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* new helper: mount_bdev()Al Viro2010-10-29
| | | | | | ... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to ->mount() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-26
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits) split invalidate_inodes() fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list fs: inode split IO and LRU lists fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list fsnotify: use dget_parent smbfs: use dget_parent exportfs: use dget_parent fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate fs: clean up dentry lru modification fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused fs: simplify __d_free fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator new helper: ihold() ...
| * fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inodeChristoph Hellwig2010-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it. For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino by themselves. For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed, but that's left for later patches. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * new helper: ihold()Al Viro2010-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * fs: remove inode_add_to_list/__inode_add_to_listChristoph Hellwig2010-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split up inode_add_to_list/__inode_add_to_list. Locking for the two lists will be split soon so these helpers really don't buy us much anymore. The __ prefixes for the sb list helpers will go away soon, but until inode_lock is gone we'll need them to distinguish between the locked and unlocked variants. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * fs: kill block_prepare_writeChristoph Hellwig2010-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __block_write_begin and block_prepare_write are identical except for slightly different calling conventions. Convert all callers to the __block_write_begin calling conventions and drop block_prepare_write. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion referencesWu Fengguang2010-10-26
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efef (writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks). There are no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the ext4 tracing interface. The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on IO congestion. The latter will lead to more seeky IO. The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check. We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior: that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which is unfair in terms of LRU age. Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks! Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds2010-10-22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (36 commits) xfs: semaphore cleanup xfs: Extend project quotas to support 32bit project ids xfs: remove xfs_buf wrappers xfs: remove xfs_cred.h xfs: remove xfs_globals.h xfs: remove xfs_version.h xfs: remove xfs_refcache.h xfs: fix the xfs_trans_committed xfs: remove unused t_callback field in struct xfs_trans xfs: fix bogus m_maxagi check in xfs_iget xfs: do not use xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch for per-cpu counters xfs: do not use xfs_mod_incore_sb for per-cpu counters xfs: remove XFS_MOUNT_NO_PERCPU_SB xfs: pack xfs_buf structure more tightly xfs: convert buffer cache hash to rbtree xfs: serialise inode reclaim within an AG xfs: batch inode reclaim lookup xfs: implement batched inode lookups for AG walking xfs: split out inode walk inode grabbing xfs: split inode AG walking into separate code for reclaim ...
| * xfs: semaphore cleanupThomas Gleixner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Get rid of init_MUTEX[_LOCKED]() and use sema_init() instead. (Ported to current XFS code by <aelder@sgi.com>.) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: Extend project quotas to support 32bit project idsArkadiusz Mi?kiewicz2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for 32bit project quota identifiers. On disk format is backward compatible with 16bit projid numbers. projid on disk is now kept in two 16bit values - di_projid_lo (which holds the same position as old 16bit projid value) and new di_projid_hi (takes existing padding) and converts from/to 32bit value on the fly. xfs_admin (for existing fs), mkfs.xfs (for new fs) needs to be used to enable PROJID32BIT support. Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm@maven.pl> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: remove xfs_buf wrappersChristoph Hellwig2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stop having two different names for many buffer functions and use the more descriptive xfs_buf_* names directly. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: remove xfs_cred.hChristoph Hellwig2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We're not actually passing around credentials inside XFS for a while now, so remove all xfs_cred.h with it's cred_t typedef and all instances of it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: remove xfs_globals.hChristoph Hellwig2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This header only provides one extern that isn't actually declared anywhere, and shadowed by a macro. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: remove xfs_version.hChristoph Hellwig2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It used to have a place when it contained an automatically generated CVS version, but these days it's entirely superflous. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: remove XFS_MOUNT_NO_PERCPU_SBChristoph Hellwig2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fail the mount if we can't allocate memory for the per-CPU counters. This is consistent with how we handle everything else in the mount path and makes the superblock counter modification a lot simpler. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: pack xfs_buf structure more tightlyDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pahole reports the struct xfs_buf has quite a few holes in it, so packing the structure better will reduce the size of it by 16 bytes. Also, move all the fields used in cache lookups into the first cacheline. Before on x86_64: /* size: 320, cachelines: 5 */ /* sum members: 298, holes: 6, sum holes: 22 */ After on x86_64: /* size: 304, cachelines: 5 */ /* padding: 6 */ /* last cacheline: 48 bytes */ Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: convert buffer cache hash to rbtreeDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The buffer cache hash is showing typical hash scalability problems. In large scale testing the number of cached items growing far larger than the hash can efficiently handle. Hence we need to move to a self-scaling cache indexing mechanism. I have selected rbtrees for indexing becuse they can have O(log n) search scalability, and insert and remove cost is not excessive, even on large trees. Hence we should be able to cache large numbers of buffers without incurring the excessive cache miss search penalties that the hash is imposing on us. To ensure we still have parallel access to the cache, we need multiple trees. Rather than hashing the buffers by disk address to select a tree, it seems more sensible to separate trees by typical access patterns. Most operations use buffers from within a single AG at a time, so rather than searching lots of different lists, separate the buffer indexes out into per-AG rbtrees. This means that searches during metadata operation have a much higher chance of hitting cache resident nodes, and that updates of the tree are less likely to disturb trees being accessed on other CPUs doing independent operations. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: serialise inode reclaim within an AGDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Memory reclaim via shrinkers has a terrible habit of having N+M concurrent shrinker executions (N = num CPUs, M = num kswapds) all trying to shrink the same cache. When the cache they are all working on is protected by a single spinlock, massive contention an slowdowns occur. Wrap the per-ag inode caches with a reclaim mutex to serialise reclaim access to the AG. This will block concurrent reclaim in each AG but still allow reclaim to scan multiple AGs concurrently. Allow shrinkers to move on to the next AG if it can't get the lock, and if we can't get any AG, then start blocking on locks. To prevent reclaimers from continually scanning the same inodes in each AG, add a cursor that tracks where the last reclaim got up to and start from that point on the next reclaim. This should avoid only ever scanning a small number of inodes at the satart of each AG and not making progress. If we have a non-shrinker based reclaim pass, ignore the cursor and reset it to zero once we are done. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: batch inode reclaim lookupDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Batch and optimise the per-ag inode lookup for reclaim to minimise scanning overhead. This involves gang lookups on the radix trees to get multiple inodes during each tree walk, and tighter validation of what inodes can be reclaimed without blocking befor we take any locks. This is based on ideas suggested in a proof-of-concept patch posted by Nick Piggin. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: implement batched inode lookups for AG walkingDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the reclaim code separated from the generic walking code, it is simple to implement batched lookups for the generic walk code. Separate out the inode validation from the execute operations and modify the tree lookups to get a batch of inodes at a time. Reclaim operations will be optimised separately. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: split out inode walk inode grabbingDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When doing read side inode cache walks, the code to validate and grab an inode is common to all callers. Split it out of the execute callbacks in preparation for batching lookups. Similarly, split out the inode reference dropping from the execute callbacks into the main lookup look to be symmetric with the grab. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: split inode AG walking into separate code for reclaimDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The reclaim walk requires different locking and has a slightly different walk algorithm, so separate it out so that it can be optimised separately. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: remove buftarg hash for external devicesDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For RT and external log devices, we never use hashed buffers on them now. Remove the buftarg hash tables that are set up for them. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: kill XBF_FS_MANAGED buffersDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Filesystem level managed buffers are buffers that have their lifecycle controlled by the filesystem layer, not the buffer cache. We currently cache these buffers, which makes cleanup and cache walking somewhat troublesome. Convert the fs managed buffers to uncached buffers obtained by via xfs_buf_get_uncached(), and remove the XBF_FS_MANAGED special cases from the buffer cache. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: store xfs_mount in the buftarg instead of in the xfs_bufDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Each buffer contains both a buftarg pointer and a mount pointer. If we add a mount pointer into the buftarg, we can avoid needing the b_mount field in every buffer and grab it from the buftarg when needed instead. This shrinks the xfs_buf by 8 bytes. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: introduced uncached buffer read primitveDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To avoid the need to use cached buffers for single-shot or buffers cached at the filesystem level, introduce a new buffer read primitive that bypasses the cache an reads directly from disk. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: rename xfs_buf_get_nodaddr to be more appropriateDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() is really used to allocate a buffer that is uncached. While it is not directly assigned a disk address, the fact that they are not cached is a more important distinction. With the upcoming uncached buffer read primitive, we should be consistent with this disctinction. While there, make page allocation in xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() safe against memory reclaim re-entrancy into the filesystem by allowing a flags parameter to be passed. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: don't use vfs writeback for pure metadata modificationsDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Under heavy multi-way parallel create workloads, the VFS struggles to write back all the inodes that have been changed in age order. The bdi flusher thread becomes CPU bound, spending 85% of it's time in the VFS code, mostly traversing the superblock dirty inode list to separate dirty inodes old enough to flush. We already keep an index of all metadata changes in age order - in the AIL - and continued log pressure will do age ordered writeback without any extra overhead at all. If there is no pressure on the log, the xfssyncd will periodically write back metadata in ascending disk address offset order so will be very efficient. Hence we can stop marking VFS inodes dirty during transaction commit or when changing timestamps during transactions. This will keep the inodes in the superblock dirty list to those containing data or unlogged metadata changes. However, the timstamp changes are slightly more complex than this - there are a couple of places that do unlogged updates of the timestamps, and the VFS need to be informed of these. Hence add a new function xfs_trans_ichgtime() for transactional changes, and leave xfs_ichgtime() for the non-transactional changes. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * xfs: lockless per-ag lookupsDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we start taking a reference to the per-ag for every cached buffer in the system, kernel lockstat profiling on an 8-way create workload shows the mp->m_perag_lock has higher acquisition rates than the inode lock and has significantly more contention. That is, it becomes the highest contended lock in the system. The perag lookup is trivial to convert to lock-less RCU lookups because perag structures never go away. Hence the only thing we need to protect against is tree structure changes during a grow. This can be done simply by replacing the locking in xfs_perag_get() with RCU read locking. This removes the mp->m_perag_lock completely from this path. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: Introduce XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGEDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE is the equivalent of an atomic XFS_IOC_UNRESVSP/ XFS_IOC_RESVSP call pair. It enabled ranges of written data to be turned into zeroes without requiring IO or having to free and reallocate the extents in the range given as would occur if we had to punch and then preallocate them separately. This enables applications to zero parts of files very quickly without changing the layout of the files in any way. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * xfs: use range primitives for xfs page cache operationsDave Chinner2010-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While XFS passes ranges to operate on from the core code, the functions being called ignore the either the entire range or the end of the range. This is historical because when the function were written linux didn't have the necessary range operations. Update the functions to use the correct operations. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds2010-10-22
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: remove in_workqueue_context() workqueue: Clarify that schedule_on_each_cpu is synchronous memory_hotplug: drop spurious calls to flush_scheduled_work() shpchp: update workqueue usage pciehp: update workqueue usage isdn/eicon: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from diva_os_remove_soft_isr() workqueue: add and use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag workqueue: fix HIGHPRI handling in keep_working() workqueue: add queue_work and activate_work trace points workqueue: prepare for more tracepoints workqueue: implement flush[_delayed]_work_sync() workqueue: factor out start_flush_work() workqueue: cleanup flush/cancel functions workqueue: implement alloc_ordered_workqueue() Fix up trivial conflict in fs/gfs2/main.c as per Tejun
| * | workqueue: add and use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flagTejun Heo2010-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag which currently maps to WQ_RESCUER, mark WQ_RESCUER as internal and replace all external WQ_RESCUER usages to WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. This makes the API users express the intent of the workqueue instead of indicating the internal mechanism used to guarantee forward progress. This is also to make it cleaner to add more semantics to WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. For example, if deemed necessary, memory reclaim workqueues can be made highpri. This patch doesn't introduce any functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* | | Merge branch 'v2.6.36-rc8' into for-2.6.37/barrierJens Axboe2010-10-19
|\ \ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: block/blk-core.c drivers/block/loop.c mm/swapfile.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * | xfs: properly account for reclaimed inodesJohannes Weiner2010-10-06
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When marking an inode reclaimable, a per-AG counter is increased, the inode is tagged reclaimable in its per-AG tree, and, when this is the first reclaimable inode in the AG, the AG entry in the per-mount tree is also tagged. When an inode is finally reclaimed, however, it is only deleted from the per-AG tree. Neither the counter is decreased, nor is the parent tree's AG entry untagged properly. Since the tags in the per-mount tree are not cleared, the inode shrinker iterates over all AGs that have had reclaimable inodes at one point in time. The counters on the other hand signal an increasing amount of slab objects to reclaim. Since "70e60ce xfs: convert inode shrinker to per-filesystem context" this is not a real issue anymore because the shrinker bails out after one iteration. But the problem was observable on a machine running v2.6.34, where the reclaimable work increased and each process going into direct reclaim eventually got stuck on the xfs inode shrinking path, trying to scan several million objects. Fix this by properly unwinding the reclaimable-state tracking of an inode when it is reclaimed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: log IO completion workqueue is a high priority queueDave Chinner2010-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The workqueue implementation in 2.6.36-rcX has changed, resulting in the workqueues no longer having dedicated threads for work processing. This has caused severe livelocks under heavy parallel create workloads because the log IO completions have been getting held up behind metadata IO completions. Hence log commits would stall, memory allocation would stall because pages could not be cleaned, and lock contention on the AIL during inode IO completion processing was being seen to slow everything down even further. By making the log Io completion workqueue a high priority workqueue, they are queued ahead of all data/metadata IO completions and processed before the data/metadata completions. Hence the log never gets stalled, and operations needed to clean memory can continue as quickly as possible. This avoids the livelock conditions and allos the system to keep running under heavy load as per normal. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: prevent reading uninitialized stack memoryDan Rosenberg2010-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 12 bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the fsxattr struct declared on the stack in xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr() does not alter (or zero) the 12-byte fsx_pad member before copying it back to the user. This patch takes care of it. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * Merge branch '2.6.36-xfs-misc' of ↵Alex Elder2010-09-03
| |\ | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/xfsdev
| | * xfs: improve buffer cache hash scalabilityDave Chinner2010-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When doing large parallel file creates on a 16p machines, large amounts of time is being spent in _xfs_buf_find(). A system wide profile with perf top shows this: 1134740.00 19.3% _xfs_buf_find 733142.00 12.5% __ticket_spin_lock The problem is that the hash contains 45,000 buffers, and the hash table width is only 256 buffers. That means we've got around 200 buffers per chain, and searching it is quite expensive. The hash table size needs to increase. Secondly, every time we do a lookup, we promote the buffer we find to the head of the hash chain. This is causing cachelines to be dirtied and causes invalidation of cachelines across all CPUs that may have walked the hash chain recently. hence every walk of the hash chain is effectively a cold cache walk. Remove the promotion to avoid this invalidation. The results are: 1045043.00 21.2% __ticket_spin_lock 326184.00 6.6% _xfs_buf_find A 70% drop in the CPU usage when looking up buffers. Unfortunately that does not result in an increase in performance underthis workload as contention on the inode_lock soaks up most of the reduction in CPU usage. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * | xfs: Make fiemap work with sparse filesTao Ma2010-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In xfs_vn_fiemap, we set bvm_count to fi_extent_max + 1 and want to return fi_extent_max extents, but actually it won't work for a sparse file. The reason is that in xfs_getbmap we will calculate holes and set it in 'out', while out is malloced by bmv_count(fi_extent_max+1) which didn't consider holes. So in the worst case, if 'out' vector looks like [hole, extent, hole, extent, hole, ... hole, extent, hole], we will only return half of fi_extent_max extents. This patch add a new parameter BMV_IF_NO_HOLES for bvm_iflags. So with this flags, we don't use our 'out' in xfs_getbmap for a hole. The solution is a bit ugly by just don't increasing index of 'out' vector. I felt that it is not easy to skip it at the very beginning since we have the complicated check and some function like xfs_getbmapx_fix_eof_hole to adjust 'out'. Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * | xfs: Disallow 32bit project quota idArkadiusz Mi?kiewicz2010-09-02
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently on-disk structure is able to keep only 16bit project quota id, so disallow 32bit ones. This fixes a problem where parts of kernel structures holding project quota id are 32bit while parts (on-disk) are 16bit variables which causes project quota member files to be inaccessible for some operations (like mv/rm). Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz <arekm@maven.pl> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
| * xfs: do not discard page cache data on EAGAINChristoph Hellwig2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If xfs_map_blocks returns EAGAIN because of lock contention we must redirty the page and not disard the pagecache content and return an error from writepage. We used to do this correctly, but the logic got lost during the recent reshuffle of the writepage code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reported-by: Mike Gao <ygao.linux@gmail.com> Tested-by: Mike Gao <ygao.linux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
| * xfs: dummy transactions should not dirty VFS stateDave Chinner2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we need to cover the log, we issue dummy transactions to ensure the current log tail is on disk. Unfortunately we currently use the root inode in the dummy transaction, and the act of committing the transaction dirties the inode at the VFS level. As a result, the VFS writeback of the dirty inode will prevent the filesystem from idling long enough for the log covering state machine to complete. The state machine gets stuck in a loop issuing new dummy transactions to cover the log and never makes progress. To avoid this problem, the dummy transactions should not cause externally visible state changes. To ensure this occurs, make sure that dummy transactions log an unchanging field in the superblock as it's state is never propagated outside the filesystem. This allows the log covering state machine to complete successfully and the filesystem now correctly enters a fully idle state about 90s after the last modification was made. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * xfs: ensure f_ffree returned by statfs() is non-negativeStuart Brodsky2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because of delayed updates to sb_icount field in the super block, it is possible to allocate over maxicount number of inodes. This causes the arithmetic to calculate a negative number of free inodes in user commands like df or stat -f. Since maxicount is a somewhat arbitrary number, a slight over allocation is not critical but user commands should be displayed as 0 or greater and never go negative. To do this the value in the stats buffer f_ffree is capped to never go negative. [ Modified to use max_t as per Christoph's comment. ] Signed-off-by: Stu Brodsky <sbrodsky@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
| * xfs: handle negative wbc->nr_to_write during sync writebackDave Chinner2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During data integrity (WB_SYNC_ALL) writeback, wbc->nr_to_write will go negative on inodes with more than 1024 dirty pages due to implementation details of write_cache_pages(). Currently XFS will abort page clustering in writeback once nr_to_write drops below zero, and so for data integrity writeback we will do very inefficient page at a time allocation and IO submission for inodes with large numbers of dirty pages. Fix this by only aborting the page clustering code when wbc->nr_to_write is negative and the sync mode is WB_SYNC_NONE. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* | block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAITChristoph Hellwig2010-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All the blkdev_issue_* helpers can only sanely be used for synchronous caller. To issue cache flushes or barriers asynchronously the caller needs to set up a bio by itself with a completion callback to move the asynchronous state machine ahead. So drop the BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag that is always specified when calling blkdev_issue_* and also remove the now unused flags argument to blkdev_issue_flush and blkdev_issue_zeroout. For blkdev_issue_discard we need to keep it for the secure discard flag, which gains a more descriptive name and loses the bitops vs flag confusion. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* | xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usageChristoph Hellwig2010-09-10
|/ | | | | | | | | | Switch to the WRITE_FLUSH_FUA flag for log writes and remove the EOPNOTSUPP detection for barriers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits) no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list Fix sget() race with failing mount vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change BFS: clean up the superblock usage AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage cifs: truncate fallout mbcache: fix shrinker function return value mbcache: Remove unused features add f_flags to struct statfs(64) pass a struct path to vfs_statfs update VFS documentation for method changes. All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
| * convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()Al Viro2010-08-09
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * simplify checks for I_CLEAR/I_FREEINGAl Viro2010-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | add I_CLEAR instead of replacing I_FREEING with it. I_CLEAR is equivalent to I_FREEING for almost all code looking at either; it's there to keep track of having called clear_inode() exactly once per inode lifetime, at some point after having set I_FREEING. I_CLEAR and I_FREEING never get set at the same time with the current code, so we can switch to setting i_flags to I_FREEING | I_CLEAR instead of I_CLEAR without loss of information. As the result of such change, checks become simpler and the amount of code that needs to know about I_CLEAR shrinks a lot. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>