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This adds "norecovery" mount option which disables temporal write
access to read-only mounts or snapshots during mount/recovery.
Without this option, write access will be even performed for those
types of mounts; the temporal write access is needed to mount root
file system read-only after an unclean shutdown.
This option will be helpful when user wants to prevent any write
access to the device.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
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This adds a helper function, nilfs_valid_fs() which returns if nilfs
is in a valid state or not.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Although mount recovery of nilfs is integrated in load_nilfs()
procedure, the completion of recovery was isolated from the procedure
and performed at the end of the fill_super routine.
This was somewhat confusing since the recovery is needed for the nilfs
object, not for a super block instance.
To resolve the inconsistency, this will integrate the recovery
completion into load_nilfs().
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This inserts readahead in the recovery code. The readahead request is
issued per segment while searching the latest super root block.
This will shorten mount time after unclean unmount. A measurement
shows the recovery time was reduced by more than 60 percent:
e.g. real 0m11.586s -> 0m3.918s (x 2.96)
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This eliminates obsolete nilfs_get_sufile_get_segment_usage() and
nilfs_set_sufile_segment_usage() from sufile.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This adds nilfs_sufile_set_segment_usage() function in sufile to
replace direct access to the sufile metadata in log writer code.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This adds nilfs_sufile_mark_dirty() function in sufile to replace
nilfs_touch_segusage() function in log writer code. This is a
preparation for the further cleanup which will move out low level
sufile operations in the log writer.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This implements cache operation in get block routines of palloc code:
nilfs_palloc_get_desc_block(), nilfs_palloc_get_bitmap_block(), and
nilfs_palloc_get_entry_block().
This will complete the palloc cache.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This adds the palloc cache to ifile. The palloc cache is allocated on
the extended region of nilfs_mdt_info struct. The struct
nilfs_ifile_info defines the extended on memory structure of ifile.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Data pages in gcdat metadata file (i.e. the secondary DAT for GC), are
cleared or even moved back to the normal DAT when a shot of garbage
collection was done.
Buffer heads held by the palloc cache of gcdat must be cleared before
these page cache manipulation. This adds nilfs_palloc_clear_cache()
to ensure this.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This adds the palloc cache to DAT file. The palloc cache is allocated
on the extended region of nilfs_mdt_info struct. The struct
nilfs_dat_info defines the extended on memory structure of DAT.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This adds setup and cleanup routines of the persistent object
allocator cache.
According to ftrace analyses, accessing buffers of the DAT file
suffers indispensable overhead many times. To mitigate the overhead,
This introduce cache framework for the persistent object allocator
(palloc) which the DAT file and ifile are using.
struct nilfs_palloc_cache represents the cache object per metadata
file using palloc.
The cache is initialized through nilfs_palloc_setup_cache() and
destroyed by nilfs_palloc_destroy_cache(); callers of the former
function will be added to individual allocators of DAT and ifile on
successive patches.
nilfs_palloc_destroy_cache() will be called from nilfs_mdt_destroy()
if the cache is attached to a metadata file. A companion function
nilfs_palloc_clear_cache() is provided to allow releasing buffer head
references independently with the cleanup task. This adjunctive
function will be used before invalidating pages of metadata file with
the cache.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This expands a trivial address calculation in the function into its
every callsite. This expansion improves readability of the callers.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This removes the obsolete nilfs_btnode_get() function and makes
nilfs_btree_get_block() directly call nilfs_btnode_submit_block().
This expansion will provide better opportunity for code optimization.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This removes the obsolete argument from nilfs_btnode_submit_block().
This will complete separating a create function of btree node.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This displaces nilfs_btnode_get() use to create new btree node block
with nilfs_btnode_create_block.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Adds a separate routine for creating a btree node block. This is a
preparation to reduce the depth of function calls during submitting
btree node buffer.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This turns off readhead action of metadata file if nilfs_mdt_get_block
function was called with a create flag.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Previously, this function took an status code to return possible error
codes. The ("nilfs2: add local variable to cache the number of clean
segments") patch removed the possibility to return errors.
So, this simplifies the function definition to make it directly return
the number of clean segments.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This makes it possible for sufile to get the number of clean segments
faster.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This unfolds the nilfs_sufile_block_get_header() function for
simplicity.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This will hide a function call of nilfs_mdt_clear() in
nilfs_mdt_destroy().
This ensures nilfs_mdt_destroy() to do cleanup jobs included in
nilfs_mdt_clear().
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Removes two inline functions: nilfs_mdt_read_inode_direct() and
nilfs_mdt_write_inode_direct().
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Will displace nilfs_mdt_read_inode_direct function with an individual
read method: nilfs_dat_read, nilfs_sufile_read, nilfs_cpfile_read.
This provides the opportunity to initialize local variables of each
metadata file after reading the inode.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This will displace nilfs_mdt_new() constructor with individual
metadata file constructors like nilfs_dat_new(), new_sufile_new(),
nilfs_cpfile_new(), and nilfs_ifile_new().
This makes it possible for each metadata file to have own
intialization code.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This adds an optional "object size" argument to nilfs_mdt_new_common()
function; the argument specifies the size of private object attached
to a newly allocated metadata file inode.
This will afford space to keep local variables for meta data files.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Previously, nilfs_bmap_add_blocks() and nilfs_bmap_sub_blocks() called
mark_inode_dirty() after they changed the number of data blocks.
This moves these calls outside bmap outermost functions like
nilfs_bmap_insert() or nilfs_bmap_truncate().
This will mitigate overhead for truncate or delete operation since
they repeatedly remove set of blocks. Nearly 10 percent improvement
was observed for removal of a large file:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/test/aaa bs=1M count=512
# time rm /test/aaa
real 2.968s -> 2.705s
Further optimization may be possible by eliminating these
mark_inode_dirty() uses though I avoid mixing separate changes here.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Since metadata file routines mark the inode dirty after they
successfully changed bmap objects, nilfs_mdt_mark_dirty() calls in
nilfs_bmap_add_blocks() and nilfs_bmap_sub_blocks() are redundant.
This removes these overlapping calls from the bmap routines.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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lock_buffer() and unlock_buffer() uses in btree.c are eliminable
because btree functions gain buffer heads through nilfs_btnode_get(),
which never returns an on-the-fly buffer.
Although nilfs_clear_dirty_page() and nilfs_copy_back_pages() in
nilfs_commit_gcdat_inode() juggle btree node buffers of DAT, this is
safe because these operations are protected by a log writer lock or
the metadata file semaphore of DAT.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This lock is eliminable because inodes on the buffer can be updated
independently. Although a log writer also fills in bmap data on the
on-disk inodes, this update is exclusively done by a log writer lock.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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match_bool function is not used anymore.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Since most of fs using nofoobar style option,
modified barrier=off option as nobarrier.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This is a trivial patch to expose struct nilfs_fs_btree_node.
The struct should be exposed outside of kernel, for it is disk format.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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The current btree lookup routines make a kernel oops when detected
inconsistency in btree blocks. These routines should instead return a
proper error code because the inconsistency usually comes from
corruption of on-disk metadata.
This fixes the issue by converting BUG_ON calls to proper error
handlings.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
SUNRPC: Address buffer overrun in rpc_uaddr2sockaddr()
NFSv4: Fix a cache validation bug which causes getcwd() to return ENOENT
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Users on the linux-ext4 list recently complained about differences
across filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay.
In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is
perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make
that an alias for ext4.
Also show this status in /proc/mounts
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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It is anticipated that when sb_issue_discard starts doing
real work on trim-capable devices, we may see issues. Make
this mount-time optional, and default it to off until we know
that things are working out OK.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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When an error happened in ext4_splice_branch we failed to notice that
in ext4_ind_get_blocks and mapped the buffer anyway. Fix the problem
by checking for error properly.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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We don't to issue an I/O barrier on an error or if we force commit
because we are doing data journaling.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Don't log the CacheFiles lookup/create object routined failing with ENOBUFS as
under high memory load or high cache load they can do this quite a lot. This
error simply means that the requested object cannot be created on disk due to
lack of space, or due to failure of the backing filesystem to find sufficient
resources.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to
replace it with a new one. The probability is that all the slow-work threads
are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in.
What we do instead is:
(1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying
object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue
behind which we can queue our object.
(2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to
fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue,
presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by. We are then
deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue -
without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily.
A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch:
INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
kslowd004 D 0000000000000000 0 5711 2 0x00000080
ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000
ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8
000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa011c4e1>] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles]
[<ffffffff81353153>] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76
[<ffffffff8111ae39>] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270
[<ffffffff813531ef>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74
[<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
[<ffffffff8104c125>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e
[<ffffffffa011bc79>] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa011c209>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa011a429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa00aa1e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00aafc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00ab4ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
[<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
[<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
[<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
[<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
[<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
1 lock held by kslowd004/5711:
#0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa011be64>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Show more debugging information if cachefiles_mark_object_active() is asked to
activate an active object.
This may happen, for instance, if the netfs tries to register an object with
the same key multiple times.
The code is changed to (a) get the appropriate object lock to protect the
cookie pointer whilst we dereference it, and (b) get and display the cookie key
if available.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT in the callers of
cachefiles_bury_object() so that lockdep doesn't complain when that invokes
vfs_unlink():
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #47
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kslowd002/3089 is trying to acquire lock:
(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810bbf72>] vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128
but task is already holding lock:
(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa00e4e61>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b0/0x831 [cachefiles]
other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by kslowd002/3089:
#0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa00e4e61>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b0/0x831 [cachefiles]
stack backtrace:
Pid: 3089, comm: kslowd002 Not tainted 2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #47
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8105ad7b>] __lock_acquire+0x1649/0x16e3
[<ffffffff8118170e>] ? inode_has_perm+0x5f/0x61
[<ffffffff8105ae6c>] lock_acquire+0x57/0x6d
[<ffffffff810bbf72>] ? vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128
[<ffffffff81353ac3>] mutex_lock_nested+0x54/0x292
[<ffffffff810bbf72>] ? vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128
[<ffffffff8118179e>] ? selinux_inode_permission+0x8e/0x90
[<ffffffff8117e271>] ? security_inode_permission+0x1c/0x1e
[<ffffffff810bb4fb>] ? inode_permission+0x99/0xa5
[<ffffffff810bbf72>] vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128
[<ffffffff810adb19>] ? kfree+0xed/0xf9
[<ffffffffa00e3f00>] cachefiles_bury_object+0xb6/0x420 [cachefiles]
[<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[<ffffffffa00e7e24>] ? cachefiles_check_object_xattr+0x233/0x293 [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa00e51b0>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x4ff/0x831 [cachefiles]
[<ffffffff81032238>] ? finish_task_switch+0x0/0xb2
[<ffffffffa00e3429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa00741e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa0074fc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00754ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
[<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
[<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
[<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
[<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
[<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
Signed-off-by: Daivd Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Handle truncate unlocking the page we're attempting to read from the backing
device before the read has completed.
This was causing reports like the following to occur:
Pid: 4765, comm: kslowd Not tainted 2.6.30.1 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa0331d7a>] ? cachefiles_read_waiter+0xd9/0x147 [cachefiles]
[<ffffffff804b74bd>] ? __wait_on_bit+0x60/0x6f
[<ffffffff8022bbbb>] ? __wake_up_common+0x3f/0x71
[<ffffffff8022cc32>] ? __wake_up+0x30/0x44
[<ffffffff8024a41f>] ? __wake_up_bit+0x28/0x2d
[<ffffffffa003a793>] ? ext3_truncate+0x4d7/0x8ed [ext3]
[<ffffffff80281f90>] ? pagevec_lookup+0x17/0x1f
[<ffffffff8028c2ff>] ? unmap_mapping_range+0x59/0x1ff
[<ffffffff8022cc32>] ? __wake_up+0x30/0x44
[<ffffffff8028e286>] ? vmtruncate+0xc2/0xe2
[<ffffffff802b82cf>] ? inode_setattr+0x22/0x10a
[<ffffffffa003baa5>] ? ext3_setattr+0x17b/0x1e6 [ext3]
[<ffffffff802b853d>] ? notify_change+0x186/0x2c9
[<ffffffffa032d9de>] ? cachefiles_attr_changed+0x133/0x1cd [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa032df7f>] ? cachefiles_lookup_object+0xcf/0x12a [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa0318165>] ? fscache_lookup_object+0x110/0x122 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa03188c3>] ? fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x590/0x6bc
[fscache]
[<ffffffff80278f82>] ? slow_work_thread+0x285/0x43a
[<ffffffff8024a446>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[<ffffffff80278cfd>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x43a
[<ffffffff8024a317>] ? kthread+0x54/0x81
[<ffffffff8020c93a>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8024a2c3>] ? kthread+0x0/0x81
[<ffffffff8020c930>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
CacheFiles: I/O Error: Readpage failed on backing file 200000000000810
FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Reported-by: Duc Le Minh <duclm.vn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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cachefiles_write_page() writes a full page to the backing file for the last
page of the netfs file, even if the netfs file's last page is only a partial
page.
This causes the EOF on the backing file to be extended beyond the EOF of the
netfs, and thus the backing file will be truncated by cachefiles_attr_changed()
called from cachefiles_lookup_object().
So we need to limit the write we make to the backing file on that last page
such that it doesn't push the EOF too far.
Also, if a backing file that has a partial page at the end is expanded, we
discard the partial page and refetch it on the basis that we then have a hole
in the file with invalid data, and should the power go out... A better way to
deal with this could be to record a note that the partial page contains invalid
data until the correct data is written into it.
This isn't a problem for netfs's that discard the whole backing file if the
file size changes (such as NFS).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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FS-Cache objects have an FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_REQUEUE event that can theoretically
be raised to ask the state machine to requeue the object for further processing
before the work function returns to the slow-work facility.
However, fscache_object_work_execute() was clearing that bit before checking
the event mask to see whether the object has any pending events that require it
to be requeued immediately.
Instead, the bit should be cleared after the check and enqueue.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Start processing an object's operations when that object moves into the DYING
state as the object cannot be destroyed until all its outstanding operations
have completed.
Furthermore, make sure that read and allocation operations handle being woken
up on a dead object. Such events are recorded in the Allocs.abt and
Retrvls.abt statistics as viewable through /proc/fs/fscache/stats.
The code for waiting for object activation for the read and allocation
operations is also extracted into its own function as it is much the same in
all cases, differing only in the stats incremented.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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We must make sure that FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP is cleared on lookup failure
(if an object reaches the LC_DYING state), and we should clear it before
clearing FSCACHE_COOKIE_CREATING.
If this doesn't happen then fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup() may hold
allocation and retrieval operations indefinitely until they're interrupted by
signals - which in turn pins the dying object until they go away.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Add a stat counter to count retirement events rather than ordinary release
events (the retire argument to fscache_relinquish_cookie()).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache. Under these
conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
page can be discarded.
The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:
kslowd005 D 0000000000000000 0 4253 2 0x00000080
ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
[<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
[<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
[<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
[<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
[<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
[<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
[<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
[<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
[<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
[<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
[<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
[<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
[<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
[<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
[<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
[<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
[<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
[<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
[<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
[<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
[<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
[<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
[<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
[<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
[<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
[<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
[<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
[<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
In the above backtrace, the following is happening:
(1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
(fscache_write_op()).
(2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
(cachefiles_write_page()).
(3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
page.
(4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
can copy the data from the netfs page.
(5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
(try_to_free_pages()).
(6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
one it's trying to write out).
(7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).
(8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.
The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
cache without allocating more memory.
To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
actually being performed. This means that some data won't make it into the
cache this time. To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
functions used to do with respect to the cache.
The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan". There are four
counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
of.
What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages. If there are
plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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