When processes are allowed to attempt to lock a non-contiguous range of nfs
write requests, it is possible for generic_writepages to 'wrap round' the
address space, and call writepage() on a request that is already locked by
the same process.
We avoid the deadlock by checking if the page index is contiguous with the
list of nfs write requests that is already held in our
nfs_pageio_descriptor prior to attempting to lock a new request.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Currently we do write coalescing in a very inefficient manner: one pass in
generic_writepages() in order to lock the pages for writing, then one pass
in nfs_flush_mapping() and/or nfs_sync_mapping_wait() in order to gather
the locked pages for coalescing into RPC requests of size "wsize".
In fact, it turns out there is actually a deadlock possible here since we
only start I/O on the second pass. If the user signals the process while
we're in nfs_sync_mapping_wait(), for instance, then we may exit before
starting I/O on all the requests that have been queued up.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Do the coalescing of read requests into block sized requests at start of
I/O as we scan through the pages instead of going through a second pass.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Get rid of the inlined #ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If the writebacks are cancelled via nfs_cancel_dirty_list, or due to the
memory allocation failing in nfs_flush_one/nfs_flush_multi, then we must
ensure that the PG_writeback flag is cleared.
Also ensure that we actually own the PG_writeback flag whenever we
schedule a new writeback by making nfs_set_page_writeback() return the
value of test_set_page_writeback().
The PG_writeback page flag ends up replacing the functionality of the
PG_FLUSHING nfs_page flag, so we rip that out too.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This will ensure that we can call set_page_writeback() from within
nfs_writepage(), which is always called with the page lock set.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We will want to allow nfs_writepage() to distinguish between pages that
have been marked as dirty by the VM, and those that have been marked as
dirty by nfs_updatepage().
In the former case, the entire page will want to be written out, and so any
requests that were pending need to be flushed out first.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This should enable us to detect if we are crossing a mountpoint in the
case where the server is exporting "nohide" mounts.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In the case of a call to truncate_inode_pages(), we should really try to
cancel any pending writes on the page.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Minor cleanup: inlined bit ops in nfs_page.h can be simpler.
Test plan:
Write-intensive workload against a server that requires COMMITs.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Basically copies the VFS's method for tracking writebacks and applies
it to the struct nfs_page.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Trond Myklebust