This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).
For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device. But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.
Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Merge tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux
Pull Writeback error handling updates from Jeff Layton:
"This pile represents the bulk of the writeback error handling fixes
that I have for this cycle. Some of the earlier patches in this pile
may look trivial but they are prerequisites for later patches in the
series.
The aim of this set is to improve how we track and report writeback
errors to userland. Most applications that care about data integrity
will periodically call fsync/fdatasync/msync to ensure that their
writes have made it to the backing store.
For a very long time, we have tracked writeback errors using two flags
in the address_space: AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC. Those flags are set when a
writeback error occurs (via mapping_set_error) and are cleared as a
side-effect of filemap_check_errors (as you noted yesterday). This
model really sucks for userland.
Only the first task to call fsync (or msync or fdatasync) will see the
error. Any subsequent task calling fsync on a file will get back 0
(unless another writeback error occurs in the interim). If I have
several tasks writing to a file and calling fsync to ensure that their
writes got stored, then I need to have them coordinate with one
another. That's difficult enough, but in a world of containerized
setups that coordination may even not be possible.
But wait...it gets worse!
The calls to filemap_check_errors can be buried pretty far down in the
call stack, and there are internal callers of filemap_write_and_wait
and the like that also end up clearing those errors. Many of those
callers ignore the error return from that function or return it to
userland at nonsensical times (e.g. truncate() or stat()). If I get
back -EIO on a truncate, there is no reason to think that it was
because some previous writeback failed, and a subsequent fsync() will
(incorrectly) return 0.
This pile aims to do three things:
1) ensure that when a writeback error occurs that that error will be
reported to userland on a subsequent fsync/fdatasync/msync call,
regardless of what internal callers are doing
2) report writeback errors on all file descriptions that were open at
the time that the error occurred. This is a user-visible change,
but I think most applications are written to assume this behavior
anyway. Those that aren't are unlikely to be hurt by it.
3) document what filesystems should do when there is a writeback
error. Today, there is very little consistency between them, and a
lot of cargo-cult copying. We need to make it very clear what
filesystems should do in this situation.
To achieve this, the set adds a new data type (errseq_t) and then
builds new writeback error tracking infrastructure around that. Once
all of that is in place, we change the filesystems to use the new
infrastructure for reporting wb errors to userland.
Note that this is just the initial foray into cleaning up this mess.
There is a lot of work remaining here:
1) convert the rest of the filesystems in a similar fashion. Once the
initial set is in, then I think most other fs' will be fairly
simple to convert. Hopefully most of those can in via individual
filesystem trees.
2) convert internal waiters on writeback to use errseq_t for
detecting errors instead of relying on the AS_* flags. I have some
draft patches for this for ext4, but they are not quite ready for
prime time yet.
This was a discussion topic this year at LSF/MM too. If you're
interested in the gory details, LWN has some good articles about this:
https://lwn.net/Articles/718734/https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/"
* tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
btrfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting on fsync
xfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting
ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors
fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting
block: convert to errseq_t based writeback error tracking
dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails
Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errors
mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error
fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting
lib: add errseq_t type and infrastructure for handling it
mm: don't TestClearPageError in __filemap_fdatawait_range
mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails
jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback
buffer: set errors in mapping at the time that the error occurs
fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync
buffer: use mapping_set_error instead of setting the flag
mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty
I noticed on xfs that I could still sometimes get back an error on fsync
on a fd that was opened after the error condition had been cleared.
The problem is that the buffer code sets the write_io_error flag and
then later checks that flag to set the error in the mapping. That flag
perisists for quite a while however. If the file is later opened with
O_TRUNC, the buffers will then be invalidated and the mapping's error
set such that a subsequent fsync will return error. I think this is
incorrect, as there was no writeback between the open and fsync.
Add a new mark_buffer_write_io_error operation that sets the flag and
the error in the mapping at the same time. Replace all calls to
set_buffer_write_io_error with mark_buffer_write_io_error, and remove
the places that check this flag in order to set the error in the
mapping.
This sets the error in the mapping earlier, at the time that it's first
detected.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
1. Andreas Gruenbacher has four patches related to cleaning up the GFS2
inode evict process. This is about half of his patches designed to
fix a long-standing GFS2 hang related to the inode shrinker.
(Shrinker calls gfs2 evict, evict calls DLM, DLM requires memory
and blocks on the shrinker.) These 4 patches have been well tested.
His second set of patches are still being tested, so I plan to hold
them until the next merge window, after we have more weeks of testing.
The first patch eliminates the flush_delayed_work, which can block.
2. Andreas's second patch protects setting of gl_object for rgrps with
a spin_lock to prevent proven races.
3. His third patch introduces a centralized mechanism for queueing glock
work with better reference counting, to prevent more races.
4. His fourth patch retains a reference to inode glocks when an error
occurs while creating an inode. This keeps the subsequent evict from
needing to reacquire the glock, which might call into DLM and block
in low memory conditions.
5. Arvind Yadav has a patch to add const to attribute_group structures.
6. I have a patch to detect directory entry inconsistencies and withdraw
the file system if any are found. Better that than silent corruption.
7. I have a patch to remove a vestigial variable from glock structures,
saving some slab space.
8. I have another patch to remove a vestigial variable from the GFS2
in-core superblock structure.
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Merge tag 'gfs2-4.13.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2
Pull GFS2 updates from Bob Peterson:
"We've got eight GFS2 patches for this merge window:
- Andreas Gruenbacher has four patches related to cleaning up the
GFS2 inode evict process. This is about half of his patches
designed to fix a long-standing GFS2 hang related to the inode
shrinker: Shrinker calls gfs2 evict, evict calls DLM, DLM requires
memory and blocks on the shrinker.
These four patches have been well tested. His second set of patches
are still being tested, so I plan to hold them until the next merge
window, after we have more weeks of testing. The first patch
eliminates the flush_delayed_work, which can block.
- Andreas's second patch protects setting of gl_object for rgrps with
a spin_lock to prevent proven races.
- His third patch introduces a centralized mechanism for queueing
glock work with better reference counting, to prevent more races.
-His fourth patch retains a reference to inode glocks when an error
occurs while creating an inode. This keeps the subsequent evict
from needing to reacquire the glock, which might call into DLM and
block in low memory conditions.
- Arvind Yadav has a patch to add const to attribute_group
structures.
- I have a patch to detect directory entry inconsistencies and
withdraw the file system if any are found. Better that than silent
corruption.
- I have a patch to remove a vestigial variable from glock
structures, saving some slab space.
- I have another patch to remove a vestigial variable from the GFS2
in-core superblock structure"
* tag 'gfs2-4.13.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
GFS2: constify attribute_group structures.
gfs2: gfs2_create_inode: Keep glock across iput
gfs2: Clean up glock work enqueuing
gfs2: Protect gl->gl_object by spin lock
gfs2: Get rid of flush_delayed_work in gfs2_evict_inode
GFS2: Eliminate vestigial sd_log_flush_wrapped
GFS2: Remove gl_list from glock structure
GFS2: Withdraw when directory entry inconsistencies are detected
Put all remaining accesses to gl->gl_object under the
gl->gl_lockref.lock spinlock to prevent races.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Now that we don't need the common flags to overflow outside the range
of a 32-bit type we can encode them the same way for both the bio and
request fields. This in addition allows us to place the operation
first (and make some room for more ops while we're at it) and to
stop having to shift around the operation values.
In addition this allows passing around only one value in the block layer
instead of two (and eventuall also in the file systems, but we can do
that later) and thus clean up a lot of code.
Last but not least this allows decreasing the size of the cmd_flags
field in struct request to 32-bits. Various functions passing this
value could also be updated, but I'd like to avoid the churn for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
- the big change is the cleanup from Mike Christie, cleaning up our
uses of command types and modified flags. This is what will throw
some merge conflicts
- regression fix for the above for btrfs, from Vincent
- following up to the above, better packing of struct request from
Christoph
- a 2038 fix for blktrace from Arnd
- a few trivial/spelling fixes from Bart Van Assche
- a front merge check fix from Damien, which could cause issues on
SMR drives
- Atari partition fix from Gabriel
- convert cfq to highres timers, since jiffies isn't granular enough
for some devices these days. From Jan and Jeff
- CFQ priority boost fix idle classes, from me
- cleanup series from Ming, improving our bio/bvec iteration
- a direct issue fix for blk-mq from Omar
- fix for plug merging not involving the IO scheduler, like we do for
other types of merges. From Tahsin
- expose DAX type internally and through sysfs. From Toshi and Yigal
* 'for-4.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (76 commits)
block: Fix front merge check
block: do not merge requests without consulting with io scheduler
block: Fix spelling in a source code comment
block: expose QUEUE_FLAG_DAX in sysfs
block: add QUEUE_FLAG_DAX for devices to advertise their DAX support
Btrfs: fix comparison in __btrfs_map_block()
block: atari: Return early for unsupported sector size
Doc: block: Fix a typo in queue-sysfs.txt
cfq-iosched: Charge at least 1 jiffie instead of 1 ns
cfq-iosched: Fix regression in bonnie++ rewrite performance
cfq-iosched: Convert slice_resid from u64 to s64
block: Convert fifo_time from ulong to u64
blktrace: avoid using timespec
block/blk-cgroup.c: Declare local symbols static
block/bio-integrity.c: Add #include "blk.h"
block/partition-generic.c: Remove a set-but-not-used variable
block: bio: kill BIO_MAX_SIZE
cfq-iosched: temporarily boost queue priority for idle classes
block: drbd: avoid to use BIO_MAX_SIZE
block: bio: remove BIO_MAX_SECTORS
...
Before this patch, if you used gfs2_jadd to add new journals of a
size smaller than the existing journals, replaying those new journals
would withdraw. That's because function gfs2_replay_incr_blk was
using the number of journal blocks (jd_block) from the superblock's
journal pointer. In other words, "My journal's max size" rather than
"the journal we're replaying's size." This patch changes the function
to use the size of the pertinent journal rather than always using the
journal we happen to be using.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have gfs2
set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This has callers of submit_bio/submit_bio_wait set the bio->bi_rw
instead of passing it in. This makes that use the same as
generic_make_request and how we set the other bio fields.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Fixed up fs/ext4/crypto.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Here is a list of patches we've accumulated for GFS2 for the current upstream
merge window. This time we've only got six patches, many of which are very small:
- Three cleanups from Andreas Gruenbacher, including a nice cleanup of
the sequence file code for the sbstats debugfs file.
- A patch from Ben Hutchings that changes statistics variables from signed
to unsigned.
- Two patches from me that increase GFS2's glock scalability by switching
from a conventional hash table to rhashtable.
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Merge tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2
Pull GFS2 updates from Bob Peterson:
"Here is a list of patches we've accumulated for GFS2 for the current
upstream merge window. This time we've only got six patches, many of
which are very small:
- three cleanups from Andreas Gruenbacher, including a nice cleanup
of the sequence file code for the sbstats debugfs file.
- a patch from Ben Hutchings that changes statistics variables from
signed to unsigned.
- two patches from me that increase GFS2's glock scalability by
switching from a conventional hash table to rhashtable"
* tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
gfs2: A minor "sbstats" cleanup
gfs2: Fix a typo in a comment
gfs2: Make statistics unsigned, suitable for use with do_div()
GFS2: Use resizable hash table for glocks
GFS2: Move glock superblock pointer to field gl_name
gfs2: Simplify the seq file code for "sbstats"
What uniquely identifies a glock in the glock hash table is not
gl_name, but gl_name and its superblock pointer. This patch makes
the gl_name field correspond to a unique glock identifier. That will
allow us to simplify hashing with a future patch, since the hash
algorithm can then take the gl_name and hash its components in one
operation.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We can always fill up the bio now, no need to estimate the possible
size based on queue parameters.
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
[hch: rebased and wrote a changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:
(1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
(2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback
The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.
So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Sparse warning: fs/gfs2/lops.c:78:29:
"warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer"
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
If multiple nodes fail and their recovery work runs simultaneously, they
would use the same unprotected variables in the superblock. For example,
they would stomp on each other's revoked blocks lists, which resulted
in file system metadata corruption. This patch moves the necessary
variables so that each journal has its own separate area for tracking
its journal replay.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a long standing issue in mapping the journal
extents. Most journals will consist of only a single extent,
and although the cache took account of that by merging extents,
it did not actually map large extents, but instead was doing a
block by block mapping. Since the journal was only being mapped
on mount, this was not normally noticeable.
With the updated code, it is now possible to use the same extent
mapping system during journal recovery (which will be added in a
later patch). This will allow checking of the integrity of the
journal before any reply of the journal content is attempted. For
this reason the code is moving to bmap.c, since it will be used
more widely in due course.
An exercise left for the reader is to compare the new function
gfs2_map_journal_extents() with gfs2_write_alloc_required()
Additionally, should there be a failure, the error reporting is
also updated to show more detail about what went wrong.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Now we have a master transaction into which other transactions
are merged, the accounting can be done using this master
transaction. We no longer require the superblock fields which
were being used for this function.
In addition, this allows for a clean up in calc_reserved()
making it rather easier understand. Also, by reducing the
number of variables used to track the buffers being added
and removed from the journal, a number of error checks are
now no longer required.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Over time, we hope to be able to improve the concurrency available
in the log code. This is one small step towards that, by moving
the buffer lists from the super block, and into the transaction
structure, so that each transaction builds its own buffer lists.
At transaction commit time, the buffer lists are merged into
the currently accumulating transaction. That transaction then
is passed into the before and after commit functions at journal
flush time. Thus there should be no change in overall behaviour
yet.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
"The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
rest is fairly minor. It was supposed to go in last round, but
various issues pushed it to this release instead. The pull request
contains:
- Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks. Nothing major
here, just minor fixes and cleanups.
- Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
from Christian Engelmayer.
- Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.
- Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet. This
enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
possible, and splitting more efficient. Related fixes to immutable
bio_vecs:
- dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
- btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.
- bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"
* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly
blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
block: fixup for generic bio chaining
block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
block: Kill bio_pair_split()
...
Prior to this patch, GFS2 had one address space for each rgrp,
stored in the glock. This patch changes them to use a single
address space in the super block. This therefore saves
(sizeof(struct address_space) * nr_of_rgrps) bytes of memory
and for large filesystems, that can be significant.
It would be nice to be able to do something similar and merge
the inode metadata address space into the same global
address space. However, that is rather more complicated as the
on-disk location doesn't have a 1:1 mapping with the inodes in
general. So while it could be done, it will be a more complicated
operation as it requires changing a lot more code paths.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
With the preceding patch, we started accepting block reservations
smaller than the ideal size, which requires a lot more parsing of the
bitmaps. To reduce the amount of bitmap searching, this patch
implements a scheme whereby each rgrp keeps track of the point
at this multi-block reservations will fail.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since gfs2_sync_meta() is only called from a single file, lets move
it to lops.c where it is used, and mark it static. At the same
time, we can clean up the meta_io.h header too.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch looks at all the outstanding blocks in all the transactions
on the log, and moves the completed ones to the ail2 list. Then it
issues revokes for these blocks. This will hopefully speed things up
in situations where there is a lot of contention for glocks, especially
if they are acquired serially.
revoke_lo_before_commit will issue at most one log block's full of these
preemptive revokes. The amount of reserved log space that
gfs2_log_reserve() ignores has been incremented to allow for this extra
block.
This patch also consolidates the common revoke instructions into one
function, gfs2_add_revoke().
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
With recent changes to the transactions, it appears that we
are no longer using the "log ops" for resource groups. Since the
log commit code processes the array of log ops, eliminating this
should be marginally better for performance. Therefore this patch
eliminates it.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch simply sort the data and metadata buffer lists by their
inplace block number. This makes gfs2_log_flush issue the inplace IO
in sequential order, which will hopefully speed up writing the IO
out to disk.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch sets the log descriptor type according to whether the
journal commit is for (journaled) data or metadata. This was
recently broken when the functions to process data and metadata
log ops were combined.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:
- Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.
- Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
bypass operation.
- Fix for the hang on exceeded rq->datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
discard bios.
- Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
workqueue mechanism.
- Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
tree.
- A few random fixes.
* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
block: fix max discard sectors limit
blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
raid1: use bio_copy_data()
pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
block: Add bio_copy_data()
...
In order to allow transactions and log flushes to happen at the same
time, gfs2 needs to move the transaction accounting and active items
list code into the gfs2_trans structure. As a first step toward this,
this patch removes the gfs2_ail structure, and handles the active items
list in the gfs_trans structure. This keeps gfs2 from allocating an ail
structure on log flushes, and gives us a struture that can later be used
to store the transaction accounting outside of the gfs2 superblock
structure.
With this patch, at the end of a transaction, gfs2 will add the
gfs2_trans structure to the superblock if there is not one already.
This structure now has the active items fields that were previously in
gfs2_ail. This is not necessary in the case where the transaction was
simply used to add revokes, since these are never written outside of the
journal, and thus, don't need an active items list.
Also, in order to make sure that the transaction structure is not
removed while it's still in use by gfs2_trans_end, unlocking the
sd_log_flush_lock has to happen slightly later in ending the
transaction.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Just a little convenience macro - main reason to add it now is preparing
for immutable bio vecs, it'll reduce the size of the patch that puts
bi_sector/bi_size/bi_idx into a struct bvec_iter.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
CC: dm-devel@redhat.com
CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
CC: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
CC: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
CC: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
CC: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch copies the body of gfs2_trans_add_bh into the two newly
added gfs2_trans_add_data and gfs2_trans_add_meta functions. We can
then move the .lo_add functions from lops.c into trans.c and call
them directly.
As a result of this, we no longer need to use the .lo_add functions
at all, so that is removed from the log operations structure.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This moves the lo_add function for revokes into trans.c, removing
a function call and making the code easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In gfs2_trans_add_bh(), gfs2 was testing if a there was a bd attached to the
buffer without having the gfs2_log_lock held. It was then assuming it would
stay attached for the rest of the function. However, without either the log
lock being held of the buffer locked, __gfs2_ail_flush() could detach bd at any
time. This patch moves the locking before the test. If there isn't a bd
already attached, gfs2 can safely allocate one and attach it before locking.
There is no way that the newly allocated bd could be on the ail list,
and thus no way for __gfs2_ail_flush() to detach it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cleans up two cases where variables were assigned values but then never
used again.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When we read an invalid block from the journal, we should not call
withdraw, but simply print a message and return an error. It is
up to the caller to then handle that error. In the case of mount
that means a failed mount, rather than a withdraw (requiring a
reboot). In the case of recovering another nodes journal then
we return an error via the uevent.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch eliminates the gfs2_log_element data structure and
rolls its two components into the gfs2_bufdata. This makes the code
easier to understand and makes it easier to migrate to a rbtree
to keep the list sorted.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch removes a log lock from around atomic operation where
it is not needed, removes an unused variable, and also changes
a void pointer used incorrectly to a struct page pointer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is another clean up in the logging code. This per-transaction
list was largely unused. Its main function was to ensure that the
number of buffers in a transaction was correct, however that counter
was only used to check the number of buffers in the bd_list_tr, plus
an assert at the end of each transaction. With the assert now changed
to use the calculated buffer counts, we can remove both bd_list_tr and
its associated counter.
This should make the code easier to understand as well as shrinking
a couple of structures.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The main part of this patch merges the two functions used to
write metadata and data buffers to the log. Most of the code
is common between the two functions, so this provides a nice
clean up, and makes the code more readable.
The gfs2_get_log_desc() function is also extended to take two more
arguments, and thus avoid having to set the length and data1
fields of this strucuture as a separate operation.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Prior to this patch, we have two ways of sending i/o to the log.
One of those is used when we need to allocate both the data
to be written itself and also a buffer head to submit it. This
is done via sb_getblk and friends. This is used mostly for writing
log headers.
The other method is used when writing blocks which have some
in-place counterpart. This is the case for all the metadata
blocks which are journalled, and when journaled data is in use,
for unescaped journalled data blocks.
This patch replaces both of those two methods, and about half
a dozen separate i/o submission points with a single i/o
submission function. We also go direct to bio rather than
using buffer heads, since this allows us to build i/o
requests of the maximum size for the block device in
question. It also reduces the memory required for flushing
the log, which can be very useful in low memory situations.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since we always write the buffer directly after this function
returns, we might as well merge it into here. This is a clean
up in preparation for some further updates to the log code
which are coming soon.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull gfs2 changes from Steven Whitehouse.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw:
GFS2: Change truncate page allocation to be GFP_NOFS
GFS2: call gfs2_write_alloc_required for each chunk
GFS2: Clean up log flush header writing
GFS2: Remove a __GFP_NOFAIL allocation
GFS2: Flush pending glock work when evicting an inode
GFS2: make sure rgrps are up to date in func gfs2_blk2rgrpd
GFS2: Eliminate sd_rindex_mutex
GFS2: Unlock rindex mutex on glock error
GFS2: Make bd_cmp() static
GFS2: Sort the ordered write list
GFS2: FITRIM ioctl support
GFS2: Move two functions from log.c to lops.c
GFS2: glock statistics gathering
In order to ensure that we've got enough buffer heads for flushing
the journal, the orignal code used __GFP_NOFAIL when performing
this allocation. Here we dispense with that in favour of using a
mempool. This should improve efficiency in low memory conditions
since flushing the journal is a good way to get memory back, we
don't want to be spinning, waiting on memory allocations. The
buffers which are allocated via this mempool are fairly short lived,
so that we'll recycle them pretty quickly.
Although there are other memory allocations which occur during the
journal flush process, this is the one which can potentially require
the most memory, so the most important one to fix.
The amount of memory reserved is a fixed amount, and we should not need
to scale it when there are a greater number of filesystems in use.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The FITRIM ioctl provides an alternative way to send discard requests to
the underlying device. Using the discard mount option results in every
freed block generating a discard request to the block device. This can
be slow, since many block devices can only process discard requests of
larger sizes, and also such operations can be time consuming.
Rather than using the discard mount option, FITRIM allows a sweep of the
filesystem on an occasional basis, and also to optionally avoid sending
down discard requests for smaller regions.
In GFS2 FITRIM will work at resource group granularity. There is a flag
for each resource group which keeps track of which resource groups have
been trimmed. This flag is reset whenever a deallocation occurs in the
resource group, and set whenever a successful FITRIM of that resource
group has taken place. This helps to reduce repeated discard requests
for the same block ranges, again improving performance.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Christoph Hellwig