kernel/linux.git/include/trace/events/ext4.h, branch v6.19.11

ext4: rename EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO

2025-11-26T22:13:33+00:00

This flag has been generalized to split an unwritten extent when we do dio or dioread_nolock writeback, or to avoid merge new extents which was created by extents split. Update some related comments too. Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Signed-off-by: Yang Erkun Message-ID: <20251112084538.1658232-2-yangerkun@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: add two trace points for moving extents

2025-11-06T15:44:39+00:00

To facilitate tracking the length, type, and outcome of the move extent, add a trace point at both the entry and exit of mext_move_extent(). Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Message-ID: <20251013015128.499308-13-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: introduce seq counter for the extent status entry

2025-11-06T15:44:39+00:00

In the iomap_write_iter(), the iomap buffered write frame does not hold any locks between querying the inode extent mapping info and performing page cache writes. As a result, the extent mapping can be changed due to concurrent I/O in flight. Similarly, in the iomap_writepage_map(), the write-back process faces a similar problem: concurrent changes can invalidate the extent mapping before the I/O is submitted. Therefore, both of these processes must recheck the mapping info after acquiring the folio lock. To address this, similar to XFS, we propose introducing an extent sequence number to serve as a validity cookie for the extent. After commit 24b7a2331fcd ("ext4: clairfy the rules for modifying extents"), we can ensure the extent information should always be processed through the extent status tree, and the extent status tree is always uptodate under i_rwsem or invalidate_lock or folio lock, so it's safe to introduce this sequence number. The sequence number will be increased whenever the extent status tree changes, preparing for the buffered write iomap conversion. Besides, this mechanism is also applicable for the moving extents case. In move_extent_per_page(), it also needs to reacquire data_sem and check the mapping info again under the folio lock. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Message-ID: <20251013015128.499308-3-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

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