This patch adds necessary framework into JBD2 to be able to track inodes
with each transaction and write-out their dirty data during transaction
commit time.
This new ordered mode brings all sorts of advantages such as possibility
to get rid of journal heads and buffer heads for data buffers in ordered
mode, better ordering of writes on transaction commit, simplification of
some JBD code, no more anonymous pages when truncate of data being
committed happens. Also with this new ordered mode, delayed allocation
on ordered mode is much simpler.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
journal_try_to_free_buffers() could race with jbd commit transaction
when the later is holding the buffer reference while waiting for the
data buffer to flush to disk. If the caller of
journal_try_to_free_buffers() request tries hard to release the buffers,
it will treat the failure as error and return back to the caller. We
have seen the directo IO failed due to this race. Some of the caller of
releasepage() also expecting the buffer to be dropped when passed with
GFP_KERNEL mask to the releasepage()->journal_try_to_free_buffers().
With this patch, if the caller is passing the GFP_KERNEL to indicating
this call could wait, in case of try_to_free_buffers() failed, let's
waiting for journal_commit_transaction() to finish commit the current
committing transaction , then try to free those buffers again with
journal locked.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There are several cases where the running transaction can get buffers
added to its BJ_Metadata list which it never dirtied, which makes its
t_nr_buffers counter end up larger than its t_outstanding_credits
counter.
This will cause issues when starting new transactions as while we are
logging buffers we decrement t_outstanding_buffers, so when
t_outstanding_buffers goes negative, we will report that we need less
space in the journal than we actually need, so transactions will be
started even though there may not be enough room for them. In the worst
case scenario (which admittedly is almost impossible to reproduce) this
will result in the journal running out of space.
The fix is to only refile buffers from the committing transaction to the
running transactions BJ_Modified list when b_modified is set on that
journal, which is the only way to be sure if the running transaction has
modified that buffer.
This patch also fixes an accounting error in journal_forget, it is
possible that we can call journal_forget on a buffer without having
modified it, only gotten write access to it, so instead of freeing a
credit, we only do so if the buffer was modified. The assert will help
catch if this problem occurs. Without these two patches I could hit
this assert within minutes of running postmark, with them this issue no
longer arises.
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently at the start of a journal commit we loop through all of the buffers
on the committing transaction and clear the b_modified flag (the flag that is
set when a transaction modifies the buffer) under the j_list_lock.
The problem is that everywhere else this flag is modified only under the jbd2
lock buffer flag, so it will race with a running transaction who could
potentially set it, and have it unset by the committing transaction.
This is also a big waste, you can have several thousands of buffers that you
are clearing the modified flag on when you may not need to. This patch
removes this code and instead clears the b_modified flag upon entering
do_get_write_access/journal_get_create_access, so if that transaction does
indeed use the buffer then it will be accounted for properly, and if it does
not then we know we didn't use it.
That will be important for the next patch in this series. Tested thoroughly
by myself using postmark/iozone/bonnie++.
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL
pointer. (Ported from upstream ext3/jbd changes.)
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
While "every 5 seconds" doesn't sound as a problem, there can be many
of these (and these timers do add up over all the kernel). The "5
second" wakeup isn't really timing sensitive; in addition even with
rounding it'll still happen every 5 seconds (with the exception of the
very first time, which is likely to be rounded up to somewhere closer
to 6 seconds)
(Ported from similar JBD patch made by Arjan van de Ven to
fs/jbd/transaction.c)
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The patch below updates the jbd stats patch to 2.6.20/jbd2.
The initial patch was posted by Alex Tomas in December 2005
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=113538565128617&w=2).
It provides statistics via procfs such as transaction lifetime and size.
Sometimes, investigating performance problems, i find useful to have
stats from jbd about transaction's lifetime, size, etc. here is a
patch for review and inclusion probably.
for example, stats after creation of 3M files in htree directory:
[root@bob ~]# cat /proc/fs/jbd/sda/history
R/C tid wait run lock flush log hndls block inlog ctime write drop close
R 261 8260 2720 0 0 750 9892 8170 8187
C 259 750 0 4885 1
R 262 20 2200 10 0 770 9836 8170 8187
R 263 30 2200 10 0 3070 9812 8170 8187
R 264 0 5000 10 0 1340 0 0 0
C 261 8240 3212 4957 0
R 265 8260 1470 0 0 4640 9854 8170 8187
R 266 0 5000 10 0 1460 0 0 0
C 262 8210 2989 4868 0
R 267 8230 1490 10 0 4440 9875 8171 8188
R 268 0 5000 10 0 1260 0 0 0
C 263 7710 2937 4908 0
R 269 7730 1470 10 0 3330 9841 8170 8187
R 270 0 5000 10 0 830 0 0 0
C 265 8140 3234 4898 0
C 267 720 0 4849 1
R 271 8630 2740 20 0 740 9819 8170 8187
C 269 800 0 4214 1
R 272 40 2170 10 0 830 9716 8170 8187
R 273 40 2280 0 0 3530 9799 8170 8187
R 274 0 5000 10 0 990 0 0 0
where,
R - line for transaction's life from T_RUNNING to T_FINISHED
C - line for transaction's checkpointing
tid - transaction's id
wait - for how long we were waiting for new transaction to start
(the longest period journal_start() took in this transaction)
run - real transaction's lifetime (from T_RUNNING to T_LOCKED
lock - how long we were waiting for all handles to close
(time the transaction was in T_LOCKED)
flush - how long it took to flush all data (data=ordered)
log - how long it took to write the transaction to the log
hndls - how many handles got to the transaction
block - how many blocks got to the transaction
inlog - how many blocks are written to the log (block + descriptors)
ctime - how long it took to checkpoint the transaction
write - how many blocks have been written during checkpointing
drop - how many blocks have been dropped during checkpointing
close - how many running transactions have been closed to checkpoint this one
all times are in msec.
[root@bob ~]# cat /proc/fs/jbd/sda/info
280 transaction, each upto 8192 blocks
average:
1633ms waiting for transaction
3616ms running transaction
5ms transaction was being locked
1ms flushing data (in ordered mode)
1799ms logging transaction
11781 handles per transaction
5629 blocks per transaction
5641 logged blocks per transaction
Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
JBD2: Replace slab allocations with page allocations
JBD2 allocate memory for committed_data and frozen_data from slab. However
JBD2 should not pass slab pages down to the block layer. Use page allocator
pages instead. This will also prepare JBD for the large blocksize patchset.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.
Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When running several fsx's and other filesystem stress tests, we found
cases where an unmapped buffer was still being sent to submit_bh by the
ext3 dirty data journaling code.
I saw this happen in two ways, both related to another thread doing a
truncate which would unmap the buffer in question.
Either we would get into journal_dirty_data with a bh which was already
unmapped (although journal_dirty_data_fn had checked for this earlier, the
state was not locked at that point), or it would get unmapped in the middle
of journal_dirty_data when we dropped locks to call sync_dirty_buffer.
By re-checking for mapped state after we've acquired the bh state lock, we
should avoid these races. If we find a buffer which is no longer mapped,
we essentially ignore it, because journal_unmap_buffer has already decided
that this buffer can go away.
I've also added tracepoints in these two cases, and made a couple other
tracepoint changes that I found useful in debugging this.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A disk generated some I/O error, after it, I hitted
J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0) in journal_stop().
It seems to happened on ext3_truncate() path from stack trace. Then,
maybe the following case may trigger J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0).
ext3_truncate()
-> ext3_free_branches()
-> ext3_journal_test_restart()
-> ext3_journal_restart()
-> journal_restart()
transaction->t_updates--;
/* another process aborted journal */
-> start_this_handle()
returns -EROFS without transaction->t_updates++;
-> ext3_journal_stop()
-> journal_stop()
J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0)
If journal was aborted in middle of journal_restart(), ext3_truncate()
may trigger J_ASSERT().
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mingming Cao originally did this work, and Shaggy reproduced it using some
scripts from her.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a simple copy of the files in fs/jbd to fs/jbd2 and
/usr/incude/linux/[ext4_]jbd.h to /usr/include/[ext4_]jbd2.h
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
