Pull VFS changes from Al Viro:
"First pile out of several (there _definitely_ will be more). Stuff in
this one:
- unification of d_splice_alias()/d_materialize_unique()
- iov_iter rewrite
- killing a bunch of ->f_path.dentry users (and f_dentry macro).
Getting that completed will make life much simpler for
unionmount/overlayfs, since then we'll be able to limit the places
sensitive to file _dentry_ to reasonably few. Which allows to have
file_inode(file) pointing to inode in a covered layer, with dentry
pointing to (negative) dentry in union one.
Still not complete, but much closer now.
- crapectomy in lustre (dead code removal, mostly)
- "let's make seq_printf return nothing" preparations
- assorted cleanups and fixes
There _definitely_ will be more piles"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
copy_from_iter_nocache()
new helper: iov_iter_kvec()
csum_and_copy_..._iter()
iov_iter.c: handle ITER_KVEC directly
iov_iter.c: convert copy_to_iter() to iterate_and_advance
iov_iter.c: convert copy_from_iter() to iterate_and_advance
iov_iter.c: get rid of bvec_copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_zero() to iterate_and_advance
iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_get_pages_alloc() to iterate_all_kinds
iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_get_pages() to iterate_all_kinds
iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_npages() to iterate_all_kinds
iov_iter.c: iterate_and_advance
iov_iter.c: macros for iterating over iov_iter
kill f_dentry macro
dcache: fix kmemcheck warning in switch_names
new helper: audit_file()
nfsd_vfs_write(): use file_inode()
ncpfs: use file_inode()
kill f_dentry uses
lockd: get rid of ->f_path.dentry->d_sb
...
Pull quota updates from Jan Kara:
"Quota improvements and some minor cleanups.
The main portion in the pull request are changes which move i_dquot
array from struct inode into fs-private part of an inode which saves
memory for filesystems which don't use VFS quotas"
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
udf: One function call less in udf_fill_super() after error detection
udf: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "iput"
jbd: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "iput"
vfs: Remove i_dquot field from inode
jfs: Convert to private i_dquot field
reiserfs: Convert to private i_dquot field
ocfs2: Convert to private i_dquot field
ext4: Convert to private i_dquot field
ext3: Convert to private i_dquot field
ext2: Convert to private i_dquot field
quota: Use function to provide i_dquot pointers
xfs: Set allowed quota types
gfs2: Set allowed quota types
quota: Allow each filesystem to specify which quota types it supports
quota: Remove const from function declarations
quota: Add log level to printk
In ->atomic_open(inode, dentry, file, opened) calling finish_no_open(file, NULL)
is equivalent to dget(dentry); return finish_no_open(file, dentry);
No need to open-code that...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
vfree() is allowed under spinlock these days, but it's cheaper when
it doesn't step into deferred case and here it's very easy to avoid.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
dentry is always hashed and negative, inode - non-error, non-NULL and
non-directory. In such conditions d_splice_alias() is equivalent to
"d_instantiate(dentry, inode) and return NULL", which simplifies the
downstream code and is consistent with the "have to create a new object"
case.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In ->atomic_open(inode, dentry, file, opened) calling finish_no_open(file, NULL)
is equivalent to dget(dentry); return finish_no_open(file, dentry);
No need to open-code that...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
dentry is always hashed and negative, inode - non-error, non-NULL and
non-directory. In such conditions d_splice_alias() is equivalent to
"d_instantiate(dentry, inode) and return NULL", which simplifies the
downstream code and is consistent with the "have to create a new object"
case.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The functions iput() and put_pid() test whether their argument is NULL
and then return immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The current gfs2 freezing code is considerably more complicated than it
should be because it doesn't use the vfs freezing code on any node except
the one that begins the freeze. This is because it needs to acquire a
cluster glock before calling the vfs code to prevent a deadlock, and
without the new freeze_super and thaw_super hooks, that was impossible. To
deal with the issue, gfs2 had to do some hacky locking tricks to make sure
that a frozen node couldn't be holding on a lock it needed to do the
unfreeze ioctl.
This patch makes use of the new hooks to simply the gfs2 locking code. Now,
all the nodes in the cluster freeze and thaw in exactly the same way. Every
node in the cluster caches the freeze glock in the shared state. The new
freeze_super hook allows the freezing node to grab this freeze glock in
the exclusive state without first calling the vfs freeze_super function.
All the nodes in the cluster see this lock change, and call the vfs
freeze_super function. The vfs locking code guarantees that the nodes can't
get stuck holding the glocks necessary to unfreeze the system. To
unfreeze, the freezing node uses the new thaw_super hook to drop the freeze
glock. Again, all the nodes notice this, reacquire the glock in shared mode
and call the vfs thaw_super function.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
gfs2_fallocate() wasn't updating ctime and mtime when modifying the
inode. Add a call to file_update_time() to do that.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This addresses an issue caught by fsx where the inode size was not being
updated to the expected value after fallocate(2) with mode 0.
The problem was caused by the offset and len parameters being converted
to multiples of the file system's block size, so i_size would be rounded
up to the nearest block size multiple instead of the requested size.
This replaces the per-chunk i_size updates with a single i_size_write on
successful completion of the operation. With this patch gfs2 gets
through a complete run of fsx.
For clarity, the check for (error == 0) following the loop is removed as
all failures before that point jump to out_* labels or return.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
gfs2_fallocate wasn't checking inode_newsize_ok nor get_write_access.
Split out the context setup and inode locking pieces into a separate
function to make it more clear and add these missing calls.
inode_newsize_ok is called conditional on FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE as there
is no need to enforce a file size limit if it isn't going to change.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We support user and group quotas. Tell vfs about it.
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
CC: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
If we run out of blocks for a given multi-block allocation, we obviously
did not reserve enough. We should reserve more blocks for the next
reservation to reduce fragmentation. This patch increases the size hint
for reservations when they run out.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
If an application does a sequence of (1) big write, (2) little write
we don't necessarily want to reset the size hint based on the smaller
size. The fact that they did any big writes implies they may do more,
and therefore we should try to allocate bigger block reservations, even
if the last few were small writes. Therefore this patch changes function
gfs2_size_hint so that the size hint can only grow; it cannot shrink.
This is especially important where there are multiple writers.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch tries to use the journal numbers to evenly distribute
which node prefers which resource group for block allocations. This
is to help performance.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
No need to store gfs2_dir_check result and test it before returning.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"The big thing in this pile is Eric's unmount-on-rmdir series; we
finally have everything we need for that. The final piece of prereqs
is delayed mntput() - now filesystem shutdown always happens on
shallow stack.
Other than that, we have several new primitives for iov_iter (Matt
Wilcox, culled from his XIP-related series) pushing the conversion to
->read_iter()/ ->write_iter() a bit more, a bunch of fs/dcache.c
cleanups and fixes (including the external name refcounting, which
gives consistent behaviour of d_move() wrt procfs symlinks for long
and short names alike) and assorted cleanups and fixes all over the
place.
This is just the first pile; there's a lot of stuff from various
people that ought to go in this window. Starting with
unionmount/overlayfs mess... ;-/"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (60 commits)
fs/file_table.c: Update alloc_file() comment
vfs: Deduplicate code shared by xattr system calls operating on paths
reiserfs: remove pointless forward declaration of struct nameidata
don't need that forward declaration of struct nameidata in dcache.h anymore
take dname_external() into fs/dcache.c
let path_init() failures treated the same way as subsequent link_path_walk()
fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink
ncpfs: use list_for_each_entry() for d_subdirs walk
vfs: move getname() from callers to do_mount()
gfs2_atomic_open(): skip lookups on hashed dentry
[infiniband] remove pointless assignments
gadgetfs: saner API for gadgetfs_create_file()
f_fs: saner API for ffs_sb_create_file()
jfs: don't hash direct inode
[s390] remove pointless assignment of ->f_op in vmlogrdr ->open()
ecryptfs: ->f_op is never NULL
android: ->f_op is never NULL
nouveau: __iomem misannotations
missing annotation in fs/file.c
fs: namespace: suppress 'may be used uninitialized' warnings
...
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Merge tag 'locks-v3.18-1' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux
Pull file locking related changes from Jeff Layton:
"This release is a little more busy for file locking changes than the
last:
- a set of patches from Kinglong Mee to fix the lockowner handling in
knfsd
- a pile of cleanups to the internal file lease API. This should get
us a bit closer to allowing for setlease methods that can block.
There are some dependencies between mine and Bruce's trees this cycle,
and I based my tree on top of the requisite patches in Bruce's tree"
* tag 'locks-v3.18-1' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux: (26 commits)
locks: fix fcntl_setlease/getlease return when !CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING
locks: flock_make_lock should return a struct file_lock (or PTR_ERR)
locks: set fl_owner for leases to filp instead of current->files
locks: give lm_break a return value
locks: __break_lease cleanup in preparation of allowing direct removal of leases
locks: remove i_have_this_lease check from __break_lease
locks: move freeing of leases outside of i_lock
locks: move i_lock acquisition into generic_*_lease handlers
locks: define a lm_setup handler for leases
locks: plumb a "priv" pointer into the setlease routines
nfsd: don't keep a pointer to the lease in nfs4_file
locks: clean up vfs_setlease kerneldoc comments
locks: generic_delete_lease doesn't need a file_lock at all
nfsd: fix potential lease memory leak in nfs4_setlease
locks: close potential race in lease_get_mtime
security: make security_file_set_fowner, f_setown and __f_setown void return
locks: consolidate "nolease" routines
locks: remove lock_may_read and lock_may_write
lockd: rip out deferred lock handling from testlock codepath
NFSD: Get reference of lockowner when coping file_lock
...
hashed dentry can be passed to ->atomic_open() only if
a) it has just passed revalidation and
b) it's negative
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Now that check_submounts_and_drop can not fail and is called from
d_invalidate there is no longer a need to call check_submounts_and_drom
from filesystem d_revalidate methods so remove it.
Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch speeds up GFS2 unlink operations by using function
gfs2_rbm_incr rather than continuously calculating the rbm.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a regression in the patch "GFS2: Remember directory
insert point", commit 2b47dad866.
The problem had to do with the rename function: The function found
space for the new dirent, and remembered that location. But then the
old dirent was removed, which often moved the eligible location for
the renamed dirent. Putting the new dirent at the saved location
caused file system corruption.
This patch adds a new "save_loc" variable to struct gfs2_diradd.
If 1, the dirent location is saved. If 0, the dirent location is not
saved and the buffer_head is released as per previous behavior.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch checks if i_goal is either zero or if doesn't exist
within any rgrp (i.e gfs2_blk2rgrpd() returns NULL). If so, it
assigns the ip->i_no_addr block as the i_goal.
There are two scenarios where a bad i_goal can result in a
-EBADSLT error.
1. Attempting to allocate to an existing inode:
Control reaches gfs2_inplace_reserve() and ip->i_goal is bad.
We need to fix i_goal here.
2. A new inode is created in a directory whose i_goal is hosed:
In this case, the parent dir's i_goal is copied onto the new
inode. Since the new inode is not yet created, the ip->i_no_addr
field is invalid and so, the fix in gfs2_inplace_reserve() as per
1) won't work in this scenario. We need to catch and fix it sooner
in the parent dir itself (gfs2_create_inode()), before it is
copied to the new inode.
Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Callers of d_splice_alias(dentry, inode) don't need iput(), neither
on success nor on failure. Either the reference to inode is stored
in a previously negative dentry, or it's dropped. In either case
inode reference the caller used to hold is consumed.
__gfs2_lookup() does iput() in case when d_splice_alias() has failed.
Double iput() if we ever hit that. And gfs2_create_inode() ends up
not only with double iput(), but with link count dropped to zero - on
an inode it has just found in directory.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.14+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
MAXQUOTAS value defines maximum number of quota types VFS supports.
This isn't necessarily the number of types gfs2 supports and with
addition of project quotas these two numbers stop matching. So make gfs2
use its private definition.
CC: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Fix a regression introduced by:
6d4ade986f GFS2: Add atomic_open support
where an early return misses d_splice_alias() which had been
adding the negative dentry.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
GFS2 and NFS have setlease routines that always just return -EINVAL.
Turn that into a generic routine that can live in fs/libfs.c.
Cc: <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: <cluster-devel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This patch changes the flock code so that it uses the TRY_1CB flag
instead of the TRY flag on the first attempt. That forces any holding
nodes to issue a dlm callback, which requests a demote of the glock.
Then, if the "try" failed, it sleeps a small amount of time for the
demote to occur. Then it tries again, for an increasing amount of time.
Subsequent attempts to gain the "try" lock don't use "_1CB" so that
only one callback is issued.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch changes some variables (especially maxlen in function
gfs2_block_map) from unsigned int to size_t. We need 64-bit arithmetic
for very large files (e.g. 1PB) where the variables otherwise get
shifted to all 0's.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch removes the GLF_NOCACHE flag from the glocks associated with
flocks. There should be no good reason not to cache glocks for flocks:
they only force the glock to be demoted before they can be reacquired,
which can slow down performance and even cause glock hangs, especially
in cases where the flocks are held in Shared (SH) mode.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch allows flock glocks to use a non-blocking dequeue rather
than dq_wait. It also reverts the previous patch I had posted regarding
dq_wait. The reverted patch isn't necessarily a bad idea, but I decided
this might avoid unforeseen side effects, and was therefore safer.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Normally GFP_KERNEL is ok here, but there is now a rarely used code path
relating to deallocation of unlinked inodes (in certain corner cases)
which if hit at times of memory shortage can cause recursion while
trying to free memory.
One solution would be to try and move the gfs2_glock_get() call so
that it is no longer called while another glock is held, but that
doesn't look at all easy, so GFP_NOFS is the best solution for the
time being.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We must not leave items on the LRU list with GLF_LOCK set, since
they can be removed if the glock is brought back into use, which
may then potentially result in a hang, waiting for GLF_LOCK to
clear.
It doesn't happen very often, since it requires a glock that has
not been used for a long time to be brought back into use at the
same moment that the shrinker is part way through disposing of
glocks.
The fix is to set GLF_LOCK at a later time, when we already know
that the other locks can be obtained. Also, we now only release
the lru_lock in case a resched is needed, rather than on every
iteration.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Function gfs2_glock_dq_wait is supposed to dequeue a glock and then
wait for the lock to be demoted. The problem is, if this is a shared
lock, its demote will depend on the other holders, which means you
might end up waiting forever because the other process is blocked.
This problem is especially apparent when dealing with nested flocks.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The current "wait_on_bit" interface requires an 'action'
function to be provided which does the actual waiting.
There are over 20 such functions, many of them identical.
Most cases can be satisfied by one of just two functions, one
which uses io_schedule() and one which just uses schedule().
So:
Rename wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock to
wait_on_bit_action and wait_on_bit_lock_action
to make it explicit that they need an action function.
Introduce new wait_on_bit{,_lock} and wait_on_bit{,_lock}_io
which are *not* given an action function but implicitly use
a standard one.
The decision to error-out if a signal is pending is now made
based on the 'mode' argument rather than being encoded in the action
function.
All instances of the old wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock which
can use the new version have been changed accordingly and their
action functions have been discarded.
wait_on_bit{_lock} does not return any specific error code in the
event of a signal so the caller must check for non-zero and
interpolate their own error code as appropriate.
The wait_on_bit() call in __fscache_wait_on_invalidate() was
ambiguous as it specified TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE but used
fscache_wait_bit_interruptible as an action function.
David Howells confirms this should be uniformly
"uninterruptible"
The main remaining user of wait_on_bit{,_lock}_action is NFS
which needs to use a freezer-aware schedule() call.
A comment in fs/gfs2/glock.c notes that having multiple 'action'
functions is useful as they display differently in the 'wchan'
field of 'ps'. (and /proc/$PID/wchan).
As the new bit_wait{,_io} functions are tagged "__sched", they
will not show up at all, but something higher in the stack. So
the distinction will still be visible, only with different
function names (gds2_glock_wait versus gfs2_glock_dq_wait in the
gfs2/glock.c case).
Since first version of this patch (against 3.15) two new action
functions appeared, on in NFS and one in CIFS. CIFS also now
uses an action function that makes the same freezer aware
schedule call as NFS.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (fscache, keys)
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> (gfs2)
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051603.28027.72349.stgit@notabene.brown
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"This the bunch that sat in -next + lock_parent() fix. This is the
minimal set; there's more pending stuff.
In particular, I really hope to get acct.c fixes merged this cycle -
we need that to deal sanely with delayed-mntput stuff. In the next
pile, hopefully - that series is fairly short and localized
(kernel/acct.c, fs/super.c and fs/namespace.c). In this pile: more
iov_iter work. Most of prereqs for ->splice_write with sane locking
order are there and Kent's dio rewrite would also fit nicely on top of
this pile"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (70 commits)
lock_parent: don't step on stale ->d_parent of all-but-freed one
kill generic_file_splice_write()
ceph: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
shmem: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
nfs: switch to iter_splice_write_file()
fs/splice.c: remove unneeded exports
ocfs2: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
->splice_write() via ->write_iter()
bio_vec-backed iov_iter
optimize copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
bury generic_file_aio_{read,write}
lustre: get rid of messing with iovecs
ceph: switch to ->write_iter()
ceph_sync_direct_write: stop poking into iov_iter guts
ceph_sync_read: stop poking into iov_iter guts
new helper: copy_page_from_iter()
fuse: switch to ->write_iter()
btrfs: switch to ->write_iter()
ocfs2: switch to ->write_iter()
xfs: switch to ->write_iter()
...
iter_file_splice_write() - a ->splice_write() instance that gathers the
pipe buffers, builds a bio_vec-based iov_iter covering those and feeds
it to ->write_iter(). A bunch of simple cases coverted to that...
[AV: fixed the braino spotted by Cyrill]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
aops->write_begin may allocate a new page and make it visible only to have
mark_page_accessed called almost immediately after. Once the page is
visible the atomic operations are necessary which is noticable overhead
when writing to an in-memory filesystem like tmpfs but should also be
noticable with fast storage. The objective of the patch is to initialse
the accessed information with non-atomic operations before the page is
visible.
The bulk of filesystems directly or indirectly use
grab_cache_page_write_begin or find_or_create_page for the initial
allocation of a page cache page. This patch adds an init_page_accessed()
helper which behaves like the first call to mark_page_accessed() but may
called before the page is visible and can be done non-atomically.
The primary APIs of concern in this care are the following and are used
by most filesystems.
find_get_page
find_lock_page
find_or_create_page
grab_cache_page_nowait
grab_cache_page_write_begin
All of them are very similar in detail to the patch creates a core helper
pagecache_get_page() which takes a flags parameter that affects its
behavior such as whether the page should be marked accessed or not. Then
old API is preserved but is basically a thin wrapper around this core
function.
Each of the filesystems are then updated to avoid calling
mark_page_accessed when it is known that the VM interfaces have already
done the job. There is a slight snag in that the timing of the
mark_page_accessed() has now changed so in rare cases it's possible a page
gets to the end of the LRU as PageReferenced where as previously it might
have been repromoted. This is expected to be rare but it's worth the
filesystem people thinking about it in case they see a problem with the
timing change. It is also the case that some filesystems may be marking
pages accessed that previously did not but it makes sense that filesystems
have consistent behaviour in this regard.
The test case used to evaulate this is a simple dd of a large file done
multiple times with the file deleted on each iterations. The size of the
file is 1/10th physical memory to avoid dirty page balancing. In the
async case it will be possible that the workload completes without even
hitting the disk and will have variable results but highlight the impact
of mark_page_accessed for async IO. The sync results are expected to be
more stable. The exception is tmpfs where the normal case is for the "IO"
to not hit the disk.
The test machine was single socket and UMA to avoid any scheduling or NUMA
artifacts. Throughput and wall times are presented for sync IO, only wall
times are shown for async as the granularity reported by dd and the
variability is unsuitable for comparison. As async results were variable
do to writback timings, I'm only reporting the maximum figures. The sync
results were stable enough to make the mean and stddev uninteresting.
The performance results are reported based on a run with no profiling.
Profile data is based on a separate run with oprofile running.
async dd
3.15.0-rc3 3.15.0-rc3
vanilla accessed-v2
ext3 Max elapsed 13.9900 ( 0.00%) 11.5900 ( 17.16%)
tmpfs Max elapsed 0.5100 ( 0.00%) 0.4900 ( 3.92%)
btrfs Max elapsed 12.8100 ( 0.00%) 12.7800 ( 0.23%)
ext4 Max elapsed 18.6000 ( 0.00%) 13.3400 ( 28.28%)
xfs Max elapsed 12.5600 ( 0.00%) 2.0900 ( 83.36%)
The XFS figure is a bit strange as it managed to avoid a worst case by
sheer luck but the average figures looked reasonable.
samples percentage
ext3 86107 0.9783 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
ext3 23833 0.2710 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext3 5036 0.0573 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
ext4 64566 0.8961 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
ext4 5322 0.0713 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext4 2869 0.0384 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs 62126 1.7675 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
xfs 1904 0.0554 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs 103 0.0030 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
btrfs 10655 0.1338 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
btrfs 2020 0.0273 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
btrfs 587 0.0079 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
tmpfs 59562 3.2628 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
tmpfs 1210 0.0696 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
tmpfs 94 0.0054 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't run init_page_accessed() against an uninitialised pointer]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds