linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Add support for data=alloc_on

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:12:15 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Add support for data=alloc_on_commit mode

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:19:58PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Add an ext3 bug-for-bug compatible analogue for data=ordered mode.  In
> > this mode, we force all delayed allocation blocks involved with the
> > to-be-commited transaction to be allocated, and then flushed out to
> > disk before the transaction is commited.
> > 
> 
> Wouldn't this cause a deadlock ? We want to commit a transaction because
> we don't have enough journal space (via journal_start) and now that would cause block
> allocation which would do another journal_start()
  Yes, that's exactly what I think. We cannot start a transaction while
committing another transaction. Also you must put the block allocation
into the transaction you're going to commit because of data consistency
guarantees.
  So if you want to do "alloc on commit" you have to reserve enough
credits to the running transaction at the "block reservation" time and
then use them for allocation at commit time. But this gets complex
because the number of needed credits is hard to estimate (we don't know how
many bitmaps / group descriptors we're going to modify). I'm not yet
sure how to solve this problem...

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html