Re: [PATCH 5/5] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks/extents

2007-05-07 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:32:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
 On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:46:23 +0530 Amit K. Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  + */
  +int ext4_ext_try_to_merge(struct inode *inode,
  +   struct ext4_ext_path *path,
  +   struct ext4_extent *ex)
  +{
  +   struct ext4_extent_header *eh;
  +   unsigned int depth, len;
  +   int merge_done=0, uninitialized = 0;
 
 space around =, please.
 
 Many people prefer not to do the multiple-definitions-per-line, btw:
 
   int merge_done = 0;
   int uninitialized = 0;

Ok. Will make the change.

 
 reasons:
 
 - If gives you some space for a nice comment
 
 - It makes patches much more readable, and it makes rejects easier to fix
 
 - standardisation.
 
  +   depth = ext_depth(inode);
  +   BUG_ON(path[depth].p_hdr == NULL);
  +   eh = path[depth].p_hdr;
  +
  +   while (ex  EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh)) {
  +   if (!ext4_can_extents_be_merged(inode, ex, ex + 1))
  +   break;
  +   /* merge with next extent! */
  +   if (ext4_ext_is_uninitialized(ex))
  +   uninitialized = 1;
  +   ex-ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ex)
  +   + ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ex + 1));
  +   if (uninitialized)
  +   ext4_ext_mark_uninitialized(ex);
  +
  +   if (ex + 1  EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh)) {
  +   len = (EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh) - ex - 1)
  +   * sizeof(struct ext4_extent);
  +   memmove(ex + 1, ex + 2, len);
  +   }
  +   eh-eh_entries = cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(eh-eh_entries)-1);
 
 Kenrel convention is to put spaces around -

Will fix this.

 
  +   merge_done = 1;
  +   BUG_ON(eh-eh_entries == 0);
 
 eek, scary BUG_ON.  Do we really need to be that severe?  Would it be
 better to warn and run ext4_error() here?
Ok.
 
  +   }
  +
  +   return merge_done;
  +}
  +
  +
 
  ...
 
  +/*
  + * ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized:
  + * this function is called by ext4_ext_get_blocks() if someone tries to 
  write
  + * to an uninitialized extent. It may result in splitting the uninitialized
  + * extent into multiple extents (upto three). Atleast one initialized 
  extent
  + * and atmost two uninitialized extents can result.
 
 There are some typos here
 
  + * There are three possibilities:
  + *   a No split required: Entire extent should be initialized.
  + *   b Split into two extents: Only one end of the extent is being 
  written to.
  + *   c Split into three extents: Somone is writing in middle of the 
  extent.
 
 and here
 
Ok. Will fix them.
  + */
  +int ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
  +   struct ext4_ext_path *path,
  +   ext4_fsblk_t iblock,
  +   unsigned long max_blocks)
  +{
  +   struct ext4_extent *ex, *ex1 = NULL, *ex2 = NULL, *ex3 = NULL, newex;
  +   struct ext4_extent_header *eh;
  +   unsigned int allocated, ee_block, ee_len, depth;
  +   ext4_fsblk_t newblock;
  +   int err = 0, ret = 0;
  +
  +   depth = ext_depth(inode);
  +   eh = path[depth].p_hdr;
  +   ex = path[depth].p_ext;
  +   ee_block = le32_to_cpu(ex-ee_block);
  +   ee_len = ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ex);
  +   allocated = ee_len - (iblock - ee_block);
  +   newblock = iblock - ee_block + ext_pblock(ex);
  +   ex2 = ex;
  +
  +   /* ex1: ee_block to iblock - 1 : uninitialized */
  +   if (iblock  ee_block) {
  +   ex1 = ex;
  +   ex1-ee_len = cpu_to_le16(iblock - ee_block);
  +   ext4_ext_mark_uninitialized(ex1);
  +   ex2 = newex;
  +   }
  +   /* for sanity, update the length of the ex2 extent before
  +* we insert ex3, if ex1 is NULL. This is to avoid temporary
  +* overlap of blocks.
  +*/
  +   if (!ex1  allocated  max_blocks)
  +   ex2-ee_len = cpu_to_le16(max_blocks);
  +   /* ex3: to ee_block + ee_len : uninitialised */
  +   if (allocated  max_blocks) {
  +   unsigned int newdepth;
  +   ex3 = newex;
  +   ex3-ee_block = cpu_to_le32(iblock + max_blocks);
  +   ext4_ext_store_pblock(ex3, newblock + max_blocks);
  +   ex3-ee_len = cpu_to_le16(allocated - max_blocks);
  +   ext4_ext_mark_uninitialized(ex3);
  +   err = ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle, inode, path, ex3);
  +   if (err)
  +   goto out;
  +   /* The depth, and hence eh  ex might change
  +* as part of the insert above.
  +*/
  +   newdepth = ext_depth(inode);
  +   if (newdepth != depth)
  +   {
 
 Use
 
   if (newdepth != depth) {

Ok.
 
  +   depth=newdepth;
 
 spaces
Ok.
 
  +   path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, iblock, NULL);
  +   if (IS_ERR(path)) {
  + 

Re: [PATCH 5/5] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks/extents

2007-05-07 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:40:26PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
 On 4/26/07, Amit K. Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  /*
 + * ext4_ext_try_to_merge:
 + * tries to merge the ex extent to the next extent in the tree.
 + * It always tries to merge towards right. If you want to merge towards
 + * left, pass ex - 1 as argument instead of ex.
 + * Returns 0 if the extents (ex and ex+1) were _not_ merged and returns
 + * 1 if they got merged.
 + */
 +int ext4_ext_try_to_merge(struct inode *inode,
 +   struct ext4_ext_path *path,
 +   struct ext4_extent *ex)
 +{
 
 Please either use proper kerneldoc format or drop
 ext4_ext_try_to_merge from the comment.

Ok, Thanks.

--
Regards,
Amit Arora
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Re: [PATCH 5/5] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks/extents

2007-05-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:46:23 +0530 Amit K. Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 This patch adds write support for preallocated (using fallocate system
 call) blocks/extents. The preallocated extents in ext4 are marked
 uninitialized, hence they need special handling especially while
 writing to them. This patch takes care of that.
 
 ...

  /*
 + * ext4_ext_try_to_merge:
 + * tries to merge the ex extent to the next extent in the tree.
 + * It always tries to merge towards right. If you want to merge towards
 + * left, pass ex - 1 as argument instead of ex.
 + * Returns 0 if the extents (ex and ex+1) were _not_ merged and returns
 + * 1 if they got merged.

OK.

 + */
 +int ext4_ext_try_to_merge(struct inode *inode,
 + struct ext4_ext_path *path,
 + struct ext4_extent *ex)
 +{
 + struct ext4_extent_header *eh;
 + unsigned int depth, len;
 + int merge_done=0, uninitialized = 0;

space around =, please.

Many people prefer not to do the multiple-definitions-per-line, btw:

int merge_done = 0;
int uninitialized = 0;

reasons:

- If gives you some space for a nice comment

- It makes patches much more readable, and it makes rejects easier to fix

- standardisation.

 + depth = ext_depth(inode);
 + BUG_ON(path[depth].p_hdr == NULL);
 + eh = path[depth].p_hdr;
 +
 + while (ex  EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh)) {
 + if (!ext4_can_extents_be_merged(inode, ex, ex + 1))
 + break;
 + /* merge with next extent! */
 + if (ext4_ext_is_uninitialized(ex))
 + uninitialized = 1;
 + ex-ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ex)
 + + ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ex + 1));
 + if (uninitialized)
 + ext4_ext_mark_uninitialized(ex);
 +
 + if (ex + 1  EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh)) {
 + len = (EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh) - ex - 1)
 + * sizeof(struct ext4_extent);
 + memmove(ex + 1, ex + 2, len);
 + }
 + eh-eh_entries = cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(eh-eh_entries)-1);

Kenrel convention is to put spaces around -

 + merge_done = 1;
 + BUG_ON(eh-eh_entries == 0);

eek, scary BUG_ON.  Do we really need to be that severe?  Would it be
better to warn and run ext4_error() here?

 + }
 +
 + return merge_done;
 +}
 +
 +

 ...

 +/*
 + * ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized:
 + * this function is called by ext4_ext_get_blocks() if someone tries to write
 + * to an uninitialized extent. It may result in splitting the uninitialized
 + * extent into multiple extents (upto three). Atleast one initialized extent
 + * and atmost two uninitialized extents can result.

There are some typos here

 + * There are three possibilities:
 + *   a No split required: Entire extent should be initialized.
 + *   b Split into two extents: Only one end of the extent is being written 
 to.
 + *   c Split into three extents: Somone is writing in middle of the extent.

and here

 + */
 +int ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 + struct ext4_ext_path *path,
 + ext4_fsblk_t iblock,
 + unsigned long max_blocks)
 +{
 + struct ext4_extent *ex, *ex1 = NULL, *ex2 = NULL, *ex3 = NULL, newex;
 + struct ext4_extent_header *eh;
 + unsigned int allocated, ee_block, ee_len, depth;
 + ext4_fsblk_t newblock;
 + int err = 0, ret = 0;
 +
 + depth = ext_depth(inode);
 + eh = path[depth].p_hdr;
 + ex = path[depth].p_ext;
 + ee_block = le32_to_cpu(ex-ee_block);
 + ee_len = ext4_ext_get_actual_len(ex);
 + allocated = ee_len - (iblock - ee_block);
 + newblock = iblock - ee_block + ext_pblock(ex);
 + ex2 = ex;
 +
 + /* ex1: ee_block to iblock - 1 : uninitialized */
 + if (iblock  ee_block) {
 + ex1 = ex;
 + ex1-ee_len = cpu_to_le16(iblock - ee_block);
 + ext4_ext_mark_uninitialized(ex1);
 + ex2 = newex;
 + }
 + /* for sanity, update the length of the ex2 extent before
 +  * we insert ex3, if ex1 is NULL. This is to avoid temporary
 +  * overlap of blocks.
 +  */
 + if (!ex1  allocated  max_blocks)
 + ex2-ee_len = cpu_to_le16(max_blocks);
 + /* ex3: to ee_block + ee_len : uninitialised */
 + if (allocated  max_blocks) {
 + unsigned int newdepth;
 + ex3 = newex;
 + ex3-ee_block = cpu_to_le32(iblock + max_blocks);
 + ext4_ext_store_pblock(ex3, newblock + max_blocks);
 + ex3-ee_len = cpu_to_le16(allocated - max_blocks);
 + ext4_ext_mark_uninitialized(ex3);
 + err = ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle, inode, path, ex3);
 + if (err)
 + goto