bdi_start_writeback() is currently split into two paths, one for
WB_SYNC_NONE and one for WB_SYNC_ALL. Add bdi_sync_writeback()
for WB_SYNC_ALL writeback and let bdi_start_writeback() handle
only WB_SYNC_NONE.
Push down the writeback_control allocation and only accept the
parameters that make sense for each function. This cleans up
the API considerably.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This gets rid of work == NULL in bdi_queue_work() and puts the
OOM handling where it belongs.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Now that bdi_writeback_all() no longer handles integrity writeback,
it doesn't have to block anymore. This means that we can switch
bdi_list reader side protection to RCU.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Data integrity writeback must use bdi_start_writeback() and ensure
that wbc->sb and wbc->bdi are set.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We do this automatically in get_sb_bdev() from the set_bdev_super()
callback. Filesystems that have their own private backing_dev_info
must assign that in ->fill_super().
Note that ->s_bdi assignment is required for proper writeback!
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We need to be able to pass in range_cyclic as well, so instead
of growing yet another argument, split the arguments into a
struct wb_writeback_args structure that we can use internally.
Also makes it easier to just copy all members to an on-stack
struct, since we can't access work after clearing the pending
bit.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Since it's an opportunistic writeback and not a data integrity action,
don't punt to blocking writeback. Just wakeup the thread and it will
flush old data.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It has been unused since it was introduced in:
commit 520808bf20e90fdbdb320264ba7dd5cf9d47dcac
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Fri May 21 00:46:17 2004 -0700
[PATCH] block device layer: separate backing_dev_info infrastructure
So lets just kill it.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (29 commits)
block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
Make DISCARD_BARRIER and DISCARD_NOBARRIER writes instead of reads
block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
block: Optimal I/O limit wrapper
cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched
Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
aoe: end barrier bios with EOPNOTSUPP
block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs
block: enable rq CPU completion affinity by default
cfq: fix the log message after dispatched a request
block: use printk_once
cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one()
splice: update mtime and atime on files
block: make blk_iopoll_prep_sched() follow normal 0/1 return convention
cfq-iosched: get rid of must_alloc flag
block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff()
block: fix comment in blk-iopoll.c
block: adjust default budget for blk-iopoll
block: fix long lines in block/blk-iopoll.c
block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
...
* 'osync_cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6:
fsync: wait for data writeout completion before calling ->fsync
vfs: Remove generic_osync_inode() and sync_page_range{_nolock}()
fat: Opencode sync_page_range_nolock()
pohmelfs: Use new syncing helper
xfs: Convert sync_page_range() to simple filemap_write_and_wait_range()
ocfs2: Update syncing after splicing to match generic version
ntfs: Use new syncing helpers and update comments
ext4: Remove syncing logic from ext4_file_write
ext3: Remove syncing logic from ext3_file_write
ext2: Update comment about generic_osync_inode
vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode
vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolock
ocfs2: Use __generic_file_aio_write instead of generic_file_aio_write_nolock
pohmelfs: Use __generic_file_aio_write instead of generic_file_aio_write_nolock
vfs: Remove syncing from generic_file_direct_write() and generic_file_buffered_write()
vfs: Export __generic_file_aio_write() and add some comments
vfs: Introduce filemap_fdatawait_range
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
GFS2: Whitespace fixes
GFS2: Remove unused sysfs file
GFS2: Be extra careful about deallocating inodes
GFS2: Remove no_formal_ino generating code
GFS2: Rename eattr.[ch] as xattr.[ch]
GFS2: Clean up of extended attribute support
GFS2: Add explanation of extended attr on-disk format
GFS2: Add "-o errors=panic|withdraw" mount options
GFS2: jumping to wrong label?
GFS2: free disk inode which is deleted by remote node -V2
GFS2: Add a document explaining GFS2's uevents
GFS2: Add sysfs link to device
GFS2: Replace assertion with proper error handling
GFS2: Improve error handling in inode allocation
GFS2: Add some more info to uevents
GFS2: Add online uevent to GFS2
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6:
udf: Fix possible corruption when close races with write
udf: Perform preallocation only for regular files
udf: Remove wrong assignment in udf_symlink
udf: Remove dead code
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (21 commits)
fs/Kconfig: move nilfs2 outside misc filesystems
nilfs2: convert nilfs_bmap_lookup to an inline function
nilfs2: allow btree code to directly call dat operations
nilfs2: add update functions of virtual block address to dat
nilfs2: remove individual gfp constants for each metadata file
nilfs2: stop zero-fill of btree path just before free it
nilfs2: remove unused btree argument from btree functions
nilfs2: remove nilfs_dat_abort_start and nilfs_dat_abort_free
nilfs2: shorten freeze period due to GC in write operation v3
nilfs2: add more check routines in mount process
nilfs2: An unassigned variable is assigned to a never used structure member
nilfs2: use GFP_NOIO for bio_alloc instead of GFP_NOWAIT
nilfs2: stop using periodic write_super callback
nilfs2: clean up nilfs_write_super
nilfs2: fix disorder of nilfs_write_super in nilfs_sync_fs
nilfs2: remove redundant super block commit
nilfs2: implement nilfs_show_options to display mount options in /proc/mounts
nilfs2: always lookup disk block address before reading metadata block
nilfs2: use semaphore to protect pointer to a writable FS-instance
nilfs2: fix format string compile warning (ino_t)
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: consolidate reconnect logic in smb_init routines
cifs: Replace wrtPending with a real reference count
cifs: protect GlobalOplock_Q with its own spinlock
cifs: use tcon pointer in cifs_show_options
cifs: send IPv6 addr in upcall with colon delimiters
[CIFS] Fix checkpatch warnings
PATCH] cifs: fix broken mounts when a SSH tunnel is used (try #4)
[CIFS] Memory leak in ntlmv2 hash calculation
[CIFS] potential NULL dereference in parse_DFS_referrals()
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
netxen: update copyright
netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
netxen: fix file firmware leak
netxen: improve pci memory access
netxen: change firmware write size
tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
netxen: build fix for INET=n
cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
...
Fixed up trivial conflicts:
- arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h
converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic
header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.
- drivers/net/tun.c
fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.
Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
When we close a file, we remove preallocated blocks from it. But this
truncation was not protected by i_mutex and thus it could have raced with a
write through a different fd and cause crashes or even filesystem corruption.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
So far we preallocated blocks also for directories but that brings a
problem, when to get rid of preallocated blocks we don't need. So far
we removed them in udf_clear_inode() which has a disadvantage that
1) blocks are unavailable long after writing to a directory finished
and thus one can get out of space unnecessarily early
2) releasing blocks from udf_clear_inode is problematic because VFS
does not expect us to redirty inode there and it also slows down
memory reclaim.
So preallocate blocks only for regular files where we can drop preallocation
in udf_release_file.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Recomputation of the pointer was wrong (it should have been just increment).
Luckily, we never use the computed value. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Currenly vfs_fsync(_range) first calls filemap_fdatawrite to write out
the data, the calls into ->fsync to write out the metadata and then finally
calls filemap_fdatawait to wait for the data I/O to complete. What sounds
like a clever micro-optimization actually is nast trap for many filesystems.
For many modern filesystems i_size or other inode information is only
updated on I/O completion and we need to wait for I/O to finish before
we can write out the metadata. For old fashionen filesystems that
instanciate blocks during the actual write and also update the metadata
at that point it opens up a large window were we could expose uninitialized
blocks after a crash. While a few filesystems that need it already wait
for the I/O to finish inside their ->fsync methods it is rather suboptimal
as it is done under the i_mutex and also always for the whole file instead
of just a part as we could do for O_SYNC handling.
Here is a small audit of all fsync instances in the tree:
- spufs_mfc_fsync:
- ps3flash_fsync:
- vol_cdev_fsync:
- printer_fsync:
- fb_deferred_io_fsync:
- bad_file_fsync:
- simple_sync_file:
don't care - filesystems/drivers do't use the page cache or are
purely in-memory.
- simple_fsync:
- file_fsync:
- affs_file_fsync:
- fat_file_fsync:
- jfs_fsync:
- ubifs_fsync:
- reiserfs_dir_fsync:
- reiserfs_sync_file:
never touch pagecache themselves. We need to wait before if we do
not want to expose stale data after an allocation.
- afs_fsync:
- fuse_fsync_common:
do the waiting writeback itself in awkward ways, would benefit from
proper semantics
- block_fsync:
Does a filemap_write_and_wait on the block device inode. Because we
now have f_mapping that is the same inode we call it on in vfs_fsync.
So just removing it and letting the VFS do the work in one go would
be an improvement.
- btrfs_sync_file:
- cifs_fsync:
- xfs_file_fsync:
need the wait first and currently do it themselves. would benefit from
doing it outside i_mutex.
- coda_fsync:
- ecryptfs_fsync:
- exofs_file_fsync:
- shm_fsync:
only passes the fsync through to the lower layer
- ext3_sync_file:
doesn't seem to care, comments are confusing.
- ext4_sync_file:
would need the wait to work correctly for delalloc mode with late
i_size updates. Otherwise the ext3 comment applies.
currently implemens it's own writeback and wait in an odd way,
could benefit from doing it properly.
- gfs2_fsync:
not needed for journaled data mode, but probably harmless there.
Currently writes back data asynchronously itself. Needs some
major audit.
- hostfs_fsync:
just calls fsync/datasync on the host FD. Without the wait before
data might not even be inflight yet if we're unlucky.
- hpfs_file_fsync:
- ncp_fsync:
no-ops. Dangerous before and after.
- jffs2_fsync:
just calls jffs2_flush_wbuf_gc, not sure how this relates to data.
- nfs_fsync_dir:
just increments stats, claims all directory operations are synchronous
- nfs_file_fsync:
only writes out data??? Looks very odd.
- nilfs_sync_file:
looks like it expects all data done, but not sure from the code
- ntfs_dir_fsync:
- ntfs_file_fsync:
appear to do their own data writeback. Very convoluted code.
- ocfs2_sync_file:
does it's own data writeback, but no wait. probably needs the wait.
- smb_fsync:
according to a comment expects all pages written already, probably needs
the wait before.
This patch only changes vfs_fsync_range, removal of the wait in the methods
that have it is left to the filesystem maintainers. Note that most
filesystems really do need an audit for their fsync methods given the
gems found in this very brief audit.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
fat_cont_expand() is the only user of sync_page_range_nolock(). It's also the
only user of generic_osync_inode() which does not have a file open. So
opencode needed actions for FAT so that we can convert generic_osync_inode() to
a standard syncing path.
Update a comment about generic_osync_inode().
CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Christoph Hellwig says that it is enough for XFS to call
filemap_write_and_wait_range() instead of sync_page_range() because we do
all the metadata syncing when forcing the log.
CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Update ocfs2 specific splicing code to use generic syncing helper. The sync now
does not happen under rw_lock because generic_write_sync() acquires i_mutex
which ranks above rw_lock. That should not matter because standard fsync path
does not hold it either.
Acked-by: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Use new syncing helpers in .write and .aio_write functions. Also
remove superfluous syncing in ntfs_file_buffered_write() and update
comments about generic_osync_inode().
CC: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
CC: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The syncing is now properly handled by generic_file_aio_write() so
no special ext4 code is needed.
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Syncing is now properly done by generic_file_aio_write() so no special logic is
needed in ext3.
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Introduce new function for generic inode syncing (vfs_fsync_range) and use
it from fsync() path. Introduce also new helper for syncing after a sync
write (generic_write_sync) using the generic function.
Use these new helpers for syncing from generic VFS functions. This makes
O_SYNC writes to block devices acquire i_mutex for syncing. If we really
care about this, we can make block_fsync() drop the i_mutex and reacquire
it before it returns.
CC: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
CC: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
CC: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: tytso@mit.edu
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() is now used only by block devices and raw
character device. Filesystems should use __generic_file_aio_write() in case
generic_file_aio_write() doesn't suit them. So rename the function to
blkdev_aio_write() and move it to fs/blockdev.c.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Use the new helper. We have to submit data pages ourselves in case of O_SYNC
write because __generic_file_aio_write does not do it for us. OCFS2 developpers
might think about moving the sync out of i_mutex which seems to be easily
possible but that's out of scope of this patch.
CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Some people asked me questions like the following:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:11:21 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> just wondering, any reasons why NILFS2 is one of the miscellaneous
> filesystems and, for example, btrfs, is not in Kconfig?
Actually, nilfs is NOT a filesystem came from other operating systems,
but a filesystem created purely for Linux. Nor is it a flash
filesystem but that for generic block devices.
So, this moves nilfs outside the misc category as I responded in LKML
"Re: Why does NILFS2 hide under Miscellaneous filesystems?"
(Message-Id: <20090716.002526.93465395.ryusuke@osrg.net>).
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
The nilfs_bmap_lookup() is now a wrapper function of
nilfs_bmap_lookup_at_level().
This moves the nilfs_bmap_lookup() to a header file converting it to
an inline function and gives an opportunity for optimization.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
The current btree code is written so that btree functions call dat
operations via wrapper functions in bmap.c when they allocate, free,
or modify virtual block addresses.
This abstraction requires additional function calls and causes
frequent call of nilfs_bmap_get_dat() function since it is used in the
every wrapper function.
This removes the wrapper functions and makes them available from
btree.c and direct.c, which will increase the opportunity of
compiler optimization.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This is a preparation for the successive cleanup ("nilfs2: allow btree
to directly call dat operations").
This adds functions bundling a few operations to change an entry of
virtual block address on the dat file.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This gets rid of NILFS_CPFILE_GFP, NILFS_SUFILE_GFP, NILFS_DAT_GFP,
and NILFS_IFILE_GFP. All of these constants refer to NILFS_MDT_GFP,
and can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
The btree path object is cleared just before it is freed.
This will remove the code doing the unnecessary clear operation.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Even though many btree functions take a btree object as their first
argument, most of them are not used in their functions.
This sticky use of the btree argument is hurting code readability and
giving the possibility of inefficient code generation.
So, this removes the unnecessary btree arguments.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This is a re-revised patch to shorten freeze period.
This version include a fix of the bug Konishi-san mentioned last time.
When GC is runnning, GC moves live block to difference segments.
Copying live blocks into memory is done in a transaction,
however it is not necessarily to be in the transaction.
This patch will get the nilfs_ioctl_move_blocks() out from
transaction lock and put it before the transaction.
I ran sysbench fileio test against nilfs partition.
I copied some DVD/CD images and created snapshot to create live blocks
before starting the benchmark.
Followings are summary of rc8 and rc8 w/ the patch of per-request
statistics, which is min/max and avg. I ran each test three times and
bellow is average of those numers.
According to this benchmark result, average time is slightly degrated.
However, worstcase (max) result is significantly improved.
This can address a few seconds write freeze.
- random write per-request performance of rc8
min 0.843ms
max 680.406ms
avg 3.050ms
- random write per-request performance of rc8 w/ this patch
min 0.843ms -> 100.00%
max 380.490ms -> 55.90%
avg 3.233ms -> 106.00%
- sequential write per-request performance of rc8
min 0.736ms
max 774.343ms
avg 2.883ms
- sequential write per-request performance of rc8 w/ this patch
min 0.720ms -> 97.80%
max 644.280ms-> 83.20%
avg 3.130ms -> 108.50%
-----8<-----8<-----nilfs_cleanerd.conf-----8<-----8<-----
protection_period 150
selection_policy timestamp # timestamp in ascend order
nsegments_per_clean 2
cleaning_interval 2
retry_interval 60
use_mmap
log_priority info
-----8<-----8<-----nilfs_cleanerd.conf-----8<-----8<-----
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
nilfs2: Add more safeguard routines and protections in mount process,
which also makes nilfs2 report consistency error messages when
checkpoint number is invalid.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
nilfs2: In procedure 'nilfs_get_sb()', when a nilfs filesysttem is
mounted for the first time, local variable 'nilfs->ns_last_cno' is
used before loading the latest checkpoint number from disk (in
'nilfs_fill_super'). 'nilfs->ns_last_cno' is assigned to 'sd.cno', but
'sd.cno' has never been used in the procedure.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiang <zhangqiang.buaa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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>
