If you want to remove unnecessary BUG_ONs, you can just turn off F2FS_CHECK_FS
in your kernel config.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
The fs_locks is used to block other ops(ex, recovery) when doing checkpoint.
And each other operate routine(besides checkpoint) needs to acquire a fs_lock,
there is a terrible problem here, if these are too many concurrency threads acquiring
fs_lock, so that they will block each other and may lead to some performance problem,
but this is not the phenomenon we want to see.
Though there are some optimization patches introduced to enhance the usage of fs_lock,
but the thorough solution is using a *rw_sem* to replace the fs_lock.
Checkpoint routine takes write_sem, and other ops take read_sem, so that we can block
other ops(ex, recovery) when doing checkpoint, and other ops will not disturb each other,
this can avoid the problem described above completely.
Because of the weakness of rw_sem, the above change may introduce a potential problem
that the checkpoint thread might get starved if other threads are intensively locking
the read semaphore for I/O.(Pointed out by Xu Jin)
In order to avoid this, a wait_list is introduced, the appending read semaphore ops
will be dropped into the wait_list if checkpoint thread is waiting for write semaphore,
and will be waked up when checkpoint thread gives up write semaphore.
Thanks to Kim's previous review and test, and will be very glad to see other guys'
performance tests about this patch.
V2:
-fix the potential starvation problem.
-use more suitable func name suggested by Xu Jin.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: adjust minor coding standard]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch enables the number of direct pointers inside on-disk inode block to
be changed dynamically according to the size of inline xattr space.
The number of direct pointers, ADDRS_PER_INODE, can be changed only if the file
has inline xattr flag.
The number of direct pointers that will be used by inline xattrs is defined as
F2FS_INLINE_XATTR_ADDRS.
Current patch assigns F2FS_INLINE_XATTR_ADDRS to 0 temporarily.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch removes a false-alaramed BUG_ON.
The previous BUG_ON condition didn't cover the following true scenario.
In f2fs_add_link, 1) get_new_data_page gives an uptodate page successfully,
and then, 2) init_inode_metadata returns -ENOSPC.
At this moment, a new clean data page is remained in the page cache, but its
block address still indicates NEW_ADDR.
After then, even if sync is called, this clean data page cannot be written to
the disk due to the clean state.
So this means that get_lock_data_page should make a new empty page when its
block address is NEW_ADDR and its page is not uptodated.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch fixes a deadlock bug that occurs quite often when there are
concurrent write and fsync on a same file.
Following is the simplified call trace when tasks get hung.
fsync thread:
- f2fs_sync_file
...
- f2fs_write_data_pages
...
- update_extent_cache
...
- update_inode
- wait_on_page_writeback
bdi writeback thread
- __writeback_single_inode
- f2fs_write_data_pages
- mutex_lock(sbi->writepages)
The deadlock happens when the fsync thread waits on a inode page that has
been added to the f2fs' cached bio sbi->bio[NODE], and unfortunately,
no one else could be able to submit the cached bio to block layer for
writeback. This is because the fsync thread already hold a sbi->fs_lock and
the sbi->writepages lock, causing the bdi thread being blocked when attempt
to write data pages for the same inode. At the same time, f2fs_gc thread
does not notice the situation and could not help. Even the sync syscall
gets blocked.
To fix it, we could submit the cached bio first before waiting on a inode page
that is being written back.
Signed-off-by: Jin Xu <jinuxstyle@gmail.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: add more cases to use f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This code is being used for nobh_write_end() function.
But since now f2fs_write_end function is added so
there is no need for this code.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This kfree() is no longer needed after a79dc083d7 "f2fs: move
bio_private allocation out of f2fs_bio_alloc()". The "bio->bi_private"
is NULL here so it's a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
bio->bi_private is not always needed. As in the reading data path,
end_read_io does not need bio_private for further using, so moving
bio_private allocation out of f2fs_bio_alloc(). Alloc it in the
submit_write_page(), and ignore it in the f2fs_readpage().
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Introduce help function F2FS_NODE() to simplify the conversion of node_page to
f2fs_node.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
o remount_fs callback function
o restore parent inode number to enhance the fsync performance
o xattr security labels
o reduce the number of redundant lock/unlock data pages
o avoid frequent write_inode calls
The other minor bug fixes are as follows.
o endian conversion bugs
o various bugs in the roll-forward recovery routine
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Merge tag 'for-f2fs-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches:
- remount_fs callback function
- restore parent inode number to enhance the fsync performance
- xattr security labels
- reduce the number of redundant lock/unlock data pages
- avoid frequent write_inode calls
The other minor bug fixes are as follows.
- endian conversion bugs
- various bugs in the roll-forward recovery routine"
* tag 'for-f2fs-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (56 commits)
f2fs: fix to recover i_size from roll-forward
f2fs: remove the unused argument "sbi" of func destroy_fsync_dnodes()
f2fs: remove reusing any prefree segments
f2fs: code cleanup and simplify in func {find/add}_gc_inode
f2fs: optimize the init_dirty_segmap function
f2fs: fix an endian conversion bug detected by sparse
f2fs: fix crc endian conversion
f2fs: add remount_fs callback support
f2fs: recover wrong pino after checkpoint during fsync
f2fs: optimize do_write_data_page()
f2fs: make locate_dirty_segment() as static
f2fs: remove unnecessary parameter "offset" from __add_sum_entry()
f2fs: avoid freqeunt write_inode calls
f2fs: optimise the truncate_data_blocks_range() range
f2fs: use the F2FS specific flags in f2fs_ioctl()
f2fs: sync dir->i_size with its block allocation
f2fs: fix i_blocks translation on various types of files
f2fs: set sb->s_fs_info before calling parse_options()
f2fs: support xattr security labels
f2fs: fix iget/iput of dir during recovery
...
If user requests many data writes and fsync together, the last updated i_size
should be stored to the inode block consistently.
But, previous write_end just marks the inode as dirty and doesn't update its
metadata into its inode block.
After that, fsync just writes the inode block with newly updated data index
excluding inode metadata updates.
So, this patch introduces write_end in which updates inode block too when the
i_size is changed.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Since "need_inplace_update() == true" is a very rare case, using unlikely()
to give compiler a chance to optimize the code.
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
If new dentry block is allocated and its i_size is updated, we should update
its inode block together in order to sync i_size and its block allocation.
Otherwise, we can loose additional dentry block due to the unconsistent i_size.
Errorneous Scenario
-------------------
In the recovery routine,
- recovery_dentry
| - __f2fs_add_link
| | - get_new_data_page
| | | - i_size_write(new_i_size)
| | | - mark_inode_dirty_sync(dir)
| | - update_parent_metadata
| | | - mark_inode_dirty(dir)
|
- write_checkpoint
- sync_dirty_dir_inodes
- filemap_flush(dentry_blocks)
- f2fs_write_data_page
- skip to write the last dentry block due to index < i_size
In the above flow, new_i_size is not updated to its inode block so that the
last dentry block will be lost accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Some, counters are needed only for the statistical information
while debugging.
So, those can be controlled using CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS,
pushing the usage for few variables under this flag.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
I found a bug when testing power-off-recovery as follows.
[Bug Scenario]
1. create a file
2. fsync the file
3. reboot w/o any sync
4. try to recover the file
- found its fsync mark
- found its dentry mark
: try to recover its dentry
- get its file name
- get its parent inode number
: here we got zero value
The reason why we get the wrong parent inode number is that we didn't
synchronize the inode page with its newly created inode information perfectly.
Especially, previous f2fs stores fi->i_pino and writes it to the cached
node page in a wrong order, which incurs the zero-valued i_pino during the
recovery.
So, this patch modifies the creation flow to fix the synchronization order of
inode page with its inode.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In get_lock_data_page, if there is a data race between get_dnode_of_data for
node and grab_cache_page for data, f2fs is able to face with the following
BUG_ON(dn.data_blkaddr == NEW_ADDR).
kernel BUG at /home/zeus/f2fs_test/src/fs/f2fs/data.c:251!
[<ffffffffa044966c>] get_lock_data_page+0x1ec/0x210 [f2fs]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa043b089>] f2fs_readdir+0x89/0x210 [f2fs]
[<ffffffff811a0920>] ? fillonedir+0x100/0x100
[<ffffffff811a0920>] ? fillonedir+0x100/0x100
[<ffffffff811a07f8>] vfs_readdir+0xb8/0xe0
[<ffffffff811a0b4f>] sys_getdents+0x8f/0x110
[<ffffffff816d7999>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
This bug is able to be occurred when the block address of the data block is
changed after f2fs_put_dnode().
In order to avoid that, this patch fixes the lock order of node and data
blocks in which the node block lock is covered by the data block lock.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Currently there is no way to truncate partial page where the end
truncate point is not at the end of the page. This is because it was not
needed and the functionality was enough for file system truncate
operation to work properly. However more file systems now support punch
hole feature and it can benefit from mm supporting truncating page just
up to the certain point.
Specifically, with this functionality truncate_inode_pages_range() can
be changed so it supports truncating partial page at the end of the
range (currently it will BUG_ON() if 'end' is not at the end of the
page).
This commit changes the invalidatepage() address space operation
prototype to accept range to be invalidated and update all the instances
for it.
We also change the block_invalidatepage() in the same way and actually
make a use of the new length argument implementing range invalidation.
Actual file system implementations will follow except the file systems
where the changes are really simple and should not change the behaviour
in any way .Implementation for truncate_page_range() which will be able
to accept page unaligned ranges will follow as well.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
o introduce a new gloabl lock scheme
o add tracepoints on several major functions
o fix the overall cleaning process focused on victim selection
o apply the block plugging to merge IOs as much as possible
o enhance management of free nids and its list
o enhance the readahead mode for node pages
o address several cretical deadlock conditions
o reduce lock_page calls
The other minor bug fixes and enhancements are as follows.
o calculation mistakes: overflow
o bio types: READ, READA, and READ_SYNC
o fix the recovery flow, data races, and null pointer errors
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Merge tag 'f2fs-for-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
- introduce a new gloabl lock scheme
- add tracepoints on several major functions
- fix the overall cleaning process focused on victim selection
- apply the block plugging to merge IOs as much as possible
- enhance management of free nids and its list
- enhance the readahead mode for node pages
- address several cretical deadlock conditions
- reduce lock_page calls
The other minor bug fixes and enhancements are as follows.
- calculation mistakes: overflow
- bio types: READ, READA, and READ_SYNC
- fix the recovery flow, data races, and null pointer errors"
* tag 'f2fs-for-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (68 commits)
f2fs: cover free_nid management with spin_lock
f2fs: optimize scan_nat_page()
f2fs: code cleanup for scan_nat_page() and build_free_nids()
f2fs: bugfix for alloc_nid_failed()
f2fs: recover when journal contains deleted files
f2fs: continue to mount after failing recovery
f2fs: avoid deadlock during evict after f2fs_gc
f2fs: modify the number of issued pages to merge IOs
f2fs: remove useless #include <linux/proc_fs.h> as we're now using sysfs as debug entry.
f2fs: fix inconsistent using of NM_WOUT_THRESHOLD
f2fs: check truncation of mapping after lock_page
f2fs: enhance alloc_nid and build_free_nids flows
f2fs: add a tracepoint on f2fs_new_inode
f2fs: check nid == 0 in add_free_nid
f2fs: add REQ_META about metadata requests for submit
f2fs: give a chance to merge IOs by IO scheduler
f2fs: avoid frequent background GC
f2fs: add tracepoints to debug checkpoint request
f2fs: add tracepoints for write page operations
f2fs: add tracepoints to debug the block allocation
...
o Deadlock case #1
Thread 1:
- writeback_sb_inodes
- do_writepages
- f2fs_write_data_pages
- write_cache_pages
- f2fs_write_data_page
- f2fs_balance_fs
- wait mutex_lock(gc_mutex)
Thread 2:
- f2fs_balance_fs
- mutex_lock(gc_mutex)
- f2fs_gc
- f2fs_iget
- wait iget_locked(inode->i_lock)
Thread 3:
- do_unlinkat
- iput
- lock(inode->i_lock)
- evict
- inode_wait_for_writeback
o Deadlock case #2
Thread 1:
- __writeback_single_inode
: set I_SYNC
- do_writepages
- f2fs_write_data_page
- f2fs_balance_fs
- f2fs_gc
- iput
- evict
- inode_wait_for_writeback(I_SYNC)
In order to avoid this, even though iput is called with the zero-reference
count, we need to stop the eviction procedure if the inode is on writeback.
So this patch links f2fs_drop_inode which checks the I_SYNC flag.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
We call lock_page when we need to update a page after readpage.
Between grab and lock page, the page can be truncated by other thread.
So, we should check the page after lock_page whether it was truncated or not.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Fix typo mistakes.
1. I think that it should be 'L' instead of 'V'.
2. and try to fix 'Front' instead of 'Frone'
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
In the previous version, f2fs uses global locks according to the usage types,
such as directory operations, block allocation, block write, and so on.
Reference the following lock types in f2fs.h.
enum lock_type {
RENAME, /* for renaming operations */
DENTRY_OPS, /* for directory operations */
DATA_WRITE, /* for data write */
DATA_NEW, /* for data allocation */
DATA_TRUNC, /* for data truncate */
NODE_NEW, /* for node allocation */
NODE_TRUNC, /* for node truncate */
NODE_WRITE, /* for node write */
NR_LOCK_TYPE,
};
In that case, we lose the performance under the multi-threading environment,
since every types of operations must be conducted one at a time.
In order to address the problem, let's share the locks globally with a mutex
array regardless of any types.
So, let users grab a mutex and perform their jobs in parallel as much as
possbile.
For this, I propose a new global lock scheme as follows.
0. Data structure
- f2fs_sb_info -> mutex_lock[NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS]
- f2fs_sb_info -> node_write
1. mutex_lock_op(sbi)
- try to get an avaiable lock from the array.
- returns the index of the gottern lock variable.
2. mutex_unlock_op(sbi, index of the lock)
- unlock the given index of the lock.
3. mutex_lock_all(sbi)
- grab all the locks in the array before the checkpoint.
4. mutex_unlock_all(sbi)
- release all the locks in the array after checkpoint.
5. block_operations()
- call mutex_lock_all()
- sync_dirty_dir_inodes()
- grab node_write
- sync_node_pages()
Note that,
the pairs of mutex_lock_op()/mutex_unlock_op() and
mutex_lock_all()/mutex_unlock_all() should be used together.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Commit - fa9150a84c - replaces a call to generic_writepages() in
f2fs_write_data_pages() with write_cache_pages(), with a function pointer
argument pointing to routine: __f2fs_writepage.
-> https://git.kernel.org/linus/fa9150a84ca333f68127097c4fa1eda4b3913a22
This patch adds a NULL pointer check in f2fs_write_data_pages() to avoid
a possible NULL pointer dereference, in case if - mapping->a_ops->writepage -
is NULL.
Signed-off-by: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch removes data_version check flow during the fsync call.
The original purpose for the use of data_version was to avoid writng inode
pages redundantly by the fsync calls repeatedly.
However, when user can modify file meta and then call fsync, we should not
skip fsync procedure.
So, let's remove this condition check and hope that user triggers in right
manner.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
If the return value of releasepage is equal to zero, the page cannot be reclaimed.
Instead, we should return 1 in order to reclaim clean pages.
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch reduces redundant locking and unlocking pages during read operations.
In f2fs_readpage, let's use wait_on_page_locked() instead of lock_page.
And then, when we need to modify any data finally, let's lock the page so that
we can avoid lock contention.
[readpage rule]
- The f2fs_readpage returns unlocked page, or released page too in error cases.
- Its caller should handle read error, -EIO, after locking the page, which
indicates read completion.
- Its caller should check PageUptodate after grab_cache_page.
Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, f2fs reads several node pages ahead when get_dnode_of_data is called
with RDONLY_NODE flag.
And, this flag is set by the following functions.
- get_data_block_ro
- get_lock_data_page
- do_write_data_page
- truncate_blocks
- truncate_hole
However, this readahead mechanism is initially introduced for the use of
get_data_block_ro to enhance the sequential read performance.
So, let's clarify all the cases with the additional modes as follows.
enum {
ALLOC_NODE, /* allocate a new node page if needed */
LOOKUP_NODE, /* look up a node without readahead */
LOOKUP_NODE_RA, /*
* look up a node with readahead called
* by get_datablock_ro.
*/
}
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
This patch adds f2fs_bmap operation to the data address space.
This enables f2fs to support swapfile.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Let's consider the usage of blk_plug in f2fs_write_data_pages().
We can come up with the two issues: lock contention and task awareness.
1. Merging bios prior to grabing "queue lock"
The f2fs merges consecutive IOs in the file system level before
submitting any bios, which is similar with the back merge by the
plugging mechanism in attempt_plug_merge(). Both of them need to acquire
no queue lock.
2. Merging policy with respect to tasks
The f2fs merges IOs as much as possible regardless of tasks, while
blk-plugging is conducted on a basis of tasks. As we can understand
there are trade-offs, f2fs tries to maximize the write performance with
well-merged bios.
As a result, if f2fs produces many consecutive but separated bios in
writepages(), it would be good to use blk-plugging since f2fs would be
able to avoid queue lock contention in the block layer by merging them.
But, f2fs merges IOs and submit one bio, which means that there are not
much chances to merge bios by attempt_plug_merge().
However, f2fs has already been used blk_plug by triggering generic_writepages()
in f2fs_write_data_pages().
So to make the overall code consistency, I'd like to remove blk_plug there.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
m68k allmodconfig:
fs/f2fs/data.c: In function ‘read_end_io’:
fs/f2fs/data.c:311: error: implicit declaration of function ‘prefetchw’
fs/f2fs/segment.c: In function ‘f2fs_end_io_write’:
fs/f2fs/segment.c:628: error: implicit declaration of function ‘prefetchw’
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Do cleanup more for better code readability.
- Change the parameter set of f2fs_bio_alloc()
This function should allocate a bio only since it is not something like
f2fs_bio_init(). Instead, the caller should initialize the allocated bio.
- Introduce SECTOR_FROM_BLOCK
This macro translates a block address to its sector address.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
As pointed out by Randy Dunlap, this patch removes all usage of "/**" for comment
blocks. Instead, just use "/*".
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This patch should resolve the bugs reported by the sparse tool.
Initial reports were written by "kbuild test robot" managed by fengguang.wu.
In my local machines, I've tested also by running:
> make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"
Accordingly, I've found lots of warnings and bugs related to the endian
conversion. And I've fixed all at this moment.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This adds address space operations for data.
- F2FS supports readpages(), writepages(), and direct_IO().
- Because of out-of-place writes, f2fs_direct_IO() does not write data in place.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>