- In between ntfs_prepare/commit_write, need exclusion between
simultaneous file extensions. This is given to us by holding i_sem
on the inode. The only places in the kernel when a file is resized
- are prepare/commit write and truncate for both of which i_sem is
- held. Just have to be careful in readpage/writepage and all other
- helpers not running under i_sem that we play nice...
- Also need to be careful with initialized_size extention in
- ntfs_prepare_write. Basically, just be _very_ careful in this code...
- UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are read/writepage
- which do not hold i_sem. Note writepage cannot change i_size but it
- needs to cope with a concurrent i_size change, just like readpage.
- Also both need to cope with concurrent changes to the other sizes,
- i.e. initialized/allocated/compressed size, as well.
+ are prepare/commit write and ntfs_truncate() for both of which i_sem
+ is held. Just have to be careful in read-/writepage and other helpers
+ not running under i_sem that we play nice... Also need to be careful
+ with initialized_size extention in ntfs_prepare_write and writepage.
+ UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are
+ prepare/commit_write as well as the compressed write and the other
+ attribute resize/write cases like index attributes, etc. For now
+ none of these are implemented so are safe.
- Implement mft.c::sync_mft_mirror_umount(). We currently will just
leave the volume dirty on umount if the final iput(vol->mft_ino)
causes a write of any mirrored mft records due to the mft mirror
- Enable the code for setting the NT4 compatibility flag when we start
making NTFS 1.2 specific modifications.
+2.1.25-WIP
+
+ - Change ntfs_map_runlist_nolock(), ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and
+ {__,}ntfs_cluster_free() to also take an optional attribute search
+ context as argument. This allows calling these functions with the
+ mft record mapped. Update all callers.
+ - Fix potential deadlock in ntfs_mft_data_extend_allocation_nolock()
+ error handling by passing in the active search context when calling
+ ntfs_cluster_free().
+ - Change ntfs_cluster_alloc() to take an extra boolean parameter
+ specifying whether the cluster are being allocated to extend an
+ attribute or to fill a hole.
+ - Change ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() to call ntfs_cluster_alloc()
+ with @is_extension set to TRUE and remove the runlist terminator
+ fixup code as this is now done by ntfs_cluster_alloc().
+ - Change ntfs_attr_make_non_resident to take the attribute value size
+ as an extra parameter. This is needed since we need to know the size
+ before we can map the mft record and our callers always know it. The
+ reason we cannot simply read the size from the vfs inode i_size is
+ that this is not necessarily uptodate. This happens when
+ ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() is called in the ->truncate call path.
+ - Fix ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() to update the vfs inode i_blocks
+ which is zero for a resident attribute but should no longer be zero
+ once the attribute is non-resident as it then has real clusters
+ allocated.
+ - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_extend_allocation(), a function to
+ extend the allocation of an attributes. Optionally, the data size,
+ but not the initialized size can be extended, too.
+ - Implement fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]::ntfs_truncate(). It only supports
+ uncompressed and unencrypted files.
+ - Enable ATTR_SIZE attribute changes in ntfs_setattr(). This completes
+ the initial implementation of file truncation. Now both open(2)ing
+ a file with the O_TRUNC flag and the {,f}truncate(2) system calls
+ will resize a file appropriately. The limitations are that only
+ uncompressed and unencrypted files are supported. Also, there is
+ only very limited support for highly fragmented files (the ones whose
+ $DATA attribute is split into multiple attribute extents).
+
+2.1.24 - Lots of bug fixes and support more clean journal states.
+
+ - Support journals ($LogFile) which have been modified by chkdsk. This
+ means users can boot into Windows after we marked the volume dirty.
+ The Windows boot will run chkdsk and then reboot. The user can then
+ immediately boot into Linux rather than having to do a full Windows
+ boot first before rebooting into Linux and we will recognize such a
+ journal and empty it as it is clean by definition. Note, this only
+ works if chkdsk left the journal in an obviously clean state.
+ - Support journals ($LogFile) with only one restart page as well as
+ journals with two different restart pages. We sanity check both and
+ either use the only sane one or the more recent one of the two in the
+ case that both are valid.
+ - Add fs/ntfs/malloc.h::ntfs_malloc_nofs_nofail() which is analogous to
+ ntfs_malloc_nofs() but it performs allocations with __GFP_NOFAIL and
+ hence cannot fail.
+ - Use ntfs_malloc_nofs_nofail() in the two critical regions in
+ fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_runlists_merge(). This means we no longer
+ need to panic() if the allocation fails as it now cannot fail.
+ - Fix two nasty runlist merging bugs that had gone unnoticed so far.
+ Thanks to Stefano Picerno for the bug report.
+ - Remove two bogus BUG_ON()s from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
+ - Fix handling of valid but empty mapping pairs array in
+ fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress().
+ - Report unrepresentable inodes during ntfs_readdir() as KERN_WARNING
+ messages and include the inode number. Thanks to Yura Pakhuchiy for
+ pointing this out.
+ - Change ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock() to throw away the runlist if the new
+ length is zero.
+ - Add runlist.[hc]::ntfs_rl_punch_nolock() which punches a caller
+ specified hole into a runlist.
+ - Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/index.c::ntfs_index_lookup(). When the returned
+ index entry is in the index root, we forgot to set the @ir pointer in
+ the index context. Thanks to Yura Pakhuchiy for finding this bug.
+ - Remove bogus setting of PageError in ntfs_read_compressed_block().
+ - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_resident_attr_value_resize().
+ - Fix a bug in ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() where we forgot to protect
+ access to the allocated size in the ntfs inode with the size lock.
+ - Fix ntfs_attr_vcn_to_lcn_nolock() and ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() to
+ return LCN_ENOENT when there is no runlist and the allocated size is
+ zero.
+ - Fix load_attribute_list() to handle the case of a NULL runlist.
+ - Fix handling of sparse attributes in ntfs_attr_make_non_resident().
+ - Add BUG() checks to ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() and ntfs_attr_set()
+ to ensure that these functions are never called for compressed or
+ encrypted attributes.
+ - Fix cluster (de)allocators to work when the runlist is NULL and more
+ importantly to take a locked runlist rather than them locking it
+ which leads to lock reversal.
+ - Truncate {a,c,m}time to the ntfs supported time granularity when
+ updating the times in the inode in ntfs_setattr().
+ - Fixup handling of sparse, compressed, and encrypted attributes in
+ fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_{,attr_,index_}inode(),
+ fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page().
+ - Make ntfs_write_block() not instantiate sparse blocks if they contain
+ only zeroes.
+ - Optimize fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block() by extending the page
+ lock protection over the buffer submission for i/o which allows the
+ removal of the get_bh()/put_bh() pairs for each buffer.
+ - Fix fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block() to handle the case
+ where a concurrent truncate has truncated the runlist under our feet.
+ - Fix page_has_buffers()/page_buffers() handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
+ - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(), use a bit spin lock
+ in the first buffer head instead of a driver global spin lock to
+ improve scalability.
+ - Minor fix to error handling and error message display in
+ fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write().
+ - Change the mount options {u,f,d}mask to always parse the number as
+ an octal number to conform to how chmod(1) works, too. Thanks to
+ Giuseppe Bilotta and Horst von Brand for pointing out the errors of
+ my ways.
+ - Fix various bugs in the runlist merging code. (Based on libntfs
+ changes by Richard Russon.)
+ - Fix sparse warnings that have crept in over time.
+ - Change ntfs_cluster_free() to require a write locked runlist on entry
+ since we otherwise get into a lock reversal deadlock if a read locked
+ runlist is passed in. In the process also change it to take an ntfs
+ inode instead of a vfs inode as parameter.
+ - Fix the definition of the CHKD ntfs record magic. It had an off by
+ two error causing it to be CHKB instead of CHKD.
+ - Fix a stupid bug in __ntfs_bitmap_set_bits_in_run() which caused the
+ count to become negative and hence we had a wild memset() scribbling
+ all over the system's ram.
+
2.1.23 - Implement extension of resident files and make writing safe as well as
many bug fixes, cleanups, and enhancements...
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