kernel/linux.git/include/trace/events/ext4.h, branch v6.18.21

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2025-07-31T17:02:44+00:00

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "Major ext4 changes for 6.17: - Better scalability for ext4 block allocation - Fix insufficient credits when writing back large folios Miscellaneous bug fixes, especially when handling exteded attriutes, inline data, and fast commit" * tag 'ext4_for_linus_6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (39 commits) ext4: do not BUG when INLINE_DATA_FL lacks system.data xattr ext4: implement linear-like traversal across order xarrays ext4: refactor choose group to scan group ext4: convert free groups order lists to xarrays ext4: factor out ext4_mb_scan_group() ext4: factor out ext4_mb_might_prefetch() ext4: factor out __ext4_mb_scan_group() ext4: fix largest free orders lists corruption on mb_optimize_scan switch ext4: fix zombie groups in average fragment size lists ext4: merge freed extent with existing extents before insertion ext4: convert sbi->s_mb_free_pending to atomic_t ext4: fix typo in CR_GOAL_LEN_SLOW comment ext4: get rid of some obsolete EXT4_MB_HINT flags ext4: utilize multiple global goals to reduce contention ext4: remove unnecessary s_md_lock on update s_mb_last_group ext4: remove unnecessary s_mb_last_start ext4: separate stream goal hits from s_bal_goals for better tracking ext4: add ext4_try_lock_group() to skip busy groups ext4: initialize superblock fields in the kballoc-test.c kunit tests ext4: refactor the inline directory conversion and new directory codepaths ...

ext4: get rid of some obsolete EXT4_MB_HINT flags

2025-07-25T13:14:16+00:00

Since nobody has used these EXT4_MB_HINT flags for ages, let's remove them. Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250714130327.1830534-7-libaokun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: enhance tracepoints during the folios writeback

2025-07-14T03:41:51+00:00

After mpage_map_and_submit_extent() supports restarting handle if credits are insufficient during allocating blocks, it is more likely to exit the current mapping iteration and continue to process the current processing partially mapped folio again. The existing tracepoints are not sufficient to track this situation, so enhance the tracepoints to track the writeback position and the return value before and after submitting the folios. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250707140814.542883-7-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: process folios writeback in bytes

2025-07-14T03:41:51+00:00

Since ext4 supports large folios, processing writebacks in pages is no longer appropriate, it can be modified to process writebacks in bytes. Suggested-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250707140814.542883-2-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: add FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES support

2025-06-23T10:45:14+00:00

Add support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES if the underlying device enable the unmap write zeroes operation. This first allocates blocks as unwritten, then issues a zero command outside of the running journal handle, and finally converts them to a written state. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250619111806.3546162-10-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Reviewed-by: "Martin K. Petersen" Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ext4: remove tracing for FALLOC_FL_NO_HIDE_STALE

2024-08-28T14:53:57+00:00

FALLOC_FL_NO_HIDE_STALE can't make it past vfs_fallocate (and if the flag does what the name implies that's a good thing as it would be highly dangerous). Remove the dead tracing code for it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240827065123.1762168-3-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ext4: make ext4_da_reserve_space() reserve multi-clusters

2024-06-27T22:04:50+00:00

Add 'nr_resv' parameter to ext4_da_reserve_space(), which indicates the number of clusters wants to reserve, make it reserve multiple clusters at a time. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240517124005.347221-8-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: make ext4_es_insert_delayed_block() insert multi-blocks

2024-06-27T22:04:49+00:00

Rename ext4_es_insert_delayed_block() to ext4_es_insert_delayed_extent() and pass length parameter to make it insert multiple delalloc blocks at a time. For the case of bigalloc, split the allocated parameter to lclu_allocated and end_allocated. lclu_allocated indicates the allocation state of the cluster which is containing the lblk, end_allocated indicates the allocation state of the extent end, clusters in the middle of delay allocated extent must be unallocated. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240517124005.347221-7-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: remove 'needed' in trace_ext4_discard_preallocations

2024-01-18T15:52:45+00:00

As 'needed' to trace_ext4_discard_preallocations is always 0 which is meaningless. Just remove it. Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi Suggested-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240105092102.496631-10-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: Give symbolic names to mballoc criterias

2023-06-26T23:34:56+00:00

mballoc criterias have historically been called by numbers like CR0, CR1... however this makes it confusing to understand what each criteria is about. Change these criterias from numbers to symbolic names and add relevant comments. While we are at it, also reformat and add some comments to ext4_seq_mb_stats_show() for better readability. Additionally, define CR_FAST which signifies the criteria below which we can make quicker decisions like: * quitting early if (free block < requested len) * avoiding to scan free extents smaller than required len. * avoiding to initialize buddy cache and work with existing cache * limiting prefetches Suggested-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a2dc6ec5aea5e5e68cf8e788c2a964ffead9c8b0.1685449706.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o