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Steven Whitehouse d7b616e252 [GFS2] Clean up ordered write code
The following patch removes the ordered write processing from
databuf_lo_before_commit() and moves it to log.c. This has the effect of
greatly simplyfying databuf_lo_before_commit() and well as potentially
making the ordered write code more efficient.

As a side effect of this, its now possible to remove ordered buffers
from the ordered buffer list at any time, so we now make use of this in
invalidatepage and releasepage to ensure timely release of these
buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-10-10 08:56:03 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 9b9107a5a8 [GFS2] Move pin/unpin into lops.c, clean up locking
gfs2_pin and gfs2_unpin are only used in lops.c, despite being
defined in meta_io.c, so this patch moves them into lops.c and
makes them static. At the same time, its possible to clean up
the locking in the buf and databuf _lo_add() functions so that
we only need to grab the spinlock once. Also we have to move
lock_buffer() around the _lo_add() functions since we can't
do that in gfs2_pin() any more since we hold the spinlock
for the duration of that function.

As a result, the code shrinks by 12 lines and we do far fewer
operations when adding buffers to the log. It also makes the
code somewhat easier to read & understand.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-10-10 08:56:00 +01:00
Bob Peterson ec217e0ece [GFS2] Patch to protect sd_log_num_jdata
This is a patch to GFS2 to protect sd_log_num_jdata with the
gfs2_log_lock.  Without this patch, there is a timing window
where you can get hit the following assert from function
gfs2_log_flush():

gfs2_assert_withdraw(sdp,
			sdp->sd_log_num_buf + sdp->sd_log_num_jdata ==
			sdp->sd_log_commited_buf +
			sdp->sd_log_commited_databuf);

I've tested it on my roth cluster and it fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-10-10 08:55:43 +01:00
Bob Peterson 905d2aefa9 [GFS2] Move some code inside the log lock
This is the first of five patches for bug #248176:

There were still some critical variables being manipulated outside
the log_lock spinlock.  That usually resulted in a hang.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-10-10 08:54:51 +01:00
Bob Peterson bdcb88562c [GFS2] soft lockup detected in databuf_lo_before_commit
This is part 2 of the patch for bug #245832, part 1 of which is already
in the git tree.

The problem was that sdp->sd_log_num_databuf was not always being
protected by the gfs2_log_lock spinlock, but the sd_log_le_databuf
(which it is supposed to reflect) was protected.  That meant there
was a timing window during which gfs2_log_flush called
databuf_lo_before_commit and the count didn't match what was
really on the linked list in that window.  So when it ran out of
items on the linked list, it decremented total_dbuf from 0 to -1 and
thus never left the "while(total_dbuf)" loop.

The solution is to protect the variable sdp->sd_log_num_databuf so
that the value will always match the contents of the linked list,
and therefore the number will never go negative, and therefore, the
loop will be exited properly.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-08-14 10:32:04 +01:00
Robert Peterson 773ed1a044 [GFS2] Addendum to the journaled file/unmount patch
This patch is an addendum to the previous journaled file/unmount patch.
It fixes a problem discovered during testing.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09 08:23:52 +01:00
Robert Peterson 2332c4435b [GFS2] assertion failure after writing to journaled file, umount
This patch passes all my nasty tests that were causing the code to
fail under one circumstance or another.  Here is a complete summary
of all changes from today's git tree, in order of appearance:

1. There are now separate variables for metadata buffer accounting.
2. Variable sd_log_num_hdrs is no longer needed, since the header
   accounting is taken care of by the reserve/refund sequence.
3. Fixed a tiny grammatical problem in a comment.
4. Added a new function "calc_reserved" to calculate the reserved
   log space.  This isn't entirely necessary, but it has two benefits:
   First, it simplifies the gfs2_log_refund function greatly.
   Second, it allows for easier debugging because I could sprinkle the
   code with calls to this function to make sure the accounting is
   proper (by adding asserts and printks) at strategic point of the code.
5. In log_pull_tail there apparently was a kludge to fix up the
   accounting based on a "pull" parameter.  The buffer accounting is
   now done properly, so the kludge was removed.
6. File sync operations were making a call to gfs2_log_flush that
   writes another journal header.  Since that header was unplanned
   for (reserved) by the reserve/refund sequence, the free space had
   to be decremented so that when log_pull_tail gets called, the free
   space is be adjusted properly.  (Did I hear you call that a kludge?
   well, maybe, but a lot more justifiable than the one I removed).
7. In the gfs2_log_shutdown code, it optionally syncs the log by
   specifying the PULL parameter to log_write_header.  I'm not sure
   this is necessary anymore.  It just seems to me there could be
   cases where shutdown is called while there are outstanding log
   buffers.
8. In the (data)buf_lo_before_commit functions, I changed some offset
   values from being calculated on the fly to being constants.	That
   simplified some code and we might as well let the compiler do the
   calculation once rather than redoing those cycles at run time.
9. This version has my rewritten databuf_lo_add function.
   This version is much more like its predecessor, buf_lo_add, which
   makes it easier to understand.  Again, this might not be necessary,
   but it seems as if this one works as well as the previous one,
   maybe even better, so I decided to leave it in.
10. In databuf_lo_before_commit, a previous data corruption problem
   was caused by going off the end of the buffer.  The proper solution
   is to have the proper limit in place, rather than stopping earlier.
   (Thus my previous attempt to fix it is wrong).
   If you don't wrap the buffer, you're stopping too early and that
   causes more log buffer accounting problems.
11. In lops.h there are two new (previously mentioned) constants for
   figuring out the data offset for the journal buffers.
12. There are also two new functions, buf_limit and databuf_limit to
   calculate how many entries will fit in the buffer.
13. In function gfs2_meta_wipe, it needs to distinguish between pinned
   metadata buffers and journaled data buffers for proper journal buffer
   accounting.	It can't use the JDATA gfs2_inode flag because it's
   sometimes passed the "real" inode and sometimes the "metadata
   inode" and the inode flags will be random bits in a metadata
   gfs2_inode.	It needs to base its decision on which was passed in.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09 08:23:47 +01:00
Robert Peterson 8fb68595d5 [GFS2] Journaled file write/unstuff bug
This patch is for bugzilla bug 283162, which uncovered a number of
bugs pertaining to writing to files that have the journaled bit on.
These bugs happen most often when writing to the meta_fs because
the files are always journaled.  So operations like gfs2_grow were
particularly vulnerable, although many of the problems could be
recreated with normal files after setting the journaled bit on.
The problems fixed are:

-GFS2 wasn't ever writing unstuffed journaled data blocks to their
 in-place location on disk. Now it does.

-If you unmounted too quickly after doing IO to a journaled file,
 GFS2 was crashing because you would discard a buffer whose bufdata
 was still on the active items list.  GFS2 now deals with this
 gracefully.

-GFS2 was losing track of the bufdata for journaled data blocks,
 and it wasn't getting freed, causing an error when you tried to
 unmount the module.  GFS2 now frees all the bufdata structures.

-There was a memory corruption occurring because GFS2 wrote
 twice as many log entries for journaled buffers.

-It was occasionally trying to write journal headers in buffers
 that weren't currently mapped.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09 08:23:40 +01:00
Benjamin Marzinski ddf4b426aa [GFS2] fix jdata issues
This is a patch for the first three issues of RHBZ #238162

The first issue is that when you allocate a new page for a file, it will not
start off uptodate. This makes sense, since you haven't written anything to that
part of the file yet.  Unfortunately, gfs2_pin() checks to make sure that the
buffers are uptodate.  The solution to this is to mark the buffers uptodate in
gfs2_commit_write(), after they have been zeroed out and have the data written
into them.  I'm pretty confident with this fix, although it's not completely
obvious that there is no problem with marking the buffers uptodate here.

The second issue is simply that you can try to pin a data buffer that is already
on the incore log, and thus, already pinned. This patch checks to see if this
buffer is already on the log, and exits databuf_lo_add() if it is, just like
buf_lo_add() does.

The third issue is that gfs2_log_flush() doesn't do it's block accounting
correctly.  Both metadata and journaled data are logged, but gfs2_log_flush()
only compares the number of metadata blocks with the number of blocks to commit
to the ondisk journal.  This patch also counts the journaled data blocks.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09 08:23:08 +01:00
Benjamin Marzinski 6883562588 [GFS2] Fix log entry list corruption
When glock_lo_add and rg_lo_add attempt to add an element to the log, they
check to see if has already been added before locking the log. If another
process adds that element to the log in this window between the check and
locking the log, the element will be added to the list twice. This causes
the log element list to become corrupted in such a way that the log element
can never be successfully removed from the list. This patch pulls the
list_empty() check inside the log lock, to remove this window.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin E. Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-05-01 09:10:50 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 8bd9572769 [GFS2] Fix list corruption in lops.c
The patch below appears to fix the list corruption that we are seeing on
occasion. Although the transaction structure is private to a single
thread, when the queued structures are dismantled during an in-core
commit, its possible for a different thread to be trying to add the same
structure to another, new, transaction at the same time.

To avoid this, this patch takes the log spinlock during this operation.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-02-05 13:37:56 -05:00
Russell Cattelan 7020933156 [GFS2] Fix race in logging code
The log lock is dropped prior to io submittion, but
this exposes a hole in which the log data structures
may be going away due to a truncate.
Store the buffer head in a local pointer prior to
dropping the lock and relay on the buffer_head lock
for consitency on the buffer head.

Signed-Off-By: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:55 -05:00
Al Viro 5516762261 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_log_head
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:14 -05:00
Russell Cattelan c312c4fdc8 [GFS2] Pass the correct value to kunmap_atomic
Pass kaddr rather than (incorrect) struct page to kunmap_atomic.

Signed-off-by: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-10-12 17:11:13 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse 907b9bceb4 [GFS2/DLM] Fix trailing whitespace
As per Andrew Morton's request, removed trailing whitespace.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-25 09:26:04 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse 7276b3b0c7 [GFS2] Tidy up meta_io code
Fix a bug in the directory reading code, where we might have dereferenced
a NULL pointer in case of OOM. Updated the directory code to use the new
& improved version of gfs2_meta_ra() which now returns the first block
that was being read. Previously it was releasing it requiring following
code to grab the block again at each point it was called.

Also turned off readahead on directory lookups since we are reading a
hash table, and therefore reading the entries in order is very
unlikely. Readahead is still used for all other calls to the
directory reading function (e.g. when growing the hash table).

Removed the DIO_START constant. Everywhere this was used, it was
used to unconditionally start i/o aside from a couple of places, so
I've removed it and made the couple of exceptions to this rule into
separate functions.

Also hunted through the other DIO flags and removed them as arguments
from functions which were always called with the same combination of
arguments.

Updated gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer to be a bit more efficient and
hopefully also be a bit easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-21 17:05:23 -04:00
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto 7d308590ae [GFS2] Export lm_interface to kernel headers
lm_interface.h has a few out of the tree clients such as GFS1
and userland tools.

Right now, these clients keeps a copy of the file in their build tree
that can go out of sync.

Move lm_interface.h to include/linux, export it to userland and
clean up fs/gfs2 to use the new location.

Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-19 08:45:18 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse a67cdbd457 [GFS2] Style changes in logging code
As per Jan Engelhardt's comments, removed some unused code and
removed some brackets which were not required.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05 14:41:30 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse ea67eedb21 [GFS2] Fix end of multi-line structures
As per Jan Engelhardt's request, I've added a ',' to the end of
each of the multi-line structures which didn't already have
one (most already did).

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05 10:53:09 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse 82ffa51637 [GFS2] More style changes
As per Jan Engelhardt's fourth email, this is the first part of the
change set with a few minor style points.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04 14:47:06 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse cd915493fc [GFS2] Change all types to uX style
This makes all fixed size types have consistent names.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04 12:49:07 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse e9fc2aa091 [GFS2] Update copyright, tidy up incore.h
As per comments from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> this
updates the copyright message to say "version" in full rather than
"v.2". Also incore.h has been updated to remove forward structure
declarations which are not required.

The gfs2_quota_lvb structure has now had endianess annotations added
to it. Also quota.c has been updated so that we now store the
lvb data locally in endian independant format to avoid needing
a structure in host endianess too. As a result the endianess
conversions are done as required at various points and thus the
conversion routines in lvb.[ch] are no longer required. I've
moved the one remaining constant in lvb.h thats used into lm.h
and removed the unused lvb.[ch].

I have not changed the HIF_ constants. That is left to a later patch
which I hope will unify the gh_flags and gh_iflags fields of the
struct gfs2_holder.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-01 11:05:15 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse 623d93555c [GFS2] Fix releasepage bug (fixes direct i/o writes)
This patch fixes three main bugs. Firstly the direct i/o get_block
was returning the wrong return code in certain cases. Secondly, the
GFS2's releasepage function was not dealing with cases when clean,
ordered buffers were found still queued on a transaction (which can
happen depending on the ordering of journal flushes). Thirdly, the
journaling code itself needed altering to take account of the
after effects of removing the clean ordered buffers from the transactions
before a journal flush.

The releasepage bug did also show up under "normal" buffered i/o
as well, so its not just a fix for direct i/o. In fact its not
normally used in the direct i/o path at all, except when flushing
existing buffers after performing a direct i/o write, but that was
the code path that led us to spot this.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-08-31 12:14:44 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse b8e1aabf21 [GFS2] Another list_del bug
Another case where list_del should be list_del_init.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-08-22 16:25:50 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse 08867605e1 [GFS2] Fix to list_del in lops.c
A list_del should have been a list_del_init in lops.c which was
resulting in incorrect status returns from list_empty().

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitheouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-08-22 11:03:57 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse 15d00c0b91 [GFS2] Fix leak of gfs2_bufdata
This fixes a memory leak of struct gfs2_bufdata and also some
problems in the ordered write handling code. It needs a bit
more testing, but I believe that the reference counting of
ordered write buffers should now be correct.

This is aimed at fixing Red Hat bugzilla: #201028 and #201082

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-08-18 15:51:09 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse b61dde795f [GFS2] Always include glock in transaction
Include the glock in the transaction, even when not journaling
data in order that ordered write data will be correctly flushed
when the lock is released.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-06-19 10:51:11 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse 3a8476dda1 [GFS2] Remove debugging printks
A few of my printks slipped through last time. Also fix a couple of
minor bugs.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-06-19 09:10:39 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse feaa7bba02 [GFS2] Fix unlinked file handling
This patch fixes the way we have been dealing with unlinked,
but still open files. It removes all limits (other than memory
for inodes, as per every other filesystem) on numbers of these
which we can support on GFS2. It also means that (like other
fs) its the responsibility of the last process to close the file
to deallocate the storage, rather than the person who did the
unlinking. Note that with GFS2, those two events might take place
on different nodes.

Also there are a number of other changes:

 o We use the Linux inode subsystem as it was intended to be
used, wrt allocating GFS2 inodes
 o The Linux inode cache is now the point which we use for
local enforcement of only holding one copy of the inode in
core at once (previous to this we used the glock layer).
 o We no longer use the unlinked "special" file. We just ignore it
completely. This makes unlinking more efficient.
 o We now use the 4th block allocation state. The previously unused
state is used to track unlinked but still open inodes.
 o gfs2_inoded is no longer needed
 o Several fields are now no longer needed (and removed) from the in
core struct gfs2_inode
 o Several fields are no longer needed (and removed) from the in core
superblock

There are a number of future possible optimisations and clean ups
which have been made possible by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-06-14 15:32:57 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse 3a8a9a1034 [GFS2] Update copyright date to 2006
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-05-18 15:09:15 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse bd8968010a [GFS2] Remove semaphore.h from C files
We no longer use semaphores, everything has been converted to
mutex or rwsem, so we don't need to include this header any more.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-05-18 14:54:58 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse b09e593d79 [GFS2] Fix a ref count bug and other clean ups
This fixes a ref count bug that sometimes showed up a umount time
(causing it to hang) but it otherwise mostly harmless. At the same
time there are some clean ups including making the log operations
structures const, moving a memory allocation so that its not done
in the fast path of checking to see if there is an outstanding
transaction related to a particular glock.

Removes the sd_log_wrap varaible which was updated, but never actually
used anywhere. Updates the gfs2 ioctl() to run without the kernel lock
(which it never needed anyway). Removes the "invalidate inodes" loop
from GFS2's put_super routine. This is done in kill super anyway so
we don't need to do it here. The loop was also bogus in that if there
are any inodes "stuck" at this point its a bug and we need to know
about it rather than hide it by hanging forever.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-04-07 11:17:32 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse e3167ded1f [GFS] Fix bug in endian conversion for metadata header
In some cases 16 bit functions were being used rather than 32 bit
functions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-03-30 15:46:23 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse b4dc72911d [GFS2] Fix some bugs
Fix a bug I introduced earlier with a kfree() and usage of
a structure in the wrong order. Also try and get the counts
of the journaled data buffers "more correct". Still some work
to do in this area though.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-03-01 17:41:58 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse 5c676f6d35 [GFS2] Macros removal in gfs2.h
As suggested by Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>.

The DIV_RU macro is renamed DIV_ROUND_UP and and moved to kernel.h
The other macros are gone from gfs2.h as (although not requested
by Pekka Enberg) are a number of included header file which are now
included individually. The inode number comparison function is
now an inline function.

The DT2IF and IF2DT may be addressed in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-02-27 17:23:27 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse 568f4c9659 [GFS2] 80 Column audit of GFS2
Requested by:
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-02-27 12:00:42 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse 91ffd7db71 [GFS2] Missed deletion of debugging code
One line which should have been deleted in the last patch
was missed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-02-22 16:41:45 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 13538b8e46 [GFS2] Add list empty test to databuf_lo_add
Heinz had spotted that I'd forgotten to test in databuf_lo_add()
that the data buffer in question hadn't already been added to
the list. This was causing an infinite loop later on in the
"before commit" routine.

This means that GFS2 is now ready to be tested by everybody.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-02-22 11:15:03 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse f55ab26a8f [GFS2] Use mutices rather than semaphores
As well as a number of minor bug fixes, this patch changes GFS
to use mutices rather than semaphores. This results in better
information in case there are any locking problems.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-02-21 12:51:39 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 7359a19cc7 [GFS2] Fix for root inode ref count bug
Umount is now working correctly again. The bug was due to
not getting an extra ref count when mounting the fs. We
should have bumped it by two (once for the internal pointer
to the root inode from the super block and once for the
inode hanging off the dcache entry for root).

Also this patch tidys up the code dealing with looking up
and creating inodes. We now pass Linux inodes (with gfs2_inodes
attached) rather than the other way around and this reduces code
duplication in various places.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-02-13 12:27:43 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 18ec7d5c3f [GFS2] Make journaled data files identical to normal files on disk
This is a very large patch, with a few still to be resolved issues
so you might want to check out the previous head of the tree since
this is known to be unstable. Fixes for the various bugs will be
forthcoming shortly.

This patch removes the special data format which has been used
up till now for journaled data files. Directories still retain the
old format so that they will remain on disk compatible with earlier
releases. As a result you can now do the following with journaled
data files:

 1) mmap them
 2) export them over NFS
 3) convert to/from normal files whenever you want to (the zero length
    restriction is gone)

In addition the level at which GFS' locking is done has changed for all
files (since they all now use the page cache) such that the locking is
done at the page cache level rather than the level of the fs operations.
This should mean that things like loopback mounts and other things which
touch the page cache directly should now work.

Current known issues:

 1. There is a lock mode inversion problem related to the resource
    group hold function which needs to be resolved.
 2. Any significant amount of I/O causes an oops with an offset of hex 320
    (NULL pointer dereference) which appears to be related to a journaled data
    buffer appearing on a list where it shouldn't be.
 3. Direct I/O writes are disabled for the time being (will reappear later)
 4. There is probably a deadlock between the page lock and GFS' locks under
    certain combinations of mmap and fs operation I/O.
 5. Issue relating to ref counting on internally used inodes causes a hang
    on umount (discovered before this patch, and not fixed by it)
 6. One part of the directory metadata is different from GFS1 and will need
    to be resolved before next release.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-02-08 11:50:51 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse a98ab2204f [GFS2] Rename gfs2_meta_pin to gfs2_pin
Since we'll need to pin data if we are going to journal it, then
I'm renaming this function to make it less confusing. It might also
be worth moving it into lops.c since there are no users outside that
file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-01-18 13:38:44 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 64fb4eb7d4 [GFS2] Remove gfs2_databuf in favour of gfs2_bufdata structure
Removing the gfs2_databuf structure and using gfs2_bufdata instead
is a step towards allowing journaling of data without requiring the
metadata header on each journaled block. The idea is to merge the
code paths for ordered data with that of journaled data, with the
log operations in lops.c tacking account of the different types of
buffers as they are presented to it. Largely the code path for
metadata will be similar too, but obviously through a different set
of log operations.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-01-18 13:14:40 +00:00
David Teigland b3b94faa5f [GFS2] The core of GFS2
This patch contains all the core files for GFS2.

Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-01-16 16:50:04 +00:00