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Anton Altaparmakov
bfab36e816 NTFS: Fix a mount time deadlock.
Big thanks go to Mathias Kolehmainen for reporting the bug, providing
debug output and testing the patches I sent him to get it working.

The fix was to stop calling ntfs_attr_set() at mount time as that causes
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() to be called which on systems with
little memory actually tries to go and balance the dirty pages which tries
to take the s_umount semaphore but because we are still in fill_super()
across which the VFS holds s_umount for writing this results in a
deadlock.

We now do the dirty work by hand by submitting individual buffers.  This
has the annoying "feature" that mounting can take a few seconds if the
journal is large as we have clear it all.  One day someone should improve
on this by deferring the journal clearing to a helper kernel thread so it
can be done in the background but I don't have time for this at the moment
and the current solution works fine so I am leaving it like this for now.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-12 09:16:30 -07:00
Matt LaPlante
a982ac06b0 misc doc and kconfig typos
Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 08:58:15 +02:00
Anton Altaparmakov
8331191e56 NTFS: 2.1.28 - Fix deadlock reported by Sergey Vlasov due to ntfs_put_inode().
- Fix deadlock in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode().  Thanks to Sergey
  Vlasov for the report and detailed analysis of the deadlock.  The fix
  involved getting rid of ntfs_put_inode() altogether and hence NTFS no
  longer has a ->put_inode super operation.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2007-01-18 09:42:48 +00:00
Matt LaPlante
5d3f083d8f Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
Matt LaPlante
fa00e7e152 Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T''
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
+words starting with the letter 'T'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 04:55:36 +01:00
Matt LaPlante
2fe0ae78c6 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:50:39 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
fff9289b21 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
Anton Altaparmakov
e750d1c7cc NTFS: 2.1.27 - Various bug fixes and cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 17:04:12 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
1cf3109ffb NTFS: Do more detailed reporting of why we cannot mount read-write by
special casing the VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK flag.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-02-24 10:48:14 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
98b270362b NTFS: The big ntfs write(2) rewrite has arrived. We now implement our own
file operations ->write(), ->aio_write(), and ->writev() for regular
      files.  This replaces the old use of generic_file_write(), et al and
      the address space operations ->prepare_write and ->commit_write.
      This means that both sparse and non-sparse (unencrypted and
      uncompressed) files can now be extended using the normal write(2)
      code path.  There are two limitations at present and these are that
      we never create sparse files and that we only have limited support
      for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones whose data attribute is split
      across multiple extents.   When such a case is encountered,
      EOPNOTSUPP is returned.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-10-11 15:40:40 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
7d333d6c73 NTFS: 2.1.24 release and some minor final fixes.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-09-08 23:01:16 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
ba6d2377c8 NTFS: Fix a nasty deadlock that appeared in recent kernels.
The situation: VFS inode X on a mounted ntfs volume is dirty.  For
      same inode X, the ntfs_inode is dirty and thus corresponding on-disk
      inode, i.e. mft record, which is in a dirty PAGE_CACHE_PAGE belonging
      to the table of inodes, i.e. $MFT, inode 0.
      What happens:
      Process 1: sys_sync()/umount()/whatever...  calls
      __sync_single_inode() for $MFT -> do_writepages() -> write_page for
      the dirty page containing the on-disk inode X, the page is now locked
      -> ntfs_write_mst_block() which clears PageUptodate() on the page to
      prevent anyone else getting hold of it whilst it does the write out.
      This is necessary as the on-disk inode needs "fixups" applied before
      the write to disk which are removed again after the write and
      PageUptodate is then set again.  It then analyses the page looking
      for dirty on-disk inodes and when it finds one it calls
      ntfs_may_write_mft_record() to see if it is safe to write this
      on-disk inode.  This then calls ilookup5() to check if the
      corresponding VFS inode is in icache().  This in turn calls ifind()
      which waits on the inode lock via wait_on_inode whilst holding the
      global inode_lock.
      Process 2: pdflush results in a call to __sync_single_inode for the
      same VFS inode X on the ntfs volume.  This locks the inode (I_LOCK)
      then calls write-inode -> ntfs_write_inode -> map_mft_record() ->
      read_cache_page() for the page (in page cache of table of inodes
      $MFT, inode 0) containing the on-disk inode.  This page has
      PageUptodate() clear because of Process 1 (see above) so
      read_cache_page() blocks when it tries to take the page lock for the
      page so it can call ntfs_read_page().
      Thus Process 1 is holding the page lock on the page containing the
      on-disk inode X and it is waiting on the inode X to be unlocked in
      ifind() so it can write the page out and then unlock the page.
      And Process 2 is holding the inode lock on inode X and is waiting for
      the page to be unlocked so it can call ntfs_readpage() or discover
      that Process 1 set PageUptodate() again and use the page.
      Thus we have a deadlock due to ifind() waiting on the inode lock.
      The solution: The fix is to use the newly introduced
      ilookup5_nowait() which does not wait on the inode's lock and hence
      avoids the deadlock.  This is safe as we do not care about the VFS
      inode and only use the fact that it is in the VFS inode cache and the
      fact that the vfs and ntfs inodes are one struct in memory to find
      the ntfs inode in memory if present.  Also, the ntfs inode has its
      own locking so it does not matter if the vfs inode is locked.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-06-26 22:12:02 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
af859a42d7 NTFS: Prepare for 2.1.23 release: Update documentation and bump version.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-06-25 21:07:27 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
c002f42543 NTFS: - Add disable_sparse mount option together with a per volume sparse
enable bit which is set appropriately and a per inode sparse disable
	bit which is preset on some system file inodes as appropriate.
      - Enforce that sparse support is disabled on NTFS volumes pre 3.0.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-05-05 10:53:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00