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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:20:54 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: remove vestiges of nobh support
The nobh option was only supported for writeback mode, but given that all
write paths actually create buffer heads it effectively was a no-op already.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/ext4.h 2010-06-07 09:51:34.661025144 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4.h 2010-06-07 09:51:41.198255687 +0200
@@ -873,7 +873,6 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
#define EXT4_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL 0x08000 /* POSIX Access Control Lists */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_NO_AUTO_DA_ALLOC 0x10000 /* No auto delalloc mapping */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_BARRIER 0x20000 /* Use block barriers */
-#define EXT4_MOUNT_NOBH 0x40000 /* No bufferheads */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_QUOTA 0x80000 /* Some quota option set */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_USRQUOTA 0x100000 /* "old" user quota */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_GRPQUOTA 0x200000 /* "old" group quota */
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h 2010-06-07 09:49:29.688025631 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h 2010-06-07 09:51:28.450657504 +0200
@@ -308,17 +308,15 @@ static inline int ext4_should_writeback_
* This function controls whether or not we should try to go down the
* dioread_nolock code paths, which makes it safe to avoid taking
* i_mutex for direct I/O reads. This only works for extent-based
- * files, and it doesn't work for nobh or if data journaling is
- * enabled, since the dioread_nolock code uses b_private to pass
- * information back to the I/O completion handler, and this conflicts
- * with the jbd's use of b_private.
+ * files, and it doesn't work if data journaling is enabled, since the
+ * dioread_nolock code uses b_private to pass information back to the
+ * I/O completion handler, and this conflicts with the jbd's use of
+ * b_private.
*/
static inline int ext4_should_dioread_nolock(struct inode *inode)
{
if (!test_opt(inode->i_sb, DIOREAD_NOLOCK))
return 0;
- if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH))
- return 0;
if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
return 0;
if (!(ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c 2010-06-07 09:50:05.392262188 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/inode.c 2010-06-07 09:51:10.154255343 +0200
@@ -2553,18 +2553,16 @@ static int ext4_da_get_block_prep(struct
/*
* This function is used as a standard get_block_t calback function
* when there is no desire to allocate any blocks. It is used as a
- * callback function for block_prepare_write(), nobh_writepage(), and
- * block_write_full_page(). These functions should only try to map a
- * single block at a time.
+ * callback function for block_prepare_write() and block_write_full_page().
+ * These functions should only try to map a single block at a time.
*
* Since this function doesn't do block allocations even if the caller
* requests it by passing in create=1, it is critically important that
* any caller checks to make sure that any buffer heads are returned
* by this function are either all already mapped or marked for
- * delayed allocation before calling nobh_writepage() or
- * block_write_full_page(). Otherwise, b_blocknr could be left
- * unitialized, and the page write functions will be taken by
- * surprise.
+ * delayed allocation before calling block_write_full_page(). Otherwise,
+ * b_blocknr could be left unitialized, and the page write functions will
+ * be taken by surprise.
*/
static int noalloc_get_block_write(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create)
@@ -2749,9 +2747,7 @@ static int ext4_writepage(struct page *p
return __ext4_journalled_writepage(page, len);
}
- if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && ext4_should_writeback_data(inode))
- ret = nobh_writepage(page, noalloc_get_block_write, wbc);
- else if (page_bufs && buffer_uninit(page_bufs)) {
+ if (page_bufs && buffer_uninit(page_bufs)) {
ext4_set_bh_endio(page_bufs, inode);
ret = block_write_full_page_endio(page, noalloc_get_block_write,
wbc, ext4_end_io_buffer_write);
@@ -4128,17 +4124,6 @@ int ext4_block_truncate_page(handle_t *h
length = blocksize - (offset & (blocksize - 1));
iblock = index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits);
- /*
- * For "nobh" option, we can only work if we don't need to
- * read-in the page - otherwise we create buffers to do the IO.
- */
- if (!page_has_buffers(page) && test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) &&
- ext4_should_writeback_data(inode) && PageUptodate(page)) {
- zero_user(page, offset, length);
- set_page_dirty(page);
- goto unlock;
- }
-
if (!page_has_buffers(page))
create_empty_buffers(page, blocksize, 0);
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/super.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/super.c 2010-06-07 09:51:46.013275620 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/super.c 2010-06-07 09:53:17.975255390 +0200
@@ -946,8 +946,6 @@ static int ext4_show_options(struct seq_
seq_puts(seq, ",journal_async_commit");
else if (test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_CHECKSUM))
seq_puts(seq, ",journal_checksum");
- if (test_opt(sb, NOBH))
- seq_puts(seq, ",nobh");
if (test_opt(sb, I_VERSION))
seq_puts(seq, ",i_version");
if (!test_opt(sb, DELALLOC))
@@ -1624,10 +1622,12 @@ set_qf_format:
*n_blocks_count = option;
break;
case Opt_nobh:
- set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH);
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING,
+ "Ignoring deprecated nobh option");
break;
case Opt_bh:
- clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH);
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING,
+ "Ignoring deprecated bh option");
break;
case Opt_i_version:
set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, I_VERSION);
@@ -2912,18 +2912,7 @@ no_journal:
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "insufficient memory");
goto failed_mount_wq;
}
- if (test_opt(sb, NOBH)) {
- if (!(test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_WRITEBACK_DATA)) {
- ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, "Ignoring nobh option - "
- "its supported only with writeback mode");
- clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH);
- }
- if (test_opt(sb, DIOREAD_NOLOCK)) {
- ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, "dioread_nolock option is "
- "not supported with nobh mode");
- goto failed_mount_wq;
- }
- }
+
EXT4_SB(sb)->dio_unwritten_wq = create_workqueue("ext4-dio-unwritten");
if (!EXT4_SB(sb)->dio_unwritten_wq) {
printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: failed to create DIO workqueue\n");
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