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Benjamin Marzinski 24972557b1 GFS2: remove transaction glock
GFS2 has a transaction glock, which must be grabbed for every
transaction, whose purpose is to deal with freezing the filesystem.
Aside from this involving a large amount of locking, it is very easy to
make the current fsfreeze code hang on unfreezing.

This patch rewrites how gfs2 handles freezing the filesystem. The
transaction glock is removed. In it's place is a freeze glock, which is
cached (but not held) in a shared state by every node in the cluster
when the filesystem is mounted. This lock only needs to be grabbed on
freezing, and actions which need to be safe from freezing, like
recovery.

When a node wants to freeze the filesystem, it grabs this glock
exclusively.  When the freeze glock state changes on the nodes (either
from shared to unlocked, or shared to exclusive), the filesystem does a
special log flush.  gfs2_log_flush() does all the work for flushing out
the and shutting down the incore log, and then it tries to grab the
freeze glock in a shared state again.  Since the filesystem is stuck in
gfs2_log_flush, no new transaction can start, and nothing can be written
to disk. Unfreezing the filesytem simply involes dropping the freeze
glock, allowing gfs2_log_flush() to grab and then release the shared
lock, so it is cached for next time.

However, in order for the unfreezing ioctl to occur, gfs2 needs to get a
shared lock on the filesystem root directory inode to check permissions.
If that glock has already been grabbed exclusively, fsfreeze will be
unable to get the shared lock and unfreeze the filesystem.

In order to allow the unfreeze, this patch makes gfs2 grab a shared lock
on the filesystem root directory during the freeze, and hold it until it
unfreezes the filesystem.  The functions which need to grab a shared
lock in order to allow the unfreeze ioctl to be issued now use the lock
grabbed by the freeze code instead.

The freeze and unfreeze code take care to make sure that this shared
lock will not be dropped while another process is using it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-05-14 10:04:34 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 24e7ea3bea Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE
and COLLAPSE_RANGE fallocate operations, and scalability improvements
 in the jbd2 layer and in xattr handling when the extended attributes
 spill over into an external block.
 
 Other than that, the usual clean ups and minor bug fixes.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE
  and COLLAPSE_RANGE fallocate operations, and scalability improvements
  in the jbd2 layer and in xattr handling when the extended attributes
  spill over into an external block.

  Other than that, the usual clean ups and minor bug fixes"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (42 commits)
  ext4: fix premature freeing of partial clusters split across leaf blocks
  ext4: remove unneeded test of ret variable
  ext4: fix comment typo
  ext4: make ext4_block_zero_page_range static
  ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()
  ext4: optimize Hurd tests when reading/writing inodes
  ext4: kill i_version support for Hurd-castrated file systems
  ext4: each filesystem creates and uses its own mb_cache
  fs/mbcache.c: doucple the locking of local from global data
  fs/mbcache.c: change block and index hash chain to hlist_bl_node
  ext4: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate
  ext4: refactor ext4_fallocate code
  ext4: Update inode i_size after the preallocation
  ext4: fix partial cluster handling for bigalloc file systems
  ext4: delete path dealloc code in ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents
  ext4: only call sync_filesystm() when remounting read-only
  fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()
  jbd2: improve error messages for inconsistent journal heads
  jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in jbd2_journal_forget()
  jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in journal_get_create_access()
  ...
2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 34917f9713 One of the main highlights this time, is not the patches themselves
but instead the widening contributor base. It is good to see that
 interest is increasing in GFS2, and I'd like to thank all the
 contributors to this patch set.
 
 In addition to the usual set of bug fixes and clean ups, there are
 patches to improve inode creation performance when xattrs are
 required and some improvements to the transaction code which is
 intended to help improve scalability after further changes in due
 course.
 
 Journal extent mapping is also updated to make it more efficient
 and again, this is a foundation for future work in this area.
 
 The maximum number of ACLs has been increased to 300 (for a 4k
 block size) which means that even with a few additional xattrs
 from selinux, everything should fit within a single fs block.
 
 There is also a patch to bring GFS2's own copy of the writepages
 code up to the same level as the core VFS. Eventually we may be
 able to merge some of this code, since it is fairly similar.
 
 The other major change this time, is bringing consistency to
 the printing of messages via fs_<level>, pr_<level> macros.
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Merge tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw

Pull GFS2 updates from Steven Whitehouse:
 "One of the main highlights this time, is not the patches themselves
  but instead the widening contributor base.  It is good to see that
  interest is increasing in GFS2, and I'd like to thank all the
  contributors to this patch set.

  In addition to the usual set of bug fixes and clean ups, there are
  patches to improve inode creation performance when xattrs are required
  and some improvements to the transaction code which is intended to
  help improve scalability after further changes in due course.

  Journal extent mapping is also updated to make it more efficient and
  again, this is a foundation for future work in this area.

  The maximum number of ACLs has been increased to 300 (for a 4k block
  size) which means that even with a few additional xattrs from selinux,
  everything should fit within a single fs block.

  There is also a patch to bring GFS2's own copy of the writepages code
  up to the same level as the core VFS.  Eventually we may be able to
  merge some of this code, since it is fairly similar.

  The other major change this time, is bringing consistency to the
  printing of messages via fs_<level>, pr_<level> macros"

* tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw: (29 commits)
  GFS2: Fix address space from page function
  GFS2: Fix uninitialized VFS inode in gfs2_create_inode
  GFS2: Fix return value in slot_get()
  GFS2: inline function gfs2_set_mode
  GFS2: Remove extraneous function gfs2_security_init
  GFS2: Increase the max number of ACLs
  GFS2: Re-add a call to log_flush_wait when flushing the journal
  GFS2: Ensure workqueue is scheduled after noexp request
  GFS2: check NULL return value in gfs2_ok_to_move
  GFS2: Convert gfs2_lm_withdraw to use fs_err
  GFS2: Use fs_<level> more often
  GFS2: Use pr_<level> more consistently
  GFS2: Move recovery variables to journal structure in memory
  GFS2: global conversion to pr_foo()
  GFS2: return -E2BIG if hit the maximum limits of ACLs
  GFS2: Clean up journal extent mapping
  GFS2: replace kmalloc - __vmalloc / memset 0
  GFS2: Remove extra "if" in gfs2_log_flush()
  fs: NULL dereference in posix_acl_to_xattr()
  GFS2: Move log buffer accounting to transaction
  ...
2014-04-04 14:49:16 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 91b0abe36a mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache
Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon
evicting the real page.  As those pages are found from the LRU, an
iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently.  At this point,
reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing
code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.

Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets
under the tree lock before doing the final truncate.  Reclaim will check
for this flag before installing shadow pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Metin Doslu <metin@citusdata.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan <ozgun@citusdata.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
Abhi Das 059788039f GFS2: Fix uninitialized VFS inode in gfs2_create_inode
When gfs2_create_inode() fails due to quota violation, the VFS
inode is not completely uninitialized. This can cause a list
corruption error.

This patch correctly uninitializes the VFS inode when a quota
violation occurs in the gfs2_create_inode codepath.

Resolves: rhbz#1059808
Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-03-31 16:41:39 +01:00
Theodore Ts'o 02b9984d64 fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()
Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs().  This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior.  In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
Joe Perches d77d1b58aa GFS2: Use pr_<level> more consistently
Add pr_fmt, remove embedded "GFS2: " prefixes.
This now consistently emits lower case "gfs2: " for each message.

Other miscellanea around these changes:

o Add missing newlines
o Coalesce formats
o Realign arguments

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-03-07 09:30:51 +00:00
Fabian Frederick fc554ed3d8 GFS2: global conversion to pr_foo()
-All printk(KERN_foo converted to pr_foo().
-Messages updated to fit in 80 columns.
-fs_macros converted as well.
-fs_printk removed.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-03-06 17:34:06 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse b50f227bdd GFS2: Clean up journal extent mapping
This patch fixes a long standing issue in mapping the journal
extents. Most journals will consist of only a single extent,
and although the cache took account of that by merging extents,
it did not actually map large extents, but instead was doing a
block by block mapping. Since the journal was only being mapped
on mount, this was not normally noticeable.

With the updated code, it is now possible to use the same extent
mapping system during journal recovery (which will be added in a
later patch). This will allow checking of the integrity of the
journal before any reply of the journal content is attempted. For
this reason the code is moving to bmap.c, since it will be used
more widely in due course.

An exercise left for the reader is to compare the new function
gfs2_map_journal_extents() with gfs2_write_alloc_required()

Additionally, should there be a failure, the error reporting is
also updated to show more detail about what went wrong.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-03-03 13:50:12 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 8ad151c2ac GFS2: Only run logd and quota when mounted read/write
While investigating a rather strange bit of code in the quota
clean up function, I spotted that the reason for its existence
was that when remounting read only, we were not stopping the
quotad thread, and thus it was possible for it to still have
a reference to some of the quotas in that case.

This patch moves the logd and quota thread start and stop into
the make_fs_rw/ro functions, so that we now stop those threads
when mounted read only.

This means that quotad will always be stopped before we call
the quota clean up function, and we can thus dispose of the
(rather hackish) code that waits for it to give up its
reference on the quotas.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
2014-01-14 19:28:25 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse af5c269799 GFS2: Clean up reservation removal
The reservation for an inode should be cleared when it is truncated so
that we can start again at a different offset for future allocations.
We could try and do better than that, by resetting the search based on
where the truncation started from, but this is only a first step.

In addition, there are three callers of gfs2_rs_delete() but only one
of those should really be testing the value of i_writecount. While
we get away with that in the other cases currently, I think it would
be better if we made that test specific to the one case which
requires it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-09-27 12:49:33 +01:00
Bob Peterson a6a4d98b01 GFS2: Don't cache iopen glocks
This patch makes GFS2 immediately reclaim/delete all iopen glocks
as soon as they're dequeued. This allows deleters to get an
EXclusive lock on iopen so files are deleted properly instead of
being set as unlinked.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-06-03 16:40:22 +01:00
Bob Peterson 20095218fb GFS2: Remove vestigial parameter ip from function rs_deltree
The functions that delete block reservations from the rgrp block
reservations rbtree no longer use the ip parameter. This patch
eliminates the parameter.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-04-08 08:41:04 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 94f2f14234 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace and namespace infrastructure changes from Eric W Biederman:
 "This set of changes starts with a few small enhnacements to the user
  namespace.  reboot support, allowing more arbitrary mappings, and
  support for mounting devpts, ramfs, tmpfs, and mqueuefs as just the
  user namespace root.

  I do my best to document that if you care about limiting your
  unprivileged users that when you have the user namespace support
  enabled you will need to enable memory control groups.

  There is a minor bug fix to prevent overflowing the stack if someone
  creates way too many user namespaces.

  The bulk of the changes are a continuation of the kuid/kgid push down
  work through the filesystems.  These changes make using uids and gids
  typesafe which ensures that these filesystems are safe to use when
  multiple user namespaces are in use.  The filesystems converted for
  3.9 are ceph, 9p, afs, ocfs2, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, nfsd, and cifs.  The
  changes for these filesystems were a little more involved so I split
  the changes into smaller hopefully obviously correct changes.

  XFS is the only filesystem that remains.  I was hoping I could get
  that in this release so that user namespace support would be enabled
  with an allyesconfig or an allmodconfig but it looks like the xfs
  changes need another couple of days before it they are ready."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (93 commits)
  cifs: Enable building with user namespaces enabled.
  cifs: Convert struct cifs_ses to use a kuid_t and a kgid_t
  cifs: Convert struct cifs_sb_info to use kuids and kgids
  cifs: Modify struct smb_vol to use kuids and kgids
  cifs: Convert struct cifsFileInfo to use a kuid
  cifs: Convert struct cifs_fattr to use kuid and kgids
  cifs: Convert struct tcon_link to use a kuid.
  cifs: Modify struct cifs_unix_set_info_args to hold a kuid_t and a kgid_t
  cifs: Convert from a kuid before printing current_fsuid
  cifs: Use kuids and kgids SID to uid/gid mapping
  cifs: Pass GLOBAL_ROOT_UID and GLOBAL_ROOT_GID to keyring_alloc
  cifs: Use BUILD_BUG_ON to validate uids and gids are the same size
  cifs: Override unmappable incoming uids and gids
  nfsd: Enable building with user namespaces enabled.
  nfsd: Properly compare and initialize kuids and kgids
  nfsd: Store ex_anon_uid and ex_anon_gid as kuids and kgids
  nfsd: Modify nfsd4_cb_sec to use kuids and kgids
  nfsd: Handle kuids and kgids in the nfs4acl to posix_acl conversion
  nfsd: Convert nfsxdr to use kuids and kgids
  nfsd: Convert nfs3xdr to use kuids and kgids
  ...
2013-02-25 16:00:49 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman d054642642 gfs2: Convert uids and gids between dinodes and vfs inodes.
When reading dinodes from the disk convert uids and gids
into kuids and kgids to store in vfs data structures.

When writing to dinodes to the disk convert kuids and kgids
in the in memory structures into plain uids and gids.

For now all on disk data structures are assumed to be
stored in the initial user namespace.

Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-02-13 06:15:11 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman f4108a607f gfs2: Split NO_QUOTA_CHANGE inot NO_UID_QUTOA_CHANGE and NO_GID_QUTOA_CHANGE
Split NO_QUOTA_CHANGE into NO_UID_QUTOA_CHANGE and NO_GID_QUTOA_CHANGE
so the constants may be well typed.

Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-02-13 06:15:01 -08:00
Steven Whitehouse 4513899092 GFS2: Use ->writepages for ordered writes
Instead of using a list of buffers to write ahead of the journal
flush, this now uses a list of inodes and calls ->writepages
via filemap_fdatawrite() in order to achieve the same thing. For
most use cases this results in a shorter ordered write list,
as well as much larger i/os being issued.

The ordered write list is sorted by inode number before writing
in order to retain the disk block ordering between inodes as
per the previous code.

The previous ordered write code used to conflict in its assumptions
about how to write out the disk blocks with mpage_writepages()
so that with this updated version we can also use mpage_writepages()
for GFS2's ordered write, writepages implementation. So we will
also send larger i/os from writeback too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-01-29 10:29:17 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse d564053f07 GFS2: Clean up freeze code
The freeze code has not been looked at a lot recently. Upstream has
moved on, and this is an attempt to catch us back up again. There
is a vfs level interface for the freeze code which can be called
from our (obsolete, but kept for backward compatibility purposes)
sysfs freeze interface. This means freezing this way vs. doing it
from the ioctl should now work in identical fashion.

As a result of this, the freeze function is only called once
and we can drop our own special purpose code for counting the
number of freezes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-01-29 10:29:05 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 350a9b0a72 GFS2: Split gfs2_trans_add_bh() into two
There is little common content in gfs2_trans_add_bh() between the data
and meta classes by the time that the functions which it calls are
taken into account. The intent here is to split this into two
separate functions. Stage one is to introduce gfs2_trans_add_data()
and gfs2_trans_add_meta() and update the callers accordingly.

Later patches will then pull in the content of gfs2_trans_add_bh()
and its dependent functions in order to clean up the code in this
area.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-01-29 10:28:04 +00:00
Benjamin Marzinski 3d1626889a GFS2: Don't call file_accessed() with a shared glock
file_accessed() was being called by gfs2_mmap() with a shared glock. If it
needed to update the atime, it was crashing because it dirtied the inode in
gfs2_dirty_inode() without holding an exclusive lock. gfs2_dirty_inode()
checked if the caller was already holding a glock, but it didn't make sure that
the glock was in the exclusive state. Now, instead of calling file_accessed()
while holding the shared lock in gfs2_mmap(), file_accessed() is called after
grabbing and releasing the glock to update the inode.  If file_accessed() needs
to update the atime, it will grab an exclusive lock in gfs2_dirty_inode().

gfs2_dirty_inode() now also checks to make sure that if the calling process has
already locked the glock, it has an exclusive lock.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-11-07 09:42:49 +00:00
Linus Torvalds 033d9959ed Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1.  A lot of activities this
  round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.

   * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item.  The handling of the
     timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
     cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors.  delayed_work is
     updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
     expected.

   * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
     mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
     timer+work usages.  mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.

     These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
     and behave like timer which is executed with process context.

   * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
     is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
     half-broken under certain circumstances.  This problem doesn't
     exist for non-reentrant workqueues.  While non-reentrancy check
     isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
     across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
     the overhead isn't too high.

     All workqueues are made non-reentrant.  This removes the
     distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
     flush_[delayed_]_work_sync().  The former is now as strong as the
     latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
     execution of any previous queueing on return.

   * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
     hotplug handling significantly.

   * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
     hotplug.

  There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
  tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
  wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."

Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.

Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.

* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
  workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
  workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
  workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
  workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
  workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
  workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
  workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
  workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
  workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
  workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
  workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
  workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
  workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
  workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
  workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
  workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
  ...
2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
Benjamin Marzinski 2216db70c9 GFS2: Write out dirty inode metadata in delayed deletes
If a dirty GFS2 inode was being deleted but was in use by another node, its
metadata was not getting written out before GFS2 checked for dirty buffers in
gfs2_ail_flush().  GFS2 was relying on inode_go_sync() to write out the
metadata when the other node tried to free the file, but it failed the error
check before it got that far. This patch writes out the metadata before calling
gfs2_ail_flush()

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-09-24 10:47:30 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 2b9731e8bb GFS2: Fix ->show_options() for statfs slow
The ->show_options() function for GFS2 was not correctly displaying
the value when statfs slow in in use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Milos Jakubicek <xjakub@fi.muni.cz>
2012-09-24 10:47:17 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 4a993fb150 GFS2: Add structure to contain rgrp, bitmap, offset tuple
This patch introduces a new structure, gfs2_rbm, which is a
tuple of a resource group, a bitmap within the resource group
and an offset within that bitmap. This is designed to make
manipulating these sets of variables easier. There is also a
new helper function which converts this representation back
to a disk block address.

In addition, the rbtree nodes which are used for the reservations
were not being correctly initialised, which is now fixed. Also,
the tracing was not passing through the inode where it should
have been. That is mostly fixed aside from one corner case. This
needs to be revisited since there can also be a NULL rgrp in
some cases which results in the device being incorrect in the
trace.

This is intended to be the first step towards cleaning up some
of the allocation code, and some further bug fixes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-09-24 10:46:56 +01:00
Tejun Heo 43829731dd workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious.  Mark them deprecated
and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work().

If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are
non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is
not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to
use the sync flushes at all and they're going away.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Cc: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-08-20 14:51:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 801b03653f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw
Pull GFS2 updates from Steven Whitehouse.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw:
  GFS2: Eliminate 64-bit divides
  GFS2: Reduce file fragmentation
  GFS2: kernel panic with small gfs2 filesystems - 1 RG
  GFS2: Fixing double brelse'ing bh allocated in gfs2_meta_read when EIO occurs
  GFS2: Combine functions get_local_rgrp and gfs2_inplace_reserve
  GFS2: Add kobject release method
  GFS2: Size seq_file buffer more carefully
  GFS2: Use seq_vprintf for glocks debugfs file
  seq_file: Add seq_vprintf function and export it
  GFS2: Use lvbs for storing rgrp information with mount option
  GFS2: Cache last hash bucket for glock seq_files
  GFS2: Increase buffer size for glocks and glstats debugfs files
  GFS2: Fix error handling when reading an invalid block from the journal
  GFS2: Add "top dir" flag support
  GFS2: Fold quota data into the reservations struct
  GFS2: Extend the life of the reservations
2012-07-24 17:57:05 -07:00
Jan Kara a117782571 quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs method
Since the moment writes to quota files are using block device page cache and
space for quota structures is reserved at the moment they are first accessed we
have no reason to sync quota before inode writeback. In fact this order is now
only harmful since quota information can easily change during inode writeback
(either because conversion of delayed-allocated extents or simply because of
allocation of new blocks for simple filesystems not using page_mkwrite).

So move syncing of quota information after writeback of inodes into ->sync_fs
method. This way we do not have to use ->quota_sync callback which is primarily
intended for use by quotactl syscall anyway and we get rid of calling
->sync_fs() twice unnecessarily. We skip quota syncing for OCFS2 since it does
proper quota journalling in all cases (unlike ext3, ext4, and reiserfs which
also support legacy non-journalled quotas) and thus there are no dirty quota
structures.

CC: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
CC: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:34 +04:00
Jan Kara ceed17236a quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part
Split off part of dquot_quota_sync() which writes dquots into a quota file
to a separate function. In the next patch we will use the function from
filesystems and we do not want to abuse ->quota_sync quotactl callback more
than necessary.

Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:19 +04:00
Bob Peterson 8e2e004735 GFS2: Reduce file fragmentation
This patch reduces GFS2 file fragmentation by pre-reserving blocks. The
resulting improved on disk layout greatly speeds up operations in cases
which would have resulted in interlaced allocation of blocks previously.
A typical example of this is 10 parallel dd processes, each writing to a
file in a common dirctory.

The implementation uses an rbtree of reservations attached to each
resource group (and each inode).

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-07-19 14:51:08 +01:00
Benjamin Marzinski 90306c41dc GFS2: Use lvbs for storing rgrp information with mount option
Instead of reading in the resource groups when gfs2 is checking
for free space to allocate from, gfs2 can store the necessary infromation
in the resource group's lvb.  Also, instead of searching for unlinked
inodes in every resource group that's checked for free space, gfs2 can
store the number of unlinked but inodes in the lvb, and only check for
unlinked inodes if it will find some.

The first time a resource group is locked, the lvb must initialized.
Since this involves counting the unlinked inodes in the resource group,
this takes a little extra time.  But after that, if the resource group
is locked with GL_SKIP, the buffer head won't be read in unless it's
actually needed.

Enabling the resource groups lvbs is done via the rgrplvb mount option.  If
this option isn't set, the lvbs will still be set and updated, but they won't
be verfied or used by the filesystem.  To safely turn on this option, all of
the nodes mounting the filesystem must be running code with this patch, and
the filesystem must have been completely unmounted since they were updated.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-06-08 11:50:01 +01:00
Bob Peterson 5407e24229 GFS2: Fold quota data into the reservations struct
This patch moves the ancillary quota data structures into the
block reservations structure. This saves GFS2 some time and
effort in allocating and deallocating the qadata structure.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-06-06 11:20:22 +01:00
Bob Peterson 0a305e4960 GFS2: Extend the life of the reservations
This patch lengthens the lifespan of the reservations structure for
inodes. Before, they were allocated and deallocated for every write
operation. With this patch, they are allocated when the first write
occurs, and deallocated when the last process closes the file.
It's more efficient to do it this way because it saves GFS2 a lot of
unnecessary allocates and frees. It also gives us more flexibility
for the future: (1) we can now fold the qadata structure back into
the structure and save those alloc/frees, (2) we can use this for
multi-block reservations.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-06-06 11:17:59 +01:00
Jan Kara dbd5768f87 vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06 13:43:41 +08:00
Steven Whitehouse 35e478f422 GFS2: Flush pending glock work when evicting an inode
This ensures that we will not try to access the inode thats
being flushed via the glock after it has been freed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-03-07 10:43:02 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 66fc061bda GFS2: FITRIM ioctl support
The FITRIM ioctl provides an alternative way to send discard requests to
the underlying device. Using the discard mount option results in every
freed block generating a discard request to the block device. This can
be slow, since many block devices can only process discard requests of
larger sizes, and also such operations can be time consuming.

Rather than using the discard mount option, FITRIM allows a sweep of the
filesystem on an occasional basis, and also to optionally avoid sending
down discard requests for smaller regions.

In GFS2 FITRIM will work at resource group granularity. There is a flag
for each resource group which keeps track of which resource groups have
been trimmed. This flag is reset whenever a deallocation occurs in the
resource group, and set whenever a successful FITRIM of that resource
group has taken place. This helps to reduce repeated discard requests
for the same block ranges, again improving performance.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-02-28 17:10:21 +00:00
Linus Torvalds 1619ed8f60 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw:
  GFS2: local functions should be static
  GFS2: We only need one ACL getting function
  GFS2: Fix multi-block allocation
  GFS2: decouple quota allocations from block allocations
  GFS2: split function rgblk_search
  GFS2: Fix up "off by one" in the previous patch
  GFS2: move toward a generic multi-block allocator
  GFS2: O_(D)SYNC support for fallocate
  GFS2: remove vestigial al_alloced
  GFS2: combine gfs2_alloc_block and gfs2_alloc_di
  GFS2: Add non-try locks back to get_local_rgrp
  GFS2: f_ra is always valid in dir readahead function
  GFS2: Fix very unlikley memory leak in ACL xattr code
  GFS2: More automated code analysis fixes
  GFS2: Add readahead to sequential directory traversal
  GFS2: Fix up REQ flags
2012-01-08 13:07:54 -08:00
Al Viro 34c80b1d93 vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
Al Viro 6b520e0565 vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors
Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else.  Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:52:40 -05:00
Bob Peterson 564e12b115 GFS2: decouple quota allocations from block allocations
This patch separates the code pertaining to allocations into two
parts: quota-related information and block reservations.
This patch also moves all the block reservation structure allocations to
function gfs2_inplace_reserve to simplify the code, and moves
the frees to function gfs2_inplace_release.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-11-22 10:25:21 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse b5b24d7aeb GFS2: Fix AIL flush issue during fsync
Unfortunately, it is not enough to just ignore locked buffers during
the AIL flush from fsync. We need to be able to ignore all buffers
which are locked, dirty or pinned at this stage as they might have
been added subsequent to the log flush earlier in the fsync function.

In addition, this means that we no longer need to rely on i_mutex to
keep out writes during fsync, so we can, as a side-effect, remove
that protection too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:41 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 54335b1fca GFS2: Cache the most recently used resource group in the inode
This means that after the initial allocation for any inode, the
last used resource group is cached in the inode for future use.
This drastically reduces the number of lookups of resource
groups in the common case, and this the contention on that
data structure.

The allocation algorithm is the same as previously, except that we
always check to see if the goal block is within the cached rgrp
first before going to the rbtree to look one up.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:34 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 8339ee543e GFS2: Make resource groups "append only" during life of fs
Since we have ruled out supporting online filesystem shrink,
it is possible to make the resource group list append only
during the life of a super block. This gives several benefits:

Firstly, we only need to read new rindex elements as they are added
rather than needing to reread the whole rindex file each time one
element is added.

Secondly, the rindex glock can be held for much shorter periods of
time, and is completely removed from the fast path for allocations.
The lock is taken in shared mode only when updating the resource
groups when the first allocation occurs, and after a grow has
taken place.

Thirdly, this results in a reduction in code size, and everything
gets a lot simpler to understand in this area.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:33 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse ab9bbda020 GFS2: Use ->dirty_inode()
The aim of this patch is to use the newly enhanced ->dirty_inode()
super block operation to deal with atime updates, rather than
piggy backing that code into ->write_inode() as is currently
done.

The net result is a simplification of the code in various places
and a reduction of the number of gfs2_dinode_out() calls since
this is now implied by ->dirty_inode().

Some of the mark_inode_dirty() calls have been moved under glocks
in order to take advantage of then being able to avoid locking in
->dirty_inode() when we already have suitable locks.

One consequence is that generic_write_end() now correctly deals
with file size updates, so that we do not need a separate check
for that afterwards. This also, indirectly, means that fdatasync
should work correctly on GFS2 - the current code always syncs the
metadata whether it needs to or not.

Has survived testing with postmark (with and without atime) and
also fsx.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:26 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 40ac218f52 GFS2: Fix inode allocation error path
If we have got far enough through the inode allocation code
path that an inode has already been allocated, then we must
call iput to dispose of it, if an error occurs during a
later part of the process. This will always be the final iput
since there will be no other references to the inode.

Unlike when the inode has been unlinked, its block state will
be GFS2_BLKST_INODE rather than GFS2_BLKST_UNLINKED so we need
to skip the test in ->evict_inode() for this one case in order
to ensure that it will be deallocated correctly. This patch adds
a new flag in order to ensure that this will happen correctly.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:23 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 1d4ec642d9 GFS2: Make atime checks more efficient
We do not need to start a transaction unless the atime
check has proved positive. Also if we are going to flush
the complete ail list anyway, we might as well skip the
writeback for this specific inode's metadata, since that
will be done as part of the ail writeback process in an
order offering potentially more efficient I/O.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:21 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 17d539f049 GFS2: Cache dir hash table in a contiguous buffer
This patch adds a cache for the hash table to the directory code
in order to help simplify the way in which the hash table is
accessed. This is intended to be a first step towards introducing
some performance improvements in the directory code.

There are two follow ups that I'm hoping to see fairly shortly. One
is to simplify the hash table reading code now that we always read the
complete hash table, whether we want one entry or all of them. The
other is to introduce readahead on the heads of the hash chains
which are referred to from the table.

The hash table is a maximum of 128k in size, so it is not worth trying
to read it in small chunks.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-07-15 09:31:48 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 380f7c65a7 GFS2: Resolve inode eviction and ail list interaction bug
This patch contains a few misc fixes which resolve a recently
reported issue. This patch has been a real team effort and has
received a lot of testing.

The first issue is that the ail lock needs to be held over a few
more operations. The lock thats added into gfs2_releasepage() may
possibly be a candidate for replacing with RCU at some future
point, but at this stage we've gone for the obvious fix.

The second issue is that gfs2_write_inode() can end up calling
a glock recursively when called from gfs2_evict_inode() via the
syncing code, so it needs a guard added.

The third issue is that we either need to not truncate the metadata
pages of inodes which have zero link count, but which we cannot
deallocate due to them still being in use by other nodes, or we need
to ensure that those pages have all made it through the journal and
ail lists first. This patch takes the former approach, but the
latter has also been tested and there is nothing to choose between
them performance-wise. So again, we could revise that decision
in the future.

Also, the inode eviction process is now better documented.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Barry J. Marson <bmarson@redhat.com>
Reported-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2011-07-14 08:59:44 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 9eed04cd99 GFS2: Move final part of inode.c into super.c
Now inode.c is empty.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-09 16:45:38 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 94fb763b1a GFS2: Remove gfs2_dinode_print() function
This function was intended for debugging purposes, but it is not very
useful. If we want to know what is on disk then all we need is a
block number and gfs2_edit can give us much better information about
what is there. Otherwise, if we are interested in what is stored in
the in-core inode, it doesn't help us out there either.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-09 16:44:29 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 4667a0ec32 GFS2: Make writeback more responsive to system conditions
This patch adds writeback_control to writing back the AIL
list. This means that we can then take advantage of the
information we get in ->write_inode() in order to set off
some pre-emptive writeback.

In addition, the AIL code is cleaned up a bit to make it
a bit simpler to understand.

There is still more which can usefully be done in this area,
but this is a good start at least.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-04-20 09:01:37 +01:00