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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:25:57 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ext4: remove block bitmap initialization in ext4_new_inode()
On 2012-01-14, at 11:41, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On 2012-01-13, at 2:30 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>>> We don't need to initialize the block bitmap when we allocate a new
>>> inode.
>>
>> The reason the block bitmap is initialized when an inode is allocated
>> in that group is to indicate that the inode bitmap is in use, and the
>> inode table blocks are also in use.
>
> but the inode table blocks will not be from this block group when flex_bg
> is used and if it's the first group of a flex_bg group, then it's bitmaps
> are already initialized by mkfs/resize.
In that case the code could detect that the bitmap covering the inode bitmap and inode table is already initialized and not do anything.
>>> This is old code from the very early days that is just
>>> confusing things, and also has the problem of modifying the block
>>> group descriptor without obeying the ext4_journal_get_write_access() /
>>> ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() modification protocols.
>>
>> The group descriptor was already modified earlier on when the inode was
>> being allocated from the group, so the group descriptor block was already
>> accounted for in the transaction credits after "repeat_in_this_group:"
>>
>> repeat_in_this_group:
>> ino = ext4_find_next_zero_bit((unsigned long *)
>> inode_bitmap_bh->b_data,
>> EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb), ino);
>>
>> if (ino < EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb)) {
>>
>> BUFFER_TRACE(inode_bitmap_bh, "get_write_access");
>> err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle,
>> inode_bitmap_bh);
>> if (err)
>> goto fail;
>>
>> BUFFER_TRACE(group_desc_bh, "get_write_access");
>> *****>>>>> err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle,
>> group_desc_bh);
>>
>> That is why ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() isn't called until after the group
>> descriptor is modified during the block bitmap initialization.
>>
>>
>> I'm not wholly against removing this code, but we have to do it with the
>> clear understanding that we will have inodes in use for which the block
>> bitmap is showing that the in-use blocks are free. This doesn't seem like
>> a great situation to me.
>>
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
>>> ---
>>> fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 31 -------------------------------
>>> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
>>> index 72fc989..a4ce10f 100644
>>> --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
>>> +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
>>> @@ -807,37 +807,6 @@ repeat_in_this_group:
>>> goto out;
>>>
>>> got:
>>> - /* We may have to initialize the block bitmap if it isn't already */
>>> - if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM) &&
>>> - gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
>>> - struct buffer_head *block_bitmap_bh;
>>> -
>>> - block_bitmap_bh = ext4_read_block_bitmap(sb, group);
>>> - BUFFER_TRACE(block_bitmap_bh, "get block bitmap access");
>>> - err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, block_bitmap_bh);
>>> - if (err) {
>>> - brelse(block_bitmap_bh);
>>> - goto fail;
>>> - }
>>> -
>>> - BUFFER_TRACE(block_bitmap_bh, "dirty block bitmap");
>>> - err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, NULL, block_bitmap_bh);
>>> - brelse(block_bitmap_bh);
>>> -
>>> - /* recheck and clear flag under lock if we still need to */
>>> - ext4_lock_group(sb, group);
>>> - if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
>>> - gdp->bg_flags &= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT);
>>> - ext4_free_group_clusters_set(sb, gdp,
>>> - ext4_free_clusters_after_init(sb, group, gdp));
>>> - gdp->bg_checksum = ext4_group_desc_csum(sbi, group,
>>> - gdp);
>>> - }
>>> - ext4_unlock_group(sb, group);
>>> -
>>> - if (err)
>>> - goto fail;
>>> - }
>>> BUFFER_TRACE(group_desc_bh, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
>>> err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, NULL, group_desc_bh);
>>> if (err)
>>> --
>>> 1.7.8.11.gefc1f.dirty
>>>
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>>
>>
>> Cheers, Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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