* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
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Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
One leftover from the days of IBM's original code, is an SB counter
that counts in-flight asynchronous commands. And a piece of code that
waits for the counter to reach zero at unmount. I guess it might have
been needed then, cause of some reference missing or something.
I'm not removing it yet but am putting a warning message if ever this
counter triggers at unmount. If I'll never see it triggers or reported
I'll remove the counter for good.
(I had this print as a debug output for a long time and never had it
trigger)
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Before when creating a new inode, we'd set the sb->s_dirt flag,
and sometime later the system would write out s_nextid as part
of the sb_info. Also on inode sync we would force the sb sync
as well.
Define the s_nextid as a new partition attribute and set it
every time we create a new object.
At mount we read it from it's new place.
We now never set sb->s_dirt anywhere in exofs. write_super
is actually never called. The call to exofs_write_super from
exofs_put_super is also removed because the VFS always calls
->sync_fs before calling ->put_super twice.
To stay backward-and-forward compatible we also write the old
s_nextid in the super_block object at unmount, and support zero
length attribute on mount.
This also fixes a BUG where in layouts when group_width was not
a divisor of EXOFS_SUPER_ID (0x10000) the s_nextid was not read
from the device it was written to. Because of the sliding window
layout trick, and because the read was always done from the 0
device but the write was done via the raid engine that might slide
the device view. Now we read and write through the raid engine.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
If /dev/osd* devices are shuffled because more devices
where added, and/or login order has changed. It is hard to
mount the FS you want.
Add an option to mount by osdname. osdname is any osd-device's
osdname as specified to the mkfs.exofs command when formatting
the osd-devices.
The new mount format is:
OPT="osdname=$UUID0,pid=$PID,_netdev"
mount -t exofs -o $OPT $DEV_OSD0 $MOUNTDIR
if "osdname=" is specified in options above $DEV_OSD0 is
ignored and can be empty.
Also while at it: Removed some old unused Opt_* enums.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
* Set all inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info to point to
the per super-block sb->s_bdi.
* Calculating a read_ahead that is:
- preferable 2 stripes long
(Future patch will add a mount option to override this)
- Minimum 128K aligned up to stripe-size
- Caped to maximum-IO-sizes round down to stripe_size.
(Max sizes are governed by max bio-size that fits in a page
times number-of-devices)
CC: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
It is incorrect to test inode dirty bits without participating in the inode
writeback protocol. Inode writeback sets I_SYNC and clears I_DIRTY_?, then
writes out the particular bits, then clears I_SYNC when it is done. BTW. it
may not completely write all pages out, so I_DIRTY_PAGES would get set
again.
This is a standard pattern used throughout the kernel's writeback caches
(I_SYNC ~= I_WRITEBACK, if that makes it clearer).
And so it is not possible to determine an inode's dirty status just by
checking I_DIRTY bits. Especially not for the purpose of data integrity
syncs.
Missing the check for these bits means that fsync can complete while
writeback to the inode is underway. Inode writeback functions get this
right, so call into them rather than try to shortcut things by testing
dirty state improperly.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
I stumbled on some of these prints in log files so, might
just submit the fixes.
* All i_ino prints in exofs should be hex
* All OSD_ERR prints should end with a "\n"
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This reverts commit 115e19c535.
Apparently setting inode->bdi to one's own sb->s_bdi stops VFS from
sending *read-aheads*. This problem was bisected to this commit. A
revert fixes it. I'll investigate farther why is this happening for the
next Kernel, but for now a revert.
I'm sending to stable@kernel.org as well, since it exists also in
2.6.37. 2.6.36 is good and does not have this patch.
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:
- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
page lock to follow page->mapping.
The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.
In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.
The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Add a new helper to write out the inode using the writeback code,
that is including the correct dirty bit and list manipulation. A few
of filesystems already opencode this, and a lot of others should be
using it instead of using write_inode_now which also writes out the
data.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
exofs_new_inode() was incrementing the inode->i_count and
decrementing it in create_done(), in a bad attempt to make sure
the inode will still be there when the asynchronous create_done()
finally arrives. This was very stupid because iput() was not called,
and if it was actually needed, it would leak the inode.
However all this is not needed, because at exofs_evict_inode()
we already wait for create_done() by waiting for the
object_created event. Therefore remove the superfluous ref counting
and just Thicken the comment at exofs_evict_inode() a bit.
While at it change places that open coded wait_obj_created()
to call the already available wrapper.
CC: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Though it has been promised that inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info
is not used and the supporting code is fine. Until the pointer
will default to NULL, I'd rather it points to the correct thing
regardless.
At least for future infrastructure coder it is a clear indication
of where are the key points that inodes are initialized.
I know because it took me time to find this out.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <Boaz Harrosh bharrosh@panasas.com>
Last BUG fix added a flag to the the page_collect structure
to communicate with readpage_strip. This calls for a clean up
removing that flag's reincarnations in the read functions
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <Boaz Harrosh bharrosh@panasas.com>
This BUG is there since the first submit of the code, but only triggered
in last Kernel. It's timing related do to the asynchronous object-creation
behaviour of exofs. (Which should be investigated farther)
The bug is obvious hence the fixed.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <Boaz Harrosh bharrosh@panasas.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
exofs: Fix groups code when num_devices is not divisible by group_width
exofs: Remove useless optimization
exofs: exofs_file_fsync and exofs_file_flush correctness
exofs: Remove superfluous dependency on buffer_head and writeback
* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
block: update request stacking methods to support discards
block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
writeback: cleanup bdi_register
writeback: add new tracepoints
writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
writeback: move last_active to bdi
writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
writeback: simplify bdi code a little
writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
...
Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
Al Viro
Lucas De Marchi
Linus Torvalds
Boaz Harrosh
Nick Piggin
Tobias Klauser
Jens Axboe
Christoph Hellwig
Joe Perches
Boaz Harrosh