When we shut down the filesystem, we have to unpin and free all the
buffers currently active in the CIL. To do this we unpin and remove
them in one operation as a result of a failed iclogbuf write. For
buffers, we do this removal via a simultated IO completion of after
marking the buffer stale.
At the time we do this, we have two references to the buffer - the
active LRU reference and the buf log item. The LRU reference is
removed by marking the buffer stale, and the active CIL reference is
by the xfs_buf_iodone() callback that is run by
xfs_buf_do_callbacks() during ioend processing (via the bp->b_iodone
callback).
However, ioend processing requires one more reference - that of the
IO that it is completing. We don't have this reference, so we free
the buffer prematurely and use it after it is freed. For buffers
marked with XBF_ASYNC, this leads to assert failures in
xfs_buf_rele() on debug kernels because the b_hold count is zero.
Fix this by making sure we take the necessary IO reference before
starting IO completion processing on the stale buffer, and set the
XBF_ASYNC flag to ensure that IO completion processing removes all
the active references from the buffer to ensure it is fully torn
down.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
xfs_bdstrat_cb only adds a check for a shutdown filesystem over
xfs_buf_iorequest, but xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks just checked for a shut down
filesystem a little earlier. In addition the shutdown handling in
xfs_bdstrat_cb is not very suitable for this caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
discontigous buffer in separate buffer format structures. This means log
recovery will recover all the changes on a per segment basis without
requiring any knowledge of the fact that it was logged from a
compound buffer.
To do this, we need to be able to determine what buffer segment any
given offset into the compound buffer sits over. This enables us to
translate the dirty bitmap in the number of separate buffer format
structures required.
We also need to be able to determine the number of bitmap elements
that a given buffer segment has, as this determines the size of the
buffer format structure. Hence we need to be able to determine the
both the start offset into the buffer and the length of a given
segment to be able to calculate this.
With this information, we can preallocate, build and format the
correct log vector array for each segment in a compound buffer to
appear exactly the same as individually logged buffers in the log.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The struct xfs_buf_log_format wants to think the dirty bitmap is
variable sized. In fact, it is variable size on disk simply due to
the way we map it from the in-memory structure, but we still just
use a fixed size memory allocation for the in-memory structure.
Hence it makes no sense to set the function up as a variable sized
structure when we already know it's maximum size, and we always
allocate it as such. Simplify the structure by making the dirty
bitmap a fixed sized array and just using the size of the structure
for the allocation size.
This will make it much simpler to allocate and manipulate an array
of format structures for discontiguous buffer support.
The previous struct xfs_buf_log_item size according to
/proc/slabinfo was 224 bytes. pahole doesn't give the same size
because of the variable size definition. With this modification,
pahole reports the same as /proc/slabinfo:
/* size: 224, cachelines: 4, members: 6 */
Because the xfs_buf_log_item size is now determined by the maximum
supported block size we introduce a dependency on xfs_alloc_btree.h.
Avoid this dependency by moving the idefines for the maximum block
sizes supported to xfs_types.h with all the other max/min type
defines to avoid any new dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Untangle the header file includes a bit by moving the definition of
xfs_agino_t to xfs_types.h. This removes the dependency that xfs_ag.h has on
xfs_inum.h, meaning we don't need to include xfs_inum.h everywhere we include
xfs_ag.h.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Now that we pass block counts everywhere, and index buffers by block
number and length in units of blocks, convert the desired IO size
into block counts rather than bytes. Convert the code to use block
counts, and those that need byte counts get converted at the time of
use.
Rename the b_desired_count variable to something closer to it's
purpose - b_io_length - as it is only used to specify the length of
an IO for a subset of the buffer. The only time this is used is for
log IO - both writing iclogs and during log recovery. In all other
cases, the b_io_length matches b_length, and hence a lot of code
confuses the two. e.g. the buf item code uses the io count
exclusively when it should be using the buffer length. Fix these
apprpriately as they are found.
Also, remove the XFS_BUF_{SET_}COUNT() macros that are just wrappers
around the desired IO length. They only serve to make the code
shouty loud, don't actually add any real value, and are often used
incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk() can be called from different contexts so
if the item is not in the AIL we need different shutdown for each
context. Pass in the shutdown method needed so the correct action
can be taken.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Queue delwri buffers on a local on-stack list instead of a per-buftarg one,
and write back the buffers per-process instead of by waking up xfsbufd.
This is now easily doable given that we have very few places left that write
delwri buffers:
- log recovery:
Only done at mount time, and already forcing out the buffers
synchronously using xfs_flush_buftarg
- quotacheck:
Same story.
- dquot reclaim:
Writes out dirty dquots on the LRU under memory pressure. We might
want to look into doing more of this via xfsaild, but it's already
more optimal than the synchronous inode reclaim that writes each
buffer synchronously.
- xfsaild:
This is the main beneficiary of the change. By keeping a local list
of buffers to write we reduce latency of writing out buffers, and
more importably we can remove all the delwri list promotions which
were hitting the buffer cache hard under sustained metadata loads.
The implementation is very straight forward - xfs_buf_delwri_queue now gets
a new list_head pointer that it adds the delwri buffers to, and all callers
need to eventually submit the list using xfs_buf_delwi_submit or
xfs_buf_delwi_submit_nowait. Buffers that already are on a delwri list are
skipped in xfs_buf_delwri_queue, assuming they already are on another delwri
list. The biggest change to pass down the buffer list was done to the AIL
pushing. Now that we operate on buffers the trylock, push and pushbuf log
item methods are merged into a single push routine, which tries to lock the
item, and if possible add the buffer that needs writeback to the buffer list.
This leads to much simpler code than the previous split but requires the
individual IOP_PUSH instances to unlock and reacquire the AIL around calls
to blocking routines.
Given that xfsailds now also handle writing out buffers, the conditions for
log forcing and the sleep times needed some small changes. The most
important one is that we consider an AIL busy as long we still have buffers
to push, and the other one is that we do increment the pushed LSN for
buffers that are under flushing at this moment, but still count them towards
the stuck items for restart purposes. Without this we could hammer on stuck
items without ever forcing the log and not make progress under heavy random
delete workloads on fast flash storage devices.
[ Dave Chinner:
- rebase on previous patches.
- improved comments for XBF_DELWRI_Q handling
- fix XBF_ASYNC handling in queue submission (test 106 failure)
- rename delwri submit function buffer list parameters for clarity
- xfs_efd_item_push() should return XFS_ITEM_PINNED ]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Instead of adding buffers to the delwri list as soon as they are logged,
even if they can't be written until commited because they are pinned
defer adding them to the delwri list until xfsaild pushes them. This
makes the code more similar to other log items and prepares for writing
buffers directly from xfsaild.
The complication here is that we need to fail buffers that were added
but not logged yet in xfs_buf_item_unpin, borrowing code from
xfs_bioerror.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The log item ops aren't nessecarily the biggest exploit vector, but marking
them const is easy enough. Also remove the unused xfs_item_ops_t typedef
while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Resolved conflicts:
fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h:
- deleted struct xfs_ail field xa_flags
- kept field xa_log_flush in struct xfs_ail
fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c:
- in xfsaild_push(), in XFS_ITEM_PUSHBUF case, replaced
"flush_log = 1" with "ailp->xa_log_flush++"
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Use xfs_ioerror_alert instead of opencoding a very similar error
message.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
For each call to xfs_buf_stale we call xfs_buf_delwri_dequeue either
directly before or after it, or are guaranteed by the surrounding
conditionals that we are never called on delwri buffers. Simply
this situation by moving the call to xfs_buf_delwri_dequeue into
xfs_buf_stale.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Unify the ways we add buffers to the delwri queue by always calling
xfs_buf_delwri_queue directly. The xfs_bdwrite functions is removed and
opencoded in its callers, and the two places setting XBF_DELWRI while a
buffer is locked and expecting xfs_buf_unlock to pick it up are converted
to call xfs_buf_delwri_queue directly, too. Also replace the
XFS_BUF_UNDELAYWRITE macro with direct calls to xfs_buf_delwri_dequeue
to make the explicit queuing/dequeuing more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
We need to check for pinned buffers even in .iop_pushbuf given that inode
items flush into the same buffers that may be pinned directly due operations
on the unlinked inode list operating directly on buffers. To do this add a
return value to .iop_pushbuf that tells the AIL push about this and use
the existing log force mechanisms to unpin it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Tested-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
xfs: fix for hang during synchronous buffer write error
If removed storage while synchronous buffer write underway,
"xfslogd" hangs.
Detailed log http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-07/msg00740.html
Related work bfc60177f8
"xfs: fix error handling for synchronous writes"
Given that xfs_bwrite actually does the shutdown already after
waiting for the b_iodone completion and given that we actually
found that calling xfs_force_shutdown from inside
xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks was a major contributor the problem
it better to drop this call.
Signed-off-by: Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definition and usages of the macro XFS_BUFTARG_NAME.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definition and usages of the macro XFS_BUF_TARGET
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Replace the macro XFS_BUF_ISPINNED with an inline helper function
xfs_buf_ispinned, and change all its usages.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definition and usages of the macro XFS_BUF_PTR.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definition and usage of the macro XFS_BUF_SET_START.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definition and usage of the macro XFS_BUF_HOLD
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definitions and uses of the macros XFS_BUF_BUSY,
XFS_BUF_UNBUSY, and XFS_BUF_ISBUSY.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definitions and usage of the macros XFS_BUF_ERROR,
XFS_BUF_GETERROR and XFS_BUF_ISERROR.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Replace the typeless b_fspriv2 and the ugly macros around it with a properly
typed transaction pointer. As a fallout the log buffer state debug checks
are also removed. We could have kept them using casts, but as they do
not have a real purpose we can as well just remove them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Rename xfs_buf_cond_lock and reverse it's return value to fit most other
trylock operations in the Kernel and XFS (with the exception of down_trylock,
after which xfs_buf_cond_lock was modelled), and replace xfs_buf_lock_val
with an xfs_buf_islocked for use in asserts, or and opencoded variant in
tracing. remove the XFS_BUF_* wrappers for all the locking helpers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Once converted, kill the remainder of the cmn_err() interface.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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>
If we get an IO error on a synchronous superblock write, we attach an
error release function to it so that when the last reference goes away
the release function is called and the buffer is invalidated and
unlocked. The buffer is left locked until the release function is
called so that other concurrent users of the buffer will be locked out
until the buffer error is fully processed.
Unfortunately, for the superblock buffer the filesyetm itself holds a
reference to the buffer which prevents the reference count from
dropping to zero and the release function being called. As a result,
once an IO error occurs on a sync write, the buffer will never be
unlocked and all future attempts to lock the buffer will hang.
To make matters worse, this problems is not unique to such buffers;
if there is a concurrent _xfs_buf_find() running, the lookup will grab
a reference to the buffer and then wait on the buffer lock, preventing
the reference count from ever falling to zero and hence unlocking the
buffer.
As such, the whole b_relse function implementation is broken because it
cannot rely on the buffer reference count falling to zero to unlock the
errored buffer. The synchronous write error path is the only path that
uses this callback - it is used to ensure that the synchronous waiter
gets the buffer error before the error state is cleared from the buffer
by the release function.
Given that the only sychronous buffer writes now go through xfs_bwrite
and the error path in question can only occur for a write of a dirty,
logged buffer, we can move most of the b_relse processing to happen
inline in xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, just like a normal I/O completion.
In addition to that we make sure the error is not cleared in
xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, so that xfs_bwrite can reliably check it.
Given that xfs_bwrite keeps the buffer locked until it has waited for
it and checked the error this allows to reliably propagate the error
to the caller, and make sure that the buffer is reliably unlocked.
Given that xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks was the only instance of the
b_relse callback we can remove it entirely.
Based on earlier patches by Dave Chinner and Ajeet Yadav.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To allow buffer iodone callbacks to consume multiple items off the
callback list, first we need to convert the xfs_buf_do_callbacks()
to consume items and always pull the next item from the head of the
list.
The means the item list walk is never dependent on knowing the
next item on the list and hence allows callbacks to remove items
from the list as well. This allows callbacks to do bulk operations
by scanning the list for identical callbacks, consuming them all
and then processing them in bulk, negating the need for multiple
callbacks of that type.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Stop having two different names for many buffer functions and use
the more descriptive xfs_buf_* names directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Each buffer contains both a buftarg pointer and a mount pointer. If
we add a mount pointer into the buftarg, we can avoid needing the
b_mount field in every buffer and grab it from the buftarg when
needed instead. This shrinks the xfs_buf by 8 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The b_strat callback is used by xfs_buf_iostrategy to perform additional
checks before submitting a buffer. It is used in xfs_bwrite and when
writing out delayed buffers. In xfs_bwrite it we can de-virtualize the
call easily as b_strat is set a few lines above the call to
xfs_buf_iostrategy. For the delayed buffers the rationale is a bit
more complicated:
- there are three callers of xfs_buf_delwri_queue, which places buffers
on the delwri list:
(1) xfs_bdwrite - this sets up b_strat, so it's fine
(2) xfs_buf_iorequest. None of the callers can have XBF_DELWRI set:
- xlog_bdstrat is only used for log buffers, which are never delwri
- _xfs_buf_read explicitly clears the delwri flag
- xfs_buf_iodone_work retries log buffers only
- xfsbdstrat - only used for reads, superblock writes without the
delwri flag, log I/O and file zeroing with explicitly allocated
buffers.
- xfs_buf_iostrategy - only calls xfs_buf_iorequest if b_strat is
not set
(3) xfs_buf_unlock
- only puts the buffer on the delwri list if the DELWRI flag is
already set. The DELWRI flag is only ever set in xfs_bwrite,
xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, or xfs_trans_log_buf. For
xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks and xfs_trans_log_buf we require
an initialized buf item, which means b_strat was set to
xfs_bdstrat_cb in xfs_buf_item_init.
Conclusion: we can just get rid of the callback and replace it with
explicit calls to xfs_bdstrat_cb.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
By making this member a void pointer we can get rid of a lot of pointless
casts.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Get rid of the xfs_buf_pin/xfs_buf_unpin/xfs_buf_ispin helpers and opencode
them in their only callers, just like we did for the inode pinning a while
ago. Also remove duplicate trace points - the bufitem tracepoints cover
all the information that is present in a buffer tracepoint.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Stop the function pointer casting madness and give all the li_cb instances
correct prototype.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Stop the function pointer casting madness and give all the xfs_item_ops the
correct prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
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>
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>
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>
With delayed logging, we can get inode allocation buffers in the
same transaction inode unlink buffers. We don't currently mark inode
allocation buffers in the log, so inode unlink buffers take
precedence over allocation buffers.
The result is that when they are combined into the same checkpoint,
only the unlinked inode chain fields are replayed, resulting in
uninitialised inode buffers being detected when the next inode
modification is replayed.
To fix this, we need to ensure that we do not set the inode buffer
flag in the buffer log item format flags if the inode allocation has
not already hit the log. To avoid requiring a change to log
recovery, we really need to make this a modification that relies
only on in-memory sate.
We can do this by checking during buffer log formatting (while the
CIL cannot be flushed) if we are still in the same sequence when we
commit the unlink transaction as the inode allocation transaction.
If we are, then we do not add the inode buffer flag to the buffer
log format item flags. This means the entire buffer will be
replayed, not just the unlinked fields. We do this while
CIL flusheѕ are locked out to ensure that we don't race with the
sequence numbers changing and hence fail to put the inode buffer
flag in the buffer format flags when we really need to.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Clean up the buffer log format (XFS_BLI_*) flags because they have a
polluted namespace. They XFS_BLI_ prefix is used for both in-memory
and on-disk flag feilds, but have overlapping values for different
flags. Rename the buffer log format flags to use the XFS_BLF_*
prefix to avoid confusing them with the in-memory XFS_BLI_* prefixed
flags.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The buffer log item reference counts used to take referenceѕ for every
transaction, similar to the pin counting. This is symmetric (like the
pin/unpin) with respect to transaction completion, but with dleayed logging
becomes assymetric as the pinning becomes assymetric w.r.t. transaction
completion.
To make both cases the same, allow the buffer pinning to take a reference to
the buffer log item and always drop the reference the transaction has on it
when being unlocked. This is balanced correctly because the unpin operation
always drops a reference to the log item. Hence reference counting becomes
symmetric w.r.t. item pinning as well as w.r.t active transactions and as a
result the reference counting model remain consistent between normal and
delayed logging.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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>
Each log item type does manual initialisation of the log item.
Delayed logging introduces new fields that need initialisation, so
factor all the open coded initialisation into a common function
first.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
All buffers logged into the AIL are marked as delayed write.
When the AIL needs to push the buffer out, it issues an async write of the
buffer. This means that IO patterns are dependent on the order of
buffers in the AIL.
Instead of flushing the buffer, promote the buffer in the delayed
write list so that the next time the xfsbufd is run the buffer will
be flushed by the xfsbufd. Return the state to the xfsaild that the
buffer was promoted so that the xfsaild knows that it needs to cause
the xfsbufd to run to flush the buffers that were promoted.
Using the xfsbufd for issuing the IO allows us to dispatch all
buffer IO from the one queue. This means that we can make much more
enlightened decisions on what order to flush buffers to disk as
we don't have multiple places issuing IO. Optimisations to xfsbufd
will be in a future patch.
Version 2
- kill XFS_ITEM_FLUSHING as it is now unused.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
