Allowing writeback from reclaim context causes massive problems with stack
overflows as we can call into the writeback code which tends to be a heavy
stack user both in the generic code and XFS from random contexts that
perform memory allocations.
Follow the example of btrfs (and in slightly different form ext4) and refuse
to write out data from reclaim context. This issue should really be handled
by the VM so that we can tune better for this case, but until we get it
sorted out there we have to hack around this in each filesystem with a
complex writeback path.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
When an inode cluster is freed, it needs to mark all inodes in memory as
XFS_ISTALE before marking the buffer as stale. This is eeded because the inodes
have a different life cycle to the buffer, and once the buffer is torn down
during transaction completion, we must ensure none of the inodes get written
back (which is what XFS_ISTALE does).
Unfortunately, xfs_ifree_cluster() has some bugs that lead to inodes not being
marked with XFS_ISTALE. This shows up when xfs_iflush() is called on these
inodes either during inode reclaim or tail pushing on the AIL. The buffer is
read back, but no longer contains inodes and so triggers assert failures and
shutdowns. This was reproducable with at run.dbench10 invocation from xfstests.
There are two main causes of xfs_ifree_cluster() failing. The first is simple -
it checks in-memory inodes it finds in the per-ag icache to see if they are
clean without holding the flush lock. if they are clean it skips them
completely. However, If an inode is flushed delwri, it will
appear clean, but is not guaranteed to be written back until the flush lock has
been dropped. Hence we may have raced on the clean check and the inode may
actually be dirty. Hence always mark inodes found in memory stale before we
check properly if they are clean.
The second is more complex, and makes the first problem easier to hit.
Basically the in-memory inode scan is done with full knowledge it can be racing
with inode flushing and AIl tail pushing, which means that inodes that it can't
get the flush lock on might not be attached to the buffer after then in-memory
inode scan due to IO completion occurring. This is actually documented in the
code as "needs better interlocking". i.e. this is a zero-day bug.
Effectively, the in-memory scan must be done while the inode buffer is locked
and Io cannot be issued on it while we do the in-memory inode scan. This
ensures that inodes we couldn't get the flush lock on are guaranteed to be
attached to the cluster buffer, so we can then catch all in-memory inodes and
mark them stale.
Now that the inode cluster buffer is locked before the in-memory scan is done,
there is no need for the two-phase update of the in-memory inodes, so simplify
the code into two loops and remove the allocation of the temporary buffer used
to hold locked inodes across the phases.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
If a filesystem is mounted without the inode64 mount option we
should still be able to access inodes not fitting into 32 bits, just
not created new ones. For this to work we need to make sure the
inode cache radix tree is initialized for all allocation groups, not
just those we plan to allocate inodes from. This patch makes sure
we initialize the inode cache radix tree for all allocation groups,
and also cleans xfs_initialize_perag up a bit to separate the
inode32 logical from the general perag structure setup.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The use of radix_tree_preload() only works if the radix tree was
initialised without the __GFP_WAIT flag. The per-ag tree uses
GFP_NOFS, so does not trigger allocation of new tree nodes from the
preloaded array. Hence it enters the allocator with a spinlock held
and triggers the might_sleep() warnings.
Reported-by; Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Add a mutex_unlock missing on the error path. The use of this lock
is balanced elsewhere in the file.
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression E1;
@@
* mutex_lock(E1,...);
<+... when != E1
if (...) {
... when != E1
* return ...;
}
...+>
* mutex_unlock(E1,...);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS, and save ~15K:
text data bss dec hex filename
171949 43028 48 215025 347f1 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_trace.o.orig
156521 43028 36 199585 30ba1 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_trace.o
No change in functionality.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The new xfsqa test 228 tries to preallocate more space than the
filesystem contains. it should fail, but instead triggers an assert
about lock flags. The failure is due to the size extension failing
in vmtruncate() due to rlimit being set. Check this before we start
the preallocation to avoid allocating space that will never be used.
Also the path through xfs_vn_allocate already holds the IO lock, so
it should not be present in the lock flags when the setattr fails.
Hence the assert needs to take this into account. This will prevent
other such callers from hitting this incorrect ASSERT.
(Fixed a reference to "newsize" to read "new_size". -Alex)
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Add suggested cleanups to commit 29db3370a1369541d58d692fbfb168b8a0bd7f41
from review that didn't end up being commited.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Instead of having small helper functions calling big macros do the
calculations for the log reservations directly in the functions.
These are mostly 1:1 from the macros execept that the macros kept
the quota calculations in their callers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Recent testers were slightly confused that a realtime mount failed
due to missing CONFIG_XFS_RT; we can make that a little more
obvious.
V2: drop the else as suggested by Christoph
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Many places in the xfs code return E2BIG when they really mean
EFBIG; trying to grow past 16T on a 32 bit machine, for example,
says "Argument list too long" rather than "File too large" which is
not particularly helpful.
Some of these don't make perfect sense as EFBIG either, but still
better than E2BIG IMHO.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
With delayed logging, we can get inode allocation buffers in the
same transaction inode unlink buffers. We don't currently mark inode
allocation buffers in the log, so inode unlink buffers take
precedence over allocation buffers.
The result is that when they are combined into the same checkpoint,
only the unlinked inode chain fields are replayed, resulting in
uninitialised inode buffers being detected when the next inode
modification is replayed.
To fix this, we need to ensure that we do not set the inode buffer
flag in the buffer log item format flags if the inode allocation has
not already hit the log. To avoid requiring a change to log
recovery, we really need to make this a modification that relies
only on in-memory sate.
We can do this by checking during buffer log formatting (while the
CIL cannot be flushed) if we are still in the same sequence when we
commit the unlink transaction as the inode allocation transaction.
If we are, then we do not add the inode buffer flag to the buffer
log format item flags. This means the entire buffer will be
replayed, not just the unlinked fields. We do this while
CIL flusheѕ are locked out to ensure that we don't race with the
sequence numbers changing and hence fail to put the inode buffer
flag in the buffer format flags when we really need to.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
If we let the CIL grow without bound, it will grow large enough to violate
recovery constraints (must be at least one complete transaction in the log at
all times) or take forever to write out through the log buffers. Hence we need
a check during asynchronous transactions as to whether the CIL needs to be
pushed.
We track the amount of log space the CIL consumes, so it is relatively simple
to limit it on a pure size basis. Make the limit the minimum of just under half
the log size (recovery constraint) or 8MB of log space (which is an awful lot
of metadata).
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
If the filesystem is being shut down and the there is no log error,
the current code forces out the current log buffers. This code now needs
to push the CIL before it forces out the log buffers to acheive the same
result.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as
such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount
option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that
should not be used in production yet.
We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not
yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List
(CIL) is for.
The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log
vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit
Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable
this tracking.
To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed
logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context
for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction
completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space
log required/used by the context checkpoint.
To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item,
rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new
log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to
allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the
second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed
to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL.
Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just
a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly
more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point
back at the memory buffer we just copied into.
This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not
already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be
pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it
again.
The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space
the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the
transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex
becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the
checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update
all the tickets, counters, etc correctly.
Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach
the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live
until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in
time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time.
Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space
used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the
space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be
triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event.
Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the
transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it
to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a
commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket
and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during
Io completion to complete the checkpoint.
We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight
checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure
that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct
sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The
second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only
flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with.
To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the
checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for
the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides
the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Document the design of the delayed logging implementation. This
includes assumptions made, dead ends followed, the reasoning behind
the structuring of the code, the layout of various structures, how
things fit together, traps and pit-falls avoided, etc. This is all
too much to document in the code itself, so do it in a separate
file.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When we free a metadata extent, we record it in the per-AG busy
extent array so that it is not re-used before the freeing
transaction hits the disk. This array is fixed size, so when it
overflows we make further allocation transactions synchronous
because we cannot track more freed extents until those transactions
hit the disk and are completed. Under heavy mixed allocation and
freeing workloads with large log buffers, we can overflow this array
quite easily.
Further, the array is sparsely populated, which means that inserts
need to search for a free slot, and array searches often have to
search many more slots that are actually used to check all the
busy extents. Quite inefficient, really.
To enable this aspect of extent freeing to scale better, we need
a structure that can grow dynamically. While in other areas of
XFS we have used radix trees, the extents being freed are at random
locations on disk so are better suited to being indexed by an rbtree.
So, use a per-AG rbtree indexed by block number to track busy
extents. This incures a memory allocation when marking an extent
busy, but should not occur too often in low memory situations. This
should scale to an arbitrary number of extents so should not be a
limitation for features such as in-memory aggregation of
transactions.
However, there are still situations where we can't avoid allocating
busy extents (such as allocation from the AGFL). To minimise the
overhead of such occurences, we need to avoid doing a synchronous
log force while holding the AGF locked to ensure that the previous
transactions are safely on disk before we use the extent. We can do
this by marking the transaction doing the allocation as synchronous
rather issuing a log force.
Because of the locking involved and the ordering of transactions,
the synchronous transaction provides the same guarantees as a
synchronous log force because it ensures that all the prior
transactions are already on disk when the synchronous transaction
hits the disk. i.e. it preserves the free->allocate order of the
extent correctly in recovery.
By doing this, we avoid holding the AGF locked while log writes are
in progress, hence reducing the length of time the lock is held and
therefore we increase the rate at which we can allocate and free
from the allocation group, thereby increasing overall throughput.
The only problem with this approach is that when a metadata buffer is
marked stale (e.g. a directory block is removed), then buffer remains
pinned and locked until the log goes to disk. The issue here is that
if that stale buffer is reallocated in a subsequent transaction, the
attempt to lock that buffer in the transaction will hang waiting
the log to go to disk to unlock and unpin the buffer. Hence if
someone tries to lock a pinned, stale, locked buffer we need to
push on the log to get it unlocked ASAP. Effectively we are trading
off a guaranteed log force for a much less common trigger for log
force to occur.
Ideally we should not reallocate busy extents. That is a much more
complex fix to the problem as it involves direct intervention in the
allocation btree searches in many places. This is left to a future
set of modifications.
Finally, now that we track busy extents in allocated memory, we
don't need the descriptors in the transaction structure to point to
them. We can replace the complex busy chunk infrastructure with a
simple linked list of busy extents. This allows us to remove a large
chunk of code, making the overall change a net reduction in code
size.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The ticket ID is needed to uniquely identify transactions when doing busy
extent matching. Delayed logging changes the lifecycle of busy extents with
respect to the transaction structure lifecycle. Hence we can no longer use
the transaction structure as a means of determining the owner of the busy
extent as it may be freed and reused while the busy extent is still active.
This commit provides the infrastructure to access the xlog_tid_t held in the
ticket from a transaction handle. This avoids the need for callers to peek
into the transaction and log structures to find this out.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Push the error message output when a ticket overrun is detected
into the ticket printing functions. Also remove the debug version
of the code as the production version will still panic just as
effectively on a debug kernel via the panic mask being set.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Clean up the buffer log format (XFS_BLI_*) flags because they have a
polluted namespace. They XFS_BLI_ prefix is used for both in-memory
and on-disk flag feilds, but have overlapping values for different
flags. Rename the buffer log format flags to use the XFS_BLF_*
prefix to avoid confusing them with the in-memory XFS_BLI_* prefixed
flags.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The buffer log item reference counts used to take referenceѕ for every
transaction, similar to the pin counting. This is symmetric (like the
pin/unpin) with respect to transaction completion, but with dleayed logging
becomes assymetric as the pinning becomes assymetric w.r.t. transaction
completion.
To make both cases the same, allow the buffer pinning to take a reference to
the buffer log item and always drop the reference the transaction has on it
when being unlocked. This is balanced correctly because the unpin operation
always drops a reference to the log item. Hence reference counting becomes
symmetric w.r.t. item pinning as well as w.r.t active transactions and as a
result the reference counting model remain consistent between normal and
delayed logging.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Delayed logging currently requires ticket allocation to succeed, so
we need to be able to sleep on allocation. It also should not allow
memory allocation to recurse into the filesystem. hence we need to
pass allocation flags directing the type of allocation the caller
requires.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The transaction ID is written into the log as the unique identifier
for transactions during recover. When duplicating a transaction, we
reuse the log ticket, which means it has the same transaction ID as
the previous transaction.
Rather than regenerating a random transaction ID for the duplicated
transaction, just add one to the current ID so that duplicated
transaction can be easily spotted in the log and during recovery
during problem diagnosis.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Rename all iomap_valid identifiers to imap_valid to fit the new
world order, and clean up xfs_iomap_valid to convert the passed in
offset to blocks instead of the imap values to bytes. Use the
simpler inode->i_blkbits instead of the XFS macros for this.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The IOMAP_ flags are now only used inside xfs_aops.c for extent
probing and I/O completion tracking, so more them here, and rename
them to IO_* as there's no mapping involved at all.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Now that struct xfs_iomap contains exactly the same units as struct
xfs_bmbt_irec we can just use the latter directly in the aops code.
Replace the missing IOMAP_NEW flag with a new boolean output
parameter to xfs_iomap.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Report the iomap_bn field of struct xfs_iomap in terms of filesystem
blocks instead of in terms of bytes. Shift the byte conversions
into the caller, and replace the IOMAP_DELAY and IOMAP_HOLE flag
checks with checks for HOLESTARTBLOCK and DELAYSTARTBLOCK.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Report the iomap_offset and iomap_bsize fields of struct xfs_iomap
in terms of fsblocks instead of in terms of disk blocks. Shift the
byte conversions into the callers temporarily, but they will
disappear or get cleaned up later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The iomap_delta field in struct xfs_iomap just contains the
difference between the offset passed to xfs_iomap and the
iomap_offset. Just calculate it in the only caller that cares.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Instead of using the iomap_target field in struct xfs_iomap
and the IOMAP_REALTIME flag just use the already existing
xfs_find_bdev_for_inode helper. There's some fallout as we
need to pass the inode in a few more places, which we also
use to sanitize some calling conventions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
We only call xfs_iomap for single mappings anyway, so remove all
code dealing with multiple mappings from xfs_imap_to_bmap and add
asserts that we never get results that we do not expect.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
We currenly have a routine xfs_trans_buf_item_match_all which checks
if any log item in a transaction contains a given buffer, and a
second one that only does this check for the first, embedded chunk
of log items. We only use the second routine if we know we only
have that log item chunk, so get rid of the limited routine and
always use the more complete one.
Also rename the old xfs_trans_buf_item_match_all to
xfs_trans_buf_item_match and update various surrounding comments,
and move the remaining xfs_trans_buf_item_match on top of the file
to avoid a forward prototype.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
According to Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt, If fm_extent_count
is zero, then the fm_extents[] array is ignored (no extents will be
returned), and the fm_mapped_extents count will hold the number of
extents needed.
But as the commit 97db39a1f6 has changed
bmv_count to the caller's input buffer, this number query function can't
work any more. As this commit is written to change bmv_count from
MAXEXTNUM because of ENOMEM.
This patch just try to set bm.bmv_count to something sane.
Thanks to Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> for the suggestion.
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
There remains only one user of the l_sectbb_mask field in the log
structure. Just kill it off and compute the mask where needed from
the power-of-2 sector size.
(Only update from last post is to accomodate the changes in the
previous patch in the series.)
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Change struct log so it keeps track of the size (in basic blocks) of
a log sector in l_sectBBsize rather than the log-base-2 of that
value (previously, l_sectbb_log). The name was chosen for
consistency with the other fields in the structure that represent
a number of basic blocks.
(Updated so that a variable used in computing and verifying a log's
sector size is named "log2_size". Also added the "BB" to the
structure field name, based on feedback from Eric Sandeen. Also
dropped some superfluous parentheses.)
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
This can't be enabled through the build system and has been dead for
ages. Note that the CRC patches add back log checksumming, but the
code is quite different from the version removed here anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Access fields in m_quotainfo directly instead of hiding them behind the
XFS_QI_* macros. Add local variables for the quotainfo pointer in places
where we have lots of them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We need to wait for all pending direct I/O requests before taking care of
metadata in fsync and write_inode.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_trace.c: xfs_attr_sf.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Odds and ends in "xfs_log_recover.c". This patch just contains some
minor things that didn't seem to warrant their own individual
patches:
- In xlog_bread_noalign(), drop an assertion that a pointer is
non-null (the crash will tell us it was a bad pointer).
- Add a more descriptive header comment for xlog_find_verify_cycle().
- Make a few additions to the comments in xlog_find_head(). Also
rearrange some expressions in a few spots to produce the same
result, but in a way that seems more clear what's being computed.
(Updated in response to Dave's review comments. Note I did not
split this patch like I said I would.)
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
In xlog_find_cycle_start() use a local variable for some repeated
operations rather than constantly accessing the memory location
whose address is passed in.
(This version drops an assertion that a pointer is non-null.)
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Rename a label used in xlog_find_head() that I thought was poorly
chosen. Also combine two adjacent labels xlog_find_tail() into a
single label, and give it a more generic name.
(Now using Dave's suggested "validate_head" name for first label.)
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
