so that they never try to lock an inode corresponding to ".." as this
can lead to deadlock. We observe that any inode with an updated link count
is always pushed into its buffer at the time of the link count change, so
we do not need to do a VOP_UPDATE, but merely find its buffer and write it.
The only time we need to get the inode itself is from the result of a
mkdir whose name will never be ".." and hence locking such an inode will
never request a lock above us in the filesystem tree. Thanks to Brian
Fundakowski Feldman for providing the test program that tickled soft updates
into hanging in "inode" sleep.
Submitted by: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
to sleep). Locking 101, part 2: do not look at buffer contents after
you have been asleep. There is no telling what wonderous changes may
have occurred.
This seems to be responsible for a bunch of panics where the process
sleeps and something else finds softupdates "locked" when it shouldn't
be. This commit is unreviewed, but has been a big help here.
Previously my boxes would panic pretty much on the first fsync() that
wrote something to disk.
it is no longer sufficient to get a lock on a buffer to know
that its write has been completed. We have to first get the
lock on the buffer, then check to see if it is doing a
background write. If it is doing background write, we have
to wait for the background write to finish, then check to see
if that fullfilled our dependency, and if not to start another
write. Luckily the explanation is longer than the fix.
a vnode has not been written (which would clear certain of its
dependencies). The problems arises because fsync with MNT_NOWAIT
no longer pushes all the dirty blocks associated with a vnode. It
skips those that require rollbacks, since they will just get instantly
dirty again. Such skipped blocks are marked so that they will not be
skipped a second time (otherwise circular dependencies would never
clear). So, we fsync twice to ensure that everything will be written
at least once.
The problem occurs when an indirect block and a data block are
being allocated at the same time. For example when the 13th block
of the file is written, the filesystem needs to allocate the first
indirect block and a data block. If the indirect block allocation
succeeds, but the data block allocation fails, the error code
dellocates the indirect block as it has nothing at which to point.
Unfortunately, it does not deallocate the indirect block's associated
dependencies which then fail when they find the block unexpectedly
gone (ptr == 0 instead of its expected value). The fix is to fsync
the file before doing the block rollback, as the fsync will flush
out all of the dependencies. Once the rollback is done the file
must be fsync'ed again so that the soft updates code does not find
unexpected changes. This approach is much slower than writing the
code to back out the extraneous dependencies, but running out of
disk space is not expected to be a common occurence, so just getting
it right is the main criterion.
PR: kern/15063
Submitted by: Assar Westerlund <assar@stacken.kth.se>
have been cleaned up by deallocte_dependencies(). Once that is done, it
is safe to post the request to free the blocks. A similar change is also
needed for the freefile case.
1) Fastpath deletions. When a file is being deleted, check to see if it
was so recently created that its inode has not yet been written to
disk. If so, the delete can proceed to immediately free the inode.
2) Background writes: No file or block allocations can be done while the
bitmap is being written to disk. To avoid these stalls, the bitmap is
copied to another buffer which is written thus leaving the original
available for futher allocations.
3) Link count tracking. Constantly track the difference in i_effnlink and
i_nlink so that inodes that have had no change other than i_effnlink
need not be written.
4) Identify buffers with rollback dependencies so that the buffer flushing
daemon can choose to skip over them.
of dirrem structure rather than the collaterally created freeblks
and freefile structures. Limit the rate of buffer dirtying by the
syncer process during periods of intense file removal.
check before the inode is unlocked while grabbing its parent directory.
Once it is unlocked, other operations may slip in that could make
the inode-is-flushed check fail. Allowing other writes to the inode
before returning from fsync does not break the semantics of fsync
since we have flushed everything that was dirty at the time of the
fsync call.
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
when I made the absence of the clean flag sticky in rev.1.88. This
was a problem main for "mount /". There is no way to mount "/" for
writing without using mount -u (normally implicitly), so after
"mount -f /" of an unclean filesystem, the absence of the clean flag
was sticky forever.
quite dangerous, since the process may hold locks at the point,
and if it is stopped in that tsleep the machine may hang. Because
the sleep is so short, the PCATCH is not required here, so it has
been removed. For the future, the FreeBSD team needs to decide
whether it is still reasonable to stop a process in tsleep, as that
may affect any other code that uses PCATCH while holding kernel locks.
Submitted by: Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
* lockstatus() and VOP_ISLOCKED() gets a new process argument and a new
return value: LK_EXCLOTHER, when the lock is held exclusively by another
process.
* The ASSERT_VOP_(UN)LOCKED family is extended to use what this gives them
* Extend the vnode_if.src format to allow more exact specification than
locked/unlocked.
This commit should not do any semantic changes unless you are using
DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS.
Discussed with: grog, mch, peter, phk
Reviewed by: peter
Correctly lock vnodes when calling VOP_OPEN() from filesystem mount code.
Unify spec_open() for bdev and cdev cases.
Remove the disabled bdev specific read/write code.
the soft updates changes: only report the link count to be i_effnlink
in ufs_getattr() for file systems that maintain i_effnlink.
Tested by: Mike Dracopoulos <mdraco@math.uoa.gr>
Merge the contents (less some trivial bordering the silly comments)
of <vm/vm_prot.h> and <vm/vm_inherit.h> into <vm/vm.h>. This puts
the #defines for the vm_inherit_t and vm_prot_t types next to their
typedefs.
This paves the road for the commit to follow shortly: change
useracc() to use VM_PROT_{READ|WRITE} rather than B_{READ|WRITE}
as argument.
been set for a mount point. Insert missing checks to ensure that all
write operations are done asynchronously when the MNT_ASYNC option
has been requested.
Submitted by: Craig A Soules <soules+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
