If we get an IO error on a synchronous superblock write, we attach an
error release function to it so that when the last reference goes away
the release function is called and the buffer is invalidated and
unlocked. The buffer is left locked until the release function is
called so that other concurrent users of the buffer will be locked out
until the buffer error is fully processed.
Unfortunately, for the superblock buffer the filesyetm itself holds a
reference to the buffer which prevents the reference count from
dropping to zero and the release function being called. As a result,
once an IO error occurs on a sync write, the buffer will never be
unlocked and all future attempts to lock the buffer will hang.
To make matters worse, this problems is not unique to such buffers;
if there is a concurrent _xfs_buf_find() running, the lookup will grab
a reference to the buffer and then wait on the buffer lock, preventing
the reference count from ever falling to zero and hence unlocking the
buffer.
As such, the whole b_relse function implementation is broken because it
cannot rely on the buffer reference count falling to zero to unlock the
errored buffer. The synchronous write error path is the only path that
uses this callback - it is used to ensure that the synchronous waiter
gets the buffer error before the error state is cleared from the buffer
by the release function.
Given that the only sychronous buffer writes now go through xfs_bwrite
and the error path in question can only occur for a write of a dirty,
logged buffer, we can move most of the b_relse processing to happen
inline in xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, just like a normal I/O completion.
In addition to that we make sure the error is not cleared in
xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, so that xfs_bwrite can reliably check it.
Given that xfs_bwrite keeps the buffer locked until it has waited for
it and checked the error this allows to reliably propagate the error
to the caller, and make sure that the buffer is reliably unlocked.
Given that xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks was the only instance of the
b_relse callback we can remove it entirely.
Based on earlier patches by Dave Chinner and Ajeet Yadav.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Allow manual discards from userspace using the FITRIM ioctl. This is not
intended to be run during normal workloads, as the freepsace btree walks
can cause large performance degradation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To ensure the log is covered and the filesystem idles correctly, we
need to ensure that dummy transactions hit the disk and do not stay
pinned in memory. If the superblock is pinned in memory, it can't
be flushed so the log covering cannot make progress. The result is
dependent on timing - more oftent han not we continue to issues a
log covering transaction every 36s rather than idling after ~90s.
Fix this by making the log covering transaction synchronous. To
avoid additional log force from xfssyncd, make the log covering
transaction take the place of the existing log force in the xfssyncd
background sync process.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
This merge pulls the XFS master branch into the latest Linus master.
This results in a merge conflict whose best fix is not obvious.
I manually fixed the conflict, in "fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c".
Dave Chinner had done work that resulted in RCU freeing of inodes
separate from what Nick Piggin had done, and their results differed
slightly in xfs_inode_free(). The fix updates Nick's call_rcu()
with the use of VFS_I(), while incorporating needed updates to some
XFS inode fields implemented in Dave's series. Dave's RCU callback
function has also been removed.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When two concurrent unaligned, non-overlapping direct IOs are issued
to the same block, the direct Io layer will race to zero the block.
The result is that one of the concurrent IOs will overwrite data
written by the other IO with zeros. This is demonstrated by the
xfsqa test 240.
To avoid this problem, serialise all unaligned direct IOs to an
inode with a big hammer. We need a big hammer approach as we need to
serialise AIO as well, so we can't just block writes on locks.
Hence, the big hammer is calling xfs_ioend_wait() while holding out
other unaligned direct IOs from starting.
We don't bother trying to serialised aligned vs unaligned IOs as
they are overlapping IO and the result of concurrent overlapping IOs
is undefined - the result of either IO is a valid result so we let
them race. Hence we only penalise unaligned IO, which already has a
major overhead compared to aligned IO so this isn't a major problem.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The buffered IO and direct IO write paths share a common set of
checks and limiting code prior to issuing the write. Factor that
into a common helper function.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Complete the split of the different write IO paths by splitting the
buffered IO write path out of xfs_file_aio_write(). This makes the
different mechanisms of the write patchs easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The current xfs_file_aio_write code is a mess of locking shenanigans
to handle the different locking requirements of buffered and direct
IO. Start to clean this up by disentangling the direct IO path from
the mess.
This also removes the failed direct IO fallback path to buffered IO.
XFS handles all direct IO cases without needing to fall back to
buffered IO, so we can safely remove this unused path. This greatly
simplifies the logic and locking needed in the write path.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
We need to obtain the i_mutex, i_iolock and i_ilock during the read
and write paths. Add a set of wrapper functions to neatly
encapsulate the lock ordering and shared/exclusive semantics to make
the locking easier to follow and get right.
Note that this changes some of the exclusive locking serialisation in
that serialisation will occur against the i_mutex instead of the
XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL. This does not change any behaviour, and it is
arguably more efficient to use the mutex for such serialisation than
the rw_sem.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
xfs_file_aio_write() only returns the error from synchronous
flushing of the data and inode if error == 0. At the point where
error is being checked, it is guaranteed to be > 0. Therefore any
errors returned by the data or fsync flush will never be returned.
Fix the checks so we overwrite the current error once and only if an
error really occurred.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This simple implementation just checks for no ACLs on the inode, and
if so, then the rcu-walk may proceed, otherwise fail it.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Conflicts:
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Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
The log grant ticket wait queues are currently protected by the log
grant lock. However, the queues are functionally independent from
each other, and operations on them only require serialisation
against other queue operations now that all of the other log
variables they use are atomic values.
Hence, we can make them independent of the grant lock by introducing
new locks just to protect the lists operations. because the lists
are independent, we can use a lock per list and ensure that reserve
and write head queuing do not contend.
To ensure forced shutdowns work correctly in conjunction with the
new fast paths, ensure that we check whether the log has been shut
down in the grant functions once we hold the relevant spin locks but
before we go to sleep. This is needed to co-ordinate correctly with
the wakeups that are issued on the ticket queues so we don't leave
any processes sleeping on the queues during a shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
log->l_tail_lsn is currently protected by the log grant lock. The
lock is only needed for serialising readers against writers, so we
don't really need the lock if we make the l_tail_lsn variable an
atomic. Converting the l_tail_lsn variable to an atomic64_t means we
can start to peel back the grant lock from various operations.
Also, provide functions to safely crack an atomic LSN variable into
it's component pieces and to recombined the components into an
atomic variable. Use them where appropriate.
This also removes the need for explicitly holding a spinlock to read
the l_tail_lsn on 32 bit platforms.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
The log grant queues are one of the few places left using sv_t
constructs for waiting. Given we are touching this code, we should
convert them to plain wait queues. While there, convert all the
other sv_t users in the log code as well.
Seeing as this removes the last users of the sv_t type, remove the
header file defining the wrapper and the fragments that still
reference it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Prepare for switching the grant heads to atomic variables by
combining the two 32 bit values that make up the grant head into a
single 64 bit variable. Provide wrapper functions to combine and
split the grant heads appropriately for calculations and use them as
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The grant write and reserve queues use a roll-your-own double linked
list, so convert it to a standard list_head structure and convert
all the list traversals to use list_for_each_entry(). We can also
get rid of the XLOG_TIC_IN_Q flag as we can use the list_empty()
check to tell if the ticket is in a list or not.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The xfaild often tries to rest to wait for congestion to pass of for
IO to complete, but is regularly woken in tail-pushing situations.
In severe cases, the xfsaild is getting woken tens of thousands of
times a second. Reduce the number needless wakeups by only waking
the xfsaild if the new target is larger than the old one. Further
make short sleeps uninterruptible as they occur when the xfsaild has
decided it needs to back off to allow some IO to complete and being
woken early is counter-productive.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Now that the buffer reclaim infrastructure can handle different reclaim
priorities for different types of buffers, reconnect the hooks in the
XFS code that has been sitting dormant since it was ported to Linux. This
should finally give use reclaim prioritisation that is on a par with the
functionality that Irix provided XFS 15 years ago.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Introduce a per-buftarg LRU for memory reclaim to operate on. This
is the last piece we need to put in place so that we can fully
control the buffer lifecycle. This allows XFS to be responsibile for
maintaining the working set of buffers under memory pressure instead
of relying on the VM reclaim not to take pages we need out from
underneath us.
The implementation introduces a b_lru_ref counter into the buffer.
This is currently set to 1 whenever the buffer is referenced and so is used to
determine if the buffer should be added to the LRU or not when freed.
Effectively it allows lazy LRU initialisation of the buffer so we do not need
to touch the LRU list and locks in xfs_buf_find().
Instead, when the buffer is being released and we drop the last
reference to it, we check the b_lru_ref count and if it is none zero
we re-add the buffer reference and add the inode to the LRU. The
b_lru_ref counter is decremented by the shrinker, and whenever the
shrinker comes across a buffer with a zero b_lru_ref counter, if
released the LRU reference on the buffer. In the absence of a lookup
race, this will result in the buffer being freed.
This counting mechanism is used instead of a reference flag so that
it is simple to re-introduce buffer-type specific reclaim reference
counts to prioritise reclaim more effectively. We still have all
those hooks in the XFS code, so this will provide the infrastructure
to re-implement that functionality.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
As reported by Nick Piggin, XFS is suffering from long pauses under
highly concurrent workloads when hosted on ramdisks. The problem is
that an inode buffer is stuck in the pinned state in memory and as a
result either the inode buffer or one of the inodes within the
buffer is stopping the tail of the log from being moved forward.
The system remains in this state until a periodic log force issued
by xfssyncd causes the buffer to be unpinned. The main problem is
that these are stale buffers, and are hence held locked until the
transaction/checkpoint that marked them state has been committed to
disk. When the filesystem gets into this state, only the xfssyncd
can cause the async transactions to be committed to disk and hence
unpin the inode buffer.
This problem was encountered when scaling the busy extent list, but
only the blocking lock interface was fixed to solve the problem.
Extend the same fix to the buffer trylock operations - if we fail to
lock a pinned, stale buffer, then force the log immediately so that
when the next attempt to lock it comes around, it will have been
unpinned.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Since the move to the new truncate sequence we call xfs_setattr to
truncate down excessively instanciated blocks. As shown by the testcase
in kernel.org BZ #22452 that doesn't work too well. Due to the confusion
of the internal inode size, and the VFS inode i_size it zeroes data that
it shouldn't.
But full blown truncate seems like overkill here. We only instanciate
delayed allocations in the write path, and given that we never released
the iolock we can't have converted them to real allocations yet either.
The only nasty case is pre-existing preallocation which we need to skip.
We already do this for page discard during writeback, so make the delayed
allocation block punching a generic function and call it from the failed
write path as well as xfs_aops_discard_page. The callers are
responsible for ensuring that partial blocks are not truncated away,
and that they hold the ilock.
Based on a fix originally from Christoph Hellwig. This version used
filesystem blocks as the range unit.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Before we introduce per-buftarg LRU lists, split the shrinker
implementation into per-buftarg shrinker callbacks. At the moment
we wake all the xfsbufds to run the delayed write queues to free
the dirty buffers and make their pages available for reclaim.
However, with an LRU, we want to be able to free clean, unused
buffers as well, so we need to separate the xfsbufd from the
shrinker callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
now that we are using RCU protection for the inode cache lookups,
the lock is only needed on the modification side. Hence it is not
necessary for the lock to be a rwlock as there are no read side
holders anymore. Convert it to a spin lock to reflect it's exclusive
nature.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
With delayed logging greatly increasing the sustained parallelism of inode
operations, the inode cache locking is showing significant read vs write
contention when inode reclaim runs at the same time as lookups. There is
also a lot more write lock acquistions than there are read locks (4:1 ratio)
so the read locking is not really buying us much in the way of parallelism.
To avoid the read vs write contention, change the cache to use RCU locking on
the read side. To avoid needing to RCU free every single inode, use the built
in slab RCU freeing mechanism. This requires us to be able to detect lookups of
freed inodes, so enѕure that ever freed inode has an inode number of zero and
the XFS_IRECLAIM flag set. We already check the XFS_IRECLAIM flag in cache hit
lookup path, but also add a check for a zero inode number as well.
We canthen convert all the read locking lockups to use RCU read side locking
and hence remove all read side locking.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The XFS iolock needs to be re-initialised to a new lock class before
it enters reclaim to prevent lockdep false positives. Unfortunately,
this is not sufficient protection as inodes in the XFS_IRECLAIMABLE
state can be recycled and not re-initialised before being reused.
We need to re-initialise the lock state when transfering out of
XFS_IRECLAIMABLE state to XFS_INEW, but we need to keep the same
class as if the inode was just allocated. Hence we need a specific
lockdep class variable for the iolock so that both initialisations
use the same class.
While there, add a specific class for inodes in the reclaim state so
that it is easy to tell from lockdep reports what state the inode
was in that generated the report.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Use a goto label to consolidate all block not found cases, and add a
tracepoint for them. Also clean up a few whitespace issues.
Based on an earlier patch from Dave Chinner.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Move the buffer locking into the callers as they need to do it
wether they call xfs_map_at_offset or not. Remove the b_bdev
assignment, which is already done by get_blocks. Remove the
duplicate extent type asserts in xfs_convert_page just before
calling xfs_map_at_offset.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
After the last patches the code for overwrites is the same as for
delayed and unwritten extents except that it doesn't need to call
xfs_map_at_offset. Take care of that fact to simplify
xfs_vm_writepage.
The buffer loop now first checks the type of buffer and checks/sets
the ioend type, or continues to the next buffer if it's not
interesting to us. Only after that we validate the iomap and
perform the block mapping if needed, all in common code for the
cases where we have to do work.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The all_bh flag is always set when entering the page clustering
machinery with a regular written extent, which means the check for
it is superflous.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
xfs_map_blocks always calls xfs_bmapi with the XFS_BMAPI_ENTIRE
entire flag, which tells it to not cap the extent at the passed in
size, but just treat the size as an minimum to map. This means
xfs_probe_cluster is entirely useless as we'll always get the whole
extent back anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
No need to lock the extent map exclusive when performing an
overwrite, we know the extent map must already have been loaded by
get_blocks. Apply the non-blocking inode semantics to all mapping
types instead of just delayed allocations. Remove the handling of
not yet allocated blocks for the IO_UNWRITTEN case - if an extent is
marked as unwritten allocated in the buffer it must already have an
extent on disk.
Add asserts to verify all the assumptions above in debug builds.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Opencode the xfs_iomap code in it's two callers. The overlap of
passed flags already was minimal and will be further reduced in the
next patch.
As a side effect the BMAPI_* flags for xfs_bmapi and the IO_* flags
for I/O end processing are merged into a single set of flags, which
should be a bit more descriptive of the operation we perform.
Also improve the tracing by giving each caller it's own type set of
tracepoints.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Don't trylock the buffer. We are the only one ever locking it for a
regular file address space, and trylock was only copied from the
generic code which did it due to the old buffer based writeout in
jbd. Also make sure to only write out the buffer if the iomap
actually is valid, because we wouldn't have a proper mapping
otherwise. In practice we will never get an invalid mapping here as
the page lock guarantees truncate doesn't race with us, but better
be safe than sorry. Also make sure we allocate a new ioend when
crossing boundaries between mappings, just like we do for delalloc
and unwritten extents. Again this currently doesn't matter as the
I/O end handler only cares for the boundaries for unwritten extents,
but this makes the code fully correct and the same as for
delalloc/unwritten extents.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
We'll never have BIO_EOPNOTSUPP set after calling submit_bio as this
can only happen for discards, and used to happen for barriers, none
of which is every submitted by xfs_submit_ioend_bio. Also remove
the loop around bio_alloc as it will never fail due to it's mempool
backing.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Currently we only refuse a "read-only" mapping for writing out
unwritten and delayed buffers, and refuse any other for overwrites.
Improve the checks to require delalloc mappings for delayed buffers,
and unwritten extent mappings for unwritten extents.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
We now support mounting and using filesystems with 64-bit inodes
even when not mounted with the inode64 option (which now only
controls if we allocate new inodes in that space or not). Make sure
we always use large NFS file handles when exporting a filesystem
that may contain 64-bit inodes. Note that this only affects newly
generated file handles, any outstanding 32-bit file handle is still
accepted.
[hch: the comment and commit log are mine, the rest is from a patch
snipplet from Samuel]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
After recent blkdev_get() modifications, open_by_devnum() and
open_bdev_exclusive() are simple wrappers around blkdev_get().
Replace them with blkdev_get_by_dev() and blkdev_get_by_path().
blkdev_get_by_dev() is identical to open_by_devnum().
blkdev_get_by_path() is slightly different in that it doesn't
automatically add %FMODE_EXCL to @mode.
All users are converted. Most conversions are mechanical and don't
introduce any behavior difference. There are several exceptions.
* btrfs now sets FMODE_EXCL in btrfs_device->mode, so there's no
reason to OR it explicitly on blkdev_put().
* gfs2, nilfs2 and the generic mount_bdev() now set FMODE_EXCL in
sb->s_mode.
* With the above changes, sb->s_mode now always should contain
FMODE_EXCL. WARN_ON_ONCE() added to kill_block_super() to detect
errors.
The new blkdev_get_*() functions are with proper docbook comments.
While at it, add function description to blkdev_get() too.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Over time, block layer has accumulated a set of APIs dealing with bdev
open, close, claim and release.
* blkdev_get/put() are the primary open and close functions.
* bd_claim/release() deal with exclusive open.
* open/close_bdev_exclusive() are combination of open and claim and
the other way around, respectively.
* bd_link/unlink_disk_holder() to create and remove holder/slave
symlinks.
* open_by_devnum() wraps bdget() + blkdev_get().
The interface is a bit confusing and the decoupling of open and claim
makes it impossible to properly guarantee exclusive access as
in-kernel open + claim sequence can disturb the existing exclusive
open even before the block layer knows the current open if for another
exclusive access. Reorganize the interface such that,
* blkdev_get() is extended to include exclusive access management.
@holder argument is added and, if is @FMODE_EXCL specified, it will
gain exclusive access atomically w.r.t. other exclusive accesses.
* blkdev_put() is similarly extended. It now takes @mode argument and
if @FMODE_EXCL is set, it releases an exclusive access. Also, when
the last exclusive claim is released, the holder/slave symlinks are
removed automatically.
* bd_claim/release() and close_bdev_exclusive() are no longer
necessary and either made static or removed.
* bd_link_disk_holder() remains the same but bd_unlink_disk_holder()
is no longer necessary and removed.
* open_bdev_exclusive() becomes a simple wrapper around lookup_bdev()
and blkdev_get(). It also has an unexpected extra bdev_read_only()
test which probably should be moved into blkdev_get().
* open_by_devnum() is modified to take @holder argument and pass it to
blkdev_get().
Most of bdev open/close operations are unified into blkdev_get/put()
and most exclusive accesses are tested atomically at the open time (as
it should). This cleans up code and removes some, both valid and
invalid, but unnecessary all the same, corner cases.
open_bdev_exclusive() and open_by_devnum() can use further cleanup -
rename to blkdev_get_by_path() and blkdev_get_by_devt() and drop
special features. Well, let's leave them for another day.
Most conversions are straight-forward. drbd conversion is a bit more
involved as there was some reordering, but the logic should stay the
same.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
In commit 20cb52ebd1, titled
"xfs: simplify xfs_vm_writepage" I added an assert that any !mapped and
uptodate buffers are not dirty. That asserts turns out to trigger a lot
when running fsx on filesystems with small block sizes. The reason for
that is that the assert is simply incorrect. !mapped and uptodate
just mean this buffer covers a hole, and whenever we do a set_page_dirty
we mark all blocks in the page dirty, no matter if they have data or
not. So remove the assert, and update the comment above the condition
to match reality.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
XFS does not need it's inodes to actuall be hashed in the VFS inode
cache, but we require the inode to be marked hashed for the
writeback code to work.
Insted of using insert_inode_hash, which requires a second
inode_lock roundtrip after the partial merge of the inode
scalability patches in 2.6.37-rc simply use the new hlist_add_fake
helper to mark it hashed without requiring a lock or touching a
global cache line.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The delayed write buffer split trace currently issues a trace for
every buffer it scans. These buffers are not necessarily queued for
delayed write. Indeed, when buffers are pinned, there can be
thousands of traces of buffers that aren't actually queued for
delayed write and the ones that are are lost in the noise. Move the
trace point to record only buffers that are split out for IO to be
issued on.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The walk fails to decrement the per-ag reference count when the
non-blocking walk fails to obtain the per-ag reclaim lock, leading
to an assert failure on debug kernels when unmounting a filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
al_hreq is copied from userland. If al_hreq.buflen is not properly aligned
then xfs_attr_list will ignore the last bytes of kbuf. These bytes are
unitialized. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
We promised to do this for 2.6.37, and the code looks stable enough to
keep that promise.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
split invalidate_inodes()
fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
fsnotify: use dget_parent
smbfs: use dget_parent
exportfs: use dget_parent
fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
fs: clean up dentry lru modification
fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
fs: simplify __d_free
fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
new helper: ihold()
...
This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efe
(writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks). There are
no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the
ext4 tracing interface.
The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the
flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on
IO congestion. The latter will lead to more seeky IO.
The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's
redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check.
We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because
a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code
b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior:
that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which
is unfair in terms of LRU age.
Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
by themselves. For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
but that's left for later patches.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Split up inode_add_to_list/__inode_add_to_list. Locking for the two
lists will be split soon so these helpers really don't buy us much
anymore.
The __ prefixes for the sb list helpers will go away soon, but until
inode_lock is gone we'll need them to distinguish between the locked
and unlocked variants.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
__block_write_begin and block_prepare_write are identical except for slightly
different calling conventions. Convert all callers to the __block_write_begin
calling conventions and drop block_prepare_write.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (36 commits)
xfs: semaphore cleanup
xfs: Extend project quotas to support 32bit project ids
xfs: remove xfs_buf wrappers
xfs: remove xfs_cred.h
xfs: remove xfs_globals.h
xfs: remove xfs_version.h
xfs: remove xfs_refcache.h
xfs: fix the xfs_trans_committed
xfs: remove unused t_callback field in struct xfs_trans
xfs: fix bogus m_maxagi check in xfs_iget
xfs: do not use xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch for per-cpu counters
xfs: do not use xfs_mod_incore_sb for per-cpu counters
xfs: remove XFS_MOUNT_NO_PERCPU_SB
xfs: pack xfs_buf structure more tightly
xfs: convert buffer cache hash to rbtree
xfs: serialise inode reclaim within an AG
xfs: batch inode reclaim lookup
xfs: implement batched inode lookups for AG walking
xfs: split out inode walk inode grabbing
xfs: split inode AG walking into separate code for reclaim
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: remove in_workqueue_context()
workqueue: Clarify that schedule_on_each_cpu is synchronous
memory_hotplug: drop spurious calls to flush_scheduled_work()
shpchp: update workqueue usage
pciehp: update workqueue usage
isdn/eicon: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from diva_os_remove_soft_isr()
workqueue: add and use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag
workqueue: fix HIGHPRI handling in keep_working()
workqueue: add queue_work and activate_work trace points
workqueue: prepare for more tracepoints
workqueue: implement flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
workqueue: factor out start_flush_work()
workqueue: cleanup flush/cancel functions
workqueue: implement alloc_ordered_workqueue()
Fix up trivial conflict in fs/gfs2/main.c as per Tejun
Get rid of init_MUTEX[_LOCKED]() and use sema_init() instead.
(Ported to current XFS code by <aelder@sgi.com>.)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
This patch adds support for 32bit project quota identifiers.
On disk format is backward compatible with 16bit projid numbers. projid
on disk is now kept in two 16bit values - di_projid_lo (which holds the
same position as old 16bit projid value) and new di_projid_hi (takes
existing padding) and converts from/to 32bit value on the fly.
xfs_admin (for existing fs), mkfs.xfs (for new fs) needs to be used
to enable PROJID32BIT support.
Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Stop having two different names for many buffer functions and use
the more descriptive xfs_buf_* names directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
We're not actually passing around credentials inside XFS for a while
now, so remove all xfs_cred.h with it's cred_t typedef and all
instances of it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
This header only provides one extern that isn't actually declared
anywhere, and shadowed by a macro.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
It used to have a place when it contained an automatically generated
CVS version, but these days it's entirely superflous.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Fail the mount if we can't allocate memory for the per-CPU counters.
This is consistent with how we handle everything else in the mount
path and makes the superblock counter modification a lot simpler.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
pahole reports the struct xfs_buf has quite a few holes in it, so
packing the structure better will reduce the size of it by 16 bytes.
Also, move all the fields used in cache lookups into the first
cacheline.
Before on x86_64:
/* size: 320, cachelines: 5 */
/* sum members: 298, holes: 6, sum holes: 22 */
After on x86_64:
/* size: 304, cachelines: 5 */
/* padding: 6 */
/* last cacheline: 48 bytes */
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The buffer cache hash is showing typical hash scalability problems.
In large scale testing the number of cached items growing far larger
than the hash can efficiently handle. Hence we need to move to a
self-scaling cache indexing mechanism.
I have selected rbtrees for indexing becuse they can have O(log n)
search scalability, and insert and remove cost is not excessive,
even on large trees. Hence we should be able to cache large numbers
of buffers without incurring the excessive cache miss search
penalties that the hash is imposing on us.
To ensure we still have parallel access to the cache, we need
multiple trees. Rather than hashing the buffers by disk address to
select a tree, it seems more sensible to separate trees by typical
access patterns. Most operations use buffers from within a single AG
at a time, so rather than searching lots of different lists,
separate the buffer indexes out into per-AG rbtrees. This means that
searches during metadata operation have a much higher chance of
hitting cache resident nodes, and that updates of the tree are less
likely to disturb trees being accessed on other CPUs doing
independent operations.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Memory reclaim via shrinkers has a terrible habit of having N+M
concurrent shrinker executions (N = num CPUs, M = num kswapds) all
trying to shrink the same cache. When the cache they are all working
on is protected by a single spinlock, massive contention an
slowdowns occur.
Wrap the per-ag inode caches with a reclaim mutex to serialise
reclaim access to the AG. This will block concurrent reclaim in each
AG but still allow reclaim to scan multiple AGs concurrently. Allow
shrinkers to move on to the next AG if it can't get the lock, and if
we can't get any AG, then start blocking on locks.
To prevent reclaimers from continually scanning the same inodes in
each AG, add a cursor that tracks where the last reclaim got up to
and start from that point on the next reclaim. This should avoid
only ever scanning a small number of inodes at the satart of each AG
and not making progress. If we have a non-shrinker based reclaim
pass, ignore the cursor and reset it to zero once we are done.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Batch and optimise the per-ag inode lookup for reclaim to minimise
scanning overhead. This involves gang lookups on the radix trees to
get multiple inodes during each tree walk, and tighter validation of
what inodes can be reclaimed without blocking befor we take any
locks.
This is based on ideas suggested in a proof-of-concept patch
posted by Nick Piggin.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
With the reclaim code separated from the generic walking code, it is
simple to implement batched lookups for the generic walk code.
Separate out the inode validation from the execute operations and
modify the tree lookups to get a batch of inodes at a time.
Reclaim operations will be optimised separately.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When doing read side inode cache walks, the code to validate and
grab an inode is common to all callers. Split it out of the execute
callbacks in preparation for batching lookups. Similarly, split out
the inode reference dropping from the execute callbacks into the
main lookup look to be symmetric with the grab.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The reclaim walk requires different locking and has a slightly
different walk algorithm, so separate it out so that it can be
optimised separately.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
For RT and external log devices, we never use hashed buffers on them
now. Remove the buftarg hash tables that are set up for them.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Filesystem level managed buffers are buffers that have their
lifecycle controlled by the filesystem layer, not the buffer cache.
We currently cache these buffers, which makes cleanup and cache
walking somewhat troublesome. Convert the fs managed buffers to
uncached buffers obtained by via xfs_buf_get_uncached(), and remove
the XBF_FS_MANAGED special cases from the buffer cache.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Each buffer contains both a buftarg pointer and a mount pointer. If
we add a mount pointer into the buftarg, we can avoid needing the
b_mount field in every buffer and grab it from the buftarg when
needed instead. This shrinks the xfs_buf by 8 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To avoid the need to use cached buffers for single-shot or buffers
cached at the filesystem level, introduce a new buffer read
primitive that bypasses the cache an reads directly from disk.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() is really used to allocate a buffer that is
uncached. While it is not directly assigned a disk address, the fact
that they are not cached is a more important distinction. With the
upcoming uncached buffer read primitive, we should be consistent
with this disctinction.
While there, make page allocation in xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() safe
against memory reclaim re-entrancy into the filesystem by allowing
a flags parameter to be passed.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Under heavy multi-way parallel create workloads, the VFS struggles
to write back all the inodes that have been changed in age order.
The bdi flusher thread becomes CPU bound, spending 85% of it's time
in the VFS code, mostly traversing the superblock dirty inode list
to separate dirty inodes old enough to flush.
We already keep an index of all metadata changes in age order - in
the AIL - and continued log pressure will do age ordered writeback
without any extra overhead at all. If there is no pressure on the
log, the xfssyncd will periodically write back metadata in ascending
disk address offset order so will be very efficient.
Hence we can stop marking VFS inodes dirty during transaction commit
or when changing timestamps during transactions. This will keep the
inodes in the superblock dirty list to those containing data or
unlogged metadata changes.
However, the timstamp changes are slightly more complex than this -
there are a couple of places that do unlogged updates of the
timestamps, and the VFS need to be informed of these. Hence add a
new function xfs_trans_ichgtime() for transactional changes,
and leave xfs_ichgtime() for the non-transactional changes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
When we start taking a reference to the per-ag for every cached
buffer in the system, kernel lockstat profiling on an 8-way create
workload shows the mp->m_perag_lock has higher acquisition rates
than the inode lock and has significantly more contention. That is,
it becomes the highest contended lock in the system.
The perag lookup is trivial to convert to lock-less RCU lookups
because perag structures never go away. Hence the only thing we need
to protect against is tree structure changes during a grow. This can
be done simply by replacing the locking in xfs_perag_get() with RCU
read locking. This removes the mp->m_perag_lock completely from this
path.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE is the equivalent of an atomic XFS_IOC_UNRESVSP/
XFS_IOC_RESVSP call pair. It enabled ranges of written data to be
turned into zeroes without requiring IO or having to free and
reallocate the extents in the range given as would occur if we had
to punch and then preallocate them separately. This enables
applications to zero parts of files very quickly without changing
the layout of the files in any way.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
While XFS passes ranges to operate on from the core code, the
functions being called ignore the either the entire range or the end
of the range. This is historical because when the function were
written linux didn't have the necessary range operations. Update the
functions to use the correct operations.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag which currently maps to WQ_RESCUER, mark
WQ_RESCUER as internal and replace all external WQ_RESCUER usages to
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.
This makes the API users express the intent of the workqueue instead
of indicating the internal mechanism used to guarantee forward
progress. This is also to make it cleaner to add more semantics to
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. For example, if deemed necessary, memory reclaim
workqueues can be made highpri.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When marking an inode reclaimable, a per-AG counter is increased, the
inode is tagged reclaimable in its per-AG tree, and, when this is the
first reclaimable inode in the AG, the AG entry in the per-mount tree
is also tagged.
When an inode is finally reclaimed, however, it is only deleted from
the per-AG tree. Neither the counter is decreased, nor is the parent
tree's AG entry untagged properly.
Since the tags in the per-mount tree are not cleared, the inode
shrinker iterates over all AGs that have had reclaimable inodes at one
point in time.
The counters on the other hand signal an increasing amount of slab
objects to reclaim. Since "70e60ce xfs: convert inode shrinker to
per-filesystem context" this is not a real issue anymore because the
shrinker bails out after one iteration.
But the problem was observable on a machine running v2.6.34, where the
reclaimable work increased and each process going into direct reclaim
eventually got stuck on the xfs inode shrinking path, trying to scan
several million objects.
Fix this by properly unwinding the reclaimable-state tracking of an
inode when it is reclaimed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
All the blkdev_issue_* helpers can only sanely be used for synchronous
caller. To issue cache flushes or barriers asynchronously the caller needs
to set up a bio by itself with a completion callback to move the asynchronous
state machine ahead. So drop the BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag that is always
specified when calling blkdev_issue_* and also remove the now unused flags
argument to blkdev_issue_flush and blkdev_issue_zeroout. For
blkdev_issue_discard we need to keep it for the secure discard flag, which
gains a more descriptive name and loses the bitops vs flag confusion.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The workqueue implementation in 2.6.36-rcX has changed, resulting
in the workqueues no longer having dedicated threads for work
processing. This has caused severe livelocks under heavy parallel
create workloads because the log IO completions have been getting
held up behind metadata IO completions. Hence log commits would
stall, memory allocation would stall because pages could not be
cleaned, and lock contention on the AIL during inode IO completion
processing was being seen to slow everything down even further.
By making the log Io completion workqueue a high priority workqueue,
they are queued ahead of all data/metadata IO completions and
processed before the data/metadata completions. Hence the log never
gets stalled, and operations needed to clean memory can continue as
quickly as possible. This avoids the livelock conditions and allos
the system to keep running under heavy load as per normal.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 12
bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the fsxattr struct
declared on the stack in xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr() does not alter (or zero)
the 12-byte fsx_pad member before copying it back to the user. This
patch takes care of it.
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Switch to the WRITE_FLUSH_FUA flag for log writes and remove the EOPNOTSUPP
detection for barriers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
In xfs_vn_fiemap, we set bvm_count to fi_extent_max + 1 and want
to return fi_extent_max extents, but actually it won't work for
a sparse file. The reason is that in xfs_getbmap we will
calculate holes and set it in 'out', while out is malloced by
bmv_count(fi_extent_max+1) which didn't consider holes. So in the
worst case, if 'out' vector looks like
[hole, extent, hole, extent, hole, ... hole, extent, hole],
we will only return half of fi_extent_max extents.
This patch add a new parameter BMV_IF_NO_HOLES for bvm_iflags.
So with this flags, we don't use our 'out' in xfs_getbmap for
a hole. The solution is a bit ugly by just don't increasing
index of 'out' vector. I felt that it is not easy to skip it
at the very beginning since we have the complicated check and
some function like xfs_getbmapx_fix_eof_hole to adjust 'out'.
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Currently on-disk structure is able to keep only 16bit project quota
id, so disallow 32bit ones. This fixes a problem where parts of
kernel structures holding project quota id are 32bit while parts
(on-disk) are 16bit variables which causes project quota member
files to be inaccessible for some operations (like mv/rm).
Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When doing large parallel file creates on a 16p machines, large amounts of
time is being spent in _xfs_buf_find(). A system wide profile with perf top
shows this:
1134740.00 19.3% _xfs_buf_find
733142.00 12.5% __ticket_spin_lock
The problem is that the hash contains 45,000 buffers, and the hash table width
is only 256 buffers. That means we've got around 200 buffers per chain, and
searching it is quite expensive. The hash table size needs to increase.
Secondly, every time we do a lookup, we promote the buffer we find to the head
of the hash chain. This is causing cachelines to be dirtied and causes
invalidation of cachelines across all CPUs that may have walked the hash chain
recently. hence every walk of the hash chain is effectively a cold cache walk.
Remove the promotion to avoid this invalidation.
The results are:
1045043.00 21.2% __ticket_spin_lock
326184.00 6.6% _xfs_buf_find
A 70% drop in the CPU usage when looking up buffers. Unfortunately that does
not result in an increase in performance underthis workload as contention on
the inode_lock soaks up most of the reduction in CPU usage.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
If xfs_map_blocks returns EAGAIN because of lock contention we must redirty the
page and not disard the pagecache content and return an error from writepage.
We used to do this correctly, but the logic got lost during the recent
reshuffle of the writepage code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Mike Gao <ygao.linux@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Mike Gao <ygao.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
When we need to cover the log, we issue dummy transactions to ensure
the current log tail is on disk. Unfortunately we currently use the
root inode in the dummy transaction, and the act of committing the
transaction dirties the inode at the VFS level.
As a result, the VFS writeback of the dirty inode will prevent the
filesystem from idling long enough for the log covering state
machine to complete. The state machine gets stuck in a loop issuing
new dummy transactions to cover the log and never makes progress.
To avoid this problem, the dummy transactions should not cause
externally visible state changes. To ensure this occurs, make sure
that dummy transactions log an unchanging field in the superblock as
it's state is never propagated outside the filesystem. This allows
the log covering state machine to complete successfully and the
filesystem now correctly enters a fully idle state about 90s after
the last modification was made.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Because of delayed updates to sb_icount field in the super block, it
is possible to allocate over maxicount number of inodes. This
causes the arithmetic to calculate a negative number of free inodes
in user commands like df or stat -f.
Since maxicount is a somewhat arbitrary number, a slight over
allocation is not critical but user commands should be displayed as
0 or greater and never go negative. To do this the value in the
stats buffer f_ffree is capped to never go negative.
[ Modified to use max_t as per Christoph's comment. ]
Signed-off-by: Stu Brodsky <sbrodsky@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
During data integrity (WB_SYNC_ALL) writeback, wbc->nr_to_write will
go negative on inodes with more than 1024 dirty pages due to
implementation details of write_cache_pages(). Currently XFS will
abort page clustering in writeback once nr_to_write drops below
zero, and so for data integrity writeback we will do very
inefficient page at a time allocation and IO submission for inodes
with large numbers of dirty pages.
Fix this by only aborting the page clustering code when
wbc->nr_to_write is negative and the sync mode is WB_SYNC_NONE.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
Fix sget() race with failing mount
vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
BFS: clean up the superblock usage
AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
cifs: truncate fallout
mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
mbcache: Remove unused features
add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
update VFS documentation for method changes.
All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
add I_CLEAR instead of replacing I_FREEING with it. I_CLEAR is
equivalent to I_FREEING for almost all code looking at either;
it's there to keep track of having called clear_inode() exactly
once per inode lifetime, at some point after having set I_FREEING.
I_CLEAR and I_FREEING never get set at the same time with the
current code, so we can switch to setting i_flags to I_FREEING | I_CLEAR
instead of I_CLEAR without loss of information. As the result of
such change, checks become simpler and the amount of code that needs
to know about I_CLEAR shrinks a lot.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
