Alberto Bertogli advised me about bio_alloc() use in nilfs:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:52:40 -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
> By the way, those bio_alloc()s are using GFP_NOWAIT but it looks
> like they could use at least GFP_NOIO or GFP_NOFS, since the caller
> can (and sometimes do) sleep. The only caller is nilfs_submit_bh(),
> which calls nilfs_submit_seg_bio() which can sleep calling
> wait_for_completion().
This takes in the comment and replaces the use of GFP_NOWAIT flag with
GFP_NOIO.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This removes nilfs_write_super and commit super block in nilfs
internal thread, instead of periodic write_super callback.
VFS layer calls ->write_super callback periodically. However,
it looks like that calling back is ommited when disk I/O is busy.
And when cleanerd (nilfs GC) is runnig, disk I/O tend to be busy thus
nilfs superblock is not synchronized as nilfs designed.
To avoid it, syncing superblock by nilfs thread instead of pdflush.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Separate conditions that check if syncing super block and alternative
super block are required as inline functions to reuse the conditions.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This fixes disorder of nilfs_write_super in nilfs_sync_fs. Commiting
super block must be the end of the function so that every changes are
reflected.
->sync_fs() is not called frequently so this makes nilfs_sync_fs call
nilfs_commit_super instead of nilfs_write_super.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This removes redundant super block commit.
nilfs_write_super will call nilfs_commit_super to store super block
into block device. However, nilfs_put_super will call
nilfs_commit_super right after calling nilfs_write_super. So calling
nilfs_write_super in nilfs_put_super would be redundant.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This is a patch to display mount options in procfs.
Mount options will show up in the /proc/mounts as other fs does.
...
/dev/sda6 /mnt nilfs2 ro,relatime,barrier=off,cp=3,order=strict 0 0
...
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
The current metadata file code skips disk address lookup for its data
block if the buffer has a mapped flag.
This has a potential risk to cause read request to be performed
against the stale block address that GC moved, and it may lead to meta
data corruption. The mapped flag is safe if the buffer has an
uptodate flag, otherwise it may prevent necessary update of disk
address in the next read.
This will avoid the potential problem by ensuring disk address lookup
before reading metadata block even for buffers with the mapped flag.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
will get rid of nilfs_get_writer() and nilfs_put_writer() pair used to
retain a writable FS-instance for a period.
The pair functions were making up some kind of recursive lock with a
mutex, but they became overkill since the commit
201913ed74. Furthermore, they caused
the following lockdep warning because the mutex can be released by a
task which didn't lock it:
=====================================
[ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
-------------------------------------
kswapd0/422 is trying to release lock (&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex) at:
[<c1359ff5>] mutex_unlock+0x8/0xa
but there are no more locks to release!
other info that might help us debug this:
no locks held by kswapd0/422.
stack backtrace:
Pid: 422, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4-nilfs #51
Call Trace:
[<c1358f97>] ? printk+0xf/0x18
[<c104fea7>] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xcc/0xd7
[<c11578de>] ? prop_put_global+0x3/0x35
[<c1050195>] lock_release+0xed/0x1dc
[<c1359ff5>] ? mutex_unlock+0x8/0xa
[<c1359f83>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xaf/0x119
[<c1359ff5>] mutex_unlock+0x8/0xa
[<d1284add>] nilfs_mdt_write_page+0xd8/0xe1 [nilfs2]
[<c1092653>] shrink_page_list+0x379/0x68d
[<c109171b>] ? isolate_pages_global+0xb4/0x18c
[<c1092bd2>] shrink_list+0x26b/0x54b
[<c10930be>] shrink_zone+0x20c/0x2a2
[<c10936b7>] kswapd+0x407/0x591
[<c1091667>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x18c
[<c1040603>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x33
[<c10932b0>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x591
[<c104033b>] kthread+0x69/0x6e
[<c10402d2>] ? kthread+0x0/0x6e
[<c1003e33>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1a
This patch uses a reader/writer semaphore instead of the own lock and
kills this warning.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Unlike on most other architectures ino_t is an unsigned int on s390.
So add an explicit cast to avoid this compile warning:
fs/nilfs2/recovery.c: In function 'recover_dsync_blocks':
fs/nilfs2/recovery.c:555: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
The __nilfs_read_inode function is ignoring the error code returned
from nilfs_read_inode_common(), and wrongly delivers a success code
(zero) when it escapes from the function in erroneous cases.
This adds the missing error handling.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
will fix kernel oopses like the following:
# mount -t nilfs2 -r -o cp=20 /dev/sdb1 /test1
# mount -t nilfs2 -r -o cp=20 /dev/sdb1 /test2
# umount /test1
# umount /test2
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1069
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 3886, name: umount.nilfs2
1 lock held by umount.nilfs2/3886:
#0: (&type->s_umount_key#31){+.+...}, at: [<c10b398a>] deactivate_super+0x52/0x6c
irq event stamp: 1219
hardirqs last enabled at (1219): [<c135c774>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xf8/0x119
hardirqs last disabled at (1218): [<c135c6d5>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x59/0x119
softirqs last enabled at (1214): [<c1033316>] __do_softirq+0x1a5/0x1ad
softirqs last disabled at (1205): [<c1033354>] do_softirq+0x36/0x5a
Pid: 3886, comm: umount.nilfs2 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc6 #55
Call Trace:
[<c1023549>] __might_sleep+0x107/0x10e
[<c13603c0>] do_page_fault+0x246/0x397
[<c136017a>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x397
[<c135e753>] error_code+0x6b/0x70
[<c136017a>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x397
[<c104f805>] ? __lock_acquire+0x91/0x12fd
[<c1050a62>] ? __lock_acquire+0x12ee/0x12fd
[<c1050a62>] ? __lock_acquire+0x12ee/0x12fd
[<c1050b2b>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd
[<d0d17d3f>] ? nilfs_detach_segment_constructor+0x2f/0x2fa [nilfs2]
[<c135d4fe>] down_write+0x2a/0x46
[<d0d17d3f>] ? nilfs_detach_segment_constructor+0x2f/0x2fa [nilfs2]
[<d0d17d3f>] nilfs_detach_segment_constructor+0x2f/0x2fa [nilfs2]
[<c104ea2c>] ? mark_held_locks+0x43/0x5b
[<c104ecb1>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10b/0x133
[<c104ece4>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd
[<d0d09ac1>] nilfs_put_super+0x2f/0xca [nilfs2]
[<c10b3352>] generic_shutdown_super+0x49/0xb8
[<c10b33de>] kill_block_super+0x1d/0x31
[<c10e6599>] ? vfs_quota_off+0x0/0x12
[<c10b398f>] deactivate_super+0x57/0x6c
[<c10c4bc3>] mntput_no_expire+0x8c/0xb4
[<c10c5094>] sys_umount+0x27f/0x2a4
[<c10c50c6>] sys_oldumount+0xd/0xf
[<c10031a4>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38
...
This turns out to be a bug brought by an -rc1 patch ("nilfs2: simplify
remaining sget() use").
In the patch, a new "put resource" function, nilfs_put_sbinfo()
was introduced to delay freeing nilfs_sb_info struct.
But the nilfs_put_sbinfo() mistakenly used atomic_dec_and_test()
function to check the reference count, and it caused the nilfs_sb_info
was freed when user mounted a snapshot twice.
This bug also suggests there was unseen memory leak in usual mount
/umount operations for nilfs.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
'ns_cno' of structure 'the_nilfs' must be protected from segment
writer, in other words, the caller of nilfs_get_checkpoint should hold
read lock for nilfs->ns_segctor_sem. This patch adds the lock/unlock
operations in nilfs_attach_checkpoint() when calling
nilfs_cpfile_get_checkpoint().
Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiang <zhangqiang.buaa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This adds a missing unlock of nilfs->ns_writer_mutex in
nilfs_mdt_write_page() function.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Andrea Gelmini gave me a report that a kernel oops hit on a nilfs
filesystem with a 1KB block size when doing rsync.
This turned out to be caused by an inconsistency of dirty state
between a page and its buffers storing b-tree node blocks.
If the page had multiple buffers split over multiple logs, and if the
logs were written at a time, a dirty flag remained in the page even
every dirty flag in the buffers was cleared.
This will fix the failure by dropping the dirty flag properly for
pages with the discrete multiple b-tree nodes.
Reported-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
fs/Kconfig file was split into individual fs/*/Kconfig files before
nilfs was merged. I've found the current config entry of nilfs is
tainting the work. Sorry, I didn't notice. This fixes the violation.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT
This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
(which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes a bug that checkpoint count gets wrong on errors when
deleting a series of checkpoints.
The count error is persistent since the checkpoint count is stored on
disk. Some userland programs refer to the count via ioctl, and this
bugfix is needed to prevent malfunction of such programs.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
This will fix the following false positive of recursive locking which
lockdep has detected:
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.30-nilfs #42
---------------------------------------------
nilfs_cleanerd/10607 is trying to acquire lock:
(&bmap->b_sem){++++-.}, at: [<e0d025b7>] nilfs_bmap_lookup_at_level+0x1a/0x74 [nilfs2]
but task is already holding lock:
(&bmap->b_sem){++++-.}, at: [<e0d024e0>] nilfs_bmap_truncate+0x19/0x6a [nilfs2]
other info that might help us debug this:
2 locks held by nilfs_cleanerd/10607:
#0: (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}, at: [<e0d0d75a>] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2]
#1: (&bmap->b_sem){++++-.}, at: [<e0d024e0>] nilfs_bmap_truncate+0x19/0x6a [nilfs2]
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Leandro Lucarella gave me a report that nilfs gets stuck after its
write function fails.
The problem turned out to be caused by bugs which leave writeback flag
on pages. This fixes the problem by ensuring to clear the writeback
flag in error path.
Reported-by: Leandro Lucarella <llucax@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
The following error code handling in nilfs_segctor_write() function
wrongly converted negative error codes to a truth value (i.e. 1):
err = unlikely(err) ? : res;
which originaly meant to be
err = err ? : res;
This mis-conversion caused that write or sync functions receive the
unexpected error code. This fixes the bug by removing the unlikely
directive.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (22 commits)
nilfs2: support contiguous lookup of blocks
nilfs2: add sync_page method to page caches of meta data
nilfs2: use device's backing_dev_info for btree node caches
nilfs2: return EBUSY against delete request on snapshot
nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveats
nilfs2: enable sync_page method
nilfs2: set bio unplug flag for the last bio in segment
nilfs2: allow future expansion of metadata read out via get info ioctl
NILFS2: Pagecache usage optimization on NILFS2
nilfs2: remove nilfs_btree_operations from btree mapping
nilfs2: remove nilfs_direct_operations from direct mapping
nilfs2: remove bmap pointer operations
nilfs2: remove useless b_low and b_high fields from nilfs_bmap struct
nilfs2: remove pointless NULL check of bpop_commit_alloc_ptr function
nilfs2: move get block functions in bmap.c into btree codes
nilfs2: remove nilfs_bmap_delete_block
nilfs2: remove nilfs_bmap_put_block
nilfs2: remove header file for segment list operations
nilfs2: eliminate removal list of segments
nilfs2: add sufile function that can modify multiple segment usages
...
This will remove every bd_mount_sem use in nilfs.
The intended exclusion control was replaced by the previous patch
("nilfs2: correct exclusion control in nilfs_remount function") for
nilfs_remount(), and this patch will replace remains with a new mutex
that this inserts in nilfs object.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
nilfs_remount() changes mount state of a superblock instance. Even
though nilfs accesses other superblock instances during mount or
remount, the mount state was not properly protected in
nilfs_remount().
Moreover, nilfs_remount() has a lock order reversal problem;
nilfs_get_sb() holds:
1. bdev->bd_mount_sem
2. sb->s_umount (sget acquires)
and nilfs_remount() holds:
1. sb->s_umount (locked by the caller in vfs)
2. bdev->bd_mount_sem
To avoid these problems, this patch divides a semaphore protecting
super block instances from nilfs->ns_sem, and applies it to the mount
state protection in nilfs_remount().
With this change, bd_mount_sem use is removed from nilfs_remount() and
the lock order reversal will be resolved. And the new rw-semaphore,
nilfs->ns_super_sem will properly protect the mount state except the
modification from nilfs_error function.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This simplifies the test function passed on the remaining sget()
callsite in nilfs.
Instead of checking mount type (i.e. ro-mount/rw-mount/snapshot mount)
in the test function passed to sget(), this patch first looks up the
nilfs_sb_info struct which the given mount type matches, and then
acquires the super block instance holding the nilfs_sb_info.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This stops using sget() for checking if an r/w-mount or an r/o-mount
exists on the device. This elimination uses a back pointer to the
current mount added to nilfs object.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This will change the way to obtain nilfs object in nilfs_get_sb()
function.
Previously, a preliminary sget() call was performed, and the nilfs
object was acquired from a super block instance found by the sget()
call.
This patch, instead, instroduces a new dedicated function
find_or_create_nilfs(); as the name implies, the function finds an
existent nilfs object from a global list or creates a new one if no
object is found on the device.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The following EBUSY case in nilfs_get_sb() is meaningless. Indeed,
this error code is never returned to the caller.
if (!s->s_root) {
...
} else if (!(s->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
err = -EBUSY;
}
This simply removes the else case.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The call to ->write_super from __sync_filesystem will go away, so make
sure nilfs2 performs the same actions from inside ->sync_fs.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Move BKL into ->put_super from the only caller. A couple of
filesystems had trivial enough ->put_super (only kfree and NULLing of
s_fs_info + stuff in there) to not get any locking: coda, cramfs, efs,
hugetlbfs, omfs, qnx4, shmem, all others got the full treatment. Most
of them probably don't need it, but I'd rather sort that out individually.
Preferably after all the other BKL pushdowns in that area.
[AV: original used to move lock_super() down as well; these changes are
removed since we don't do lock_super() at all in generic_shutdown_super()
now]
[AV: fuse, btrfs and xfs are known to need no damn BKL, exempt]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We just did a full fs writeout using sync_filesystem before, and if
that's not enough for the filesystem it can perform it's own writeout
in ->put_super, which many filesystems already do.
Move a call to foofs_write_super into every foofs_put_super for now to
guarantee identical behaviour until it's cleaned up by the individual
filesystem maintainers.
Exceptions:
- affs already has identical copy & pasted code at the beginning of
affs_put_super so no need to do it twice.
- xfs does the right thing without it and I have changes pending for
the xfs tree touching this are so I don't really need conflicts
here..
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
block: add request clone interface (v2)
floppy: fix hibernation
ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
...
Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
block/blk-sysfs.c
drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
include/trace/events/block.h
kernel/trace/blktrace.c
Although get_block() callback function can return extent of contiguous
blocks with bh->b_size, nilfs_get_block() function did not support
this feature.
This adds contiguous lookup feature to the block mapping codes of
nilfs, and allows the nilfs_get_blocks() function to return the extent
information by applying the feature.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This applies block_sync_page() function to the sync_page method of
page caches for meta data files, gc page caches, and btree node
buffers. This is a companion patch of ("nilfs2: enable sync_page
mothod") which applied the function for data pages.
This allows lock_page() for those meta data to unplug pending bio
requests.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Previously, default_backing_dev_info was used for the mapping of btree
node caches. This uses device dependent backing_dev_info to allow
detailed control of the device for the btree node pages.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This helps userland programs like the rmcp command to distinguish
error codes returned against a checkpoint removal request.
Previously -EPERM was returned, and not discriminable from real
permission errors. This also allows removal of the latest checkpoint
because the deletion leads to create a new checkpoint, and thus it's
harmless for the filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This adds a missing sync_page method which unplugs bio requests when
waiting for page locks. This will improve read performance of nilfs.
Here is a measurement result using dd command.
Without this patch:
# mount -t nilfs2 /dev/sde1 /test
# dd if=/test/aaa of=/dev/null bs=512k
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 6.00688 seconds, 89.4 MB/s
With this patch:
# mount -t nilfs2 /dev/sde1 /test
# dd if=/test/aaa of=/dev/null bs=512k
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 3.54998 seconds, 151 MB/s
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This sets BIO_RW_UNPLUG flag on the last bio of each segment during
write. The last bio should be unplugged immediately because the
caller waits for the completion after the submission.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Nilfs has some ioctl commands to read out metadata from meta data
files:
- NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPINFO for checkpoint file,
- NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUINFO for segment usage file, and
- NILFS_IOCTL_GET_VINFO for Disk Address Transalation (DAT) file,
respectively.
Every routine on these metadata files is implemented so that it allows
future expansion of on-disk format. But, the above ioctl commands do
not support expansion even though nilfs_argv structure can handle
arbitrary size for data exchanged via ioctl.
This allows future expansion of the following structures which give
basic format of the "get information" ioctls:
- struct nilfs_cpinfo
- struct nilfs_suinfo
- struct nilfs_vinfo
So, this introduces forward compatility of such ioctl commands.
In this patch, a sanity check in nilfs_ioctl_get_info() function is
changed to accept larger data structure [1], and metadata read
routines are rewritten so that they become compatible for larger
structures; the routines will just ignore the remaining fields which
the current version of nilfs doesn't know.
[1] The ioctl function already has another upper limit (PAGE_SIZE
against a structure, which appears in nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy
function), and this will not cause security problem.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Hi,
I introduced "is_partially_uptodate" aops for NILFS2.
A page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate, some buffers
can be uptodate on pagesize != blocksize environment.
This aops checks that all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate. If so, we do not have to issue actual
read IO to HDD even if a page is not uptodate because the portion we
want to read are uptodate.
"block_is_partially_uptodate" function is already used by ext2/3/4.
With the following patch random read/write mixed workloads or random read after
random write workloads can be optimized and we can get performance improvement.
I did a performance test using the sysbench.
1 --file-block-size=8K --file-total-size=2G --file-test-mode=rndrw --file-fsync-freq=0 --fil
e-rw-ratio=1 run
-2.6.30-rc5
Test execution summary:
total time: 151.2907s
total number of events: 200000
total time taken by event execution: 2409.8387
per-request statistics:
min: 0.0000s
avg: 0.0120s
max: 0.9306s
approx. 95 percentile: 0.0439s
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 12500.0000/238.52
execution time (avg/stddev): 150.6149/0.01
-2.6.30-rc5-patched
Test execution summary:
total time: 140.8828s
total number of events: 200000
total time taken by event execution: 2240.8577
per-request statistics:
min: 0.0000s
avg: 0.0112s
max: 0.8750s
approx. 95 percentile: 0.0418s
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 12500.0000/218.43
execution time (avg/stddev): 140.0536/0.01
arch: ia64
pagesize: 16k
Thanks.
Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Previously, the bmap codes of nilfs used three types of function
tables. The abuse of indirect function calls decreased source
readability and suffered many indirect jumps which would confuse
branch prediction of processors.
This eliminates one type of the function tables,
nilfs_bmap_ptr_operations, which was used to dispatch low level
pointer operations of the nilfs bmap.
This adds a new integer variable "b_ptr_type" to nilfs_bmap struct,
and uses the value to select the pointer operations.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This will cut off 16 bytes from the nilfs_bmap struct which is
embedded in the on-memory inode of nilfs.
The b_high field was never used, and the b_low field stores a constant
value which can be determined by whether the inode uses btree for
block mapping or not.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This indirect function is set to NULL only for gc cache inodes, but
the gc cache inodes never call this function.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Two get block function for btree nodes, nilfs_bmap_get_block() and
nilfs_bmap_get_new_block(), are called only from the btree codes.
This relocation will increase opportunities of compiler optimization.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
nilfs_bmap_delete_block() is a wrapper function calling
nilfs_btnode_delete(). This removes it for simplicity.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
