The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able
to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this
is a problem for /sys/class/net/*.
What I want is a separate /sys/class/net directory in sysfs for each
network namespace, and I want to name each of them /sys/class/net.
I looked and the VFS actually allows that. All that is needed is
for /sys/class/net to implement a follow link method to redirect
lookups to the real directory you want.
Implementing a follow link method that is sensitive to the current
network namespace turns out to be 3 lines of code so it looks like a
clean approach. Modifying sysfs so it doesn't get in my was is a bit
trickier.
I am calling the concept of multiple directories all at the same path
in the filesystem shadow directories. With the directory entry really
at that location the shadow master.
The following patch modifies sysfs so it can handle a directory
structure slightly different from the kobject tree so I can implement
the shadow directories for handling /sys/class/net/.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
if a driver returns an error in fill_read_buffer(), the buffer will be
marked as filled. Subsequent reads will return eof. But there is
no data because of an error, not because it has been read.
Not marking the buffer filled is the obvious fix.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch prevents a race between IO and removing a file from sysfs.
It introduces a list of sysfs_buffers associated with a file at the inode.
Upon removal of a file the list is walked and the buffers marked orphaned.
IO to orphaned buffers fails with -ENODEV. The driver can safely free
associated data structures or be unloaded.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Acked-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
If we allow NULL as the new parent in device_move(), we need to make sure
that the device is placed into the same place as it would if it was
newly registered:
- Consider the device virtual tree. In order to be able to reuse code,
setup_parent() has been tweaked a bit.
- kobject_move() can fall back to the kset's kobject.
- sysfs_move_dir() uses the sysfs root dir as fallback.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6:
JFS: Remove incorrect kgdb define
JFS: call io_schedule() instead of schedule() to avoid deadlock
JFS: Add lockdep annotations
JFS: Avoid BUG() on a damaged file system
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (57 commits)
[GFS2] make gfs2_writepages() static
[GFS2] Unlock page on prepare_write try lock failure
[GFS2] nfsd readdirplus assertion failure
[DLM] fix softlockup in dlm_recv
[DLM] zero new user lvbs
[DLM/GFS2] indent help text
[GFS2] Fix unlink deadlocks
[GFS2] Put back semaphore to avoid umount problem
[GFS2] more CURRENT_TIME_SEC
[GFS2/DLM] fix GFS2 circular dependency
[GFS2/DLM] use sysfs
[GFS2] make lock_dlm drop_count tunable in sysfs
[GFS2] increase default lock limit
[GFS2] Fix list corruption in lops.c
[GFS2] Fix recursive locking attempt with NFS
[DLM] can miss clearing resend flag
[DLM] saved dlm message can be dropped
[DLM] Make sock_sem into a mutex
[GFS2] Fix typo in glock.c
[GFS2] use CURRENT_TIME_SEC instead of get_seconds in gfs2
...
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:45:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.20-rc6-mm2:
>...
> git-gfs2-nmw.patch
>...
> git trees
>...
This patch makes the needlessly global gfs2_writepages() static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When the try lock of the glock failed in prepare_write we were
incorrectly exiting this function with the page still locked.
This was resulting in further I/O to this page hanging.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
[CIFS] Minor cleanup
[CIFS] Missing free in error path
[CIFS] Reduce cifs stack space usage
[CIFS] lseek polling returned stale EOF
Glock assertion failure found in '07 NFS connectathon. One of the NFSDs
is doing a "readdirplus" procedure call. It passes the logic into
gfs2_readdir() where it obtains its directory inode glock. This is then
followed by filehandle construction that invokes lookup code. It hits
the assertion failure while trying to obtain the inode glock again
inside gfs2_drevalidate().
This patch bypasses the recursive glock call if caller already holds the
lock.
Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch stops the dlm_recv workqueue from busy-waiting when a node
disconnects. This can cause soft lockup errors on debug systems and bad
performance generally.
Signed-Off-By: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
A new lvb for a userland lock wasn't being initialized to zero.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Move the glock acquisition to outside of the transactions.
Lock odering must be preserved in order to prevent ABBA
deadlocks. The current gfs2_change_nlink code would tries
to grab the glock after having started a transaction and thus is holding
the log lock. This is inconsistent with other code paths in
gfs that grab the resource group glock prior to staring
a tranactions.
One problem with this fix is that the resource group
lock is always grabbed now even if the inode still has
ref count and can not be marked for unlink.
Signed-off-by: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Dave Teigland fixed this bug a while back, but I managed to mistakenly
remove the semaphore during later development. It is required to avoid
the list of inodes changing during an invalidate_inodes call. I have
made it an rwsem since the read side will be taken frequently during
normal filesystem operation. The write site will only happen during
umount of the file system.
Also the bug only triggers when using the DLM lock manager and only then
under certain conditions as its timing related.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Whoops, quilt user error, missed this one in the previous patch.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:08:18AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Andrew Morton napsal(a):
> >Temporarily at
> >
> > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc6-mm1/
>
> Unable to select IPV6. Menuconfig doesn't offer it when INET is selected.
> When it's not it appears in the menu, but after state change it gets away.
> The same behaviour in xconfig, gconfig.
>
> $ mkdir ../a/tst
> $ make O=../a/tst menuconfig
> HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
> [...]
> HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/mconf
> scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig
> Warning! Found recursive dependency: INET GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM SYSFS
> OCFS2_FS INET
>
> Maybe this is the problem?
Yes, patch below.
> regards,
cu
Adrian
<-- snip -->
This patch fixes a circular dependency by letting GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
and DLM depend on instead of select SYSFS.
Since SYSFS depends on EMBEDDED this change shouldn't cause any problems
for users.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
With CONFIG_DLM=m, CONFIG_PROC_FS=n, and CONFIG_SYSFS=n, kernel build
fails with:
WARNING: "kernel_subsys" [fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/lock_dlm.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "kernel_subsys" [fs/dlm/dlm.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "kernel_subsys" [fs/configfs/configfs.ko] undefined!
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make: *** [modules] Error 2
Since fs/dlm/lockspace.c and fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/sysfs.c use
kernel_subsys, they should either DEPEND on it or SELECT it.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We want to be able to change or disable the default drop_count (number at
which the dlm asks gfs to limit the the number of locks it's holding).
Add it to the collection of sysfs tunables for an fs.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Increase the number of locks at which point the dlm begins asking gfs to
reduce its lock usage. The default value is largely arbitrary, but the
current value of 50,000 ends up limiting performance unnecessarily for too
many users.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The patch below appears to fix the list corruption that we are seeing on
occasion. Although the transaction structure is private to a single
thread, when the queued structures are dismantled during an in-core
commit, its possible for a different thread to be trying to add the same
structure to another, new, transaction at the same time.
To avoid this, this patch takes the log spinlock during this operation.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In certain cases, its possible for NFS to call the lookup code while
holding the glock (when doing a readdirplus operation) so we need to
check for that and not try and lock the glock twice. This also fixes a
typo in a previous NFS related GFS2 patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
A long, complicated sequence of events, beginning with the RESEND flag not
being cleared on an lkb, can result in an unlock never completing.
- lkb on waiters list for remote lookup
- the remote node is both the dir node and the master node, so
it optimizes the lookup into a request and sends a request
reply back
- the request reply is saved on the requestqueue to be processed
after recovery
- recovery runs dlm_recover_waiters_pre() which sets RESEND flag
so the lookup will be resent after recovery
- end of recovery: process_requestqueue takes saved request reply
which removes the lkb off the waitesr list, _without_ clearing
the RESEND flag
- end of recovery: dlm_recover_waiters_post() doesn't do anything
with the now completed lookup lkb (would usually clear RESEND)
- later, the node unmounts, unlocks this lkb that still has RESEND
flag set
- the lkb is on the waiters list again, now for unlock, when recovery
occurs, dlm_recover_waiters_pre() shows the lkb for unlock with RESEND
set, doesn't do anything since the master still exists
- end of recovery: dlm_recover_waiters_post() takes this lkb off
the waiters list because it has the RESEND flag set, then reports
an error because unlocks are never supposed to be handled in
recover_waiters_post().
- later, the unlock reply is received, doesn't find the lkb on
the waiters list because recover_waiters_post() has wrongly
removed it.
- the unlock operation has been lost, and we're left with a
stray granted lock
- unmount spins waiting for the unlock to complete
The visible evidence of this problem will be a node where gfs umount is
spinning, the dlm waiters list will be empty, and the dlm locks list will
show a granted lock.
The fix is simply to clear the RESEND flag when taking an lkb off the
waiters list.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
dlm_receive_message() returns 0 instead of returning 'error'. What would
happen is that process_requestqueue would take a saved message off the
requestqueue and call receive_message on it. receive_message would then
see that recovery had been aborted, set error to EINTR, and 'goto out',
expecting that the error would be returned. Instead, 0 was always
returned, so process_requestqueue would think that the message had been
processed and delete it instead of saving it to process next time. This
means the message (usually an unlock in my tests) would be lost.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Now that there can be multiple dlm_recv threads running we need to prevent two
recvs running for the same connection - it's unlikely but it can happen and it
causes message corruption.
Signed-Off-By: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
I was looking something else up and came across this...
I don't honestly have a good reason to change it other than to make it
like every other Linux filesystem in this regard. ;-) It doesn't
functionally change anything, but makes some lines shorter. :)
I'm also curious; why does gfs2 have 64-bits of on-disk timestamps, but
not in timespec_t format, and only stores second resolutions? Seems like
you're halfway to sub-second resolutions already.
I suppose if that gets implemented then all of the below should
instead be CURRENT_TIME not CURRENT_TIME_SEC.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This function is not longer required since we do not do recursive
locking in the glock layer. As a result all its callers can be
replaceed with list_empty() calls.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a bug whereby data on a newly accepted connection would be
ignored if it arrived soon after the accept.
Signed-Off-By: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch doesn't make any changes to the ordering of the various
operations related to glocking, but it does tidy up the calls to the
glops.c functions to make the structure more obvious.
The two functions: gfs2_glock_xmote_th() and gfs2_glock_drop_th() can be
made static within glock.c since they are called by every set of glock
operations. The xmote_th and drop_th glock operations are then made
conditional upon those two routines existing and called from the
previously mentioned functions in glock.c respectively.
Also it can be seen that the go_sync operation isn't needed since it can
easily be replaced by calls to xmote_bh and drop_bh respectively. This
results in no longer (confusingly) calling back into routines in glock.c
from glops.c and also reducing the glock operations by one member.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch removes some redundant fields from the connection structure and adds
some lockdep annotation to remove spurious warnings.
Signed-Off-By: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Here is a patch for GFS2 to remove the local exclusive flag. In
the places it was used, mutex's are always held earlier in the
call path, so it appears redundant in the LM_ST_SHARED case.
Also, the GFS2 holders were setting local exclusive in any case where
the requested lock was LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE. So the other places in the glock
code where the flag was tested have been replaced with tests for the
lock state being LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE in order to ensure the logic is the
same as before (i.e. LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE is always locally exclusive as well
as globally exclusive).
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The "greedy" code was an attempt to retain glocks for a minimum length
of time when they relate to mmap()ed files. The current implementation
of this feature is not, however, ideal in that it required allocating
memory in order to do this and its overly complicated.
It also misses the mark by ignoring the other I/O operations which are
just as likely to suffer from the same problem. So the plan is to remove
this now and then add the functionality back as part of the glock state
machine at a later date (and thus take into account all the possible
users of this feature)
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Here is something I spotted (while looking for something entirely
different) the other day.
Rather than using a completion in each and every struct gfs2_holder,
this removes it in favour of hashed wait queues, thus saving a
considerable amount of memory both on the stack (where a number of
gfs2_holder structures are allocated) and in particular in the
gfs2_inode which has 8 gfs2_holder structures embedded within it.
As a result on x86_64 the gfs2_inode shrinks from 2488 bytes to
1912 bytes, a saving of 576 bytes per inode (no thats not a typo!).
In actual practice we get a much better result than that since
now that a gfs2_inode is under the 2048 byte barrier, we get two
per 4k slab page effectively halving the amount of memory required
to store gfs2_inodes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This removes the extra filldir callback which gfs2 was using to
enclose an attempt at readahead for inodes during readdir. The
code was too complicated and also hurts performance badly in the
case that the getdents64/readdir call isn't being followed by
stat() and it wasn't even getting it right all the time when it
was.
As a result, on my test box an "ls" of a directory containing 250000
files fell from about 7mins (freshly mounted, so nothing cached) to
between about 15 to 25 seconds. When the directory content was cached,
the time taken fell from about 3mins to about 4 or 5 seconds.
Interestingly in the cached case, running "ls -l" once reduced the time
taken for subsequent runs of "ls" to about 6 secs even without this
patch. Now it turns out that there was a special case of glocks being
used for prefetching the metadata, but because of the timeouts for these
locks (set to 10 secs) the metadata was being timed out before it was
being used and this the prefetch code was constantly trying to prefetch
the same data over and over.
Calling "ls -l" meant that the inodes were brought into memory and once
the inodes are cached, the glocks are not disposed of until the inodes
are pushed out of the cache, thus extending the lifetime of the glocks,
and thus bringing down the time for subsequent runs of "ls"
considerably.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
It occurred to me that although a gfs2 specific writepages for ordered
writes and journaled data would be tricky, by hooking writepages only
for "data=writeback" mounts we could take advantage of not needing
buffer heads (we don't use them on the read side, nor have we for some
time) and create much larger I/Os for the block layer.
Using blktrace both before and after, its possible to see that for large
I/Os, most of the requests generated through writepages are now 1024
sectors after this patch is applied as opposed to 8 sectors before.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
If master recovery happens on an rsb in one recovery sequence, then that
sequence is aborted before lock recovery happens, then in the next
sequence, we rely on the previous master recovery (which may now be
invalid due to another node ignoring a lookup result) and go on do to the
lock recovery where we get stuck due to an invalid master value.
recovery cycle begins: master of rsb X has left
nodes A and B send node C an rcom lookup for X to find the new master
C gets lookup from B first, sets B as new master, and sends reply back to B
C gets lookup from A next, and sends reply back to A saying B is master
A gets lookup reply from C and sets B as the new master in the rsb
recovery cycle on A, B and C is aborted to start a new recovery
B gets lookup reply from C and ignores it since there's a new recovery
recovery cycle begins: some other node has joined
B doesn't think it's the master of X so it doesn't rebuild it in the directory
C looks up the master of X, no one is master, so it becomes new master
B looks up the master of X, finds it's C
A believes that B is the master of X, so it sends its lock to B
B sends an error back to A
A resends
this repeats forever, the incorrect master value on A is never corrected
The fix is to do master recovery on an rsb that still has the NEW_MASTER
flag set from an earlier recovery sequence, and therefore didn't complete
lock recovery.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When a user process exits, we clear all the locks it holds. There is a
problem, though, with locks that the process had begun unlocking before it
exited. We couldn't find the lkb's that were in the process of being
unlocked remotely, to flag that they are DEAD. To solve this, we move
lkb's being unlocked onto a new list in the per-process structure that
tracks what locks the process is holding. We can then go through this
list to flag the necessary lkb's when clearing locks for a process when it
exits.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch converts the DLM TCP lowcomms to use workqueues rather than using its
own daemon functions. Simultaneously removing a lot of code and making it more
scalable on multi-processor machines.
Signed-Off-By: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1:
>...
> git-gfs2-nmw.patch
>...
> git trees
>...
This patch makes the needlessly globlal gfs2_change_nlink_i() static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is for Red Hat bugzilla bug bz #222302:
Moving a virtual IP from node to node between two NFS-over-GFS2
servers was causing one of the GFS2 servers to become confused and
reference a deleted inode. The problem was due to vfs dentries that did
not reference the gfs2_dops and therefore didn't call the gfs2 revalidate
code to revalidate a dentry after a directory had been deleted & recreated.
This patch is a crosswrite from a RHEL4 bug found in GFS1 as
bz #190756 and it is against the latest -nmw git tree.
Signed-off-by: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Make the dlm_config_info values readable and writeable via configfs
entries.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Add a new dlm_config_info field to enable log_debug output and change
log_debug() to use it.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
