Commit 196e402adf ("ext4: improve cr 0 / cr 1 group scanning") introduces
the sysfs control interface "mb_max_linear_groups" to address the problem
that rotational devices performance degrades when the "mb_optimize_scan"
feature is enabled, which may result in distant block group allocation.
However, the name of the interface was incorrect in the comment to the
ext4/mballoc.c file, and this patch fixes it, without further changes.
Signed-off-by: Zizhi Wo <wozizhi@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250224012005.689549-1-wozizhi@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
In __jbd2_journal_erase(), the block_stop parameter includes the last
block of a contiguous region; however, the calculation of byte_stop is
incorrect, as it does not account for the bytes in that last block.
Consequently, the page cache is not cleared properly, which occasionally
causes the ext4/050 test to fail.
Since block_stop operates on inclusion semantics, it involves repeated
increments and decrements by 1, significantly increasing the complexity
of the calculations. Optimize the calculation and fix the incorrect
byte_stop by make both block_stop and byte_stop to use exclusion
semantics.
This fixes a failure in fstests ext4/050.
Fixes: 01d5d96542 ("ext4: add discard/zeroout flags to journal flush")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250217065955.3829229-1-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Otherwise, if ext4_inode_attach_jinode() fails, a hung task will
happen because filemap_invalidate_unlock() isn't called to unlock
mapping->invalidate_lock. Like this:
EXT4-fs error (device sda) in ext4_setattr:5557: Out of memory
INFO: task fsstress:374 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-next-20250206-xfstests-dirty #726
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:fsstress state:D stack:0 pid:374 tgid:374 ppid:373
task_flags:0x440140 flags:0x00000000
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x2c9/0x7f0
schedule+0x27/0xa0
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30
rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x278/0x4c0
down_read+0x59/0xb0
page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x65/0x1b0
filemap_get_pages+0x124/0x3e0
filemap_read+0x114/0x3d0
vfs_read+0x297/0x360
ksys_read+0x6c/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Fixes: c7fc0366c6 ("ext4: partial zero eof block on unaligned inode size extension")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250213112247.3168709-1-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Since commit f2b4fa1964 ("ext4: switch to using the crc32c library"),
ext4_has_metadata_csum() is just an alias for
ext4_has_feature_metadata_csum(). ext4_has_feature_metadata_csum() is
generated by EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_FUNCS and uses the regular naming
convention for checking a single ext4 feature. Therefore, remove
ext4_has_metadata_csum() and update all its callers to use
ext4_has_feature_metadata_csum() directly.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250207031335.42637-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
If a journal is wiped, we will set journal->j_tail to 0. However if
'write' argument is not set (as it happens for read-only device or for
ocfs2), the on-disk superblock is not updated accordingly and thus
jbd2_journal_recover() cat try to recover the wiped journal. Fix the
check in jbd2_journal_recover() to use journal->j_tail for checking
empty journal instead.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250206094657.20865-4-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Now, if dmesg is cleared, we have no way of knowing if the file system has
been shutdown. Moreover, ext4 allows directory reads even after the file
system has been shutdown, so when reading a file returns -EIO, we cannot
determine whether this is a hardware issue or if the file system has been
shutdown.
Therefore, when ext4 file system is shutdown, we're adding a 'shutdown'
hint to commands like mount so users can easily check the file system's
status.
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250122114130.229709-8-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
After commit d3476f3dad ("ext4: don't set SB_RDONLY after filesystem
errors") in v6.12-rc1, the 'errors=remount-ro' mode no longer sets
SB_RDONLY on errors, which results in us seeing the filesystem is still
in rw state after errors.
Therefore, after setting EXT4_FLAGS_EMERGENCY_RO, display the emergency_ro
option so that users can query whether the current file system has become
emergency read-only due to errors through commands such as 'mount' or
'cat /proc/fs/ext4/sdx/options'.
Fixes: d3476f3dad ("ext4: don't set SB_RDONLY after filesystem errors")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250122114130.229709-7-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Since both SHUTDOWN and EMERGENCY_RO are emergency states of the ext4 file
system, and they are checked in similar locations, we have added a helper
function, ext4_emergency_state(), to determine whether the current file
system is in one of these two emergency states.
Then, replace calls to ext4_forced_shutdown() with ext4_emergency_state()
in those functions that could potentially trigger write operations.
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250122114130.229709-4-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
EXT4_FLAGS_EMERGENCY_RO Indicates that the current file system has become
read-only due to some error. Compared to SB_RDONLY, setting it does not
require a lock because we won't clear it, which avoids over-coupling with
vfs freeze. Also, add a helper function ext4_emergency_ro() to check if
the bit is set.
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250122114130.229709-3-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
We now print error messages in ext4_end_bio() when page writeback
encounters an error. If data_err=abort is set, the journal will also
be aborted in a kworker. This means that we now check all Buffer I/O
in all modes and decide whether to abort the journal based on the
data_err option. Therefore, we remove the ordered mode restriction
in the descriptions of data_err=abort and data_err=ignore.
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250122110533.4116662-8-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
The data_err=abort was initially introduced to address users' worries
about data corruption spreading unnoticed. With direct writes, we can
rely on return values to confirm successful writes to disk. But with
buffered writes, a successful return only means the data has been written
to memory. Users have no way of knowing if the data has actually written
it to disk unless they use fsync (which impacts performance and can
sometimes miss errors).
The current data_err=abort implementation relies on the ordered data list,
but past changes have inadvertently altered its behavior. For example, if
an extent is unwritten, we do not add the inode to the ordered data list.
Therefore, jbd2 will not wait for the data write-back of that inode to
complete and check for errors in the inode mapping. Moreover, the checks
performed by jbd2 can also miss errors.
Now, all buffered writes eventually call ext4_end_bio(), where I/O errors
are checked. Therefore, we can check for the data_err=abort mode at this
point and abort the journal in a kworker (due to the interrupt context).
Therefore, when data_err=abort is enabled, the journal is aborted in
ext4_end_io_end() when an I/O error is detected in ext4_end_bio() to make
users who are concerned about the contents of the file happy.
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c7ab26f3-85ad-4b31-b132-0afb0e07bf79@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250122110533.4116662-6-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
When dioread_nolock is turned on (the default), it will convert unwritten
extents to written at ext4_end_io_end(), even if the data writeback fails.
It leads to the possibility that stale data may be exposed when the
physical block corresponding to the file data is read-only (i.e., writes
return -EIO, but reads are normal).
Therefore a new ext4_io_end->flags EXT4_IO_END_FAILED is added, which
indicates that some bio write-back failed in the current ext4_io_end.
When this flag is set, the unwritten to written conversion is no longer
performed. Users can read the data normally until the caches are dropped,
after that, the failed extents can only be read to all 0.
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250122110533.4116662-3-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch addresses an issue where some files in case-insensitive
directories become inaccessible due to changes in how the kernel
function, utf8_casefold(), generates case-folded strings from the
commit 5c26d2f1d3 ("unicode: Don't special case ignorable code
points").
There are good reasons why this change should be made; it's actually
quite stupid that Unicode seems to think that the characters ❤ and ❤️
should be casefolded. Unfortimately because of the backwards
compatibility issue, this commit was reverted in 231825b2e1.
This problem is addressed by instituting a brute-force linear fallback
if a lookup fails on case-folded directory, which does result in a
performance hit when looking up files affected by the changing how
thekernel treats ignorable Uniode characters, or when attempting to
look up non-existent file names. So this fallback can be disabled by
setting an encoding flag if in the future, the system administrator or
the manufacturer of a mobile handset or tablet can be sure that there
was no opportunity for a kernel to insert file names with incompatible
encodings.
Fixes: 5c26d2f1d3 ("unicode: Don't special case ignorable code points")
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
Currently, all zeroing ranges, punch holes, collapse ranges, and insert
ranges first wait for all existing direct I/O workers to complete, and
then they acquire the mapping's invalidate lock before performing the
actual work. These common components are nearly identical, so we can
simplify the code by factoring them out into the ext4_fallocate().
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241220011637.1157197-11-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Simplify ext4_insert_range() and align its code style with that of
ext4_collapse_range(). Refactor it by: a) renaming variables, b)
removing redundant input parameter checks and moving the remaining
checks under i_rwsem in preparation for future refactoring, and c)
renaming the three stale error tags.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241220011637.1157197-8-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
