XFS traditionally sends all buffer I/O completion work to a single
workqueue. This includes metadata buffer completion and log buffer
completion. The log buffer completion requires a high priority queue to
prevent stalls due to log forces getting stuck behind other queued work.
Rather than continue to prioritize all buffer I/O completion due to the
needs of log completion, split log buffer completion off to
m_log_workqueue and move the high priority flag from m_buf_workqueue to
m_log_workqueue.
Add a b_ioend_wq wq pointer to xfs_buf to allow completion workqueue
customization on a per-buffer basis. Initialize b_ioend_wq to
m_buf_workqueue by default in the generic buffer I/O submission path.
Finally, override the default wq with the high priority m_log_workqueue
in the log buffer I/O submission path.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
More on-disk format consolidation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
More on-disk format consolidation. A few declarations that weren't on-disk
format related move into better suitable spots.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
The expectation since the introduction the lazy superblock counters is
that the counters are synced and superblock logged appropriately as part
of the filesystem freeze sequence. This does not occur, however, due to
the logic in xfs_fs_writable() that prevents progress when the fs is in
any state other than SB_UNFROZEN.
While this is a bug, it has not been exposed to date because the last
thing XFS does during freeze is dirty the log. The log recovery process
recalculates the counters from AGI/AGF metadata to ensure everything is
correct. Therefore should a crash occur while an fs is frozen, the
subsequent log recovery puts everything back in order. See the following
commit for reference:
92821e2b [XFS] Lazy Superblock Counters
We might not always want to rely on dirtying the log on a frozen fs.
Modify xfs_log_sbcount() to proceed when the filesystem is freezing but
not once the freeze process has completed. Modify xfs_fs_writable() to
accept the minimum freeze level for which modifications should be
blocked to support various codepaths.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
There is a lot of cookie-cutter code that looks like:
if (shutdown)
handle buffer error
xfs_buf_iorequest(bp)
error = xfs_buf_iowait(bp)
if (error)
handle buffer error
spread through XFS. There's significant complexity now in
xfs_buf_iorequest() to specifically handle this sort of synchronous
IO pattern, but there's all sorts of nasty surprises in different
error handling code dependent on who owns the buffer references and
the locks.
Pull this pattern into a single helper, where we can hide all the
synchronous IO warts and hence make the error handling for all the
callers much saner. This removes the need for a special extra
reference to protect IO completion processing, as we can now hold a
single reference across dispatch and waiting, simplifying the sync
IO smeantics and error handling.
In doing this, also rename xfs_buf_iorequest to xfs_buf_submit and
make it explicitly handle on asynchronous IO. This forces all users
to be switched specifically to one interface or the other and
removes any ambiguity between how the interfaces are to be used. It
also means that xfs_buf_iowait() goes away.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We do some work in xfs_buf_ioend, and some work in
xfs_buf_iodone_work, but much of that functionality is the same.
This work can all be done in a single function, leaving
xfs_buf_iodone just a wrapper to determine if we should execute it
by workqueue or directly. hence rename xfs_buf_iodone_work to
xfs_buf_ioend(), and add a new xfs_buf_ioend_async() for places that
need async processing.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
When we have marked the filesystem for shutdown, we want to prevent
any further buffer IO from being submitted. However, we currently
force the log after marking the filesystem as shut down, hence
allowing IO to the log *after* we have marked both the filesystem
and the log as in an error state.
Clean this up by forcing the log before we mark the filesytem with
an error. This replaces the pure CIL flush that we currently have
which works around this same issue (i.e the CIL can't be flushed
once the shutdown flags are set) and hence enables us to clean up
the logic substantially.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We recently had a bug where buffers were slipping through log
recovery without any verifier attached to them. This was resulting
in on-disk CRC mismatches for valid data. Add some warning code to
catch this occurrence so that we catch such bugs during development
rather than not being aware they exist.
Note that we cannot do this verification unconditionally as non-CRC
filesystems don't always attach verifiers to the buffers being
written. e.g. during log recovery we cannot identify all the
different types of buffers correctly on non-CRC filesystems, so we
can't attach the correct verifiers in all cases and so we don't
attach any. Hence we don't want on non-CRC filesystems to avoid
spamming the logs with false indications.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Embed a kobject into the xfs log data structure (xlog). This creates a
'log' subdirectory for every XFS mount instance in sysfs. The lifecycle
of the log kobject is tied to the lifecycle of the log.
Also define a set of generic attribute handlers associated with the log
kobject in preparation for the addition of attributes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Convert all the errors the core XFs code to negative error signs
like the rest of the kernel and remove all the sign conversion we
do in the interface layers.
Errors for conversion (and comparison) found via searches like:
$ git grep " E" fs/xfs
$ git grep "return E" fs/xfs
$ git grep " E[A-Z].*;$" fs/xfs
Negation points found via searches like:
$ git grep "= -[a-z,A-Z]" fs/xfs
$ git grep "return -[a-z,A-D,F-Z]" fs/xfs
$ git grep " -[a-z].*;" fs/xfs
[ with some bits I missed from Brian Foster ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
XFS_ERROR was designed long ago to trap return values, but it's not
runtime configurable, it's not consistently used, and we can do
similar error trapping with ftrace scripts and triggers from
userspace.
Just nuke XFS_ERROR and associated bits.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Most of the callers are just calling ASSERT(!xfs_buf_geterror())
which means they are checking for bp->b_error == 0. If bp is null in
this case, we will assert fail, and hence it's no different in
result to oopsing because of a null bp. In some cases, errors have
already been checked for or the function returning the buffer can't
return a buffer with an error, so it's just a redundant assert.
Either way, the assert can either be removed.
The other two non-assert callers can just test for a buffer and
error properly.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reports of a shutdown hang when fsyncing a directory have surfaced,
such as this:
[ 3663.394472] Call Trace:
[ 3663.397199] [<ffffffff815f1889>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[ 3663.402743] [<ffffffffa01feda5>] xlog_cil_force_lsn+0x185/0x1a0 [xfs]
[ 3663.416249] [<ffffffffa01fd3af>] _xfs_log_force_lsn+0x6f/0x2f0 [xfs]
[ 3663.429271] [<ffffffffa01a339d>] xfs_dir_fsync+0x7d/0xe0 [xfs]
[ 3663.435873] [<ffffffff811df8c5>] do_fsync+0x65/0xa0
[ 3663.441408] [<ffffffff811dfbc0>] SyS_fsync+0x10/0x20
[ 3663.447043] [<ffffffff815fc7d9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
If we trigger a shutdown in xlog_cil_push() from xlog_write(), we
will never wake waiters on the current push sequence number, so
anything waiting in xlog_cil_force_lsn() for that push sequence
number to come up will not get woken and hence stall the shutdown.
Fix this by ensuring we call wake_up_all(&cil->xc_commit_wait) in
the push abort handling, in the log shutdown code when waking all
waiters, and adding a shutdown check in the sequence completion wait
loops to ensure they abort when a wakeup due to a shutdown occurs.
Reported-by: Boris Ranto <branto@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We have had this code in the kernel for over a year now and have
shaken all the known issues out of the code over the past few
releases. It's now time to remove the experimental warnings during
mount and fully support the new filesystem format in production
systems.
Remove the experimental warning, and add a version number to the
initial "mounting filesystem" message to tell use what type of
filesystem is being mounted. Also, remove the temporary inode
cluster size output at mount time now we know that this code works
fine.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
And interesting situation can occur if a log IO error occurs during
the unmount of a filesystem. The cases reported have the same
signature - the update of the superblock counters fails due to a log
write IO error:
XFS (dm-16): xfs_do_force_shutdown(0x2) called from line 1170 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log.c. Return address = 0xffffffffa08a44a1
XFS (dm-16): Log I/O Error Detected. Shutting down filesystem
XFS (dm-16): Unable to update superblock counters. Freespace may not be correct on next mount.
XFS (dm-16): xfs_log_force: error 5 returned.
XFS (¿-¿¿¿): Please umount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)
It can be seen that the last line of output contains a corrupt
device name - this is because the log and xfs_mount structures have
already been freed by the time this message is printed. A kernel
oops closely follows.
The issue is that the shutdown is occurring in a separate IO
completion thread to the unmount. Once the shutdown processing has
started and all the iclogs are marked with XLOG_STATE_IOERROR, the
log shutdown code wakes anyone waiting on a log force so they can
process the shutdown error. This wakes up the unmount code that
is doing a synchronous transaction to update the superblock
counters.
The unmount path now sees all the iclogs are marked with
XLOG_STATE_IOERROR and so never waits on them again, knowing that if
it does, there will not be a wakeup trigger for it and we will hang
the unmount if we do. Hence the unmount runs through all the
remaining code and frees all the filesystem structures while the
xlog_iodone() is still processing the shutdown. When the log
shutdown processing completes, xfs_do_force_shutdown() emits the
"Please umount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)" message,
and xlog_iodone() then aborts all the objects attached to the iclog.
An iclog that has already been freed....
The real issue here is that there is no serialisation point between
the log IO and the unmount. We have serialisations points for log
writes, log forces, reservations, etc, but we don't actually have
any code that wakes for log IO to fully complete. We do that for all
other types of object, so why not iclogbufs?
Well, it turns out that we can easily do this. We've got xfs_buf
handles, and that's what everyone else uses for IO serialisation.
i.e. bp->b_sema. So, lets hold iclogbufs locked over IO, and only
release the lock in xlog_iodone() when we are finished with the
buffer. That way before we tear down the iclog, we can lock and
unlock the buffer to ensure IO completion has finished completely
before we tear it down.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Bob Mastors <bob.mastors@solidfire.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
I debugging a log tail issue on a RHEL6 kernel, I added these trace
points to trace log items being added, moved and removed in the AIL
and how that affected the log tail LSN that was written to the log.
They were very helpful in that they immediately identified the cause
of the problem being seen. Hence I'd like to always have them
available for use.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
In xlog_verify_iclog a debug check of the incore log buffers prints an
error if icptr is null and then goes on to dereference the pointer
regardless. Convert this to an assert so that the intention is clear.
This was reported by Coverty.
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Currently the xfs_inode.h header has a dependency on the definition
of the BMAP btree records as the inode fork includes an array of
xfs_bmbt_rec_host_t objects in it's definition.
Move all the btree format definitions from xfs_btree.h,
xfs_bmap_btree.h, xfs_alloc_btree.h and xfs_ialloc_btree.h to
xfs_format.h to continue the process of centralising the on-disk
format definitions. With this done, the xfs inode definitions are no
longer dependent on btree header files.
The enables a massive culling of unnecessary includes, with close to
200 #include directives removed from the XFS kernel code base.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
xfs_trans.h has a dependency on xfs_log.h for a couple of
structures. Most code that does transactions doesn't need to know
anything about the log, but this dependency means that they have to
include xfs_log.h. Decouple the xfs_trans.h and xfs_log.h header
files and clean up the includes to be in dependency order.
In doing this, remove the direct include of xfs_trans_reserve.h from
xfs_trans.h so that we remove the dependency between xfs_trans.h and
xfs_mount.h. Hence the xfs_trans.h include can be moved to the
indicate the actual dependencies other header files have on it.
Note that these are kernel only header files, so this does not
translate to any userspace changes at all.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
All of the buffer operations structures are needed to be exported
for xfs_db, so move them all to a common location rather than
spreading them all over the place. They are verifying the on-disk
format, so while xfs_format.h might be a good place, it is not part
of the on disk format.
Hence we need to create a new header file that we centralise these
related definitions. Start by moving the bffer operations
structures, and then also move all the other definitions that have
crept into xfs_log_format.h and xfs_format.h as there was no other
shared header file to put them in.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
__xfs_printk adds its own "\n". Having it in the original string
leads to unintentional blank lines from these messages.
Most format strings have no newline, but a few do, leading to
i.e.:
[ 7347.119911] XFS (sdb2): Access to block zero in inode 132 start_block: 0 start_off: 0 blkcnt: 0 extent-state: 0 lastx: 1a05
[ 7347.119911]
[ 7347.119919] XFS (sdb2): Access to block zero in inode 132 start_block: 0 start_off: 0 blkcnt: 0 extent-state: 0 lastx: 1a05
[ 7347.119919]
Fix them all.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Recent analysis of a deadlocked XFS filesystem from a kernel
crash dump indicated that the filesystem was stuck waiting for log
space. The short story of the hang on the RHEL6 kernel is this:
- the tail of the log is pinned by an inode
- the inode has been pushed by the xfsaild
- the inode has been flushed to it's backing buffer and is
currently flush locked and hence waiting for backing
buffer IO to complete and remove it from the AIL
- the backing buffer is marked for write - it is on the
delayed write queue
- the inode buffer has been modified directly and logged
recently due to unlinked inode list modification
- the backing buffer is pinned in memory as it is in the
active CIL context.
- the xfsbufd won't start buffer writeback because it is
pinned
- xfssyncd won't force the log because it sees the log as
needing to be covered and hence wants to issue a dummy
transaction to move the log covering state machine along.
Hence there is no trigger to force the CIL to the log and hence
unpin the inode buffer and therefore complete the inode IO, remove
it from the AIL and hence move the tail of the log along, allowing
transactions to start again.
Mainline kernels also have the same deadlock, though the signature
is slightly different - the inode buffer never reaches the delayed
write lists because xfs_buf_item_push() sees that it is pinned and
hence never adds it to the delayed write list that the xfsaild
flushes.
There are two possible solutions here. The first is to simply force
the log before trying to cover the log and so ensure that the CIL is
emptied before we try to reserve space for the dummy transaction in
the xfs_log_worker(). While this might work most of the time, it is
still racy and is no guarantee that we don't get stuck in
xfs_trans_reserve waiting for log space to come free. Hence it's not
the best way to solve the problem.
The second solution is to modify xfs_log_need_covered() to be aware
of the CIL. We only should be attempting to cover the log if there
is no current activity in the log - covering the log is the process
of ensuring that the head and tail in the log on disk are identical
(i.e. the log is clean and at idle). Hence, by definition, if there
are items in the CIL then the log is not at idle and so we don't
need to attempt to cover it.
When we don't need to cover the log because it is active or idle, we
issue a log force from xfs_log_worker() - if the log is idle, then
this does nothing. However, if the log is active due to there being
items in the CIL, it will force the items in the CIL to the log and
unpin them.
In the case of the above deadlock scenario, instead of
xfs_log_worker() getting stuck in xfs_trans_reserve() attempting to
cover the log, it will instead force the log, thereby unpinning the
inode buffer, allowing IO to be issued and complete and hence
removing the inode that was pinning the tail of the log from the
AIL. At that point, everything will start moving along again. i.e.
the xfs_log_worker turns back into a watchdog that can alleviate
deadlocks based around pinned items that prevent the tail of the log
from being moved...
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
A couple of simple locking annotations and 0 vs NULL warnings.
Nothing that changes any code behaviour, just removes build noise.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Validate log space during log mount stage, the underlying function
will drop a warning message via syslog in critical level if the log
space is too small or too large.
[ dchinner: For CRC enable filesystems, abort the mounting of the
filesystem as mkfs should never make a log too small for the given
filesystem configuration. ]
[ dchinner: make a note of the fact that the log size limits in
block counts are in units of filesystem blocks, not basic blocks. ]
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Refactor xlog_ticket_alloc() to extract a new helper, i.e.
xfs_log_calc_unit_res().
This helper would be used to calculate the total log reservation
size by adding extra log operation/transation headers for a new
log ticket.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
While testing and rearranging pquota/gquota code, I stumbled
on a xfs_shutdown() during a mount. But the mount just hung.
Debugged and found that there is a deadlock involving
&log->l_cilp->xc_ctx_lock.
It is in a code path where &log->l_cilp->xc_ctx_lock is first
acquired in read mode and some levels down the same semaphore
is being acquired in write mode causing a deadlock.
This is the stack:
xfs_log_commit_cil -> acquires &log->l_cilp->xc_ctx_lock in read mode
xlog_print_tic_res
xfs_force_shutdown
xfs_log_force_umount
xlog_cil_force
xlog_cil_force_lsn
xlog_cil_push_foreground
xlog_cil_push - tries to acquire same semaphore in write mode
This patch fixes the deadlock by changing the reason code for
xfs_force_shutdown in xlog_print_tic_res() to SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR.
SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR is the right reason code to be set since
we are in the log path.
Thanks to Dave for suggesting this solution.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
And "ordered log vector" is a log vector that is used for
tracking a log item through the CIL and into the AIL as part of the
log checkpointing. These ordered log vectors are special in that
they are not written to to journal in any way, and are not accounted
to the checkpoint being written.
The reason for this behaviour is to allow operations to attach items
to transactions and have them follow the normal transactional
lifecycle without actually having to write them to the journal. This
allows logging of items that track high level logical changes and
writing them to the log, while the physical items being modified
pass through into the AIL and pin the tail of the log (and therefore
the logical item in the log) until all the modified items are
physically written to disk.
IOWs, it allows us to write metadata without physically logging
every individual change but still maintain the full transactional
integrity guarantees we currently have w.r.t. crash recovery.
This change modifies some of the CIL item insertion loops, as
ordered log vectors introduce some new constraints as they don't
track any data. One advantage of this change is that it combines
two log vector chain walks into a single pass, so there is less
overhead in the transaction commit pass as well. It also kills some
unused code in the log vector walk loop when committing the CIL.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Use more preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Since we are using C99 we have one builtin defined in include/linux/types.h,
use that instead.
v2: you missed one in fs/xfs/xfs_qm_bhv.c, cleaned up. -bpm
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfarina@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Not a bug as such, just warning noise from the xlog_cksum()
returning a __be32 type when it should be returning a __le32 type.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:30:59AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> But why are we storing the crc field little endian while all other on
> disk formats are big endian? (And yes I realize it might as well have
> been me who did that back in the idea, but I still have no idea why)
Because the CRC always returns the calcuation LE format, even on BE
systems. So rather than always having to byte swap it everywhere and
have all the force casts and anootations for sparse, it seems simpler to
just make it a __le32 everywhere....
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The direct IO path can do a nested transaction reservation when
writing past the EOF. The first transaction is the append
transaction for setting the filesize at IO completion, but we can
also need a transaction for allocation of blocks. If the log is low
on space due to reservations and small log, the append transaction
can be granted after wating for space as the only active transaction
in the system. This then attempts a reservation for an allocation,
which there isn't space in the log for, and the reservation sleeps.
The result is that there is nothing left in the system to wake up
all the processes waiting for log space to come free.
The stack trace that shows this deadlock is relatively innocuous:
xlog_grant_head_wait
xlog_grant_head_check
xfs_log_reserve
xfs_trans_reserve
xfs_iomap_write_direct
__xfs_get_blocks
xfs_get_blocks_direct
do_blockdev_direct_IO
__blockdev_direct_IO
xfs_vm_direct_IO
generic_file_direct_write
xfs_file_dio_aio_writ
xfs_file_aio_write
do_sync_write
vfs_write
This was discovered on a filesystem with a log of only 10MB, and a
log stripe unit of 256k whih increased the base reservations by
512k. Hence a allocation transaction requires 1.2MB of log space to
be available instead of only 260k, and so greatly increased the
chance that there wouldn't be enough log space available for the
nested transaction to succeed. The key to reproducing it is this
mkfs command:
mkfs.xfs -f -d agcount=16,su=256k,sw=12 -l su=256k,size=2560b $SCRATCH_DEV
The test case was a 1000 fsstress processes running with random
freeze and unfreezes every few seconds. Thanks to Eryu Guan
(eguan@redhat.com) for writing the test that found this on a system
with a somewhat unique default configuration....
cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dahl <adahl@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Implement CRCs for the log buffers. We re-use a field in
struct xlog_rec_header that was used for a weak checksum of the
log buffer payload in debug builds before.
The new checksumming uses the crc32c checksum we will use elsewhere
in XFS, and also protects the record header and addition cycle data.
Due to this there are some interesting changes in xlog_sync, as we
need to do the cycle wrapping for the split buffer case much earlier,
as we would touch the buffer after generating the checksum otherwise.
The CRC calculation is always enabled, even for non-CRC filesystems,
as adding this CRC does not change the log format. On non-CRC
filesystems, only issue an alert if a CRC mismatch is found and
allow recovery to continue - this will act as an indicator that
log recovery problems are a result of log corruption. On CRC enabled
filesystems, however, log recovery will fail.
Note that existing debug kernels will write a simple checksum value
to the log, so the first time this is run on a filesystem taht was
last used on a debug kernel it will through CRC mismatch warning
errors. These can be ignored.
Initially based on a patch from Dave Chinner, then modified
significantly by Christoph Hellwig. Modified again by Dave Chinner
to get to this version.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Add a verifier function callback capability to the buffer read
interfaces. This will be used by the callers to supply a function
that verifies the contents of the buffer when it is read from disk.
This patch does not provide callback functions, but simply modifies
the interfaces to allow them to be called.
The reason for adding this to the read interfaces is that it is very
difficult to tell fom the outside is a buffer was just read from
disk or whether we just pulled it out of cache. Supplying a callbck
allows the buffer cache to use it's internal knowledge of the buffer
to execute it only when the buffer is read from disk.
It is intended that the verifier functions will mark the buffer with
an EFSCORRUPTED error when verification fails. This allows the
reading context to distinguish a verification error from an IO
error, and potentially take further actions on the buffer (e.g.
attempt repair) based on the error reported.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Phil White <pwhite@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The log write code stamps each iclog with the current tail LSN in
the iclog header so that recovery knows where to find the tail of
thelog once it has found the head. Normally this is taken from the
first item on the AIL - the log item that corresponds to the oldest
active item in the log.
The problem is that when the AIL is empty, the tail lsn is dervied
from the the l_last_sync_lsn, which is the LSN of the last iclog to
be written to the log. In most cases this doesn't happen, because
the AIL is rarely empty on an active filesystem. However, when it
does, it opens up an interesting case when the transaction being
committed to the iclog spans multiple iclogs.
That is, the first iclog is stamped with the l_last_sync_lsn, and IO
is issued. Then the next iclog is setup, the changes copied into the
iclog (takes some time), and then the l_last_sync_lsn is stamped
into the header and IO is issued. This is still the same
transaction, so the tail lsn of both iclogs must be the same for log
recovery to find the entire transaction to be able to replay it.
The problem arises in that the iclog buffer IO completion updates
the l_last_sync_lsn with it's own LSN. Therefore, If the first iclog
completes it's IO before the second iclog is filled and has the tail
lsn stamped in it, it will stamp the LSN of the first iclog into
it's tail lsn field. If the system fails at this point, log recovery
will not see a complete transaction, so the transaction will no be
replayed.
The fix is simple - the l_last_sync_lsn is updated when a iclog
buffer IO completes, and this is incorrect. The l_last_sync_lsn
shoul dbe updated when a transaction is completed by a iclog buffer
IO. That is, only iclog buffers that have transaction commit
callbacks attached to them should update the l_last_sync_lsn. This
means that the last_sync_lsn will only move forward when a commit
record it written, not in the middle of a large transaction that is
rolling through multiple iclog buffers.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
xfs_quiesce_attr() is supposed to leave the log empty with an
unmount record written. Right now it does not wait for the AIL to be
emptied before writing the unmount record, not does it wait for
metadata IO completion, either. Fix it to use the same method and
code as xfs_log_unmount().
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>
With the syncd functions moved to the log and/or removed, the syncd
workqueue is the only remaining bit left. It is used by the log
covering/ail pushing work, as well as by the inode reclaim work.
Given how cheap workqueues are these days, give the log and inode
reclaim work their own work queues and kill the syncd work queue.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
When unmounting the filesystem, there are lots of operations that
need to be done in a specific order, and they are spread across
across a couple of functions. We have to drain the AIL before we
write the unmount record, and we have to shut down the background
log work before we do either of them.
But this is all split haphazardly across xfs_unmountfs() and
xfs_log_unmount(). Move all the AIL flushing and log manipulations
to xfs_log_unmount() so that the responisbilities of each function
is clear and the operations they perform obvious.
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>
The only thing the periodic sync work does now is flush the AIL and
idle the log. These are really functions of the log code, so move
the work to xfs_log.c and rename it appropriately.
The only wart that this leaves behind is the xfssyncd_centisecs
sysctl, otherwise the xfssyncd is dead. Clean up any comments that
related to xfssyncd to reflect it's passing.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Remove the xlog_t type definitions.
Signed-off-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Rename the XFS log structure to xlog to help crash distinquish it from the
other logs in Linux.
Signed-off-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Revert commit 1307bbd, which uses the s_umount semaphore to provide
exclusion between xfs_sync_worker and unmount, in favor of shutting down
the sync worker before freeing the log in xfs_log_unmount. This is a
cleaner way of resolving the race between xfs_sync_worker and unmount
than using s_umount.
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Dave Chinner