10 May, 2011

2 commits

  • This replaces nilfs_mdt_mark_buffer_dirty and nilfs_btnode_mark_dirty
    macros with mark_buffer_dirty and gets rid of nilfs_mark_buffer_dirty,
    an own mark buffer dirty function.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

    Ryusuke Konishi
     
  • After having applied commit 9954e7af14868b8b ("nilfs2: add free
    entries count only if clear bit operation succeeded"), a free routine
    of nilfs came to fall into an infinite loop, outputting the same
    message endlessly:

    nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 29497 already freed
    nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 29497 already freed
    nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 29497 already freed
    nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 29497 already freed
    nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 29497 already freed ...

    That patch broke the routine so that a loop counter is never updated
    in an abnormal state. This fixes the regression.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

    Ryusuke Konishi
     

08 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • Three functions of the current persistent object allocator,
    nilfs_palloc_commit_free_entry, nilfs_palloc_abort_alloc_entry, and
    nilfs_palloc_freev functions unconditionally add a counter after doing
    clear bit operation on a bitmap block.

    If the clear bit operation overlapped, the counter will not add up.
    This fixes the issue by making the counter operations conditional.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

    Ryusuke Konishi
     

10 May, 2010

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13 Apr, 2010

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12 Apr, 2010

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30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

20 Nov, 2009

3 commits

  • This implements cache operation in get block routines of palloc code:
    nilfs_palloc_get_desc_block(), nilfs_palloc_get_bitmap_block(), and
    nilfs_palloc_get_entry_block().

    This will complete the palloc cache.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

    Ryusuke Konishi
     
  • This adds setup and cleanup routines of the persistent object
    allocator cache.

    According to ftrace analyses, accessing buffers of the DAT file
    suffers indispensable overhead many times. To mitigate the overhead,
    This introduce cache framework for the persistent object allocator
    (palloc) which the DAT file and ifile are using.

    struct nilfs_palloc_cache represents the cache object per metadata
    file using palloc.

    The cache is initialized through nilfs_palloc_setup_cache() and
    destroyed by nilfs_palloc_destroy_cache(); callers of the former
    function will be added to individual allocators of DAT and ifile on
    successive patches.

    nilfs_palloc_destroy_cache() will be called from nilfs_mdt_destroy()
    if the cache is attached to a metadata file. A companion function
    nilfs_palloc_clear_cache() is provided to allow releasing buffer head
    references independently with the cleanup task. This adjunctive
    function will be used before invalidating pages of metadata file with
    the cache.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

    Ryusuke Konishi
     
  • This expands a trivial address calculation in the function into its
    every callsite. This expansion improves readability of the callers.

    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

    Ryusuke Konishi
     

07 Apr, 2009

1 commit

  • This adds common functions to allocate or deallocate entries with bitmaps
    on a meta data file. This feature is used by the DAT and ifile.

    Signed-off-by: Koji Sato
    Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi
    Signed-off-by: Yoshiji Amagai
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ryusuke Konishi