This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time
now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change
such as:
o Reducing overhead by eliminating duplicated fields between structures
o Simplifcation of the code (reduces the code size by a fair bit)
o The locking interface is now the DLM interface itself as proposed
some time ago.
o Fewer lookups of glocks when processing replies from the DLM
o Fewer memory allocations/deallocations for each glock
o Scope to do further optimisations in the future (but this patch is
more than big enough for now!)
Please note that (a) this patch relates to the lock_dlm module and
not the DLM itself, that is still a separate module; and (b) that
we retain the ability to build GFS2 as a standalone single node
filesystem with out requiring the DLM.
This patch needs a lot of testing, hence my keeping it I restarted
my -git tree after the last merge window. That way, this has the maximum
exposure before its merged. This is (modulo a few minor bug fixes) the
same patch that I've been posting on and off the the last three months
and its passed a number of different tests so far.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch adds barrier support to GFS2. There is not a lot of change
really... we just add the barrier flag when we write journal header
blocks. If the underlying device refuses to support them, we fall back
to the previous way of doing things (wait for the I/O and hope) since
there is nothing else we can do. There is no user configuration,
barriers will always be on unless the device refuses to support them.
This seems a reasonable solution to me since this is a correctness
issue.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch is performance related. When we're doing a log flush,
I noticed we were calling buf_lo_incore_commit twice: once for
data bufs and once for metadata bufs. Since this is the same
function and does the same thing in both cases, there should be
no reason to call it twice. Since we only need to call it once,
we can also make it faster by removing it from the generic "lops"
code and making it a stand-along static function.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Although the values were all being calculated correctly, there was a
race in the assert due to the way it was using atomic variables. This
changes the value we assert on so that we get the same effect by testing
a different variable. This prevents the assert triggering when it shouldn't.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch saves a little time when gfs2 writes to the journals by
keeping a mapping between logical and physical blocks on disk.
That's better than constantly looking up indirect pointers in
buffers, when the journals are several levels of indirection
(which they typically are).
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch is just a cleanup. Function gfs2_get_block() just calls
function gfs2_block_map reversing the last two parameters. By
reversing the parameters, gfs2_block_map() may be called directly
and function gfs2_get_block may be eliminated altogether.
Since this function is done for every block operation,
this streamlines the code and makes it a little bit more efficient.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The issue is indeed UP vs SMP and it is totally random.
spin_is_locked() is a bad assertion because there is no correct answer on UP.
on UP spin_is_locked() has to return either one value or another, always.
This means that in my setup I am lucky enough to trigger the issue and your you
are lucky enough not to.
the patch in attachment removes the bogus calls to BUG_ON and according to David
(in CC and thanks for the long explanation on the problem) we can rely upon
things like lockdep to find problem that might be trying to catch.
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We only care about the content of the jindex in two cases,
one is when we mount the fs and the other is when we need
to recover another journal. In both cases we have to update
the jindex anyway, so there is no point in updating it
periodically between times, so this removes it to simplify
gfs2_logd.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch changes the counter which keeps track of the free
blocks in the journal to an atomic_t in preparation for the
following patch which will update the log reservation code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The only reason for adding glocks to the journal was to keep track
of which locks required a log flush prior to release. We add a
flag to the glock to allow this check to be made in a simpler way.
This reduces the size of a glock (by 12 bytes on i386, 24 on x86_64)
and means that we can avoid extra work during the journal flush.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch resolves a lock ordering issue where we had been getting
a transaction lock in the wrong order with respect to the page lock.
By using writepages rather than just writepage, it is then possible
to start a transaction before locking the page, and thus matching the
locking order elsewhere in the code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The i_cache was designed to keep references to the indirect blocks
used during block mapping so that they didn't have to be looked
up continually. The idea failed because there are too many places
where the i_cache needs to be freed, and this has in the past been
the cause of many bugs.
In addition there was no performance benefit being gained since the
disk blocks in question were cached anyway. So this patch removes
it in order to simplify the code to prepare for other changes which
would otherwise have had to add further support for this feature.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The mapping may be NULL by the time the I/O has completed, so
we now get the superblock by a different route (via the bd and glock)
to avoid this problem.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up the code for writing journaled data into the log.
It also removes the need to allocate a small "tag" structure for each
block written into the log. Instead we just keep count of the outstanding
I/O so that we can be sure that its all been written at the correct time.
Another result of this patch is that a number of ll_rw_block() calls
have become submit_bh() calls, closing some races at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The following alters gfs2_trans_add_revoke() to take a struct
gfs2_bufdata as an argument. This eliminates the memory allocation which
was previously required by making use of the already existing struct
gfs2_bufdata. It makes some sanity checks to ensure that the
gfs2_bufdata has been removed from all the lists before its recycled as
a revoke structure. This saves one memory allocation and one free per
revoke structure.
Also as a result, and to simplify the locking, since there is no longer
any blocking code in gfs2_trans_add_revoke() we must hold the log lock
whenever this function is called. This reduces the amount of times we
take and unlock the log lock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The following patch removes the ordered write processing from
databuf_lo_before_commit() and moves it to log.c. This has the effect of
greatly simplyfying databuf_lo_before_commit() and well as potentially
making the ordered write code more efficient.
As a side effect of this, its now possible to remove ordered buffers
from the ordered buffer list at any time, so we now make use of this in
invalidatepage and releasepage to ensure timely release of these
buffers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This collects together the operations required to remove a gfs2_bufdata
from the ail lists. Its only called from two places to start with, but
expect to see more of this function in future.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes some bugs relating to journaled data files by cleaning
up the gfs2_invalidatepage() and gfs2_releasepage() functions. We now
never block during gfs2_releasepage(), instead we always either release
or refuse to release depending on the status of the buffers.
This fixes Red Hat bugzillas #248969 and #252392.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
This is patch 5 of 5 for bug #248176
Metadata corruption was occurring because page references weren't
being removed in all cases. I previously added a function called
detach_bufdata, but I discovered there already WAS a function out
there to do the job. It's called gfs2_meta_cache_flush. So I added
a call to that to remove the page references.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is patch 2 of 5 for bug #248176.
The list_move code previously concocted in log.c for bug #238162
(see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238162#c23)
never runs as bh can now never be NULL at this point.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This reverts part of an earlier patch which tried to reclaim
gfs2_bufdata structures too early and resulted in a "use after free"
case (this bit from me). Also a change to not write out log headers
unless we really need to (in the case of flushing nothing we don't need
a header) from Bob.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
This patch passes all my nasty tests that were causing the code to
fail under one circumstance or another. Here is a complete summary
of all changes from today's git tree, in order of appearance:
1. There are now separate variables for metadata buffer accounting.
2. Variable sd_log_num_hdrs is no longer needed, since the header
accounting is taken care of by the reserve/refund sequence.
3. Fixed a tiny grammatical problem in a comment.
4. Added a new function "calc_reserved" to calculate the reserved
log space. This isn't entirely necessary, but it has two benefits:
First, it simplifies the gfs2_log_refund function greatly.
Second, it allows for easier debugging because I could sprinkle the
code with calls to this function to make sure the accounting is
proper (by adding asserts and printks) at strategic point of the code.
5. In log_pull_tail there apparently was a kludge to fix up the
accounting based on a "pull" parameter. The buffer accounting is
now done properly, so the kludge was removed.
6. File sync operations were making a call to gfs2_log_flush that
writes another journal header. Since that header was unplanned
for (reserved) by the reserve/refund sequence, the free space had
to be decremented so that when log_pull_tail gets called, the free
space is be adjusted properly. (Did I hear you call that a kludge?
well, maybe, but a lot more justifiable than the one I removed).
7. In the gfs2_log_shutdown code, it optionally syncs the log by
specifying the PULL parameter to log_write_header. I'm not sure
this is necessary anymore. It just seems to me there could be
cases where shutdown is called while there are outstanding log
buffers.
8. In the (data)buf_lo_before_commit functions, I changed some offset
values from being calculated on the fly to being constants. That
simplified some code and we might as well let the compiler do the
calculation once rather than redoing those cycles at run time.
9. This version has my rewritten databuf_lo_add function.
This version is much more like its predecessor, buf_lo_add, which
makes it easier to understand. Again, this might not be necessary,
but it seems as if this one works as well as the previous one,
maybe even better, so I decided to leave it in.
10. In databuf_lo_before_commit, a previous data corruption problem
was caused by going off the end of the buffer. The proper solution
is to have the proper limit in place, rather than stopping earlier.
(Thus my previous attempt to fix it is wrong).
If you don't wrap the buffer, you're stopping too early and that
causes more log buffer accounting problems.
11. In lops.h there are two new (previously mentioned) constants for
figuring out the data offset for the journal buffers.
12. There are also two new functions, buf_limit and databuf_limit to
calculate how many entries will fit in the buffer.
13. In function gfs2_meta_wipe, it needs to distinguish between pinned
metadata buffers and journaled data buffers for proper journal buffer
accounting. It can't use the JDATA gfs2_inode flag because it's
sometimes passed the "real" inode and sometimes the "metadata
inode" and the inode flags will be random bits in a metadata
gfs2_inode. It needs to base its decision on which was passed in.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch is for bugzilla bug 283162, which uncovered a number of
bugs pertaining to writing to files that have the journaled bit on.
These bugs happen most often when writing to the meta_fs because
the files are always journaled. So operations like gfs2_grow were
particularly vulnerable, although many of the problems could be
recreated with normal files after setting the journaled bit on.
The problems fixed are:
-GFS2 wasn't ever writing unstuffed journaled data blocks to their
in-place location on disk. Now it does.
-If you unmounted too quickly after doing IO to a journaled file,
GFS2 was crashing because you would discard a buffer whose bufdata
was still on the active items list. GFS2 now deals with this
gracefully.
-GFS2 was losing track of the bufdata for journaled data blocks,
and it wasn't getting freed, causing an error when you tried to
unmount the module. GFS2 now frees all the bufdata structures.
-There was a memory corruption occurring because GFS2 wrote
twice as many log entries for journaled buffers.
-It was occasionally trying to write journal headers in buffers
that weren't currently mapped.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is a patch for the first three issues of RHBZ #238162
The first issue is that when you allocate a new page for a file, it will not
start off uptodate. This makes sense, since you haven't written anything to that
part of the file yet. Unfortunately, gfs2_pin() checks to make sure that the
buffers are uptodate. The solution to this is to mark the buffers uptodate in
gfs2_commit_write(), after they have been zeroed out and have the data written
into them. I'm pretty confident with this fix, although it's not completely
obvious that there is no problem with marking the buffers uptodate here.
The second issue is simply that you can try to pin a data buffer that is already
on the incore log, and thus, already pinned. This patch checks to see if this
buffer is already on the log, and exits databuf_lo_add() if it is, just like
buf_lo_add() does.
The third issue is that gfs2_log_flush() doesn't do it's block accounting
correctly. Both metadata and journaled data are logged, but gfs2_log_flush()
only compares the number of metadata blocks with the number of blocks to commit
to the ondisk journal. This patch also counts the journaled data blocks.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The number of blocks which we reserve in the log at the start of each
transaction needs to depends upon the block size since the overhead is
related to the number of "pointers" which can be fitted into a single
block.
This relates to Red Hat bz #240435
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Fix a printk format warning in fs/gfs2/log.c:
fs/gfs2/log.c:322: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'sector_t'
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <ryusuke@osrg.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This fixes a bug which resulted in poor performance due to flushing
the journal too often. The code path in question was via the inode_go_sync()
function in glops.c. The solution is not to flush the journal immediately
when inodes are ejected from memory, but batch up the work for glockd to
deal with later on. This means that glocks may now live on beyond the end of
the lifetime of their inodes (but not very much longer in the normal case).
Also fixed in this patch is a bug (which was hidden by the bug mentioned above) in
calculation of the number of free journal blocks.
The gfs2_logd process has been altered to be more responsive to the journal
filling up. We now wake it up when the number of uncommitted journal blocks
has reached the threshold level rather than trying to flush directly at the
end of each transaction. This again means doing fewer, but larger, log
flushes in general.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This fix means that bmap will map extents of the length requested
by the VFS rather than guessing at it, or just mapping one block
at a time. The other callers of gfs2_block_map are audited to ensure
they send the correct max extent lengths (i.e. set bh->b_size correctly).
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The log lock needs to be held when manipulating the counter
for the number of free journal blocks.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This moves the logging code from meta_io.c into log.c and glops.c. As a
result the routines can now be static and all the logging code is together
in log.c, leaving meta_io.c with just metadata i/o code in it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is an attempt to fix Red Hat bz 204364. I don't hit it all
the time, but with these changes, running postmark which used to
trigger it on a regular basis no longer appears to. So I'm not
saying that its 100% certain that its fixed, but it does look
promising at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
lm_interface.h has a few out of the tree clients such as GFS1
and userland tools.
Right now, these clients keeps a copy of the file in their build tree
that can go out of sync.
Move lm_interface.h to include/linux, export it to userland and
clean up fs/gfs2 to use the new location.
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is a tidy up of the GFS2 bmap code. The main change is that the
bh is passed to gfs2_block_map allowing the flags to be set directly
rather than having to repeat that code several times in ops_address.c.
At the same time, the extent mapping code from gfs2_extent_map has
been moved into gfs2_block_map. This allows all calls to gfs2_block_map
to map extents in the case that no allocation is taking place. As a
result reads and non-allocating writes should be faster. A quick test
with postmark appears to support this.
There is a limit on the number of blocks mapped in a single bmap
call in that it will only ever map blocks which are pointed to
from a single pointer block. So in other words, it will never try
to do additional i/o in order to satisfy read-ahead. The maximum
number of blocks is thus somewhat less than 512 (the GFS2 4k block
size minus the header divided by sizeof(u64)). I've further limited
the mapping of "normal" blocks to 32 blocks (to avoid extra work)
since readpages() will currently read a maximum of 32 blocks ahead (128k).
Some further work will probably be needed to set a suitable value
for DIO as well, but for now thats left at the maximum 512 (see
ops_address.c:gfs2_get_block_direct).
There is probably a lot more that can be done to improve bmap for GFS2,
but this is a good first step.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Based upon previous feedback from lkml and also removing some
commented out debugging which is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As per Jan Engelhardt's comments, removed some unused code and
removed some brackets which were not required.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This makes all fixed size types have consistent names.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As per comments from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> this
updates the copyright message to say "version" in full rather than
"v.2". Also incore.h has been updated to remove forward structure
declarations which are not required.
The gfs2_quota_lvb structure has now had endianess annotations added
to it. Also quota.c has been updated so that we now store the
lvb data locally in endian independant format to avoid needing
a structure in host endianess too. As a result the endianess
conversions are done as required at various points and thus the
conversion routines in lvb.[ch] are no longer required. I've
moved the one remaining constant in lvb.h thats used into lm.h
and removed the unused lvb.[ch].
I have not changed the HIF_ constants. That is left to a later patch
which I hope will unify the gh_flags and gh_iflags fields of the
struct gfs2_holder.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
log_refund() incorrectly assumed that if a transaction had been touched, it
always committed buffers to the incore log. Thus, when you got around to
flushing the log, you would need one more block than you committed, to account
for the header. So it automatically set reserved to 1, which had the effect of
making sdp->sd_log_blks_reserved one greater when you got to gfs2_log_flush().
However, if you don't actually commit anything to the incore log between
flushes, you don't need the header, because you aren't writing anything out.
With this patch, log_refund() only increments reservered to account for the
header if something has been committed since the last flush.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin E. Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Mmapped files were able to trigger a lock ordering bug. Private
maps do not need to take the glock so early on. Shared maps do
unfortunately, however we can get around that by adding a flag
into the flags for the struct gfs2_file. This only works because
we are taking an exclusive lock at this point, so we know that
nobody else can be racing with us.
Fixes Red Hat bugzilla: #201196
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Fix an endian coversion bug in log.c spotted by Kevin Anderson.
Cc: Kevin Anderson <kanderso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes the way we have been dealing with unlinked,
but still open files. It removes all limits (other than memory
for inodes, as per every other filesystem) on numbers of these
which we can support on GFS2. It also means that (like other
fs) its the responsibility of the last process to close the file
to deallocate the storage, rather than the person who did the
unlinking. Note that with GFS2, those two events might take place
on different nodes.
Also there are a number of other changes:
o We use the Linux inode subsystem as it was intended to be
used, wrt allocating GFS2 inodes
o The Linux inode cache is now the point which we use for
local enforcement of only holding one copy of the inode in
core at once (previous to this we used the glock layer).
o We no longer use the unlinked "special" file. We just ignore it
completely. This makes unlinking more efficient.
o We now use the 4th block allocation state. The previously unused
state is used to track unlinked but still open inodes.
o gfs2_inoded is no longer needed
o Several fields are now no longer needed (and removed) from the in
core struct gfs2_inode
o Several fields are no longer needed (and removed) from the in core
superblock
There are a number of future possible optimisations and clean ups
which have been made possible by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We no longer use semaphores, everything has been converted to
mutex or rwsem, so we don't need to include this header any more.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Steven Whitehouse