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2011-07-25xfs: Fix wrong return value of xfs_file_aio_writeMarkus Trippelsdorf
The fsync prototype change commit 02c24a82187d accidentally overwrote the ssize_t return value of xfs_file_aio_write with 0 for SYNC type writes. Fix this by checking if an error occured when calling xfs_file_fsync and only change the return value in this case. In addition xfs_file_fsync actually returns a normal negative error, so fix this, too. Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits) vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp isofs: Remove global fs lock jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al. mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure Remove dead code in dget_parent() AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well simplify gfs2_lookup() jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or .. get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link() get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically Btrfs: implement our own ->llseek fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to start the periodic workers later.
2011-07-20fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlersJosef Bacik
Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there. Thanks, Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20fs: move inode_dio_done to the end_io handlerChristoph Hellwig
For filesystems that delay their end_io processing we should keep our i_dio_count until the the processing is done. Enable this by moving the inode_dio_done call to the end_io handler if one exist. Note that the actual move to the workqueue for ext4 and XFS is not done in this patch yet, but left to the filesystem maintainers. At least for XFS it's not needed yet either as XFS has an internal equivalent to i_dio_count. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20xfs: make use of new shrinker callout for the inode cacheDave Chinner
Convert the inode reclaim shrinker to use the new per-sb shrinker operations. This allows much bigger reclaim batches to be used, and allows the XFS inode cache to be shrunk in proportion with the VFS dentry and inode caches. This avoids the problem of the VFS caches being shrunk significantly before the XFS inode cache is shrunk resulting in imbalances in the caches during reclaim. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20xfs: add size update tracepoint to IO completionDave Chinner
For improving insight into IO completion behaviour. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-20xfs: convert AIL cursors to use struct list_headDave Chinner
The list of active AIL cursors uses a roll-your-own linked list with special casing for the AIL push cursor. Simplify this code by replacing the list with standard struct list_head lists, and use a separate list_head to track the active cursors. This allows us to treat the AIL push cursor as a generic cursor rather than as a special case, further simplifying the code. Further, fix the duplicate push cursor initialisation that the special case handling was hiding, and clean up all the comments around the active cursor list handling. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-20xfs: remove confusing ail cursor wrapperDave Chinner
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_set() doesn't set the cursor to the current log item, it sets it to the next item. There is already a function for doing this - xfs_trans_ail_cursor_next() - and the _set function is simply a two line wrapper. Remove it and open code the setting of the cursor in the two locations that call it to remove the confusion. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-20xfs: use a cursor for bulk AIL insertionDave Chinner
Delayed logging can insert tens of thousands of log items into the AIL at the same LSN. When the committing of log commit records occur, we can get insertions occurring at an LSN that is not at the end of the AIL. If there are thousands of items in the AIL on the tail LSN, each insertion has to walk the AIL to find the correct place to insert the new item into the AIL. This can consume large amounts of CPU time and block other operations from occurring while the traversals are in progress. To avoid this repeated walk, use a AIL cursor to record where we should be inserting the new items into the AIL without having to repeat the walk. The cursor infrastructure already provides this functionality for push walks, so is a simple extension of existing code. While this will not avoid the initial walk, it will avoid repeating it tens of thousands of times during a single checkpoint commit. This version includes logic improvements from Christoph Hellwig. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-20xfs: failure mapping nfs fh to inode should return ESTALEJ. Bruce Fields
On xfs exports, nfsd is incorrectly returning ENOENT instead of ESTALE on attempts to use a filehandle of a deleted file (spotted with pynfs test PUTFH3). The ENOENT was coming from xfs_iget. (It's tempting to wonder whether we should just map all xfs_iget errors to ESTALE, but I don't believe so--xfs_iget can also return ENOMEM at least, which we wouldn't want mapped to ESTALE.) While we're at it, the other return of ENOENT in xfs_nfs_get_inode() also looks wrong. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-20xfs: Remove the second parameter to xfs_sb_count()Chandra Seetharaman
Remove the second parameter to xfs_sb_count() since all callers of the function set them. Also, fix the header comment regarding it being called periodically. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-20->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->check_acl()Al Viro
not used in the instances anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20->permission() sanitizing: pass MAY_NOT_BLOCK to ->check_acl()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-13xfs: remove the dead XFS_DABUF_DEBUG codeChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: remove leftovers of the old btree tracing codeChristoph Hellwig
Remove various bits left over from the old kdb-only btree tracing code, but leave the actual trace point stubs in place to ease adding new event based btree tracing. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: remove the dead QUOTADEBUG codeChristoph Hellwig
Remove the dead hash table test rid which has been rotting away under QUOTADEBUG, including some code that was compiled for normal debug builds, but not actually called without QUOTADEBUG, and enable a few cheap debug checks that were hidden under QUOTADEBUG for normal debug builds. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: remove the unused xfs_buf_delwri_sort functionChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: remove wrappers around b_iodoneChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: remove wrappers around b_fsprivChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: add a proper transaction pointer to struct xfs_bufChristoph Hellwig
Replace the typeless b_fspriv2 and the ugly macros around it with a properly typed transaction pointer. As a fallout the log buffer state debug checks are also removed. We could have kept them using casts, but as they do not have a real purpose we can as well just remove them. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: factor out xfs_da_grow_inode_intChristoph Hellwig
xfs_da_grow_inode and xfs_dir2_grow_inode are mostly duplicate code. Factor the meat of those two functions into a new common helper. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: factor out xfs_dir2_leaf_find_staleChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: cleanup struct xfs_dir2_freeChristoph Hellwig
Change the bests array to be a proper variable sized entry. This is done easily as no one relies on the size of the structure. Also change XFS_DIR2_MAX_FREE_BESTS to an inline function while we're at it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: reshuffle dir2 headersChristoph Hellwig
Replace the current mess of dir2 headers with just three that have a clear purpose: - xfs_dir2_format.h for all format definitions, including the inline helpers to access our variable size structures - xfs_dir2_priv.h for all prototypes that are internal to the dir2 code and not needed by anything outside of the directory code. For this purpose xfs_da_btree.c, and phase6.c in xfs_repair are considered part of the directory code. - xfs_dir2.h for the public interface to the directory code In addition to the reshuffle I have also update the comments to not only match the new file structure, but also to describe the directory format better. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-13xfs: start periodic workers laterChristoph Hellwig
Start the periodic sync workers only after we have finished xfs_mountfs and thus fully set up the filesystem structures. Without this we can call into xfs_qm_sync before the quotainfo strucute is set up if the mount takes unusually long, and probably hit other incomplete states as well. Also clean up the xfs_fs_fill_super error path by using consistent label names, and removing an impossible to reach case. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-11Revert "xfs: fix filesystsem freeze race in xfs_trans_alloc"Alex Elder
This reverts commit 7a249cf83da1813cfa71cfe1e265b40045eceb47. That commit created a situation that could lead to a filesystem hang. As Dave Chinner pointed out, xfs_trans_alloc() could hold a reference to m_active_trans (i.e., keep it non-zero) and then wait for SB_FREEZE_TRANS to complete. Meanwhile a filesystem freeze request could set SB_FREEZE_TRANS and then wait for m_active_trans to drop to zero. Nobody benefits from this sequence of events... Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-08xfs: remove variables that serve no purpose in xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_exact()Chandra Seetharaman
Remove two variables that serve no purpose in xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_exact(). Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-08xfs: consolidate & clarify mount sanity checksEric Sandeen
Pavol pointed out that there is one silent error case in the mount path, and that others are rather uninformative. I've taken Pavol's suggested patch and extended it a bit to also: * fix a message which says "turned off" but actually errors out * consolidate the vaguely differentiated "SB sanity check [12]" messages, and hexdump the superblock for analysis Original-patch-by: Pavol Gono <Pavol.Gono@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-07-08xfs: avoid a few disk cache flushesChristoph Hellwig
There is no need for a pre-flush when doing writing the second part of a split log buffer, and if we are using an external log there is no need to do a full cache flush of the log device at all given that all writes to it use the FUA flag. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: cleanup I/O-related buffer flagsChristoph Hellwig
Remove the unused and misnamed _XBF_RUN_QUEUES flag, rename XBF_LOG_BUFFER to the more fitting XBF_SYNCIO, and split XBF_ORDERED into XBF_FUA and XBF_FLUSH to allow more fine grained control over the bio flags. Also cleanup processing of the flags in _xfs_buf_ioapply to make more sense, and renumber the sparse flag number space to group flags by purpose. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: return the buffer locked from xfs_buf_get_uncachedChristoph Hellwig
All other xfs_buf_get/read-like helpers return the buffer locked, make sure xfs_buf_get_uncached isn't different for no reason. Half of the callers already lock it directly after, and the others probably should also keep it locked if only for consistency and beeing able to use xfs_buf_rele, but I'll leave that for later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: clean up buffer locking helpersChristoph Hellwig
Rename xfs_buf_cond_lock and reverse it's return value to fit most other trylock operations in the Kernel and XFS (with the exception of down_trylock, after which xfs_buf_cond_lock was modelled), and replace xfs_buf_lock_val with an xfs_buf_islocked for use in asserts, or and opencoded variant in tracing. remove the XFS_BUF_* wrappers for all the locking helpers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: remove the unused xfs_bufhash structureChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: byteswap constants instead of variablesChristoph Hellwig
Micro-optimize various comparisms by always byteswapping the constant instead of the variable, which allows to do the swap at compile instead of runtime. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: use generic get_unaligned_beXX helpersChristoph Hellwig
Switch the shortform directory code over to use the generic get_unaligned_beXX helpers instead of reinventing them. As a result kill off xfs_arch.h and move the setting of XFS_NATIVE_HOST into xfs_linux.h. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: cleanup struct xfs_dir2_leafChristoph Hellwig
Simplify the confusing xfs_dir2_leaf structure. It is supposed to describe an XFS dir2 leaf format btree block, but due to the variable sized nature of almost all elements in it it can't actuall do anything close to that job. Remove the members that are after the first variable sized array, given that they could only be used for sizeof expressions that can as well just use the underlying types directly, and make the ents array a real C99 variable sized array. Also factor out the xfs_dir2_leaf_size, to make the sizing of a leaf entry which already was convoluted somewhat readable after using the longer type names in the sizeof expressions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: cleanup the definition of struct xfs_dir2_data_entryChristoph Hellwig
Remove the tag member which is at a variable offset after the actual name, and make name a real variable sized C99 array instead of the incorrect one-sized array which confuses (not only) gcc. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: kill struct xfs_dir2_dataChristoph Hellwig
Remove the confusing xfs_dir2_data structure. It is supposed to describe an XFS dir2 data btree block, but due to the variable sized nature of almost all elements in it it can't actuall do anything close to that job. In addition to accessing the fixed offset header structure it was only used to get a pointer to the first dir or unused entry after it, which can be trivially replaced by pointer arithmetics on the header pointer. For most users that is actually more natural anyway, as they don't use a typed pointer but rather a character pointer for further arithmetics. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: avoid usage of struct xfs_dir2_dataChristoph Hellwig
In most places we can simply pass around and use the struct xfs_dir2_data_hdr, which is the first and most important member of struct xfs_dir2_data instead of the full structure. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: kill struct xfs_dir2_blockChristoph Hellwig
Remove the confusing xfs_dir2_block structure. It is supposed to describe an XFS dir2 block format btree block, but due to the variable sized nature of almost all elements in it it can't actuall do anything close to that job. In addition to accessing the fixed offset header structure it was only used to get a pointer to the first dir or unused entry after it, which can be trivially replaced by pointer arithmetics on the header pointer. For most users that is actually more natural anyway, as they don't use a typed pointer but rather a character pointer for further arithmetics. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: avoid usage of struct xfs_dir2_blockChristoph Hellwig
In most places we can simply pass around and use the struct xfs_dir2_data_hdr, which is the first and most important member of struct xfs_dir2_block instead of the full structure. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: cleanup the definition of struct xfs_dir2_sf_entryChristoph Hellwig
Remove the inumber member which is at a variable offset after the actual name, and make name a real variable sized C99 array instead of the incorrect one-sized array which confuses (not only) gcc. Based on this clean up the helpers to calculate the entry size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: kill struct xfs_dir2_sfChristoph Hellwig
The list field of it is never cactually used, so all uses can simply be replaced with the xfs_dir2_sf_hdr_t type that it has as first member. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: cleanup shortform directory inode number handlingChristoph Hellwig
Refactor the shortform directory helpers that deal with the 32-bit vs 64-bit wide inode numbers into more sensible helpers, and kill the xfs_intino_t typedef that is now superflous. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: factor out xfs_dir2_leaf_find_entryChristoph Hellwig
Add a new xfs_dir2_leaf_find_entry helper to factor out some duplicate code from xfs_dir2_leaf_addname xfs_dir2_leafn_add. Found by Eric Sandeen using an automated code duplication checker. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: kill the unused struct xfs_sync_workChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: remove i_transpChristoph Hellwig
Remove the transaction pointer in the inode. It's only used to avoid passing down an argument in the bmap code, and for a few asserts in the transaction code right now. Also use the local variable ip in a few more places in xfs_inode_item_unlock, so that it isn't only used for debug builds after the above change. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: fix filesystsem freeze race in xfs_trans_allocChristoph Hellwig
As pointed out by Jan xfs_trans_alloc can race with a concurrent filesystem freeze when it sleeps during the memory allocation. Fix this by moving the wait_for_freeze call after the memory allocation. This means moving the freeze into the low-level _xfs_trans_alloc helper, which thus grows a new argument. Also fix up some comments in that area while at it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2011-07-08xfs: improve sync behaviour in the face of aggressive dirtyingChristoph Hellwig
The following script from Wu Fengguang shows very bad behaviour in XFS when aggressively dirtying data during a sync on XFS, with sync times up to almost 10 times as long as ext4. A large part of the issue is that XFS writes data out itself two times in the ->sync_fs method, overriding the livelock protection in the core writeback code, and another issue is the lock-less xfs_ioend_wait call, which doesn't prevent new ioend from being queue up while waiting for the count to reach zero. This patch removes the XFS-internal sync calls and relies on the VFS to do it's work just like all other filesystems do. Note that the i_iocount wait which is rather suboptimal is simply removed here. We already do it in ->write_inode, which keeps the current supoptimal behaviour. We'll eventually need to remove that as well, but that's material for a separate commit. ------------------------------ snip ------------------------------ #!/bin/sh umount /dev/sda7 mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda7 # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda7 # mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda7 mount /dev/sda7 /fs echo $((50<<20)) > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes pid= for i in `seq 10` do dd if=/dev/zero of=/fs/zero-$i bs=1M count=1000 & pid="$pid $!" done sleep 1 tic=$(date +'%s') sync tac=$(date +'%s') echo echo sync time: $((tac-tic)) egrep '(Dirty|Writeback|NFS_Unstable)' /proc/meminfo pidof dd > /dev/null && { kill -9 $pid; echo sync NOT livelocked; } ------------------------------ snip ------------------------------ Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2011-07-08xfs: split xfs_itruncate_finishChristoph Hellwig
Split the guts of xfs_itruncate_finish that loop over the existing extents and calls xfs_bunmapi on them into a new helper, xfs_itruncate_externs. Make xfs_attr_inactive call it directly instead of xfs_itruncate_finish, which allows to simplify the latter a lot, by only letting it deal with the data fork. As a result xfs_itruncate_finish is renamed to xfs_itruncate_data to make its use case more obvious. Also remove the sync parameter from xfs_itruncate_data, which has been unessecary since the introduction of the busy extent list in 2002, and completely dead code since 2003 when the XFS_BMAPI_ASYNC parameter was made a no-op. I can't actually see why the xfs_attr_inactive needs to set the transaction sync, but let's keep this patch simple and without changes in behaviour. Also avoid passing a useless argument to xfs_isize_check, and make it private to xfs_inode.c. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>