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>
In the future, the qadata structure will be eliminated and merged
back in with the block reservation structure, after we extend the
lifespan of that. This patch is a step forward in eliminating the
qadata structure. It adds a variable to the do_grow function to
determine when unstuffing is necessary, and has been done.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In the resource group code, we have no less than three different
kinds of block references: block relative to the file system (u64),
block relative to the rgrp (u32), and block relative to the bitmap.
This is a small step to making the code more readable; it renames
variable blk to biblk to solidify in my mind that it's relative to
the bitmap and nothing else.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch just fixes a bunch of function parameter comments.
Slowly, over the years, the comments have gotten out of date
(mostly my fault, as I haven't been good at keeping them up to date).
This patch rectifies some of that.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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>
This patch makes function gfs2_page_add_databufs static.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch renames function gfs2_close to gfs2_release.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since we always write the buffer directly after this function
returns, we might as well merge it into here. This is a clean
up in preparation for some further updates to the log code
which are coming soon.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The "pull" argument to log_write_header() is only used
for debug purposes and it is not really needed any more. There
are other tests for this particular problem, so I think we can
dispose of it in order to simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull HSI fixes and ABI documentation from Carlos Chinea
* tag 'hsi_fixes_for_3.4' of git://gitorious.org/kernel-hsi/kernel-hsi:
HSI: Add HSI ABI documentation
HSI: hsi_char: Remove max_data_size from sysfs
HSI: hsi: Rework hsi_event interface
HSI: hsi: Remove controllers and ports from the bus
HSI: hsi: Fix error path cleanup on client registration
HSI: hsi: Rework hsi_controller release
This patch instructs DLM to prevent an "in place" conversion, where the
lock just stays on the granted queue, and instead forces the conversion to
the back of the convert queue. This is done on upward conversions only.
This is useful in cases where, for example, a lock is frequently needed in
PR on one node, but another node needs it temporarily in EX to update it.
This may happen, for example, when the rindex is being updated by gfs2_grow.
The gfs2_grow needs to have the lock in EX, but the other nodes need to
re-read it to retrieve the updates. The glock is already granted in PR on
the non-growing nodes, so this prevents them from continually re-granting
the lock in PR, and forces the EX from gfs2_grow to go through.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"These are two low-risk bug fixes for ext4, fixing a compile warning
and a potential deadlock."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
super.c: unused variable warning without CONFIG_QUOTA
jbd2: use GFP_NOFS for blkdev_issue_flush
Pull Hexagon fixes from Richard Kuo:
"It's mostly compile fixes and the Hexagon portion of a CPU hotplug
patch set."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rkuo/linux-hexagon-kernel:
hexagon: add missing cpu.h include
hexagon/CPU hotplug: Add missing call to notify_cpu_starting()
hexagon: use renamed tick_nohz_idle_* functions
Hexagon: misc compile warning/error cleanup due to missing headers
Pull build system failure fix from Michal Marek:
"This fixes build failure with newer gcc that adds some internal
symbols that end in "__mod_*_device_table", but are not actually the
tables themselves."
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
Fix modpost failures in fedora 17
sb info is only checked with quota support.
fs/ext4/super.c: In function ‘parse_options’:
fs/ext4/super.c:1600:23: warning: unused variable ‘sbi’ [-Wunused-variable]
Signed-off-by: Eldad Zack <eldad@fogrefinery.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
flush request is issued in transaction commit code path, so looks using
GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory for flush request bio falls into the classic
deadlock issue. I saw btrfs and dm get it right, but ext4, xfs and md are
using GFP.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Pull a few more md bug fixes from NeilBrown:
"2 are tagged for -stable, one being for a fairly serious bug that can
corrupt metadata and make it hard to recovery an array. The other is
for a more recent regression since 3.3"
* tag 'md-3.4-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: fix possible corruption of array metadata on shutdown.
md: don't call ->add_disk unless there is good reason.
DM RAID: Use safe version of rdev_for_each
Pull dlm fixes from David Teigland:
"This includes one short patch fixing the behavior of the QUECVT flag,
which the gfs2 folks are waiting on."
* tag 'dlm-fixes-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm:
dlm: fix QUECVT when convert queue is empty
Mel reports a BUG_ON(slot == NULL) in radix_tree_tag_set() on s390
3.0.13: called from __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() when page_remove_rmap()
tries to transfer dirty flag from s390 storage key to struct page and
radix_tree.
That would be because of reclaim's shrink_page_list() calling
add_to_swap() on this page at the same time: first PageSwapCache is set
(causing page_mapping(page) to appear as &swapper_space), then
page->private set, then tree_lock taken, then page inserted into
radix_tree - so there's an interval before taking the lock when the
radix_tree slot is empty.
We could fix this by moving __add_to_swap_cache()'s spin_lock_irq up
before the SetPageSwapCache. But a better fix is simply to do what's
five years overdue: Ken Chen introduced __set_page_dirty_no_writeback()
(if !PageDirty TestSetPageDirty) for tmpfs to skip all the radix_tree
overhead, and swap is just the same - it ignores the radix_tree tag, and
does not participate in dirty page accounting, so should be using
__set_page_dirty_no_writeback() too.
s390 testing now confirms that this does indeed fix the problem.
Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
commit c744a65c1e
md: don't set md arrays to readonly on shutdown.
removed the possibility of a 'BUG' when data is written to an array
that has just been switched to read-only, but also introduced the
possibility that the array metadata could be corrupted.
If, when md_notify_reboot gets the mddev lock, the array is
in a state where it is assembled but hasn't been started (as can
happen if the personality module is not available, or in other unusual
situations), then incorrect metadata will be written out making it
impossible to re-assemble the array.
So only call __md_stop_writes() if the array has actually been
activated.
This patch is needed for any stable kernel which has had the above
commit applied.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Christoph Nelles <evilazrael@evilazrael.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Commit 7bfec5f35c
md/raid5: If there is a spare and a want_replacement device, start replacement.
cause md_check_recovery to call ->add_disk much more often.
Instead of only when the array is degraded, it is now called whenever
md_check_recovery finds anything useful to do, which includes
updating the metadata for clean<->dirty transition.
This causes unnecessary work, and causes info messages from ->add_disk
to be reported much too often.
So refine md_check_recovery to only do any actual recovery checking
(including ->add_disk) if MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED is set.
This fix is suitable for 3.3.y:
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fix segfault caused by using rdev_for_each instead of rdev_for_each_safe
Commit dafb20fa34 mistakenly replaced a safe
iterator with an unsafe one when making some macro changes.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Steven Whitehouse
Bob Peterson
Linus Torvalds
Eldad Zack
Shaohua Li
Hugh Dickins
NeilBrown
Jonathan Brassow
Richard Kuo