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Author SHA1 Message Date
Christoph Hellwig 1879fd6a26 add hlist_bl_lock/unlock helpers
Now that the whole dcache_hash_bucket crap is gone, go all the way and
also remove the weird locking layering violations for locking the hash
buckets.  Add hlist_bl_lock/unlock helpers to move the locking into the
list abstraction instead of requiring each caller to open code it.
After all allowing for the bit locks is the whole point of these helpers
over the plain hlist variant.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-25 18:14:10 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Linus Torvalds 3ae2a1ce2e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
  GFS2: Don't use _raw version of RCU dereference
  GFS2: Adding missing unlock_page()
  GFS2: Update to AIL list locking
  GFS2: introduce AIL lock
  GFS2: fix block allocation check for fallocate
  GFS2: Optimize glock multiple-dequeue code
  GFS2: Remove potential race in flock code
  GFS2: Fix glock deallocation race
  GFS2: quota allows exceeding hard limit
  GFS2: deallocation performance patch
  GFS2: panics on quotacheck update
  GFS2: Improve cluster mmap scalability
  GFS2: Fix glock queue trace point
  GFS2: Post-VFS scale update for RCU path walk
  GFS2: Use RCU for glock hash table
2011-03-16 08:58:43 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse 7e32d02613 GFS2: Don't use _raw version of RCU dereference
As per RCU glock patch review comments, don't use the _raw
version of this function here.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-03-15 08:58:17 +00:00
Bob Peterson fa1bbdea30 GFS2: Optimize glock multiple-dequeue code
This is a small patch that optimizes multiple glock dequeue
operations.  It changes the unlock order to be more efficient
and makes it easier for lock debugging tools to unravel.  It
also eliminates the need for the temp variable x, although
that would likely be optimized out.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-03-11 09:24:54 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse fc0e38dae6 GFS2: Fix glock deallocation race
This patch fixes a race in deallocating glocks which was introduced
in the RCU glock patch. We need to ensure that the glock count is
kept correct even in the case that there is a race to add a new
glock into the hash table. Also, to avoid having to wait for an
RCU grace period, the glock counter can be decremented before
call_rcu() is called.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-03-09 10:58:04 +00:00
Tejun Heo 58a69cb47e workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'
There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and
'freezeable'.  The former is the more prominent one.  The latter is
mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places.  Unify the
spelling to 'freezable'.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-02-16 17:48:59 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse edae38a643 GFS2: Fix glock queue trace point
Somehow this tracepoint landed up in the wrong place. This moves it
to where it should be.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-01-31 09:38:12 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse bc015cb841 GFS2: Use RCU for glock hash table
This has a number of advantages:

 - Reduces contention on the hash table lock
 - Makes the code smaller and simpler
 - Should speed up glock dumps when under load
 - Removes ref count changing in examine_bucket
 - No longer need hash chain lock in glock_put() in common case

There are some further changes which this enables and which
we may do in the future. One is to look at using SLAB_RCU,
and another is to look at using a per-cpu counter for the
per-sb glock counter, since that is touched twice in the
lifetime of each glock (but only used at umount time).

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-01-21 09:39:08 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 47a25380e3 GFS2: Merge glock state fields into a bitfield
We can only merge the fields into a bitfield if the locking
rules for them are the same. In this case gl_spin covers all
of the fields (write side) but a couple of them are used
with GLF_LOCK as the read side lock, which should be ok
since we know that the field in question won't be changing
at the time.

The gl_req setting has to be done earlier (in glock.c) in order
to place it under gl_spin. The gl_reply setting also has to be
brought under gl_spin in order to comply with the new rules.

This saves 4*sizeof(unsigned int) per glock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2010-11-30 15:49:31 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 921169ca2f GFS2: Clean up of gdlm_lock function
The DLM never returns -EAGAIN in response to dlm_lock(), and even
if it did, the test in gdlm_lock() was wrong anyway. Once that
test is removed, it is possible to greatly simplify this code
by simply using a "normal" error return code (0 for success).

We then no longer need the LM_OUT_ASYNC return code which can
be removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-11-30 10:31:48 +00:00
Joe Perches 5e69069c1a GFS2: fs/gfs2/glock.c: Use printf extension %pV
Using %pV reduces the number of printk calls and
eliminates any possible message interleaving from
other printk calls.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-11-30 10:30:41 +00:00
Joe Perches cc18152eb7 GFS2: fs/gfs2/glock.c: Convert sprintf_symbol to %pS
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-11-30 10:22:19 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse d2115778c7 GFS2: Change two WQ_RESCUERs into WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
The WQ_RESCUER flag should only be used internally to the
workqueue implementation.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-11-30 10:21:55 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 044b9414c7 GFS2: Fix inode deallocation race
This area of the code has always been a bit delicate due to the
subtleties of lock ordering. The problem is that for "normal"
alloc/dealloc, we always grab the inode locks first and the rgrp lock
later.

In order to ensure no races in looking up the unlinked, but still
allocated inodes, we need to hold the rgrp lock when we do the lookup,
which means that we can't take the inode glock.

The solution is to borrow the technique already used by NFS to solve
what is essentially the same problem (given an inode number, look up
the inode carefully, checking that it really is in the expected
state).

We cannot do that directly from the allocation code (lock ordering
again) so we give the job to the pre-existing delete workqueue and
carry on with the allocation as normal.

If we find there is no space, we do a journal flush (required anyway
if space from a deallocation is to be released) which should block
against the pending deallocations, so we should always get the space
back.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-11-15 12:44:42 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse c741c45512 GFS2: Fix spectator umount issue
The tests further down the recovery function relating to
unlocking the journal need to be updated to match the
intial test. Also, a test in the umount code which was
surplus to requirements has been removed. Umounting
spectator mounts now works correctly, as expected.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-09-29 14:20:52 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 9fa0ea9f26 GFS2: Use new workqueue scheme
The recovery workqueue can be freezable since
we want it to finish what it is doing if the system is to
be frozen (although why you'd want to freeze a cluster node
is beyond me since it will result in it being ejected from
the cluster). It does still make sense for single node
GFS2 filesystems though.

The glock workqueue will benefit from being able to run more
work items concurrently. A test running postmark shows
improved performance and multi-threaded workloads are likely
to benefit even more. It needs to be high priority because
the latency directly affects the latency of filesystem glock
operations.

The delete workqueue is similar to the recovery workqueue in
that it must not get blocked by memory allocations, and may
run for a long time.

Potentially other GFS2 threads might also be converted to
workqueues, but I'll leave that for a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-09-20 11:20:36 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 7b5e3d5fcf GFS2: Don't enforce min hold time when two demotes occur in rapid succession
Due to the design of the VFS, it is quite usual for operations on GFS2
to consist of a lookup (requiring a shared lock) followed by an
operation requiring an exclusive lock. If a remote node has cached an
exclusive lock, then it will receive two demote events in rapid succession
firstly for a shared lock and then to unlocked. The existing min hold time
code was triggering in this case, even if the node was otherwise idle
since the state change time was being updated by the initial demote.

This patch introduces logic to skip the min hold timer in the case that
a "double demote" of this kind has occurred. The min hold timer will
still be used in all other cases.

A new glock flag is introduced which is used to keep track of whether
there have been any newly queued holders since the last glock state
change. The min hold time is only applied if the flag is set.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
2010-09-20 11:19:50 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 0809f6ec18 GFS2: Fix recovery stuck bug (try #2)
This is a clean up of the code which deals with LM_FLAG_NOEXP
which aims to remove any possible race conditions by using
gl_spin to cover the gap between testing for the LM_FLAG_NOEXP
and the GL_FROZEN flag.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 10:15:17 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 7cdee5dbf4 Revert "GFS2: recovery stuck on transaction lock"
This reverts commit b7dc2df572.

The initial patch didn't quite work since it doesn't cover all
the possible routes by which the GLF_FROZEN flag might be set.
A revised fix is coming up in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-07-29 14:39:29 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse d5341a9241 GFS2: Make "try" lock not try quite so hard
This looks like a big change, but in reality its only a single line of actual
code change, the rest is just moving a function to before its new caller.
The "try" flag for glocks is a rather subtle and delicate setting since it
requires that the state machine tries just hard enough to ensure that it has
a good chance of getting the requested lock, but no so hard that the
request can land up blocked behind another.

The patch adds in an additional check which will fail any queued try
locks if there is another request blocking the try lock request which
is not granted and compatible, nor in progress already. The check is made
only after all pending locks which may be granted have been granted.

I've checked this with the reproducer for the reported flock bug which
this is intended to fix, and it now passes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-07-29 09:37:38 +01:00
Dave Chinner 7f8275d0d6 mm: add context argument to shrinker callback
The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback
to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink
caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass the shrinker
structure to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure
in the context the shrinker needs to operate on and get back to it in the
callback via container_of().

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-07-19 14:56:17 +10:00
Bob Peterson b7dc2df572 GFS2: recovery stuck on transaction lock
This patch fixes bugzilla bug #590878: GFS2: recovery stuck on
transaction lock.  We set the frozen flag on the glock when we receive
a completion that cannot be delivered due to blocked locks. At that
point we check to see whether the first waiting holder has the noexp
flag set. If the noexp lock is queued later, then we need to unfreeze
the glock at that point in time, namely, in the glock work function.

This patch was originally written by Steve Whitehouse, but since
he's on holiday, I'm submitting it.  It's been well tested with a
complex recovery test called revolver.

Signed-off-by: Steve Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2010-07-15 09:05:57 +01:00
Bob Peterson 1a0eae8848 GFS2: glock livelock
This patch fixes a couple gfs2 problems with the reclaiming of
unlinked dinodes.  First, there were a couple of livelocks where
everything would come to a halt waiting for a glock that was
seemingly held by a process that no longer existed.  In fact, the
process did exist, it just had the wrong pid number in the holder
information.  Second, there was a lock ordering problem between
inode locking and glock locking.  Third, glock/inode contention
could sometimes cause inodes to be improperly marked invalid by
iget_failed.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2010-04-14 16:48:05 +01:00
Bob Peterson 4818972efb GFS2: print glock numbers in hex
This patch changes glock numbers from printing in decimal to hex.
Since DLM prints corresponding resource IDs in hex, it makes debugging
easier.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 14:09:04 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse c1184f8ab7 GFS2: Remove loopy umount code
As a consequence of the previous patch, we can now remove the
loop which used to be required due to the circular dependency
between the inodes and glocks. Instead we can just invalidate
the inodes, and then clear up any glocks which are left.

Also we no longer need the rwsem since there is no longer any
danger of the inode invalidation calling back into the glock
code (and from there back into the inode code).

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 14:07:53 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 009d851837 GFS2: Metadata address space clean up
Since the start of GFS2, an "extra" inode has been used to store
the metadata belonging to each inode. The only reason for using
this inode was to have an extra address space, the other fields
were unused. This means that the memory usage was rather inefficient.

The reason for keeping each inode's metadata in a separate address
space is that when glocks are requested on remote nodes, we need to
be able to efficiently locate the data and metadata which relating
to that glock (inode) in order to sync or sync and invalidate it
(depending on the remotely requested lock mode).

This patch adds a new type of glock, which has in addition to
its normal fields, has an address space. This applies to all
inode and rgrp glocks (but to no other glock types which remain
as before). As a result, we no longer need to have the second
inode.

This results in three major improvements:
 1. A saving of approx 25% of memory used in caching inodes
 2. A removal of the circular dependency between inodes and glocks
 3. No confusion between "normal" and "metadata" inodes in super.c

Although the first of these is the more immediately apparent, the
second is just as important as it now enables a number of clean
ups at umount time. Those will be the subject of future patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 14:07:37 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 8f05228ee7 GFS2: Extend umount wait coverage to full glock lifetime
Although all glocks are, by the time of the umount glock wait,
scheduled for demotion, some of them haven't made it far
enough through the process for the original set of waiting
code to wait for them.

This extends the ref count to the whole glock lifetime in order
to ensure that the waiting does catch all glocks. It does make
it a bit more invasive, but it seems the only sensible solution
at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-02-03 09:56:21 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 26bb7505cf GFS2: Fix glock refcount issues
This patch fixes some ref counting issues. Firstly by moving
the point at which we drop the ref count after a dlm lock
operation has completed we ensure that we never call
gfs2_glock_hold() on a lock with a zero ref count.

Secondly, by using atomic_dec_and_lock() in gfs2_glock_put()
we ensure that at no time will a glock with zero ref count
appear on the lru_list. That means that we can remove the
check for this in our shrinker (which was racy).

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 12:00:12 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 7e71c55ee7 GFS2: Fix potential race in glock code
We need to be careful of the ordering between clearing the
GLF_LOCK bit and scheduling the workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 11:42:25 +00:00
Benjamin Marzinski b94a170e96 GFS2: remove dcache entries for remote deleted inodes
When a file is deleted from a gfs2 filesystem on one node, a dcache
entry for it may still exist on other nodes in the cluster. If this
happens, gfs2 will be unable to free this file on disk. Because of this,
it's possible to have a gfs2 filesystem with no files on it and no free
space. With this patch, when a node receives a callback notifying it
that the file is being deleted on another node, it schedules a new
workqueue thread to remove the file's dcache entry.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-07-30 11:01:03 +01:00
Benjamin Marzinski 8ff22a6f9b GFS2: Don't put unlikely reclaim candidates on the reclaim list.
GFS2 was placing far too many glocks on the reclaim list that were not good
candidates for freeing up from cache.  These locks would sit there and
repeatedly get scanned to see if they could be reclaimed, wasting a lot
of time when there was memory pressure. This fix does more checks on the
locks to see if they are actually likely to be removable from cache.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-07-30 11:00:09 +01:00
Benjamin Marzinski a51b56fff3 GFS2: Fix panic in glock memory shrinker
It is possible for gfs2_shrink_glock_memory() to check a glock for
demotion
that's in the process of being freed by gfs2_glock_put().  In this case,
gfs2_shrink_glock_memory() will acquire a new reference to this glock,
and
then try to free the glock itself when it drops the refernce.  To solve
this, gfs2_shrink_glock_memory() just needs to check if the glock is in
the process of being freed, and if so skip it without ever unlocking the
lru_lock.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-07-30 10:59:28 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 2163b1e616 GFS2: Shrink the shrinker
This patch removes some of the special cases that the shrinker
was trying to deal with. As a result we leave fewer items on
the list and none at all which cannot be demoted. This makes
the list scanning more efficient and solves some issues seen
with large numbers of inodes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-07-30 10:52:14 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 63997775b7 GFS2: Add tracepoints
This patch adds the ability to trace various aspects of the GFS2
filesystem. The trace points are divided into three groups,
glocks, logging and bmap. These points have been chosen because
they allow inspection of the major internal functions of GFS2
and they are also generic enough that they are unlikely to need
any major changes as the filesystem evolves.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-06-12 08:49:20 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse fe64d517df GFS2: Umount recovery race fix
This patch fixes a race condition where we can receive recovery
requests part way through processing a umount. This was causing
problems since the recovery thread had already gone away.

Looking in more detail at the recovery code, it was really trying
to implement a slight variation on a work queue, and that happens to
align nicely with the recently introduced slow-work subsystem. As a
result I've updated the code to use slow-work, rather than its own home
grown variety of work queue.

When using the wait_on_bit() function, I noticed that the wait function
that was supplied as an argument was appearing in the WCHAN field, so
I've updated the function names in order to produce more meaningful
output.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-05-19 10:01:18 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 0c7a531a20 GFS2: Fix glock ref counting bug
Depending on the ordering of events as we go around the
glock shrinker loop, it is possible to drop the ref count
of a glock incorrectly. It doesn't happen very often. This
patch corrects the got_ref variable, fixing the problem.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-05-09 15:15:17 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse a228df6339 GFS2: Move umount flush rwsem
The rwsem, used only on umount, is in the wrong place in glock.c.
This patch moves it up a bit so that it does not get called under
a spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-04-15 10:16:13 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse 64d576ba23 GFS2: Add a "demote a glock" interface to sysfs
This adds a sysfs file called demote_rq to GFS2's
per filesystem directory. Its possible to use this
file to demote arbitrary glocks in exactly the same
way as if a request had come in from a remote node.

This is intended for testing issues relating to caching
of data under glocks. Despite that, the interface is
generic enough to send requests to any type of glock,
but be careful as its not always safe to send an
arbitrary message to an arbitrary glock. For that reason
and to prevent DoS, this interface is restricted to root
only.

The messages look like this:

<type>:<glocknumber> <mode>

Example:

echo -n "2:13324 EX" >/sys/fs/gfs2/unity:myfs/demote_rq

Which means "please demote inode glock (type 2) number 13324 so that
I can get an EX (exclusive) lock". The lock modes are those which
would normally be sent by a remote node in its callback so if you
want to unlock a glock, you use EX, to demote to shared, use SH or PR
(depending on whether you like GFS2 or DLM lock modes better!).

If the glock doesn't exist, you'll get -ENOENT returned. If the
arguments don't make sense, you'll get -EINVAL returned.

The plan is that this interface will be used in combination with
the blktrace patch which I recently posted for comments although
it is, of course, still useful in its own right.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:21:22 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse d8348de06f GFS2: Fix deadlock on journal flush
This patch fixes a deadlock when the journal is flushed and there
are dirty inodes other than the one which caused the journal flush.
Originally the journal flushing code was trying to obtain the
transaction glock while running the flush code for an inode glock.
We no longer require the transaction glock at this point in time
since we know that any attempt to get the transaction glock from
another node will result in a journal flush. So if we are flushing
the journal, we can be sure that the transaction lock is still
cached from when the transaction was started.

By inlining a version of gfs2_trans_begin() (minus the bit which
gets the transaction glock) we can avoid the deadlock problems
caused if there is a demote request queued up on the transaction
glock.

In addition I've also moved the umount rwsem so that it covers
the glock workqueue, since it all demotions are done by this
workqueue now. That fixes a bug on umount which I came across
while fixing the original problem.

Reported-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:21:18 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse ac2425e7d3 GFS2: Remove unused field from glock
The time stamp field is unused in the glock now that we are
using a shrinker, so that we can remove it and save sizeof(unsigned long)
bytes in each glock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:21:17 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse f057f6cdf6 GFS2: Merge lock_dlm module into GFS2
This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time
now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change
such as:
 o Reducing overhead by eliminating duplicated fields between structures
 o Simplifcation of the code (reduces the code size by a fair bit)
 o The locking interface is now the DLM interface itself as proposed
   some time ago.
 o Fewer lookups of glocks when processing replies from the DLM
 o Fewer memory allocations/deallocations for each glock
 o Scope to do further optimisations in the future (but this patch is
   more than big enough for now!)

Please note that (a) this patch relates to the lock_dlm module and
not the DLM itself, that is still a separate module; and (b) that
we retain the ability to build GFS2 as a standalone single node
filesystem with out requiring the DLM.

This patch needs a lot of testing, hence my keeping it I restarted
my -git tree after the last merge window. That way, this has the maximum
exposure before its merged. This is (modulo a few minor bug fixes) the
same patch that I've been posting on and off the the last three months
and its passed a number of different tests so far.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:21:14 +00:00
Julia Lawall eb8374e71f GFS2: Use DEFINE_SPINLOCK
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated.  The following makes the change suggested
in Documentation/spinlocks.txt

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
declarer name DEFINE_SPINLOCK;
identifier xxx_lock;
@@

- spinlock_t xxx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+ DEFINE_SPINLOCK(xxx_lock);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-01-05 07:45:02 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse fefc03bfed Revert "GFS2: Fix use-after-free bug on umount"
This reverts commit 78802499912f1ba31ce83a94c55b5a980f250a43.

The original patch is causing problems in relation to order of
operations at umount in relation to jdata files. I need to fix
this a different way.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-01-05 07:39:18 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 3af165ac4d GFS2: Fix use-after-free bug on umount
There was a use-after-free with the GFS2 super block during
umount. This patch moves almost all of the umount code from
->put_super into ->kill_sb, the only bit that cannot be moved
being the glock hash clearing which has to remain as ->put_super
due to umount ordering requirements. As a result its now obvious
that the kfree is the final operation, whereas before it was
hidden in ->put_super.

Also gfs2_jindex_free is then only referenced from a single file
so thats moved and marked static too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-01-05 07:39:14 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 2bfb6449b7 GFS2: Move four functions from super.c
The functions which are being moved can all be marked
static in their new locations, since they only have
a single caller each. Their new locations are more
logical than before and some of the functions are
small enough that the compiler might well inline them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-01-05 07:39:12 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 97cc1025b1 GFS2: Kill two daemons with one patch
This patch removes the two daemons, gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd
and replaces them with a shrinker which is called from the VM.

The net result is that GFS2 responds better when there is memory
pressure, since it shrinks the glock cache at the same rate
as the VFS shrinks the dcache and icache. There are no longer
any time based criteria for shrinking glocks, they are kept
until such time as the VM asks for more memory and then we
demote just as many glocks as required.

There are potential future changes to this code, including the
possibility of sorting the glocks which are to be written back
into inode number order, to get a better I/O ordering. It would
be very useful to have an elevator based workqueue implementation
for this, as that would automatically deal with the read I/O cases
at the same time.

This patch is my answer to Andrew Morton's remark, made during
the initial review of GFS2, asking why GFS2 needs so many kernel
threads, the answer being that it doesn't :-) This patch is a
net loss of about 200 lines of code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-01-05 07:39:09 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 813e0c46c9 GFS2: Fix "truncate in progress" hang
Following on from the recent clean up of gfs2_quotad, this patch moves
the processing of "truncate in progress" inodes from the glock workqueue
into gfs2_quotad. This fixes a hang due to the "truncate in progress"
processing requiring glocks in order to complete.

It might seem odd to use gfs2_quotad for this particular item, but
we have to use a pre-existing thread since creating a thread implies
a GFP_KERNEL memory allocation which is not allowed from the glock
workqueue context. Of the existing threads, gfs2_logd and gfs2_recoverd
may deadlock if used for this operation. gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd are
both scheduled for removal at some (hopefully not too distant) future
point. That leaves only gfs2_quotad whose workload is generally fairly
light and is easily adapted for this extra task.

Also, as a result of this change, it opens the way for a future patch to
make the reading of the inode's information asynchronous with respect to
the glock workqueue, which is another improvement that has been on the list
for some time now.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-01-05 07:39:06 +00:00
Harvey Harrison 55ba474dae GFS2: sparse annotation of gl->gl_spin
fs/gfs2/glock.c:308:5: warning: context problem in 'do_promote': '_spin_unlock' expected different context
fs/gfs2/glock.c:308:5:    context '*gl+28': wanted >= 1, got 0
fs/gfs2/glock.c:529:2: warning: context problem in 'do_xmote': '_spin_unlock' expected different context
fs/gfs2/glock.c:529:2:    context '*gl+28': wanted >= 1, got 0
fs/gfs2/glock.c:925:3: warning: context problem in 'add_to_queue': '_spin_unlock' expected different context
fs/gfs2/glock.c:925:3:    context '*gl+28': wanted >= 1, got 0

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-01-05 07:38:50 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse 719ee34467 GFS2: high time to take some time over atime
Until now, we've used the same scheme as GFS1 for atime. This has failed
since atime is a per vfsmnt flag, not a per fs flag and as such the
"noatime" flag was not getting passed down to the filesystems. This
patch removes all the "special casing" around atime updates and we
simply use the VFS's atime code.

The net result is that GFS2 will now support all the same atime related
mount options of any other filesystem on a per-vfsmnt basis. We do lose
the "lazy atime" updates, but we gain "relatime". We could add lazy
atime to the VFS at a later date, if there is a requirement for that
variant still - I suspect relatime will be enough.

Also we lose about 100 lines of code after this patch has been applied,
and I have a suspicion that it will speed things up a bit, even when
atime is "on". So it seems like a nice clean up as well.

From a user perspective, everything stays the same except the loss of
the per-fs atime quantum tweekable (ought to be per-vfsmnt at the very
least, and to be honest I don't think anybody ever used it) and that a
number of options which were ignored before now work correctly.

Please let me know if you've got any comments. I'm pushing this out
early so that you can all see what my plans are.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-09-18 13:53:59 +01:00