GFS2 has a transaction glock, which must be grabbed for every
transaction, whose purpose is to deal with freezing the filesystem.
Aside from this involving a large amount of locking, it is very easy to
make the current fsfreeze code hang on unfreezing.
This patch rewrites how gfs2 handles freezing the filesystem. The
transaction glock is removed. In it's place is a freeze glock, which is
cached (but not held) in a shared state by every node in the cluster
when the filesystem is mounted. This lock only needs to be grabbed on
freezing, and actions which need to be safe from freezing, like
recovery.
When a node wants to freeze the filesystem, it grabs this glock
exclusively. When the freeze glock state changes on the nodes (either
from shared to unlocked, or shared to exclusive), the filesystem does a
special log flush. gfs2_log_flush() does all the work for flushing out
the and shutting down the incore log, and then it tries to grab the
freeze glock in a shared state again. Since the filesystem is stuck in
gfs2_log_flush, no new transaction can start, and nothing can be written
to disk. Unfreezing the filesytem simply involes dropping the freeze
glock, allowing gfs2_log_flush() to grab and then release the shared
lock, so it is cached for next time.
However, in order for the unfreezing ioctl to occur, gfs2 needs to get a
shared lock on the filesystem root directory inode to check permissions.
If that glock has already been grabbed exclusively, fsfreeze will be
unable to get the shared lock and unfreeze the filesystem.
In order to allow the unfreeze, this patch makes gfs2 grab a shared lock
on the filesystem root directory during the freeze, and hold it until it
unfreezes the filesystem. The functions which need to grab a shared
lock in order to allow the unfreeze ioctl to be issued now use the lock
grabbed by the freeze code instead.
The freeze and unfreeze code take care to make sure that this shared
lock will not be dropped while another process is using it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When gfs2_create_inode() fails due to quota violation, the VFS
inode is not completely uninitialized. This can cause a list
corruption error.
This patch correctly uninitializes the VFS inode when a quota
violation occurs in the gfs2_create_inode codepath.
Resolves: rhbz#1059808
Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch eliminates function gfs2_security_init in favor of just
calling security_inode_init_security directly.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
gfs2_lookupi() can return NULL if the path to the root is broken by
another rename/rmdir. In this case gfs2_ok_to_move() must check for
this NULL pointer and return error.
Resolves: rhbz#1060246
Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is another step towards improving the allocation of xattr
blocks at inode allocation time. Here we take advantage of
Christoph's recent work on ACLs to allocate a block for the
xattrs early if we know that we will be adding ACLs to the
inode later on. The advantage of that is that it is much
more likely that we'll get a contiguous run of two blocks
where the first is the inode and the second is the xattr block.
We still have to fall back to the original system in case we
don't get the requested two contiguous blocks, or in case the
ACLs are too large to fit into the block.
Future patches will move more of the ACL setting code further
up the gfs2_inode_create() function. Also, I'd like to be
able to do the same thing with the xattrs from LSMs in
due course, too. That way we should be able to slowly reduce
the number of independent transactions, at least in the
most common cases.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted stuff; the biggest pile here is Christoph's ACL series. Plus
assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place...
There will be another pile later this week"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (43 commits)
__dentry_path() fixes
vfs: Remove second variable named error in __dentry_path
vfs: Is mounted should be testing mnt_ns for NULL or error.
Fix race when checking i_size on direct i/o read
hfsplus: remove can_set_xattr
nfsd: use get_acl and ->set_acl
fs: remove generic_acl
nfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure for v3 Posix ACLs
gfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
jfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
xfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
reiserfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
ocfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
jffs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
hfsplus: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
f2fs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
btrfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
fs: make posix_acl_create more useful
fs: make posix_acl_chmod more useful
...
This contains some major refactoring for the create path so that
inodes are created with the right mode to start with instead of
fixing it up later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
0d0d110720 asserts that "d_splice_alias()
can't return error unless it was given an IS_ERR(inode)".
That was true of the implementation of d_splice_alias, but this is
really a problem with d_splice_alias: at a minimum it should be able to
return -ELOOP in the case where inserting the given dentry would cause a
directory loop.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Al Viro has tactfully pointed out that we are using the incorrect
error code in some cases. This patch fixes that, and also removes
the (unused) return value for glock dumping.
> * gfs2_iget() - ENOBUFS instead of ENOMEM. ENOBUFS is
> "No buffer space available (POSIX.1 (XSI STREAMS option))" and since
> we don't support STREAMS it's probably fair game, but... what the hell?
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
This patch calls get_write_access in function gfs2_setattr_chown,
which merely increases inode->i_writecount for the duration of the
function. That will ensure that any file closes won't delete the
inode's multi-block reservation while the function is running.
It also ensures that a multi-block reservation exists when needed
for quota change operations during the chown.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When we look to see if there is enough space to add a dir
entry without allocation, we have then been repeating the
same search later when we do the actual insertion. This
patch caches the details of the location in the gfs2_diradd
structure, so that we do not have to repeat the search.
This will provide a performance improvement which will be
greater as the size of the directory increases.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
There are three cases where we need to calculate the number of
blocks to reserve in a transaction involving linking an inode
into a directory. The one in rename is a bit more complicated,
but the basis of it is the same as for link and create. So it
makes sense to move this calculation into a single function
rather than repeating it three times.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The intent is that this structure will hold the information
required when adding entries to a directory (linking). To
start with, it will contain only the number of blocks which
are required to link the new entry into the directory. The
current calculation returns either 0 or the maximim number of
blocks that can ever be requested by such a transaction.
The intent is that in a later patch, we can update the dir
code to calculate this value more accurately. In addition
further patches will also add further fields to the new
structure to increase its utility.
In addition this patch fixes a bug where the link used during
inode creation was adding requesting too many blocks in
some cases. This is harmless unless the fs is close to being
full.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In the case that atomic_open calls finish_no_open() with
the dentry that was supplied to gfs2_atomic_open() an
extra reference count is required. This patch fixes that
issue preventing a bug trap triggering at umount time.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"All kinds of stuff this time around; some more notable parts:
- RCU'd vfsmounts handling
- new primitives for coredump handling
- files_lock is gone
- Bruce's delegations handling series
- exportfs fixes
plus misc stuff all over the place"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (101 commits)
ecryptfs: ->f_op is never NULL
locks: break delegations on any attribute modification
locks: break delegations on link
locks: break delegations on rename
locks: helper functions for delegation breaking
locks: break delegations on unlink
namei: minor vfs_unlink cleanup
locks: implement delegations
locks: introduce new FL_DELEG lock flag
vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file
vfs: rename I_MUTEX_QUOTA now that it's not used for quotas
vfs: don't use PARENT/CHILD lock classes for non-directories
vfs: pull ext4's double-i_mutex-locking into common code
exportfs: fix quadratic behavior in filehandle lookup
exportfs: better variable name
exportfs: move most of reconnect_path to helper function
exportfs: eliminate unused "noprogress" counter
exportfs: stop retrying once we race with rename/remove
exportfs: clear DISCONNECTED on all parents sooner
exportfs: more detailed comment for path_reconnect
...
some clean ups and some patches to use the new generic lru list
code. There is still plenty of scope for some further changes in
due course - faster lookups of quota structures is very much
on the todo list. Also, a start has been made towards the more tricky
issue of using the generic lru code with glocks, but that will
have to be completed in a subsequent merge window.
The other, more minor feature, is that there have been a number of
performance patches which relate to block allocation. In particular
they will improve performance when the disk is nearly full.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)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=qwXe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Merge tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw
Pull gfs2 updates from Steven Whitehouse:
"The main feature of interest this time is quota updates. There are
some clean ups and some patches to use the new generic lru list code.
There is still plenty of scope for some further changes in due course -
faster lookups of quota structures is very much on the todo list.
Also, a start has been made towards the more tricky issue of using the
generic lru code with glocks, but that will have to be completed in a
subsequent merge window.
The other, more minor feature, is that there have been a number of
performance patches which relate to block allocation. In particular
they will improve performance when the disk is nearly full"
* tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw:
GFS2: Use generic list_lru for quota
GFS2: Rename quota qd_lru_lock qd_lock
GFS2: Use reflink for quota data cache
GFS2: Use lockref for glocks
GFS2: Protect quota sync generation
GFS2: Inline qd_trylock into gfs2_quota_unlock
GFS2: Make two similar quota code fragments into a function
GFS2: Remove obsolete quota tunable
GFS2: Move gfs2_icbit_munge into quota.c
GFS2: Speed up starting point selection for block allocation
GFS2: Add allocation parameters structure
GFS2: Clean up reservation removal
GFS2: fix dentry leaks
GFS2: new function gfs2_rbm_incr
GFS2: Introduce rbm field bii
GFS2: Do not reset flags on active reservations
GFS2: introduce bi_blocks for optimization
GFS2: optimize rbm_from_block wrt bi_start
GFS2: d_splice_alias() can't return error
This patch adds a structure to contain allocation parameters with
the intention of future expansion of this structure. The idea is
that we should be able to add more information about the allocation
in the future in order to allow the allocator to make a better job
of placing the requests on-disk.
There is no functional difference from applying this patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The reservation for an inode should be cleared when it is truncated so
that we can start again at a different offset for future allocations.
We could try and do better than that, by resetting the search based on
where the truncation started from, but this is only a first step.
In addition, there are three callers of gfs2_rs_delete() but only one
of those should really be testing the value of i_writecount. While
we get away with that in the other cases currently, I think it would
be better if we made that test specific to the one case which
requires it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We need to dput() the result of d_splice_alias(), unless it is passed to
finish_no_open().
Edited by Steven Whitehouse in order to make it apply to the current
GFS2 git tree, and taking account of a prerequisite patch which hasn't
been applied.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
unless it was given an IS_ERR(inode), which isn't the case here. So clean
up the unnecessary error handling in gfs2_create_inode().
This paves the way for real fixes (hence the stable Cc).
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
In gfs2_create_inode() set FILE_CREATED in *opened.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Since the introduction of atomic_open, gfs2_getxattr can be
called with the glock already held, so we need to allow for
this.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Reported-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Tested-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
PTR_RET should be PTR_ERR
Reported-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
I've restricted atomic_open to only operate on regular files, although
I still don't understand why atomic_open should not be possible also for
directories on GFS2. That can always be added in later though, if it
makes sense.
The ->atomic_open function can be passed negative dentries, which
in most cases means either ENOENT (->lookup) or a call to d_instantiate
(->create). In the GFS2 case though, we need to actually perform the
look up, since we do not know whether there has been a new inode created
on another node. The look up calls d_splice_alias which then tries to
rehash the dentry - so the solution here is to simply check for that
in d_splice_alias. The same issue is likely to affect any other cluster
filesystem implementing ->atomic_open
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields fieldses org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Creation of a new inode requires a directory search in order to ensure
that we are not trying to create an inode with the same name as an
existing one. This was hidden away inside the create_ok() function.
In the case that there was an existing inode, and a lookup can be
substituted for a create (which is the case with regular files
when the O_EXCL flag is not in use) then we were doing a second
lookup in order to return the inode.
This patch merges these two lookups into one. This can be done by
passing a flag to gfs2_dir_search() to tell it to just return -EEXIST
in the cases where we don't actually want to look up the inode.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Use PTR_RET in place of open coding this function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch makes GFS2 immediately reclaim/delete all iopen glocks
as soon as they're dequeued. This allows deleters to get an
EXclusive lock on iopen so files are deleted properly instead of
being set as unlinked.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Over the previous two patches relating to inode creation, the
content of init_dinode() has been looking more and more like
gfs2_dinode_out(). This is not an accident! This patch replaces
the parts of init_dinode() which are duplicated in gfs2_dinode_out()
with a call to that function.
Mostly that is straightforward, but there is one issue which needed
to be resolved relating to the link count. The link count has to be
set to zero in a certain error handling code path, which lands up
calling iput(). This is now done specifically in that code path
allowing the link count to be set earlier and written into the
on disk inode by gfs2_dinode_put() in the normal way.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The original method for creating inodes used in GFS2 was to fill
out a buffer, with all the information, and then to read that
buffer into the in-core inode, using gfs2_refresh_inode()
The problem with this approach is that all the inode's fields
need to be calculated ahead of time, and were stored in various
variables making the code rather complicated.
The new approach is simply to allocate the in-core inode earlier
and fill in as many fields as possible ahead of time. These can
then be used to initilise the on disk representation. The
code has been working towards the point where it is possible
to remove gfs2_refresh_inode() because all the fields are
correctly initialised ahead of time. We've now reached that
milestone, and have reversed the order of setting up the in
core and on disk inodes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up the inode creation code path in GFS2. After the
Orlov allocator was merged, a number of potential improvements are
now possible, and this is a first set of these.
The quota handling is now updated so that it matches the point in
the code where the allocation takes place. This means that the one
exception in gfs2_alloc_blocks relating to quota is now no longer
required, and we can use the generic code everywhere.
In addition the call to figure out whether we need to allocate any
extra blocks in order to add a directory entry is moved higher up
gfs2_create_inode. This means that if it returns an error, we
can deal with that at a stage where it is easier to handle that case.
The returned status cannot change during the function since we hold
an exclusive lock on the directory.
Two calls to gfs2_rindex_update have been changed to one, again at
the top of gfs2_create_inode to simplify error handling.
The time stamps are also now initialised earlier in the creation
process, this is gradually moving towards being able to remove the
call to gfs2_refresh_inode in gfs2_inode_create once we have all the
fields covered.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull user namespace and namespace infrastructure changes from Eric W Biederman:
"This set of changes starts with a few small enhnacements to the user
namespace. reboot support, allowing more arbitrary mappings, and
support for mounting devpts, ramfs, tmpfs, and mqueuefs as just the
user namespace root.
I do my best to document that if you care about limiting your
unprivileged users that when you have the user namespace support
enabled you will need to enable memory control groups.
There is a minor bug fix to prevent overflowing the stack if someone
creates way too many user namespaces.
The bulk of the changes are a continuation of the kuid/kgid push down
work through the filesystems. These changes make using uids and gids
typesafe which ensures that these filesystems are safe to use when
multiple user namespaces are in use. The filesystems converted for
3.9 are ceph, 9p, afs, ocfs2, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, nfsd, and cifs. The
changes for these filesystems were a little more involved so I split
the changes into smaller hopefully obviously correct changes.
XFS is the only filesystem that remains. I was hoping I could get
that in this release so that user namespace support would be enabled
with an allyesconfig or an allmodconfig but it looks like the xfs
changes need another couple of days before it they are ready."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (93 commits)
cifs: Enable building with user namespaces enabled.
cifs: Convert struct cifs_ses to use a kuid_t and a kgid_t
cifs: Convert struct cifs_sb_info to use kuids and kgids
cifs: Modify struct smb_vol to use kuids and kgids
cifs: Convert struct cifsFileInfo to use a kuid
cifs: Convert struct cifs_fattr to use kuid and kgids
cifs: Convert struct tcon_link to use a kuid.
cifs: Modify struct cifs_unix_set_info_args to hold a kuid_t and a kgid_t
cifs: Convert from a kuid before printing current_fsuid
cifs: Use kuids and kgids SID to uid/gid mapping
cifs: Pass GLOBAL_ROOT_UID and GLOBAL_ROOT_GID to keyring_alloc
cifs: Use BUILD_BUG_ON to validate uids and gids are the same size
cifs: Override unmappable incoming uids and gids
nfsd: Enable building with user namespaces enabled.
nfsd: Properly compare and initialize kuids and kgids
nfsd: Store ex_anon_uid and ex_anon_gid as kuids and kgids
nfsd: Modify nfsd4_cb_sec to use kuids and kgids
nfsd: Handle kuids and kgids in the nfs4acl to posix_acl conversion
nfsd: Convert nfsxdr to use kuids and kgids
nfsd: Convert nfs3xdr to use kuids and kgids
...
When reading dinodes from the disk convert uids and gids
into kuids and kgids to store in vfs data structures.
When writing to dinodes to the disk convert kuids and kgids
in the in memory structures into plain uids and gids.
For now all on disk data structures are assumed to be
stored in the initial user namespace.
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Where kuid_t values are compared use uid_eq and where kgid_t values
are compared use gid_eq. This is unfortunately necessary because
of the type safety that keeps someone from accidentally mixing
kuids and kgids with other types.
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Split NO_QUOTA_CHANGE into NO_UID_QUTOA_CHANGE and NO_GID_QUTOA_CHANGE
so the constants may be well typed.
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
There is little common content in gfs2_trans_add_bh() between the data
and meta classes by the time that the functions which it calls are
taken into account. The intent here is to split this into two
separate functions. Stage one is to introduce gfs2_trans_add_data()
and gfs2_trans_add_meta() and update the callers accordingly.
Later patches will then pull in the content of gfs2_trans_add_bh()
and its dependent functions in order to clean up the code in this
area.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a cluster coherency problem that occurs when one
node creates a file, does several writes, then a different node
tries to write to the same file. When the inode's glock is demoted,
the inode wasn't synced to the media properly because the gl_object
wasn't set. Later, the flush daemon noticed the uncommitted data
and tried to flush it, only to discover the glock was no longer locked
properly in exclusive mode. That caused an assert withdraw.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch adds a return code check after attempting to allocate
a new inode during dinode creation.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since we now have a dirty_inode that takes care of manipulating the
inode buffer and writing from the inode to the buffer, we can
eliminate some unnecessary buffer manipulations in gfs2_unlink_inode
that are now redundant.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Just like ext3, this works on the root directory and any directory
with the +T flag set. Also, just like ext3, any subdirectory created
in one of the just mentioned cases will be allocated to a random
resource group (GFS2 equivalent of a block group).
If you are creating a set of directories, each of which will contain a
job running on a different node, then by setting +T on the parent
directory before creating the subdirectories, each will land up in a
different resource group, and thus resource group contention between
nodes will be kept to a minimum.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Rather than using the parent directory's allocation context, this
patch allocated the new inode earlier in the process and then uses
it to contain all the information required. As a result, we can now
use the new inode's own allocation context to allocate it rather
than having to use the parent directory's context. This give us a
lot more flexibility in where the inode is placed on disk.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
With the recently added block reservation code, an additional function
was added to search for free blocks. This had a restriction of only being
able to search for aligned extents of free blocks. As a result the
allocation patterns when reserving blocks were suboptimal when the
existing allocation of blocks for an inode was not aligned to the same
boundary.
This patch resolves that problem by adding the ability for gfs2_rbm_find
to search for extents of a particular minimum size. We can then use
gfs2_rbm_find for both looking for reservations, and also looking for
free blocks on an individual basis when we actually come to do the
allocation later on. As a result we only need a single set of code
to deal with both situations.
The function gfs2_rbm_from_block() is moved up rgrp.c so that it
occurs before all of its callers.
Many thanks are due to Bob for helping track down the final issue in
this patch. That fix to the rb_tree traversal and to not share
block reservations from a dirctory to its children is included here.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
The rs_requested field is left over from the original allocation
code, however this should have been a parameter passed to the
various functions from gfs2_inplace_reserve() and not a member of the
reservation structure as the value is not required after the
initial allocation.
This also helps simplify the code since we no longer need to set
the rs_requested to zero. Also the gfs2_inplace_release()
function can also be simplified since the reservation structure
will always be defined when it is called, and the only remaining
task is to unlock the rgrp if required. It can also now be
called unconditionally too, resulting in a further simplification.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull GFS2 updates from Steven Whitehouse.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw:
GFS2: Eliminate 64-bit divides
GFS2: Reduce file fragmentation
GFS2: kernel panic with small gfs2 filesystems - 1 RG
GFS2: Fixing double brelse'ing bh allocated in gfs2_meta_read when EIO occurs
GFS2: Combine functions get_local_rgrp and gfs2_inplace_reserve
GFS2: Add kobject release method
GFS2: Size seq_file buffer more carefully
GFS2: Use seq_vprintf for glocks debugfs file
seq_file: Add seq_vprintf function and export it
GFS2: Use lvbs for storing rgrp information with mount option
GFS2: Cache last hash bucket for glock seq_files
GFS2: Increase buffer size for glocks and glstats debugfs files
GFS2: Fix error handling when reading an invalid block from the journal
GFS2: Add "top dir" flag support
GFS2: Fold quota data into the reservations struct
GFS2: Extend the life of the reservations
This patch reduces GFS2 file fragmentation by pre-reserving blocks. The
resulting improved on disk layout greatly speeds up operations in cases
which would have resulted in interlaced allocation of blocks previously.
A typical example of this is 10 parallel dd processes, each writing to a
file in a common dirctory.
The implementation uses an rbtree of reservations attached to each
resource group (and each inode).
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch moves the ancillary quota data structures into the
block reservations structure. This saves GFS2 some time and
effort in allocating and deallocating the qadata structure.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
