULL or an error code packed in the pointer. So using "IS_ERR"
for the pointers returned by debugfs function is incorrect.
Instead, we should use IS_ERR_OR_NULL.
This path is an improved vestion of the original patch from
Phil Carmody.
Reported-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
This is just a small clean-up patch which simlifies and unifies the
error path in the dbg_debugfs_init_fs(). We have common error path
for all failure cases in this function except of the very first
case. And this patch makes the first failure case use the same
error path as the other cases by using the 'fname' and 'dent'
variables.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
All UBIFS needs is to make sure we stacktraces when UBIFS debugging
is enabled. It is enough to select KALLSYMS for this, KALLSYMS_ALL
is not necessary. Moreover, Randy Dunlap reported that UBIFS causes
the following Kconfig dependency warning:
warning: (UBIFS_FS_DEBUG && LOCKDEP && LATENCYTOP) selects KALLSYMS_ALL
which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS)
The reason is that KALLSYMS_ALL requires DEBUG_KERNEL and KALLSYMS, so
ideally, to select KALLSYMS_ALL we'd need to select DEBUG_KERNEL and
KALLSYMS first.
This seems to be too much to select. The easiest way to go is to forget
about KALLSYMS_ALL and just select KALLSYMS when UBIFS debugging is
enabled - that should be enough for stackdumps.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
This patch fixes UBIFS assertion warnings like:
UBIFS assert failed in ubifs_leb_unmap at 135 (pid 29365)
Pid: 29365, comm: integck Tainted: G I 2.6.37-ubi-2.6+ #34
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa047c663>] ubifs_lpt_init+0x95e/0x9ee [ubifs]
[<ffffffffa04623a7>] ubifs_remount_fs+0x2c7/0x762 [ubifs]
[<ffffffff810f066e>] do_remount_sb+0xb6/0x101
[<ffffffff81106ff4>] ? do_mount+0x191/0x78e
[<ffffffff811070bb>] do_mount+0x258/0x78e
[<ffffffff810da1e8>] ? alloc_pages_current+0xa2/0xc5
[<ffffffff81107674>] sys_mount+0x83/0xbd
[<ffffffff81009a12>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
They happen when we re-mount from R/O mode to R/W mode. While
re-mounting, we write to the media, but we still have the c->ro_mount
flag set. The fix is very simple - just clear the flag before
starting re-mounting R/W.
These warnings are caused by the following commit:
2ef13294d2
For -stable guys: this bug was introduced in 2.6.38, this is materieal
for 2.6.38-stable.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38]
Thanks to coverity which spotted that UBIFS will oops if 'kmalloc()'
in 'read_pnode()' fails and we dereference a NULL 'pnode' pointer
when we 'goto out'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
This fix makes the 'dbg_check_old_index()' function return
immediately if debugging is disabled, instead of executing
incorrect 'goto out' which causes UBIFS to:
1. Allocate memory
2. Read the flash
On every commit. OK, we do not commit that often, but it is
still silly to do unneeded I/O anyway.
Credits to coverity for spotting this silly issue.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
...
Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
This patch fixes the following UBIFS assertion warning:
UBIFS assert failed in do_readpage at 115 (pid 199)
[<b00321b8>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xdc) from [<af025118>]
(do_readpage+0x108/0x594 [ubifs])
[<af025118>] (do_readpage+0x108/0x594 [ubifs]) from [<af025764>]
(ubifs_write_end+0x1c0/0x2e8 [ubifs])
[<af025764>] (ubifs_write_end+0x1c0/0x2e8 [ubifs]) from
[<b00a0164>] (generic_file_buffered_write+0x18c/0x270)
[<b00a0164>] (generic_file_buffered_write+0x18c/0x270) from
[<b00a08d4>] (__generic_file_aio_write+0x478/0x4c0)
[<b00a08d4>] (__generic_file_aio_write+0x478/0x4c0) from
[<b00a0984>] (generic_file_aio_write+0x68/0xc8)
[<b00a0984>] (generic_file_aio_write+0x68/0xc8) from
[<af024a78>] (ubifs_aio_write+0x178/0x1d8 [ubifs])
[<af024a78>] (ubifs_aio_write+0x178/0x1d8 [ubifs]) from
[<b00d104c>] (do_sync_write+0xb0/0x100)
[<b00d104c>] (do_sync_write+0xb0/0x100) from [<b00d1abc>]
(vfs_write+0xac/0x154)
[<b00d1abc>] (vfs_write+0xac/0x154) from [<b00d1c10>]
(sys_write+0x3c/0x68)
[<b00d1c10>] (sys_write+0x3c/0x68) from [<b002d9a0>]
(ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)
The 'PG_checked' flag is used to indicate that the page does not
supposedly exist on the media (e.g., a hole or a page beyond the
inode size), so it requires slightly bigger budget, because we have
to account the indexing size increase. And this flag basically
tells that the budget for this page has to be "new page budget".
The "new page budget" is slightly bigger than the "existing page
budget".
The 'do_readpage()' function has the following assertion which
sometimes is hit: 'ubifs_assert(!PageChecked(page))'. Obviously,
the meaning of this assertion is: "I should not be asked to read
a page which does not exist on the media".
However, in 'ubifs_write_begin()' we have a small "trick". Notice,
that VFS may write pages which were not read yet, so the page data
were not loaded from the media to the page cache yet. If VFS tells
that it is going to change only some part of the page, we obviously
have to load it from the media. However, if VFS tells that it is
going to change whole page, we do not read it from the media for
optimization purposes.
However, since we do not read it, we do not know if it exists on
the media or not (a hole, etc). So we set the 'PG_checked' flag
to this page to force bigger budget, just in case.
So 'ubifs_write_begin()' sets 'PG_checked'. Then we are in
'ubifs_write_end()'. And VFS tells us: "hey, for some reasons I
changed my mind and did not change whole page". Frankly, I do not
know why this happens, but I hit this somehow on an ARM platform.
And this is extremely rare.
So in this case UBIFS does the following:
1. Cancels allocated budget.
2. Loads the page from the media by calling 'do_readpage()'.
3. Asks VFS to repeat the whole write operation from the very
beginning (call '->write_begin() again, etc).
And the assertion warning is hit at the step 2 - remember we have
the 'PG_checked' set for this page, and 'do_readpage()' does not
like this. So this patch fixes the problem by adding step 1.5 and
cleaning the 'PG_checked' before calling 'do_readpage()'.
All in all, this patch does not fix any functionality issue, but it
silences UBIFS false positive warning which may happen in very very
rare cases.
And while on it, this patch also improves a commentary which explains
the reasons of setting the 'PG_checked' flag for the page. The old
commentary was a bit difficult to understand.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Simplify UBIFS configuration menu and kill the option to enable self-check
compile-time. We do not really need this because we can do this run-time
using the module parameters or the corresponding sysfs interfaces. And
there is a value in simplifying the kernel configuration menu which becomes
increasingly large.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch fixes a brown-paperbag bug which was introduced by me:
I used incorrect "GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS" allocation flags to make
sure my allocations do not cause write-back. But the correct form
is "GFP_NOFS".
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
And give it a kernel-doc comment.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: btrfs changed in linux-next]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (25 commits)
UBIFS: clean-up commentaries
UBIFS: save 128KiB or more RAM
UBIFS: allocate orphans scan buffer on demand
UBIFS: allocate lpt dump buffer on demand
UBIFS: allocate ltab checking buffer on demand
UBIFS: allocate scanning buffer on demand
UBIFS: allocate dump buffer on demand
UBIFS: do not check data crc by default
UBIFS: simplify UBIFS Kconfig menu
UBIFS: print max. index node size
UBIFS: handle allocation failures in UBIFS write path
UBIFS: use max_write_size during recovery
UBIFS: use max_write_size for write-buffers
UBIFS: introduce write-buffer size field
UBI: incorporate LEB offset information
UBIFS: incorporate maximum write size
UBI: provide LEB offset information
UBI: incorporate maximum write size
UBIFS: fix LEB number in printk
UBIFS: restrict world-writable debugfs files
...
When debugging is enabled, we allocate a buffer of PEB size for
various debugging purposes. However, now all users of this buffer
are gone and we can safely remove it and save 128KiB or more RAM.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Instead of using pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer in
'dbg_scan_orphans()', dynamically allocate it when needed. The intend
is to get rid of the pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer and save
128KiB of RAM (or more if PEB size is larger). Indeed, currently we
allocate this memory even if the user never enables any self-check,
which is wasteful.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Instead of using pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer in
'dump_lpt_leb()', dynamically allocate it when needed. The intend
is to get rid of the pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer and save
128KiB of RAM (or more if PEB size is larger). Indeed, currently we
allocate this memory even if the user never enables any self-check,
which is wasteful.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Instead of using pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer in
'dbg_check_ltab_lnum()', dynamically allocate it when needed. The
intend is to get rid of the pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer and
save 128KiB of RAM (or more if PEB size is larger). Indeed,
currently we allocate this memory even if the user never enables
any self-check, which is wasteful.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Instead of using pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer in
'scan_check_cb()', dynamically allocate it when needed. The intend
is to get rid of the pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer and save
128KiB of RAM (or more if PEB size is larger). Indeed, currently we
allocate this memory even if the user never enables any self-check,
which is wasteful.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
