inside the SYSCTL() macros and thus does not need to be done for
all of the nodes scattered across the source tree.
- Mark the name-cache related sysctl's (including debug.hashstat.*) MPSAFE.
- Mark vm.loadavg MPSAFE.
- Remove GIANT_REQUIRED from vmtotal() (everything in this routine already
has sufficient locking) and mark vm.vmtotal MPSAFE.
- Mark the vm.stats.(sys|vm).* sysctls MPSAFE.
In normal operation, the number of cache entries is roughly equal to the
number of active vnodes. However, when most of the recently accessed
vnodes have many hard links, the number of cache entries can be 32000
times as large, exhausting kernel memory and provoking a panic in
kmem_malloc().
MFC after: 2 weeks
did not compared nc_dvp with supplied parent directory vnode pointer.
Add the check and note that now branches for vp != NULL and vp == NULL
are the same, thus can be merged.
Reported and reviewed by: kan
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks
looked up would have v_dd set to a non-NULL value. This fixes a panic
seen when running installworld on a diskless system with a separate /usr
file system.
Submitted by: cracauer
Approved by: kib
on a best-effort basis. Teach vn_fullpath to use this new VOP if a
regular VFS cache lookup fails. This VOP is designed to supplement the
VFS cache to provide a better chance that a vnode-to-name lookup will
succeed.
Currently, an implementation for devfs is being committed. The default
implementation is to return ENOENT.
A big thanks to kib for the mentorship on this, and to pho for running it
through his stress test suite.
Reviewed by: arch
Approved by: kib
entries for one name. Then, creating inode with that name would remove
one entry, leaving others dormant. Reclaiming the vnode would uncover
negative entries, causing false return of ENOENT from the calls like
stat, that do not create inode.
Prevent creation of the duplicated negative entries.
Reported and debugged with: pho
Reviewed by: jhb
X-MFC: after shared lookup changes
advance of teaching vn_fullpath1() how to query file systems for
vnode-to-name mappings when cache lookups fail.
Thanks to kib for guidance and patience on this process.
Reviewed by: kib
Approved by: kib
unmounts. When we upgrade a vnode lock from shared to exclusive during
a name cache lookup, fail the lookup with EBADF if the vnode is invalidated
while we are waiting for the exclusive lock.
Also, for correctness (though I'm not sure it can occur in practice),
downgrade an exclusively locked vnode if it should be share locked.
Tested by: pho
not in the namecache when shared lookups are enabled (vfs.lookup_shared=1,
it is currently off by default) and the filesystem supports shared lookups
(e.g. NFS client). Specifically, if multiple concurrent LOOKUPs both miss
in the name cache in parallel, each of the lookups may each end up adding an
entry to the namecache resulting in duplicate entries in the namecache
for the same pathname. A subsequent removal of the mapping of that
pathname to that vnode (via remove or rename) would only evict one of the
entries from the name cache. As a result, subseqent lookups for that
pathname would still return the old vnode.
This race was observed with shared lookups over NFS where a file was updated
by writing a new file out to a temporary file name and then renaming that
temporary file to the "real" file to effect atomic updates of a file. Other
processes on the same client that were periodically reading the file would
occasionally receive an ESTALE error from open(2) because the VOP_GETATTR()
in nfs_open() would receive that error when given the stale vnode.
The fix here is to check for duplicates in cache_enter() and just return
if an entry for this same directory and leaf file name for this vnode is
already in the cache. The check for duplicates is done by walking the
per-vnode list of name cache entries. It is expected that this list should
be very small in the common case (usually 0 or 1 entries during a
cache_enter() since most files only have 1 "leaf" name).
Reviewed by: ups, scottl
MFC after: 2 months
processes are not producing absolute pathname tokens. It is required
that audited pathnames are generated relative to the global root mount
point. This modification changes our implementation of audit_canon_path(9)
and introduces a new function: vn_fullpath_global(9) which performs a
vnode -> pathname translation relative to the global mount point based
on the contents of the name cache. Much like vn_fullpath,
vn_fullpath_global is a wrapper function which called vn_fullpath1.
Further, the string parsing routines have been converted to use the
sbuf(9) framework. This change also removes the conditional acquisition
of Giant, since the vn_fullpath1 method will not dip into file system
dependent code.
The vnode locking was modified to use vhold()/vdrop() instead the vref()
and vrele(). This will modify the hold count instead of modifying the
user count. This makes more sense since it's the kernel that requires
the reference to the vnode. This also makes sure that the vnode does not
get recycled we hold the reference to it. [1]
Discussed with: rwatson
Reviewed by: kib [1]
MFC after: 2 weeks
no longer needed, but for now we still want to be consistent with other
similar checks in the tree.
- Call ASSERT_VOP_ELOCKED() only when vget() returns 0.
Reviewed by: jeff
after each SYSINIT() macro invocation. This makes a number of
lightweight C parsers much happier with the FreeBSD kernel
source, including cflow's prcc and lxr.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: imp, rink
always curthread.
As KPI gets broken by this patch, manpages and __FreeBSD_version will be
updated by further commits.
Tested by: Andrea Barberio <insomniac at slackware dot it>
conjuction with 'thread' argument passing which is always curthread.
Remove the unuseful extra-argument and pass explicitly curthread to lower
layer functions, when necessary.
KPI results broken by this change, which should affect several ports, so
version bumping and manpage update will be further committed.
Tested by: kris, pho, Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>
Remove this argument and pass curthread directly to underlying
VOP_LOCK1() VFS method. This modify makes the code cleaner and in
particular remove an annoying dependence helping next lockmgr() cleanup.
KPI results, obviously, changed.
Manpage and FreeBSD_version will be updated through further commits.
As a side note, would be valuable to say that next commits will address
a similar cleanup about VFS methods, in particular vop_lock1 and
vop_unlock.
Tested by: Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>,
Andrea Di Pasquale <whyx dot it at gmail dot com>
parent vnode and relock it after locking child vnode. The problem was that
we always relock it exclusively, even when it was share-locked.
Discussed with: jeff
and flags with an sxlock. This leads to a significant and measurable
performance improvement as a result of access to shared locking for
frequent lookup operations, reduced general overhead, and reduced overhead
in the event of contention. All of these are imported for threaded
applications where simultaneous access to a shared file descriptor array
occurs frequently. Kris has reported 2x-4x transaction rate improvements
on 8-core MySQL benchmarks; smaller improvements can be expected for many
workloads as a result of reduced overhead.
- Generally eliminate the distinction between "fast" and regular
acquisisition of the filedesc lock; the plan is that they will now all
be fast. Change all locking instances to either shared or exclusive
locks.
- Correct a bug (pointed out by kib) in fdfree() where previously msleep()
was called without the mutex held; sx_sleep() is now always called with
the sxlock held exclusively.
- Universally hold the struct file lock over changes to struct file,
rather than the filedesc lock or no lock. Always update the f_ops
field last. A further memory barrier is required here in the future
(discussed with jhb).
- Improve locking and reference management in linux_at(), which fails to
properly acquire vnode references before using vnode pointers. Annotate
improper use of vn_fullpath(), which will be replaced at a future date.
In fcntl(), we conservatively acquire an exclusive lock, even though in
some cases a shared lock may be sufficient, which should be revisited.
The dropping of the filedesc lock in fdgrowtable() is no longer required
as the sxlock can be held over the sleep operation; we should consider
removing that (pointed out by attilio).
Tested by: kris
Discussed with: jhb, kris, attilio, jeff
- Remove also "MP SAFE" after prior "MPSAFE" pass. (suggested by bde)
- Remove extra blank lines in some cases.
- Add extra blank lines in some cases.
- Remove no-op comments consisting solely of the function name, the word
"syscall", or the system call name.
- Add punctuation.
- Re-wrap some comments.
filesystem agnostic. We are not touching any file system specific functions
in this code path. Since we have a cache lock, there is really no need to
keep Giant around here.
This eliminates Giant acquisitions for any syscall which is auditing pathnames.
Discussed with: jeff
cache_zap() to clear the v_dd pointers when a directory vnode is forcibly
discarded. For this to work, all vnodes with v_dd pointers to a directory
must also have name cache entries linked via v_cache_dst to that dvp
otherwise we could not find them at cache_purge() time. The following
code snipit could break this guarantee by unlinking a directory before
fetching it's dotdot. The dotdot lookup would initialize the v_dd field
of the unlinked directory which could never be cleared. To fix this
we don't initialize v_dd for orphaned vnodes.
printf("rmdir: %d\n", rmdir("../foo")); /* foo is cwd */
printf("chdir: %d\n", chdir(".."));
printf("%s\n", getwd(NULL));
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
Discovered by: kkenn
Approved by: re (blanket vfs)
vnodes whose names it caches, so we no longer need a `generation
number' to tell us if a referenced vnode is invalid. Replace the use
of the parent's v_id in the hash function with the address of the
parent vnode.
Tested by: Peter Holm
Glanced at by: jeff, phk
except for places where people forget to update one of them. We now
collect only one set of stats for both of these routines. Other
changes in this commit include:
- Start acquiring Giant again in vn_fullpath(), since it is required
when crossing a mount point.
- Expand the scope of the cache lock to avoid dropping it and
picking it up again for every pathname component. This also
makes it trivial to avoid races in stats collection.
- Assert that nc_dvp == v_dd for directories instead of returning
an error to userland when this is not true. AFAIK, it should
always be true when v_dd is non-null.
- For vn_fullpath(), handle the first (non-directory) vnode
separately.
Glanced at by: jeff, phk
to cache_lookup(). This allows us to acquire the vnode interlock before
dropping the cache lock. This protects the vnodes identity until we
have locked it.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
config option have now been fixed. All filesystems are properly locked
and checked via DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS. Remove the workaround code.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
vnode lock is much simpler than I originally thought it would be.
Now, the cache lock is always acquired before the vnode lock.
- Provide some gotos in __getcwd() to simplify the unlocking a bit.
- Move Giant acquisition down into __getcwd().
Sponsored By: Isilon Systems, Inc.
small but noticeable increase in performance for name lookup operations.
The code uses two zones, one for short names (less than 32 characters)
and one for long names (up to NAME_MAX). Since most file names are
fairly short, this saves a considerable amount of space that would
otherwise be wasted if we always allocated NAME_MAX bytes. The cutoff
value of 32 characters was picked arbitrarily and may benefit from some
tweaking; it could also be made into a tunable.
Submitted by: hmp
but I decided that it was important for this patch to not bit-rot, and
since it is mainly moving code around, the total amount of entropy is
epsilon /phk)
This is a patch to move the common parts of linux_getcwd() back into
kern/vfs_cache.c so that the standard FreeBSD libc getcwd() can use it's
extended functionality. The linux syscall linux_getcwd() in
compat/linux/linux_getcwd.c has been rewritten to use it too. It should
be possible to simplify libc's getcwd() after this. No doubt this code
needs some cleaning up, since I've left in the sysctl variables I used
for debugging.
PR: 48169
Submitted by: James Whitwell <abacau@yahoo.com.au>
- v_vflag is protected by the vnode lock and is used when synchronization
with VOP calls is needed.
- v_iflag is protected by interlock and is used for dealing with vnode
management issues. These flags include X/O LOCK, FREE, DOOMED, etc.
- All accesses to v_iflag and v_vflag have either been locked or marked with
mp_fixme's.
- Many ASSERT_VOP_LOCKED calls have been added where the locking was not
clear.
- Many functions in vfs_subr.c were restructured to provide for stronger
locking.
Idea stolen from: BSD/OS
behavior by default. Also, change the options line to reflect this.
If there are no problems reported this will become the only behavior and the
knob will be removed in a month or so.
Demanded by: obrien
The stat() and open() calls have been changed to make use of this new functionality. Using shared locks in
these cases is sufficient and can significantly reduce their latency if IO is pending to these vnodes. Also,
this reduces the number of exclusive locks that are floating around in the system, which helps reduce the
number of deadlocks that occur.
A new kernel option "LOOKUP_SHARED" has been added. It defaults to off so this patch can be turned on for
testing, and should eventually go away once it is proven to be stable. I have personally been running this
patch for over a year now, so it is believed to be fully stable.
Reviewed by: jake, obrien
Approved by: jake
Includes some minor whitespace changes, and re-ordering to be able to document
properly (e.g, grouping of variables and the SYSCTL macro calls for them, where
the documentation has been added.)
Reviewed by: phk (but all errors are mine)
Seigo Tanimura (tanimura) posted the initial delta.
I've polished it quite a bit reducing the need for locking and
adapting it for KSE.
Locks:
1 mutex in each filedesc
protects all the fields.
protects "struct file" initialization, while a struct file
is being changed from &badfileops -> &pipeops or something
the filedesc should be locked.
1 mutex in each struct file
protects the refcount fields.
doesn't protect anything else.
the flags used for garbage collection have been moved to
f_gcflag which was the FILLER short, this doesn't need
locking because the garbage collection is a single threaded
container.
could likely be made to use a pool mutex.
1 sx lock for the global filelist.
struct file * fhold(struct file *fp);
/* increments reference count on a file */
struct file * fhold_locked(struct file *fp);
/* like fhold but expects file to locked */
struct file * ffind_hold(struct thread *, int fd);
/* finds the struct file in thread, adds one reference and
returns it unlocked */
struct file * ffind_lock(struct thread *, int fd);
/* ffind_hold, but returns file locked */
I still have to smp-safe the fget cruft, I'll get to that asap.
to avoid removing higher level directory vnodes from the namecache has
no perceivable effect and will be removed. This is especially true
when vmiodirenable is turned on, which it is by default now. ( vmiodirenable
makes a huge difference in directory caching ). The vfs.vmiodirenable and
vfs.nameileafonly sysctls have been left in to allow further testing, but
I expect to rip out vfs.nameileafonly soon too.
I have also determined through testing that the real problem with numvnodes
getting too large is due to the VM Page cache preventing the vnode from
being reclaimed. The directory stuff made only a tiny dent relative
to Poul's original code, enough so that some tests succeeded. But tests
with several million small files show that the bigger problem is the VM Page
cache. This will have to be addressed by a future commit.
MFC after: 3 days
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
has been forcibly unmounted. If the filesystem root vnode is reached
and it has no associated mountpoint (vp->v_mount == NULL), __getcwd
would return without freeing 'buf'. Add the missing free() call.
PR: kern/30306
Submitted by: Mike Potanin <potanin@mccme.ru>
MFC after: 1 week
other "system" header files.
Also help the deprecation of lockmgr.h by making it a sub-include of
sys/lock.h and removing sys/lockmgr.h form kernel .c files.
Sort sys/*.h includes where possible in affected files.
OK'ed by: bde (with reservations)
available.
Only directory vnodes holding no child directory vnodes held in
v_cache_src are recycled, so that directory vnodes near the root of
the filesystem hierarchy remain in namecache and directory vnodes are
not reclaimed in cascade.
The period of vnode reclaiming attempt and the number of vnodes
attempted to reclaim can be tuned via sysctl(2).
Suggested by: tegge
Approved by: phk
enable easy access to the hash chain stats. The raw prefixed versions
dump an integer array to userland with the chain lengths. This cheats
and calls it an array of 'struct int' rather than 'int' or sysctl -a
faithfully dumps out the 128K array on an average machine. The non-raw
versions return 4 integers: count, number of chains used, maximum chain
length, and percentage utilization (fixed point, multiplied by 100).
The raw forms are more useful for analyzing the hash distribution, while
the other form can be read easily by humans and stats loggers.
Allow the initial hash value to be passed in, as the examples do.
Incrementally hash in the dvp->v_id (using the official api) rather than
add it. This seems to help power-of-two predictable filename trees
where the filenames repeat on a power-of-two cycle and the directory trees
have power-of-two components in it. The simple add then mask was causing
things like 12000+ entry collision chains while most other entries have
between 0 and 3 entries each. This way seems to improve things.
Make the name cache hash as well as the nfsnode hash use it.
As a special tweak, create an unsigned version of register_t. This allows
us to use a special tweak for the 64 bit versions that significantly
speeds up the i386 version (ie: int64 XOR int64 is slower than int64
XOR int32).
The code layout is a little strange for the string function, but I was
able to get between 5 to 10% improvement over the original version I
started with. The layout affects gcc code generation choices and this way
was fastest on x86 and alpha.
Note that 'CPUTYPE=p3' etc makes a fair difference to this. It is
around 45% faster with -march=pentiumpro on a p6 cpu.
filesystem lookup() routine if it unlocks parent directory. This flag should
be carefully tracked by filesystems if they want to work properly with nullfs
and other stacked filesystems.
VFS takes advantage of this flag to perform symantically correct usage
of vrele() instead of vput() if parent directory already unlocked.
If filesystem fails to track this flag then previous codepath in VFS left
unchanged.
Convert UFS code to set PDIRUNLOCK flag if necessary. Other filesystmes will
be changed after some period of testing.
Reviewed in general by: mckusick, dillon, adrian
Obtained from: NetBSD
SYSCTL_LONG macro to be consistent with other integer sysctl variables
and require an initial value instead of assuming 0. Update several
sysctl variables to use the unsigned types.
PR: 15251
Submitted by: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
There's no excuse to have code in synthetic filestores that allows direct
references to the textvp anymore.
Feature requested by: msmith
Feature agreed to by: warner
Move requested by: phk
Move agreed to by: bde
1. Add new file "sys/kern/vfs_default.c" where default actions for
VOPs go. Implement proper defaults for ABORTOP, BWRITE, LEASE,
POLL, REVOKE and STRATEGY. Various stuff spread over the entire
tree belongs here.
2. Change VOP_BLKATOFF to a normal function in cd9660.
3. Kill VOP_BLKATOFF, VOP_TRUNCATE, VOP_VFREE, VOP_VALLOC. These
are private interface functions between UFS and the underlying
storage manager layer (FFS/LFS/MFS/EXT2FS). The functions now
live in struct ufsmount instead.
4. Remove a kludge of VOP_ functions in all filesystems, that did
nothing but obscure the simplicity and break the expandability.
If a filesystem doesn't implement VOP_FOO, it shouldn't have an
entry for it in its vnops table. The system will try to DTRT
if it is not implemented. There are still some cruft left, but
the bulk of it is done.
5. Fix another VCALL in vfs_cache.c (thanks Bruce!)