20 Dec, 2016

1 commit

  • In function btrfs_uuid_tree_iterate(), errno is assigned to variable ret
    on errors. However, it directly returns 0. It may be better to return
    ret. This patch also removes the warning, because the caller already
    prints a warning.

    Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188731
    Signed-off-by: Pan Bian
    Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval
    [ edited subject ]
    Signed-off-by: David Sterba

    Pan Bian
     

06 Dec, 2016

4 commits


27 Sep, 2016

1 commit

  • CodingStyle chapter 2:
    "[...] never break user-visible strings such as printk messages,
    because that breaks the ability to grep for them."

    This patch unsplits user-visible strings.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney
    Signed-off-by: David Sterba

    Jeff Mahoney
     

18 Sep, 2014

1 commit

  • None of the uses of btrfs_search_forward() need to have the path
    nodes (level >= 1) read locked, only the leaf needs to be locked
    while the caller processes it. Therefore make it return a path
    with all nodes unlocked, except for the leaf.

    This change is motivated by the observation that during a file
    fsync we repeatdly call btrfs_search_forward() and process the
    returned leaf while upper nodes of the returned path (level >= 1)
    are read locked, which unnecessarily blocks other tasks that want
    to write to the same fs/subvol btree.
    Therefore instead of modifying the fsync code to unlock all nodes
    with level >= 1 immediately after calling btrfs_search_forward(),
    change btrfs_search_forward() to do it, so that it benefits all
    callers.

    Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana
    Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

    Filipe Manana
     

29 Jan, 2014

1 commit


12 Nov, 2013

1 commit


01 Sep, 2013

2 commits

  • If the filesystem was mounted with an old kernel that was not
    aware of the UUID tree, this is detected by looking at the
    uuid_tree_generation field of the superblock (similar to how
    the free space cache is doing it). If a mismatch is detected
    at mount time, a thread is started that does two things:
    1. Iterate through the UUID tree, check each entry, delete those
    entries that are not valid anymore (i.e., the subvol does not
    exist anymore or the value changed).
    2. Iterate through the root tree, for each found subvolume, add
    the UUID tree entries for the subvolume (if they are not
    already there).

    This mechanism is also used to handle and repair errors that
    happened during the initial creation and filling of the tree.
    The update of the uuid_tree_generation field (which indicates
    that the state of the UUID tree is up to date) is blocked until
    all create and repair operations are successfully completed.

    Signed-off-by: Stefan Behrens
    Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
    Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

    Stefan Behrens
     
  • Mapping UUIDs to subvolume IDs is an operation with a high effort
    today. Today, the algorithm even has quadratic effort (based on the
    number of existing subvolumes), which means, that it takes minutes
    to send/receive a single subvolume if 10,000 subvolumes exist. But
    even linear effort would be too much since it is a waste. And these
    data structures to allow mapping UUIDs to subvolume IDs are created
    every time a btrfs send/receive instance is started.

    It is much more efficient to maintain a searchable persistent data
    structure in the filesystem, one that is updated whenever a
    subvolume/snapshot is created and deleted, and when the received
    subvolume UUID is set by the btrfs-receive tool.

    Therefore kernel code is added with this commit that is able to
    maintain data structures in the filesystem that allow to quickly
    search for a given UUID and to retrieve data that is assigned to
    this UUID, like which subvolume ID is related to this UUID.

    This commit adds a new tree to hold UUID-to-data mapping items. The
    key of the items is the full UUID plus the key type BTRFS_UUID_KEY.
    Multiple data blocks can be stored for a given UUID, a type/length/
    value scheme is used.

    Now follows the lengthy justification, why a new tree was added
    instead of using the existing root tree:

    The first approach was to not create another tree that holds UUID
    items. Instead, the items should just go into the top root tree.
    Unfortunately this confused the algorithm to assign the objectid
    of subvolumes and snapshots. The reason is that
    btrfs_find_free_objectid() calls btrfs_find_highest_objectid() for
    the first created subvol or snapshot after mounting a filesystem,
    and this function simply searches for the largest used objectid in
    the root tree keys to pick the next objectid to assign. Of course,
    the UUID keys have always been the ones with the highest offset
    value, and the next assigned subvol ID was wastefully huge.

    To use any other existing tree did not look proper. To apply a
    workaround such as setting the objectid to zero in the UUID item
    key and to implement collision handling would either add
    limitations (in case of a btrfs_extend_item() approach to handle
    the collisions) or a lot of complexity and source code (in case a
    key would be looked up that is free of collisions). Adding new code
    that introduces limitations is not good, and adding code that is
    complex and lengthy for no good reason is also not good. That's the
    justification why a completely new tree was introduced.

    Signed-off-by: Stefan Behrens
    Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
    Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

    Stefan Behrens