31 May, 2019
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has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
30 Nov, 2018
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It was observed that a process blocked indefintely in
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page(), waiting for FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP
to be cleared via fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup().At this time, ->backing_objects was empty, which would normaly prevent
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page() from getting to the point of waiting.
This implies that ->backing_objects was cleared *after*
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page was was entered.When an object is "killed" and then "dropped",
FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP is cleared in fscache_lookup_failure(), then
KILL_OBJECT and DROP_OBJECT are "called" and only in DROP_OBJECT is
->backing_objects cleared. This leaves a window where
something else can set FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP and
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page() can start waiting, before
->backing_objects is clearedThere is some uncertainty in this analysis, but it seems to be fit the
observations. Adding the wake in this patch will be handled correctly
by __fscache_read_or_alloc_page(), as it checks if ->backing_objects
is empty again, after waiting.Customer which reported the hang, also report that the hang cannot be
reproduced with this fix.The backtrace for the blocked process looked like:
PID: 29360 TASK: ffff881ff2ac0f80 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "zsh"
#0 [ffff881ff43efbf8] schedule at ffffffff815e56f1
#1 [ffff881ff43efc58] bit_wait at ffffffff815e64ed
#2 [ffff881ff43efc68] __wait_on_bit at ffffffff815e61b8
#3 [ffff881ff43efca0] out_of_line_wait_on_bit at ffffffff815e625e
#4 [ffff881ff43efd08] fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup at ffffffffa04f2e8f [fscache]
#5 [ffff881ff43efd18] __fscache_read_or_alloc_page at ffffffffa04f2ffe [fscache]
#6 [ffff881ff43efd58] __nfs_readpage_from_fscache at ffffffffa0679668 [nfs]
#7 [ffff881ff43efd78] nfs_readpage at ffffffffa067092b [nfs]
#8 [ffff881ff43efda0] generic_file_read_iter at ffffffff81187a73
#9 [ffff881ff43efe50] nfs_file_read at ffffffffa066544b [nfs]
#10 [ffff881ff43efe70] __vfs_read at ffffffff811fc756
#11 [ffff881ff43efee8] vfs_read at ffffffff811fccfa
#12 [ffff881ff43eff18] sys_read at ffffffff811fda62
#13 [ffff881ff43eff50] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath at ffffffff815e986eSigned-off-by: NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: David Howells
25 Jul, 2018
1 commit
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When a cookie is allocated that causes fscache_object structs to be
allocated, those objects are initialised with the cookie pointer, but
aren't blessed with a ref on that cookie unless the attachment is
successfully completed in fscache_attach_object().If attachment fails because the parent object was dying or there was a
collision, fscache_attach_object() returns without incrementing the cookie
counter - but upon failure of this function, the object is released which
then puts the cookie, whether or not a ref was taken on the cookie.Fix this by taking a ref on the cookie when it is assigned in
fscache_object_init(), even when we're creating a root object.Analysis from Kiran Kumar:
This bug has been seen in 4.4.0-124-generic #148-Ubuntu kernel
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1776277
fscache cookie ref count updated incorrectly during fscache object
allocation resulting in following Oops.kernel BUG at /build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/internal.h:321!
kernel BUG at /build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/cookie.c:639![Cause]
Two threads are trying to do operate on a cookie and two objects.(1) One thread tries to unmount the filesystem and in process goes over a
huge list of objects marking them dead and deleting the objects.
cookie->usage is also decremented in following path:nfs_fscache_release_super_cookie
-> __fscache_relinquish_cookie
->__fscache_cookie_put
->BUG_ON(atomic_read(&cookie->usage) fscache_object_init
-> assign cookie, but usage not bumped.
2) fscache_attach_object -> fails in cant_attach_object because the
cookie's backing object or cookie's->parent object are going away
3) fscache_put_object
-> cachefiles_put_object
->fscache_object_destroy
->fscache_cookie_put
->BUG_ON(atomic_read(&cookie->usage)
Signed-off-by: David Howells
12 Apr, 2018
1 commit
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Don't open-code accesses to data structure internals.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton
Cc: Darrick J. Wong
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi
Cc: Will Deacon
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Apr, 2018
1 commit
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Pass the object size in to fscache_acquire_cookie() and
fscache_write_page() rather than the netfs providing a callback by which it
can be received. This makes it easier to update the size of the object
when a new page is written that extends the object.The current object size is also passed by fscache to the check_aux
function, obviating the need to store it in the aux data.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker
Tested-by: Steve Dickson
04 Apr, 2018
3 commits
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Attach copies of the index key and auxiliary data to the fscache cookie so
that:(1) The callbacks to the netfs for this stuff can be eliminated. This
can simplify things in the cache as the information is still
available, even after the cache has relinquished the cookie.(2) Simplifies the locking requirements of accessing the information as we
don't have to worry about the netfs object going away on us.(3) The cache can do lazy updating of the coherency information on disk.
As long as the cache is flushed before reboot/poweroff, there's no
need to update the coherency info on disk every time it changes.(4) Cookies can be hashed or put in a tree as the index key is easily
available. This allows:(a) Checks for duplicate cookies can be made at the top fscache layer
rather than down in the bowels of the cache backend.(b) Caching can be added to a netfs object that has a cookie if the
cache is brought online after the netfs object is allocated.A certain amount of space is made in the cookie for inline copies of the
data, but if it won't fit there, extra memory will be allocated for it.The downside of this is that live cache operation requires more memory.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker
Tested-by: Steve Dickson -
Add more tracepoints to fscache, including:
(*) fscache_page - Tracks netfs pages known to fscache.
(*) fscache_check_page - Tracks the netfs querying whether a page is
pending storage.(*) fscache_wake_cookie - Tracks cookies being woken up after a page
completes/aborts storage in the cache.(*) fscache_op - Tracks operations being initialised.
(*) fscache_wrote_page - Tracks return of the backend write_page op.
(*) fscache_gang_lookup - Tracks lookup of pages to be stored in the write
operation.Signed-off-by: David Howells
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Add some tracepoints to fscache:
(*) fscache_cookie - Tracks a cookie's usage count.
(*) fscache_netfs - Logs registration of a network filesystem, including
the pointer to the cookie allocated.(*) fscache_acquire - Logs cookie acquisition.
(*) fscache_relinquish - Logs cookie relinquishment.
(*) fscache_enable - Logs enablement of a cookie.
(*) fscache_disable - Logs disablement of a cookie.
(*) fscache_osm - Tracks execution of states in the object state machine.
and cachefiles:
(*) cachefiles_ref - Tracks a cachefiles object's usage count.
(*) cachefiles_lookup - Logs result of lookup_one_len().
(*) cachefiles_mkdir - Logs result of vfs_mkdir().
(*) cachefiles_create - Logs result of vfs_create().
(*) cachefiles_unlink - Logs calls to vfs_unlink().
(*) cachefiles_rename - Logs calls to vfs_rename().
(*) cachefiles_mark_active - Logs an object becoming active.
(*) cachefiles_wait_active - Logs a wait for an old object to be
destroyed.(*) cachefiles_mark_inactive - Logs an object becoming inactive.
(*) cachefiles_mark_buried - Logs the burial of an object.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
01 Feb, 2017
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Under some circumstances, an fscache object can become queued such that it
fscache_object_work_func() can be called once the object is in the
OBJECT_DEAD state. This results in the kernel oopsing when it tries to
invoke the handler for the state (which is hard coded to 0x2).The way this comes about is something like the following:
(1) The object dispatcher is processing a work state for an object. This
is done in workqueue context.(2) An out-of-band event comes in that isn't masked, causing the object to
be queued, say EV_KILL.(3) The object dispatcher finishes processing the current work state on
that object and then sees there's another event to process, so,
without returning to the workqueue core, it processes that event too.
It then follows the chain of events that initiates until we reach
OBJECT_DEAD without going through a wait state (such as
WAIT_FOR_CLEARANCE).At this point, object->events may be 0, object->event_mask will be 0
and oob_event_mask will be 0.(4) The object dispatcher returns to the workqueue processor, and in due
course, this sees that the object's work item is still queued and
invokes it again.(5) The current state is a work state (OBJECT_DEAD), so the dispatcher
jumps to it - resulting in an OOPS.When I'm seeing this, the work state in (1) appears to have been either
LOOK_UP_OBJECT or CREATE_OBJECT (object->oob_table is
fscache_osm_lookup_oob).The window for (2) is very small:
(A) object->event_mask is cleared whilst the event dispatch process is
underway - though there's no memory barrier to force this to the top
of the function.The window, therefore is from the time the object was selected by the
workqueue processor and made requeueable to the time the mask was
cleared.(B) fscache_raise_event() will only queue the object if it manages to set
the event bit and the corresponding event_mask bit was set.The enqueuement is then deferred slightly whilst we get a ref on the
object and get the per-CPU variable for workqueue congestion. This
slight deferral slightly increases the probability by allowing extra
time for the workqueue to make the item requeueable.Handle this by giving the dead state a processor function and checking the
for the dead state address rather than seeing if the processor function is
address 0x2. The dead state processor function can then set a flag to
indicate that it's occurred and give a warning if it occurs more than once
per object.If this race occurs, an oops similar to the following is seen (note the RIP
value):BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000002
IP: [] 0x1
PGD 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: ...
CPU: 17 PID: 16077 Comm: kworker/u48:9 Not tainted 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9/ProLiant DL380 Gen9, BIOS P89 12/27/2015
Workqueue: fscache_object fscache_object_work_func [fscache]
task: ffff880302b63980 ti: ffff880717544000 task.ti: ffff880717544000
RIP: 0010:[] [] 0x1
RSP: 0018:ffff880717547df8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: ffffffffa0368640 RBX: ffff880edf7a4480 RCX: dead000000200200
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: ffff880edf7a4480
RBP: ffff880717547e18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: dfc40a25cb3a4510
R10: dfc40a25cb3a4510 R11: 0000000000000400 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff880edf7a4510 R14: ffff8817f6153400 R15: 0000000000000600
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88181f420000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 000000000194a000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
ffffffffa0363695 ffff880edf7a4510 ffff88093f16f900 ffff8817faa4ec00
ffff880717547e60 ffffffff8109d5db 00000000faa4ec18 0000000000000000
ffff8817faa4ec18 ffff88093f16f930 ffff880302b63980 ffff88093f16f900
Call Trace:
[] ? fscache_object_work_func+0xa5/0x200 [fscache]
[] process_one_work+0x17b/0x470
[] worker_thread+0x21c/0x400
[] ? rescuer_thread+0x400/0x400
[] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
[] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
[] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Jeremy McNicoll
Tested-by: Frank Sorenson
Tested-by: Benjamin Coddington
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington
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fscache_disable_cookie() needs to clear the outstanding writes on the
cookie it's disabling because they cannot be completed after.Without this, fscache_nfs_open_file() gets stuck because it disables the
cookie when the file is opened for writing but can't uncache the pages till
afterwards - otherwise there's a race between the open routine and anyone
who already has it open R/O and is still reading from it.Looking in /proc/pid/stack of the offending process shows:
[] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x82/0x9b [fscache]
[] __fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages+0x91/0xe1 [fscache]
[] nfs_fscache_open_file+0x59/0x9e [nfs]
[] nfs4_file_open+0x17f/0x1b8 [nfsv4]
[] do_dentry_open+0x16d/0x2b7
[] vfs_open+0x5c/0x65
[] path_openat+0x785/0x8fb
[] do_filp_open+0x48/0x9e
[] do_sys_open+0x13b/0x1cb
[] SyS_open+0x19/0x1b
[] do_syscall_64+0x80/0x17a
[] return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x7a
[] 0xffffffffffffffffReported-by: Jianhong Yin
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Jeff Layton
Acked-by: Steve Dickson
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
02 Apr, 2015
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Any time an incomplete operation is cancelled, the operation cancellation
function needs to be called to clean up. This is currently being passed
directly to some of the functions that might want to call it, but not all.Instead, pass the cancellation method pointer to the fscache_operation_init()
and have that cache it in the operation struct. Further, plug in a dummy
cancellation handler if the caller declines to set one as this allows us to
call the function unconditionally (the extra overhead isn't worth bothering
about as we don't expect to be calling this typically).The cancellation method must thence be called everywhere the CANCELLED state
is set. Note that we call it *before* setting the CANCELLED state such that
the method can use the old state value to guide its operation.fscache_do_cancel_retrieval() needs moving higher up in the sources so that
the init function can use it now.Without this, the following oops may be seen:
FS-Cache: Assertion failed
FS-Cache: 3 == 0 is false
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at ../fs/fscache/page.c:261!
...
RIP: 0010:[] fscache_release_retrieval_op+0x77/0x100
[] fscache_put_operation+0x114/0x2da
[] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x358/0x3b3
[] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x59/0xbf [nfs]
[] nfs_readpages+0x10c/0x185 [nfs]
[] ? alloc_pages_current+0x119/0x13e
[] ? __page_cache_alloc+0xfb/0x10a
[] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x188/0x22c
[] ondemand_readahead+0x29e/0x2af
[] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x38/0x3a
[] generic_file_read_iter+0x1a2/0x55a
[] ? nfs_revalidate_mapping+0xd6/0x288 [nfs]
[] nfs_file_read+0x49/0x70 [nfs]
[] new_sync_read+0x78/0x9c
[] __vfs_read+0x13/0x38
[] vfs_read+0x95/0x121
[] SyS_read+0x4c/0x8a
[] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17The assertion is showing that the remaining number of pages (n_pages) is not 0
when the operation is being released.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson
Acked-by: Jeff Layton -
When an object is being marked as no longer live, do this under the object
spinlock to prevent a race with operation submission targeted on that object.The problem occurs due to the following pair of intertwined sequences when the
cache tries to create an object that would take it over the hard available
space limit:NETFS INTERFACE
===============
(A) The netfs calls fscache_acquire_cookie(). object creation is deferred to
the object state machine and the netfs is allowed to continue.OBJECT STATE MACHINE KTHREAD
============================
(1) The object is looked up on disk by fscache_look_up_object()
calling cachefiles_walk_to_object(). The latter finds that the
object is not yet represented on disk and calls
fscache_object_lookup_negative().(2) fscache_object_lookup_negative() sets FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_YET
and clears FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP, thus allowing the netfs to
start queuing read operations.(B) The netfs calls fscache_read_or_alloc_pages(). This calls
fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup() which sees FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP
become clear, allowing the read to begin.(C) A read operation is set up and passed to fscache_submit_op() to deal
with.(3) cachefiles_walk_to_object() calls cachefiles_has_space(), which
fails (or one of the file operations to create stuff fails).
cachefiles returns an error to fscache.(4) fscache_look_up_object() transits to the LOOKUP_FAILURE state,
(5) fscache_lookup_failure() sets FSCACHE_OBJECT_LOOKED_UP and
FSCACHE_COOKIE_UNAVAILABLE and clears FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP
then transits to the KILL_OBJECT state.(6) fscache_kill_object() clears FSCACHE_OBJECT_IS_LIVE in an attempt
to reject any further requests from the netfs.(7) object->n_ops is examined and found to be 0.
fscache_kill_object() transits to the DROP_OBJECT state.(D) fscache_submit_op() locks the object spinlock, sees if it can dispatch
the op immediately by calling fscache_object_is_active() - which fails
since FSCACHE_OBJECT_IS_AVAILABLE has not yet been set.(E) fscache_submit_op() then tests FSCACHE_OBJECT_LOOKED_UP - which is set.
It then queues the object and increments object->n_ops.(8) fscache_drop_object() releases the object and eventually
fscache_put_object() calls cachefiles_put_object() which suffers
an assertion failure here:ASSERTCMP(object->fscache.n_ops, ==, 0);
Locking the object spinlock in step (6) around the clearance of
FSCACHE_OBJECT_IS_LIVE ensures that the the decision trees in
fscache_submit_op() and fscache_submit_exclusive_op() don't see the IS_LIVE
flag being cleared mid-decision: either the op is queued before step (7) - in
which case fscache_kill_object() will see n_ops>0 and will deal with the op -
or the op will be rejected.This, combined with rejecting op submission if the target object is dying, fix
the problem.The problem shows up as the following oops:
CacheFiles: Assertion failed
CacheFiles: 1 == 0 is false
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at ../fs/cachefiles/interface.c:339!
...
RIP: 0010:[] [] cachefiles_put_object+0x2a4/0x301 [cachefiles]
...
Call Trace:
[] fscache_put_object+0x18/0x21 [fscache]
[] fscache_object_work_func+0x3ba/0x3c9 [fscache]
[] process_one_work+0x226/0x441
[] worker_thread+0x273/0x36b
[] ? rescuer_thread+0x2e1/0x2e1
[] kthread+0x10e/0x116
[] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1bb/0x1bb
[] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1bb/0x1bbSigned-off-by: David Howells
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson
Acked-by: Jeff Layton -
Reject new operations that are being submitted against an object if that
object has failed its lookup or creation states or has been killed by the
cache backend for some other reason, such as having been culled.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson
Acked-by: Jeff Layton
24 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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Count the number of objects that get culled by the cache backend and the
number of objects that the cache backend declines to instantiate due to lack
of space in the cache.These numbers are made available through /proc/fs/fscache/stats
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson
Acked-by: Jeff Layton
27 Aug, 2014
1 commit
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I've been seeing issues with disposing cookies under vma pressure. The symptom
is that the refcount gets out of sync. In this case we fail to decrement the
refcount if submit fails. I found this while auditing the error in and around
cookie operations.Signed-off-by: Milosz Tanski
Signed-off-by: David Howells
18 Feb, 2014
1 commit
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When FS-Cache allocates an object, the following sequence of events can
occur:-->fscache_alloc_object()
-->cachefiles_alloc_object() [via cache->ops->alloc_object]
fscache_attach_object()
cachefiles_put_object() [via cache->ops->put_object]
-->fscache_object_destroy()
-->fscache_objlist_remove()
-->rb_erase() to remove the object from fscache_object_list.resulting in a crash in the rbtree code.
The problem is that the object is only added to fscache_object_list on
the success path of fscache_attach_object() where it calls
fscache_objlist_add().So if fscache_attach_object() fails, the object won't have been added to
the objlist rbtree. We do, however, unconditionally try to remove the
object from the tree.Thanks to NeilBrown for finding this and suggesting this solution.
Reported-by: NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-by: (a customer of) NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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Pull block IO core updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the pull request for the core changes in the block layer for
3.13. It contains:- The new blk-mq request interface.
This is a new and more scalable queueing model that marries the
best part of the request based interface we currently have (which
is fully featured, but scales poorly) and the bio based "interface"
which the new drivers for high IOPS devices end up using because
it's much faster than the request based one.The bio interface has no block layer support, since it taps into
the stack much earlier. This means that drivers end up having to
implement a lot of functionality on their own, like tagging,
timeout handling, requeue, etc. The blk-mq interface provides all
these. Some drivers even provide a switch to select bio or rq and
has code to handle both, since things like merging only works in
the rq model and hence is faster for some workloads. This is a
huge mess. Conversion of these drivers nets us a substantial code
reduction. Initial results on converting SCSI to this model even
shows an 8x improvement on single queue devices. So while the
model was intended to work on the newer multiqueue devices, it has
substantial improvements for "classic" hardware as well. This code
has gone through extensive testing and development, it's now ready
to go. A pull request is coming to convert virtio-blk to this
model will be will be coming as well, with more drivers scheduled
for 3.14 conversion.- Two blktrace fixes from Jan and Chen Gang.
- A plug merge fix from Alireza Haghdoost.
- Conversion of __get_cpu_var() from Christoph Lameter.
- Fix for sector_div() with 64-bit divider from Geert Uytterhoeven.
- A fix for a race between request completion and the timeout
handling from Jeff Moyer. This is what caused the merge conflict
with blk-mq/core, in case you are looking at that.- A dm stacking fix from Mike Snitzer.
- A code consolidation fix and duplicated code removal from Kent
Overstreet.- A handful of block bug fixes from Mikulas Patocka, fixing a loop
crash and memory corruption on blk cg.- Elevator switch bug fix from Tomoki Sekiyama.
A heads-up that I had to rebase this branch. Initially the immutable
bio_vecs had been queued up for inclusion, but a week later, it became
clear that it wasn't fully cooked yet. So the decision was made to
pull this out and postpone it until 3.14. It was a straight forward
rebase, just pruning out the immutable series and the later fixes of
problems with it. The rest of the patches applied directly and no
further changes were made"* 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits)
block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
block: Do not call sector_div() with a 64-bit divisor
kernel: trace: blktrace: remove redundent memcpy() in compat_blk_trace_setup()
block: Consolidate duplicated bio_trim() implementations
block: Use rw_copy_check_uvector()
block: Enable sysfs nomerge control for I/O requests in the plug list
block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device
elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock in elevator_change()
elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching and md device initialization
block: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
bdi: test bdi_init failure
block: fix a probe argument to blk_register_region
loop: fix crash if blk_alloc_queue fails
blk-core: Fix memory corruption if blkcg_init_queue fails
block: fix race between request completion and timeout handling
blktrace: Send BLK_TN_PROCESS events to all running traces
blk-mq: don't disallow request merges for req->special being set
blk-mq: mq plug list breakage
blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock
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08 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area. __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.__get_cpu_var() is defined as :
#define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&(var)))
__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset. Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e. using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()
1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y);Converts to
int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y);
2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);Converts to
int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);
3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
int x = __get_cpu_var(y)Converts to
int x = __this_cpu_read(y);
4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);Converts to
memcpy(&x, this_cpu_ptr(&y), sizeof(x));
5. Assignment to a per cpu variable
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
__get_cpu_var(y) = x;Converts to
this_cpu_write(y, x);
6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
__get_cpu_var(y)++Converts to
this_cpu_inc(y)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
28 Sep, 2013
1 commit
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Provide the ability to enable and disable fscache cookies. A disabled cookie
will reject or ignore further requests to:Acquire a child cookie
Invalidate and update backing objects
Check the consistency of a backing object
Allocate storage for backing page
Read backing pages
Write to backing pagesbut still allows:
Checks/waits on the completion of already in-progress objects
Uncaching of pages
Relinquishment of cookiesTwo new operations are provided:
(1) Disable a cookie:
void fscache_disable_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
bool invalidate);If the cookie is not already disabled, this locks the cookie against other
dis/enablement ops, marks the cookie as being disabled, discards or
invalidates any backing objects and waits for cessation of activity on any
associated object.This is a wrapper around a chunk split out of fscache_relinquish_cookie(),
but it reinitialises the cookie such that it can be reenabled.All possible failures are handled internally. The caller should consider
calling fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages() afterwards to make sure all page
markings are cleared up.(2) Enable a cookie:
void fscache_enable_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
bool (*can_enable)(void *data),
void *data)If the cookie is not already enabled, this locks the cookie against other
dis/enablement ops, invokes can_enable() and, if the cookie is not an
index cookie, will begin the procedure of acquiring backing objects.The optional can_enable() function is passed the data argument and returns
a ruling as to whether or not enablement should actually be permitted to
begin.All possible failures are handled internally. The cookie will only be
marked as enabled if provisional backing objects are allocated.A later patch will introduce these to NFS. Cookie enablement during nfs_open()
is then contingent on i_writecount <dhowells@redhat.com
19 Jun, 2013
4 commits
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Simplify the way fscache cache objects retain their cookie. The way I
implemented the cookie storage handling made synchronisation a pain (ie. the
object state machine can't rely on the cookie actually still being there).Instead of the the object being detached from the cookie and the cookie being
freed in __fscache_relinquish_cookie(), we defer both operations:(*) The detachment of the object from the list in the cookie now takes place
in fscache_drop_object() and is thus governed by the object state machine
(fscache_detach_from_cookie() has been removed).(*) The release of the cookie is now in fscache_object_destroy() - which is
called by the cache backend just before it frees the object.This means that the fscache_cookie struct is now available to the cache all the
way through from ->alloc_object() to ->drop_object() and ->put_object() -
meaning that it's no longer necessary to take object->lock to guarantee access.However, __fscache_relinquish_cookie() doesn't wait for the object to go all
the way through to destruction before letting the netfs proceed. That would
massively slow down the netfs. Since __fscache_relinquish_cookie() leaves the
cookie around, in must therefore break all attachments to the netfs - which
includes ->def, ->netfs_data and any outstanding page read/writes.To handle this, struct fscache_cookie now has an n_active counter:
(1) This starts off initialised to 1.
(2) Any time the cache needs to get at the netfs data, it calls
fscache_use_cookie() to increment it - if it is not zero. If it was zero,
then access is not permitted.(3) When the cache has finished with the data, it calls fscache_unuse_cookie()
to decrement it. This does a wake-up on it if it reaches 0.(4) __fscache_relinquish_cookie() decrements n_active and then waits for it to
reach 0. The initialisation to 1 in step (1) ensures that we only get
wake ups when we're trying to get rid of the cookie.This leaves __fscache_relinquish_cookie() a lot simpler.
***
This fixes a problem in the current code whereby if fscache_invalidate() is
followed sufficiently quickly by fscache_relinquish_cookie() then it is
possible for __fscache_relinquish_cookie() to have detached the cookie from the
object and cleared the pointer before a thread is dispatched to process the
invalidation state in the object state machine.Since the pending write clearance was deferred to the invalidation state to
make it asynchronous, we need to either wait in relinquishment for the stores
tree to be cleared in the invalidation state or we need to handle the clearance
in relinquishment.Further, if the relinquishment code does clear the tree, then the invalidation
state need to make the clearance contingent on still having the cookie to hand
(since that's where the tree is rooted) and we have to prevent the cookie from
disappearing for the duration.This can lead to an oops like the following:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000c
...
RIP: 0010:[] _spin_lock+0xe/0x30
...
CR2: 000000000000000c ...
...
Process kslowd002 (...)
....
Call Trace:
[] fscache_invalidate_writes+0x38/0xd0 [fscache]
[] ? __switch_to+0xd0/0x320
[] ? find_busiest_queue+0x69/0x150
[] ? slow_work_enqueue+0x104/0x180
[] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5e3/0x9d0 [fscache]
[] ? bit_waitqueue+0x17/0xd0
[] slow_work_execute+0x233/0x310
[] slow_work_thread+0x205/0x360
[] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x360
[] kthread+0x96/0xa0
[] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
[] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20The parameter to fscache_invalidate_writes() was object->cookie which is NULL.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski
Acked-by: Jeff Layton -
Fix object state machine to have separate work and wait states as that makes
it easier to envision.There are now three kinds of state:
(1) Work state. This is an execution state. No event processing is performed
by a work state. The function attached to a work state returns a pointer
indicating the next state to which the OSM should transition. Returning
NO_TRANSIT repeats the current state, but goes back to the scheduler
first.(2) Wait state. This is an event processing state. No execution is
performed by a wait state. Wait states are just tables of "if event X
occurs, clear it and transition to state Y". The dispatcher returns to
the scheduler if none of the events in which the wait state has an
interest are currently pending.(3) Out-of-band state. This is a special work state. Transitions to normal
states can be overridden when an unexpected event occurs (eg. I/O error).
Instead the dispatcher disables and clears the OOB event and transits to
the specified work state. This then acts as an ordinary work state,
though object->state points to the overridden destination. Returning
NO_TRANSIT resumes the overridden transition.In addition, the states have names in their definitions, so there's no need for
tables of state names. Further, the EV_REQUEUE event is no longer necessary as
that is automatic for work states.Since the states are now separate structs rather than values in an enum, it's
not possible to use comparisons other than (non-)equality between them, so use
some object->flags to indicate what phase an object is in.The EV_RELEASE, EV_RETIRE and EV_WITHDRAW events have been squished into one
(EV_KILL). An object flag now carries the information about retirement.Similarly, the RELEASING, RECYCLING and WITHDRAWING states have been merged
into an KILL_OBJECT state and additional states have been added for handling
waiting dependent objects (JUMPSTART_DEPS and KILL_DEPENDENTS).A state has also been added for synchronising with parent object initialisation
(WAIT_FOR_PARENT) and another for initiating look up (PARENT_READY).Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski
Acked-by: Jeff Layton -
Wrap checks on object state (mostly outside of fs/fscache/object.c) with
inline functions so that the mechanism can be replaced.Some of the state checks within object.c are left as-is as they will be
replaced.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski
Acked-by: Jeff Layton -
Uninline fscache_object_init() so as not to expose some of the FS-Cache
internals to the cache backend.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski
Acked-by: Jeff Layton
21 Dec, 2012
5 commits
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Add a missing transition to the FS-Cache object state machine to handle an
invalidation event occuring between the back end completing the object lookup
by calling fscache_obtained_object() (which moves to state OBJECT_AVAILABLE)
and the backend returning to fscache_lookup_object() and thence to
fscache_object_state_machine() which then does a goto lookup_transit to handle
the transition - but lookup_transit doesn't handle EV_INVALIDATE.Without this, the following BUG can be logged:
FS-Cache: Unsupported event 2 [5/f7] in state OBJECT_AVAILABLE
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kernel BUG at fs/fscache/object.c:357!Where event 2 is EV_INVALIDATE.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
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The function to submit an exclusive op (fscache_submit_exclusive_op()) can BUG
if there's been an I/O error because it may see the parent cache object in an
unexpected state. It should only BUG if there hasn't been an I/O error.In this case the problem was produced by remounting the cache partition to be
R/O. The EROFS state was detected and the cache was aborted, but not
everything handled the aborting correctly.SysRq : Emergency Remount R/O
EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
Emergency Remount complete
CacheFiles: I/O Error: Failed to update xattr with error -30
FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
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kernel BUG at fs/fscache/operation.c:128!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in: cachefiles nfs fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpcPid: 6612, comm: kworker/u:2 Not tainted 3.1.0-rc8-fsdevel+ #1093 /DG965RY
RIP: 0010:[] [] fscache_submit_exclusive_op+0x2ad/0x2c2 [fscache]
RSP: 0018:ffff880000853d40 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: ffff880038ac72a8 RBX: ffff8800181f2260 RCX: ffffffff81f2b2b0
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8179a478 RDI: ffff8800181f2280
RBP: ffff880000853d60 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff880038ac7268
R13: ffff8800181f2280 R14: ffff88003a359190 R15: 000000010122b162
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000034cc4a77f0 CR3: 0000000010e96000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process kworker/u:2 (pid: 6612, threadinfo ffff880000852000, task ffff880014c3c040)
Stack:
ffff8800181f2260 ffff8800181f2310 ffff880038ac7268 ffff8800181f2260
ffff880000853dc0 ffffffffa0072375 ffff880037ecfe00 ffff88003a359198
ffff880000853dc0 0000000000000246 0000000000000000 ffff88000a91d308
Call Trace:
[] fscache_object_work_func+0x792/0xe65 [fscache]
[] process_one_work+0x1eb/0x37f
[] ? process_one_work+0x18d/0x37f
[] ? fscache_enqueue_dependents+0xd8/0xd8 [fscache]
[] worker_thread+0x15a/0x21a
[] ? rescuer_thread+0x188/0x188
[] kthread+0x7f/0x87
[] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[] ? finish_task_switch+0x45/0xc0
[] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
[] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x53/0x53
[] ? gs_change+0xb/0xbSigned-off-by: David Howells
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Initialise the object event mask with the calculated mask rather than unmasking
undefined events also.Signed-off-by: David Howells
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Provide a proper invalidation method rather than relying on the netfs retiring
the cookie it has and getting a new one. The problem with this is that isn't
easy for the netfs to make sure that it has completed/cancelled all its
outstanding storage and retrieval operations on the cookie it is retiring.Instead, have the cache provide an invalidation method that will cancel or wait
for all currently outstanding operations before invalidating the cache, and
will cause new operations to queue up behind that. Whilst invalidation is in
progress, some requests will be rejected until the cache can stack a barrier on
the operation queue to cause new operations to be deferred behind it.Signed-off-by: David Howells
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Fix the state management of internal fscache operations and the accounting of
what operations are in what states.This is done by:
(1) Give struct fscache_operation a enum variable that directly represents the
state it's currently in, rather than spreading this knowledge over a bunch
of flags, who's processing the operation at the moment and whether it is
queued or not.This makes it easier to write assertions to check the state at various
points and to prevent invalid state transitions.(2) Add an 'operation complete' state and supply a function to indicate the
completion of an operation (fscache_op_complete()) and make things call
it. The final call to fscache_put_operation() can then check that an op
in the appropriate state (complete or cancelled).(3) Adjust the use of object->n_ops, ->n_in_progress, ->n_exclusive to better
govern the state of an object:(a) The ->n_ops is now the number of extant operations on the object
and is now decremented by fscache_put_operation() only.(b) The ->n_in_progress is simply the number of objects that have been
taken off of the object's pending queue for the purposes of being
run. This is decremented by fscache_op_complete() only.(c) The ->n_exclusive is the number of exclusive ops that have been
submitted and queued or are in progress. It is decremented by
fscache_op_complete() and by fscache_cancel_op().fscache_put_operation() and fscache_operation_gc() now no longer try to
clean up ->n_exclusive and ->n_in_progress. That was leading to double
decrements against fscache_cancel_op().fscache_cancel_op() now no longer decrements ->n_ops. That was leading to
double decrements against fscache_put_operation().fscache_submit_exclusive_op() now decides whether it has to queue an op
based on ->n_in_progress being > 0 rather than ->n_ops > 0 as the latter
will persist in being true even after all preceding operations have been
cancelled or completed. Furthermore, if an object is active and there are
runnable ops against it, there must be at least one op running.(4) Add a remaining-pages counter (n_pages) to struct fscache_retrieval and
provide a function to record completion of the pages as they complete.When n_pages reaches 0, the operation is deemed to be complete and
fscache_op_complete() is called.Add calls to fscache_retrieval_complete() anywhere we've finished with a
page we've been given to read or allocate for. This includes places where
we just return pages to the netfs for reading from the server and where
accessing the cache fails and we discard the proposed netfs page.The bugs in the unfixed state management manifest themselves as oopses like the
following where the operation completion gets out of sync with return of the
cookie by the netfs. This is possible because the cache unlocks and returns
all the netfs pages before recording its completion - which means that there's
nothing to stop the netfs discarding them and returning the cookie.FS-Cache: Cookie 'NFS.fh' still has outstanding reads
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kernel BUG at fs/fscache/cookie.c:519!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU 1
Modules linked in: cachefiles nfs fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpcPid: 400, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.1.0-rc7-fsdevel+ #1090 /DG965RY
RIP: 0010:[] [] __fscache_relinquish_cookie+0x170/0x343 [fscache]
RSP: 0018:ffff8800368cfb00 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 000000000000003c RBX: ffff880023cc8790 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000002f2e RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff813ab86c
RBP: ffff8800368cfb50 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff88003a1b7890 R11: ffff88001df6e488 R12: ffff880023d8ed98
R13: ffff880023cc8798 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: ffff88003b8bf370
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000008ba008 CR3: 0000000023d93000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process kswapd0 (pid: 400, threadinfo ffff8800368ce000, task ffff88003b8bf040)
Stack:
ffff88003b8bf040 ffff88001df6e528 ffff88001df6e528 ffffffffa00b46b0
ffff88003b8bf040 ffff88001df6e488 ffff88001df6e620 ffffffffa00b46b0
ffff88001ebd04c8 0000000000000004 ffff8800368cfb70 ffffffffa00b2c91
Call Trace:
[] nfs_fscache_release_inode_cookie+0x3b/0x47 [nfs]
[] nfs_clear_inode+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
[] nfs4_evict_inode+0x2f/0x33 [nfs]
[] evict+0xa1/0x15c
[] dispose_list+0x2c/0x38
[] prune_icache_sb+0x28c/0x29b
[] prune_super+0xd5/0x140
[] shrink_slab+0x102/0x1ab
[] balance_pgdat+0x2f2/0x595
[] ? process_timeout+0xb/0xb
[] kswapd+0x270/0x289
[] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x46/0x46
[] ? balance_pgdat+0x595/0x595
[] kthread+0x7f/0x87
[] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[] ? finish_task_switch+0x45/0xc0
[] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
[] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x53/0x53
[] ? gs_change+0xb/0xbSigned-off-by: David Howells
23 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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Make fscache object state transition callbacks use workqueue instead
of slow-work. New dedicated unbound CPU workqueue fscache_object_wq
is created. get/put callbacks are renamed and modified to take
@object and called directly from the enqueue wrapper and the work
function. While at it, make all open coded instances of get/put to
use fscache_get/put_object().* Unbound workqueue is used.
* work_busy() output is printed instead of slow-work flags in object
debugging outputs. They mean basically the same thing bit-for-bit.* sysctl fscache.object_max_active added to control concurrency. The
default value is nr_cpus clamped between 4 and
WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.* slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed() is replaced with fscache
private implementation fscache_object_sleep_till_congested() which
waits on fscache_object_wq congestion.* debugfs support is dropped for now. Tracing API based debug
facility is planned to be added.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: David Howells
30 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_PROC was changed to CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUG, but not in all
instances. Change the remaining instances. This makes the debugfs file
display the time mark and the owner's description again.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Nov, 2009
9 commits
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Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to
replace it with a new one. The probability is that all the slow-work threads
are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in.What we do instead is:
(1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying
object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue
behind which we can queue our object.(2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to
fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue,
presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by. We are then
deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue -
without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily.A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch:
INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
kslowd004 D 0000000000000000 0 5711 2 0x00000080
ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000
ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8
000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8
Call Trace:
[] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
[] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles]
[] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76
[] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270
[] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74
[] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
[] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e
[] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles]
[] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles]
[] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
[] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
[] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
[] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
[] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
[] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
[] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
[] kthread+0x7a/0x82
[] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
[] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
1 lock held by kslowd004/5711:
#0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles]Signed-off-by: David Howells
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FS-Cache objects have an FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_REQUEUE event that can theoretically
be raised to ask the state machine to requeue the object for further processing
before the work function returns to the slow-work facility.However, fscache_object_work_execute() was clearing that bit before checking
the event mask to see whether the object has any pending events that require it
to be requeued immediately.Instead, the bit should be cleared after the check and enqueue.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
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Start processing an object's operations when that object moves into the DYING
state as the object cannot be destroyed until all its outstanding operations
have completed.Furthermore, make sure that read and allocation operations handle being woken
up on a dead object. Such events are recorded in the Allocs.abt and
Retrvls.abt statistics as viewable through /proc/fs/fscache/stats.The code for waiting for object activation for the read and allocation
operations is also extracted into its own function as it is much the same in
all cases, differing only in the stats incremented.Signed-off-by: David Howells
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We must make sure that FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP is cleared on lookup failure
(if an object reaches the LC_DYING state), and we should clear it before
clearing FSCACHE_COOKIE_CREATING.If this doesn't happen then fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup() may hold
allocation and retrieval operations indefinitely until they're interrupted by
signals - which in turn pins the dying object until they go away.Signed-off-by: David Howells
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The object-available state in the object processing state machine (as
processed by fscache_object_available()) can't rely on the cookie to be
available because the FSCACHE_COOKIE_CREATING bit may have been cleared by
fscache_obtained_object() prior to the object being put into the
FSCACHE_OBJECT_AVAILABLE state.Clearing the FSCACHE_COOKIE_CREATING bit on a cookie permits
__fscache_relinquish_cookie() to proceed and detach the cookie from the
object.To deal with this, we don't dereference object->cookie in
fscache_object_available() if the object has already been detached.In addition, a couple of assertions are added into fscache_drop_object() to
make sure the object is unbound from the cookie before it gets there.Signed-off-by: David Howells
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Count entries to and exits from cache operation table functions. Maintain
these as a single counter that's added to or removed from as appropriate.Signed-off-by: David Howells
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Allow the current state of all fscache objects to be dumped by doing:
cat /proc/fs/fscache/objects
By default, all objects and all fields will be shown. This can be restricted
by adding a suitable key to one of the caller's keyrings (such as the session
keyring):keyctl add user fscache:objlist "" @s
The are:
K Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given)
A Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given)And paired restrictions:
C Show objects that have a cookie
c Show objects that don't have a cookie
B Show objects that are busy
b Show objects that aren't busy
W Show objects that have pending writes
w Show objects that don't have pending writes
R Show objects that have outstanding reads
r Show objects that don't have outstanding reads
S Show objects that have slow work queued
s Show objects that don't have slow work queuedIf neither side of a restriction pair is given, then both are implied. For
example:keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s
shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump
their auxiliary data. It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is
not implied.Signed-off-by: David Howells
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Annotate slow-work runqueue proc lines for FS-Cache work items. Objects
include the object ID and the state. Operations include the object ID, the
operation ID and the operation type and state.Signed-off-by: David Howells
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Wait for outstanding slow work items belonging to a module to clear when
unregistering that module as a user of the facility. This prevents the put_ref
code of a work item from being taken away before it returns.Signed-off-by: David Howells
03 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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Implement the cache object management state machine.
The following documentation is added to illuminate the working of this state
machine. It will also be added as:Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.txt
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IN-KERNEL CACHE OBJECT REPRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT
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REPRESENTATION
==============FS-Cache maintains an in-kernel representation of each object that a netfs is
currently interested in. Such objects are represented by the fscache_cookie
struct and are referred to as cookies.FS-Cache also maintains a separate in-kernel representation of the objects that
a cache backend is currently actively caching. Such objects are represented by
the fscache_object struct. The cache backends allocate these upon request, and
are expected to embed them in their own representations. These are referred to
as objects.There is a 1:N relationship between cookies and objects. A cookie may be
represented by multiple objects - an index may exist in more than one cache -
or even by no objects (it may not be cached).Furthermore, both cookies and objects are hierarchical. The two hierarchies
correspond, but the cookies tree is a superset of the union of the object trees
of multiple caches:NETFS INDEX TREE : CACHE 1 : CACHE 2
: :
: +-----------+ :
+----------->| IObject | :
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ :
| ICookie |-------+ : | :
+-----------+ | : | : +-----------+
| +------------------------------>| IObject |
| : | : +-----------+
| : V : |
| : +-----------+ : |
V +----------->| IObject | : |
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ : |
| ICookie |-------+ : | : V
+-----------+ | : | : +-----------+
| +------------------------------>| IObject |
+-----+-----+ : | : +-----------+
| | : | : |
V | : V : |
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ : |
| ICookie |------------------------->| IObject | : |
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ : |
| V : | : V
| +-----------+ : | : +-----------+
| | ICookie |-------------------------------->| IObject |
| +-----------+ : | : +-----------+
V | : V : |
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ : |
| DCookie |------------------------->| DObject | : |
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ : |
| : : |
+-------+-------+ : : |
| | : : |
V V : : V
+-----------+ +-----------+ : : +-----------+
| DCookie | | DCookie |------------------------>| DObject |
+-----------+ +-----------+ : : +-----------+
: :In the above illustration, ICookie and IObject represent indices and DCookie
and DObject represent data storage objects. Indices may have representation in
multiple caches, but currently, non-index objects may not. Objects of any type
may also be entirely unrepresented.As far as the netfs API goes, the netfs is only actually permitted to see
pointers to the cookies. The cookies themselves and any objects attached to
those cookies are hidden from it.===============================
OBJECT MANAGEMENT STATE MACHINE
===============================Within FS-Cache, each active object is managed by its own individual state
machine. The state for an object is kept in the fscache_object struct, in
object->state. A cookie may point to a set of objects that are in different
states.Each state has an action associated with it that is invoked when the machine
wakes up in that state. There are four logical sets of states:(1) Preparation: states that wait for the parent objects to become ready. The
representations are hierarchical, and it is expected that an object must
be created or accessed with respect to its parent object.(2) Initialisation: states that perform lookups in the cache and validate
what's found and that create on disk any missing metadata.(3) Normal running: states that allow netfs operations on objects to proceed
and that update the state of objects.(4) Termination: states that detach objects from their netfs cookies, that
delete objects from disk, that handle disk and system errors and that free
up in-memory resources.In most cases, transitioning between states is in response to signalled events.
When a state has finished processing, it will usually set the mask of events in
which it is interested (object->event_mask) and relinquish the worker thread.
Then when an event is raised (by calling fscache_raise_event()), if the event
is not masked, the object will be queued for processing (by calling
fscache_enqueue_object()).PROVISION OF CPU TIME
---------------------The work to be done by the various states is given CPU time by the threads of
the slow work facility (see Documentation/slow-work.txt). This is used in
preference to the workqueue facility because:(1) Threads may be completely occupied for very long periods of time by a
particular work item. These state actions may be doing sequences of
synchronous, journalled disk accesses (lookup, mkdir, create, setxattr,
getxattr, truncate, unlink, rmdir, rename).(2) Threads may do little actual work, but may rather spend a lot of time
sleeping on I/O. This means that single-threaded and 1-per-CPU-threaded
workqueues don't necessarily have the right numbers of threads.LOCKING SIMPLIFICATION
----------------------Because only one worker thread may be operating on any particular object's
state machine at once, this simplifies the locking, particularly with respect
to disconnecting the netfs's representation of a cache object (fscache_cookie)
from the cache backend's representation (fscache_object) - which may be
requested from either end.=================
THE SET OF STATES
=================The object state machine has a set of states that it can be in. There are
preparation states in which the object sets itself up and waits for its parent
object to transit to a state that allows access to its children:(1) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT.
Initialise the object and wait for the parent object to become active. In
the cache, it is expected that it will not be possible to look an object
up from the parent object, until that parent object itself has been looked
up.There are initialisation states in which the object sets itself up and accesses
disk for the object metadata:(2) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_LOOKING_UP.
Look up the object on disk, using the parent as a starting point.
FS-Cache expects the cache backend to probe the cache to see whether this
object is represented there, and if it is, to see if it's valid (coherency
management).The cache should call fscache_object_lookup_negative() to indicate lookup
failure for whatever reason, and should call fscache_obtained_object() to
indicate success.At the completion of lookup, FS-Cache will let the netfs go ahead with
read operations, no matter whether the file is yet cached. If not yet
cached, read operations will be immediately rejected with ENODATA until
the first known page is uncached - as to that point there can be no data
to be read out of the cache for that file that isn't currently also held
in the pagecache.(3) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_CREATING.
Create an object on disk, using the parent as a starting point. This
happens if the lookup failed to find the object, or if the object's
coherency data indicated what's on disk is out of date. In this state,
FS-Cache expects the cache to createThe cache should call fscache_obtained_object() if creation completes
successfully, fscache_object_lookup_negative() otherwise.At the completion of creation, FS-Cache will start processing write
operations the netfs has queued for an object. If creation failed, the
write ops will be transparently discarded, and nothing recorded in the
cache.There are some normal running states in which the object spends its time
servicing netfs requests:(4) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_AVAILABLE.
A transient state in which pending operations are started, child objects
are permitted to advance from FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT state, and temporary
lookup data is freed.(5) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_ACTIVE.
The normal running state. In this state, requests the netfs makes will be
passed on to the cache.(6) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_UPDATING.
The state machine comes here to update the object in the cache from the
netfs's records. This involves updating the auxiliary data that is used
to maintain coherency.And there are terminal states in which an object cleans itself up, deallocates
memory and potentially deletes stuff from disk:(7) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_LC_DYING.
The object comes here if it is dying because of a lookup or creation
error. This would be due to a disk error or system error of some sort.
Temporary data is cleaned up, and the parent is released.(8) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_DYING.
The object comes here if it is dying due to an error, because its parent
cookie has been relinquished by the netfs or because the cache is being
withdrawn.Any child objects waiting on this one are given CPU time so that they too
can destroy themselves. This object waits for all its children to go away
before advancing to the next state.(9) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_ABORT_INIT.
The object comes to this state if it was waiting on its parent in
FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT, but its parent died. The object will destroy itself
so that the parent may proceed from the FSCACHE_OBJECT_DYING state.(10) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_RELEASING.
(11) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_RECYCLING.The object comes to one of these two states when dying once it is rid of
all its children, if it is dying because the netfs relinquished its
cookie. In the first state, the cached data is expected to persist, and
in the second it will be deleted.(12) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_WITHDRAWING.
The object transits to this state if the cache decides it wants to
withdraw the object from service, perhaps to make space, but also due to
error or just because the whole cache is being withdrawn.(13) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_DEAD.
The object transits to this state when the in-memory object record is
ready to be deleted. The object processor shouldn't ever see an object in
this state.THE SET OF EVENTS
-----------------There are a number of events that can be raised to an object state machine:
(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_UPDATE
The netfs requested that an object be updated. The state machine will ask
the cache backend to update the object, and the cache backend will ask the
netfs for details of the change through its cookie definition ops.(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_CLEARED
This is signalled in two circumstances:
(a) when an object's last child object is dropped and
(b) when the last operation outstanding on an object is completed.
This is used to proceed from the dying state.
(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_ERROR
This is signalled when an I/O error occurs during the processing of some
object.(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_RELEASE
(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_RETIREThese are signalled when the netfs relinquishes a cookie it was using.
The event selected depends on whether the netfs asks for the backing
object to be retired (deleted) or retained.(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_WITHDRAW
This is signalled when the cache backend wants to withdraw an object.
This means that the object will have to be detached from the netfs's
cookie.Because the withdrawing releasing/retiring events are all handled by the object
state machine, it doesn't matter if there's a collision with both ends trying
to sever the connection at the same time. The state machine can just pick
which one it wants to honour, and that effects the other.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Steve Dickson
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
Acked-by: Al Viro
Tested-by: Daire Byrne