ext4: xattr inode deduplication

Ext4 now supports xattr values that are up to 64k in size (vfs limit).
Large xattr values are stored in external inodes each one holding a
single value. Once written the data blocks of these inodes are immutable.

The real world use cases are expected to have a lot of value duplication
such as inherited acls etc. To reduce data duplication on disk, this patch
implements a deduplicator that allows sharing of xattr inodes.

The deduplication is based on an in-memory hash lookup that is a best
effort sharing scheme. When a xattr inode is read from disk (i.e.
getxattr() call), its crc32c hash is added to a hash table. Before
creating a new xattr inode for a value being set, the hash table is
checked to see if an existing inode holds an identical value. If such an
inode is found, the ref count on that inode is incremented. On value
removal the ref count is decremented and if it reaches zero the inode is
deleted.

The quota charging for such inodes is manually managed. Every reference
holder is charged the full size as if there was no sharing happening.
This is consistent with how xattr blocks are also charged.

[ Fixed up journal credits calculation to handle inline data and the
  rare case where an shared xattr block can get freed when two thread
  race on breaking the xattr block sharing. --tytso ]

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 09983c774d314..fe92a63c86cbc 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1517,6 +1517,7 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
 	long s_es_nr_inode;
 	struct ext4_es_stats s_es_stats;
 	struct mb_cache *s_ea_block_cache;
+	struct mb_cache *s_ea_inode_cache;
 	spinlock_t s_es_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 
 	/* Ratelimit ext4 messages. */
@@ -2100,7 +2101,11 @@ static inline struct ext4_inode *ext4_raw_inode(struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
 	return (struct ext4_inode *) (iloc->bh->b_data + iloc->offset);
 }
 
-#define ext4_is_quota_file(inode) IS_NOQUOTA(inode)
+static inline bool ext4_is_quota_file(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	return IS_NOQUOTA(inode) &&
+	       !(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EA_INODE_FL);
+}
 
 /*
  * This structure is stuffed into the struct file's private_data field
@@ -2493,7 +2498,6 @@ extern int ext4_truncate_restart_trans(handle_t *, struct inode *, int nblocks);
 extern void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *);
 extern int ext4_alloc_da_blocks(struct inode *inode);
 extern void ext4_set_aops(struct inode *inode);
-extern int ext4_meta_trans_blocks(struct inode *, int nrblocks, int chunk);
 extern int ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(struct inode *);
 extern int ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(struct inode *, int nrblocks);
 extern int ext4_zero_partial_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
@@ -2720,19 +2724,20 @@ extern void ext4_group_desc_csum_set(struct super_block *sb, __u32 group,
 extern int ext4_register_li_request(struct super_block *sb,
 				    ext4_group_t first_not_zeroed);
 
-static inline int ext4_has_group_desc_csum(struct super_block *sb)
-{
-	return ext4_has_feature_gdt_csum(sb) ||
-	       EXT4_SB(sb)->s_chksum_driver != NULL;
-}
-
 static inline int ext4_has_metadata_csum(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(ext4_has_feature_metadata_csum(sb) &&
 		     !EXT4_SB(sb)->s_chksum_driver);
 
-	return (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_chksum_driver != NULL);
+	return ext4_has_feature_metadata_csum(sb) &&
+	       (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_chksum_driver != NULL);
 }
+
+static inline int ext4_has_group_desc_csum(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	return ext4_has_feature_gdt_csum(sb) || ext4_has_metadata_csum(sb);
+}
+
 static inline ext4_fsblk_t ext4_blocks_count(struct ext4_super_block *es)
 {
 	return ((ext4_fsblk_t)le32_to_cpu(es->s_blocks_count_hi) << 32) |