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Stefan Tauner
736c24e62e Documentation: ext4.rst: remove obsolete descriptions of noacl/nouser_xattr options
These have been deprecated for a decade[1] and removed two years ago[2].
1: f70486055e
2: 2d544ec923

Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@gmx.at>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240728003433.2566649-1-stefan.tauner@gmx.at
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2024-08-26 23:40:06 -04:00
Ojaswin Mujoo
361eb69fc9 ext4: Remove the logic to trim inode PAs
Earlier, inode PAs were stored in a linked list. This caused a need to
periodically trim the list down inorder to avoid growing it to a very
large size, as this would severly affect performance during list
iteration.

Recent patches changed this list to an rbtree, and since the tree scales
up much better, we no longer need to have the trim functionality, hence
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c409addceaa3ade4b40328e28e3b54b2f259689e.1679731817.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2023-04-06 01:13:13 -04:00
Kir Kolyshkin
a9edc03f13 docs: fix a cross-ref
Commit acda97acb2 changes dax.txt to dax.rst.
Fix the references accordingly.

Cc: Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <igormtorrente@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611030044.1982911-4-kolyshkin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-13 17:02:46 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
d723b99ec9 Improvements to ext4's block allocator performance for very large file
systems, especially when the file system or files which are highly
 fragmented.  There is a new mount option, prefetch_block_bitmaps which
 will pull in the block bitmaps and set up the in-memory buddy bitmaps
 when the file system is initially mounted.
 
 Beyond that, a lot of bug fixes and cleanups.  In particular, a number
 of changes to make ext4 more robust in the face of write errors or
 file system corruptions.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Improvements to ext4's block allocator performance for very large file
  systems, especially when the file system or files which are highly
  fragmented. There is a new mount option, prefetch_block_bitmaps which
  will pull in the block bitmaps and set up the in-memory buddy bitmaps
  when the file system is initially mounted.

  Beyond that, a lot of bug fixes and cleanups. In particular, a number
  of changes to make ext4 more robust in the face of write errors or
  file system corruptions"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (46 commits)
  ext4: limit the length of per-inode prealloc list
  ext4: reorganize if statement of ext4_mb_release_context()
  ext4: add mb_debug logging when there are lost chunks
  ext4: Fix comment typo "the the".
  jbd2: clean up checksum verification in do_one_pass()
  ext4: change to use fallthrough macro
  ext4: remove unused parameter of ext4_generic_delete_entry function
  mballoc: replace seq_printf with seq_puts
  ext4: optimize the implementation of ext4_mb_good_group()
  ext4: delete invalid comments near ext4_mb_check_limits()
  ext4: fix typos in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() comment
  ext4: fix checking of directory entry validity for inline directories
  fs: prevent BUG_ON in submit_bh_wbc()
  ext4: correctly restore system zone info when remount fails
  ext4: handle add_system_zone() failure in ext4_setup_system_zone()
  ext4: fold ext4_data_block_valid_rcu() into the caller
  ext4: check journal inode extents more carefully
  ext4: don't allow overlapping system zones
  ext4: handle error of ext4_setup_system_zone() on remount
  ext4: delete the invalid BUGON in ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp()
  ...
2020-08-21 11:03:38 -07:00
brookxu
27bc446e2d ext4: limit the length of per-inode prealloc list
In the scenario of writing sparse files, the per-inode prealloc list may
be very long, resulting in high overhead for ext4_mb_use_preallocated().
To circumvent this problem, we limit the maximum length of per-inode
prealloc list to 512 and allow users to modify it.

After patching, we observed that the sys ratio of cpu has dropped, and
the system throughput has increased significantly. We created a process
to write the sparse file, and the running time of the process on the
fixed kernel was significantly reduced, as follows:

Running time on unfixed kernel:
[root@TENCENT64 ~]# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat
real    0m2.051s
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m2.026s

Running time on fixed kernel:
[root@TENCENT64 ~]# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat
real    0m0.471s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.395s

Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <brookxu@tencent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d7a98178-056b-6db5-6bce-4ead23f4a257@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-19 12:04:36 -04:00
Eric Biggers
cb29a02d3a ext4: use generic names for generic ioctls
Don't define EXT4_IOC_* aliases to ioctls that already have a generic
FS_IOC_* name.  These aliases are unnecessary, and they make it unclear
which ioctls are ext4-specific and which are generic.

Exception: leave EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION_OLD and EXT4_IOC_SETVERSION_OLD
as-is for now, since renaming them to FS_IOC_GETVERSION and
FS_IOC_SETVERSION would probably make them more likely to be confused
with EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION and EXT4_IOC_SETVERSION which also exist.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200714230909.56349-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06 01:35:05 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
2324d50d05 It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come.  Changes include:
 
  - Some new Chinese translations
 
  - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs
 
  - Some block-mq documentation
 
  - More RST conversions from Mauro.  At this point, that task is
    essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a
    while.  Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:)
 
  - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...
2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
Eric Biggers
4f74d15fe4 ext4: add inline encryption support
Wire up ext4 to support inline encryption via the helper functions which
fs/crypto/ now provides.  This includes:

- Adding a mount option 'inlinecrypt' which enables inline encryption
  on encrypted files where it can be used.

- Setting the bio_crypt_ctx on bios that will be submitted to an
  inline-encrypted file.

  Note: submit_bh_wbc() in fs/buffer.c also needed to be patched for
  this part, since ext4 sometimes uses ll_rw_block() on file data.

- Not adding logically discontiguous data to bios that will be submitted
  to an inline-encrypted file.

- Not doing filesystem-layer crypto on inline-encrypted files.

Co-developed-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200702015607.1215430-5-satyat@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2020-07-08 10:29:43 -07:00
Alexander A. Klimov
6b2484e13a Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/admin-guide
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
  If not .svg:
    For each line:
      If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
        For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
          If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
          return 200 OK and serve the same content:
            Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200627072935.62652-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-05 14:13:00 -06:00
Eric Biggers
2fdff4c843 docs: ext4.rst: add encryption and verity to features list
Mention encryption and verity in the ext4 features list.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191226154007.4569-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-01-17 16:24:53 -05:00
Jan Kara
23f6b02405 ext4: clarify impact of 'commit' mount option
The description of 'commit' mount option dates back to ext3 times.
Update the description to match current meaning for ext4.

Reported-by: Paul Richards <paul.richards@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218111210.14161-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2019-12-21 21:36:53 -05:00
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
0a790fe438 docs: ext4.rst: document case-insensitive directories
Introduces the case-insensitive features on ext4 for system
administrators.  Explain the minimum of design decisions that are
important for sysadmins wanting to enable this feature.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2019-04-25 14:13:27 -04:00
Darrick J. Wong
d309121592 docs: move ext4 administrative docs to admin-guide/
Move the ext4 mount option and other administrative stuff to the Linux
administrator's guide.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2018-10-05 19:11:59 -04:00