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>
Commit 7124fe0a5b ("xfs: validate untrusted inode
numbers during lookup") changes the inode lookup code to do btree lookups for
untrusted inode numbers. This change made an invalid assumption about the
alignment of inodes and hence incorrectly calculated the first inode in the
cluster. As a result, some inode numbers were being incorrectly considered
invalid when they were actually valid.
The issue was not picked up by the xfstests suite because it always runs fsr
and dump (the two utilities that utilise the bulkstat interface) on cache hot
inodes and hence the lookup code in the cold cache path was not sufficiently
exercised to uncover this intermittent problem.
Fix the issue by relaxing the btree lookup criteria and then checking if the
record returned contains the inode number we are lookup for. If it we get an
incorrect record, then the inode number is invalid.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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>
The block number comes from bulkstat based inode lookups to shortcut
the mapping calculations. We ar enot able to trust anything from
bulkstat, so drop the block number as well so that the correct
lookups and mappings are always done.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Inode numbers may come from somewhere external to the filesystem
(e.g. file handles, bulkstat information) and so are inherently
untrusted. Rename the flag we use for these lookups to make it
obvious we are doing a lookup of an untrusted inode number and need
to verify it completely before trying to read it from disk.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
When we decode a handle or do a bulkstat lookup, we are using an
inode number we cannot trust to be valid. If we are deleting inode
chunks from disk (default noikeep mode), then we cannot trust the on
disk inode buffer for any given inode number to correctly reflect
whether the inode has been unlinked as the di_mode nor the
generation number may have been updated on disk.
This is due to the fact that when we delete an inode chunk, we do
not write the clusters back to disk when they are removed - instead
we mark them stale to avoid them being written back potentially over
the top of something that has been subsequently allocated at that
location. The result is that we can have locations of disk that look
like they contain valid inodes but in reality do not. Hence we
cannot simply convert the inode number to a block number and read
the location from disk to determine if the inode is valid or not.
As a result, and XFS_IGET_BULKSTAT lookup needs to actually look the
inode up in the inode allocation btree to determine if the inode
number is valid or not.
It should be noted even on ikeep filesystems, there is the
possibility that blocks on disk may look like valid inode clusters.
e.g. if there are filesystem images hosted on the filesystem. Hence
even for ikeep filesystems we really need to validate that the inode
number is valid before issuing the inode buffer read.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Currently we define aliases for the buffer flags in various
namespaces, which only adds confusion. Remove all but the XBF_
flags to clean this up a bit.
Note that we still abuse XFS_B_ASYNC/XBF_ASYNC for some non-buffer
uses, but I'll clean that up later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The use of an array for the per-ag structures requires reallocation
of the array when growing the filesystem. This requires locking
access to the array to avoid use after free situations, and the
locking is difficult to get right. To avoid needing to reallocate an
array, change the per-ag structures to an allocated object per ag
and index them using a tree structure.
The AGs are always densely indexed (hence the use of an array), but
the number supported is 2^32 and lookups tend to be random and hence
indexing needs to scale. A simple choice is a radix tree - it works
well with this sort of index. This change also removes another
large contiguous allocation from the mount/growfs path in XFS.
The growing process now needs to change to only initialise the new
AGs required for the extra space, and as such only needs to
exclusively lock the tree for inserts. The rest of the code only
needs to lock the tree while doing lookups, and hence this will
remove all the deadlocks that currently occur on the m_perag_lock as
it is now an innermost lock. The lock is also changed to a spinlock
from a read/write lock as the hold time is now extremely short.
To complete the picture, the per-ag structures will need to be
reference counted to ensure that we don't free/modify them while
they are still in use. This will be done in subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Convert the remaining direct lookups of the per ag structures to use
get/put accesses. Ensure that the loops across AGs and prior users
of the interface balance gets and puts correctly.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove our own STATIC_INLINE macro. For small function inside
implementation files just use STATIC and let gcc inline it, and for
those in headers do the normal static inline - they are all small
enough to be inlined for debug builds, too.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Commit bd16956599 seems
to have a slight regression where this code path:
if (!--searchdistance) {
/*
* Not in range - save last search
* location and allocate a new inode
*/
...
goto newino;
}
doesn't free the temporary cursor (tcur) that got dup'd in
this function.
This leaks an item in the xfs_btree_cur zone, and it's caught
on module unload:
===========================================================
BUG xfs_btree_cur: Objects remaining on kmem_cache_close()
-----------------------------------------------------------
It seems like maybe a single free at the end of the function might
be cleaner, but for now put a del_cursor right in this code block
similar to the handling in the rest of the function.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
xfs_inobt_lookup is also used in xfs_itable.c, remove the STATIC modifier
from it's declaration to fix non-debug builds.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Don't search too far - abort if it is outside a certain radius and simply do
a linear search for the first free inode. In AGs with a million inodes this
can speed up allocation speed by 3-4x.
[hch: ported to the new xfs_ialloc.c world order]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Currenly we have a xfs_inobt_lookup* variant for each comparism direction,
and all these get all three fields of the inobt records passed, while the
common case is just looking for the inode number and we have only marginally
more callers than xfs_inobt_lookup* variants.
So opencode a direct call to xfs_btree_lookup for the single case where we
need all fields, and replace xfs_inobt_lookup* with a xfs_inobt_looku that
just takes the inode number and the direction for all other callers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Clarify the control flow in xfs_dialloc. Factor out a helper to go to the
next node from the current one and improve the control flow by expanding
composite if statements and using gotos.
The xfs_ialloc_next_rec helper is borrowed from Dave Chinners dynamic
allocation policy patches.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Factor out a common helper from repeated debug checks in xfs_dialloc and
xfs_difree.
[hch: split out from Dave's dynamic allocation policy patches]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Both callers of xfs_inobt_update have the record in form of a
xfs_inobt_rec_incore_t, so just pass a pointer to it instead of the
individual variables.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Most callers of xfs_inobt_get_rec need to fill a xfs_inobt_rec_incore_t, and
those who don't yet are fine with a xfs_inobt_rec_incore_t, instead of the
three individual variables, too. So just change xfs_inobt_get_rec to write
the output into a xfs_inobt_rec_incore_t directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Factor out code to initialize new inode clusters into a function of it's own.
This keeps xfs_ialloc_ag_alloc smaller and better structured and enables a
future inode cluster initialization transaction. Also initialize the agno
variable earlier in xfs_ialloc_ag_alloc to avoid repeated byte swaps.
[hch: The original patch is from Dave from his unpublished inode create
transaction patch series, with some modifcations by me to apply stand-alone]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
xfs_ialloc_btree.h has a a cuple of macros that only obsfucate the code
but don't provide any abstraction benefits. This patches removes those
and cleans up the reamaining defintions up a little.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Remove the last of the macros-defined-to-static-functions.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Just pass down the XFS_IGET_* flags all the way down to xfs_imap instead
of translating them mid-way.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Most uses of struct xfs_imap are to map and inode to a buffer. To avoid
copying around the inode location information we should just embedd a
strcut xfs_imap into the xfs_inode. To make sure it doesn't bloat an
inode the im_len is changed to a ushort, which is fine as that's what
the users exepect anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
xfs_imap is the only caller of xfs_dilocate and doesn't add any significant
value. Merge the two functions and document the various cases we have for
inode cluster lookup in the new xfs_imap.
Also remove the unused im_agblkno and im_ioffset fields from struct xfs_imap
while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
We have removed the support for old-style inode items a while ago and
xlog_recover_do_inode_trans is now only called for XFS_LI_INODE items.
That means we can remove the call to xfs_imap there and with it the
XFS_IMAP_LOOKUP that is set by all other callers. We can also mark
xfs_imap static now.
(First sent on October 21st)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
These names don't add any value at all over just using the numerical
values.
(First sent on October 9th)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Now that we have a separate xfs_icdinode_t for the in-core inode which
gets logged there is no need anymore for the xfs_dinode vs xfs_dinode_core
split - the fact that part of the structure gets logged through the inode
log item and a small part not can better be described in a comment.
All sizeof operations on the dinode_core either really wanted the
icdinode and are switched to that one, or had already added the size
of the agi unlinked list pointer. Later both will be replaced with
helpers once we get the larger CRC-enabled dinode.
Removing the data and attribute fork unions also has the advantage that
xfs_dinode.h doesn't need to pull in every header under the sun.
While we're at it also add some more comments describing the dinode
structure.
(First sent on October 7th)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
xfs_ialloc_log_di is only used to log the full inode core + di_next_unlinked.
That means all the offset magic is not nessecary and we can simply use
xfs_trans_log_buf directly. Also add a comment describing what we should do
here instead.
(First sent on October 7th)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Add a helper to read the AGI header and perform basic verification.
Based on hunks from a larger patch from Dave Chinner.
(First sent on Juli 23rd)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Not really much reason to make it generic given that it's so small, but
this is the last non-method in xfs_alloc_btree.c and xfs_ialloc_btree.c,
so it makes the whole btree implementation more structured.
SGI-PV: 985583
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32206a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Make the btree delete code generic. Based on a patch from David Chinner
with lots of changes to follow the original btree implementations more
closely. While this loses some of the generic helper routines for
inserting/moving/removing records it also solves some of the one off bugs
in the original code and makes it easier to verify.
SGI-PV: 985583
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32205a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Make the btree insert code generic. Based on a patch from David Chinner
with lots of changes to follow the original btree implementations more
closely. While this loses some of the generic helper routines for
inserting/moving/removing records it also solves some of the one off bugs
in the original code and makes it easier to verify.
SGI-PV: 985583
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32202a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
From: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
The most complicated part here is the lastrec tracking for the alloc
btree. Most logic is in the update_lastrec method which has to do some
hopefully good enough dirty magic to maintain it.
[hch: split out from bigger patch and a rework of the lastrec
logic]
SGI-PV: 985583
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32194a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
From: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
[hch: split out from bigger patch and minor adaptions]
SGI-PV: 985583
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32192a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
From: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
[hch: split out from bigger patch and minor adaptions]
SGI-PV: 985583
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32191a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
From: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Because this is the first major generic btree routine this patch includes
some infrastrucure, first a few routines to deal with a btree block that
can be either in short or long form, second xfs_btree_read_buf_block,
which is the new central routine to read a btree block given a cursor, and
third the new xfs_btree_ptr_addr routine to calculate the address for a
given btree pointer record.
[hch: split out from bigger patch and minor adaptions]
SGI-PV: 985583
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32190a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
xfs_btree_init_cursor contains close to little shared code for the
different btrees and will get even more non-common code in the future.
Split it up into one routine per btree type.
Because xfs_btree_dup_cursor needs to call the init routine for a generic
btree cursor add a new btree operation vector that contains a dup_cursor
method that initializes a new cursor based on an existing one.
The btree operations vector is based on an idea and code from Dave Chinner
and will grow more entries later during this series.
SGI-PV: 985583
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32176a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
When we allocation new inode chunks, we initialise the generation numbers
to zero. This works fine until we delete a chunk and then reallocate it,
resulting in the same inode numbers but with a reset generation count.
This can result in inode/generation pairs of different inodes occurring
relatively close together.
Given that the inode/gen pair makes up the "unique" portion of an NFS
filehandle on XFS, this can result in file handles cached on clients being
seen on the wire from the server but refer to a different file. This
causes .... issues for NFS clients.
Hence we need a unique generation number initialisation for each inode to
prevent reuse of a small portion of the generation number space. Use a
random number to initialise the generation number so we don't need to keep
any new state on disk whilst making the new number difficult to guess from
previous allocations.
SGI-PV: 979416
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31001a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
At ENOSPC, we can get a filesystem shutdown due to a cancelling a dirty
transaction in xfs_mkdir or xfs_create. This is due to the initial
allocation attempt not taking into account inode alignment and hence we
can prepare the AGF freelist for allocation when it's not actually
possible to do an allocation. This results in inode allocation returning
ENOSPC with a dirty transaction, and hence we shut down the filesystem.
Because the first allocation is an exact allocation attempt, we must tell
the allocator that the alignment does not affect the allocation attempt.
i.e. we will accept any extent alignment as long as the extent starts at
the block we want. Unfortunately, this means that if the longest free
extent is less than the length + alignment necessary for fallback
allocation attempts but is long enough to attempt a non-aligned
allocation, we will modify the free list.
If we then have the exact allocation fail, all other allocation attempts
will also fail due to the alignment constraint being taken into account.
Hence the initial attempt needs to set the "alignment slop" field so that
alignment, while not required, must be taken into account when determining
if there is enough space left in the AG to do the allocation.
That means if the exact allocation fails, we will not dirty the freelist
if there is not enough space available fo a subsequent allocation to
succeed. Hence we get an ENOSPC error back to userspace without shutting
down the filesystem.
SGI-PV: 978886
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30699a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Remove macro-to-small-function indirection from xfs_sb.h, and remove some
which are completely unused.
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30528a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
the "ikeep" option is set rather than "noikeep".
This regression was introduced in 970451.
With no mount options specified, xfs_parseargs() does the following:
int ikeep = 0;
args->flags |= XFSMNT_BARRIER;
args->flags2 |= XFSMNT2_COMPAT_IOSIZE;
if (!options)
goto done;
It only sets the above two options by default and before, it also used to
set XFSMNT_IDELETE by default.
If options are specified, then
if (!(args->flags & XFSMNT_DMAPI) && !ikeep)
args->flags |= XFSMNT_IDELETE;
is executed later on which is skipped by the "goto done;" above.
The solution is to invert the logic.
SGI-PV: 977771
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30590a
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
remove beX_add functions and replace all uses with beX_add_cpu
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Biggest bit is duplicating the dinode structure so we have one annotated for
native endianess and one for disk endianess. The other significant change
is that xfs_xlate_dinode_core is split into one helper per direction to
allow for proper annotations, everything else is trivial.
As a sidenode splitting out the incore dinode means we can move it into
xfs_inode.h in a later patch and severely improving on the include hell in
xfs.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29476a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
When we have a couple of hundred transactions on the fly at once, they all
typically modify the on disk superblock in some way.
create/unclink/mkdir/rmdir modify inode counts, allocation/freeing modify
free block counts.
When these counts are modified in a transaction, they must eventually lock
the superblock buffer and apply the mods. The buffer then remains locked
until the transaction is committed into the incore log buffer. The result
of this is that with enough transactions on the fly the incore superblock
buffer becomes a bottleneck.
The result of contention on the incore superblock buffer is that
transaction rates fall - the more pressure that is put on the superblock
buffer, the slower things go.
The key to removing the contention is to not require the superblock fields
in question to be locked. We do that by not marking the superblock dirty
in the transaction. IOWs, we modify the incore superblock but do not
modify the cached superblock buffer. In short, we do not log superblock
modifications to critical fields in the superblock on every transaction.
In fact we only do it just before we write the superblock to disk every
sync period or just before unmount.
This creates an interesting problem - if we don't log or write out the
fields in every transaction, then how do the values get recovered after a
crash? the answer is simple - we keep enough duplicate, logged information
in other structures that we can reconstruct the correct count after log
recovery has been performed.
It is the AGF and AGI structures that contain the duplicate information;
after recovery, we walk every AGI and AGF and sum their individual
counters to get the correct value, and we do a transaction into the log to
correct them. An optimisation of this is that if we have a clean unmount
record, we know the value in the superblock is correct, so we can avoid
the summation walk under normal conditions and so mount/recovery times do
not change under normal operation.
One wrinkle that was discovered during development was that the blocks
used in the freespace btrees are never accounted for in the AGF counters.
This was once a valid optimisation to make; when the filesystem is full,
the free space btrees are empty and consume no space. Hence when it
matters, the "accounting" is correct. But that means the when we do the
AGF summations, we would not have a correct count and xfs_check would
complain. Hence a new counter was added to track the number of blocks used
by the free space btrees. This is an *on-disk format change*.
As a result of this, lazy superblock counters are a mkfs option and at the
moment on linux there is no way to convert an old filesystem. This is
possible - xfs_db can be used to twiddle the right bits and then
xfs_repair will do the format conversion for you. Similarly, you can
convert backwards as well. At some point we'll add functionality to
xfs_admin to do the bit twiddling easily....
SGI-PV: 964999
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28652a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
gcc-4.1 and more recent aggressively inline static functions which
increases XFS stack usage by ~15% in critical paths. Prevent this from
occurring by adding noinline to the STATIC definition.
Also uninline some functions that are too large to be inlined and were
causing problems with CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING=y.
Finally, clean up all the different users of inline, __inline and
__inline__ and put them under one STATIC_INLINE macro. For debug kernels
the STATIC_INLINE macro uninlines those functions.
SGI-PV: 957159
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:27585a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chatterton <chatz@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Christoph Hellwig