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2011-07-20xfs: use a cursor for bulk AIL insertionDave Chinner
Delayed logging can insert tens of thousands of log items into the AIL at the same LSN. When the committing of log commit records occur, we can get insertions occurring at an LSN that is not at the end of the AIL. If there are thousands of items in the AIL on the tail LSN, each insertion has to walk the AIL to find the correct place to insert the new item into the AIL. This can consume large amounts of CPU time and block other operations from occurring while the traversals are in progress. To avoid this repeated walk, use a AIL cursor to record where we should be inserting the new items into the AIL without having to repeat the walk. The cursor infrastructure already provides this functionality for push walks, so is a simple extension of existing code. While this will not avoid the initial walk, it will avoid repeating it tens of thousands of times during a single checkpoint commit. This version includes logic improvements from Christoph Hellwig. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-11Revert "xfs: fix filesystsem freeze race in xfs_trans_alloc"Alex Elder
This reverts commit 7a249cf83da1813cfa71cfe1e265b40045eceb47. That commit created a situation that could lead to a filesystem hang. As Dave Chinner pointed out, xfs_trans_alloc() could hold a reference to m_active_trans (i.e., keep it non-zero) and then wait for SB_FREEZE_TRANS to complete. Meanwhile a filesystem freeze request could set SB_FREEZE_TRANS and then wait for m_active_trans to drop to zero. Nobody benefits from this sequence of events... Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-08xfs: fix filesystsem freeze race in xfs_trans_allocChristoph Hellwig
As pointed out by Jan xfs_trans_alloc can race with a concurrent filesystem freeze when it sleeps during the memory allocation. Fix this by moving the wait_for_freeze call after the memory allocation. This means moving the freeze into the low-level _xfs_trans_alloc helper, which thus grows a new argument. Also fix up some comments in that area while at it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2011-07-06xfs: unpin stale inodes directly in IOP_COMMITTEDDave Chinner
When inodes are marked stale in a transaction, they are treated specially when the inode log item is being inserted into the AIL. It tries to avoid moving the log item forward in the AIL due to a race condition with the writing the underlying buffer back to disk. The was "fixed" in commit de25c18 ("xfs: avoid moving stale inodes in the AIL"). To avoid moving the item forward, we return a LSN smaller than the commit_lsn of the completing transaction, thereby trying to trick the commit code into not moving the inode forward at all. I'm not sure this ever worked as intended - it assumes the inode is already in the AIL, but I don't think the returned LSN would have been small enough to prevent moving the inode. It appears that the reason it worked is that the lower LSN of the inodes meant they were inserted into the AIL and flushed before the inode buffer (which was moved to the commit_lsn of the transaction). The big problem is that with delayed logging, the returning of the different LSN means insertion takes the slow, non-bulk path. Worse yet is that insertion is to a position -before- the commit_lsn so it is doing a AIL traversal on every insertion, and has to walk over all the items that have already been inserted into the AIL. It's expensive. To compound the matter further, with delayed logging inodes are likely to go from clean to stale in a single checkpoint, which means they aren't even in the AIL at all when we come across them at AIL insertion time. Hence these were all getting inserted into the AIL when they simply do not need to be as inodes marked XFS_ISTALE are never written back. Transactional/recovery integrity is maintained in this case by the other items in the unlink transaction that were modified (e.g. the AGI btree blocks) and committed in the same checkpoint. So to fix this, simply unpin the stale inodes directly in xfs_inode_item_committed() and return -1 to indicate that the AIL insertion code does not need to do any further processing of these inodes. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-05-24xfs: add online discard supportChristoph Hellwig
Now that we have reliably tracking of deleted extents in a transaction we can easily implement "online" discard support which calls blkdev_issue_discard once a transaction commits. The actual discard is a two stage operation as we first have to mark the busy extent as not available for reuse before we can start the actual discard. Note that we don't bother supporting discard for the non-delaylog mode. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-04-28xfs: reduce the number of pagb_lock roundtrips in xfs_alloc_clear_busyChristoph Hellwig
Instead of finding the per-ag and then taking and releasing the pagb_lock for every single busy extent completed sort the list of busy extents and only switch betweens AGs where nessecary. This becomes especially important with the online discard support which will hit this lock more often. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-01-28xfs: handle CIl transaction commit failures correctlyDave Chinner
Failure to commit a transaction into the CIL is not handled correctly. This currently can only happen when racing with a shutdown and requires an explicit shutdown check, so it rare and can be avoided. Remove the shutdown check and make the CIL commit a void function to indicate it will always succeed, thereby removing the incorrectly handled failure case. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-01-28xfs: fix efi item leak on forced shutdownDave Chinner
After test 139, kmemleak shows: unreferenced object 0xffff880078b405d8 (size 400): comm "xfs_io", pid 4904, jiffies 4294909383 (age 1186.728s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 60 c1 17 79 00 88 ff ff 60 c1 17 79 00 88 ff ff `..y....`..y.... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff81afb04d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x2d/0x60 [<ffffffff8115c6cf>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x13f/0x2b0 [<ffffffff814aaa97>] kmem_zone_alloc+0x77/0xf0 [<ffffffff814aab2e>] kmem_zone_zalloc+0x1e/0x50 [<ffffffff8147cd6b>] xfs_efi_init+0x4b/0xb0 [<ffffffff814a4ee8>] xfs_trans_get_efi+0x58/0x90 [<ffffffff81455fab>] xfs_bmap_finish+0x8b/0x1d0 [<ffffffff814851b4>] xfs_itruncate_finish+0x2c4/0x5d0 [<ffffffff814a970f>] xfs_setattr+0x8df/0xa70 [<ffffffff814b5c7b>] xfs_vn_setattr+0x1b/0x20 [<ffffffff8117dc00>] notify_change+0x170/0x2e0 [<ffffffff81163bf6>] do_truncate+0x66/0xa0 [<ffffffff81163d0b>] sys_ftruncate+0xdb/0xe0 [<ffffffff8103a002>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff The cause of the leak is that the "remove" parameter of IOP_UNPIN() is never set when a CIL push is aborted. This means that the EFI item is never freed if it was in the push being cancelled. The problem is specific to delayed logging, but has uncovered a couple of problems with the handling of IOP_UNPIN(remove). Firstly, we cannot safely call xfs_trans_del_item() from IOP_UNPIN() in the CIL commit failure path or the iclog write failure path because for delayed loging we have no transaction context. Hence we must only call xfs_trans_del_item() if the log item being unpinned has an active log item descriptor. Secondly, xfs_trans_uncommit() does not handle log item descriptor freeing during the traversal of log items on a transaction. It can reference a freed log item descriptor when unpinning an EFI item. Hence it needs to use a safe list traversal method to allow items to be removed from the transaction during IOP_UNPIN(). Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-01-11xfs: fix an assignment within an ASSERT()Jesper Juhl
In fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c::xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb() at the out: label we have this: ASSERT(error = 0); I believe a comparison was intended, not an assignment. If I'm right, the patch below fixes that up. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-12-20xfs: bulk AIL insertion during transaction commitDave Chinner
When inserting items into the AIL from the transaction committed callbacks, we take the AIL lock for every single item that is to be inserted. For a CIL checkpoint commit, this can be tens of thousands of individual inserts, yet almost all of the items will be inserted at the same point in the AIL because they have the same index. To reduce the overhead and contention on the AIL lock for such operations, introduce a "bulk insert" operation which allows a list of log items with the same LSN to be inserted in a single operation via a list splice. To do this, we need to pre-sort the log items being committed into a temporary list for insertion. The complexity is that not every log item will end up with the same LSN, and not every item is actually inserted into the AIL. Items that don't match the commit LSN will be inserted and unpinned as per the current one-at-a-time method (relatively rare), while items that are not to be inserted will be unpinned and freed immediately. Items that are to be inserted at the given commit lsn are placed in a temporary array and inserted into the AIL in bulk each time the array fills up. As a result of this, we trade off AIL hold time for a significant reduction in traffic. lock_stat output shows that the worst case hold time is unchanged, but contention from AIL inserts drops by an order of magnitude and the number of lock traversal decreases significantly. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-10-18xfs: fix the xfs_trans_committedChristoph Hellwig
Use the correct prototype for xfs_trans_committed instead of casting it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-10-18xfs: remove unused t_callback field in struct xfs_transChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-10-18xfs: do not use xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch for per-cpu countersChristoph Hellwig
Update the per-cpu counters manually in xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb and remove support for per-cpu counters from xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch to simplify it. And added benefit is that we don't have to take m_sb_lock for transactions that only modify per-cpu counters. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-10-18xfs: do not use xfs_mod_incore_sb for per-cpu countersChristoph Hellwig
Export xfs_icsb_modify_counters and always use it for modifying the per-cpu counters. Remove support for per-cpu counters from xfs_mod_incore_sb to simplify it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-08-24xfs: unlock items before allowing the CIL to commitDave Chinner
When we commit a transaction using delayed logging, we need to unlock the items in the transaciton before we unlock the CIL context and allow it to be checkpointed. If we unlock them after we release the CIl context lock, the CIL can checkpoint and complete before we free the log items. This breaks stale buffer item unlock and unpin processing as there is an implicit assumption that the unlock will occur before the unpin. Also, some log items need to store the LSN of the transaction commit in the item (inodes and EFIs) and so can race with other transaction completions if we don't prevent the CIL from checkpointing before the unlock occurs. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-07-26xfs: fix xfs_trans_add_item() lockdep warningsDave Chinner
xfs_trans_add_item() is called with ip->i_ilock held, which means it is unsafe for memory reclaim to recurse back into the filesystem (ilock is required in writeback). Hence the allocation needs to be KM_NOFS to avoid recursion. Lockdep report indicating memory allocation being called with the ip->i_ilock held is as follows: [ 1749.866796] ================================= [ 1749.867788] [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] [ 1749.868327] 2.6.35-rc3-dgc+ #25 [ 1749.868741] --------------------------------- [ 1749.868741] inconsistent {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} -> {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} usage. [ 1749.868741] dd/2835 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: [ 1749.868741] (&(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock){++++?.}, at: [<ffffffff813170fb>] xfs_ilock+0x10b/0x190 [ 1749.868741] {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} state was registered at: [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff810b3a97>] __lock_acquire+0x437/0x1450 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff810b4b56>] lock_acquire+0xa6/0x160 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff810a20b5>] down_write_nested+0x65/0xb0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff813170fb>] xfs_ilock+0x10b/0x190 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8134e819>] xfs_reclaim_inode+0x99/0x310 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8134f56b>] xfs_inode_ag_walk+0x8b/0x150 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8134f6bb>] xfs_inode_ag_iterator+0x8b/0xf0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8134f7a8>] xfs_reclaim_inode_shrink+0x88/0x90 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff81119d07>] shrink_slab+0x137/0x1a0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8111bbe1>] balance_pgdat+0x421/0x6a0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8111bf7d>] kswapd+0x11d/0x320 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8109ce56>] kthread+0x96/0xa0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff81035de4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [ 1749.868741] irq event stamp: 4234335 [ 1749.868741] hardirqs last enabled at (4234335): [<ffffffff81147d25>] kmem_cache_free+0x115/0x220 [ 1749.868741] hardirqs last disabled at (4234334): [<ffffffff81147c4d>] kmem_cache_free+0x3d/0x220 [ 1749.868741] softirqs last enabled at (4233112): [<ffffffff81084dd2>] __do_softirq+0x142/0x260 [ 1749.868741] softirqs last disabled at (4233095): [<ffffffff81035edc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x50 [ 1749.868741] [ 1749.868741] other info that might help us debug this: [ 1749.868741] 2 locks held by dd/2835: [ 1749.868741] #0: (&(&ip->i_iolock)->mr_lock#2){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81316edd>] xfs_ilock_nowait+0xed/0x200 [ 1749.868741] #1: (&(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock){++++?.}, at: [<ffffffff813170fb>] xfs_ilock+0x10b/0x190 [ 1749.868741] [ 1749.868741] stack backtrace: [ 1749.868741] Pid: 2835, comm: dd Not tainted 2.6.35-rc3-dgc+ #25 [ 1749.868741] Call Trace: [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff810b1faa>] print_usage_bug+0x18a/0x190 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8104264f>] ? save_stack_trace+0x2f/0x50 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff810b2400>] ? check_usage_backwards+0x0/0xf0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff810b2f11>] mark_lock+0x331/0x400 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff810b3047>] mark_held_locks+0x67/0x90 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff810b3111>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xa1/0xe0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff81147419>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x39/0x1e0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8133f954>] kmem_zone_alloc+0x94/0xe0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8133f9be>] kmem_zone_zalloc+0x1e/0x50 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff81335f02>] xfs_trans_add_item+0x72/0xb0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff81339e41>] xfs_trans_ijoin+0xa1/0xd0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff81319f82>] xfs_itruncate_finish+0x312/0x5d0 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8133cb87>] xfs_free_eofblocks+0x227/0x280 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8133cd18>] xfs_release+0x138/0x190 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff813464c5>] xfs_file_release+0x15/0x20 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff81150ebf>] fput+0x13f/0x260 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8114d8c2>] filp_close+0x52/0x80 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff8114d9a9>] sys_close+0xb9/0x120 [ 1749.868741] [<ffffffff81034ff2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2010-07-26xfs: simplify inode to transaction joiningChristoph Hellwig
Currently we need to either call IHOLD or xfs_trans_ihold on an inode when joining it to a transaction via xfs_trans_ijoin. This patches instead makes xfs_trans_ijoin usable on it's own by doing an implicity xfs_trans_ihold, which also allows us to drop the third argument. For the case where we want to hold a reference on the inode a xfs_trans_ijoin_ref wrapper is added which does the IHOLD and marks the inode for needing an xfs_iput. In addition to the cleaner interface to the caller this also simplifies the implementation. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2010-07-26xfs: merge iop_unpin_remove into iop_unpinChristoph Hellwig
The unpin_remove item operation instances always share most of the implementation with the respective unpin implementation. So instead of keeping two different entry points add a remove flag to the unpin operation and share the code more easily. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2010-07-26xfs: simplify log item descriptor trackingChristoph Hellwig
Currently we track log item descriptor belonging to a transaction using a complex opencoded chunk allocator. This code has been there since day one and seems to work around the lack of an efficient slab allocator. This patch replaces it with dynamically allocated log item descriptors from a dedicated slab pool, linked to the transaction by a linked list. This allows to greatly simplify the log item descriptor tracking to the point where it's just a couple hundred lines in xfs_trans.c instead of a separate file. The external API has also been simplified while we're at it - the xfs_trans_add_item and xfs_trans_del_item functions to add/ delete items from a transaction have been simplified to the bare minium, and the xfs_trans_find_item function is replaced with a direct dereference of the li_desc field. All debug code walking the list of log items in a transaction is down to a simple list_for_each_entry. Note that we could easily use a singly linked list here instead of the double linked list from list.h as the fastpath only does deletion from sequential traversal. But given that we don't have one available as a library function yet I use the list.h functions for simplicity. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2010-07-26xfs: remove unneeded #include statementsChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2010-07-26xfs: drop dmapi hooksChristoph Hellwig
Dmapi support was never merged upstream, but we still have a lot of hooks bloating XFS for it, all over the fast pathes of the filesystem. This patch drops over 700 lines of dmapi overhead. If we'll ever get HSM support in mainline at least the namespace events can be done much saner in the VFS instead of the individual filesystem, so it's not like this is much help for future work. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2010-05-28xfs: cleanup log reservation calculactionsChristoph Hellwig
Instead of having small helper functions calling big macros do the calculations for the log reservations directly in the functions. These are mostly 1:1 from the macros execept that the macros kept the quota calculations in their callers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-24xfs: Introduce delayed logging core codeDave Chinner
The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-24xfs: Improve scalability of busy extent trackingDave Chinner
When we free a metadata extent, we record it in the per-AG busy extent array so that it is not re-used before the freeing transaction hits the disk. This array is fixed size, so when it overflows we make further allocation transactions synchronous because we cannot track more freed extents until those transactions hit the disk and are completed. Under heavy mixed allocation and freeing workloads with large log buffers, we can overflow this array quite easily. Further, the array is sparsely populated, which means that inserts need to search for a free slot, and array searches often have to search many more slots that are actually used to check all the busy extents. Quite inefficient, really. To enable this aspect of extent freeing to scale better, we need a structure that can grow dynamically. While in other areas of XFS we have used radix trees, the extents being freed are at random locations on disk so are better suited to being indexed by an rbtree. So, use a per-AG rbtree indexed by block number to track busy extents. This incures a memory allocation when marking an extent busy, but should not occur too often in low memory situations. This should scale to an arbitrary number of extents so should not be a limitation for features such as in-memory aggregation of transactions. However, there are still situations where we can't avoid allocating busy extents (such as allocation from the AGFL). To minimise the overhead of such occurences, we need to avoid doing a synchronous log force while holding the AGF locked to ensure that the previous transactions are safely on disk before we use the extent. We can do this by marking the transaction doing the allocation as synchronous rather issuing a log force. Because of the locking involved and the ordering of transactions, the synchronous transaction provides the same guarantees as a synchronous log force because it ensures that all the prior transactions are already on disk when the synchronous transaction hits the disk. i.e. it preserves the free->allocate order of the extent correctly in recovery. By doing this, we avoid holding the AGF locked while log writes are in progress, hence reducing the length of time the lock is held and therefore we increase the rate at which we can allocate and free from the allocation group, thereby increasing overall throughput. The only problem with this approach is that when a metadata buffer is marked stale (e.g. a directory block is removed), then buffer remains pinned and locked until the log goes to disk. The issue here is that if that stale buffer is reallocated in a subsequent transaction, the attempt to lock that buffer in the transaction will hang waiting the log to go to disk to unlock and unpin the buffer. Hence if someone tries to lock a pinned, stale, locked buffer we need to push on the log to get it unlocked ASAP. Effectively we are trading off a guaranteed log force for a much less common trigger for log force to occur. Ideally we should not reallocate busy extents. That is a much more complex fix to the problem as it involves direct intervention in the allocation btree searches in many places. This is left to a future set of modifications. Finally, now that we track busy extents in allocated memory, we don't need the descriptors in the transaction structure to point to them. We can replace the complex busy chunk infrastructure with a simple linked list of busy extents. This allows us to remove a large chunk of code, making the overall change a net reduction in code size. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-19xfs: Clean up xfs_trans_committed code after factoringDave Chinner
Now that the code has been factored, clean up all the remaining style cruft, simplify the code and re-order functions so that it doesn't need forward declarations. Also move the remaining functions that require forward declarations (xfs_trans_uncommit, xfs_trans_free) so that all the forward declarations can be removed from the file. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-05-19xfs: update and factor xfs_trans_committed()Dave Chinner
The function header to xfs-trans_committed has long had this comment: * THIS SHOULD BE REWRITTEN TO USE xfs_trans_next_item() To prepare for different methods of committing items, convert the code to use xfs_trans_next_item() and factor the code into smaller, more digestible chunks. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-05-19xfs: clean up xfs_trans_commit logic even moreChristoph Hellwig
> +shut_us_down: > + shutdown = XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp) ? EIO : 0; > + if (!(tp->t_flags & XFS_TRANS_DIRTY) || shutdown) { > + xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb(tp); > + /* This whole area in _xfs_trans_commit is still a complete mess. So while touching this code, unravel this mess as well to make the whole flow of the function simpler and clearer. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2010-05-19xfs: split out iclog writing from xfs_trans_commit()Dave Chinner
Split the the part of xfs_trans_commit() that deals with writing the transaction into the iclog into a separate function. This isolates the physical commit process from the logical commit operation and makes it easier to insert different transaction commit paths without affecting the existing algorithm adversely. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-05-19xfs: remove stale parameter from ->iop_unpin methodDave Chinner
The staleness of a object being unpinned can be directly derived from the object itself - there is no need to extract it from the object then pass it as a parameter into IOP_UNPIN(). This means we can kill the XFS_LID_BUF_STALE flag - it is set, checked and cleared in the same places XFS_BLI_STALE flag in the xfs_buf_log_item so it is now redundant and hence safe to remove. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-03-01xfs: stop passing opaque handles to xfs_log.c routinesChristoph Hellwig
Currenly we pass opaque xfs_log_ticket_t handles instead of struct xlog_ticket pointers, and void pointers instead of struct xlog_in_core pointers to various log manager functions. Instead pass properly typed pointers after adding forward declarations for them to xfs_log.h, and adjust the touched function prototypes to the standard XFS style while at it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-01-21xfs: cleanup up xfs_log_force calling conventionsChristoph Hellwig
Remove the XFS_LOG_FORCE argument which was always set, and the XFS_LOG_URGE define, which was never used. Split xfs_log_force into a two helpers - xfs_log_force which forces the whole log, and xfs_log_force_lsn which forces up to the specified LSN. The underlying implementations already were entirely separate, as were the users. Also re-indent the new _xfs_log_force/_xfs_log_force which previously had a weird coding style. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-01-21xfs: kill XLOG_VEC_SET_TYPEChristoph Hellwig
This macro only obsfucates the log item type assignments, so kill it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2009-12-11xfs: I/O completion handlers must use NOFS allocationsChristoph Hellwig
When completing I/O requests we must not allow the memory allocator to recurse into the filesystem, as we might deadlock on waiting for the I/O completion otherwise. The only thing currently allocating normal GFP_KERNEL memory is the allocation of the transaction structure for the unwritten extent conversion. Add a memflags argument to _xfs_trans_alloc to allow controlling the allocator behaviour. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reported-by: Thomas Neumann <tneumann@users.sourceforge.net> Tested-by: Thomas Neumann <tneumann@users.sourceforge.net> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2009-06-12Merge branch 'master' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs into for-linusFelix Blyakher
2009-06-11xfs: remove ->write_super and stop maintaining ->s_dirtChristoph Hellwig
the write_super method is used for (1) writing back the superblock periodically from pdflush (2) called just before ->sync_fs for data integerity syncs We don't need (1) because we have our own peridoc writeout through xfssyncd, and we don't need (2) because xfs_fs_sync_fs performs a proper synchronous superblock writeout after all other data and metadata has been written out. Also remove ->s_dirt tracking as it's only used to decide when too call ->write_super. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-08xfs: kill xfs_qmopsChristoph Hellwig
Kill the quota ops function vector and replace it with direct calls or stubs in the CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=n case. Make sure we check XFS_IS_QUOTA_RUNNING in the right spots. We can remove the number of those checks because the XFS_TRANS_DQ_DIRTY flag can't be set otherwise. This brings us back closer to the way this code worked in IRIX and earlier Linux versions, but we keep a lot of the more useful factoring of common code. Eventually we should also kill xfs_qm_bhv.c, but that's left for a later patch. Reduces the size of the source code by about 250 lines and the size of XFS module by about 1.5 kilobytes with quotas enabled: text data bss dec hex filename 615957 2960 3848 622765 980ad fs/xfs/xfs.o 617231 3152 3848 624231 98667 fs/xfs/xfs.o.old Fallout: - xfs_qm_dqattach is split into xfs_qm_dqattach_locked which expects the inode locked and xfs_qm_dqattach which does the locking around it, thus removing XFS_QMOPT_ILOCKED. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
2008-11-17[XFS] Fix double free of log ticketsDave Chinner
When an I/O error occurs during an intermediate commit on a rolling transaction, xfs_trans_commit() will free the transaction structure and the related ticket. However, the duplicate transaction that gets used as the transaction continues still contains a pointer to the ticket. Hence when the duplicate transaction is cancelled and freed, we free the ticket a second time. Add reference counting to the ticket so that we hold an extra reference to the ticket over the transaction commit. We drop the extra reference once we have checked that the transaction commit did not return an error, thus avoiding a double free on commit error. Credit to Nick Piggin for tripping over the problem. SGI-PV: 989741 Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-10-30[XFS] Finish removing the mount pointer from the AIL APIDavid Chinner
Change all the remaining AIL API functions that are passed struct xfs_mount pointers to pass pointers directly to the struct xfs_ail being used. With this conversion, all external access to the AIL is via the struct xfs_ail. Hence the operation and referencing of the AIL is almost entirely independent of the xfs_mount that is using it - it is now much more tightly tied to the log and the items it is tracking in the log than it is tied to the xfs_mount. SGI-PV: 988143 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32353a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-10-30[XFS] Add ail pointer into log itemsDavid Chinner
Add an xfs_ail pointer to log items so that the log items can reference the AIL directly during callbacks without needed a struct xfs_mount. SGI-PV: 988143 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32352a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-10-30[XFS] Move the AIL lock into the struct xfs_ailDavid Chinner
Bring the ail lock inside the struct xfs_ail. This means the AIL can be entirely manipulated via the struct xfs_ail rather than needing both the struct xfs_mount and the struct xfs_ail. SGI-PV: 988143 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32350a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-08-13[XFS] remove shouting-indirection macros from xfs_trans.hEric Sandeen
SGI-PV: 981498 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31758a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-08-13[XFS] Move xfs_attr_rolltrans to xfs_trans_rollNiv Sardi
Move it from the attr code to the transaction code and make the attr code call the new function. We rolltrans is really usefull whenever we want to use rolling transaction, should be generic, it isn't dependent on any part of the attr code anyway. We use this excuse to change all the: if ((error = xfs_attr_rolltrans())) calls into: error = xfs_trans_roll(); if (error) SGI-PV: 981498 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31729a Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-07-28[XFS] Remove unused arg from kmem_free()Denys Vlasenko
kmem_free() function takes (ptr, size) arguments but doesn't actually use second one. This patch removes size argument from all callsites. SGI-PV: 981498 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31050a Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-13xfs: convert beX_add to beX_add_cpu (new common API)Marcin Slusarz
remove beX_add functions and replace all uses with beX_add_cpu Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07[XFS] Unwrap AIL_LOCKDonald Douwsma
SGI-PV: 970382 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29739a Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-10-16[XFS] kill struct bhv_vfsChristoph Hellwig
Now that struct bhv_vfs doesn't have any members left we can kill it and go directly from the super_block to the xfs_mount everywhere. SGI-PV: 969608 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29509a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-10-15[XFS] superblock endianess annotationsChristoph Hellwig
Creates a new xfs_dsb_t that is __be annotated and keeps xfs_sb_t for the incore one. xfs_xlatesb is renamed to xfs_sb_to_disk and only handles the incore -> disk conversion. A new helper xfs_sb_from_disk handles the other direction and doesn't need the slightly hacky table-driven approach because we only ever read the full sb from disk. The handling of shared r/o filesystems has been buggy on little endian system and fixing this required shuffling around of some code in that area. SGI-PV: 968563 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29477a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-07-14[XFS] Apply transaction delta counts atomically to incore countersDavid Chinner
With the per-cpu superblock counters, batch updates are no longer atomic across the entire batch of changes. This is not an issue if each individual change in the batch is applied atomically. Unfortunately, free block count changes are not applied atomically, and they are applied in a manner guaranteed to cause problems. Essentially, the free block count reservation that the transaction took initially is returned to the in core counters before a second delta takes away what is used. because these two operations are not atomic, we can race with another thread that can use the returned transaction reservation before the transaction takes the space away again and we can then get ENOSPC being reported in a spot where we don't have an ENOSPC condition, nor should we ever see one there. Fix it up by rolling the two deltas into the one so it can be applied safely (i.e. atomically) to the incore counters. SGI-PV: 964465 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28796a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-07-14[XFS] Fix the transaction flags to make lazy superblock counters work.David Chinner
SGI-PV: 964999 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28653a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-07-14[XFS] Lazy Superblock CountersDavid Chinner
When we have a couple of hundred transactions on the fly at once, they all typically modify the on disk superblock in some way. create/unclink/mkdir/rmdir modify inode counts, allocation/freeing modify free block counts. When these counts are modified in a transaction, they must eventually lock the superblock buffer and apply the mods. The buffer then remains locked until the transaction is committed into the incore log buffer. The result of this is that with enough transactions on the fly the incore superblock buffer becomes a bottleneck. The result of contention on the incore superblock buffer is that transaction rates fall - the more pressure that is put on the superblock buffer, the slower things go. The key to removing the contention is to not require the superblock fields in question to be locked. We do that by not marking the superblock dirty in the transaction. IOWs, we modify the incore superblock but do not modify the cached superblock buffer. In short, we do not log superblock modifications to critical fields in the superblock on every transaction. In fact we only do it just before we write the superblock to disk every sync period or just before unmount. This creates an interesting problem - if we don't log or write out the fields in every transaction, then how do the values get recovered after a crash? the answer is simple - we keep enough duplicate, logged information in other structures that we can reconstruct the correct count after log recovery has been performed. It is the AGF and AGI structures that contain the duplicate information; after recovery, we walk every AGI and AGF and sum their individual counters to get the correct value, and we do a transaction into the log to correct them. An optimisation of this is that if we have a clean unmount record, we know the value in the superblock is correct, so we can avoid the summation walk under normal conditions and so mount/recovery times do not change under normal operation. One wrinkle that was discovered during development was that the blocks used in the freespace btrees are never accounted for in the AGF counters. This was once a valid optimisation to make; when the filesystem is full, the free space btrees are empty and consume no space. Hence when it matters, the "accounting" is correct. But that means the when we do the AGF summations, we would not have a correct count and xfs_check would complain. Hence a new counter was added to track the number of blocks used by the free space btrees. This is an *on-disk format change*. As a result of this, lazy superblock counters are a mkfs option and at the moment on linux there is no way to convert an old filesystem. This is possible - xfs_db can be used to twiddle the right bits and then xfs_repair will do the format conversion for you. Similarly, you can convert backwards as well. At some point we'll add functionality to xfs_admin to do the bit twiddling easily.... SGI-PV: 964999 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28652a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>