Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 593082
ext4: upstream updates
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:59:21 EST
Several upstream bugfixes for ext4 & jbd2 exist, and we should pull them back to rhel6. Opening the bug as a placeholder for now, will add a list of upstream commits soon, after testing. -Eric
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Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-29.el6
VERIFIED Sanity only. All the patches present in 2.6.32-29 and ext4 working on 2.6.32-30. $ git log --pretty=oneline kernel-2.6.32-28.el6..kernel-2.6.32-29.el6 contains: fd08d265ed8b7152b288b5f3f91ea34b0a34d436 [fs] ext4: correctly calculate number of blocks for fiemap 54146091efba58ec49f9678af3677b8d40fb8f85 [fs] ext4: make "offset" consistent in ext4_check_dir_entry() 755dbeae356c97ba9a13a4cb1e131e59dd1ddf30 [fs] ext4: Fix estimate of # of blocks needed to write indirect-mapped files 0d74cd3d7e34573333a136de7b5b54226d50677a [fs] ext4: add missing error checking to ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea() b152b1ecf9c73381069ef5eae86477c40ad2b6ea [fs] ext4: Release page references acquired in ext4_da_block_invalidatepages 6d5468e2c800e4decfebd9f7124d359b804bd5a5 [fs] ext4: Fixed inode allocator to correctly track a flex_bg's used_dirs 443322df416ffbf28a8f5db4dc841bf18c163791 [fs] ext4: Use bitops to read/modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_state 80b468d329083d02368cc7b3f308fc1bd2d69bb6 [fs] jbd2: delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer 2916ccb75158320ef3828f1bfe7fe971d6435238 [fs] ext4: move __func__ into a macro for ext4_warning, ext4_error 2441544975518bc87f89616de1f39597343f703d [fs] jbd2: don't use __GFP_NOFAIL in journal_init_common() 95415125fa244a39c3e9f1bcf3728179885f01bf [fs] ext4: return correct wbc.nr_to_write in ext4_da_writepages a990bfa3137f5887571d6ff9cbb1edb0fd34a547 [fs] ext4: Convert BUG_ON checks to use ext4_error() instead 8547b01ca61d705a076c2f0df2adfbc7a1700686 [fs] ext4: Fix BUG_ON at fs/buffer.c:652 in no journal mode 3e20df4c4b2e4442ea1d867bc230214fddc0d1d7 [fs] ext4: Drop EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_UPDATE_RESERVE_SPACE flag 0d369ebae0393fcc84ee8afc481b7a2a9e0ccdd2 [fs] jbd: jbd-debug and jbd2-debug should be writable 132f18203fa21a864a90dae64b5430ec5d728a76 [fs] ext4: replace BUG() with return -EIO in ext4_ext_get_blocks 9d40d70acaf950e223aff9af80ec80c688a3d1e7 [fs] ext4: Use slab allocator for sub-page sized allocations d67ae4e6245dc547e15a09bedb79a8a46e2b31ad [fs] ext4: explicitly remove inode from orphan list after failed direct io f3f3bd4254863f89542a324ed621a7ce4a1e3e1a [fs] ext4: Handle non empty on-disk orphan link 966ba4e95305b7a6e552721c6e810bf0bfd26b84 [fs] ext4: fix up rb_root initializations to use RB_ROOT 28c90912f4122e49da8779af98c79bc63c7390ee [fs] ext4: Fix fencepost error in chosing choosing group vs file preallocation all this commits are corresponding with patches from comment 4. xfstests succeeded on ext4 on 2.6.32-30.el6.x86_64: rch.rpm ll-pesc1425-02 ~]# rpm -i rh-tests-kernel-filesystems-xfstests-1.0-6.noar [root@dell-pesc1425-02 ~]# cd /mnt/tests/kernel/filesystems/xfstests/ [root@dell-pesc1425-02 xfstests]# export TEST_PARAM_FSTYP=ext4 [root@dell-pesc1425-02 xfstests]# make run > result [root@dell-pesc1425-02 xfstests]# grep 'PASS' result | wc -l 160 [root@dell-pesc1425-02 xfstests]# grep 'FAIL' result | wc -l 1 This is the fail: 105 - output mismatch (see 105.out.bad) --- 105.out 2010-07-02 04:53:09.000000000 -0400 +++ 105.out.bad 2010-07-02 05:08:07.017815883 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ QA output created by 105 --rw-r--r-- root --rw-r--r-- root +-rw-r--r--. root +-rw-r--r--. root Ran: 105 Failures: 105 Failed 1 of 1 tests === 105.full === /mnt/testarea/test/syscalltest [u::rw-,g::r--,o::r--] *** MKFS *** mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) === 105.out.bad === QA output created by 105 -rw-r--r--. root -rw-r--r--. root /kernel/filesystems/xfstests/105 result: FAIL metric: 0 Log: /tmp/tmp.8T3XbH DMesg: /tmp/dmesg.log [root@dell-pesc1425-02 xfstests]# cd /var/lib/xfstests/ [root@dell-pesc1425-02 xfstests]# ./check 105 mount: /dev/loop0: can't read superblock common.rc: retrying test device mount with external set mount: /dev/loop0: can't read superblock common.rc: could not mount /dev/loop0 on /mnt/testarea/test This does not look like ext4 fault.
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