xfsaild idle mode logic currently leads to a couple hangs:
1.) If xfsaild is rescheduled in during an incremental scan
(i.e., tout != 0) and the target has been updated since
the previous run, we can hit the new target and go into
idle mode with a still populated ail.
2.) A wake up is only issued when the target is pushed forward.
The wake up can race with xfsaild if it is currently in the
process of entering idle mode, causing future wake up
events to be lost.
These hangs have been reproduced and verified as fixed by
running xfstests 273 in a loop on a slightly modified upstream
kernel. The kernel is modified to re-enable idle mode as
previously implemented (when count == 0) and with a revert of
commit 670ce93f, which includes performance improvements that
make this harder to reproduce.
The solution, the algorithm for which has been outlined by
Dave Chinner, is to modify xfsaild to enter idle mode only when
the ail is empty and the push target has not been moved forward
since the last push.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=xfs-remove-iolock-classes
Now that we never take the iolock during inode reclaim we don't need
to play games with lock classes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Same rational as the last patch - these inodes are not reachable, so
don't bother with locking.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
An inode that enters xfs_inactive has been removed from all global
lists but the inode hash, and can't be recycled in xfs_iget before
it has been marked reclaimable. Thus taking the iolock in here
is not nessecary at all, and given the amount of lockdep false
positives it has triggered already I'd rather remove the locking.
The only change outside of xfs_inactive is relaxing an assert in
xfs_itruncate_extents.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Remove this helper as the code flow is a lot more obvious when it gets
merged into its only caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The code to reserve log space and join the inode to the transaction is
common for all cases, so don't duplicate it. Also remove the trivial
xfs_inactive_symlink_local helper which can simply be opencode now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Refactor the AG selection loop in xfs_dialloc to operate on the in-memory
perag data as much as possible. We only read the AGI buffer once we have
selected an AG to allocate inodes now instead of for every AG considered.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Loop over the in-core perag structures and prefer using pagi_freecount over
going out to the AGI buffer where possible.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
In this case we already have selected an AG and know it has free space
beause the buffer lock never got released. Jump directly into xfs_dialloc_ag
and short cut the AG selection loop.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
We can simplify check the IO_agbp pointer for being non-NULL instead of
passing another argument through two layers of function calls.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Move the actual allocation once we have selected an allocation group into a
separate helper, and make xfs_dialloc a wrapper around it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
This function is entirely trivial and only has one caller, so remove it to
simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Add a XFS_ prefix to IO_DIRECT,XFS_IO_DELALLOC, XFS_IO_UNWRITTEN and
XFS_IO_OVERWRITE. This to avoid namespace conflict with other modules.
Signed-off-by: Alain Renaud <arenaud@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
There is no need to keep this helper around, opencoding it in the only
caller is just as clear.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
All callers of xfs_imap_to_bp want the dinode pointer, so let's calculate it
inside xfs_imap_to_bp. Once that is done xfs_itobp becomes a fairly pointless
wrapper which can be replaced with direct calls to xfs_imap_to_bp.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
We need to zero out part of a page which beyond EOF before setting uptodate,
otherwise, mapread or write will see non-zero data beyond EOF.
Based on the code in fs/buffer.c and the following ext4 commit:
ext4: handle EOF correctly in ext4_bio_write_page()
And yes, I wish we had a good test case for it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Use this new method to replace our hacky use of ->dirty_inode. An additional
benefit is that we can now propagate errors up the stack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Fix trivial typo error that has written "It" to "Is".
Signed-off-by: Chen Baozi <baozich@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
xfs_bdstrat_cb only adds a check for a shutdown filesystem over
xfs_buf_iorequest, but xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks just checked for a shut down
filesystem a little earlier. In addition the shutdown handling in
xfs_bdstrat_cb is not very suitable for this caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
If the b_iodone handler is run in calling context in xfs_buf_iorequest we
can run into a recursion where xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks keeps calling back
into xfs_buf_iorequest because an I/O error happened, which keeps calling
back into xfs_buf_iorequest. This chain will usually not take long
because the filesystem gets shut down because of log I/O errors, but even
over a short time it can cause stack overflows if run on the same context.
As a short term workaround make sure we always call the iodone handler in
workqueue context.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Almost all metadata allocations come from shallow stack usage
situations. Avoid the overhead of switching the allocation to a
workqueue as we are not in danger of running out of stack when
making these allocations. Metadata allocations are already marked
through the args that are passed down, so this is trivial to do.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The current cursor is reallocated when retrying the allocation, so
the existing cursor needs to be destroyed in both the restart and
the failure cases.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The buffer reading code in xfs_dir2_leaf_getdents is complex and difficult to
follow due to the readahead and all the context is carries. it is also badly
indented and so difficult to read. Factor it out into a separate function to
make it easier to understand and optimise in future patches.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The struct xfs_dabuf now only tracks a single xfs_buf and all the
information it holds can be gained directly from the xfs_buf. Hence
we can remove the struct dabuf and pass the xfs_buf around
everywhere.
Kill the struct dabuf and the associated infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
First step in converting the directory code to use native
discontiguous buffers and replacing the dabuf construct.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
discontigous buffer in separate buffer format structures. This means log
recovery will recover all the changes on a per segment basis without
requiring any knowledge of the fact that it was logged from a
compound buffer.
To do this, we need to be able to determine what buffer segment any
given offset into the compound buffer sits over. This enables us to
translate the dirty bitmap in the number of separate buffer format
structures required.
We also need to be able to determine the number of bitmap elements
that a given buffer segment has, as this determines the size of the
buffer format structure. Hence we need to be able to determine the
both the start offset into the buffer and the length of a given
segment to be able to calculate this.
With this information, we can preallocate, build and format the
correct log vector array for each segment in a compound buffer to
appear exactly the same as individually logged buffers in the log.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Now that the buffer cache supports discontiguous buffers, add
support to the transaction buffer interface for getting and reading
buffers.
Note that this patch does not convert the buffer item logging to
support discontiguous buffers. That will be done as a separate
commit.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
With the internal interfaces supporting discontiguous buffer maps,
add external lookup, read and get interfaces so they can start to be
used.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
While the external interface currently uses separate blockno/length
variables, we need to move internal interfaces to passing and
parsing vector maps. This will then allow us to add external
interfaces to support discontiguous buffer maps as the internal code
will already support them.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To support discontiguous buffers in the buffer cache, we need to
separate the cache index variables from the I/O map. While this is
currently a 1:1 mapping, discontiguous buffer support will break
this relationship.
However, for caching purposes, we can still treat them the same as a
contiguous buffer - the block number of the first block and the
length of the buffer - as that is still a unique representation.
Also, the only way we will ever access the discontiguous regions of
buffers is via bulding the complete buffer in the first place, so
using the initial block number and entire buffer length is a sane
way to index the buffers.
Add a block mapping vector construct to the xfs_buf and use it in
the places where we are doing IO instead of the current
b_bn/b_length variables.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The struct xfs_buf_log_format wants to think the dirty bitmap is
variable sized. In fact, it is variable size on disk simply due to
the way we map it from the in-memory structure, but we still just
use a fixed size memory allocation for the in-memory structure.
Hence it makes no sense to set the function up as a variable sized
structure when we already know it's maximum size, and we always
allocate it as such. Simplify the structure by making the dirty
bitmap a fixed sized array and just using the size of the structure
for the allocation size.
This will make it much simpler to allocate and manipulate an array
of format structures for discontiguous buffer support.
The previous struct xfs_buf_log_item size according to
/proc/slabinfo was 224 bytes. pahole doesn't give the same size
because of the variable size definition. With this modification,
pahole reports the same as /proc/slabinfo:
/* size: 224, cachelines: 4, members: 6 */
Because the xfs_buf_log_item size is now determined by the maximum
supported block size we introduce a dependency on xfs_alloc_btree.h.
Avoid this dependency by moving the idefines for the maximum block
sizes supported to xfs_types.h with all the other max/min type
defines to avoid any new dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Remove the xlog_t type definitions.
Signed-off-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Rename the XFS log structure to xlog to help crash distinquish it from the
other logs in Linux.
Signed-off-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Revert commit 1307bbd, which uses the s_umount semaphore to provide
exclusion between xfs_sync_worker and unmount, in favor of shutting down
the sync worker before freeing the log in xfs_log_unmount. This is a
cleaner way of resolving the race between xfs_sync_worker and unmount
than using s_umount.
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Commit de1cbee which removed b_file_offset in favor of b_bn introduced a bug
causing xfs_buf_allocate_memory() to overestimate the number of necessary
pages. The problem is that xfs_buf_alloc() sets b_bn to -1 and thus effectively
every buffer is straddling a page boundary which causes
xfs_buf_allocate_memory() to allocate two pages and use vmalloc() for access
which is unnecessary.
Dave says xfs_buf_alloc() doesn't need to set b_bn to -1 anymore since the
buffer is inserted into the cache only after being fully initialized now.
So just make xfs_buf_alloc() fill in proper block number from the beginning.
CC: David Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
When we fail to find an matching extent near the requested extent
specification during a left-right distance search in
xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_near, we fail to free the original cursor that
we used to look up the XFS_BTNUM_CNT tree and hence leak it.
Reported-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
An inode in the AIL can be flush locked and marked stale if
a cluster free transaction occurs at the right time. The
inode item is then marked as flushing, which causes xfsaild
to spin and leaves the filesystem stalled. This is
reproduced by running xfstests 273 in a loop for an
extended period of time.
Check for stale inodes before the flush lock. This marks
the inode as pinned, leads to a log flush and allows the
filesystem to proceed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
There should be "XFS_DFORK_DPTR, XFS_DFORK_APTR, and XFS_DFORK_PTR" instead
of "XFS_DFORK_PTR, XFS_DFORK_DPTR, and XFS_DFORK_PTR".
Signed-off-by: Chen Baozi <baozich@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The generic segment check code now returns a count of the number of
bytes in the iovec, so we don't need to roll our own anymore.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
XFS_MAXIOFFSET() is just a simple macro that resolves to
mp->m_maxioffset. It doesn't need to exist, and it just makes the
code unnecessarily loud and shouty.
Make it quiet and easy to read.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The m_maxioffset field in the struct xfs_mount contains the same
value as the superblock s_maxbytes field. There is no need to carry
two copies of this limit around, so use the VFS superblock version.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
On filesytems with a block size smaller than PAGE_SIZE we currently have
a problem with unwritten extents. If a we have multi-block page for
which an unwritten extent has been allocated, and only some of the
buffers have been written to, and they are not contiguous, we can expose
stale data from disk in the blocks between the writes after extent
conversion.
Example of a page with unwritten and real data.
buffer content
0 empty b_state = 0
1 DATA b_state = 0x1023 Uptodate,Dirty,Mapped,Unwritten
2 DATA b_state = 0x1023 Uptodate,Dirty,Mapped,Unwritten
3 empty b_state = 0
4 empty b_state = 0
5 DATA b_state = 0x1023 Uptodate,Dirty,Mapped,Unwritten
6 DATA b_state = 0x1023 Uptodate,Dirty,Mapped,Unwritten
7 empty b_state = 0
Buffers 1, 2, 5, and 6 have been written to, leaving 0, 3, 4, and 7
empty. Currently buffers 1, 2, 5, and 6 are added to a single ioend,
and when IO has completed, extent conversion creates a real extent from
block 1 through block 6, leaving 0 and 7 unwritten. However buffers 3
and 4 were not written to disk, so stale data is exposed from those
blocks on a subsequent read.
Fix this by setting iomap_valid = 0 when we find a buffer that is not
Uptodate. This ensures that buffers 5 and 6 are not added to the same
ioend as buffers 1 and 2. Later these blocks will be converted into two
separate real extents, leaving the blocks in between unwritten.
Signed-off-by: Alain Renaud <arenaud@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use.
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Merge tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm
Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon:
"Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use."
* tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm:
dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata
dm thin: use slab mempools
dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init
dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg
dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin
pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This,
read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the
live target.
Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool's status
line will give the block location for the current msnap.
Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the
thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows:
thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev>
Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools
Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things
that have traditionally been kernel side tasks:
i) Incremental backups.
By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have
changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure
the data doesn't change while we back it up.
A short proof of concept script can be found here:
https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb
ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another.
iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin.
iv) Asyncronous replication.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use dedicated caches prefixed with a "dm_" name rather than relying on
kmalloc mempools backed by generic slab caches so the memory usage of
thin provisioning (and any leaks) can be accounted for independently.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
After the failure of a group of paths, any alternative paths that
need initialising do not become available until further I/O is sent to
the device. Until this has happened, ioctls return -EAGAIN.
With this patch, new paths are made available in response to an ioctl
too. The processing of the ioctl gets delayed until this has happened.
Instead of returning an error, we submit a work item to kmultipathd
(that will potentially activate the new path) and retry in ten
milliseconds.
Note that the patch doesn't retry an ioctl if the ioctl itself fails due
to a path failure. Such retries should be handled intelligently by the
code that generated the ioctl in the first place, noting that some SCSI
commands should not be retried because they are not idempotent (XOR write
commands). For commands that could be retried, there is a danger that
if the device rejected the SCSI command, the path could be errorneously
marked as failed, and the request would be retried on another path which
might fail too. It can be determined if the failure happens on the
device or on the SCSI controller, but there is no guarantee that all
SCSI drivers set these flags correctly.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If I/O needs retrying and only bypassed priority groups are available,
set the pg_init_delay_retry flag to wait before retrying.
If, for example, the reason for the bypass is that the controller is
getting reset or there is a firmware upgrade happening, retrying right
away would cause a flood of log messages and retries for what could be a
few seconds or even several minutes.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move multipath structure's 'lock' and 'queue_size' members to eliminate
two 4-byte holes. Also use a bit within a single unsigned int for each
existing flag (saves 8-bytes). This allows future flags to be added
without each consuming an unsigned int.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
