XFS now uses CRC verification over a limited section of the log to
detect torn writes prior to a crash. This is difficult to test directly
due to the timing and hardware requirements to cause a short write.
Add a mechanism to inject CRC errors into log records to facilitate
testing torn write detection during log recovery. This mechanism is
dangerous and can result in filesystem corruption. Thus, it is only
available in DEBUG mode for testing/development purposes. Set a non-zero
value to the following sysfs entry to enable error injection:
/sys/fs/xfs/<dev>/log/log_badcrc_factor
Once enabled, XFS intentionally writes an invalid CRC to a log record at
some random point in the future based on the provided frequency. The
filesystem immediately shuts down once the record has been written to
the physical log to prevent metadata writeback (e.g., AIL insertion)
once the log write completes. This helps reasonably simulate a torn
write to the log as the affected record must be safe to discard. The
next mount after the intentional shutdown requires log recovery and
should detect and recover from the torn write.
Note again that this _will_ result in data loss or worse. For testing
and development purposes only!
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Update the log ticket reservation type printing code to reflect
all the types of log tickets, to avoid incorrect debug output and
avoid running off the end of the array.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
This patch modifies the stats counting macros and the callers
to those macros to properly increment, decrement, and add-to
the xfs stats counts. The counts for global and per-fs stats
are correctly advanced, and cleared by writing a "1" to the
corresponding clear file.
global counts: /sys/fs/xfs/stats/stats
per-fs counts: /sys/fs/xfs/sda*/stats/stats
global clear: /sys/fs/xfs/stats/stats_clear
per-fs clear: /sys/fs/xfs/sda*/stats/stats_clear
[dchinner: cleaned up macro variables, removed CONFIG_FS_PROC around
stats structures and macros. ]
Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
The gcc undefined behavior sanitizer caught this; surely
any sane memcpy implementation will no-op if size == 0,
but behavior with a *src of NULL is technically undefined
(declared nonnull), so avoid it here.
We are actually in this situation frequently via
xlog_commit_record(), because:
struct xfs_log_iovec reg = {
.i_addr = NULL,
.i_len = 0,
.i_type = XLOG_REG_TYPE_COMMIT,
};
Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Since the onset of v5 superblocks, the LSN of the last modification has
been included in a variety of on-disk data structures. This LSN is used
to provide log recovery ordering guarantees (e.g., to ensure an older
log recovery item is not replayed over a newer target data structure).
While this works correctly from the point a filesystem is formatted and
mounted, userspace tools have some problematic behaviors that defeat
this mechanism. For example, xfs_repair historically zeroes out the log
unconditionally (regardless of whether corruption is detected). If this
occurs, the LSN of the filesystem is reset and the log is now in a
problematic state with respect to on-disk metadata structures that might
have a larger LSN. Until either the log catches up to the highest
previously used metadata LSN or each affected data structure is modified
and written out without incident (which resets the metadata LSN), log
recovery is susceptible to filesystem corruption.
This problem is ultimately addressed and repaired in the associated
userspace tools. The kernel is still responsible to detect the problem
and notify the user that something is wrong. Check the superblock LSN at
mount time and fail the mount if it is invalid. From that point on,
trigger verifier failure on any metadata I/O where an invalid LSN is
detected. This results in a filesystem shutdown and guarantees that we
do not log metadata changes with invalid LSNs on disk. Since this is a
known issue with a known recovery path, present a warning to instruct
the user how to recover.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
The first 4 bytes of every basic block in the physical log is stamped
with the current lsn. To support this mechanism, the log record header
(first block of each new log record) contains space for the original
first byte of each log record block before it is replaced with the lsn.
The log record header has space for 32k worth of blocks. The version 2
log adds new extended record headers for each additional 32k worth of
blocks beyond what is supported by the record header.
The log record checksum incorporates the log record header, the extended
headers and the record payload. xlog_cksum() checksums the extended
headers based on log->l_iclog_heads, which specifies the number of
extended headers in a log record based on the log buffer size mount
option. The log buffer size is variable, however, and thus means the
checksum can be calculated differently based on how a filesystem is
mounted. This is problematic if a filesystem crashes and recovery occurs
on a subsequent mount using a different log buffer size. For example,
crash an active filesystem that is mounted with the default (32k)
logbsize, attempt remount/recovery using '-o logbsize=64k' and the mount
fails on or warns about log checksum failures.
To avoid this problem, update xlog_cksum() to calculate the checksum
based on the size of the log buffer according to the log record. The
size is already included in the h_size field of the log record header
and thus is available at log recovery time. Extended log record headers
are also only written when the log record is large enough to require
them. This makes checksum calculation of log records consistent with the
extended record header mechanism as well as how on-disk records are
checksummed with various log buffer size mount options.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Log recovery occurs in two phases at mount time. In the first phase,
EFIs and EFDs are processed and potentially cancelled out. EFIs without
EFD objects are inserted into the AIL for processing and recovery in the
second phase. xfs_mountfs() runs various other operations between the
phases and is thus subject to failure. If failure occurs after the first
phase but before the second, pending EFIs sit on the AIL, pin it and
cause the mount to hang.
Update the mount sequence to ensure that pending EFIs are cancelled in
the event of failure. Add a recovery cancellation mechanism to iterate
the AIL and cancel all EFI items when requested. Plumb cancellation
support through the log mount finish helper and update xfs_mountfs() to
invoke cancellation in the event of failure after recovery has started.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
The second and subsequent lines of multi-line logging messages
are not prefixed with the same information as the first line.
Separate messages with newlines into multiple calls to ensure
consistent prefixing and allow easier grep use.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Just use char pointers directly instead of the confusing typedef to a
pointer type.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Compared to char pointers this saves us a lot of casting effort. Also
add another local variable to make the code easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Replace uses of __psint_t with the proper uintptr_t and ptrdiff_t types,
and remove the defintions of __psint_t and __psunsigned_t.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Instead of the confusing flags argument pass a boolean flag to indicate if
we want to release or regrant a log reservation.
Also ensure that xfs_log_done always drop the reference on the log ticket,
to both simplify the code and make the logic in xfs_trans_roll easier
to understand.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We now have several superblock loggin functions that are identical
except for the transaction reservation and whether it shoul dbe a
synchronous transaction or not. Consolidate these all into a single
function, a single reserveration and a sync flag and call it
xfs_sync_sb().
Also, xfs_mod_sb() is not really a modification function - it's the
operation of logging the superblock buffer. hence change the name of
it to reflect this.
Note that we have to change the mp->m_update_flags that are passed
around at mount time to a boolean simply to indicate a superblock
update is needed.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
xfs_warn() and friends add a newline by default, but some
messages add another one.
Particularly for the failing write message below, this can
waste a lot of console real estate!
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Log buffer I/O completion passes through the high priority
m_log_workqueue rather than the default metadata buffer workqueue. The
log buffer wq is initialized at I/O submission time. The log buffers are
reused once initialized, however, so this is not necessary.
Initialize the log buffer I/O completion workqueue pointers once when
the log is allocated and log buffers initialized rather than on every
log buffer I/O submission.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
XFS traditionally sends all buffer I/O completion work to a single
workqueue. This includes metadata buffer completion and log buffer
completion. The log buffer completion requires a high priority queue to
prevent stalls due to log forces getting stuck behind other queued work.
Rather than continue to prioritize all buffer I/O completion due to the
needs of log completion, split log buffer completion off to
m_log_workqueue and move the high priority flag from m_buf_workqueue to
m_log_workqueue.
Add a b_ioend_wq wq pointer to xfs_buf to allow completion workqueue
customization on a per-buffer basis. Initialize b_ioend_wq to
m_buf_workqueue by default in the generic buffer I/O submission path.
Finally, override the default wq with the high priority m_log_workqueue
in the log buffer I/O submission path.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
More on-disk format consolidation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
More on-disk format consolidation. A few declarations that weren't on-disk
format related move into better suitable spots.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
The expectation since the introduction the lazy superblock counters is
that the counters are synced and superblock logged appropriately as part
of the filesystem freeze sequence. This does not occur, however, due to
the logic in xfs_fs_writable() that prevents progress when the fs is in
any state other than SB_UNFROZEN.
While this is a bug, it has not been exposed to date because the last
thing XFS does during freeze is dirty the log. The log recovery process
recalculates the counters from AGI/AGF metadata to ensure everything is
correct. Therefore should a crash occur while an fs is frozen, the
subsequent log recovery puts everything back in order. See the following
commit for reference:
92821e2b [XFS] Lazy Superblock Counters
We might not always want to rely on dirtying the log on a frozen fs.
Modify xfs_log_sbcount() to proceed when the filesystem is freezing but
not once the freeze process has completed. Modify xfs_fs_writable() to
accept the minimum freeze level for which modifications should be
blocked to support various codepaths.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
There is a lot of cookie-cutter code that looks like:
if (shutdown)
handle buffer error
xfs_buf_iorequest(bp)
error = xfs_buf_iowait(bp)
if (error)
handle buffer error
spread through XFS. There's significant complexity now in
xfs_buf_iorequest() to specifically handle this sort of synchronous
IO pattern, but there's all sorts of nasty surprises in different
error handling code dependent on who owns the buffer references and
the locks.
Pull this pattern into a single helper, where we can hide all the
synchronous IO warts and hence make the error handling for all the
callers much saner. This removes the need for a special extra
reference to protect IO completion processing, as we can now hold a
single reference across dispatch and waiting, simplifying the sync
IO smeantics and error handling.
In doing this, also rename xfs_buf_iorequest to xfs_buf_submit and
make it explicitly handle on asynchronous IO. This forces all users
to be switched specifically to one interface or the other and
removes any ambiguity between how the interfaces are to be used. It
also means that xfs_buf_iowait() goes away.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We do some work in xfs_buf_ioend, and some work in
xfs_buf_iodone_work, but much of that functionality is the same.
This work can all be done in a single function, leaving
xfs_buf_iodone just a wrapper to determine if we should execute it
by workqueue or directly. hence rename xfs_buf_iodone_work to
xfs_buf_ioend(), and add a new xfs_buf_ioend_async() for places that
need async processing.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
When we have marked the filesystem for shutdown, we want to prevent
any further buffer IO from being submitted. However, we currently
force the log after marking the filesystem as shut down, hence
allowing IO to the log *after* we have marked both the filesystem
and the log as in an error state.
Clean this up by forcing the log before we mark the filesytem with
an error. This replaces the pure CIL flush that we currently have
which works around this same issue (i.e the CIL can't be flushed
once the shutdown flags are set) and hence enables us to clean up
the logic substantially.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We recently had a bug where buffers were slipping through log
recovery without any verifier attached to them. This was resulting
in on-disk CRC mismatches for valid data. Add some warning code to
catch this occurrence so that we catch such bugs during development
rather than not being aware they exist.
Note that we cannot do this verification unconditionally as non-CRC
filesystems don't always attach verifiers to the buffers being
written. e.g. during log recovery we cannot identify all the
different types of buffers correctly on non-CRC filesystems, so we
can't attach the correct verifiers in all cases and so we don't
attach any. Hence we don't want on non-CRC filesystems to avoid
spamming the logs with false indications.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Embed a kobject into the xfs log data structure (xlog). This creates a
'log' subdirectory for every XFS mount instance in sysfs. The lifecycle
of the log kobject is tied to the lifecycle of the log.
Also define a set of generic attribute handlers associated with the log
kobject in preparation for the addition of attributes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Convert all the errors the core XFs code to negative error signs
like the rest of the kernel and remove all the sign conversion we
do in the interface layers.
Errors for conversion (and comparison) found via searches like:
$ git grep " E" fs/xfs
$ git grep "return E" fs/xfs
$ git grep " E[A-Z].*;$" fs/xfs
Negation points found via searches like:
$ git grep "= -[a-z,A-Z]" fs/xfs
$ git grep "return -[a-z,A-D,F-Z]" fs/xfs
$ git grep " -[a-z].*;" fs/xfs
[ with some bits I missed from Brian Foster ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
XFS_ERROR was designed long ago to trap return values, but it's not
runtime configurable, it's not consistently used, and we can do
similar error trapping with ftrace scripts and triggers from
userspace.
Just nuke XFS_ERROR and associated bits.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Most of the callers are just calling ASSERT(!xfs_buf_geterror())
which means they are checking for bp->b_error == 0. If bp is null in
this case, we will assert fail, and hence it's no different in
result to oopsing because of a null bp. In some cases, errors have
already been checked for or the function returning the buffer can't
return a buffer with an error, so it's just a redundant assert.
Either way, the assert can either be removed.
The other two non-assert callers can just test for a buffer and
error properly.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reports of a shutdown hang when fsyncing a directory have surfaced,
such as this:
[ 3663.394472] Call Trace:
[ 3663.397199] [<ffffffff815f1889>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[ 3663.402743] [<ffffffffa01feda5>] xlog_cil_force_lsn+0x185/0x1a0 [xfs]
[ 3663.416249] [<ffffffffa01fd3af>] _xfs_log_force_lsn+0x6f/0x2f0 [xfs]
[ 3663.429271] [<ffffffffa01a339d>] xfs_dir_fsync+0x7d/0xe0 [xfs]
[ 3663.435873] [<ffffffff811df8c5>] do_fsync+0x65/0xa0
[ 3663.441408] [<ffffffff811dfbc0>] SyS_fsync+0x10/0x20
[ 3663.447043] [<ffffffff815fc7d9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
If we trigger a shutdown in xlog_cil_push() from xlog_write(), we
will never wake waiters on the current push sequence number, so
anything waiting in xlog_cil_force_lsn() for that push sequence
number to come up will not get woken and hence stall the shutdown.
Fix this by ensuring we call wake_up_all(&cil->xc_commit_wait) in
the push abort handling, in the log shutdown code when waking all
waiters, and adding a shutdown check in the sequence completion wait
loops to ensure they abort when a wakeup due to a shutdown occurs.
Reported-by: Boris Ranto <branto@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We have had this code in the kernel for over a year now and have
shaken all the known issues out of the code over the past few
releases. It's now time to remove the experimental warnings during
mount and fully support the new filesystem format in production
systems.
Remove the experimental warning, and add a version number to the
initial "mounting filesystem" message to tell use what type of
filesystem is being mounted. Also, remove the temporary inode
cluster size output at mount time now we know that this code works
fine.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
And interesting situation can occur if a log IO error occurs during
the unmount of a filesystem. The cases reported have the same
signature - the update of the superblock counters fails due to a log
write IO error:
XFS (dm-16): xfs_do_force_shutdown(0x2) called from line 1170 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log.c. Return address = 0xffffffffa08a44a1
XFS (dm-16): Log I/O Error Detected. Shutting down filesystem
XFS (dm-16): Unable to update superblock counters. Freespace may not be correct on next mount.
XFS (dm-16): xfs_log_force: error 5 returned.
XFS (¿-¿¿¿): Please umount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)
It can be seen that the last line of output contains a corrupt
device name - this is because the log and xfs_mount structures have
already been freed by the time this message is printed. A kernel
oops closely follows.
The issue is that the shutdown is occurring in a separate IO
completion thread to the unmount. Once the shutdown processing has
started and all the iclogs are marked with XLOG_STATE_IOERROR, the
log shutdown code wakes anyone waiting on a log force so they can
process the shutdown error. This wakes up the unmount code that
is doing a synchronous transaction to update the superblock
counters.
The unmount path now sees all the iclogs are marked with
XLOG_STATE_IOERROR and so never waits on them again, knowing that if
it does, there will not be a wakeup trigger for it and we will hang
the unmount if we do. Hence the unmount runs through all the
remaining code and frees all the filesystem structures while the
xlog_iodone() is still processing the shutdown. When the log
shutdown processing completes, xfs_do_force_shutdown() emits the
"Please umount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)" message,
and xlog_iodone() then aborts all the objects attached to the iclog.
An iclog that has already been freed....
The real issue here is that there is no serialisation point between
the log IO and the unmount. We have serialisations points for log
writes, log forces, reservations, etc, but we don't actually have
any code that wakes for log IO to fully complete. We do that for all
other types of object, so why not iclogbufs?
Well, it turns out that we can easily do this. We've got xfs_buf
handles, and that's what everyone else uses for IO serialisation.
i.e. bp->b_sema. So, lets hold iclogbufs locked over IO, and only
release the lock in xlog_iodone() when we are finished with the
buffer. That way before we tear down the iclog, we can lock and
unlock the buffer to ensure IO completion has finished completely
before we tear it down.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Bob Mastors <bob.mastors@solidfire.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
I debugging a log tail issue on a RHEL6 kernel, I added these trace
points to trace log items being added, moved and removed in the AIL
and how that affected the log tail LSN that was written to the log.
They were very helpful in that they immediately identified the cause
of the problem being seen. Hence I'd like to always have them
available for use.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
In xlog_verify_iclog a debug check of the incore log buffers prints an
error if icptr is null and then goes on to dereference the pointer
regardless. Convert this to an assert so that the intention is clear.
This was reported by Coverty.
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Currently the xfs_inode.h header has a dependency on the definition
of the BMAP btree records as the inode fork includes an array of
xfs_bmbt_rec_host_t objects in it's definition.
Move all the btree format definitions from xfs_btree.h,
xfs_bmap_btree.h, xfs_alloc_btree.h and xfs_ialloc_btree.h to
xfs_format.h to continue the process of centralising the on-disk
format definitions. With this done, the xfs inode definitions are no
longer dependent on btree header files.
The enables a massive culling of unnecessary includes, with close to
200 #include directives removed from the XFS kernel code base.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
xfs_trans.h has a dependency on xfs_log.h for a couple of
structures. Most code that does transactions doesn't need to know
anything about the log, but this dependency means that they have to
include xfs_log.h. Decouple the xfs_trans.h and xfs_log.h header
files and clean up the includes to be in dependency order.
In doing this, remove the direct include of xfs_trans_reserve.h from
xfs_trans.h so that we remove the dependency between xfs_trans.h and
xfs_mount.h. Hence the xfs_trans.h include can be moved to the
indicate the actual dependencies other header files have on it.
Note that these are kernel only header files, so this does not
translate to any userspace changes at all.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
All of the buffer operations structures are needed to be exported
for xfs_db, so move them all to a common location rather than
spreading them all over the place. They are verifying the on-disk
format, so while xfs_format.h might be a good place, it is not part
of the on disk format.
Hence we need to create a new header file that we centralise these
related definitions. Start by moving the bffer operations
structures, and then also move all the other definitions that have
crept into xfs_log_format.h and xfs_format.h as there was no other
shared header file to put them in.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
__xfs_printk adds its own "\n". Having it in the original string
leads to unintentional blank lines from these messages.
Most format strings have no newline, but a few do, leading to
i.e.:
[ 7347.119911] XFS (sdb2): Access to block zero in inode 132 start_block: 0 start_off: 0 blkcnt: 0 extent-state: 0 lastx: 1a05
[ 7347.119911]
[ 7347.119919] XFS (sdb2): Access to block zero in inode 132 start_block: 0 start_off: 0 blkcnt: 0 extent-state: 0 lastx: 1a05
[ 7347.119919]
Fix them all.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Recent analysis of a deadlocked XFS filesystem from a kernel
crash dump indicated that the filesystem was stuck waiting for log
space. The short story of the hang on the RHEL6 kernel is this:
- the tail of the log is pinned by an inode
- the inode has been pushed by the xfsaild
- the inode has been flushed to it's backing buffer and is
currently flush locked and hence waiting for backing
buffer IO to complete and remove it from the AIL
- the backing buffer is marked for write - it is on the
delayed write queue
- the inode buffer has been modified directly and logged
recently due to unlinked inode list modification
- the backing buffer is pinned in memory as it is in the
active CIL context.
- the xfsbufd won't start buffer writeback because it is
pinned
- xfssyncd won't force the log because it sees the log as
needing to be covered and hence wants to issue a dummy
transaction to move the log covering state machine along.
Hence there is no trigger to force the CIL to the log and hence
unpin the inode buffer and therefore complete the inode IO, remove
it from the AIL and hence move the tail of the log along, allowing
transactions to start again.
Mainline kernels also have the same deadlock, though the signature
is slightly different - the inode buffer never reaches the delayed
write lists because xfs_buf_item_push() sees that it is pinned and
hence never adds it to the delayed write list that the xfsaild
flushes.
There are two possible solutions here. The first is to simply force
the log before trying to cover the log and so ensure that the CIL is
emptied before we try to reserve space for the dummy transaction in
the xfs_log_worker(). While this might work most of the time, it is
still racy and is no guarantee that we don't get stuck in
xfs_trans_reserve waiting for log space to come free. Hence it's not
the best way to solve the problem.
The second solution is to modify xfs_log_need_covered() to be aware
of the CIL. We only should be attempting to cover the log if there
is no current activity in the log - covering the log is the process
of ensuring that the head and tail in the log on disk are identical
(i.e. the log is clean and at idle). Hence, by definition, if there
are items in the CIL then the log is not at idle and so we don't
need to attempt to cover it.
When we don't need to cover the log because it is active or idle, we
issue a log force from xfs_log_worker() - if the log is idle, then
this does nothing. However, if the log is active due to there being
items in the CIL, it will force the items in the CIL to the log and
unpin them.
In the case of the above deadlock scenario, instead of
xfs_log_worker() getting stuck in xfs_trans_reserve() attempting to
cover the log, it will instead force the log, thereby unpinning the
inode buffer, allowing IO to be issued and complete and hence
removing the inode that was pinning the tail of the log from the
AIL. At that point, everything will start moving along again. i.e.
the xfs_log_worker turns back into a watchdog that can alleviate
deadlocks based around pinned items that prevent the tail of the log
from being moved...
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
A couple of simple locking annotations and 0 vs NULL warnings.
Nothing that changes any code behaviour, just removes build noise.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Dave Chinner