It is possible to reduce the size of GFS2 inodes by taking the i_alloc
structure out of the gfs2_inode. This patch allocates the i_alloc
structure whenever its needed, and frees it afterward. This decreases
the amount of low memory we use at the expense of requiring a memory
allocation for each page or partial page that we write. A quick test
with postmark shows that the overhead is not measurable and I also note
that OCFS2 use the same approach.
In the future I'd like to solve the problem by shrinking down the size
of the members of the i_alloc structure, but for now, this reduces the
immediate problem of using too much low-memory on x86 and doesn't add
too much overhead.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
There is a possible deadlock between two processes on the same node, where one
process is deleting an inode, and another process is looking for allocated but
unused inodes to delete in order to create more space.
process A does an iput() on inode X, and it's i_count drops to 0. This causes
iput_final() to be called, which puts an inode into state I_FREEING at
generic_delete_inode(). There no point between when iput_final() is called, and
when I_FREEING is set where GFS2 could acquire any glocks. Once I_FREEING is
set, no other process on that node can successfully look up that inode until
the delete finishes.
process B locks the the resource group for the same inode in get_local_rgrp(),
which is called by gfs2_inplace_reserve_i()
process A tries to lock the resource group for the inode in
gfs2_dinode_dealloc(), but it's already locked by process B
process B waits in find_inode for the inode to have the I_FREEING state cleared.
Deadlock.
This patch solves the problem by adding an alternative to gfs2_iget(),
gfs2_iget_skip(), that simply skips any inodes that are in the I_FREEING
state.o The alternate test function is just like the original one, except that
it fails if the inode is being freed, and sets a skipped flag. The alternate
set function is just like the original, except that it fails if the skipped
flag is set. Only try_rgrp_unlink() calls gfs2_iget_skip() instead of
gfs2_iget().
Signed-off-by: Benjamin E. Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This was missing from the dir_split_leaf() function although in
most cases its not a problem due to other functions having
already previously called gfs2_trans_add_bh. This makes certain
that it is correct.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
GFS2 lookup code doesn't ask for inode shared glock. This implies during
in-memory inode creation for existing file, GFS2 will not disk-read in
the inode contents. This leaves no_formal_ino un-initialized during
lookup time. The un-initialized no_formal_ino is subsequently encoded
into file handle. Clients will get ESTALE error whenever it tries to
access these files.
Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This adds a nanosecond timestamp feature to the GFS2 filesystem. Due
to the way that the on-disk format works, older filesystems will just
appear to have this field set to zero. When mounted by an older version
of GFS2, the filesystem will simply ignore the extra fields so that
it will again appear to have whole second resolution, so that its
trivially backward compatible.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes some sign issues which were accidentally introduced
into the quota & statfs code during the endianess annotation process.
Also included is a general clean up which moves all of the _host
structures out of gfs2_ondisk.h (where they should not have been to
start with) and into the places where they are actually used (often only
one place). Also those _host structures which are not required any more
are removed entirely (which is the eventual plan for all of them).
The conversion routines from ondisk.c are also moved into the places
where they are actually used, which for almost every one, was just one
single place, so all those are now static functions. This also cleans up
the end of gfs2_ondisk.h which no longer needs the #ifdef __KERNEL__.
The net result is a reduction of about 100 lines of code, many functions
now marked static plus the bug fixes as mentioned above. For good
measure I ran the code through sparse after making these changes to
check that there are no warnings generated.
This fixes Red Hat bz #239686
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up the inode number handling code. The main difference
is that instead of looking up the inodes using a struct gfs2_inum_host
we now use just the no_addr member of this structure. The tests relating
to no_formal_ino can then be done by the calling code. This has
advantages in that we want to do different things in different code
paths if the no_formal_ino doesn't match. In the NFS patch we want to
return -ESTALE, but in the ->lookup() path, its a bug in the fs if the
no_formal_ino doesn't match and thus we can withdraw in this case.
In order to later fix bz #201012, we need to be able to look up an inode
without knowing no_formal_ino, as the only information that is known to
us is the on-disk location of the inode in question.
This patch will also help us to fix bz #236099 at a later date by
cleaning up a lot of the code in that area.
There are no user visible changes as a result of this patch and there
are no changes to the on-disk format either.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
alpha:
fs/gfs2/dir.c: In function 'gfs2_dir_read_leaf':
fs/gfs2/dir.c:1322: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'sector_t'
fs/gfs2/dir.c: In function 'gfs2_dir_read':
fs/gfs2/dir.c:1455: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type '__u64'
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch detects when the number of entries in a leaf block or inode
block (in the case of stuffed directories) is corrupt and informs the
user. It prevents us from running off the end of the array thats been
allocated for the sorting in this case,
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.
To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.
Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I was looking something else up and came across this...
I don't honestly have a good reason to change it other than to make it
like every other Linux filesystem in this regard. ;-) It doesn't
functionally change anything, but makes some lines shorter. :)
I'm also curious; why does gfs2 have 64-bits of on-disk timestamps, but
not in timespec_t format, and only stores second resolutions? Seems like
you're halfway to sub-second resolutions already.
I suppose if that gets implemented then all of the below should
instead be CURRENT_TIME not CURRENT_TIME_SEC.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This removes the extra filldir callback which gfs2 was using to
enclose an attempt at readahead for inodes during readdir. The
code was too complicated and also hurts performance badly in the
case that the getdents64/readdir call isn't being followed by
stat() and it wasn't even getting it right all the time when it
was.
As a result, on my test box an "ls" of a directory containing 250000
files fell from about 7mins (freshly mounted, so nothing cached) to
between about 15 to 25 seconds. When the directory content was cached,
the time taken fell from about 3mins to about 4 or 5 seconds.
Interestingly in the cached case, running "ls -l" once reduced the time
taken for subsequent runs of "ls" to about 6 secs even without this
patch. Now it turns out that there was a special case of glocks being
used for prefetching the metadata, but because of the timeouts for these
locks (set to 10 secs) the metadata was being timed out before it was
being used and this the prefetch code was constantly trying to prefetch
the same data over and over.
Calling "ls -l" meant that the inodes were brought into memory and once
the inodes are cached, the glocks are not disposed of until the inodes
are pushed out of the cache, thus extending the lifetime of the glocks,
and thus bringing down the time for subsequent runs of "ls"
considerably.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When deleting directory entries, we set the inum.no_addr to zero
in a dirent when its the first dirent in a block and thus cannot
be merged into the previous dirent as is the usual case. In gfs1,
inum.no_formal_ino was used instead.
This patch changes gfs2 to set both inum.no_addr and inum.no_formal_ino
to zero. It also changes the test from just looking at inum.no_addr to
look at both inum.no_addr and inum.no_formal_ino and a sentinel is
now considered to be a dirent in which _either_ (or both) of them
is set to zero.
This resolves Red Hat bugzillas: #215809, #211465
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This function wasn't really doing the right thing. There was no need
to update the inode size at this point and the updating of the
i_blocks field has now been moved to the places where di_blocks is
updated. A result of this patch and some those preceeding it is that
unlocking a glock is now a much more efficient process, since there
is no longer any requirement to copy data from the gfs2 inode into
the vfs inode at this point.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is almost never used. Its there for backward
compatibility with GFS1. It doesn't need its own
field since it can always be calculated from the
inode mode & flags. This saves a bit more space
in the gfs2_inode.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Remove the di_[amc]time fields and use inode->i_[amc]time
fields instead. This saves 24 bytes from the gfs2_inode.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Everywhere this was called, a struct gfs2_inode was available,
but despite that, it was always called with a struct gfs2_dinode
as an argument. By making this change it paves the way to start
eliminating fields duplicated between the kernel's struct inode
and the struct gfs2_dinode.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In the "if (extlen)" case, "bh" was used uninitialized.
This patch changes the code to what seems to have been intended.
Spotted by the Coverity checker.
This patch also removes a pointless "bh = NULL" asignment (the variable
is never accessed again after this point).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In the "if (extlen)" case, "new" might be used uninitialized.
Looking at the code, it should be initialized to 0.
Spotted by the Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The Coverity checker spotted this obviously dead code.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Fix a bug in the directory reading code, where we might have dereferenced
a NULL pointer in case of OOM. Updated the directory code to use the new
& improved version of gfs2_meta_ra() which now returns the first block
that was being read. Previously it was releasing it requiring following
code to grab the block again at each point it was called.
Also turned off readahead on directory lookups since we are reading a
hash table, and therefore reading the entries in order is very
unlikely. Readahead is still used for all other calls to the
directory reading function (e.g. when growing the hash table).
Removed the DIO_START constant. Everywhere this was used, it was
used to unconditionally start i/o aside from a couple of places, so
I've removed it and made the couple of exceptions to this rule into
separate functions.
Also hunted through the other DIO flags and removed them as arguments
from functions which were always called with the same combination of
arguments.
Updated gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer to be a bit more efficient and
hopefully also be a bit easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
lm_interface.h has a few out of the tree clients such as GFS1
and userland tools.
Right now, these clients keeps a copy of the file in their build tree
that can go out of sync.
Move lm_interface.h to include/linux, export it to userland and
clean up fs/gfs2 to use the new location.
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As per comments from Jan Engelhardt, remove redundant casts, redundant
endian conversions, add a smattering of const and rewrite the
dirent_next function in order to avoid as many casts as possible.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This makes all fixed size types have consistent names.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As per comments from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> 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 <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This was a nasty bug which resulted in corruption of hash tables
in the directory code with larger directories. We forgot to
increment a pointer in the read/write routines internal to the
directory code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Tidy up gfs2_unstuffer_page by:
a) Moving it into bmap.c
b) Making it static
c) Calling it directly from gfs2_unstuff_dinode
d) Updating all callers of gfs2_unstuff_dinode due to one less
required argument.
It doesn't change the behaviour at all.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Fix a use after free bug in dir.c spotted by Kevin Anderson.
Cc: Kevin Anderson <kanderso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes the way we have been dealing with unlinked,
but still open files. It removes all limits (other than memory
for inodes, as per every other filesystem) on numbers of these
which we can support on GFS2. It also means that (like other
fs) its the responsibility of the last process to close the file
to deallocate the storage, rather than the person who did the
unlinking. Note that with GFS2, those two events might take place
on different nodes.
Also there are a number of other changes:
o We use the Linux inode subsystem as it was intended to be
used, wrt allocating GFS2 inodes
o The Linux inode cache is now the point which we use for
local enforcement of only holding one copy of the inode in
core at once (previous to this we used the glock layer).
o We no longer use the unlinked "special" file. We just ignore it
completely. This makes unlinking more efficient.
o We now use the 4th block allocation state. The previously unused
state is used to track unlinked but still open inodes.
o gfs2_inoded is no longer needed
o Several fields are now no longer needed (and removed) from the in
core struct gfs2_inode
o Several fields are no longer needed (and removed) from the in core
superblock
There are a number of future possible optimisations and clean ups
which have been made possible by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This adds readpages support (and also corrects a small bug in
the readpage error path at the same time). Hopefully this will
improve performance by allowing GFS to submit larger lumps of
I/O at a time.
In order to simplify the setting of BH_Boundary, it currently gets
set when we hit the end of a indirect pointer block. There is
always a boundary at this point with the current allocation code.
It doesn't get all the boundaries right though, so there is still
room for improvement in this.
See comments in fs/gfs2/ops_address.c for further information about
readpages with GFS2.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- #if 0 unused functions
- remove the following global function that was both unused and
unimplemented:
- super.c: gfs2_do_upgrade()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
1. Comment whitespace fix
2. Removed unused header files from dir.c
3. Split the gfs2_dir_get_buffer() function into two functions
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When allocating memory to sort directory entries, use vmalloc()
rather than kmalloc() since for larger directories, the required
size can easily be graeter than the 128k maximum of kmalloc().
Also adding the first steps towards getting the AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
return code get in the glock code by flagging all places where we
request a glock and we are holding a page lock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
A typo in the directory code was causing postmark to fail
somewhere in the allocation code, since it was unable to
find newly allocated directory leaf blocks under certain
circumstances.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
A small update to the journaling code to change the way that
the "extra" blocks are accounted for in the journal. These are
used at a rate of one per 503 metadata blocks or one per 251
journaled data blocks (or just one if the total number of journaled
blocks in the transaction is smaller). Since we are using them at
two different rates the old method of accounting for them no longer
works and we count them up as required.
Since the "per transaction" accounting can't handle this (there is no
fixed number of header blocks per transaction) we have to account for
it in the general journal code. We now require that each transaction
reserves more blocks than it actually needs to take account of the
possible extra blocks.
Also a final fix to dir.c to ensure that all ref counts are handled
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The last patch missed some other instances of incorrect ref counting,
this fixes all of those too.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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 <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This reduces the size of the directory code by about 3k and gets
readdir() to use the functions which were introduced in the previous
directory code update.
Two memory allocations are merged into one. Eliminates zeroing of some
buffers which were never used before they were initialised by
other data.
There is still scope for further improvement in the directory code.
On the logging side, a hand created mutex has been replaced by a
standard Linux mutex in the log allocation code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
