Hi folks,
We'd like to hear if there are potential suggestions or
maybe objections of EROFS upstreaming stuffs. If any,
we still have time and we can improve it in this round.
As related materials mentioned before, the goal of EROFS
filesystem is to save extra storage space with guaranteed
end-to-end performance for read-only files, which has better
performance over exist Linux compression filesystems based
on fixed-sized output compression and inplace decompression.
It even has better performance in a large compression ratio
range compared with generic uncompressed filesystems with
proper CPU-storage combinations. And we think this direction
is right and we have a dedicated kernel team working on it,
enough testers and beta / end users using it.
EROFS has been applied to 10+ million HUAWEI mobile phones
(Yes, the number is still increasing by time) and it seems
like a success. It can be used in more wider scenarios.
We think it's useful for Linux / Android OS community and
it's the time moving out of staging.
EROFS is a self-contained filesystem driver. Although there
are still some TODOs, we will keep on developping / tuning
EROFS with the evolution of Linux kernel as the other
in-kernel filesystems.
Kindly share your comments about EROFS. Thank you in advance!
Thanks,
Gao Xiang
Changelog from v5:
o keep up with "[PATCH v2] staging: erofs: updates according to erofs-outofstaging v4"
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190731155752.210602-1-gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx/
which mainly addresses review comments from Chao:
- keep the marco EROFS_IO_MAX_RETRIES_NOFAIL in internal.h;
- kill a redundant NULL check in "__stagingpage_alloc";
- add some descriptions in document about "use_vmap";
- rearrange erofs_vmap of "staging: erofs: kill CONFIG_EROFS_FS_USE_VM_MAP_RAM";
o all changes have been merged into staging tree, which are under staging-testing:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/log/?h=staging-testing
It can also be found in git at tag "erofs_2019-08-02" at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/linux.git/
and the latest fs code is available at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/linux.git/tree/fs/erofs?h=erofs-outofstaging
Changelog from v4:
o rebase on Linus 5.3-rc1;
o keep up with "staging: erofs: updates according to erofs-outofstaging v4"
in order to get main code bit-for-bit identical with staging tree:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190729065159.62378-1-gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx/
Changelog from v3:
o use GPL-2.0-only for SPDX-License-Identifier suggested by Stephen;
o kill all kconfig cache strategies and turn them into mount options
"cache_strategy={disable|readahead|readaround}" suggested by Ted.
As the first step, cached pages can still be usable after cache is
disabled by remounting, and these pages will be fallen out over
time, which can be refined in the later version if some requirement
is needed. Update related document as well;
o turn on CONFIG_EROFS_FS_SECURITY by default suggested by David;
o kill CONFIG_EROFS_FS_IO_MAX_RETRIES and fold it into code; turn
EROFS_FS_USE_VM_MAP_RAM into a module parameter ("use_vmap")
suggested by David.
Changelog from v2:
o kill sbi->dev_name and clean up all failure handling in
fill_super() suggested by Al.
Note that the initialzation of managed_cache is now moved
after s_root is assigned since it's more preferred to iput()
in .put_super() and all inodes should be evicted before
the end of generic_shutdown_super(sb);
o fold in the following staging patches (and thanks):
staging: erofs:converting all 'unsigned' to 'unsigned int'
staging: erofs: Remove function erofs_kill_sb()
- However it was revoked due to erofs_kill_sb reused...
staging: erofs: avoid opened loop codes
staging: erofs: support bmap
o move EROFS_SUPER_MAGIC_V1 from linux/fs/erofs/erofs_fs.h to
include/uapi/linux/magic.h for userspace utilities.
Changelog from v1:
o resend the whole filesystem into a patchset suggested by Greg;
o code is more cleaner, especially for decompression frontend.
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Hi,
EROFS file system has been in Linux-staging for about a year.
It has been proved to be stable enough to move out of staging
by 10+ millions of HUAWEI Android mobile phones on the market
from EMUI 9.0.1, and it was promoted as one of the key features
of EMUI 9.1 [1], including P30(pro).
EROFS is a read-only file system designed to save extra storage
space with guaranteed end-to-end performance by applying
fixed-size output compression, inplace I/O and decompression
inplace technologies [2] to Linux filesystem.
In our observation, EROFS is one of the fastest Linux compression
filesystem using buffered I/O in the world. It will support
direct I/O in the future if needed. EROFS even has better read
performance in a large CR range compared with generic uncompressed
file systems with proper CPU-storage combination, which is
a reason why EROFS can be landed to speed up mobile phone
performance, and which can be probably used for other use cases
such as LiveCD and Docker image as well.
Currently EROFS supports 4k LZ4 fixed-size output compression
since LZ4 is the fastest widely-used decompression solution in
the world and 4k leads to unnoticable read amplification for
the worst case. More compression algorithms and cluster sizes
could be added later, which depends on the real requirement.
More information about EROFS itself are available at:
Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt
https://kccncosschn19eng.sched.com/event/Nru2/erofs-an-introduction-and-our-smartphone-practice-xiang-gao-huawei
erofs-utils (mainly mkfs.erofs now) is available at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs-utils.git
Preliminary iomap support has been pending in EROFS mailing
list by Chao Yu. The key issue is that current iomap doesn't
support tail-end packing inline data yet, it should be
resolved later.
Thanks to many contributors in the last year, the code is more
clean and improved. We hope EROFS can be used in wider use cases
so let's promote erofs out of staging and enhance it more actively.
Kindly share comments about EROFS! We think EROFS is useful to
community as a part of Linux upstream.
Thank you very much,
Gao Xiang
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20190627021241/https://consumer.huawei.com/en/emui/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190624072258.28362-1-hsiangkao@xxxxxxx/
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Darrick J . Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaoxie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Guifu <bluce.liguifu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fang Wei <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx>
Gao Xiang (24):
erofs: add on-disk layout
erofs: add erofs in-memory stuffs
erofs: add super block operations
erofs: add raw address_space operations
erofs: add inode operations
erofs: support special inode
erofs: add directory operations
erofs: add namei functions
erofs: support tracepoint
erofs: update Kconfig and Makefile
erofs: introduce xattr & posixacl support
erofs: introduce tagged pointer
erofs: add compression indexes support
erofs: introduce superblock registration
erofs: introduce erofs shrinker
erofs: introduce workstation for decompression
erofs: introduce per-CPU buffers implementation
erofs: introduce pagevec for decompression subsystem
erofs: add erofs_allocpage()
erofs: introduce generic decompression backend
erofs: introduce LZ4 decompression inplace
erofs: introduce the decompression frontend
erofs: introduce cached decompression
erofs: add document
Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt | 225 +++++
fs/Kconfig | 1 +
fs/Makefile | 1 +
fs/erofs/Kconfig | 98 ++
fs/erofs/Makefile | 11 +
fs/erofs/compress.h | 62 ++
fs/erofs/data.c | 429 ++++++++
fs/erofs/decompressor.c | 360 +++++++
fs/erofs/dir.c | 147 +++
fs/erofs/erofs_fs.h | 316 ++++++
fs/erofs/inode.c | 326 +++++++
fs/erofs/internal.h | 554 +++++++++++
fs/erofs/namei.c | 251 +++++
fs/erofs/super.c | 666 +++++++++++++
fs/erofs/tagptr.h | 110 +++
fs/erofs/utils.c | 335 +++++++
fs/erofs/xattr.c | 700 +++++++++++++
fs/erofs/xattr.h | 94 ++
fs/erofs/zdata.c | 1405 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/erofs/zdata.h | 195 ++++
fs/erofs/zmap.c | 462 +++++++++
fs/erofs/zpvec.h | 159 +++
include/trace/events/erofs.h | 256 +++++
include/uapi/linux/magic.h | 1 +
24 files changed, 7164 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/Kconfig
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/Makefile
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/compress.h
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/data.c
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/decompressor.c
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/dir.c
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/erofs_fs.h
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/inode.c
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/internal.h
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/namei.c
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/super.c
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/tagptr.h
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/utils.c
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/xattr.c
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/xattr.h
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/zdata.c
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/zdata.h
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/zmap.c
create mode 100644 fs/erofs/zpvec.h
create mode 100644 include/trace/events/erofs.h
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