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2015-12-18GFS2: Truncate address space mapping when deleting an inodeBob Peterson
In function gfs2_delete_inode() we write and flush the mapping for a glock, among other things. We truncate the mapping for the inode, but we never truncate the mapping for the glock. This patch makes it also truncate the metamapping. This avoid cases where the glock is reused by another process who is trying to recreate an inode in its place using the same block. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2015-12-18GFS2: Wait for iopen glock dequeuesBob Peterson
This patch changes every glock_dq for iopen glocks into a dq_wait. This makes sure that iopen glocks do not outlive the inode itself. In turn, that ensures that anyone trying to unlink the glock will be able to find the inode when it receives a remote iopen callback. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2015-12-14gfs2: clear journal live bit in gfs2_log_flushBenjamin Marzinski
When gfs2 was unmounting filesystems or changing them to read-only it was clearing the SDF_JOURNAL_LIVE bit before the final log flush. This caused a race. If an inode glock got demoted in the gap between clearing the bit and the shutdown flush, it would be unable to reserve log space to clear out the active items list in inode_go_sync, causing an error in inode_go_inval because the glock was still dirty. To solve this, the SDF_JOURNAL_LIVE bit is now cleared inside the shutdown log flush. This means that, because of the locking on the log blocks, either inode_go_sync will be able to reserve space to clean the glock before the shutdown flush, or the shutdown flush will clean the glock itself, before inode_go_sync fails to reserve the space. Either way, the glock will be clean before inode_go_inval. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2015-12-14gfs2: change gfs2 readdir cookieBenjamin Marzinski
gfs2 currently returns 31 bits of filename hash as a cookie that readdir uses for an offset into the directory. When there are a large number of directory entries, the likelihood of a collision goes up way too quickly. GFS2 will now return cookies that are guaranteed unique for a while, and then fail back to using 30 bits of filename hash. Specifically, the directory leaf blocks are divided up into chunks based on the minimum size of a gfs2 directory entry (48 bytes). Each entry's cookie is based off the chunk where it starts, in the linked list of leaf blocks that it hashes to (there are 131072 hash buckets). Directory entries will have unique names until they take reach chunk 8192. Assuming the largest filenames possible, and the least efficient spacing possible, this new method will still be able to return unique names when the previous method has statistically more than a 99% chance of a collision. The non-unique names it fails back to are guaranteed to not collide with the unique names. unique cookies will be in this format: - 1 bit "0" to make sure the the returned cookie is positive - 17 bits for the hash table index - 1 bit for the mode "0" - 13 bits for the offset non-unique cookies will be in this format: - 1 bit "0" to make sure the the returned cookie is positive - 17 bits for the hash table index - 1 bit for the mode "1" - 13 more bits of the name hash Another benefit of location based cookies, is that once a directory's exhash table is fully extended (so that multiple hash table indexs do not use the same leaf blocks), gfs2 can skip sorting the directory entries until it reaches the non-unique ones, and then it only needs to sort these. This provides a significant speed up for directory reads of very large directories. The only issue is that for these cookies to continue to point to the correct entry as files are added and removed from the directory, gfs2 must keep the entries at the same offset in the leaf block when they are split (see my previous patch). This means that until all the nodes in a cluster are running with code that will split the directory leaf blocks this way, none of the nodes can use the new cookie code. To deal with this, gfs2 now has the mount option loccookie, which, if set, will make it return these new location based cookies. This option must not be set until all nodes in the cluster are at least running this version of the kernel code, and you have guaranteed that there are no outstanding cookies required by other software, such as NFS. gfs2 uses some of the extra space at the end of the gfs2_dirent structure to store the calculated readdir cookies. This keeps us from needing to allocate a seperate array to hold these values. gfs2 recomputes the cookie stored in de_cookie for every readdir call. The time it takes to do so is small, and if gfs2 expected this value to be saved on disk, the new code wouldn't work correctly on filesystems created with an earlier version of gfs2. One issue with adding de_cookie to the union in the gfs2_dirent structure is that it caused the union to align itself to a 4 byte boundary, instead of its previous 2 byte boundary. This changed the offset of de_rahead. To solve that, I pulled de_rahead out of the union, since it does not need to be there. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2015-12-14GFS2: Update master statfs buffer with sd_statfs_spin lockedBob Peterson
Before this patch, function update_statfs called gfs2_statfs_change_out to update the master statfs buffer without the sd_statfs_spin held. In theory, another process could call gfs2_statfs_sync, which takes the sd_statfs_spin lock and re-reads m_sc from the buffer. So there's a theoretical timing window in which one process could write the master statfs buffer, then another comes along and re-reads it, wiping out the changes. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2015-12-14GFS2: Make rgrp reservations part of the gfs2_inode structureBob Peterson
Before this patch, multi-block reservation structures were allocated from a special slab. This patch folds the structure into the gfs2_inode structure. The disadvantage is that the gfs2_inode needs more memory, even when a file is opened read-only. The advantages are: (a) we don't need the special slab and the extra time it takes to allocate and deallocate from it. (b) we no longer need to worry that the structure exists for things like quota management. (c) This also allows us to remove the calls to get_write_access and put_write_access since we know the structure will exist. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2015-11-24GFS2: Extract quota data from reservations structure (revert 5407e24)Bob Peterson
This patch basically reverts the majority of patch 5407e24. That patch eliminated the gfs2_qadata structure in favor of just using the reservations structure. The problem with doing that is that it increases the size of the reservations structure. That is not an issue until it comes time to fold the reservations structure into the inode in memory so we know it's always there. By separating out the quota structure again, we aren't punishing the non-quota users by making all the inodes bigger, requiring more slab space. This patch creates a new slab area to allocate the quota stuff so it's managed a little more sanely. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2015-11-16gfs2: Extended attribute readaheadAndreas Gruenbacher
When gfs2 allocates an inode and its extended attribute block next to each other at inode create time, the inode's directory entry indicates that in de_rahead. In that case, we can readahead the extended attribute block when we read in the inode. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2015-09-04fs: create and use seq_show_option for escapingKees Cook
Many file systems that implement the show_options hook fail to correctly escape their output which could lead to unescaped characters (e.g. new lines) leaking into /proc/mounts and /proc/[pid]/mountinfo files. This could lead to confusion, spoofed entries (resulting in things like systemd issuing false d-bus "mount" notifications), and who knows what else. This looks like it would only be the root user stepping on themselves, but it's possible weird things could happen in containers or in other situations with delegated mount privileges. Here's an example using overlay with setuid fusermount trusting the contents of /proc/mounts (via the /etc/mtab symlink). Imagine the use of "sudo" is something more sneaky: $ BASE="ovl" $ MNT="$BASE/mnt" $ LOW="$BASE/lower" $ UP="$BASE/upper" $ WORK="$BASE/work/ 0 0 none /proc fuse.pwn user_id=1000" $ mkdir -p "$LOW" "$UP" "$WORK" $ sudo mount -t overlay -o "lowerdir=$LOW,upperdir=$UP,workdir=$WORK" none /mnt $ cat /proc/mounts none /root/ovl/mnt overlay rw,relatime,lowerdir=ovl/lower,upperdir=ovl/upper,workdir=ovl/work/ 0 0 none /proc fuse.pwn user_id=1000 0 0 $ fusermount -u /proc $ cat /proc/mounts cat: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory This fixes the problem by adding new seq_show_option and seq_show_option_n helpers, and updating the vulnerable show_option handlers to use them as needed. Some, like SELinux, need to be open coded due to unusual existing escape mechanisms. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add lost chunk, per Kees] [keescook@chromium.org: seq_show_option should be using const parameters] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Cc: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-02writeback: move bandwidth related fields from backing_dev_info into ↵Tejun Heo
bdi_writeback Currently, a bdi (backing_dev_info) embeds single wb (bdi_writeback) and the role of the separation is unclear. For cgroup support for writeback IOs, a bdi will be updated to host multiple wb's where each wb serves writeback IOs of a different cgroup on the bdi. To achieve that, a wb should carry all states necessary for servicing writeback IOs for a cgroup independently. This patch moves bandwidth related fields from backing_dev_info into bdi_writeback. * The moved fields are: bw_time_stamp, dirtied_stamp, written_stamp, write_bandwidth, avg_write_bandwidth, dirty_ratelimit, balanced_dirty_ratelimit, completions and dirty_exceeded. * writeback_chunk_size() and over_bground_thresh() now take @wb instead of @bdi. * bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, ...) -> wb_writeout_fraction(wb, ...) bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, ...) -> wb_dirty_limit(wb, ...) bdi_position_ration(bdi, ...) -> wb_position_ratio(wb, ...) bdi_update_writebandwidth(bdi, ...) -> wb_update_write_bandwidth(wb, ...) [__]bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, ...) -> [__]wb_update_bandwidth(wb, ...) bdi_{max|min}_pause(bdi, ...) -> wb_{max|min}_pause(wb, ...) bdi_dirty_limits(bdi, ...) -> wb_dirty_limits(wb, ...) * Init/exits of the relocated fields are moved to bdi_wb_init/exit() respectively. Note that explicit zeroing is dropped in the process as wb's are cleared in entirety anyway. * As there's still only one bdi_writeback per backing_dev_info, all uses of bdi->stat[] are mechanically replaced with bdi->wb.stat[] introducing no behavior changes. v2: Typo in description fixed as suggested by Jan. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-04-15VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotationsDavid Howells
that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-01-20fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_infoChristoph Hellwig
Now that we got rid of the bdi abuse on character devices we can always use sb->s_bdi to get at the backing_dev_info for a file, except for the block device special case. Export inode_to_bdi and replace uses of mapping->backing_dev_info with it to prepare for the removal of mapping->backing_dev_info. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-11-17GFS2: update freeze code to use freeze/thaw_super on all nodesBenjamin Marzinski
The current gfs2 freezing code is considerably more complicated than it should be because it doesn't use the vfs freezing code on any node except the one that begins the freeze. This is because it needs to acquire a cluster glock before calling the vfs code to prevent a deadlock, and without the new freeze_super and thaw_super hooks, that was impossible. To deal with the issue, gfs2 had to do some hacky locking tricks to make sure that a frozen node couldn't be holding on a lock it needed to do the unfreeze ioctl. This patch makes use of the new hooks to simply the gfs2 locking code. Now, all the nodes in the cluster freeze and thaw in exactly the same way. Every node in the cluster caches the freeze glock in the shared state. The new freeze_super hook allows the freezing node to grab this freeze glock in the exclusive state without first calling the vfs freeze_super function. All the nodes in the cluster see this lock change, and call the vfs freeze_super function. The vfs locking code guarantees that the nodes can't get stuck holding the glocks necessary to unfreeze the system. To unfreeze, the freezing node uses the new thaw_super hook to drop the freeze glock. Again, all the nodes notice this, reacquire the glock in shared mode and call the vfs thaw_super function. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-08-21GFS2: fs/gfs2/super.c: replace seq_printf by seq_putsFabian Frederick
fix checkpatch warnings: "WARNING: Prefer seq_puts to seq_printf" Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-07-16sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functionsNeilBrown
The current "wait_on_bit" interface requires an 'action' function to be provided which does the actual waiting. There are over 20 such functions, many of them identical. Most cases can be satisfied by one of just two functions, one which uses io_schedule() and one which just uses schedule(). So: Rename wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock to wait_on_bit_action and wait_on_bit_lock_action to make it explicit that they need an action function. Introduce new wait_on_bit{,_lock} and wait_on_bit{,_lock}_io which are *not* given an action function but implicitly use a standard one. The decision to error-out if a signal is pending is now made based on the 'mode' argument rather than being encoded in the action function. All instances of the old wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock which can use the new version have been changed accordingly and their action functions have been discarded. wait_on_bit{_lock} does not return any specific error code in the event of a signal so the caller must check for non-zero and interpolate their own error code as appropriate. The wait_on_bit() call in __fscache_wait_on_invalidate() was ambiguous as it specified TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE but used fscache_wait_bit_interruptible as an action function. David Howells confirms this should be uniformly "uninterruptible" The main remaining user of wait_on_bit{,_lock}_action is NFS which needs to use a freezer-aware schedule() call. A comment in fs/gfs2/glock.c notes that having multiple 'action' functions is useful as they display differently in the 'wchan' field of 'ps'. (and /proc/$PID/wchan). As the new bit_wait{,_io} functions are tagged "__sched", they will not show up at all, but something higher in the stack. So the distinction will still be visible, only with different function names (gds2_glock_wait versus gfs2_glock_dq_wait in the gfs2/glock.c case). Since first version of this patch (against 3.15) two new action functions appeared, on in NFS and one in CIFS. CIFS also now uses an action function that makes the same freezer aware schedule call as NFS. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (fscache, keys) Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> (gfs2) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051603.28027.72349.stgit@notabene.brown Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-05-14GFS2: remove transaction glockBenjamin Marzinski
GFS2 has a transaction glock, which must be grabbed for every transaction, whose purpose is to deal with freezing the filesystem. Aside from this involving a large amount of locking, it is very easy to make the current fsfreeze code hang on unfreezing. This patch rewrites how gfs2 handles freezing the filesystem. The transaction glock is removed. In it's place is a freeze glock, which is cached (but not held) in a shared state by every node in the cluster when the filesystem is mounted. This lock only needs to be grabbed on freezing, and actions which need to be safe from freezing, like recovery. When a node wants to freeze the filesystem, it grabs this glock exclusively. When the freeze glock state changes on the nodes (either from shared to unlocked, or shared to exclusive), the filesystem does a special log flush. gfs2_log_flush() does all the work for flushing out the and shutting down the incore log, and then it tries to grab the freeze glock in a shared state again. Since the filesystem is stuck in gfs2_log_flush, no new transaction can start, and nothing can be written to disk. Unfreezing the filesytem simply involes dropping the freeze glock, allowing gfs2_log_flush() to grab and then release the shared lock, so it is cached for next time. However, in order for the unfreezing ioctl to occur, gfs2 needs to get a shared lock on the filesystem root directory inode to check permissions. If that glock has already been grabbed exclusively, fsfreeze will be unable to get the shared lock and unfreeze the filesystem. In order to allow the unfreeze, this patch makes gfs2 grab a shared lock on the filesystem root directory during the freeze, and hold it until it unfreezes the filesystem. The functions which need to grab a shared lock in order to allow the unfreeze ioctl to be issued now use the lock grabbed by the freeze code instead. The freeze and unfreeze code take care to make sure that this shared lock will not be dropped while another process is using it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-04-04Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE and COLLAPSE_RANGE fallocate operations, and scalability improvements in the jbd2 layer and in xattr handling when the extended attributes spill over into an external block. Other than that, the usual clean ups and minor bug fixes" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (42 commits) ext4: fix premature freeing of partial clusters split across leaf blocks ext4: remove unneeded test of ret variable ext4: fix comment typo ext4: make ext4_block_zero_page_range static ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags() ext4: optimize Hurd tests when reading/writing inodes ext4: kill i_version support for Hurd-castrated file systems ext4: each filesystem creates and uses its own mb_cache fs/mbcache.c: doucple the locking of local from global data fs/mbcache.c: change block and index hash chain to hlist_bl_node ext4: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate ext4: refactor ext4_fallocate code ext4: Update inode i_size after the preallocation ext4: fix partial cluster handling for bigalloc file systems ext4: delete path dealloc code in ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents ext4: only call sync_filesystm() when remounting read-only fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() jbd2: improve error messages for inconsistent journal heads jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in jbd2_journal_forget() jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in journal_get_create_access() ...
2014-04-04Merge tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw Pull GFS2 updates from Steven Whitehouse: "One of the main highlights this time, is not the patches themselves but instead the widening contributor base. It is good to see that interest is increasing in GFS2, and I'd like to thank all the contributors to this patch set. In addition to the usual set of bug fixes and clean ups, there are patches to improve inode creation performance when xattrs are required and some improvements to the transaction code which is intended to help improve scalability after further changes in due course. Journal extent mapping is also updated to make it more efficient and again, this is a foundation for future work in this area. The maximum number of ACLs has been increased to 300 (for a 4k block size) which means that even with a few additional xattrs from selinux, everything should fit within a single fs block. There is also a patch to bring GFS2's own copy of the writepages code up to the same level as the core VFS. Eventually we may be able to merge some of this code, since it is fairly similar. The other major change this time, is bringing consistency to the printing of messages via fs_<level>, pr_<level> macros" * tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw: (29 commits) GFS2: Fix address space from page function GFS2: Fix uninitialized VFS inode in gfs2_create_inode GFS2: Fix return value in slot_get() GFS2: inline function gfs2_set_mode GFS2: Remove extraneous function gfs2_security_init GFS2: Increase the max number of ACLs GFS2: Re-add a call to log_flush_wait when flushing the journal GFS2: Ensure workqueue is scheduled after noexp request GFS2: check NULL return value in gfs2_ok_to_move GFS2: Convert gfs2_lm_withdraw to use fs_err GFS2: Use fs_<level> more often GFS2: Use pr_<level> more consistently GFS2: Move recovery variables to journal structure in memory GFS2: global conversion to pr_foo() GFS2: return -E2BIG if hit the maximum limits of ACLs GFS2: Clean up journal extent mapping GFS2: replace kmalloc - __vmalloc / memset 0 GFS2: Remove extra "if" in gfs2_log_flush() fs: NULL dereference in posix_acl_to_xattr() GFS2: Move log buffer accounting to transaction ...
2014-04-03mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cacheJohannes Weiner
Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon evicting the real page. As those pages are found from the LRU, an iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently. At this point, reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty. Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets under the tree lock before doing the final truncate. Reclaim will check for this flag before installing shadow pages. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Metin Doslu <metin@citusdata.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Ozgun Erdogan <ozgun@citusdata.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-31GFS2: Fix uninitialized VFS inode in gfs2_create_inodeAbhi Das
When gfs2_create_inode() fails due to quota violation, the VFS inode is not completely uninitialized. This can cause a list corruption error. This patch correctly uninitializes the VFS inode when a quota violation occurs in the gfs2_create_inode codepath. Resolves: rhbz#1059808 Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-03-13fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()Theodore Ts'o
Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied, unconditional syncfs(). This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful, except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting remounted read-only. However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are actually depending on this behavior. In most file systems, it's probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something like romfs). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
2014-03-07GFS2: Use pr_<level> more consistentlyJoe Perches
Add pr_fmt, remove embedded "GFS2: " prefixes. This now consistently emits lower case "gfs2: " for each message. Other miscellanea around these changes: o Add missing newlines o Coalesce formats o Realign arguments Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-03-06GFS2: global conversion to pr_foo()Fabian Frederick
-All printk(KERN_foo converted to pr_foo(). -Messages updated to fit in 80 columns. -fs_macros converted as well. -fs_printk removed. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-03-03GFS2: Clean up journal extent mappingSteven Whitehouse
This patch fixes a long standing issue in mapping the journal extents. Most journals will consist of only a single extent, and although the cache took account of that by merging extents, it did not actually map large extents, but instead was doing a block by block mapping. Since the journal was only being mapped on mount, this was not normally noticeable. With the updated code, it is now possible to use the same extent mapping system during journal recovery (which will be added in a later patch). This will allow checking of the integrity of the journal before any reply of the journal content is attempted. For this reason the code is moving to bmap.c, since it will be used more widely in due course. An exercise left for the reader is to compare the new function gfs2_map_journal_extents() with gfs2_write_alloc_required() Additionally, should there be a failure, the error reporting is also updated to show more detail about what went wrong. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-01-14GFS2: Only run logd and quota when mounted read/writeSteven Whitehouse
While investigating a rather strange bit of code in the quota clean up function, I spotted that the reason for its existence was that when remounting read only, we were not stopping the quotad thread, and thus it was possible for it to still have a reference to some of the quotas in that case. This patch moves the logd and quota thread start and stop into the make_fs_rw/ro functions, so that we now stop those threads when mounted read only. This means that quotad will always be stopped before we call the quota clean up function, and we can thus dispose of the (rather hackish) code that waits for it to give up its reference on the quotas. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
2013-09-27GFS2: Clean up reservation removalSteven Whitehouse
The reservation for an inode should be cleared when it is truncated so that we can start again at a different offset for future allocations. We could try and do better than that, by resetting the search based on where the truncation started from, but this is only a first step. In addition, there are three callers of gfs2_rs_delete() but only one of those should really be testing the value of i_writecount. While we get away with that in the other cases currently, I think it would be better if we made that test specific to the one case which requires it. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-06-03GFS2: Don't cache iopen glocksBob Peterson
This patch makes GFS2 immediately reclaim/delete all iopen glocks as soon as they're dequeued. This allows deleters to get an EXclusive lock on iopen so files are deleted properly instead of being set as unlinked. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-04-08GFS2: Remove vestigial parameter ip from function rs_deltreeBob Peterson
The functions that delete block reservations from the rgrp block reservations rbtree no longer use the ip parameter. This patch eliminates the parameter. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-02-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull user namespace and namespace infrastructure changes from Eric W Biederman: "This set of changes starts with a few small enhnacements to the user namespace. reboot support, allowing more arbitrary mappings, and support for mounting devpts, ramfs, tmpfs, and mqueuefs as just the user namespace root. I do my best to document that if you care about limiting your unprivileged users that when you have the user namespace support enabled you will need to enable memory control groups. There is a minor bug fix to prevent overflowing the stack if someone creates way too many user namespaces. The bulk of the changes are a continuation of the kuid/kgid push down work through the filesystems. These changes make using uids and gids typesafe which ensures that these filesystems are safe to use when multiple user namespaces are in use. The filesystems converted for 3.9 are ceph, 9p, afs, ocfs2, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, nfsd, and cifs. The changes for these filesystems were a little more involved so I split the changes into smaller hopefully obviously correct changes. XFS is the only filesystem that remains. I was hoping I could get that in this release so that user namespace support would be enabled with an allyesconfig or an allmodconfig but it looks like the xfs changes need another couple of days before it they are ready." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (93 commits) cifs: Enable building with user namespaces enabled. cifs: Convert struct cifs_ses to use a kuid_t and a kgid_t cifs: Convert struct cifs_sb_info to use kuids and kgids cifs: Modify struct smb_vol to use kuids and kgids cifs: Convert struct cifsFileInfo to use a kuid cifs: Convert struct cifs_fattr to use kuid and kgids cifs: Convert struct tcon_link to use a kuid. cifs: Modify struct cifs_unix_set_info_args to hold a kuid_t and a kgid_t cifs: Convert from a kuid before printing current_fsuid cifs: Use kuids and kgids SID to uid/gid mapping cifs: Pass GLOBAL_ROOT_UID and GLOBAL_ROOT_GID to keyring_alloc cifs: Use BUILD_BUG_ON to validate uids and gids are the same size cifs: Override unmappable incoming uids and gids nfsd: Enable building with user namespaces enabled. nfsd: Properly compare and initialize kuids and kgids nfsd: Store ex_anon_uid and ex_anon_gid as kuids and kgids nfsd: Modify nfsd4_cb_sec to use kuids and kgids nfsd: Handle kuids and kgids in the nfs4acl to posix_acl conversion nfsd: Convert nfsxdr to use kuids and kgids nfsd: Convert nfs3xdr to use kuids and kgids ...
2013-02-13gfs2: Convert uids and gids between dinodes and vfs inodes.Eric W. Biederman
When reading dinodes from the disk convert uids and gids into kuids and kgids to store in vfs data structures. When writing to dinodes to the disk convert kuids and kgids in the in memory structures into plain uids and gids. For now all on disk data structures are assumed to be stored in the initial user namespace. Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-02-13gfs2: Split NO_QUOTA_CHANGE inot NO_UID_QUTOA_CHANGE and NO_GID_QUTOA_CHANGEEric W. Biederman
Split NO_QUOTA_CHANGE into NO_UID_QUTOA_CHANGE and NO_GID_QUTOA_CHANGE so the constants may be well typed. Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-01-29GFS2: Use ->writepages for ordered writesSteven Whitehouse
Instead of using a list of buffers to write ahead of the journal flush, this now uses a list of inodes and calls ->writepages via filemap_fdatawrite() in order to achieve the same thing. For most use cases this results in a shorter ordered write list, as well as much larger i/os being issued. The ordered write list is sorted by inode number before writing in order to retain the disk block ordering between inodes as per the previous code. The previous ordered write code used to conflict in its assumptions about how to write out the disk blocks with mpage_writepages() so that with this updated version we can also use mpage_writepages() for GFS2's ordered write, writepages implementation. So we will also send larger i/os from writeback too. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-01-29GFS2: Clean up freeze codeSteven Whitehouse
The freeze code has not been looked at a lot recently. Upstream has moved on, and this is an attempt to catch us back up again. There is a vfs level interface for the freeze code which can be called from our (obsolete, but kept for backward compatibility purposes) sysfs freeze interface. This means freezing this way vs. doing it from the ioctl should now work in identical fashion. As a result of this, the freeze function is only called once and we can drop our own special purpose code for counting the number of freezes. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-01-29GFS2: Split gfs2_trans_add_bh() into twoSteven Whitehouse
There is little common content in gfs2_trans_add_bh() between the data and meta classes by the time that the functions which it calls are taken into account. The intent here is to split this into two separate functions. Stage one is to introduce gfs2_trans_add_data() and gfs2_trans_add_meta() and update the callers accordingly. Later patches will then pull in the content of gfs2_trans_add_bh() and its dependent functions in order to clean up the code in this area. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-11-07GFS2: Don't call file_accessed() with a shared glockBenjamin Marzinski
file_accessed() was being called by gfs2_mmap() with a shared glock. If it needed to update the atime, it was crashing because it dirtied the inode in gfs2_dirty_inode() without holding an exclusive lock. gfs2_dirty_inode() checked if the caller was already holding a glock, but it didn't make sure that the glock was in the exclusive state. Now, instead of calling file_accessed() while holding the shared lock in gfs2_mmap(), file_accessed() is called after grabbing and releasing the glock to update the inode. If file_accessed() needs to update the atime, it will grab an exclusive lock in gfs2_dirty_inode(). gfs2_dirty_inode() now also checks to make sure that if the calling process has already locked the glock, it has an exclusive lock. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1. A lot of activities this round including considerable API and behavior cleanups. * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item. The handling of the timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors. delayed_work is updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as expected. * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded timer+work usages. mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added. These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface and behave like timer which is executed with process context. * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and half-broken under certain circumstances. This problem doesn't exist for non-reentrant workqueues. While non-reentrancy check isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario the overhead isn't too high. All workqueues are made non-reentrant. This removes the distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and flush_[delayed_]_work_sync(). The former is now as strong as the latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished execution of any previous queueing on return. * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU hotplug handling significantly. * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU hotplug. There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them." Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts. Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more. * 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits) workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active() workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues() workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight() workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback() workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work() workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync() ...
2012-09-24GFS2: Write out dirty inode metadata in delayed deletesBenjamin Marzinski
If a dirty GFS2 inode was being deleted but was in use by another node, its metadata was not getting written out before GFS2 checked for dirty buffers in gfs2_ail_flush(). GFS2 was relying on inode_go_sync() to write out the metadata when the other node tried to free the file, but it failed the error check before it got that far. This patch writes out the metadata before calling gfs2_ail_flush() Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-09-24GFS2: Fix ->show_options() for statfs slowSteven Whitehouse
The ->show_options() function for GFS2 was not correctly displaying the value when statfs slow in in use. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Reported-by: Milos Jakubicek <xjakub@fi.muni.cz>
2012-09-24GFS2: Add structure to contain rgrp, bitmap, offset tupleSteven Whitehouse
This patch introduces a new structure, gfs2_rbm, which is a tuple of a resource group, a bitmap within the resource group and an offset within that bitmap. This is designed to make manipulating these sets of variables easier. There is also a new helper function which converts this representation back to a disk block address. In addition, the rbtree nodes which are used for the reservations were not being correctly initialised, which is now fixed. Also, the tracing was not passing through the inode where it should have been. That is mostly fixed aside from one corner case. This needs to be revisited since there can also be a NULL rgrp in some cases which results in the device being incorrect in the trace. This is intended to be the first step towards cleaning up some of the allocation code, and some further bug fixes. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-08-20workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()Tejun Heo
flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious. Mark them deprecated and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work(). If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to use the sync flushes at all and they're going away. This patch doesn't make any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Cc: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> Cc: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-07-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmwLinus Torvalds
Pull GFS2 updates from Steven Whitehouse. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw: GFS2: Eliminate 64-bit divides GFS2: Reduce file fragmentation GFS2: kernel panic with small gfs2 filesystems - 1 RG GFS2: Fixing double brelse'ing bh allocated in gfs2_meta_read when EIO occurs GFS2: Combine functions get_local_rgrp and gfs2_inplace_reserve GFS2: Add kobject release method GFS2: Size seq_file buffer more carefully GFS2: Use seq_vprintf for glocks debugfs file seq_file: Add seq_vprintf function and export it GFS2: Use lvbs for storing rgrp information with mount option GFS2: Cache last hash bucket for glock seq_files GFS2: Increase buffer size for glocks and glstats debugfs files GFS2: Fix error handling when reading an invalid block from the journal GFS2: Add "top dir" flag support GFS2: Fold quota data into the reservations struct GFS2: Extend the life of the reservations
2012-07-22quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs methodJan Kara
Since the moment writes to quota files are using block device page cache and space for quota structures is reserved at the moment they are first accessed we have no reason to sync quota before inode writeback. In fact this order is now only harmful since quota information can easily change during inode writeback (either because conversion of delayed-allocated extents or simply because of allocation of new blocks for simple filesystems not using page_mkwrite). So move syncing of quota information after writeback of inodes into ->sync_fs method. This way we do not have to use ->quota_sync callback which is primarily intended for use by quotactl syscall anyway and we get rid of calling ->sync_fs() twice unnecessarily. We skip quota syncing for OCFS2 since it does proper quota journalling in all cases (unlike ext3, ext4, and reiserfs which also support legacy non-journalled quotas) and thus there are no dirty quota structures. CC: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> CC: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> CC: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing partJan Kara
Split off part of dquot_quota_sync() which writes dquots into a quota file to a separate function. In the next patch we will use the function from filesystems and we do not want to abuse ->quota_sync quotactl callback more than necessary. Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-19GFS2: Reduce file fragmentationBob Peterson
This patch reduces GFS2 file fragmentation by pre-reserving blocks. The resulting improved on disk layout greatly speeds up operations in cases which would have resulted in interlaced allocation of blocks previously. A typical example of this is 10 parallel dd processes, each writing to a file in a common dirctory. The implementation uses an rbtree of reservations attached to each resource group (and each inode). Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-06-08GFS2: Use lvbs for storing rgrp information with mount optionBenjamin Marzinski
Instead of reading in the resource groups when gfs2 is checking for free space to allocate from, gfs2 can store the necessary infromation in the resource group's lvb. Also, instead of searching for unlinked inodes in every resource group that's checked for free space, gfs2 can store the number of unlinked but inodes in the lvb, and only check for unlinked inodes if it will find some. The first time a resource group is locked, the lvb must initialized. Since this involves counting the unlinked inodes in the resource group, this takes a little extra time. But after that, if the resource group is locked with GL_SKIP, the buffer head won't be read in unless it's actually needed. Enabling the resource groups lvbs is done via the rgrplvb mount option. If this option isn't set, the lvbs will still be set and updated, but they won't be verfied or used by the filesystem. To safely turn on this option, all of the nodes mounting the filesystem must be running code with this patch, and the filesystem must have been completely unmounted since they were updated. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-06-06GFS2: Fold quota data into the reservations structBob Peterson
This patch moves the ancillary quota data structures into the block reservations structure. This saves GFS2 some time and effort in allocating and deallocating the qadata structure. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-06-06GFS2: Extend the life of the reservationsBob Peterson
This patch lengthens the lifespan of the reservations structure for inodes. Before, they were allocated and deallocated for every write operation. With this patch, they are allocated when the first write occurs, and deallocated when the last process closes the file. It's more efficient to do it this way because it saves GFS2 a lot of unnecessary allocates and frees. It also gives us more flexibility for the future: (1) we can now fold the qadata structure back into the structure and save those alloc/frees, (2) we can use this for multi-block reservations. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-05-06vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()Jan Kara
After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode() which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-03-07GFS2: Flush pending glock work when evicting an inodeSteven Whitehouse
This ensures that we will not try to access the inode thats being flushed via the glock after it has been freed. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-02-28GFS2: FITRIM ioctl supportSteven Whitehouse
The FITRIM ioctl provides an alternative way to send discard requests to the underlying device. Using the discard mount option results in every freed block generating a discard request to the block device. This can be slow, since many block devices can only process discard requests of larger sizes, and also such operations can be time consuming. Rather than using the discard mount option, FITRIM allows a sweep of the filesystem on an occasional basis, and also to optionally avoid sending down discard requests for smaller regions. In GFS2 FITRIM will work at resource group granularity. There is a flag for each resource group which keeps track of which resource groups have been trimmed. This flag is reset whenever a deallocation occurs in the resource group, and set whenever a successful FITRIM of that resource group has taken place. This helps to reduce repeated discard requests for the same block ranges, again improving performance. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>