22 Jun, 2012
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Revert commit 1307bbd, which uses the s_umount semaphore to provide
exclusion between xfs_sync_worker and unmount, in favor of shutting down
the sync worker before freeing the log in xfs_log_unmount. This is a
cleaner way of resolving the race between xfs_sync_worker and unmount
than using s_umount.Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
16 May, 2012
1 commit
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xfs_sync_worker checks the MS_ACTIVE flag in s_flags to avoid doing
work during mount and unmount. This flag can be cleared by unmount
after the xfs_sync_worker checks it but before the work is completed.
The has caused crashes in the completion handler for the dummy
transaction commited by xfs_sync_worker:PID: 27544 TASK: ffff88013544e040 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "kworker/3:0"
#0 [ffff88016fdff930] machine_kexec at ffffffff810244e9
#1 [ffff88016fdff9a0] crash_kexec at ffffffff8108d053
#2 [ffff88016fdffa70] oops_end at ffffffff813ad1b8
#3 [ffff88016fdffaa0] no_context at ffffffff8102bd48
#4 [ffff88016fdffaf0] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8102c04d
#5 [ffff88016fdffb40] bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8102c12e
#6 [ffff88016fdffb50] do_page_fault at ffffffff813afaee
#7 [ffff88016fdffc60] page_fault at ffffffff813ac635
[exception RIP: xlog_get_lowest_lsn+0x30]
RIP: ffffffffa04a9910 RSP: ffff88016fdffd10 RFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffc90014e48000 RBX: ffff88014d879980 RCX: ffff88014d879980
RDX: ffff8802214ee4c0 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88016fdffd10 R8: ffff88014d879a80 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8802214ee400
R13: ffff88014d879980 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88022fd96605
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#8 [ffff88016fdffd18] xlog_state_do_callback at ffffffffa04aa186 [xfs]
#9 [ffff88016fdffd98] xlog_state_done_syncing at ffffffffa04aa568 [xfs]Protect xfs_sync_worker by using the s_umount semaphore at the read
level to provide exclusion with unmount while work is progressing.Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
15 May, 2012
7 commits
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With the removal of xfs_rw.h and other changes over time, xfs_bit.h
is being included in many files that don't actually need it. Clean
up the includes as necessary.Also move the only-used-once xfs_ialloc_find_free() static inline
function out of a header file that is widely included to reduce
the number of needless dependencies on xfs_bit.h.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
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xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk() can be called from different contexts so
if the item is not in the AIL we need different shutdown for each
context. Pass in the shutdown method needed so the correct action
can be taken.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
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Queue delwri buffers on a local on-stack list instead of a per-buftarg one,
and write back the buffers per-process instead of by waking up xfsbufd.This is now easily doable given that we have very few places left that write
delwri buffers:- log recovery:
Only done at mount time, and already forcing out the buffers
synchronously using xfs_flush_buftarg- quotacheck:
Same story.- dquot reclaim:
Writes out dirty dquots on the LRU under memory pressure. We might
want to look into doing more of this via xfsaild, but it's already
more optimal than the synchronous inode reclaim that writes each
buffer synchronously.- xfsaild:
This is the main beneficiary of the change. By keeping a local list
of buffers to write we reduce latency of writing out buffers, and
more importably we can remove all the delwri list promotions which
were hitting the buffer cache hard under sustained metadata loads.The implementation is very straight forward - xfs_buf_delwri_queue now gets
a new list_head pointer that it adds the delwri buffers to, and all callers
need to eventually submit the list using xfs_buf_delwi_submit or
xfs_buf_delwi_submit_nowait. Buffers that already are on a delwri list are
skipped in xfs_buf_delwri_queue, assuming they already are on another delwri
list. The biggest change to pass down the buffer list was done to the AIL
pushing. Now that we operate on buffers the trylock, push and pushbuf log
item methods are merged into a single push routine, which tries to lock the
item, and if possible add the buffer that needs writeback to the buffer list.
This leads to much simpler code than the previous split but requires the
individual IOP_PUSH instances to unlock and reacquire the AIL around calls
to blocking routines.Given that xfsailds now also handle writing out buffers, the conditions for
log forcing and the sleep times needed some small changes. The most
important one is that we consider an AIL busy as long we still have buffers
to push, and the other one is that we do increment the pushed LSN for
buffers that are under flushing at this moment, but still count them towards
the stuck items for restart purposes. Without this we could hammer on stuck
items without ever forcing the log and not make progress under heavy random
delete workloads on fast flash storage devices.[ Dave Chinner:
- rebase on previous patches.
- improved comments for XBF_DELWRI_Q handling
- fix XBF_ASYNC handling in queue submission (test 106 failure)
- rename delwri submit function buffer list parameters for clarity
- xfs_efd_item_push() should return XFS_ITEM_PINNED ]Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
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Instead of writing the buffer directly from inside xfs_iflush return it to
the caller and let the caller decide what to do with the buffer. Also
remove the pincount check in xfs_iflush that all non-blocking callers already
implement and the now unused flags parameter.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers -
We already flush dirty inodes throug the AIL regularly, there is no reason
to have second thread compete with it and disturb the I/O pattern. We still
do write inodes when doing a synchronous reclaim from the shrinker or during
unmount for now.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers -
Now that we write back all metadata either synchronously or through
the AIL we can simply implement metadata freezing in terms of
emptying the AIL.The implementation for this is fairly simply and straight-forward:
A new routine is added that asks the xfsaild to push the AIL to the
end and waits for it to complete and send a wakeup. The routine will
then loop if the AIL is not actually empty, and continue to do so
until the AIL is compeltely empty.We keep an inode reclaim pass in the freeze process to avoid having
memory pressure have to reclaim inodes that require dirtying the
filesystem to be reclaimed after the freeze has completed. This
means we can also treat unmount in the exact same way as freeze.As an upside we can now remove the radix tree based inode writeback
and xfs_unmountfs_writesb.[ Dave Chinner:
- Cleaned up commit message.
- Added inode reclaim passes back into freeze.
- Cleaned up wakeup mechanism to avoid the use of a new
sleep counter variable. ]Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
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If a filesystem has been forced shutdown we are never going to write inodes
to disk, which means the inode items will stay in the AIL until we free
the inode. Currently that is not a problem, but a pending change requires us
to empty the AIL before shutting down the filesystem. In that case leaving
the inode in the AIL is lethal. Make sure to remove the log item from the AIL
to allow emptying the AIL on shutdown filesystems.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
18 Apr, 2012
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Because the mount process can run a quotacheck and consume lots of
inodes, we need to be able to run periodic inode reclaim during the
mount process. This will prevent running the system out of memory
during quota checks.This essentially reverts 2bcf6e97, but that is safe to do now that
the quota sync code that was causing problems during long quotacheck
executions is now gone.The reclaim work is currently protected from running during the
unmount process by a check against MS_ACTIVE. Unfortunately, this
also means that the reclaim work cannot run during mount. The
unmount process should stop the reclaim cleanly before freeing
anything that the reclaim work depends on, so there is no need to
have this guard in place.Also, the inode reclaim work is demand driven, so there is no need
to start it immediately during mount. It will be started the moment
an inode is queued for reclaim, so qutoacheck will trigger it just
fine.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
14 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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Timestamps on regular files are the last metadata that XFS does not update
transactionally. Now that we use the delaylog mode exclusively and made
the log scode scale extremly well there is no need to bypass that code for
timestamp updates. Logging all updates allows to drop a lot of code, and
will allow for further performance improvements later on.Note that this patch drops optimized handling of fdatasync - it will be
added back in a separate commit.Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
26 Feb, 2012
1 commit
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At the end of xfs_reclaim_inode(), the inode is locked in order to
we wait for a possible concurrent lookup to complete before the
inode is freed. This synchronization step was taking both the ILOCK
and the IOLOCK, but the latter was causing lockdep to produce
reports of the possibility of deadlock.It turns out that there's no need to acquire the IOLOCK at this
point anyway. It may have been required in some earlier version of
the code, but there should be no need to take the IOLOCK in
xfs_iget(), so there's no (longer) any need to get it here for
synchronization. Add an assertion in xfs_iget() as a reminder
of this assumption.Dave Chinner diagnosed this on IRC, and Christoph Hellwig suggested
no longer including the IOLOCK. I just put together the patch.Signed-off-by: Alex Elder
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
18 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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We almost never block on i_flock, the exception is synchronous inode
flushing. Instead of bloating the inode with a 16/24-byte completion
that we abuse as a semaphore just implement it as a bitlock that uses
a bit waitqueue for the rare sleeping path. This primarily is a
tradeoff between a much smaller inode and a faster non-blocking
path vs faster wakeups, and we are much better off with the former.A small downside is that we will lose lockdep checking for i_flock, but
given that it's always taken inside the ilock that should be acceptable.Note that for example the inode writeback locking is implemented in a
very similar way.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
09 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (22 commits)
xfs: mark the xfssyncd workqueue as non-reentrant
xfs: simplify xfs_qm_detach_gdquots
xfs: fix acl count validation in xfs_acl_from_disk()
xfs: remove unused XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit
xfs: remove XFS_QMOPT_DQSUSER
xfs: kill xfs_qm_idtodq
xfs: merge xfs_qm_dqinit_core into the only caller
xfs: add a xfs_dqhold helper
xfs: simplify xfs_qm_dqattach_grouphint
xfs: nest qm_dqfrlist_lock inside the dquot qlock
xfs: flatten the dquot lock ordering
xfs: implement lazy removal for the dquot freelist
xfs: remove XFS_DQ_INACTIVE
xfs: cleanup xfs_qm_dqlookup
xfs: cleanup dquot locking helpers
xfs: remove the sync_mode argument to xfs_qm_dqflush_all
xfs: remove xfs_qm_sync
xfs: make sure to really flush all dquots in xfs_qm_quotacheck
xfs: untangle SYNC_WAIT and SYNC_TRYLOCK meanings for xfs_qm_dqflush
xfs: remove the lid_size field in struct log_item_desc
...Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
24 Dec, 2011
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Since Linux 2.6.36 the writeback code has introduces various measures for
live lock prevention during sync(). Unfortunately some of these are
actively harmful for the XFS model, where the inode gets marked dirty for
metadata from the data I/O handler.The older_than_this checks that are now more strictly enforced since
writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback
by only calling into __writeback_inodes_sb and thus only sampling the
current cut off time once. But on a slow enough devices the previous
asynchronous sync pass might not have fully completed yet, and thus XFS
might mark metadata dirty only after that sampling of the cut off time for
the blocking pass already happened. I have not myself reproduced this
myself on a real system, but by introducing artificial delay into the
XFS I/O completion workqueues it can be reproduced easily.Fix this by iterating over all XFS inodes in ->sync_fs and log all that
are dirty. This might log inode that only got redirtied after the
previous pass, but given how cheap delayed logging of inodes is it
isn't a major concern for performance.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Tested-by: Mark Tinguely
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
13 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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Now that we can't have any dirty dquots around that aren't in the AIL we
can get rid of the explicit dquot syncing from xfssyncd and xfs_fs_sync_fs
and instead rely on AIL pushing to write out any quota updates.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
30 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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If we are doing synchronous inode reclaim we block the VM from making
progress in memory reclaim. So if we encouter a flush locked inode
promote it in the delwri list and wake up xfsbufd to write it out now.
Without this we can get hangs of up to 30 seconds during workloads hitting
synchronous inode reclaim.The scheme is copied from what we do for dquot reclaims.
Reported-by: Simon Kirby
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Tested-by: Simon Kirby
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
12 Oct, 2011
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder -
We now have an i_dio_count filed and surrounding infrastructure to wait
for direct I/O completion instead of i_icount, and we have never needed
to iocount waits for buffered I/O given that we only set the page uptodate
after finishing all required work. Thus remove i_iocount, and replace
the actually needed waits with calls to inode_dio_wait.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
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Remove the xfs_buf_relse from xfs_bwrite and let the caller handle it to
mirror the delwri and read paths.Also remove the mount pointer passed to xfs_bwrite, which is superflous now
that we have a mount pointer in the buftarg.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder
13 Aug, 2011
1 commit
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Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the
annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code. Besides the large
amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few
files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary
sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from
kernel/.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder