The delaylog mode has been the default for a long time, and the nodelaylog
option has been scheduled for removal in Linux 3.3. Remove it and code
only used by it now that we have opened the 3.3 window.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Apply the scheme used in log_regrant_write_log_space to wake up any other
threads waiting for log space before the newly added one to
log_regrant_write_log_space as well, and factor the code into readable
helpers. For each of the queues we have add two helpers:
- one to try to wake up all waiting threads. This helper will also be
usable by xfs_log_move_tail once we remove the current opportunistic
wakeups in it.
- one to sleep on t_wait until enough log space is available, loosely
modelled after Linux waitqueues.
And use them to reimplement the guts of log_regrant_write_log_space and
log_regrant_write_log_space. These two function now use one and the same
algorithm for waiting on log space instead of subtly different ones before,
with an option to completely unify them in the near future.
Also move the filesystem shutdown handling to the common caller given
that we had to touch it anyway.
Based on hard debugging and an earlier patch from
Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The log item ops aren't nessecarily the biggest exploit vector, but marking
them const is easy enough. Also remove the unused xfs_item_ops_t typedef
while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Instead of passing the block number and mount structure explicitly
get them off the bp and fix make the argument order more natural.
Also move it to xfs_buf.c and stop printing the device name given
that we already get the fs name as part of xfs_alert, and we know
what device is operates on because of the caller that gets printed,
finally rename it to xfs_buf_ioerror_alert and pass __func__ as
argument where it makes sense.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Change _xfs_buf_initialize to allocate the buffer directly and rename it to
xfs_buf_alloc now that is the only buffer allocation routine. Also remove
the xfs_buf_deallocate wrapper around the kmem_zone_free calls for buffers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definition and usages of the macro XFS_BUF_SET_PTR.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definition and usages of the macro XFS_BUF_PTR.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definitions and uses of the macros XFS_BUF_BUSY,
XFS_BUF_UNBUSY, and XFS_BUF_ISBUSY.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the definitions and usage of the macros XFS_BUF_ERROR,
XFS_BUF_GETERROR and XFS_BUF_ISERROR.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Replace the typeless b_fspriv2 and the ugly macros around it with a properly
typed transaction pointer. As a fallout the log buffer state debug checks
are also removed. We could have kept them using casts, but as they do
not have a real purpose we can as well just remove them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
There is no need for a pre-flush when doing writing the second part of a
split log buffer, and if we are using an external log there is no need
to do a full cache flush of the log device at all given that all writes
to it use the FUA flag.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Remove the unused and misnamed _XBF_RUN_QUEUES flag, rename XBF_LOG_BUFFER
to the more fitting XBF_SYNCIO, and split XBF_ORDERED into XBF_FUA and
XBF_FLUSH to allow more fine grained control over the bio flags. Also
cleanup processing of the flags in _xfs_buf_ioapply to make more sense,
and renumber the sparse flag number space to group flags by purpose.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
All other xfs_buf_get/read-like helpers return the buffer locked, make sure
xfs_buf_get_uncached isn't different for no reason. Half of the callers
already lock it directly after, and the others probably should also keep
it locked if only for consistency and beeing able to use xfs_buf_rele,
but I'll leave that for later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Rename xfs_buf_cond_lock and reverse it's return value to fit most other
trylock operations in the Kernel and XFS (with the exception of down_trylock,
after which xfs_buf_cond_lock was modelled), and replace xfs_buf_lock_val
with an xfs_buf_islocked for use in asserts, or and opencoded variant in
tracing. remove the XFS_BUF_* wrappers for all the locking helpers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Micro-optimize various comparisms by always byteswapping the constant
instead of the variable, which allows to do the swap at compile instead
of runtime.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
There's no reason not to support cache flushing on external log devices.
The only thing this really requires is flushing the data device first
both in fsync and log commits. A side effect is that we also have to
remove the barrier write test during mount, which has been superflous
since the new FLUSH+FUA code anyway. Also use the chance to flush the
RT subvolume write cache before the fsync commit, which is required
for correct semantics.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When we free a vmapped buffer, we need to ensure the vmap address
and length we free is the same as when it was allocated. In various
places in the log code we change the memory the buffer is pointing
to before issuing IO, but we never reset the buffer to point back to
it's original memory (or no memory, if that is the case for the
buffer).
As a result, when we free the buffer it points to memory that is
owned by something else and attempts to unmap and free it. Because
the range does not match any known mapped range, it can trigger
BUG_ON() traps in the vmap code, and potentially corrupt the vmap
area tracking.
Fix this by always resetting these buffers to their original state
before freeing them.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Update the extent tree in case we have to reuse a busy extent, so that it
always is kept uptodate. This is done by replacing the busy list searches
with a new xfs_alloc_busy_reuse helper, which updates the busy extent tree
in case of a reuse. This allows us to allow reusing metadata extents
unconditionally, and thus avoid log forces especially for allocation btree
blocks.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
On the Power platform, the log tail debug checks fire excessively
causing the system to panic early in testing. The debug checks are
known to be racy, though on x86_64 there is no evidence that they
trigger at all.
We want to keep the checks active on debug systems to alert us to
problems with log space accounting, but we need to reduce the impact
of a racy check on testing on the Power platform.
As a result, convert the ASSERT conditions to warnings, and
allow them to fire only once per filesystem mount. This will prevent
false positives from interfering with testing, whilst still
providing us with the indication that they may be a problem with log
space accounting should that occur.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When we are short on memory, we want to expedite the cleaning of
dirty objects. Hence when we run short on memory, we need to kick
the AIL flushing into action to clean as many dirty objects as
quickly as possible. To implement this, sample the lsn of the log
item at the head of the AIL and use that as the push target for the
AIL flush.
Further, we keep items in the AIL that are dirty that are not
tracked any other way, so we can get objects sitting in the AIL that
don't get written back until the AIL is pushed. Hence to get the
filesystem to the idle state, we might need to push the AIL to flush
out any remaining dirty objects sitting in the AIL. This requires
the same push mechanism as the reclaim push.
This patch also renames xfs_trans_ail_tail() to xfs_ail_min_lsn() to
match the new xfs_ail_max_lsn() function introduced in this patch.
Similarly for xfs_trans_ail_push -> xfs_ail_push.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Convert the xfs log operations to use the new error logging
interfaces. This removes the xlog_{warn,panic} wrappers and makes
almost all errors emit the device they belong to instead of just
refering to "XFS".
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
We currently have a global error message buffer in cmn_err that is
protected by a spin lock that disables interrupts. Recently there
have been reports of NMI timeouts occurring when the console is
being flooded by SCSI error reports due to cmn_err() getting stuck
trying to print to the console while holding this lock (i.e. with
interrupts disabled). The NMI watchdog is seeing this CPU as
non-responding and so is triggering a panic. While the trigger for
the reported case is SCSI errors, pretty much anything that spams
the kernel log could cause this to occur.
Realistically the only reason that we have the intemediate message
buffer is to prepend the correct kernel log level prefix to the log
message. The only reason we have the lock is to protect the global
message buffer and the only reason the message buffer is global is
to keep it off the stack. Hence if we can avoid needing a global
message buffer we avoid needing the lock, and we can do this with a
small amount of cleanup and some preprocessor tricks:
1. clean up xfs_cmn_err() panic mask functionality to avoid
needing debug code in xfs_cmn_err()
2. remove the couple of "!" message prefixes that still exist that
the existing cmn_err() code steps over.
3. redefine CE_* levels directly to KERN_*
4. redefine cmn_err() and friends to use printk() directly
via variable argument length macros.
By doing this, we can completely remove the cmn_err() code and the
lock that is causing the problems, and rely solely on printk()
serialisation to ensure that we don't get garbled messages.
A series of followup patches is really needed to clean up all the
cmn_err() calls and related messages properly, but that results in a
series that is not easily back portable to enterprise kernels. Hence
this initial fix is only to address the direct problem in the lowest
impact way possible.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The only thing that the grant lock remains to protect is the grant head
manipulations when adding or removing space from the log. These calculations
are already based on atomic variables, so we can already update them safely
without locks. However, the grant head manpulations require atomic multi-step
calculations to be executed, which the algorithms currently don't allow.
To make these multi-step calculations atomic, convert the algorithms to
compare-and-exchange loops on the atomic variables. That is, we sample the old
value, perform the calculation and use atomic64_cmpxchg() to attempt to update
the head with the new value. If the head has not changed since we sampled it,
it will succeed and we are done. Otherwise, we rerun the calculation again from
a new sample of the head.
This allows us to remove the grant lock from around all the grant head space
manipulations, and that effectively removes the grant lock from the log
completely. Hence we can remove the grant lock completely from the log at this
point.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The log grant ticket wait queues are currently protected by the log
grant lock. However, the queues are functionally independent from
each other, and operations on them only require serialisation
against other queue operations now that all of the other log
variables they use are atomic values.
Hence, we can make them independent of the grant lock by introducing
new locks just to protect the lists operations. because the lists
are independent, we can use a lock per list and ensure that reserve
and write head queuing do not contend.
To ensure forced shutdowns work correctly in conjunction with the
new fast paths, ensure that we check whether the log has been shut
down in the grant functions once we hold the relevant spin locks but
before we go to sleep. This is needed to co-ordinate correctly with
the wakeups that are issued on the ticket queues so we don't leave
any processes sleeping on the queues during a shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Convert the log grant heads to atomic64_t types in preparation for
converting the accounting algorithms to atomic operations. his patch
just converts the variables; the algorithmic changes are in a
separate patch for clarity.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
log->l_tail_lsn is currently protected by the log grant lock. The
lock is only needed for serialising readers against writers, so we
don't really need the lock if we make the l_tail_lsn variable an
atomic. Converting the l_tail_lsn variable to an atomic64_t means we
can start to peel back the grant lock from various operations.
Also, provide functions to safely crack an atomic LSN variable into
it's component pieces and to recombined the components into an
atomic variable. Use them where appropriate.
This also removes the need for explicitly holding a spinlock to read
the l_tail_lsn on 32 bit platforms.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
log->l_last_sync_lsn is updated in only one critical spot - log
buffer Io completion - and is protected by the grant lock here. This
requires the grant lock to be taken for every log buffer IO
completion. Converting the l_last_sync_lsn variable to an atomic64_t
means that we do not need to take the grant lock in log buffer IO
completion to update it.
This also removes the need for explicitly holding a spinlock to read
the l_last_sync_lsn on 32 bit platforms.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The xlog_grant_push_ail() currently takes the grant lock internally to sample
the tail lsn, last sync lsn and the reserve grant head. Most of the callers
already hold the grant lock but have to drop it before calling
xlog_grant_push_ail(). This is a left over from when the AIL tail pushing was
done in line and hence xlog_grant_push_ail had to drop the grant lock. AIL push
is now done in another thread and hence we can safely hold the grant lock over
the entire xlog_grant_push_ail call.
Push the grant lock outside of xlog_grant_push_ail() to simplify the locking
and synchronisation needed for tail pushing. This will reduce traffic on the
grant lock by itself, but this is only one step in preparing for the complete
removal of the grant lock.
While there, clean up the formatting of xlog_grant_push_ail() to match the
rest of the XFS code.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The log grant queues are one of the few places left using sv_t
constructs for waiting. Given we are touching this code, we should
convert them to plain wait queues. While there, convert all the
other sv_t users in the log code as well.
Seeing as this removes the last users of the sv_t type, remove the
header file defining the wrapper and the fragments that still
reference it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Prepare for switching the grant heads to atomic variables by
combining the two 32 bit values that make up the grant head into a
single 64 bit variable. Provide wrapper functions to combine and
split the grant heads appropriately for calculations and use them as
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The log grant space calculations are repeated for both write and
reserve grant heads. To make it simpler to convert the calculations
toa different algorithm, factor them so both the gratn heads use the
same calculation functions. Once this is done we can drop the
wrappers that are used in only a couple of place to update both
grant heads at once as they don't provide any particular value.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Factor repeated debug code out of grant head manipulation functions into a
separate function. This removes ifdef DEBUG spagetti from the code and makes
the code easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The grant write and reserve queues use a roll-your-own double linked
list, so convert it to a standard list_head structure and convert
all the list traversals to use list_for_each_entry(). We can also
get rid of the XLOG_TIC_IN_Q flag as we can use the list_empty()
check to tell if the ticket is in a list or not.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (36 commits)
xfs: semaphore cleanup
xfs: Extend project quotas to support 32bit project ids
xfs: remove xfs_buf wrappers
xfs: remove xfs_cred.h
xfs: remove xfs_globals.h
xfs: remove xfs_version.h
xfs: remove xfs_refcache.h
xfs: fix the xfs_trans_committed
xfs: remove unused t_callback field in struct xfs_trans
xfs: fix bogus m_maxagi check in xfs_iget
xfs: do not use xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch for per-cpu counters
xfs: do not use xfs_mod_incore_sb for per-cpu counters
xfs: remove XFS_MOUNT_NO_PERCPU_SB
xfs: pack xfs_buf structure more tightly
xfs: convert buffer cache hash to rbtree
xfs: serialise inode reclaim within an AG
xfs: batch inode reclaim lookup
xfs: implement batched inode lookups for AG walking
xfs: split out inode walk inode grabbing
xfs: split inode AG walking into separate code for reclaim
...
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>
xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() is really used to allocate a buffer that is
uncached. While it is not directly assigned a disk address, the fact
that they are not cached is a more important distinction. With the
upcoming uncached buffer read primitive, we should be consistent
with this disctinction.
While there, make page allocation in xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() safe
against memory reclaim re-entrancy into the filesystem by allowing
a flags parameter to be passed.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Switch to the WRITE_FLUSH_FUA flag for log writes and remove the EOPNOTSUPP
detection for barriers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to
ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure
when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by
grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before
pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log
forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not.
As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly
slower with delayed logging than without.
To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to
the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do
unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry
about dereferencing context structures that may have already been
freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing
code and only call into the push code if the current context matches
the sequence we need to force.
By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the
sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if
the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip
and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls.
The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away -
this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s
to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging
which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[hch: dropped a few hunks that need structural changes instead]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We do need a barrier for the first buffer of a split log write.
Otherwise we might incorrectly stamp the tail LSN into transactions
in the first part of the split write, or not flush data I/O before
updating the inode size.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
By making this member a void pointer we can get rid of a lot of pointless
casts.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
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>
If the filesystem is being shut down and the there is no log error,
the current code forces out the current log buffers. This code now needs
to push the CIL before it forces out the log buffers to acheive the same
result.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as
such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount
option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that
should not be used in production yet.
We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not
yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List
(CIL) is for.
The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log
vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit
Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable
this tracking.
To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed
logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context
for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction
completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space
log required/used by the context checkpoint.
To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item,
rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new
log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to
allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the
second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed
to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL.
Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just
a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly
more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point
back at the memory buffer we just copied into.
This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not
already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be
pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it
again.
The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space
the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the
transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex
becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the
checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update
all the tickets, counters, etc correctly.
Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach
the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live
until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in
time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time.
Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space
used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the
space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be
triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event.
Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the
transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it
to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a
commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket
and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during
Io completion to complete the checkpoint.
We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight
checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure
that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct
sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The
second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only
flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with.
To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the
checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for
the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides
the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Christoph Hellwig