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Trond Myklebust
61e930a904 NFS: Fix a writeback race...
This patch fixes a regression that was introduced by commit
44dd151d5c

We cannot zero the user page in nfs_mark_uptodate() any more, since

  a) We'd be modifying the page without holding the page lock
  b) We can race with other updates of the page, most notably
     because of the call to nfs_wb_page() in nfs_writepage_setup().

Instead, we do the zeroing in nfs_update_request() if we see that we're
creating a request that might potentially be marked as up to date.

Thanks to Olivier Paquet for reporting the bug and providing a test-case.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-19 17:18:57 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra
c9e51e4180 mm: count reclaimable pages per BDI
Count per BDI reclaimable pages; nr_reclaimable = nr_dirty + nr_unstable.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
c4dc4beed2 nfs: remove congestion_end()
These patches aim to improve balance_dirty_pages() and directly address three
issues:
  1) inter device starvation
  2) stacked device deadlocks
  3) inter process starvation

1 and 2 are a direct result from removing the global dirty limit and using
per device dirty limits. By giving each device its own dirty limit is will
no longer starve another device, and the cyclic dependancy on the dirty limit
is broken.

In order to efficiently distribute the dirty limit across the independant
devices a floating proportion is used, this will allocate a share of the total
limit proportional to the device's recent activity.

3 is done by also scaling the dirty limit proportional to the current task's
recent dirty rate.

This patch:

nfs: remove congestion_end().  It's redundant, clear_bdi_congested() already
wakes the waiters.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:44 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
60ccd4ec41 NFS: Remove nfs_begin_data_update/nfs_end_data_update
The lower level routines in fs/nfs/proc.c, fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c and
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c should already be dealing with the revalidation issues.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:53 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
cd3758e37d NFS: Replace file->private_data with calls to nfs_file_open_context()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:31 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
7b159fc18d NFS: Fall back to synchronous writes when a background write errors...
This helps prevent huge queues of background writes from building up
whenever the server runs out of disk or quota space, or if someone changes
the file access modes behind our backs.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:15:23 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
34901f70d1 NFS: Writeback optimisation
Schedule writes using WB_SYNC_NONE first, then come back for a second pass
using WB_SYNC_ALL.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:15:21 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
ed90ef51a3 NFS: Clean up NFS writeback flush code
The only user of nfs_sync_mapping_range() is nfs_getattr(), which uses it
to flush out the entire inode without sending a commit. We therefore
replace nfs_sync_mapping_range with a more appropriate helper.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:15:18 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f758c88519 NFS: Clean up nfs_writepages()
Just call write_cache_pages directly instead of hacking the writeback
control structure in order to find out if we were called from writepages()
or directly from the VM.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:15:13 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
9cccef9505 NFS: Clean up write code...
The addition of nfs_page_mkwrite means that We should no longer need to
create requests inside nfs_writepage()

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:15:11 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
1b3b4a1a2d NFS: Fix a write request leak in nfs_invalidate_page()
Ryusuke Konishi says:

The recent truncate_complete_page() clears the dirty flag from a page
before calling a_ops->invalidatepage(),
^^^^^^
static void
truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
{
        ...
        cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);  <--- Inserted here at
kernel 2.6.20

        if (PagePrivate(page))
                do_invalidatepage(page, 0);   ---> will call
a_ops->invalidatepage()
        ...
}

and this is disturbing nfs_wb_page_priority() from calling 
nfs_writepage_locked() that is expected to handle the pending
request (=nfs_page) associated with the page.

int nfs_wb_page_priority(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, int how)
{
        ...
        if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
                ret = nfs_writepage_locked(page, &wbc);
                if (ret < 0)
                        goto out;
        }
        ...
}

Since truncate_complete_page() will get rid of the page after
a_ops->invalidatepage() returns, the request (=nfs_page) associated
with the page becomes a garbage in nfs_inode->nfs_page_tree.
------------------------

Fix this by ensuring that nfs_wb_page_priority() recognises that it may
also need to clear out non-dirty pages that have an nfs_page associated
with them.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-09-01 10:14:54 -04:00
Paul Mundt
20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Trond Myklebust
587142f85f NFS: Replace NFS_I(inode)->req_lock with inode->i_lock
There is no justification for keeping a special spinlock for the exclusive
use of the NFS writeback code.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:38 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
2aefa10431 NFS: Remove the redundant 'dirty' and 'commit' lists from nfs_inode
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:26 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
5c36968343 NFS cleanup: speed up nfs_scan_commit using radix tree tags
Add a tag for requests that are waiting for a COMMIT

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:26 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
9fd367f0f3 NFS cleanup: Rename NFS_PAGE_TAG_WRITEBACK to NFS_PAGE_TAG_LOCKED
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:26 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
c03b402461 NFS: Convert struct nfs_page to use krefs
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:26 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
88be9f990f NFS: Replace vfsmount and dentry in nfs_open_context with struct path
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:23 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
44dd151d5c NFS: Don't mark a written page as uptodate until it is on disk
The write may fail, so we should not mark the page as uptodate until we are
certain that the data has been accepted and written to disk by the server.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:23 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
7fe7f8487a NFS: Avoid a deadlock situation on write
When processes are allowed to attempt to lock a non-contiguous range of nfs
write requests, it is possible for generic_writepages to 'wrap round' the
address space, and call writepage() on a request that is already locked by
the same process.

We avoid the deadlock by checking if the page index is contiguous with the
list of nfs write requests that is already held in our
nfs_pageio_descriptor prior to attempting to lock a new request.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-24 10:44:20 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
10afec9081 NFS: Fix some 'sparse' warnings...
- fs/nfs/dir.c:610:8: warning: symbol 'nfs_llseek_dir' was not declared.
   Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/dir.c:636:5: warning: symbol 'nfs_fsync_dir' was not declared.
   Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/write.c:925:19: warning: symbol 'req' shadows an earlier one
 - fs/nfs/write.c:61:6: warning: symbol 'nfs_commit_rcu_free' was not
   declared. Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c:793:5: warning: symbol 'nfs4_recover_expired_lease'
   was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-14 19:33:46 -04:00
Nate Diller
60945cb7c8 NFS: use zero_user_page
Use zero_user_page() instead of the newly deprecated memclear_highpage_flush().

Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-14 19:33:45 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra
277866a0e3 nfs: fix congestion control: use atomic_longs
Change the atomic_t in struct nfs_server to atomic_long_t in anticipation
of machines that can handle 8+TB of (4K) pages under writeback.

However I suspect other things in NFS will start going *bang* by then.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:21 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
ca52fec152 NFS: Use pgoff_t in structures and functions that pass page cache offsets
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:09 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
724c439c20 NFS: Clean up nfs_sync_mapping_wait()
It has no business touching wbc->pages_skipped.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:08 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
8d5658c949 NFS: Fix a buffer overflow in the allocation of struct nfs_read/writedata
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:07 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
c63c7b0513 NFS: Fix a race when doing NFS write coalescing
Currently we do write coalescing in a very inefficient manner: one pass in
generic_writepages() in order to lock the pages for writing, then one pass
in nfs_flush_mapping() and/or nfs_sync_mapping_wait() in order to gather
the locked pages for coalescing into RPC requests of size "wsize".

In fact, it turns out there is actually a deadlock possible here since we
only start I/O on the second pass. If the user signals the process while
we're in nfs_sync_mapping_wait(), for instance, then we may exit before
starting I/O on all the requests that have been queued up.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:06 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
bcb71bba7e NFS: Another cleanup of the read/write request coalescing code
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:04 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
d8a5ad75cc NFS: Cleanup the coalescing code
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:04 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
91e59c368c NFS: Don't wait for congestion in nfs_update_request()
It is redundant, and will interfere with the call to
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr in generic_file_write().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:03 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
d585158b60 NFS: Fix nfs_set_page_dirty()
Be more careful about testing page->mapping.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:02 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
2b82f190c8 NFS: Fix race in nfs_set_page_dirty
Protect nfs_set_page_dirty() against races with nfs_inode_add_request.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-20 22:56:30 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
612c9384fd NFS: Fix the 'desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit' error
Redirtying a request that is already marked for commit will screw up the
accounting for NR_UNSTABLE_NFS as well as nfs_i.ncommit.
Ensure that all requests on the commit queue are labelled with the
PG_NEED_COMMIT flag, and avoid moving them onto the dirty list inside
nfs_page_mark_flush().

Also inline nfs_mark_request_dirty() into nfs_page_mark_flush() for
atomicity reasons. Avoid dropping the spinlock until we're done marking the
request in the radix tree and have added it to the ->dirty list.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-20 22:56:29 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
6d677e3504 NFS: Don't clear PG_writeback until after we've processed unstable writes
Ensure that we don't release the PG_writeback lock until after the page has
either been redirtied, or queued on the nfs_inode 'commit' list.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-20 22:56:29 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
8e821cad12 NFS: clean up the unstable write code
Get rid of the inlined #ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-20 22:56:29 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
eb4cac10d9 NFS: Fix a list corruption problem
We must remove the request from whatever list it is currently on before we
can add it to the dirty list.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-15 16:48:11 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
5a6d41b32a NFS: Ensure PG_writeback is cleared when writeback fails
If the writebacks are cancelled via nfs_cancel_dirty_list, or due to the
memory allocation failing in nfs_flush_one/nfs_flush_multi, then we must
ensure that the PG_writeback flag is cleared.

Also ensure that we actually own the PG_writeback flag whenever we
schedule a new writeback by making nfs_set_page_writeback() return the
value of test_set_page_writeback().
The PG_writeback page flag ends up replacing the functionality of the
PG_FLUSHING nfs_page flag, so we rip that out too.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-14 21:46:48 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
89a09141df [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control
The current NFS client congestion logic is severly broken, it marks the
backing device congested during each nfs_writepages() call but doesn't
mirror this in nfs_writepage() which makes for deadlocks.  Also it
implements its own waitqueue.

Replace this by a more regular congestion implementation that puts a cap on
the number of active writeback pages and uses the bdi congestion waitqueue.

Also always use an interruptible wait since it makes sense to be able to
SIGKILL the process even for mounts without 'intr'.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-16 19:25:05 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
a301b77771 NFS: Don't use ClearPageUptodate() when writeback fails
ClearPageUptodate() will just cause races here. What we really want to do
is to invalidate the page cache.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-12 22:40:38 -08:00
Chuck Lever
a3f565b1e5 NFS: fix print format for tk_pid
The tk_pid field is an unsigned short.  The proper print format specifier for
that type is %5u, not %4d.

Also clean up some miscellaneous print formatting nits.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:09 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
7c85d9007d NFS: Fixup some outdated comments...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:07 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
d30c8348a4 NFS: nfs_writepages() cleanup
Strip out the call to nfs_commit_inode(), and allow that to be done by
nfs_write_inode().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:07 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
f40313ac39 NFS: Micro-optimisation for nfs_wb_page()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:07 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
02241bc47e NFS: Ensure that ->writepage() uses flush_stable() when reclaiming pages
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:06 -08:00
Josef "Jeff" Sipek
01cce933d8 [PATCH] nfs: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_path
Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the nfs
client code.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:41 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
21b4e73692 Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/ into merge_linus 2006-12-07 16:35:17 -05:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e6b4f8da3a [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_NOFS
SLAB_NOFS is an alias of GFP_NOFS.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
a18030445f NFS: Clean up calls to mark_inode_dirty() part 2
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06 10:46:42 -05:00