This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nilfs2: fix fix very long mount time issue
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nilfs2-fix-fix-very-long-mount-time-issue.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From a9bae189542e71f91e61a4428adf6e5a7dfe8063 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <sl...@dubeyko.com> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:28:41 -0800 Subject: nilfs2: fix fix very long mount time issue From: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <sl...@dubeyko.com> commit a9bae189542e71f91e61a4428adf6e5a7dfe8063 upstream. There exists a situation when GC can work in background alone without any other filesystem activity during significant time. The nilfs_clean_segments() method calls nilfs_segctor_construct() that updates superblocks in the case of NILFS_SC_SUPER_ROOT and THE_NILFS_DISCONTINUED flags are set. But when GC is working alone the nilfs_clean_segments() is called with unset THE_NILFS_DISCONTINUED flag. As a result, the update of superblocks doesn't occurred all this time and in the case of SPOR superblocks keep very old values of last super root placement. SYMPTOMS: Trying to mount a NILFS2 volume after SPOR in such environment ends with very long mounting time (it can achieve about several hours in some cases). REPRODUCING PATH: 1. It needs to use external USB HDD, disable automount and doesn't make any additional filesystem activity on the NILFS2 volume. 2. Generate temporary file with size about 100 - 500 GB (for example, dd if=/dev/zero of=<file_name> bs=1073741824 count=200). The size of file defines duration of GC working. 3. Then it needs to delete file. 4. Start GC manually by means of command "nilfs-clean -p 0". When you start GC by means of such way then, at the end, superblocks is updated by once. So, for simulation of SPOR, it needs to wait sometime (15 - 40 minutes) and simply switch off USB HDD manually. 5. Switch on USB HDD again and try to mount NILFS2 volume. As a result, NILFS2 volume will mount during very long time. REPRODUCIBILITY: 100% FIX: This patch adds checking that superblocks need to update and set THE_NILFS_DISCONTINUED flag before nilfs_clean_segments() call. Reported-by: Sergey Alexandrov <spla...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <sl...@dubeyko.com> Tested-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <sl...@dubeyko.com> Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryus...@lab.ntt.co.jp> Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryus...@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c @@ -661,8 +661,11 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments(st if (ret < 0) printk(KERN_ERR "NILFS: GC failed during preparation: " "cannot read source blocks: err=%d\n", ret); - else + else { + if (nilfs_sb_need_update(nilfs)) + set_nilfs_discontinued(nilfs); ret = nilfs_clean_segments(inode->i_sb, argv, kbufs); + } nilfs_remove_all_gcinodes(nilfs); clear_nilfs_gc_running(nilfs); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sl...@dubeyko.com are queue-3.0/nilfs2-fix-fix-very-long-mount-time-issue.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html