tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / fs / ext4 / inode.c
index 9887a0c..0282ec7 100644 (file)
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/uio.h>
 #include <linux/bio.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 #include "ext4_jbd2.h"
 #include "xattr.h"
@@ -1145,6 +1146,64 @@ static int check_block_validity(struct inode *inode, const char *msg,
 }
 
 /*
+ * Return the number of contiguous dirty pages in a given inode
+ * starting at page frame idx.
+ */
+static pgoff_t ext4_num_dirty_pages(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t idx,
+                                   unsigned int max_pages)
+{
+       struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
+       pgoff_t index;
+       struct pagevec pvec;
+       pgoff_t num = 0;
+       int i, nr_pages, done = 0;
+
+       if (max_pages == 0)
+               return 0;
+       pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
+       while (!done) {
+               index = idx;
+               nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
+                                             PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,
+                                             (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE);
+               if (nr_pages == 0)
+                       break;
+               for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
+                       struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
+                       struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
+
+                       lock_page(page);
+                       if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping) ||
+                           !PageDirty(page) ||
+                           PageWriteback(page) ||
+                           page->index != idx) {
+                               done = 1;
+                               unlock_page(page);
+                               break;
+                       }
+                       if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
+                               bh = head = page_buffers(page);
+                               do {
+                                       if (!buffer_delay(bh) &&
+                                           !buffer_unwritten(bh))
+                                               done = 1;
+                                       bh = bh->b_this_page;
+                               } while (!done && (bh != head));
+                       }
+                       unlock_page(page);
+                       if (done)
+                               break;
+                       idx++;
+                       num++;
+                       if (num >= max_pages)
+                               break;
+               }
+               pagevec_release(&pvec);
+       }
+       return num;
+}
+
+/*
  * The ext4_get_blocks() function tries to look up the requested blocks,
  * and returns if the blocks are already mapped.
  *
@@ -1175,6 +1234,9 @@ int ext4_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, sector_t block,
        clear_buffer_mapped(bh);
        clear_buffer_unwritten(bh);
 
+       ext_debug("ext4_get_blocks(): inode %lu, flag %d, max_blocks %u,"
+                 "logical block %lu\n", inode->i_ino, flags, max_blocks,
+                 (unsigned long)block);
        /*
         * Try to see if we can get the block without requesting a new
         * file system block.
@@ -1796,11 +1858,11 @@ repeat:
 
        if (ext4_claim_free_blocks(sbi, total)) {
                spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
+               vfs_dq_release_reservation_block(inode, total);
                if (ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries)) {
                        yield();
                        goto repeat;
                }
-               vfs_dq_release_reservation_block(inode, total);
                return -ENOSPC;
        }
        EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks += nrblocks;
@@ -2092,18 +2154,18 @@ static void ext4_da_block_invalidatepages(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
 static void ext4_print_free_blocks(struct inode *inode)
 {
        struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
-       printk(KERN_EMERG "Total free blocks count %lld\n",
-                       ext4_count_free_blocks(inode->i_sb));
-       printk(KERN_EMERG "Free/Dirty block details\n");
-       printk(KERN_EMERG "free_blocks=%lld\n",
-                       (long long)percpu_counter_sum(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter));
-       printk(KERN_EMERG "dirty_blocks=%lld\n",
-                       (long long)percpu_counter_sum(&sbi->s_dirtyblocks_counter));
-       printk(KERN_EMERG "Block reservation details\n");
-       printk(KERN_EMERG "i_reserved_data_blocks=%u\n",
-                       EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks);
-       printk(KERN_EMERG "i_reserved_meta_blocks=%u\n",
-                       EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_meta_blocks);
+       printk(KERN_CRIT "Total free blocks count %lld\n",
+              ext4_count_free_blocks(inode->i_sb));
+       printk(KERN_CRIT "Free/Dirty block details\n");
+       printk(KERN_CRIT "free_blocks=%lld\n",
+              (long long) percpu_counter_sum(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter));
+       printk(KERN_CRIT "dirty_blocks=%lld\n",
+              (long long) percpu_counter_sum(&sbi->s_dirtyblocks_counter));
+       printk(KERN_CRIT "Block reservation details\n");
+       printk(KERN_CRIT "i_reserved_data_blocks=%u\n",
+              EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks);
+       printk(KERN_CRIT "i_reserved_meta_blocks=%u\n",
+              EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_meta_blocks);
        return;
 }
 
@@ -2189,14 +2251,14 @@ static int mpage_da_map_blocks(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
                 * writepage and writepages will again try to write
                 * the same.
                 */
-               printk(KERN_EMERG "%s block allocation failed for inode %lu "
-                                 "at logical offset %llu with max blocks "
-                                 "%zd with error %d\n",
-                                 __func__, mpd->inode->i_ino,
-                                 (unsigned long long)next,
-                                 mpd->b_size >> mpd->inode->i_blkbits, err);
-               printk(KERN_EMERG "This should not happen.!! "
-                                       "Data will be lost\n");
+               ext4_msg(mpd->inode->i_sb, KERN_CRIT,
+                        "delayed block allocation failed for inode %lu at "
+                        "logical offset %llu with max blocks %zd with "
+                        "error %d\n", mpd->inode->i_ino,
+                        (unsigned long long) next,
+                        mpd->b_size >> mpd->inode->i_blkbits, err);
+               printk(KERN_CRIT "This should not happen!!  "
+                      "Data will be lost\n");
                if (err == -ENOSPC) {
                        ext4_print_free_blocks(mpd->inode);
                }
@@ -2337,7 +2399,7 @@ static int __mpage_da_writepage(struct page *page,
                /*
                 * Rest of the page in the page_vec
                 * redirty then and skip then. We will
-                * try to to write them again after
+                * try to write them again after
                 * starting a new transaction
                 */
                redirty_page_for_writepage(wbc, page);
@@ -2743,8 +2805,10 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
        int no_nrwrite_index_update;
        int pages_written = 0;
        long pages_skipped;
+       unsigned int max_pages;
        int range_cyclic, cycled = 1, io_done = 0;
-       int needed_blocks, ret = 0, nr_to_writebump = 0;
+       int needed_blocks, ret = 0;
+       long desired_nr_to_write, nr_to_writebump = 0;
        loff_t range_start = wbc->range_start;
        struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(mapping->host->i_sb);
 
@@ -2771,16 +2835,6 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
        if (unlikely(sbi->s_mount_flags & EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED))
                return -EROFS;
 
-       /*
-        * Make sure nr_to_write is >= sbi->s_mb_stream_request
-        * This make sure small files blocks are allocated in
-        * single attempt. This ensure that small files
-        * get less fragmented.
-        */
-       if (wbc->nr_to_write < sbi->s_mb_stream_request) {
-               nr_to_writebump = sbi->s_mb_stream_request - wbc->nr_to_write;
-               wbc->nr_to_write = sbi->s_mb_stream_request;
-       }
        if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
                range_whole = 1;
 
@@ -2795,6 +2849,36 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
        } else
                index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 
+       /*
+        * This works around two forms of stupidity.  The first is in
+        * the writeback code, which caps the maximum number of pages
+        * written to be 1024 pages.  This is wrong on multiple
+        * levels; different architectues have a different page size,
+        * which changes the maximum amount of data which gets
+        * written.  Secondly, 4 megabytes is way too small.  XFS
+        * forces this value to be 16 megabytes by multiplying
+        * nr_to_write parameter by four, and then relies on its
+        * allocator to allocate larger extents to make them
+        * contiguous.  Unfortunately this brings us to the second
+        * stupidity, which is that ext4's mballoc code only allocates
+        * at most 2048 blocks.  So we force contiguous writes up to
+        * the number of dirty blocks in the inode, or
+        * sbi->max_writeback_mb_bump whichever is smaller.
+        */
+       max_pages = sbi->s_max_writeback_mb_bump << (20 - PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
+       if (!range_cyclic && range_whole)
+               desired_nr_to_write = wbc->nr_to_write * 8;
+       else
+               desired_nr_to_write = ext4_num_dirty_pages(inode, index,
+                                                          max_pages);
+       if (desired_nr_to_write > max_pages)
+               desired_nr_to_write = max_pages;
+
+       if (wbc->nr_to_write < desired_nr_to_write) {
+               nr_to_writebump = desired_nr_to_write - wbc->nr_to_write;
+               wbc->nr_to_write = desired_nr_to_write;
+       }
+
        mpd.wbc = wbc;
        mpd.inode = mapping->host;
 
@@ -2822,10 +2906,9 @@ retry:
                handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, needed_blocks);
                if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
                        ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
-                       printk(KERN_CRIT "%s: jbd2_start: "
+                       ext4_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_CRIT, "%s: jbd2_start: "
                               "%ld pages, ino %lu; err %d\n", __func__,
                                wbc->nr_to_write, inode->i_ino, ret);
-                       dump_stack();
                        goto out_writepages;
                }
 
@@ -2849,7 +2932,7 @@ retry:
                ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __mpage_da_writepage,
                                        &mpd);
                /*
-                * If we have a contigous extent of pages and we
+                * If we have a contiguous extent of pages and we
                 * haven't done the I/O yet, map the blocks and submit
                 * them for I/O.
                 */
@@ -2897,9 +2980,10 @@ retry:
                goto retry;
        }
        if (pages_skipped != wbc->pages_skipped)
-               printk(KERN_EMERG "This should not happen leaving %s "
-                               "with nr_to_write = %ld ret = %d\n",
-                               __func__, wbc->nr_to_write, ret);
+               ext4_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_CRIT,
+                        "This should not happen leaving %s "
+                        "with nr_to_write = %ld ret = %d\n",
+                        __func__, wbc->nr_to_write, ret);
 
        /* Update index */
        index += pages_written;
@@ -2914,7 +2998,8 @@ retry:
 out_writepages:
        if (!no_nrwrite_index_update)
                wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update = 0;
-       wbc->nr_to_write -= nr_to_writebump;
+       if (wbc->nr_to_write > nr_to_writebump)
+               wbc->nr_to_write -= nr_to_writebump;
        wbc->range_start = range_start;
        trace_ext4_da_writepages_result(inode, wbc, ret, pages_written);
        return ret;
@@ -3272,6 +3357,8 @@ static int ext4_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t wait)
 }
 
 /*
+ * O_DIRECT for ext3 (or indirect map) based files
+ *
  * If the O_DIRECT write will extend the file then add this inode to the
  * orphan list.  So recovery will truncate it back to the original size
  * if the machine crashes during the write.
@@ -3280,7 +3367,7 @@ static int ext4_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t wait)
  * crashes then stale disk data _may_ be exposed inside the file. But current
  * VFS code falls back into buffered path in that case so we are safe.
  */
-static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
+static ssize_t ext4_ind_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
                              const struct iovec *iov, loff_t offset,
                              unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
@@ -3291,6 +3378,7 @@ static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
        ssize_t ret;
        int orphan = 0;
        size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+       int retries = 0;
 
        if (rw == WRITE) {
                loff_t final_size = offset + count;
@@ -3313,9 +3401,12 @@ static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
                }
        }
 
+retry:
        ret = blockdev_direct_IO(rw, iocb, inode, inode->i_sb->s_bdev, iov,
                                 offset, nr_segs,
                                 ext4_get_block, NULL);
+       if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
+               goto retry;
 
        if (orphan) {
                int err;
@@ -3354,6 +3445,359 @@ out:
        return ret;
 }
 
+/* Maximum number of blocks we map for direct IO at once. */
+
+static int ext4_get_block_dio_write(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
+                  struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create)
+{
+       handle_t *handle = NULL;
+       int ret = 0;
+       unsigned max_blocks = bh_result->b_size >> inode->i_blkbits;
+       int dio_credits;
+
+       ext4_debug("ext4_get_block_dio_write: inode %lu, create flag %d\n",
+                  inode->i_ino, create);
+       /*
+        * DIO VFS code passes create = 0 flag for write to
+        * the middle of file. It does this to avoid block
+        * allocation for holes, to prevent expose stale data
+        * out when there is parallel buffered read (which does
+        * not hold the i_mutex lock) while direct IO write has
+        * not completed. DIO request on holes finally falls back
+        * to buffered IO for this reason.
+        *
+        * For ext4 extent based file, since we support fallocate,
+        * new allocated extent as uninitialized, for holes, we
+        * could fallocate blocks for holes, thus parallel
+        * buffered IO read will zero out the page when read on
+        * a hole while parallel DIO write to the hole has not completed.
+        *
+        * when we come here, we know it's a direct IO write to
+        * to the middle of file (<i_size)
+        * so it's safe to override the create flag from VFS.
+        */
+       create = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_DIO_CREATE_EXT;
+
+       if (max_blocks > DIO_MAX_BLOCKS)
+               max_blocks = DIO_MAX_BLOCKS;
+       dio_credits = ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode, max_blocks);
+       handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, dio_credits);
+       if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+               ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
+               goto out;
+       }
+       ret = ext4_get_blocks(handle, inode, iblock, max_blocks, bh_result,
+                             create);
+       if (ret > 0) {
+               bh_result->b_size = (ret << inode->i_blkbits);
+               ret = 0;
+       }
+       ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+out:
+       return ret;
+}
+
+static void ext4_free_io_end(ext4_io_end_t *io)
+{
+       BUG_ON(!io);
+       iput(io->inode);
+       kfree(io);
+}
+static void dump_aio_dio_list(struct inode * inode)
+{
+#ifdef EXT4_DEBUG
+       struct list_head *cur, *before, *after;
+       ext4_io_end_t *io, *io0, *io1;
+
+       if (list_empty(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aio_dio_complete_list)){
+               ext4_debug("inode %lu aio dio list is empty\n", inode->i_ino);
+               return;
+       }
+
+       ext4_debug("Dump inode %lu aio_dio_completed_IO list \n", inode->i_ino);
+       list_for_each_entry(io, &EXT4_I(inode)->i_aio_dio_complete_list, list){
+               cur = &io->list;
+               before = cur->prev;
+               io0 = container_of(before, ext4_io_end_t, list);
+               after = cur->next;
+               io1 = container_of(after, ext4_io_end_t, list);
+
+               ext4_debug("io 0x%p from inode %lu,prev 0x%p,next 0x%p\n",
+                           io, inode->i_ino, io0, io1);
+       }
+#endif
+}
+
+/*
+ * check a range of space and convert unwritten extents to written.
+ */
+static int ext4_end_aio_dio_nolock(ext4_io_end_t *io)
+{
+       struct inode *inode = io->inode;
+       loff_t offset = io->offset;
+       size_t size = io->size;
+       int ret = 0;
+
+       ext4_debug("end_aio_dio_onlock: io 0x%p from inode %lu,list->next 0x%p,"
+                  "list->prev 0x%p\n",
+                  io, inode->i_ino, io->list.next, io->list.prev);
+
+       if (list_empty(&io->list))
+               return ret;
+
+       if (io->flag != DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN)
+               return ret;
+
+       if (offset + size <= i_size_read(inode))
+               ret = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(inode, offset, size);
+
+       if (ret < 0) {
+               printk(KERN_EMERG "%s: failed to convert unwritten"
+                       "extents to written extents, error is %d"
+                       " io is still on inode %lu aio dio list\n",
+                       __func__, ret, inode->i_ino);
+               return ret;
+       }
+
+       /* clear the DIO AIO unwritten flag */
+       io->flag = 0;
+       return ret;
+}
+/*
+ * work on completed aio dio IO, to convert unwritten extents to extents
+ */
+static void ext4_end_aio_dio_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+       ext4_io_end_t *io  = container_of(work, ext4_io_end_t, work);
+       struct inode *inode = io->inode;
+       int ret = 0;
+
+       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+       ret = ext4_end_aio_dio_nolock(io);
+       if (ret >= 0) {
+               if (!list_empty(&io->list))
+                       list_del_init(&io->list);
+               ext4_free_io_end(io);
+       }
+       mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+}
+/*
+ * This function is called from ext4_sync_file().
+ *
+ * When AIO DIO IO is completed, the work to convert unwritten
+ * extents to written is queued on workqueue but may not get immediately
+ * scheduled. When fsync is called, we need to ensure the
+ * conversion is complete before fsync returns.
+ * The inode keeps track of a list of completed AIO from DIO path
+ * that might needs to do the conversion. This function walks through
+ * the list and convert the related unwritten extents to written.
+ */
+int flush_aio_dio_completed_IO(struct inode *inode)
+{
+       ext4_io_end_t *io;
+       int ret = 0;
+       int ret2 = 0;
+
+       if (list_empty(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aio_dio_complete_list))
+               return ret;
+
+       dump_aio_dio_list(inode);
+       while (!list_empty(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aio_dio_complete_list)){
+               io = list_entry(EXT4_I(inode)->i_aio_dio_complete_list.next,
+                               ext4_io_end_t, list);
+               /*
+                * Calling ext4_end_aio_dio_nolock() to convert completed
+                * IO to written.
+                *
+                * When ext4_sync_file() is called, run_queue() may already
+                * about to flush the work corresponding to this io structure.
+                * It will be upset if it founds the io structure related
+                * to the work-to-be schedule is freed.
+                *
+                * Thus we need to keep the io structure still valid here after
+                * convertion finished. The io structure has a flag to
+                * avoid double converting from both fsync and background work
+                * queue work.
+                */
+               ret = ext4_end_aio_dio_nolock(io);
+               if (ret < 0)
+                       ret2 = ret;
+               else
+                       list_del_init(&io->list);
+       }
+       return (ret2 < 0) ? ret2 : 0;
+}
+
+static ext4_io_end_t *ext4_init_io_end (struct inode *inode)
+{
+       ext4_io_end_t *io = NULL;
+
+       io = kmalloc(sizeof(*io), GFP_NOFS);
+
+       if (io) {
+               igrab(inode);
+               io->inode = inode;
+               io->flag = 0;
+               io->offset = 0;
+               io->size = 0;
+               io->error = 0;
+               INIT_WORK(&io->work, ext4_end_aio_dio_work);
+               INIT_LIST_HEAD(&io->list);
+       }
+
+       return io;
+}
+
+static void ext4_end_io_dio(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset,
+                           ssize_t size, void *private)
+{
+        ext4_io_end_t *io_end = iocb->private;
+       struct workqueue_struct *wq;
+
+       ext_debug("ext4_end_io_dio(): io_end 0x%p"
+                 "for inode %lu, iocb 0x%p, offset %llu, size %llu\n",
+                 iocb->private, io_end->inode->i_ino, iocb, offset,
+                 size);
+       /* if not async direct IO or dio with 0 bytes write, just return */
+       if (!io_end || !size)
+               return;
+
+       /* if not aio dio with unwritten extents, just free io and return */
+       if (io_end->flag != DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN){
+               ext4_free_io_end(io_end);
+               iocb->private = NULL;
+               return;
+       }
+
+       io_end->offset = offset;
+       io_end->size = size;
+       wq = EXT4_SB(io_end->inode->i_sb)->dio_unwritten_wq;
+
+       /* queue the work to convert unwritten extents to written */
+       queue_work(wq, &io_end->work);
+
+       /* Add the io_end to per-inode completed aio dio list*/
+       list_add_tail(&io_end->list,
+                &EXT4_I(io_end->inode)->i_aio_dio_complete_list);
+       iocb->private = NULL;
+}
+/*
+ * For ext4 extent files, ext4 will do direct-io write to holes,
+ * preallocated extents, and those write extend the file, no need to
+ * fall back to buffered IO.
+ *
+ * For holes, we fallocate those blocks, mark them as unintialized
+ * If those blocks were preallocated, we mark sure they are splited, but
+ * still keep the range to write as unintialized.
+ *
+ * The unwrritten extents will be converted to written when DIO is completed.
+ * For async direct IO, since the IO may still pending when return, we
+ * set up an end_io call back function, which will do the convertion
+ * when async direct IO completed.
+ *
+ * If the O_DIRECT write will extend the file then add this inode to the
+ * orphan list.  So recovery will truncate it back to the original size
+ * if the machine crashes during the write.
+ *
+ */
+static ssize_t ext4_ext_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
+                             const struct iovec *iov, loff_t offset,
+                             unsigned long nr_segs)
+{
+       struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
+       struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+       ssize_t ret;
+       size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+
+       loff_t final_size = offset + count;
+       if (rw == WRITE && final_size <= inode->i_size) {
+               /*
+                * We could direct write to holes and fallocate.
+                *
+                * Allocated blocks to fill the hole are marked as uninitialized
+                * to prevent paralel buffered read to expose the stale data
+                * before DIO complete the data IO.
+                *
+                * As to previously fallocated extents, ext4 get_block
+                * will just simply mark the buffer mapped but still
+                * keep the extents uninitialized.
+                *
+                * for non AIO case, we will convert those unwritten extents
+                * to written after return back from blockdev_direct_IO.
+                *
+                * for async DIO, the conversion needs to be defered when
+                * the IO is completed. The ext4 end_io callback function
+                * will be called to take care of the conversion work.
+                * Here for async case, we allocate an io_end structure to
+                * hook to the iocb.
+                */
+               iocb->private = NULL;
+               EXT4_I(inode)->cur_aio_dio = NULL;
+               if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
+                       iocb->private = ext4_init_io_end(inode);
+                       if (!iocb->private)
+                               return -ENOMEM;
+                       /*
+                        * we save the io structure for current async
+                        * direct IO, so that later ext4_get_blocks()
+                        * could flag the io structure whether there
+                        * is a unwritten extents needs to be converted
+                        * when IO is completed.
+                        */
+                       EXT4_I(inode)->cur_aio_dio = iocb->private;
+               }
+
+               ret = blockdev_direct_IO(rw, iocb, inode,
+                                        inode->i_sb->s_bdev, iov,
+                                        offset, nr_segs,
+                                        ext4_get_block_dio_write,
+                                        ext4_end_io_dio);
+               if (iocb->private)
+                       EXT4_I(inode)->cur_aio_dio = NULL;
+               /*
+                * The io_end structure takes a reference to the inode,
+                * that structure needs to be destroyed and the
+                * reference to the inode need to be dropped, when IO is
+                * complete, even with 0 byte write, or failed.
+                *
+                * In the successful AIO DIO case, the io_end structure will be
+                * desctroyed and the reference to the inode will be dropped
+                * after the end_io call back function is called.
+                *
+                * In the case there is 0 byte write, or error case, since
+                * VFS direct IO won't invoke the end_io call back function,
+                * we need to free the end_io structure here.
+                */
+               if (ret != -EIOCBQUEUED && ret <= 0 && iocb->private) {
+                       ext4_free_io_end(iocb->private);
+                       iocb->private = NULL;
+               } else if (ret > 0)
+                       /*
+                        * for non AIO case, since the IO is already
+                        * completed, we could do the convertion right here
+                        */
+                       ret = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(inode,
+                                                               offset, ret);
+               return ret;
+       }
+
+       /* for write the the end of file case, we fall back to old way */
+       return ext4_ind_direct_IO(rw, iocb, iov, offset, nr_segs);
+}
+
+static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
+                             const struct iovec *iov, loff_t offset,
+                             unsigned long nr_segs)
+{
+       struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
+       struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+
+       if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)
+               return ext4_ext_direct_IO(rw, iocb, iov, offset, nr_segs);
+
+       return ext4_ind_direct_IO(rw, iocb, iov, offset, nr_segs);
+}
+
 /*
  * Pages can be marked dirty completely asynchronously from ext4's journalling
  * activity.  By filemap_sync_pte(), try_to_unmap_one(), etc.  We cannot do
@@ -3386,6 +3830,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations ext4_ordered_aops = {
        .direct_IO              = ext4_direct_IO,
        .migratepage            = buffer_migrate_page,
        .is_partially_uptodate  = block_is_partially_uptodate,
+       .error_remove_page      = generic_error_remove_page,
 };
 
 static const struct address_space_operations ext4_writeback_aops = {
@@ -3401,6 +3846,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations ext4_writeback_aops = {
        .direct_IO              = ext4_direct_IO,
        .migratepage            = buffer_migrate_page,
        .is_partially_uptodate  = block_is_partially_uptodate,
+       .error_remove_page      = generic_error_remove_page,
 };
 
 static const struct address_space_operations ext4_journalled_aops = {
@@ -3415,6 +3861,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations ext4_journalled_aops = {
        .invalidatepage         = ext4_invalidatepage,
        .releasepage            = ext4_releasepage,
        .is_partially_uptodate  = block_is_partially_uptodate,
+       .error_remove_page      = generic_error_remove_page,
 };
 
 static const struct address_space_operations ext4_da_aops = {
@@ -3431,6 +3878,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations ext4_da_aops = {
        .direct_IO              = ext4_direct_IO,
        .migratepage            = buffer_migrate_page,
        .is_partially_uptodate  = block_is_partially_uptodate,
+       .error_remove_page      = generic_error_remove_page,
 };
 
 void ext4_set_aops(struct inode *inode)
@@ -3610,7 +4058,7 @@ static Indirect *ext4_find_shared(struct inode *inode, int depth,
        int k, err;
 
        *top = 0;
-       /* Make k index the deepest non-null offest + 1 */
+       /* Make k index the deepest non-null offset + 1 */
        for (k = depth; k > 1 && !offsets[k-1]; k--)
                ;
        partial = ext4_get_branch(inode, k, offsets, chain, &err);
@@ -3973,8 +4421,7 @@ void ext4_truncate(struct inode *inode)
        if (!ext4_can_truncate(inode))
                return;
 
-       if (ei->i_disksize && inode->i_size == 0 &&
-           !test_opt(inode->i_sb, NO_AUTO_DA_ALLOC))
+       if (inode->i_size == 0 && !test_opt(inode->i_sb, NO_AUTO_DA_ALLOC))
                ei->i_state |= EXT4_STATE_DA_ALLOC_CLOSE;
 
        if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) {
@@ -4548,8 +4995,7 @@ static int ext4_inode_blocks_set(handle_t *handle,
  */
 static int ext4_do_update_inode(handle_t *handle,
                                struct inode *inode,
-                               struct ext4_iloc *iloc,
-                               int do_sync)
+                               struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
 {
        struct ext4_inode *raw_inode = ext4_raw_inode(iloc);
        struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
@@ -4650,22 +5096,10 @@ static int ext4_do_update_inode(handle_t *handle,
                raw_inode->i_extra_isize = cpu_to_le16(ei->i_extra_isize);
        }
 
-       /*
-        * If we're not using a journal and we were called from
-        * ext4_write_inode() to sync the inode (making do_sync true),
-        * we can just use sync_dirty_buffer() directly to do our dirty
-        * work.  Testing s_journal here is a bit redundant but it's
-        * worth it to avoid potential future trouble.
-        */
-       if (EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal == NULL && do_sync) {
-               BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call sync_dirty_buffer");
-               sync_dirty_buffer(bh);
-       } else {
-               BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
-               rc = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh);
-               if (!err)
-                       err = rc;
-       }
+       BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
+       rc = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh);
+       if (!err)
+               err = rc;
        ei->i_state &= ~EXT4_STATE_NEW;
 
 out_brelse:
@@ -4733,8 +5167,16 @@ int ext4_write_inode(struct inode *inode, int wait)
                err = ext4_get_inode_loc(inode, &iloc);
                if (err)
                        return err;
-               err = ext4_do_update_inode(EXT4_NOJOURNAL_HANDLE,
-                                          inode, &iloc, wait);
+               if (wait)
+                       sync_dirty_buffer(iloc.bh);
+               if (buffer_req(iloc.bh) && !buffer_uptodate(iloc.bh)) {
+                       ext4_error(inode->i_sb, __func__,
+                                  "IO error syncing inode, "
+                                  "inode=%lu, block=%llu",
+                                  inode->i_ino,
+                                  (unsigned long long)iloc.bh->b_blocknr);
+                       err = -EIO;
+               }
        }
        return err;
 }
@@ -4928,7 +5370,7 @@ static int ext4_index_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks, int chunk)
  * worse case, the indexs blocks spread over different block groups
  *
  * If datablocks are discontiguous, they are possible to spread over
- * different block groups too. If they are contiugous, with flexbg,
+ * different block groups too. If they are contiuguous, with flexbg,
  * they could still across block group boundary.
  *
  * Also account for superblock, inode, quota and xattr blocks
@@ -5004,7 +5446,7 @@ int ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode)
  * Calculate the journal credits for a chunk of data modification.
  *
  * This is called from DIO, fallocate or whoever calling
- * ext4_get_blocks() to map/allocate a chunk of contigous disk blocks.
+ * ext4_get_blocks() to map/allocate a chunk of contiguous disk blocks.
  *
  * journal buffers for data blocks are not included here, as DIO
  * and fallocate do no need to journal data buffers.
@@ -5030,7 +5472,7 @@ int ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(handle_t *handle,
        get_bh(iloc->bh);
 
        /* ext4_do_update_inode() does jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata */
-       err = ext4_do_update_inode(handle, inode, iloc, 0);
+       err = ext4_do_update_inode(handle, inode, iloc);
        put_bh(iloc->bh);
        return err;
 }
@@ -5174,27 +5616,14 @@ int ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
  */
 void ext4_dirty_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
-       handle_t *current_handle = ext4_journal_current_handle();
        handle_t *handle;
 
-       if (!ext4_handle_valid(current_handle)) {
-               ext4_mark_inode_dirty(current_handle, inode);
-               return;
-       }
-
        handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, 2);
        if (IS_ERR(handle))
                goto out;
-       if (current_handle &&
-               current_handle->h_transaction != handle->h_transaction) {
-               /* This task has a transaction open against a different fs */
-               printk(KERN_EMERG "%s: transactions do not match!\n",
-                      __func__);
-       } else {
-               jbd_debug(5, "marking dirty.  outer handle=%p\n",
-                               current_handle);
-               ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
-       }
+
+       ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+
        ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 out:
        return;