Commit Graph

106 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bob Peterson
601ef0d52e gfs2: Force withdraw to replay journals and wait for it to finish
When a node withdraws from a file system, it often leaves its journal
in an incomplete state. This is especially true when the withdraw is
caused by io errors writing to the journal. Before this patch, a
withdraw would try to write a "shutdown" record to the journal, tell
dlm it's done with the file system, and none of the other nodes
know about the problem. Later, when the problem is fixed and the
withdrawn node is rebooted, it would then discover that its own
journal was incomplete, and replay it. However, replaying it at this
point is almost guaranteed to introduce corruption because the other
nodes are likely to have used affected resource groups that appeared
in the journal since the time of the withdraw. Replaying the journal
later will overwrite any changes made, and not through any fault of
dlm, which was instructed during the withdraw to release those
resources.

This patch makes file system withdraws seen by the entire cluster.
Withdrawing nodes dequeue their journal glock to allow recovery.

The remaining nodes check all the journals to see if they are
clean or in need of replay. They try to replay dirty journals, but
only the journals of withdrawn nodes will be "not busy" and
therefore available for replay.

Until the journal replay is complete, no i/o related glocks may be
given out, to ensure that the replay does not cause the
aforementioned corruption: We cannot allow any journal replay to
overwrite blocks associated with a glock once it is held.

The "live" glock which is now used to signal when a withdraw
occurs. When a withdraw occurs, the node signals its withdraw by
dequeueing the "live" glock and trying to enqueue it in EX mode,
thus forcing the other nodes to all see a demote request, by way
of a "1CB" (one callback) try lock. The "live" glock is not
granted in EX; the callback is only just used to indicate a
withdraw has occurred.

Note that all nodes in the cluster must wait for the recovering
node to finish replaying the withdrawing node's journal before
continuing. To this end, it checks that the journals are clean
multiple times in a retry loop.

Also note that the withdraw function may be called from a wide
variety of situations, and therefore, we need to take extra
precautions to make sure pointers are valid before using them in
many circumstances.

We also need to take care when glocks decide to withdraw, since
the withdraw code now uses glocks.

Also, before this patch, if a process encountered an error and
decided to withdraw, if another process was already withdrawing,
the second withdraw would be silently ignored, which set it free
to unlock its glocks. That's correct behavior if the original
withdrawer encounters further errors down the road. But if
secondary waiters don't wait for the journal replay, unlocking
glocks will allow other nodes to use them, despite the fact that
the journal containing those blocks is being replayed. The
replay needs to finish before our glocks are released to other
nodes. IOW, secondary withdraws need to wait for the first
withdraw to finish.

For example, if an rgrp glock is unlocked by a process that didn't
wait for the first withdraw, a journal replay could introduce file
system corruption by replaying a rgrp block that has already been
granted to a different cluster node.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2020-02-27 07:53:12 -06:00
Bob Peterson
eb43e660c0 gfs2: Introduce function gfs2_withdrawn
Add function gfs2_withdrawn and replace all checks for the SDF_WITHDRAWN
bit to call it. This does not change the logic or function of gfs2, and
it facilitates later improvements to the withdraw sequence.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
2019-11-14 19:46:18 +01:00
Bob Peterson
04aea0ca14 gfs2: Rename SDF_SHUTDOWN to SDF_WITHDRAWN
Before this patch, the superblock flag indicating when a file system
is withdrawn was called SDF_SHUTDOWN. This patch simply renames it to
the more obvious SDF_WITHDRAWN.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
2019-06-27 21:26:35 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7336d0e654 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 398
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use
  modify copy or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions
  of the gnu general public license version 2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 44 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531081038.653000175@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-06-05 17:37:12 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
2b070cfe58 block: remove the i argument to bio_for_each_segment_all
We only have two callers that need the integer loop iterator, and they
can easily maintain it themselves.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-04-30 09:26:13 -06:00
Ming Lei
6dc4f100c1 block: allow bio_for_each_segment_all() to iterate over multi-page bvec
This patch introduces one extra iterator variable to bio_for_each_segment_all(),
then we can allow bio_for_each_segment_all() to iterate over multi-page bvec.

Given it is just one mechannical & simple change on all bio_for_each_segment_all()
users, this patch does tree-wide change in one single patch, so that we can
avoid to use a temporary helper for this conversion.

Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-02-15 08:40:11 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
9e1a9ecd13 gfs2: Don't withdraw under a spin lock
In two places, the gfs2_io_error_bh macro is called while holding the
sd_ail_lock spin lock.  This isn't allowed because gfs2_io_error_bh
withdraws the filesystem, which can sleep because it issues a uevent.
To fix that, add a gfs2_io_error_bh_wd macro that does withdraw the
filesystem and change gfs2_io_error_bh to not withdraw the filesystem.
In those places where the new gfs2_io_error_bh is used, withdraw the
filesystem after releasing sd_ail_lock.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
2018-06-21 07:39:44 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
a0725ab0c7 Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the first pull request for 4.14, containing most of the code
  changes. It's a quiet series this round, which I think we needed after
  the churn of the last few series. This contains:

   - Fix for a registration race in loop, from Anton Volkov.

   - Overflow complaint fix from Arnd for DAC960.

   - Series of drbd changes from the usual suspects.

   - Conversion of the stec/skd driver to blk-mq. From Bart.

   - A few BFQ improvements/fixes from Paolo.

   - CFQ improvement from Ritesh, allowing idling for group idle.

   - A few fixes found by Dan's smatch, courtesy of Dan.

   - A warning fixup for a race between changing the IO scheduler and
     device remova. From David Jeffery.

   - A few nbd fixes from Josef.

   - Support for cgroup info in blktrace, from Shaohua.

   - Also from Shaohua, new features in the null_blk driver to allow it
     to actually hold data, among other things.

   - Various corner cases and error handling fixes from Weiping Zhang.

   - Improvements to the IO stats tracking for blk-mq from me. Can
     drastically improve performance for fast devices and/or big
     machines.

   - Series from Christoph removing bi_bdev as being needed for IO
     submission, in preparation for nvme multipathing code.

   - Series from Bart, including various cleanups and fixes for switch
     fall through case complaints"

* 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (162 commits)
  kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL
  drbd: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from drbd_{md_,}io_bio_set
  drbd: Fix allyesconfig build, fix recent commit
  drbd: switch from kmalloc() to kmalloc_array()
  drbd: abort drbd_start_resync if there is no connection
  drbd: move global variables to drbd namespace and make some static
  drbd: rename "usermode_helper" to "drbd_usermode_helper"
  drbd: fix race between handshake and admin disconnect/down
  drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake
  drbd: A single dot should be put into a sequence.
  drbd: fix rmmod cleanup, remove _all_ debugfs entries
  drbd: Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code.
  drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach
  drbd: new disk-option disable-write-same
  drbd: Fix resource role for newly created resources in events2
  drbd: mark symbols static where possible
  drbd: Send P_NEG_ACK upon write error in protocol != C
  drbd: add explicit plugging when submitting batches
  drbd: change list_for_each_safe to while(list_first_entry_or_null)
  drbd: introduce drbd_recv_header_maybe_unplug
  ...
2017-09-07 11:59:42 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
74d46992e0 block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index
This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O.  The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open.  Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device.  But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-23 12:49:55 -06:00
Coly Li
e477b24b50 gfs2: add flag REQ_PRIO for metadata I/O
When gfs2 does metadata I/O, only REQ_META is used as a metadata hint of
the bio. But flag REQ_META is just a hint for block trace, not for block
layer code to handle a bio as metadata request.

For some of metadata I/Os of gfs2, A REQ_PRIO flag on the metadata bio
would be very informative to block layer code. For example, if bcache is
used as a I/O cache for gfs2, it will be possible for bcache code to get
the hint and cache the pre-fetched metadata blocks on cache device. This
behavior may be helpful to improve metadata I/O performance if the
following requests hit the cache.

Here are the locations in gfs2 code where a REQ_PRIO flag should be added,
- All places where REQ_READAHEAD is used, gfs2 code uses this flag for
  metadata read ahead.
- In gfs2_meta_rq() where the first metadata block is read in.
- In gfs2_write_buf_to_page(), read in quota metadata blocks to have them
  up to date.
These metadata blocks are probably to be accessed again in future, adding
a REQ_PRIO flag may have bcache to keep such metadata in fast cache
device. For system without a cache layer, REQ_PRIO can still provide hint
to block layer to handle metadata requests more properly.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2017-07-21 07:48:22 -05:00
Bob Peterson
61eaadcd52 GFS2: Prevent double brelse in gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer
Before this patch, problems reading in indirect buffers would send
an IO error back to the caller, and release the buffer_head with
brelse() in function gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer, however, it would
still return the address of the buffer_head it released. After the
error was discovered, function gfs2_block_map would call function
release_metapath to free all buffers. That checked:
if (mp->mp_bh[i] == NULL) but since the value was set after the
error, it was non-zero, so brelse was called a second time. This
resulted in the following error:

kernel: WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1224 __brelse+0x3a/0x40() (Tainted: G        W  -- ------------   )
kernel: Hardware name: RHEV Hypervisor
kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer

This patch changes gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer so it only sets
the buffer_head pointer in cases where it isn't released.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2017-07-17 08:39:48 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
4e4cbee93d block: switch bios to blk_status_t
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
9763dd6f81 We've got eight GFS2 patches for this merge window:
1. Andy Price submitted a patch to make gfs2_write_full_page a
    static function.
 2. Dan Carpenter submitted a patch to fix a ERR_PTR thinko.
 
 I've also got a few patches, three of which fix bugs related to
 deleting very large files, which cause GFS2 to run out of
 journal space:
 
 3. The first one prevents GFS2 delete operation from requesting too
    much journal space.
 4. The second one fixes a problem whereby GFS2 can hang because it
    wasn't taking journal space demand into its calculations.
 5. The third one wakes up IO waiters when a flush is done to restart
    processes stuck waiting for journal space to become available.
 
 The other three patches are a performance improvement related to
 spin_lock contention between multiple writers:
 
 6. The "tr_touched" variable was switched to a flag to be more atomic
    and eliminate the possibility of some races.
 7. Function meta_lo_add was moved inline with its only caller to make
    the code more readable and efficient.
 8. Contention on the gfs2_log_lock spinlock was greatly reduced by
    avoiding the lock altogether in cases where we don't really need
    it: buffers that already appear in the appropriate metadata list
    for the journal. Many thanks to Steve Whitehouse for the ideas and
    principles behind these patches.
 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
 
 iQEcBAABAgAGBQJYrEEEAAoJENeLYdPf93o7bjoIAIqPG/EAzi+idgMWDPQa9Eit
 53dPy16snkrbWwtaK6spSWlH6bGYuHeanXORYon9bvtVjKYaa4NQclGihN2IE6uB
 O8zT+MGwP45LDhNplVJpumaOALZ9ZDqQSe+3tHeNK3FhNirLyiIjSqrHt/7Yi1qi
 fPLlT4Jx0TBo5rhvEGa7Yg01WhWVtnmVSMqJXj/7ZtC50s1aPyDUikdNIDfDCN2X
 LxfKGDXuk6p63VQ6JKqYSBVATCR0/bbKfkuk/kBUTYLoHoapImxB8d0HgIdsh1Mv
 9PlbZnnNW8k5oapuhVxjl0T5G0JsQgCkPb/wlte+ryOCjBoc2L2fCUV5qc0QxWc=
 =xQyl
 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Merge tag 'gfs2-4.11.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2

Pull GFS2 updates from Robert Peterson:
 "We've got eight GFS2 patches for this merge window:

   - Andy Price submitted a patch to make gfs2_write_full_page a static
     function.

   - Dan Carpenter submitted a patch to fix a ERR_PTR thinko.

  Three patches fix bugs related to deleting very large files, which
  cause GFS2 to run out of journal space:

   - The first one prevents GFS2 delete operation from requesting too
     much journal space.

   - The second one fixes a problem whereby GFS2 can hang because it
     wasn't taking journal space demand into its calculations.

   - The third one wakes up IO waiters when a flush is done to restart
     processes stuck waiting for journal space to become available.

  The final three patches are a performance improvement related to
  spin_lock contention between multiple writers:

   - The "tr_touched" variable was switched to a flag to be more atomic
     and eliminate the possibility of some races.

   - Function meta_lo_add was moved inline with its only caller to make
     the code more readable and efficient.

   - Contention on the gfs2_log_lock spinlock was greatly reduced by
     avoiding the lock altogether in cases where we don't really need
     it: buffers that already appear in the appropriate metadata list
     for the journal. Many thanks to Steve Whitehouse for the ideas and
     principles behind these patches"

* tag 'gfs2-4.11.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
  gfs2: Make gfs2_write_full_page static
  GFS2: Reduce contention on gfs2_log_lock
  GFS2: Inline function meta_lo_add
  GFS2: Switch tr_touched to flag in transaction
  GFS2: Wake up io waiters whenever a flush is done
  GFS2: Made logd daemon take into account log demand
  GFS2: Limit number of transaction blocks requested for truncates
  GFS2: Fix reference to ERR_PTR in gfs2_glock_iter_next
2017-02-21 07:46:34 -08:00
Bob Peterson
9862ca056e GFS2: Switch tr_touched to flag in transaction
This patch eliminates the int variable tr_touched in favor of a
new flag in the transaction. This is a step toward reducing contention
on the gfs2_log_lock spin_lock.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2017-01-27 08:20:13 -05:00
Jens Axboe
7637241e65 writeback: add wbc_to_write_flags()
Add wbc_to_write_flags(), which returns the write modifier flags to use,
based on a struct writeback_control. No functional changes in this
patch, but it prepares us for factoring other wbc fields for write type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2016-11-02 10:24:03 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
70fd76140a block,fs: use REQ_* flags directly
Remove the WRITE_* and READ_SYNC wrappers, and just use the flags
directly.  Where applicable this also drops usage of the
bio_set_op_attrs wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-01 09:43:26 -06:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
23e5671a79 gfs2: Fix extended attribute readahead optimization
Commit 39b0555f didn't check for a failing bio_add_page in
gfs2_submit_bhs. This could cause I/O requests to get lost, and the
affected buffer heads to stay locked forever.  Fix that by submitting
the current bio and allocating another one when bio_add_page fails.  (It
is guaranteed that we can at least add one page to a bio.)

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2016-08-18 11:36:41 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
70246286e9 block: get rid of bio_rw and READA
These two are confusing leftover of the old world order, combining
values of the REQ_OP_ and REQ_ namespaces.  For callers that don't
special case we mostly just replace bi_rw with bio_data_dir or
op_is_write, except for the few cases where a switch over the REQ_OP_
values makes more sense.  Any check for READA is replaced with an
explicit check for REQ_RAHEAD.  Also remove the READA alias for
REQ_RAHEAD.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-07-20 17:37:01 -06:00
Mike Christie
e1b1afa6f8 gfs2: use bio op accessors
Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have gfs2
set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Mike Christie
dfec8a14fc fs: have ll_rw_block users pass in op and flags separately
This has ll_rw_block users pass in the operation and flags separately,
so ll_rw_block can setup the bio op and bi_rw flags on the bio that
is submitted.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Mike Christie
2a222ca992 fs: have submit_bh users pass in op and flags separately
This has submit_bh users pass in the operation and flags separately,
so submit_bh_wbc can setup the bio op and bi_rw flags on the bio that
is submitted.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Mike Christie
4e49ea4a3d block/fs/drivers: remove rw argument from submit_bio
This has callers of submit_bio/submit_bio_wait set the bio->bi_rw
instead of passing it in. This makes that use the same as
generic_make_request and how we set the other bio fields.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>

Fixed up fs/ext4/crypto.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
be1332c099 We've got nine patches this time:
- Abhi Das has two patches that fix a GFS2 splice issue (and an adjustment).
 - Ben Marzinski has a patch which allows the proper unmount of a GFS2
   file system after hitting a withdraw error.
 - I have a patch to fix a problem where GFS2 would dereference an error
   value, plus three cosmetic / refactoring patches.
 - Daniel DeFreez has a patch to fix two glock reference count problems,
   where GFS2 was not properly "uninitializing" its glock holder on error
   paths.
 - Denys Vlasenko has a patch to change a function to not be inlined,
   thus reducing the memory footprint of the GFS2 module.
 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
 Version: GnuPG v1
 
 iQEcBAABAgAGBQJXP2KLAAoJENeLYdPf93o7nScH/jlDCv+JzwBwAiFEVelgB657
 lFY+Q3bPvmcTaHiOqXzco7U1EeyvAuZ+x9duaFBBEGC2/NydIbkAdCP1XjDOTAGZ
 aVVAP8qov4adFiXTfBdzMYjJ7DArOy/JRnlC8WK5OiD/3yxsXJZNlAHTgjjL/ZMq
 PkhjxX2Lc9ZHGF9YIFTyeoBlqf1qO6WbhkxvSNefgq3c702QPM+T9XND5T1duGDF
 ThEcXS2DRRoE+6wr3h+ruvS5kcfxXRLLausAgqNpj2FYQOFCQ6XXgGK8pyXA5V/t
 3Vh8mHW0VmSjAfrRWslCRjd+APXoOf+7QHqOHUAA1dvQ6CGfC9qTETH9Wp32JCI=
 =8g+a
 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Merge tag 'gfs2-4.7.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2

Pull GFS2 updates from Bob Peterson:
 "We've got nine patches this time:

   - Abhi Das has two patches that fix a GFS2 splice issue (and an
     adjustment).

   - Ben Marzinski has a patch which allows the proper unmount of a GFS2
     file system after hitting a withdraw error.

   - I have a patch to fix a problem where GFS2 would dereference an
     error value, plus three cosmetic / refactoring patches.

   - Daniel DeFreez has a patch to fix two glock reference count
     problems, where GFS2 was not properly "uninitializing" its glock
     holder on error paths.

   - Denys Vlasenko has a patch to change a function to not be inlined,
     thus reducing the memory footprint of the GFS2 module"

* tag 'gfs2-4.7.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
  GFS2: Refactor gfs2_remove_from_journal
  GFS2: Remove allocation parms from gfs2_rbm_find
  gfs2: use inode_lock/unlock instead of accessing i_mutex directly
  GFS2: Add calls to gfs2_holder_uninit in two error handlers
  GFS2: Don't dereference inode in gfs2_inode_lookup until it's valid
  GFS2: fs/gfs2/glock.c: Deinline do_error, save 1856 bytes
  gfs2: Use gfs2 wrapper to sync inode before calling generic_file_splice_read()
  GFS2: Get rid of dead code in inode_go_demote_ok
  GFS2: ignore unlock failures after withdraw
2016-05-20 15:11:26 -07:00
Bob Peterson
68cd4ce2ca GFS2: Refactor gfs2_remove_from_journal
This patch makes two simple changes to function gfs2_remove_from_journal.
First, it removes the parameter that specifies the transaction.
Since it's always passed in as current->journal_info, we might as well
set that in the function rather than passing it in. Second, it changes
the meta parameter to use an enum to make the code more clear.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2016-05-06 11:27:27 -05:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
09cbfeaf1a mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros
PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - <foo> << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;

 - <foo> >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -> get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -> put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
39b0555f7a gfs2: Extended attribute readahead optimization
Instead of submitting a READ_SYNC bio for the inode and a READA bio for
the inode's extended attributes through submit_bh, submit a single READ_SYNC
bio for both through submit_bio when possible.  This can be more
efficient on some kinds of block devices.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2015-11-18 14:51:50 -06:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
c8d5770384 gfs2: Extended attribute readahead
When gfs2 allocates an inode and its extended attribute block next to
each other at inode create time, the inode's directory entry indicates
that in de_rahead.  In that case, we can readahead the extended
attribute block when we read in the inode.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2015-11-16 12:00:29 -06:00
Bob Peterson
15562c439d GFS2: Move glock superblock pointer to field gl_name
What uniquely identifies a glock in the glock hash table is not
gl_name, but gl_name and its superblock pointer. This patch makes
the gl_name field correspond to a unique glock identifier. That will
allow us to simplify hashing with a future patch, since the hash
algorithm can then take the gl_name and hash its components in one
operation.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2015-09-03 13:33:09 -05:00
Mel Gorman
2457aec637 mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible
aops->write_begin may allocate a new page and make it visible only to have
mark_page_accessed called almost immediately after.  Once the page is
visible the atomic operations are necessary which is noticable overhead
when writing to an in-memory filesystem like tmpfs but should also be
noticable with fast storage.  The objective of the patch is to initialse
the accessed information with non-atomic operations before the page is
visible.

The bulk of filesystems directly or indirectly use
grab_cache_page_write_begin or find_or_create_page for the initial
allocation of a page cache page.  This patch adds an init_page_accessed()
helper which behaves like the first call to mark_page_accessed() but may
called before the page is visible and can be done non-atomically.

The primary APIs of concern in this care are the following and are used
by most filesystems.

	find_get_page
	find_lock_page
	find_or_create_page
	grab_cache_page_nowait
	grab_cache_page_write_begin

All of them are very similar in detail to the patch creates a core helper
pagecache_get_page() which takes a flags parameter that affects its
behavior such as whether the page should be marked accessed or not.  Then
old API is preserved but is basically a thin wrapper around this core
function.

Each of the filesystems are then updated to avoid calling
mark_page_accessed when it is known that the VM interfaces have already
done the job.  There is a slight snag in that the timing of the
mark_page_accessed() has now changed so in rare cases it's possible a page
gets to the end of the LRU as PageReferenced where as previously it might
have been repromoted.  This is expected to be rare but it's worth the
filesystem people thinking about it in case they see a problem with the
timing change.  It is also the case that some filesystems may be marking
pages accessed that previously did not but it makes sense that filesystems
have consistent behaviour in this regard.

The test case used to evaulate this is a simple dd of a large file done
multiple times with the file deleted on each iterations.  The size of the
file is 1/10th physical memory to avoid dirty page balancing.  In the
async case it will be possible that the workload completes without even
hitting the disk and will have variable results but highlight the impact
of mark_page_accessed for async IO.  The sync results are expected to be
more stable.  The exception is tmpfs where the normal case is for the "IO"
to not hit the disk.

The test machine was single socket and UMA to avoid any scheduling or NUMA
artifacts.  Throughput and wall times are presented for sync IO, only wall
times are shown for async as the granularity reported by dd and the
variability is unsuitable for comparison.  As async results were variable
do to writback timings, I'm only reporting the maximum figures.  The sync
results were stable enough to make the mean and stddev uninteresting.

The performance results are reported based on a run with no profiling.
Profile data is based on a separate run with oprofile running.

async dd
                                    3.15.0-rc3            3.15.0-rc3
                                       vanilla           accessed-v2
ext3    Max      elapsed     13.9900 (  0.00%)     11.5900 ( 17.16%)
tmpfs	Max      elapsed      0.5100 (  0.00%)      0.4900 (  3.92%)
btrfs   Max      elapsed     12.8100 (  0.00%)     12.7800 (  0.23%)
ext4	Max      elapsed     18.6000 (  0.00%)     13.3400 ( 28.28%)
xfs	Max      elapsed     12.5600 (  0.00%)      2.0900 ( 83.36%)

The XFS figure is a bit strange as it managed to avoid a worst case by
sheer luck but the average figures looked reasonable.

        samples percentage
ext3       86107    0.9783  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
ext3       23833    0.2710  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext3        5036    0.0573  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
ext4       64566    0.8961  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
ext4        5322    0.0713  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext4        2869    0.0384  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs        62126    1.7675  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
xfs         1904    0.0554  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs          103    0.0030  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
btrfs      10655    0.1338  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
btrfs       2020    0.0273  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
btrfs        587    0.0079  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
tmpfs      59562    3.2628  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla        mark_page_accessed
tmpfs       1210    0.0696  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
tmpfs         94    0.0054  vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't run init_page_accessed() against an uninitialised pointer]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:54:10 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
1b2ad41214 GFS2: Fix address space from page function
Now that rgrps use the address space which is part of the super
block, we need to update gfs2_mapping2sbd() to take account of
that. The only way to do that easily is to use a different set
of address_space_operations for rgrps.

Reported-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-03-31 17:48:27 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
022ef4feed GFS2: Move log buffer accounting to transaction
Now we have a master transaction into which other transactions
are merged, the accounting can be done using this master
transaction. We no longer require the superblock fields which
were being used for this function.

In addition, this allows for a clean up in calc_reserved()
making it rather easier understand. Also, by reducing the
number of variables used to track the buffers being added
and removed from the journal, a number of error checks are
now no longer required.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-02-24 19:49:12 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
70d4ee94b3 GFS2: Use only a single address space for rgrps
Prior to this patch, GFS2 had one address space for each rgrp,
stored in the glock. This patch changes them to use a single
address space in the super block. This therefore saves
(sizeof(struct address_space) * nr_of_rgrps) bytes of memory
and for large filesystems, that can be significant.

It would be nice to be able to do something similar and merge
the inode metadata address space into the same global
address space. However, that is rather more complicated as the
on-disk location doesn't have a 1:1 mapping with the inodes in
general. So while it could be done, it will be a more complicated
operation as it requires changing a lot more code paths.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-01-03 10:01:50 +00:00
Bob Peterson
502be2a32f GFS2: Fix slab memory leak in gfs2_bufdata
This patch fixes a slab memory leak that sometimes can occur
for files with a very short lifespan. The problem occurs when
a dinode is deleted before it has gotten to the journal properly.
In the leak scenario, the bd object is pinned for journal
committment (queued to the metadata buffers queue: sd_log_le_buf)
but is subsequently unpinned and dequeued before it finds its way
to the ail or the revoke queue. In this rare circumstance, the bd
object needs to be freed from slab memory, or it is forgotten.
We have to be very careful how we do it, though, because
multiple processes can call gfs2_remove_from_journal. In order to
avoid double-frees, only the process that does the unpinning is
allowed to free the bd.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-12-13 21:42:40 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
7c0ef28a2c GFS2: Move gfs2_sync_meta to lops.c
Since gfs2_sync_meta() is only called from a single file, lets move
it to lops.c where it is used, and mark it static. At the same
time, we can clean up the meta_io.h header too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-08-19 17:26:32 +01:00
Benjamin Marzinski
5d054964f5 GFS2: aggressively issue revokes in gfs2_log_flush
This patch looks at all the outstanding blocks in all the transactions
on the log, and moves the completed ones to the ail2 list.  Then it
issues revokes for these blocks.  This will hopefully speed things up
in situations where there is a lot of contention for glocks, especially
if they are acquired serially.

revoke_lo_before_commit will issue at most one log block's full of these
preemptive revokes. The amount of reserved log space that
gfs2_log_reserve() ignores has been incremented to allow for this extra
block.

This patch also consolidates the common revoke instructions into one
function, gfs2_add_revoke().

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-06-19 09:41:59 +01:00
Benjamin Marzinski
16ca9412d8 GFS2: replace gfs2_ail structure with gfs2_trans
In order to allow transactions and log flushes to happen at the same
time, gfs2 needs to move the transaction accounting and active items
list code into the gfs2_trans structure.  As a first step toward this,
this patch removes the gfs2_ail structure, and handles the active items
list in the gfs_trans structure.  This keeps gfs2 from allocating an ail
structure on log flushes, and gives us a struture that can later be used
to store the transaction accounting outside of the gfs2 superblock
structure.

With this patch, at the end of a transaction, gfs2 will add the
gfs2_trans structure to the superblock if there is not one already.
This structure now has the active items fields that were previously in
gfs2_ail.  This is not necessary in the case where the transaction was
simply used to add revokes, since these are never written outside of the
journal, and thus, don't need an active items list.

Also, in order to make sure that the transaction structure is not
removed while it's still in use by gfs2_trans_end, unlocking the
sd_log_flush_lock has to happen slightly later in ending the
transaction.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-04-08 08:46:22 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
c76c4d96bd GFS2: Merge gfs2_attach_bufdata() into trans.c
The locking in gfs2_attach_bufdata() was type specific (data/meta)
which made the function rather confusing. This patch moves the core
of gfs2_attach_bufdata() into trans.c renaming it gfs2_alloc_bufdata()
and moving the locking into gfs2_trans_add_data()/gfs2_trans_add_meta()

As a result all of the locking related to adding data and metadata to
the journal is now in these two functions. This should help to clarify
what is going on, and give us some opportunities to simplify in
some cases.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-01-29 10:28:44 +00:00
Artem Bityutskiy
e76e0ec984 gfs2: nuke pdflush from comments
The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush
from gfs comments.

Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-08-04 12:15:40 +04:00
Masatake YAMATO
44b8db1386 GFS2: Fixing double brelse'ing bh allocated in gfs2_meta_read when EIO occurs
This patch fixes buffer_head double free in following code path:

gfs2_block_map
=> gfs2_meta_inode_buffer
 => gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer
  => gfs2_meta_read
=> release_metapath

gfs2_block_map calls gfs2_meta_inode_buffer with &mp.mp_bh[0]
as an argument. mp.mp_bh are filled with zero at the beginning
of gfs2_block_map.

If gfs2_meta_inode_buffer returns non-zero value, gfs2_block_map
calls release_metapath to free buffers chained to mp.mp_bh.
release_metapath checks each slot of mp.mp_bh[i] and
free(with brelse) unless the slot is filled with NULL.

&mp.mp_bh[0] passed to gfs2_meta_inode_buffer is filled at
gfs2_meta_read. gfs2_meta_read is filled a buffer allocated with
gfs2_getbuf even if EIO occurs. When EIO occurs, the allocated buffer
is brelse'ed though the pointer(wrong poiner) points the brelse'ed is
passed back to caller via an argument bhp.

gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer, the caller also pass the wrong pointer
to its caller with EIO. Finally gfs2_block_map gets both EIO and
&mp.mp_bh[0] filled with the wrong pointer. release_metapath
calls brelse again on the wrong pointer.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-06-28 15:35:47 +01:00
Bob Peterson
f2f9c81244 GFS2: Eliminate unused "new" parameter to gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer
It turns out that the "new" parameter to function gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer
was always being passed in as zero. Therefore, this patch eliminates it
and simplifies the function.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-05-11 10:19:23 +01:00
Bob Peterson
c0752aa7e4 GFS2: eliminate log elements and simplify
This patch eliminates the gfs2_log_element data structure and
rolls its two components into the gfs2_bufdata. This makes the code
easier to understand and makes it easier to migrate to a rbtree
to keep the list sorted.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-05-02 09:14:36 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
c50b91c4bd GFS2: Remove bd_list_tr
This is another clean up in the logging code. This per-transaction
list was largely unused. Its main function was to ensure that the
number of buffers in a transaction was correct, however that counter
was only used to check the number of buffers in the bd_list_tr, plus
an assert at the end of each transaction. With the assert now changed
to use the calculated buffer counts, we can remove both bd_list_tr and
its associated counter.

This should make the code easier to understand as well as shrinking
a couple of structures.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-04-24 16:44:36 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
20ed0535d3 GFS2: Fix up REQ flags
Christoph has split up REQ_PRIO from REQ_META. That means that
we can drop REQ_PRIO from places where is it not needed. I'm
not at all sure that the combination WRITE_FLUSH_FUA | REQ_PRIO
makes any kind of sense, anyway.

In addition, I've added REQ_META to one place in the code where
it was missing. REQ_PRIO has been left for read/writes triggered
by glock acquisition and writeback only. We can adjust it again
if required, but these are the most important points from a
performance perspective.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2011-11-08 09:51:53 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig
65299a3b78 block: separate priority boosting from REQ_META
Add a new REQ_PRIO to let requests preempt others in the cfq I/O schedule,
and lave REQ_META purely for marking requests as metadata in blktrace.

All existing callers of REQ_META except for XFS are updated to also
set REQ_PRIO for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-23 14:50:29 +02:00
Steven Whitehouse
627c10b7e4 GFS2: Improve tracing support (adds two flags)
This adds support for two new flags. One keeps track of whether
the glock is on the LRU list or not. The other isn't really a
flag as such, but an indication of whether the glock has an
attached object or not. This indication is reported without
any locking, which is ok since we do not dereference the object
pointer but merely report whether it is NULL or not.

Also, this fixes one place where a tracepoint was missing, which
was at the point we remove deallocated blocks from the journal.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-04-20 09:00:59 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* '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.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
c618e87a5f GFS2: Update to AIL list locking
The previous patch missed a couple of places where the AIL list
needed locking, so this fixes up those places, plus a comment
is corrected too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-03-14 12:40:29 +00:00
Jens Axboe
721a9602e6 block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Jens Axboe
7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
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>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Wu Fengguang
1b430beee5 writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references
This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efe
(writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks).  There are
no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the
ext4 tracing interface.

The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the
flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on
IO congestion.  The latter will lead to more seeky IO.

The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's
redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check.

We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because
a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code
b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior:
   that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which
   is unfair in terms of LRU age.

Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00