09 Jul, 2007

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  • This patch passes all my nasty tests that were causing the code to
    fail under one circumstance or another. Here is a complete summary
    of all changes from today's git tree, in order of appearance:

    1. There are now separate variables for metadata buffer accounting.
    2. Variable sd_log_num_hdrs is no longer needed, since the header
    accounting is taken care of by the reserve/refund sequence.
    3. Fixed a tiny grammatical problem in a comment.
    4. Added a new function "calc_reserved" to calculate the reserved
    log space. This isn't entirely necessary, but it has two benefits:
    First, it simplifies the gfs2_log_refund function greatly.
    Second, it allows for easier debugging because I could sprinkle the
    code with calls to this function to make sure the accounting is
    proper (by adding asserts and printks) at strategic point of the code.
    5. In log_pull_tail there apparently was a kludge to fix up the
    accounting based on a "pull" parameter. The buffer accounting is
    now done properly, so the kludge was removed.
    6. File sync operations were making a call to gfs2_log_flush that
    writes another journal header. Since that header was unplanned
    for (reserved) by the reserve/refund sequence, the free space had
    to be decremented so that when log_pull_tail gets called, the free
    space is be adjusted properly. (Did I hear you call that a kludge?
    well, maybe, but a lot more justifiable than the one I removed).
    7. In the gfs2_log_shutdown code, it optionally syncs the log by
    specifying the PULL parameter to log_write_header. I'm not sure
    this is necessary anymore. It just seems to me there could be
    cases where shutdown is called while there are outstanding log
    buffers.
    8. In the (data)buf_lo_before_commit functions, I changed some offset
    values from being calculated on the fly to being constants. That
    simplified some code and we might as well let the compiler do the
    calculation once rather than redoing those cycles at run time.
    9. This version has my rewritten databuf_lo_add function.
    This version is much more like its predecessor, buf_lo_add, which
    makes it easier to understand. Again, this might not be necessary,
    but it seems as if this one works as well as the previous one,
    maybe even better, so I decided to leave it in.
    10. In databuf_lo_before_commit, a previous data corruption problem
    was caused by going off the end of the buffer. The proper solution
    is to have the proper limit in place, rather than stopping earlier.
    (Thus my previous attempt to fix it is wrong).
    If you don't wrap the buffer, you're stopping too early and that
    causes more log buffer accounting problems.
    11. In lops.h there are two new (previously mentioned) constants for
    figuring out the data offset for the journal buffers.
    12. There are also two new functions, buf_limit and databuf_limit to
    calculate how many entries will fit in the buffer.
    13. In function gfs2_meta_wipe, it needs to distinguish between pinned
    metadata buffers and journaled data buffers for proper journal buffer
    accounting. It can't use the JDATA gfs2_inode flag because it's
    sometimes passed the "real" inode and sometimes the "metadata
    inode" and the inode flags will be random bits in a metadata
    gfs2_inode. It needs to base its decision on which was passed in.

    Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
    Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

    Robert Peterson
     

30 Nov, 2006

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05 Sep, 2006

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01 Sep, 2006

1 commit

  • As per comments from Jan Engelhardt this
    updates the copyright message to say "version" in full rather than
    "v.2". Also incore.h has been updated to remove forward structure
    declarations which are not required.

    The gfs2_quota_lvb structure has now had endianess annotations added
    to it. Also quota.c has been updated so that we now store the
    lvb data locally in endian independant format to avoid needing
    a structure in host endianess too. As a result the endianess
    conversions are done as required at various points and thus the
    conversion routines in lvb.[ch] are no longer required. I've
    moved the one remaining constant in lvb.h thats used into lm.h
    and removed the unused lvb.[ch].

    I have not changed the HIF_ constants. That is left to a later patch
    which I hope will unify the gh_flags and gh_iflags fields of the
    struct gfs2_holder.

    Cc: Jan Engelhardt
    Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

    Steven Whitehouse
     

19 May, 2006

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07 Apr, 2006

1 commit

  • This fixes a ref count bug that sometimes showed up a umount time
    (causing it to hang) but it otherwise mostly harmless. At the same
    time there are some clean ups including making the log operations
    structures const, moving a memory allocation so that its not done
    in the fast path of checking to see if there is an outstanding
    transaction related to a particular glock.

    Removes the sd_log_wrap varaible which was updated, but never actually
    used anywhere. Updates the gfs2 ioctl() to run without the kernel lock
    (which it never needed anyway). Removes the "invalidate inodes" loop
    from GFS2's put_super routine. This is done in kill super anyway so
    we don't need to do it here. The loop was also bogus in that if there
    are any inodes "stuck" at this point its a bug and we need to know
    about it rather than hide it by hanging forever.

    Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

    Steven Whitehouse
     

17 Jan, 2006

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