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Christoph Hellwig
ec90c55634 xfs: remove if_lastex
The if_lastex field in struct xfs_ifork is only used as a temporary
index during xfs_bmapi and xfs_bunmapi.  Instead of using the inode
fork to store it keep it local in the callchain.  Fortunately this
is very easy as we already pass a stack copy of it down the whole
chain which can simplify be changed to be passed by reference.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-25 10:48:37 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
548932739b xfs: remove the unused XFS_BMAPI_RSVBLOCKS flag
The XFS_BMAPI_RSVBLOCKS is unused, and as far as I can see has
always been.  Remove it to simplify the bmapi implementation and
conserve stack space.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-25 10:48:36 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
55a7bc5a30 xfs: do not discard alloc btree blocks
Blocks for the allocation btree are allocated from and released to
the AGFL, and thus frequently reused.  Even worse we do not have an
easy way to avoid using an AGFL block when it is discarded due to
the simple FILO list of free blocks, and thus can frequently stall
on blocks that are currently undergoing a discard.

Add a flag to the busy extent tracking structure to skip the discard
for allocation btree blocks.  In normal operation these blocks are
reused frequently enough that there is no need to discard them
anyway, but if they spill over to the allocation btree as part of a
balance we "leak" blocks that we would otherwise discard.  We could
fix this by adding another flag and keeping these block in the
rbtree even after they aren't busy any more so that we could discard
them when they migrate out of the AGFL.  Given that this would cause
significant overhead I don't think it's worthwile for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-24 11:17:22 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
e84661aa84 xfs: add online discard support
Now that we have reliably tracking of deleted extents in a
transaction we can easily implement "online" discard support
which calls blkdev_issue_discard once a transaction commits.

The actual discard is a two stage operation as we first have
to mark the busy extent as not available for reuse before we
can start the actual discard.  Note that we don't bother
supporting discard for the non-delaylog mode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-24 11:17:13 -05:00
Dave Chinner
bf59170a66 xfs: obey minleft values during extent allocation correctly
When allocating an extent that is long enough to consume the
remaining free space in an AG, we need to ensure that the allocation
leaves enough space in the AG for any subsequent bmap btree blocks
that are needed to track the new extent. These have to be allocated
in the same AG as we only reserve enough blocks in an allocation
transaction for modification of the freespace trees in a single AG.

xfs_alloc_fix_minleft() has been considering blocks on the AGFL as
free blocks available for extent and bmbt block allocation, which is
not correct - blocks on the AGFL are there exclusively for the use
of the free space btrees. As a result, when minleft is less than the
number of blocks on the AGFL, xfs_alloc_fix_minleft() does not trim
the given extent to leave minleft blocks available for bmbt
allocation, and hence we can fail allocation during bmbt record
insertion.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-19 12:03:48 -05:00
Dave Chinner
44396476a0 xfs: reset buffer pointers before freeing them
When we free a vmapped buffer, we need to ensure the vmap address
and length we free is the same as when it was allocated. In various
places in the log code we change the memory the buffer is pointing
to before issuing IO, but we never reset the buffer to point back to
it's original memory (or no memory, if that is the case for the
buffer).

As a result, when we free the buffer it points to memory that is
owned by something else and attempts to unmap and free it. Because
the range does not match any known mapped range, it can trigger
BUG_ON() traps in the vmap code, and potentially corrupt the vmap
area tracking.

Fix this by always resetting these buffers to their original state
before freeing them.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-19 12:03:45 -05:00
Dave Chinner
ee58abdfcc xfs: avoid getting stuck during async inode flushes
When the underlying inode buffer is locked and xfs_sync_inode_attr()
is doing a non-blocking flush, xfs_iflush() can return EAGAIN.  When
this happens, clear the error rather than returning it to
xfs_inode_ag_walk(), as returning EAGAIN will result in the AG walk
delaying for a short while and trying again. This can result in
background walks getting stuck on the one AG until inode buffer is
unlocked by some other means.

This behaviour was noticed when analysing event traces followed by
code inspection and verification of the fix via further traces.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-19 12:03:42 -05:00
Dave Chinner
e57375153d xfs: fix xfs_itruncate_start tracing
Variables are ordered incorrectly in trace call.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-19 12:03:36 -05:00
Dave Chinner
1beb65ad45 xfs: fix duplicate workqueue initialisation
The workqueue initialisation function is called twice when
initialising the XFS subsystem. Remove the second initialisation
call.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-19 12:03:24 -05:00
Joe Perches
e69522a8cc xfs: kill off xfs_printk()
xfs_alert_tag() can be defined using xfs_alert(), and thereby avoid
using xfs_printk() altogether.  This is the only remaining use of
xfs_printk(), so changing it this way means xfs_printk() can simply
be eliminated.can simply be eliminated.can simply be eliminated.can
simply be eliminated.can simply be eliminated.can simply be
eliminated.can simply be eliminated.can simply be eliminated.can
simply be eliminated.

Also add format checking to the non-debug inline function xfs_debug.
Miscellaneous function prototype argument alignment.

(Updated to delete the definition of xfs_printk(), which is
no longer used or needed.)

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-19 11:38:09 -05:00
Dave Chinner
e4d3c4a43b xfs: fix race condition in AIL push trigger
The recent conversion of the xfsaild functionality to a work queue
introduced a hard-to-hit log space grant hang. One is caused by a
race condition in determining whether there is a psh in progress or
not.

The XFS_AIL_PUSHING_BIT is used to determine whether a push is
currently in progress.  When the AIL push work completes, it checked
whether the target changed and cleared the PUSHING bit to allow a
new push to be requeued. The race condition is as follows:

	Thread 1		push work

	smp_wmb()
				smp_rmb()
				check ailp->xa_target unchanged
	update ailp->xa_target
	test/set PUSHING bit
	does not queue
				clear PUSHING bit
				does not requeue

Now that the push target is updated, new attempts to push the AIL
will not trigger as the push target will be the same, and hence
despite trying to push the AIL we won't ever wake it again.

The fix is to ensure that the AIL push work clears the PUSHING bit
before it checks if the target is unchanged.

As a result, both push triggers operate on the same test/set bit
criteria, so even if we race in the push work and miss the target
update, the thread requesting the push will still set the PUSHING
bit and queue the push work to occur. For safety sake, the same
queue check is done if the push work detects the target change,
though only one of the two will will queue new work due to the use
of test_and_set_bit() checks.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-09 12:17:04 -05:00
Dave Chinner
fd5670f22f xfs: make AIL target updates and compares 32bit safe.
The recent conversion of the xfsaild functionality to a work queue
introduced a hard-to-hit log space grant hang. One of the problems
noticed was that updates of the push target are not 32 bit safe as
the target is a 64 bit value.

We cannot copy a 64 bit LSN without the possibility of corrupting
the result when racing with another updating thread. We have
function to do this update safely without needing to care about
32/64 bit issues - xfs_trans_ail_copy_lsn() - so use that when
updating the AIL push target.

Also move the reading of the target in the push work inside the AIL
lock, and use XFS_LSN_CMP() for the unlocked comparison during work
termination to close read holes as well.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-09 12:17:04 -05:00
Dave Chinner
cb64026b6e xfs: always push the AIL to the target
The recent conversion of the xfsaild functionality to a work queue
introduced a hard-to-hit log space grant hang. One of the problems
discovered is a target mismatch between the item pushing loop and
the target itself.

The push trigger checks for the target increasing (i.e. new target >
current) while the push loop only pushes items that have a LSN <
current. As a result, we can get the situation where the push target
is X, the items at the tail of the AIL have LSN X and they don't get
pushed. The push work then completes thinking it is done, and cannot
be restarted until the push target increases to >= X + 1. If the
push target then never increases (because the tail is not moving),
then we never run the push work again and we stall.

Fix it by making sure log items with a LSN that matches the target
exactly are pushed during the loop.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-09 12:17:04 -05:00
Dave Chinner
ea35a20021 xfs: exit AIL push work correctly when AIL is empty
The recent conversion of the xfsaild functionality to a work queue
introduced a hard-to-hit log space grant hang. The main cause is a
regression where a work exit path fails to clear the PUSHING state
and recheck the target correctly.

Make both exit paths do the same PUSHING bit clearing and target
checking when the "no more work to be done" condition is hit.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-09 12:17:03 -05:00
Dave Chinner
b223221956 xfs: ensure reclaim cursor is reset correctly at end of AG
On a 32 bit highmem PowerPC machine, the XFS inode cache was growing
without bound and exhausting low memory causing the OOM killer to be
triggered. After some effort, the problem was reproduced on a 32 bit
x86 highmem machine.

The problem is that the per-ag inode reclaim index cursor was not
getting reset to the start of the AG if the radix tree tag lookup
found no more reclaimable inodes. Hence every further reclaim
attempt started at the same index beyond where any reclaimable
inodes lay, and no further background reclaim ever occurred from the
AG.

Without background inode reclaim the VM driven cache shrinker
simply cannot keep up with cache growth, and OOM is the result.

While the change that exposed the problem was the conversion of the
inode reclaim to use work queues for background reclaim, it was not
the cause of the bug. The bug was introduced when the cursor code
was added, just waiting for some weird configuration to strike....

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-09 12:17:03 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
8c1fdd0be5 xfs: add an x86 compat handler for XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE
XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE uses struct xfs_flock64, and thus requires argument
translation for 32-bit binaries on x86.  Add the required
XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE_32 defined and add it to the list of commands that
require xfs_flock64 translation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-28 13:27:46 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
1a18a29478 xfs: fix compiler warning in xfs_trace.h
xfs_fsblock_t may be a 32-bit type on if XFS_BIG_BLKNOS is not set,
make sure to cast a value of this type to an unsigned long long
before using the ll printk qualifier.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-28 13:27:06 -05:00
David Sterba
45c51b9994 xfs: cleanup duplicate initializations
follow these guidelines:
- leave initialization in the declaration block if it fits the line
- move to the code where it's more suitable ('for' init block)

The last chunk was modified from David's original to be a correct
fix for what appeared to be a duplicate initialization.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-04-28 13:25:29 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
8a072a4d4c xfs: reduce the number of pagb_lock roundtrips in xfs_alloc_clear_busy
Instead of finding the per-ag and then taking and releasing the pagb_lock
for every single busy extent completed sort the list of busy extents and
only switch betweens AGs where nessecary.  This becomes especially important
with the online discard support which will hit this lock more often.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-28 13:18:09 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
97d3ac75e5 xfs: exact busy extent tracking
Update the extent tree in case we have to reuse a busy extent, so that it
always is kept uptodate.  This is done by replacing the busy list searches
with a new xfs_alloc_busy_reuse helper, which updates the busy extent tree
in case of a reuse.  This allows us to allow reusing metadata extents
unconditionally, and thus avoid log forces especially for allocation btree
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-28 13:18:04 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
e26f0501cf xfs: do not immediately reuse busy extent ranges
Every time we reallocate a busy extent, we cause a synchronous log force
to occur to ensure the freeing transaction is on disk before we continue
and use the newly allocated extent.  This is extremely sub-optimal as we
have to mark every transaction with blocks that get reused as synchronous.

Instead of searching the busy extent list after deciding on the extent to
allocate, check each candidate extent during the allocation decisions as
to whether they are in the busy list.  If they are in the busy list, we
trim the busy range out of the extent we have found and determine if that
trimmed range is still OK for allocation. In many cases, this check can
be incorporated into the allocation extent alignment code which already
does trimming of the found extent before determining if it is a valid
candidate for allocation.

Based on earlier patches from Dave Chinner.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-28 13:18:01 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
a870acd9b2 xfs: optimize AGFL refills
While we need to make sure we do not reuse busy extents, there is no need
to force out busy extents when moving them between the AGFL and the
freespace btree as we still take care of that when doing the real allocation.

To avoid the log force when just moving extents from the different free
space tracking structures, move the busy search out of
xfs_alloc_get_freelist into the callers that need it, and move the busy
list insert from xfs_free_ag_extent which is used both by AGFL refills
and real allocation to xfs_free_extent, which is only used by the latter.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-28 13:17:56 -05:00
Dave Chinner
3eff126899 xfs: fix duplicate message output
Commit 957935dc ("xfs: fix xfs_debug warnings" broke the logic in
__xfs_printk(). Instead of only printing one of two possible output
strings based on whether the fs has a name or not, it outputs both.
Fix it to only output one message again.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-20 11:36:49 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
1e05ff020f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: use proper interfaces for on-stack plugging
  xfs: fix xfs_debug warnings
  xfs: fix variable set but not used warnings
  xfs: convert log tail checking to a warning
  xfs: catch bad block numbers freeing extents.
  xfs: push the AIL from memory reclaim and periodic sync
  xfs: clean up code layout in xfs_trans_ail.c
  xfs: convert the xfsaild threads to a workqueue
  xfs: introduce background inode reclaim work
  xfs: convert ENOSPC inode flushing to use new syncd workqueue
  xfs: introduce a xfssyncd workqueue
  xfs: fix extent format buffer allocation size
  xfs: fix unreferenced var error in xfs_buf.c

Also, applied patch from Tony Luck that fixes ia64:
  xfs_destroy_workqueues() should not be tagged with__exit
in the branch before merging.
2011-04-11 15:48:57 -07:00
Luck, Tony
39411f81ee xfs_destroy_workqueues() should not be tagged with__exit
ia64 throws away .exit sections for the built-in CONFIG case, so routines
that are used in other circumstances should not be tagged as __exit.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-11 15:47:20 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
a1b7ea5d58 xfs: use proper interfaces for on-stack plugging
Add proper blk_start_plug/blk_finish_plug pairs for the two places where
we issue buffer I/O, and remove the blk_flush_plug in xfs_buf_lock and
xfs_buf_iowait, given that context switches already flush the per-process
plugging lists.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 08:09:28 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
957935dcd8 xfs: fix xfs_debug warnings
For a CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG=n build gcc complains about statements with no
effect in xfs_debug:

fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c: In function 'xfs_qm_scall_trunc_qfiles':
fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c:291:3: warning: statement with no effect

The reason for that is that the various new xfs message functions have a
return value which is never used, and in case of the non-debug build
xfs_debug the macro evaluates to a plain 0 which produces the above
warnings.  This can be fixed by turning xfs_debug into an inline function
instead of a macro, but in addition to that I've also changed all the
message helpers to return void as we never use their return values.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 08:09:24 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
ecb697c16c xfs: fix variable set but not used warnings
GCC 4.6 now warnings about variables set but not used.  Fix the trivially
fixable warnings of this sort.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 08:09:12 -05:00
Dave Chinner
da8a1a4a4d xfs: convert log tail checking to a warning
On the Power platform, the log tail debug checks fire excessively
causing the system to panic early in testing. The debug checks are
known to be racy, though on x86_64 there is no evidence that they
trigger at all.

We want to keep the checks active on debug systems to alert us to
problems with log space accounting, but we need to reduce the impact
of a racy check on testing on the Power platform.

As a result, convert the ASSERT conditions to warnings, and
allow them to fire only once per filesystem mount. This will prevent
false positives from interfering with testing, whilst still
providing us with the indication that they may be a problem with log
space accounting should that occur.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 12:45:07 +10:00
Dave Chinner
be65b18a10 xfs: catch bad block numbers freeing extents.
A fuzzed filesystem crashed a kernel when freeing an extent with a
block number beyond the end of the filesystem. Convert all the debug
asserts in xfs_free_extent() to active checks so that we catch bad
extents and return that the filesytsem is corrupted rather than
crashing.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 12:45:07 +10:00
Dave Chinner
fd074841cf xfs: push the AIL from memory reclaim and periodic sync
When we are short on memory, we want to expedite the cleaning of
dirty objects.  Hence when we run short on memory, we need to kick
the AIL flushing into action to clean as many dirty objects as
quickly as possible.  To implement this, sample the lsn of the log
item at the head of the AIL and use that as the push target for the
AIL flush.

Further, we keep items in the AIL that are dirty that are not
tracked any other way, so we can get objects sitting in the AIL that
don't get written back until the AIL is pushed. Hence to get the
filesystem to the idle state, we might need to push the AIL to flush
out any remaining dirty objects sitting in the AIL. This requires
the same push mechanism as the reclaim push.

This patch also renames xfs_trans_ail_tail() to xfs_ail_min_lsn() to
match the new xfs_ail_max_lsn() function introduced in this patch.
Similarly for xfs_trans_ail_push -> xfs_ail_push.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 12:45:07 +10:00
Dave Chinner
cd4a3c503c xfs: clean up code layout in xfs_trans_ail.c
This patch rearranges the location of functions in xfs_trans_ail.c
to remove the need for forward declarations of those functions in
preparation for adding new functions without the need for forward
declarations.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 12:45:07 +10:00
Dave Chinner
0bf6a5bd4b xfs: convert the xfsaild threads to a workqueue
Similar to the xfssyncd, the per-filesystem xfsaild threads can be
converted to a global workqueue and run periodically by delayed
works. This makes sense for the AIL pushing because it uses
variable timeouts depending on the work that needs to be done.

By removing the xfsaild, we simplify the AIL pushing code and
remove the need to spread the code to implement the threading
and pushing across multiple files.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 12:45:07 +10:00
Dave Chinner
a7b339f1b8 xfs: introduce background inode reclaim work
Background inode reclaim needs to run more frequently that the XFS
syncd work is run as 30s is too long between optimal reclaim runs.
Add a new periodic work item to the xfs syncd workqueue to run a
fast, non-blocking inode reclaim scan.

Background inode reclaim is kicked by the act of marking inodes for
reclaim.  When an AG is first marked as having reclaimable inodes,
the background reclaim work is kicked. It will continue to run
periodically untill it detects that there are no more reclaimable
inodes. It will be kicked again when the first inode is queued for
reclaim.

To ensure shrinker based inode reclaim throttles to the inode
cleaning and reclaim rate but still reclaim inodes efficiently, make it kick the
background inode reclaim so that when we are low on memory we are
trying to reclaim inodes as efficiently as possible. This kick shoul
d not be necessary, but it will protect against failures to kick the
background reclaim when inodes are first dirtied.

To provide the rate throttling, make the shrinker pass do
synchronous inode reclaim so that it blocks on inodes under IO. This
means that the shrinker will reclaim inodes rather than just
skipping over them, but it does not adversely affect the rate of
reclaim because most dirty inodes are already under IO due to the
background reclaim work the shrinker kicked.

These two modifications solve one of the two OOM killer invocations
Chris Mason reported recently when running a stress testing script.
The particular workload trigger for the OOM killer invocation is
where there are more threads than CPUs all unlinking files in an
extremely memory constrained environment. Unlike other solutions,
this one does not have a performance impact on performance when
memory is not constrained or the number of concurrent threads
operating is <= to the number of CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 12:45:07 +10:00
Dave Chinner
89e4cb550a xfs: convert ENOSPC inode flushing to use new syncd workqueue
On of the problems with the current inode flush at ENOSPC is that we
queue a flush per ENOSPC event, regardless of how many are already
queued. Thi can result in    hundreds of queued flushes, most of
which simply burn CPU scanned and do no real work. This simply slows
down allocation at ENOSPC.

We really only need one active flush at a time, and we can easily
implement that via the new xfs_syncd_wq. All we need to do is queue
a flush if one is not already active, then block waiting for the
currently active flush to complete. The result is that we only ever
have a single ENOSPC inode flush active at a time and this greatly
reduces the overhead of ENOSPC processing.

On my 2p test machine, this results in tests exercising ENOSPC
conditions running significantly faster - 042 halves execution time,
083 drops from 60s to 5s, etc - while not introducing test
regressions.

This allows us to remove the old xfssyncd threads and infrastructure
as they are no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 12:45:07 +10:00
Dave Chinner
c6d09b666d xfs: introduce a xfssyncd workqueue
All of the work xfssyncd does is background functionality. There is
no need for a thread per filesystem to do this work - it can al be
managed by a global workqueue now they manage concurrency
effectively.

Introduce a new gglobal xfssyncd workqueue, and convert the periodic
work to use this new functionality. To do this, use a delayed work
construct to schedule the next running of the periodic sync work
for the filesystem. When the sync work is complete, queue a new
delayed work for the next running of the sync work.

For laptop mode, we wait on completion for the sync works, so ensure
that the sync work queuing interface can flush and wait for work to
complete to enable the work queue infrastructure to replace the
current sequence number and wakeup that is used.

Because the sync work does non-trivial amounts of work, mark the
new work queue as CPU intensive.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 12:45:07 +10:00
Dave Chinner
e828776a8a xfs: fix extent format buffer allocation size
When formatting an inode item, we have to allocate a separate buffer
to hold extents when there are delayed allocation extents on the
inode and it is in extent format. The allocation size is derived
from the in-core data fork representation, which accounts for
delayed allocation extents, while the on-disk representation does
not contain any delalloc extents.

As a result of this mismatch, the allocated buffer can be far larger
than needed to hold the real extent list which, due to the fact the
inode is in extent format, is limited to the size of the literal
area of the inode. However, we can have thousands of delalloc
extents, resulting in an allocation size orders of magnitude larger
than is needed to hold all the real extents.

Fix this by limiting the size of the buffer being allocated to the
size of the literal area of the inodes in the filesystem (i.e. the
maximum size an inode fork can grow to).

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08 12:45:07 +10:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Dave Chinner
89b3600ccf xfs: fix unreferenced var error in xfs_buf.c
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-03-30 23:34:20 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
c5850150d0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: stop using the page cache to back the buffer cache
  xfs: register the inode cache shrinker before quotachecks
  xfs: xfs_trans_read_buf() should return an error on failure
  xfs: introduce inode cluster buffer trylocks for xfs_iflush
  vmap: flush vmap aliases when mapping fails
  xfs: preallocation transactions do not need to be synchronous

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c due to plug removal.
2011-03-28 15:51:02 -07:00
Dave Chinner
0e6e847ffe xfs: stop using the page cache to back the buffer cache
Now that the buffer cache has it's own LRU, we do not need to use
the page cache to provide persistent caching and reclaim
infrastructure. Convert the buffer cache to use alloc_pages()
instead of the page cache. This will remove all the overhead of page
cache management from setup and teardown of the buffers, as well as
needing to mark pages accessed as we find buffers in the buffer
cache.

By avoiding the page cache, we also remove the need to keep state in
the page_private(page) field for persistant storage across buffer
free/buffer rebuild and so all that code can be removed. This also
fixes the long-standing problem of not having enough bits in the
page_private field to track all the state needed for a 512
sector/64k page setup.

It also removes the need for page locking during reads as the pages
are unique to the buffer and nobody else will be attempting to
access them.

Finally, it removes the buftarg address space lock as a point of
global contention on workloads that allocate and free buffers
quickly such as when creating or removing large numbers of inodes in
parallel. This remove the 16TB limit on filesystem size on 32 bit
machines as the page index (32 bit) is no longer used for lookups
of metadata buffers - the buffer cache is now solely indexed by disk
address which is stored in a 64 bit field in the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-03-26 09:16:45 +11:00
Dave Chinner
704b2907c2 xfs: register the inode cache shrinker before quotachecks
During mount, we can do a quotacheck that involves a bulkstat pass
on all inodes. If there are more inodes in the filesystem than can
be held in memory, we require the inode cache shrinker to run to
ensure that we don't run out of memory.

Unfortunately, the inode cache shrinker is not registered until we
get to the end of the superblock setup process, which is after a
quotacheck is run if it is needed. Hence we need to register the
inode cache shrinker earlier in the mount process so that we don't
OOM during mount. This requires that we also initialise the syncd
work before we register the shrinker, so we nee dto juggle that
around as well.

While there, make sure that we have set up the block sizes in the
VFS superblock correctly before the quotacheck is run so that any
inodes that are cached as a result of the quotacheck have their
block size fields set up correctly.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-03-26 09:14:57 +11:00
Dave Chinner
7401aafd50 xfs: xfs_trans_read_buf() should return an error on failure
When inside a transaction and we fail to read a buffer,
xfs_trans_read_buf returns a null buffer pointer and no error.
xfs_do_da_buf() checks the error return, but not the buffer, and as
a result this read failure condition causes a panic when it attempts
to dereference the non-existant buffer.

Make xfs_trans_read_buf() return the same error for this situation
regardless of whether it is in a transaction or not. This means
every caller does not need to check both the error return and the
buffer before proceeding to use the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-03-26 09:14:44 +11:00
Dave Chinner
1bfd8d0419 xfs: introduce inode cluster buffer trylocks for xfs_iflush
There is an ABBA deadlock between synchronous inode flushing in
xfs_reclaim_inode and xfs_icluster_free. xfs_icluster_free locks the
buffer, then takes inode ilocks, whilst synchronous reclaim takes
the ilock followed by the buffer lock in xfs_iflush().

To avoid this deadlock, separate the inode cluster buffer locking
semantics from the synchronous inode flush semantics, allowing
callers to attempt to lock the buffer but still issue synchronous IO
if it can get the buffer. This requires xfs_iflush() calls that
currently use non-blocking semantics to pass SYNC_TRYLOCK rather
than 0 as the flags parameter.

This allows xfs_reclaim_inode to avoid the deadlock on the buffer
lock and detect the failure so that it can drop the inode ilock and
restart the reclaim attempt on the inode. This allows
xfs_ifree_cluster to obtain the inode lock, mark the inode stale and
release it and hence defuse the deadlock situation. It also has the
pleasant side effect of avoiding IO in xfs_reclaim_inode when it
tries to next reclaim the inode as it is now marked stale.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-03-26 09:13:55 +11:00
Dave Chinner
a19fb38096 vmap: flush vmap aliases when mapping fails
On 32 bit systems, vmalloc space is limited and XFS can chew through
it quickly as the vmalloc space is lazily freed. This can result in
failure to map buffers, even when there is apparently large amounts
of vmalloc space available. Hence, if we fail to map a buffer, purge
the aliases that have not yet been freed to hopefuly free up enough
vmalloc space to allow a retry to succeed.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-03-26 09:13:42 +11:00
Dave Chinner
8287889742 xfs: preallocation transactions do not need to be synchronous
Preallocation and hole punch transactions are currently synchronous
and this is causing performance problems in some cases. The
transactions don't need to be synchronous as we don't need to
guarantee the preallocation is persistent on disk until a
fdatasync, fsync, sync operation occurs. If the file is opened
O_SYNC or O_DATASYNC, only then should the transaction be issued
synchronously.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-03-26 09:13:08 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3155fe6df5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (23 commits)
  xfs: don't name variables "panic"
  xfs: factor agf counter updates into a helper
  xfs: clean up the xfs_alloc_compute_aligned calling convention
  xfs: kill support/debug.[ch]
  xfs: Convert remaining cmn_err() callers to new API
  xfs: convert the quota debug prints to new API
  xfs: rename xfs_cmn_err_fsblock_zero()
  xfs: convert xfs_fs_cmn_err to new error logging API
  xfs: kill xfs_fs_mount_cmn_err() macro
  xfs: kill xfs_fs_repair_cmn_err() macro
  xfs: convert xfs_cmn_err to xfs_alert_tag
  xfs: Convert xlog_warn to new logging interface
  xfs: Convert linux-2.6/ files to new logging interface
  xfs: introduce new logging API.
  xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls
  xfs: enable delaylog by default
  xfs: more sensible inode refcounting for ialloc
  xfs: stop using xfs_trans_iget in the RT allocator
  xfs: check if device support discard in xfs_ioc_trim()
  xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1
  ...
2011-03-21 14:24:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a44f99c7ef Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (25 commits)
  video: change to new flag variable
  scsi: change to new flag variable
  rtc: change to new flag variable
  rapidio: change to new flag variable
  pps: change to new flag variable
  net: change to new flag variable
  misc: change to new flag variable
  message: change to new flag variable
  memstick: change to new flag variable
  isdn: change to new flag variable
  ieee802154: change to new flag variable
  ide: change to new flag variable
  hwmon: change to new flag variable
  dma: change to new flag variable
  char: change to new flag variable
  fs: change to new flag variable
  xtensa: change to new flag variable
  um: change to new flag variables
  s390: change to new flag variable
  mips: change to new flag variable
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/hwmon/Makefile
2011-03-20 18:14:55 -07:00
matt mooney
0ccd234ca0 fs: change to new flag variable
Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y. And change ntfs-objs to ntfs-y
for cleaner conditional inclusion.

Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-03-17 14:02:57 +01:00