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2014-11-17GFS2: update freeze code to use freeze/thaw_super on all nodesBenjamin Marzinski
The current gfs2 freezing code is considerably more complicated than it should be because it doesn't use the vfs freezing code on any node except the one that begins the freeze. This is because it needs to acquire a cluster glock before calling the vfs code to prevent a deadlock, and without the new freeze_super and thaw_super hooks, that was impossible. To deal with the issue, gfs2 had to do some hacky locking tricks to make sure that a frozen node couldn't be holding on a lock it needed to do the unfreeze ioctl. This patch makes use of the new hooks to simply the gfs2 locking code. Now, all the nodes in the cluster freeze and thaw in exactly the same way. Every node in the cluster caches the freeze glock in the shared state. The new freeze_super hook allows the freezing node to grab this freeze glock in the exclusive state without first calling the vfs freeze_super function. All the nodes in the cluster see this lock change, and call the vfs freeze_super function. The vfs locking code guarantees that the nodes can't get stuck holding the glocks necessary to unfreeze the system. To unfreeze, the freezing node uses the new thaw_super hook to drop the freeze glock. Again, all the nodes notice this, reacquire the glock in shared mode and call the vfs thaw_super function. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-03-07GFS2: Use pr_<level> more consistentlyJoe Perches
Add pr_fmt, remove embedded "GFS2: " prefixes. This now consistently emits lower case "gfs2: " for each message. Other miscellanea around these changes: o Add missing newlines o Coalesce formats o Realign arguments Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-03-06GFS2: global conversion to pr_foo()Fabian Frederick
-All printk(KERN_foo converted to pr_foo(). -Messages updated to fit in 80 columns. -fs_macros converted as well. -fs_printk removed. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-01-14GFS2: Use RCU/hlist_bl based hash for quotasSteven Whitehouse
Prior to this patch, GFS2 kept all the quotas for each super block in a single linked list. This is rather slow when there are large numbers of quotas. This patch introduces a hlist_bl based hash table, similar to the one used for glocks. The initial look up of the quota is now lockless in the case where it is already cached, although we still have to take the per quota spinlock in order to bump the ref count. Either way though, this is a big improvement on what was there before. The qd_lock and the per super block list is preserved, for the time being. However it is intended that since this is no longer used for its original role, it should be possible to shrink the number of items on that list in due course and remove the requirement to take qd_lock in qd_get. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-11-04GFS2: Use generic list_lru for quotaSteven Whitehouse
By using the generic list_lru code, we can now separate the per sb quota list locking from the lru locking. The lru lock is made into the inner-most lock. As a result of this new lock order, we may occasionally see items on the per-sb quota list which are "dead" so that the two places where we traverse that list are updated to take account of that. As a result of this patch, the gfs2 quota shrinker is now NUMA zone aware, and we are also laying the foundations for further improvments in due course. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com> Tested-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2013-09-10fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count APIDave Chinner
Convert the filesystem shrinkers to use the new API, and standardise some of the behaviours of the shrinkers at the same time. For example, nr_to_scan means the number of objects to scan, not the number of objects to free. I refactored the CIFS idmap shrinker a little - it really needs to be broken up into a shrinker per tree and keep an item count with the tree root so that we don't need to walk the tree every time the shrinker needs to count the number of objects in the tree (i.e. all the time under memory pressure). [glommer@openvz.org: fixes for ext4, ubifs, nfs, cifs and glock. Fixes are needed mainly due to new code merged in the tree] [assorted fixes folded in] Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-08-19GFS2: WQ_NON_REENTRANT is meaningless and going awayTejun Heo
dbf2576e37 ("workqueue: make all workqueues non-reentrant") made WQ_NON_REENTRANT no-op and the flag is going away. Remove its usages. This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
2012-06-06GFS2: Fold quota data into the reservations structBob Peterson
This patch moves the ancillary quota data structures into the block reservations structure. This saves GFS2 some time and effort in allocating and deallocating the qadata structure. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-04-24GFS2: Clean up log write code pathSteven Whitehouse
Prior to this patch, we have two ways of sending i/o to the log. One of those is used when we need to allocate both the data to be written itself and also a buffer head to submit it. This is done via sb_getblk and friends. This is used mostly for writing log headers. The other method is used when writing blocks which have some in-place counterpart. This is the case for all the metadata blocks which are journalled, and when journaled data is in use, for unescaped journalled data blocks. This patch replaces both of those two methods, and about half a dozen separate i/o submission points with a single i/o submission function. We also go direct to bio rather than using buffer heads, since this allows us to build i/o requests of the maximum size for the block device in question. It also reduces the memory required for flushing the log, which can be very useful in low memory situations. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-04-24GFS2: Use slab for block reservation memoryBob Peterson
This patch changes block reservations so it uses slab storage. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-03-08GFS2: Remove a __GFP_NOFAIL allocationSteven Whitehouse
In order to ensure that we've got enough buffer heads for flushing the journal, the orignal code used __GFP_NOFAIL when performing this allocation. Here we dispense with that in favour of using a mempool. This should improve efficiency in low memory conditions since flushing the journal is a good way to get memory back, we don't want to be spinning, waiting on memory allocations. The buffers which are allocated via this mempool are fairly short lived, so that we'll recycle them pretty quickly. Although there are other memory allocations which occur during the journal flush process, this is the one which can potentially require the most memory, so the most important one to fix. The amount of memory reserved is a fixed amount, and we should not need to scale it when there are a greater number of filesystems in use. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-01-11GFS2: dlm based recovery coordinationDavid Teigland
This new method of managing recovery is an alternative to the previous approach of using the userland gfs_controld. - use dlm slot numbers to assign journal id's - use dlm recovery callbacks to initiate journal recovery - use a dlm lock to determine the first node to mount fs - use a dlm lock to track journals that need recovery Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-11-22GFS2: decouple quota allocations from block allocationsBob Peterson
This patch separates the code pertaining to allocations into two parts: quota-related information and block reservations. This patch also moves all the block reservation structure allocations to function gfs2_inplace_reserve to simplify the code, and moves the frees to function gfs2_inplace_release. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-15GFS2: Cache dir hash table in a contiguous bufferSteven Whitehouse
This patch adds a cache for the hash table to the directory code in order to help simplify the way in which the hash table is accessed. This is intended to be a first step towards introducing some performance improvements in the directory code. There are two follow ups that I'm hoping to see fairly shortly. One is to simplify the hash table reading code now that we always read the complete hash table, whether we want one entry or all of them. The other is to introduce readahead on the heads of the hash chains which are referred to from the table. The hash table is a maximum of 128k in size, so it is not worth trying to read it in small chunks. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-26Merge branch 'trivial' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: gfs2: Drop __TIME__ usage isdn/diva: Drop __TIME__ usage atm: Drop __TIME__ usage dlm: Drop __TIME__ usage wan/pc300: Drop __TIME__ usage parport: Drop __TIME__ usage hdlcdrv: Drop __TIME__ usage baycom: Drop __TIME__ usage pmcraid: Drop __DATE__ usage edac: Drop __DATE__ usage rio: Drop __DATE__ usage scsi/wd33c93: Drop __TIME__ usage scsi/in2000: Drop __TIME__ usage aacraid: Drop __TIME__ usage media/cx231xx: Drop __TIME__ usage media/radio-maxiradio: Drop __TIME__ usage nozomi: Drop __TIME__ usage cyclades: Drop __TIME__ usage
2011-05-26gfs2: Drop __TIME__ usageMichal Marek
The kernel already prints its build timestamp during boot, no need to repeat it in random drivers and produce different object files each time. Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-04-20GFS2: Optimise glock lru and end of life inodesSteven Whitehouse
The GLF_LRU flag introduced in the previous patch can be used to check if a glock is on the lru list when a new holder is queued and if so remove it, without having first to get the lru_lock. The main purpose of this patch however is to optimise the glocks left over when an inode at end of life is being evicted. Previously such glocks were left with the GLF_LFLUSH flag set, so that when reclaimed, each one required a log flush. This patch resets the GLF_LFLUSH flag when there is nothing left to flush thus preventing later log flushes as glocks are reused or demoted. In order to do this, we need to keep track of the number of revokes which are outstanding, and also to clear the GLF_LFLUSH bit after a log commit when only revokes have been processed. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-03-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmwLinus Torvalds
* 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
2011-02-23mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inodeMiklos Szeredi
Michael Leun reported that running parallel opens on a fuse filesystem can trigger a "kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475" Gurudas Pai reported the same bug on NFS. The reason is, unmap_mapping_range() is not prepared for more than one concurrent invocation per inode. For example: thread1: going through a big range, stops in the middle of a vma and stores the restart address in vm_truncate_count. thread2: comes in with a small (e.g. single page) unmap request on the same vma, somewhere before restart_address, finds that the vma was already unmapped up to the restart address and happily returns without doing anything. Another scenario would be two big unmap requests, both having to restart the unmapping and each one setting vm_truncate_count to its own value. This could go on forever without any of them being able to finish. Truncate and hole punching already serialize with i_mutex. Other callers of unmap_mapping_range() do not, and it's difficult to get i_mutex protection for all callers. In particular ->d_revalidate(), which calls invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in fuse, may be called with or without i_mutex. This patch adds a new mutex to 'struct address_space' to prevent running multiple concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same mapping. [ We'll hopefully get rid of all this with the upcoming mm preemptibility series by Peter Zijlstra, the "mm: Remove i_mmap_mutex lockbreak" patch in particular. But that is for 2.6.39 ] Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Reported-by: Michael Leun <lkml20101129@newton.leun.net> Reported-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com> Tested-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-16workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'Tejun Heo
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>
2011-01-21GFS2: Use RCU for glock hash tableSteven Whitehouse
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>
2010-10-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: remove in_workqueue_context() workqueue: Clarify that schedule_on_each_cpu is synchronous memory_hotplug: drop spurious calls to flush_scheduled_work() shpchp: update workqueue usage pciehp: update workqueue usage isdn/eicon: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from diva_os_remove_soft_isr() workqueue: add and use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag workqueue: fix HIGHPRI handling in keep_working() workqueue: add queue_work and activate_work trace points workqueue: prepare for more tracepoints workqueue: implement flush[_delayed]_work_sync() workqueue: factor out start_flush_work() workqueue: cleanup flush/cancel functions workqueue: implement alloc_ordered_workqueue() Fix up trivial conflict in fs/gfs2/main.c as per Tejun
2010-10-11workqueue: add and use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flagTejun Heo
Add WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag which currently maps to WQ_RESCUER, mark WQ_RESCUER as internal and replace all external WQ_RESCUER usages to WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. This makes the API users express the intent of the workqueue instead of indicating the internal mechanism used to guarantee forward progress. This is also to make it cleaner to add more semantics to WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. For example, if deemed necessary, memory reclaim workqueues can be made highpri. This patch doesn't introduce any functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-09-20GFS2: Make . and .. qstrs constantSteven Whitehouse
Rather than calculating the qstrs for . and .. each time we need them, its better to keep a constant version of these and just refer to them when required. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2010-09-20GFS2: Use new workqueue schemeSteven Whitehouse
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>
2010-07-23gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-workTejun Heo
Workqueue can now handle high concurrency. Convert gfs to use workqueue instead of slow-work. * Steven pointed out that recovery path might be run from allocation path and thus requires forward progress guarantee without memory allocation. Create and use gfs_recovery_wq with rescuer. Please note that forward progress wasn't guaranteed with slow-work. * Updated to use non-reentrant workqueue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-29GFS2: Remove space from slab cache nameSteven Whitehouse
Apparently this might confuse parsers. Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-01GFS2: Metadata address space clean upSteven Whitehouse
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>
2009-11-19SLOW_WORK: Wait for outstanding work items belonging to a module to clearDavid Howells
Wait for outstanding slow work items belonging to a module to clear when unregistering that module as a user of the facility. This prevents the put_ref code of a work item from being taken away before it returns. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-05-19GFS2: Umount recovery race fixSteven Whitehouse
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>
2009-03-24GFS2: Merge lock_dlm module into GFS2Steven Whitehouse
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>
2009-03-24GFS2: change gfs2_quota_scan into a shrinkerAbhijith Das
Deallocation of gfs2_quota_data objects now happens on-demand through a shrinker instead of routinely deallocating through the quotad daemon. Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-01-05GFS2: Kill two daemons with one patchSteven Whitehouse
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>
2009-01-05GFS2: Fix "truncate in progress" hangSteven Whitehouse
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>
2009-01-05GFS2: Clean up & move gfs2_quotadSteven Whitehouse
This patch is a clean up of gfs2_quotad prior to giving it an extra job to do in addition to the current portfolio of updating the quota and statfs information from time to time. As a result it has been moved into quota.c allowing one of the functions it calls to be made static. Also the clean up allows the two existing functions to have separate timeouts and also to coexist with its future role of dealing with the "truncate in progress" inode flag. The (pointless) setting of gfs2_quotad_secs is removed since we arrange to only wake up quotad when one of the two timers expires. In addition the struct gfs2_quota_data is moved into a slab cache, mainly for easier debugging. It should also be possible to use a shrinker in the future, rather than the current scheme of scanning the quota data entries from time to time. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-01-05GFS2: Rationalise header filesSteven Whitehouse
Move the contents of some headers which contained very little into more sensible places, and remove the original header files. This should make it easier to find things. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-07-26SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructorAlexey Dobriyan
Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object. Non-trivial places are: arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c This is flag day, yes. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-27[GFS2] Clean up the glock coreSteven Whitehouse
This patch implements a number of cleanups to the core of the GFS2 glock code. As a result a lot of code is removed. It looks like a really big change, but actually a large part of this patch is either removing or moving existing code. There are some new bits too though, such as the new run_queue() function which is considerably streamlined. Highlights of this patch include: o Fixes a cluster coherency bug during SH -> EX lock conversions o Removes the "glmutex" code in favour of a single bit lock o Removes the ->go_xmote_bh() for inodes since it was duplicating ->go_lock() o We now only use the ->lm_lock() function for both locks and unlocks (i.e. unlock is a lock with target mode LM_ST_UNLOCKED) o The fast path is considerably shortly, giving performance gains especially with lock_nolock o The glock_workqueue is now used for all the callbacks from the DLM which allows us to simplify the lock_dlm module (see following patch) o The way is now open to make further changes such as eliminating the two threads (gfs2_glockd and gfs2_scand) in favour of a more efficient scheme. This patch has undergone extensive testing with various test suites so it should be pretty stable by now. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2008-03-31[GFS2] Allocate gfs2_rgrpd from slab memoryBob Peterson
This patch moves the gfs2_rgrpd structure to its own slab memory. This makes it easier to control and monitor, and yields less memory fragmentation. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25[GFS2] Remove unneeded i_spinBob Peterson
This patch removes a vestigial variable "i_spin" from the gfs2_inode structure. This not only saves us memory (>300000 of these in memory for the oom test) it also saves us time because we don't have to spend time initializing it (i.e. slightly better performance). Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25[GFS2] Reduce inode size by moving i_alloc out of lineSteven Whitehouse
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>
2008-01-25[GFS2] Remove useless i_cache from inodesSteven Whitehouse
The i_cache was designed to keep references to the indirect blocks used during block mapping so that they didn't have to be looked up continually. The idea failed because there are too many places where the i_cache needs to be freed, and this has in the past been the cause of many bugs. In addition there was no performance benefit being gained since the disk blocks in question were cached anyway. So this patch removes it in order to simplify the code to prepare for other changes which would otherwise have had to add further support for this feature. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-10-17Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parametersChristoph Lameter
Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions. The object pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer. Convert ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags) to ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object) throughout the kernel [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-10[GFS2] Reduce number of gfs2_scand processes to oneSteven Whitehouse
We only need a single gfs2_scand process rather than the one per filesystem which we had previously. As a result the parameter determining the frequency of gfs2_scand runs becomes a module parameter rather than a mount parameter as it was before. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-20mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().Paul Mundt
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 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>
2007-05-17Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTORChristoph Lameter
SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmwLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (34 commits) [GFS2] Uncomment sprintf_symbol calling code [DLM] lowcomms style [GFS2] printk warning fixes [GFS2] Patch to fix mmap of stuffed files [GFS2] use lib/parser for parsing mount options [DLM] Lowcomms nodeid range & initialisation fixes [DLM] Fix dlm_lowcoms_stop hang [DLM] fix mode munging [GFS2] lockdump improvements [GFS2] Patch to detect corrupt number of dir entries in leaf and/or inode blocks [GFS2] bz 236008: Kernel gpf doing cat /debugfs/gfs2/xxx (lock dump) [DLM] fs/dlm/ast.c should #include "ast.h" [DLM] Consolidate transport protocols [DLM] Remove redundant assignment [GFS2] Fix bz 234168 (ignoring rgrp flags) [DLM] change lkid format [DLM] interface for purge (2/2) [DLM] add orphan purging code (1/2) [DLM] split create_message function [GFS2] Set drop_count to 0 (off) by default ...
2007-05-07slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flagChristoph Lameter
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by SLAB. I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is performed before each freeing of an object. I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually before the free. That also places the check near the code object manipulation of the object. Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree). There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors. This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for unimplemented flags from SLUB. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-01[GFS2] Fix bz 224480 and cleanup glock demotion codeSteven Whitehouse
This patch prevents the printing of a warning message in cases where the fs is functioning normally by handing off responsibility for unlinked, but still open inodes, to another node for eventual deallocation. Also, there is now an improved system for ensuring that such requests to other nodes do not get lost. The callback on the iopen lock is only ever called when i_nlink == 0 and when a node is unable to deallocate it due to it still being in use on another node. When a node receives the callback therefore, it knows that i_nlink must be zero, so we mark it as such (in gfs2_drop_inode) in order that it will then attempt deallocation of the inode itself. As an additional benefit, queuing a demote request no longer requires a memory allocation. This simplifies the code for dealing with gfs2_holders as it removes one special case. There are two new fields in struct gfs2_glock. gl_demote_state is the state which the remote node has requested and gl_demote_time is the time when the request came in. Both fields are only valid when the GLF_DEMOTE flag is set in gl_flags. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>