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2012-06-21xfs: rename log structure to xlogMark Tinguely
Rename the XFS log structure to xlog to help crash distinquish it from the other logs in Linux. Signed-off-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-06-21xfs: shutdown xfs_sync_worker before the logBen Myers
Revert commit 1307bbd, which uses the s_umount semaphore to provide exclusion between xfs_sync_worker and unmount, in favor of shutting down the sync worker before freeing the log in xfs_log_unmount. This is a cleaner way of resolving the race between xfs_sync_worker and unmount than using s_umount. Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2012-05-29xfs: switch to proper __bitwise type for KM_... flagsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-21xfs: add trace points for log forcesDave Chinner
To enable easy tracing of the location of log forces and the frequency of them via perf, add a pair of trace points to the log force functions. This will help debug where excessive log forces are being issued from by simple perf commands like: # ~/perf/perf top -e xfs:xfs_log_force -G -U Which gives this sort of output: Events: 141 xfs:xfs_log_force - 100.00% [kernel] [k] xfs_log_force - xfs_log_force 87.04% xfsaild kthread kernel_thread_helper - 12.87% xfs_buf_lock _xfs_buf_find xfs_buf_get xfs_trans_get_buf xfs_da_do_buf xfs_da_get_buf xfs_dir2_data_init xfs_dir2_leaf_addname xfs_dir_createname xfs_create xfs_vn_mknod xfs_vn_create vfs_create do_last.isra.41 path_openat do_filp_open do_sys_open sys_open system_call_fastpath Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sig.com>
2012-05-14xfs: clean up xfs_bit.h includesDave Chinner
With the removal of xfs_rw.h and other changes over time, xfs_bit.h is being included in many files that don't actually need it. Clean up the includes as necessary. Also move the only-used-once xfs_ialloc_find_free() static inline function out of a header file that is widely included to reduce the number of needless dependencies on xfs_bit.h. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-05-14xfs: move xfs_get_extsz_hint() and kill xfs_rw.hDave Chinner
The only thing left in xfs_rw.h is a function prototype for an inode function. Move that to xfs_inode.h, and kill xfs_rw.h. Also move the function implementing the prototype from xfs_rw.c to xfs_inode.c so we only have one function left in xfs_rw.c Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-05-14xfs: move xfsagino_t to xfs_types.hDave Chinner
Untangle the header file includes a bit by moving the definition of xfs_agino_t to xfs_types.h. This removes the dependency that xfs_ag.h has on xfs_inum.h, meaning we don't need to include xfs_inum.h everywhere we include xfs_ag.h. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-05-14xfs: use blocks for storing the desired IO sizeDave Chinner
Now that we pass block counts everywhere, and index buffers by block number and length in units of blocks, convert the desired IO size into block counts rather than bytes. Convert the code to use block counts, and those that need byte counts get converted at the time of use. Rename the b_desired_count variable to something closer to it's purpose - b_io_length - as it is only used to specify the length of an IO for a subset of the buffer. The only time this is used is for log IO - both writing iclogs and during log recovery. In all other cases, the b_io_length matches b_length, and hence a lot of code confuses the two. e.g. the buf item code uses the io count exclusively when it should be using the buffer length. Fix these apprpriately as they are found. Also, remove the XFS_BUF_{SET_}COUNT() macros that are just wrappers around the desired IO length. They only serve to make the code shouty loud, don't actually add any real value, and are often used incorrectly. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-05-14xfs: use blocks for counting length of buffersDave Chinner
Now that we pass block counts everywhere, and index buffers by block number, track the length of the buffer in units of blocks rather than bytes. Convert the code to use block counts, and those that need byte counts get converted at the time of use. Also, remove the XFS_BUF_{SET_}SIZE() macros that are just wrappers around the buffer length. They only serve to make the code shouty loud and don't actually add any real value. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-05-14xfs: clean up buffer get/read call APIDave Chinner
The xfs_buf_get/read API is not consistent in the units it uses, and does not use appropriate or consistent units/types for the variables. Convert the API to use disk addresses and block counts for all buffer get and read calls. Use consistent naming for all the functions and their declarations, and convert the internal functions to use disk addresses and block counts to avoid need to convert them from one type to another and back again. Fix all the callers to use disk addresses and block counts. In many cases, this removes an additional conversion from the function call as the callers already have a block count. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-05-14xfs: allow assigning the tail lsn with the AIL lock heldChristoph Hellwig
Provide a variant of xlog_assign_tail_lsn that has the AIL lock already held. By doing so we do an additional atomic_read + atomic_set under the lock, which comes down to two instructions. Switch xfs_trans_ail_update_bulk and xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk to the new version to reduce the number of lock roundtrips, and prepare for a new addition that would require a third lock roundtrip in xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk. This addition is also the reason for slightly rearranging the conditionals and relying on xfs_log_space_wake for checking that the filesystem has been shut down internally. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-03-26xfs: Account log unmount transaction correctlyDave Chinner
There have been a few reports of this warning appearing recently: XFS (dm-4): xlog_space_left: head behind tail tail_cycle = 129, tail_bytes = 20163072 GH cycle = 129, GH bytes = 20162880 The common cause appears to be lots of freeze and unfreeze cycles, and the output from the warnings indicates that we are leaking around 8 bytes of log space per freeze/unfreeze cycle. When we freeze the filesystem, we write an unmount record and that uses xlog_write directly - a special type of transaction, effectively. What it doesn't do, however, is correctly account for the log space it uses. The unmount record writes an 8 byte structure with a special magic number into the log, and the space this consumes is not accounted for in the log ticket tracking the operation. Hence we leak 8 bytes every unmount record that is written. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: split and cleanup xfs_log_reserveChristoph Hellwig
Split the log regrant case out of xfs_log_reserve into a separate function, and merge xlog_grant_log_space and xlog_regrant_write_log_space into their respective callers. Also replace the XFS_LOG_PERM_RESERV flag, which easily got misused before the previous cleanups with a simple boolean parameter. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: share code for grant head availability checksChristoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: share code for grant head wakeupsChristoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: share code for grant head waitingChristoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: add xlog_grant_head_wake_allChristoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: add xlog_grant_head_initChristoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: add the xlog_grant_head structureChristoph Hellwig
Add a new data structure to allow sharing code between the log grant and regrant code. Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: remove log space waitqueuesChristoph Hellwig
The tic->t_wait waitqueues can never have more than a single waiter on them, so we can easily replace them with a task_struct pointer and wake_up_process. Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: cleanup xfs_log_space_wakeChristoph Hellwig
Remove the now unused opportunistic parameter, and use the the xlog_writeq_wake and xlog_reserveq_wake helpers now that we don't have to care about the opportunistic wakeups. Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: do exact log space wakeups in xlog_ungrant_log_spaceChristoph Hellwig
The only reason that xfs_log_space_wake had to do opportunistic wakeups was that the old xfs_log_move_tail calling convention didn't allow for exact wakeups when not updating the log tail LSN. Since this issue has been fixed we can do exact wakeups now. Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-02-22xfs: split tail_lsn assignments from log space wakeupsChristoph Hellwig
Currently xfs_log_move_tail has a tail_lsn argument that is horribly overloaded: it may contain either an actual lsn to assign to the log tail, 0 as a special case to use the last sync LSN, or 1 to indicate that no tail LSN assignment should be performed, and we should opportunisticly wake up at one task waiting for log space even if we did not move the LSN. Remove the tail lsn assigned from xfs_log_move_tail and make the two callers use xlog_assign_tail_lsn instead of the current variant of partially using the code in xfs_log_move_tail and partially opencoding it. Note that means we grow an addition lock roundtrip on the AIL lock for each bulk update or delete, which is still far less than what we had before introducing the bulk operations. If this proves to be a problem we can still add a variant of xlog_assign_tail_lsn that expects the lock to be held already. Also rename the remainder of xfs_log_move_tail to xfs_log_space_wake as that name describes its functionality much better. Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2011-12-08xfs: remove the deprecated nodelaylog optionChristoph Hellwig
The delaylog mode has been the default for a long time, and the nodelaylog option has been scheduled for removal in Linux 3.3. Remove it and code only used by it now that we have opened the 3.3 window. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2011-12-06xfs: fix the logspace waiting algorithmChristoph Hellwig
Apply the scheme used in log_regrant_write_log_space to wake up any other threads waiting for log space before the newly added one to log_regrant_write_log_space as well, and factor the code into readable helpers. For each of the queues we have add two helpers: - one to try to wake up all waiting threads. This helper will also be usable by xfs_log_move_tail once we remove the current opportunistic wakeups in it. - one to sleep on t_wait until enough log space is available, loosely modelled after Linux waitqueues. And use them to reimplement the guts of log_regrant_write_log_space and log_regrant_write_log_space. These two function now use one and the same algorithm for waiting on log space instead of subtly different ones before, with an option to completely unify them in the near future. Also move the filesystem shutdown handling to the common caller given that we had to touch it anyway. Based on hard debugging and an earlier patch from Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2011-11-08xfs: constify xfs_item_opsChristoph Hellwig
The log item ops aren't nessecarily the biggest exploit vector, but marking them const is easy enough. Also remove the unused xfs_item_ops_t typedef while we're at it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11xfs: clean up xfs_ioerror_alertChristoph Hellwig
Instead of passing the block number and mount structure explicitly get them off the bp and fix make the argument order more natural. Also move it to xfs_buf.c and stop printing the device name given that we already get the fs name as part of xfs_alert, and we know what device is operates on because of the caller that gets printed, finally rename it to xfs_buf_ioerror_alert and pass __func__ as argument where it makes sense. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11xfs: clean up buffer allocationChristoph Hellwig
Change _xfs_buf_initialize to allocate the buffer directly and rename it to xfs_buf_alloc now that is the only buffer allocation routine. Also remove the xfs_buf_deallocate wrapper around the kmem_zone_free calls for buffers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11xfs: remove XFS_BUF_STALE and XFS_BUF_SUPER_STALEChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-25xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_SET_PTRChandra Seetharaman
Remove the definition and usages of the macro XFS_BUF_SET_PTR. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-25xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_PTRChandra Seetharaman
Remove the definition and usages of the macro XFS_BUF_PTR. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-25xfs: Remove macro XFS_BUF_BUSY and familyChandra Seetharaman
Remove the definitions and uses of the macros XFS_BUF_BUSY, XFS_BUF_UNBUSY, and XFS_BUF_ISBUSY. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-25xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_ERROR and familyChandra Seetharaman
Remove the definitions and usage of the macros XFS_BUF_ERROR, XFS_BUF_GETERROR and XFS_BUF_ISERROR. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-13xfs: remove wrappers around b_iodoneChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: remove wrappers around b_fsprivChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: add a proper transaction pointer to struct xfs_bufChristoph Hellwig
Replace the typeless b_fspriv2 and the ugly macros around it with a properly typed transaction pointer. As a fallout the log buffer state debug checks are also removed. We could have kept them using casts, but as they do not have a real purpose we can as well just remove them. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: avoid a few disk cache flushesChristoph Hellwig
There is no need for a pre-flush when doing writing the second part of a split log buffer, and if we are using an external log there is no need to do a full cache flush of the log device at all given that all writes to it use the FUA flag. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: cleanup I/O-related buffer flagsChristoph Hellwig
Remove the unused and misnamed _XBF_RUN_QUEUES flag, rename XBF_LOG_BUFFER to the more fitting XBF_SYNCIO, and split XBF_ORDERED into XBF_FUA and XBF_FLUSH to allow more fine grained control over the bio flags. Also cleanup processing of the flags in _xfs_buf_ioapply to make more sense, and renumber the sparse flag number space to group flags by purpose. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: return the buffer locked from xfs_buf_get_uncachedChristoph Hellwig
All other xfs_buf_get/read-like helpers return the buffer locked, make sure xfs_buf_get_uncached isn't different for no reason. Half of the callers already lock it directly after, and the others probably should also keep it locked if only for consistency and beeing able to use xfs_buf_rele, but I'll leave that for later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: clean up buffer locking helpersChristoph Hellwig
Rename xfs_buf_cond_lock and reverse it's return value to fit most other trylock operations in the Kernel and XFS (with the exception of down_trylock, after which xfs_buf_cond_lock was modelled), and replace xfs_buf_lock_val with an xfs_buf_islocked for use in asserts, or and opencoded variant in tracing. remove the XFS_BUF_* wrappers for all the locking helpers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: byteswap constants instead of variablesChristoph Hellwig
Micro-optimize various comparisms by always byteswapping the constant instead of the variable, which allows to do the swap at compile instead of runtime. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-06-16xfs: make log devices with write back caches workChristoph Hellwig
There's no reason not to support cache flushing on external log devices. The only thing this really requires is flushing the data device first both in fsync and log commits. A side effect is that we also have to remove the barrier write test during mount, which has been superflous since the new FLUSH+FUA code anyway. Also use the chance to flush the RT subvolume write cache before the fsync commit, which is required for correct semantics. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-19xfs: reset buffer pointers before freeing themDave Chinner
When we free a vmapped buffer, we need to ensure the vmap address and length we free is the same as when it was allocated. In various places in the log code we change the memory the buffer is pointing to before issuing IO, but we never reset the buffer to point back to it's original memory (or no memory, if that is the case for the buffer). As a result, when we free the buffer it points to memory that is owned by something else and attempts to unmap and free it. Because the range does not match any known mapped range, it can trigger BUG_ON() traps in the vmap code, and potentially corrupt the vmap area tracking. Fix this by always resetting these buffers to their original state before freeing them. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-28xfs: exact busy extent trackingChristoph Hellwig
Update the extent tree in case we have to reuse a busy extent, so that it always is kept uptodate. This is done by replacing the busy list searches with a new xfs_alloc_busy_reuse helper, which updates the busy extent tree in case of a reuse. This allows us to allow reusing metadata extents unconditionally, and thus avoid log forces especially for allocation btree blocks. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08xfs: convert log tail checking to a warningDave Chinner
On the Power platform, the log tail debug checks fire excessively causing the system to panic early in testing. The debug checks are known to be racy, though on x86_64 there is no evidence that they trigger at all. We want to keep the checks active on debug systems to alert us to problems with log space accounting, but we need to reduce the impact of a racy check on testing on the Power platform. As a result, convert the ASSERT conditions to warnings, and allow them to fire only once per filesystem mount. This will prevent false positives from interfering with testing, whilst still providing us with the indication that they may be a problem with log space accounting should that occur. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-08xfs: push the AIL from memory reclaim and periodic syncDave Chinner
When we are short on memory, we want to expedite the cleaning of dirty objects. Hence when we run short on memory, we need to kick the AIL flushing into action to clean as many dirty objects as quickly as possible. To implement this, sample the lsn of the log item at the head of the AIL and use that as the push target for the AIL flush. Further, we keep items in the AIL that are dirty that are not tracked any other way, so we can get objects sitting in the AIL that don't get written back until the AIL is pushed. Hence to get the filesystem to the idle state, we might need to push the AIL to flush out any remaining dirty objects sitting in the AIL. This requires the same push mechanism as the reclaim push. This patch also renames xfs_trans_ail_tail() to xfs_ail_min_lsn() to match the new xfs_ail_max_lsn() function introduced in this patch. Similarly for xfs_trans_ail_push -> xfs_ail_push. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-03-07xfs: Convert xlog_warn to new logging interfaceDave Chinner
Convert the xfs log operations to use the new error logging interfaces. This removes the xlog_{warn,panic} wrappers and makes almost all errors emit the device they belong to instead of just refering to "XFS". Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-01-12xfs: prevent NMI timeouts in cmn_errDave Chinner
We currently have a global error message buffer in cmn_err that is protected by a spin lock that disables interrupts. Recently there have been reports of NMI timeouts occurring when the console is being flooded by SCSI error reports due to cmn_err() getting stuck trying to print to the console while holding this lock (i.e. with interrupts disabled). The NMI watchdog is seeing this CPU as non-responding and so is triggering a panic. While the trigger for the reported case is SCSI errors, pretty much anything that spams the kernel log could cause this to occur. Realistically the only reason that we have the intemediate message buffer is to prepend the correct kernel log level prefix to the log message. The only reason we have the lock is to protect the global message buffer and the only reason the message buffer is global is to keep it off the stack. Hence if we can avoid needing a global message buffer we avoid needing the lock, and we can do this with a small amount of cleanup and some preprocessor tricks: 1. clean up xfs_cmn_err() panic mask functionality to avoid needing debug code in xfs_cmn_err() 2. remove the couple of "!" message prefixes that still exist that the existing cmn_err() code steps over. 3. redefine CE_* levels directly to KERN_* 4. redefine cmn_err() and friends to use printk() directly via variable argument length macros. By doing this, we can completely remove the cmn_err() code and the lock that is causing the problems, and rely solely on printk() serialisation to ensure that we don't get garbled messages. A series of followup patches is really needed to clean up all the cmn_err() calls and related messages properly, but that results in a series that is not easily back portable to enterprise kernels. Hence this initial fix is only to address the direct problem in the lowest impact way possible. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-12-21xfs: convert grant head manipulations to lockless algorithmDave Chinner
The only thing that the grant lock remains to protect is the grant head manipulations when adding or removing space from the log. These calculations are already based on atomic variables, so we can already update them safely without locks. However, the grant head manpulations require atomic multi-step calculations to be executed, which the algorithms currently don't allow. To make these multi-step calculations atomic, convert the algorithms to compare-and-exchange loops on the atomic variables. That is, we sample the old value, perform the calculation and use atomic64_cmpxchg() to attempt to update the head with the new value. If the head has not changed since we sampled it, it will succeed and we are done. Otherwise, we rerun the calculation again from a new sample of the head. This allows us to remove the grant lock from around all the grant head space manipulations, and that effectively removes the grant lock from the log completely. Hence we can remove the grant lock completely from the log at this point. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-12-21xfs: introduce new locks for the log grant ticket wait queuesDave Chinner
The log grant ticket wait queues are currently protected by the log grant lock. However, the queues are functionally independent from each other, and operations on them only require serialisation against other queue operations now that all of the other log variables they use are atomic values. Hence, we can make them independent of the grant lock by introducing new locks just to protect the lists operations. because the lists are independent, we can use a lock per list and ensure that reserve and write head queuing do not contend. To ensure forced shutdowns work correctly in conjunction with the new fast paths, ensure that we check whether the log has been shut down in the grant functions once we hold the relevant spin locks but before we go to sleep. This is needed to co-ordinate correctly with the wakeups that are issued on the ticket queues so we don't leave any processes sleeping on the queues during a shutdown. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>