- 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
kernel access control.
Invoke the necessary MAC entry points to maintain labels on vnodes.
In particular, initialize the label when the vnode is allocated or
reused, and destroy the label when the vnode is going to be released,
or reused. Wow, an object where there really is exactly one place
where it's allocated, and one other where it's freed. Amazing.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
SYSCTL_OUT() from blocking while locks are held. This should
only be done when it would be inconvenient to make a temporary copy of
the data and defer calling SYSCTL_OUT() until after the locks are
released.
As this code is not actually used by any of the existing
interfaces, it seems unlikely to break anything (famous
last words).
The internal kernel interface to manipulate these attributes
is invoked using two new IO_ flags: IO_NORMAL and IO_EXT.
These flags may be specified in the ioflags word of VOP_READ,
VOP_WRITE, and VOP_TRUNCATE. Specifying IO_NORMAL means that
you want to do I/O to the normal data part of the file and
IO_EXT means that you want to do I/O to the extended attributes
part of the file. IO_NORMAL and IO_EXT are mutually exclusive
for VOP_READ and VOP_WRITE, but may be specified individually
or together in the case of VOP_TRUNCATE. For example, when
removing a file, VOP_TRUNCATE is called with both IO_NORMAL
and IO_EXT set. For backward compatibility, if neither IO_NORMAL
nor IO_EXT is set, then IO_NORMAL is assumed.
Note that the BA_ and IO_ flags have been `merged' so that they
may both be used in the same flags word. This merger is possible
by assigning the IO_ flags to the low sixteen bits and the BA_
flags the high sixteen bits. This works because the high sixteen
bits of the IO_ word is reserved for read-ahead and help with
write clustering so will never be used for flags. This merge
lets us get away from code of the form:
if (ioflags & IO_SYNC)
flags |= BA_SYNC;
For the future, I have considered adding a new field to the
vattr structure, va_extsize. This addition could then be
exported through the stat structure to allow applications to
find out the size of the extended attribute storage and also
would provide a more standard interface for truncating them
(via VOP_SETATTR rather than VOP_TRUNCATE).
I am also contemplating adding a pathconf parameter (for
concreteness, lets call it _PC_MAX_EXTSIZE) which would
let an application determine the maximum size of the extended
atribute storage.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
support creation times such as UFS2) to the value of the
modification time if the value of the modification time is older
than the current creation time. See utimes(2) for further details.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
methodology similar to the vm_map_entry splay and the VM splay that Alan
Cox is working on. Extensive testing has appeared to have shown no
increase in overhead.
Disadvantages
Dirties more cache lines during lookups.
Not as fast as a hash table lookup (but still N log N and optimal
when there is locality of reference).
Advantages
vnode->v_dirtyblkhd is now perfectly sorted, making fsync/sync/filesystem
syncer operate more efficiently.
I get to rip out all the old hacks (some of which were mine) that tried
to keep the v_dirtyblkhd tailq sorted.
The per-vnode splay tree should be easier to lock / SMPng pushdown on
vnodes will be easier.
This commit along with another that Alan is working on for the VM page
global hash table will allow me to implement ranged fsync(), optimize
server-side nfs commit rpcs, and implement partial syncs by the
filesystem syncer (aka filesystem syncer would detect that someone is
trying to get the vnode lock, remembers its place, and skip to the
next vnode).
Note that the buffer cache splay is somewhat more complex then other splays
due to special handling of background bitmap writes (multiple buffers with
the same lblkno in the same vnode), and B_INVAL discontinuities between the
old hash table and the existence of the buffer on the v_cleanblkhd list.
Suggested by: alc
Tell vop_strategy_pre() to use this instead.
- Ignore B_CLUSTER bufs. Their components are locked but they don't really
exist so they don't have to be. This isn't ideal but it is safe.
- Cache a pointer to the vnode's object in the buf.
- Hold a reference to that object in addition to the vnode's reference just
to be consistent.
- Cleanup code that got the object indirectly through the vp and VOP calls.
This fixes at least one case where we were calling GETVOBJECT without a lock.
It also avoids an expensive layered call at the cost of another pointer in
struct buf.
- Disable original vop_strategy lock specification.
- Switch to the new vop_strategy_pre for lock validation.
VOP_STRATEGY requires only that the buf is locked UNLESS the block numbers need
to be translated. There may be other reasons, but as long as the underlying
layer uses a VOP to perform the operations they will be caught later.
The file vfs_conf.c which was dealing with root mounting has
been repo-copied into vfs_mount.c to preserve history.
This makes nmount related development easier, and help reducing
the size of vfs_syscalls.c, which is still an enormous file.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Repo-copy by: peter
direct calls for the two places where the kernel calls into soft
updates code. Set up the hooks in softdep_initialize() and NULL
them out in softdep_uninitialize(). This change allows soft updates
to function correctly when ufs is loaded as a module.
Reviewed by: mckusick
- Add vfs_badlock_print to control whether or not we print lock violations
- Add vfs_badlock_panic to control whether we panic on lock violations
Both default to on to mimic the original behavior if DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS is on.
a linked list. This is to allow the merging of the mount
options in the MNT_UPDATE case, as the current data structure
is unsuitable for this.
There are no functional differences in this commit.
Reviewed by: phk
Don't try to create a vm object before the file system has a chance to finish
initializing it. This is incorrect for a number of reasons. Firstly, that
VOP requires a lock which the file system may not have initialized yet. Also,
open and others will create a vm object if it is necessary later.
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
general cleanup of the API. The entire API now consists of two functions
similar to the pre-KSE API. The suser() function takes a thread pointer
as its only argument. The td_ucred member of this thread must be valid
so the only valid thread pointers are curthread and a few kernel threads
such as thread0. The suser_cred() function takes a pointer to a struct
ucred as its first argument and an integer flag as its second argument.
The flag is currently only used for the PRISON_ROOT flag.
Discussed on: smp@
new vfs_getopt()/vfs_copyopt() API. This is intended to be used
later, when there will be filesystems implementing the VFS_NMOUNT
operation. The mount(2) system call will disappear when all
filesystems will be converted to the new API. Documentation will
be committed in a while.
Reviewed by: phk
The use of the zone allocator may or may not be overkill.
There is an XXX: over in ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c that jlemon may need
to revisit.
This shaves about 60 bytes of struct vnode which on my laptop means
600k less RAM used for vnodes.
this is a low-functionality change that changes the kernel to access the main
thread of a process via the linked list of threads rather than
assuming that it is embedded in the process. It IS still embeded there
but remove all teh code that assumes that in preparation for the next commit
which will actually move it out.
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, benno rice,
call VOP_INACTIVE before placing the vnode back on the free list.
Otherwise there is a race condition on SMP machines between
getnewvnode() locking the vnode to reclaim it and vrele()
locking the vnode to inactivate it. This window of vulnerability
becomes exaggerated in the presence of filesystems that have
been suspended as the inactive routine may need to temporarily
release the lock on the vnode to avoid deadlock with the syncer
process.
operation. The vgonel() code has always called vclean() but until we
started proactively freeing vnodes it would never actually be called with
a dirty vnode, so this situation did not occur prior to the vnlru() code.
Now that we proactively free vnodes when kern.maxvnodes is hit, however,
vclean() winds up with work to do and improperly generates the warnings.
Reviewed by: peter
Approved by: re (for MFC)
MFC after: 1 day
involving file removal or file update were not always being fully
committed to disk. The result was lost files or corrupted file data.
This change ensures that the filesystem is properly synced to disk
before the filesystem is down-graded.
This delta also fixes a long standing bug in which a file open for
reading has been unlinked. When the last open reference to the file
is closed, the inode is reclaimed by the filesystem. Previously,
if the filesystem had been down-graded to read-only, the inode could
not be reclaimed, and thus was lost and had to be later recovered
by fsck. With this change, such files are found at the time of the
down-grade. Normally they will result in the filesystem down-grade
failing with `device busy'. If a forcible down-grade is done, then
the affected files will be revoked causing the inode to be released
and the open file descriptors to begin failing on attempts to read.
Submitted by: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com>
We calculate a trigger point that both guarentees we will find a
sufficient number of vnodes to recycle and prevents us from recycling
vnodes with lots of resident pages. This particular section of
code is designed to recycle vnodes, not do unnecessary frees of
cached VM pages.
against VM_WAIT in the pageout code. Both fixes involve adjusting
the lockmgr's timeout capability so locks obtained with timeouts do not
interfere with locks obtained without a timeout.
Hopefully MFC: before the 4.5 release
the shutdown request at reboot/halt time.
Disable the printf 'vnlru process getting nowhere, pausing...' and instead
export the count to the debug.vnlru_nowhere sysctl.
by me to make it more efficient. The original code had serious balancing
problems and could also deadlock easily. This code relegates the vnode
reclamation to its own kproc and relaxes the vnode reclamation requirements
to better maintain kern.maxvnodes. This code still doesn't balance as well
as it could, but it does a much better job then the original code.
Approved by: re@freebsd.org
Obtained from: ps, peter, dillon
MFS Assuming: Assuming no problems crop up in Yahoo testing
MFC after: 7 days
structure changes now rather then piecemeal later on. mnt_nvnodelist
currently holds all the vnodes under the mount point. This will eventually
be split into a 'dirty' and 'clean' list. This way we only break kld's once
rather then twice. nvnodelist will eventually turn into the dirty list
and should remain compatible with the klds.
o POSIX.1e capabilities authorize overriding of VEXEC for VDIR based
on CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH, but of !VDIR based on CAP_DAC_EXECUTE. Add
appropriate conditionals to vaccess() to take that into account.
o Synchronization cap_check_xxx() -> cap_check() change.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
real effect.
Optimize vfs_msync(). Avoid having to continually drop and re-obtain
mutexes when scanning the vnode list. Improves looping case by 500%.
Optimize ffs_sync(). Avoid having to continually drop and re-obtain
mutexes when scanning the vnode list. This makes a couple of assumptions,
which I believe are ok, in regards to vnode stability when the mount list
mutex is held. Improves looping case by 500%.
(more optimization work is needed on top of these fixes)
MFC after: 1 week
wait for both read AND write I/O to complete. Only NFS calls vinvalbuf()
on an active vnode (when the server indicates that the file is stale), so
this bug fix only effects NFS clients.
MFC after: 3 days
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
file. ffs will discard any pending dirty pages when it is closed,
so we may as well not waste time trying to clean them. This doesn't
stop other things from writing it out, eg: pageout, fsync(2) etc.
VM caching of disks through mmap() and stopping syncing of open files
that had their last reference in the fs removed (ie: their unsync'ed
pages get discarded on close already, so I made it stop syncing too).
(this commit is just the first stage). Also add various GIANT_ macros to
formalize the removal of Giant, making it easy to test in a more piecemeal
fashion. These macros will allow us to test fine-grained locks to a degree
before removing Giant, and also after, and to remove Giant in a piecemeal
fashion via sysctl's on those subsystems which the authors believe can
operate without Giant.
vm_mtx does not recurse and is required for most low level
vm operations.
faults can not be taken without holding Giant.
Memory subsystems can now call the base page allocators safely.
Almost all atomic ops were removed as they are covered under the
vm mutex.
Alpha and ia64 now need to catch up to i386's trap handlers.
FFS and NFS have been tested, other filesystems will need minor
changes (grabbing the vm lock when twiddling page properties).
Reviewed (partially) by: jake, jhb
the number of references on the filesystem root vnode to be both
expected and released. Many filesystems hold an extra reference on
the filesystem root vnode, which must be accounted for when
determining if the filesystem is busy and then released if it isn't
busy. The old `skipvp' approach required individual filesystem
xxx_unmount functions to re-implement much of vflush()'s logic to
deal with the root vnode.
All 9 filesystems that hold an extra reference on the root vnode
got the logic wrong in the case of forced unmounts, so `umount -f'
would always fail if there were any extra root vnode references.
Fix this issue centrally in vflush(), now that we can.
This commit also fixes a vnode reference leak in devfs, which could
result in idle devfs filesystems that refuse to unmount.
Reviewed by: phk, bp
KASSERT when vp->v_usecount is zero or negative. In this case, the
"v*: negative ref cnt" panic that follows is much more appropriate.
Reviewed by: mckusick
to struct mount.
This makes the "struct netexport *" paramter to the vfs_export
and vfs_checkexport interface unneeded.
Consequently that all non-stacking filesystems can use
vfs_stdcheckexp().
At the same time, make it a pointer to a struct netexport
in struct mount, so that we can remove the bogus AF_MAX
and #include <net/radix.h> from <sys/mount.h>
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
VOP_BWRITE() was a hack which made it possible for NFS client
side to use struct buf with non-bio backing.
This patch takes a more general approach and adds a bp->b_op
vector where more methods can be added.
The success of this patch depends on bp->b_op being initialized
all relevant places for some value of "relevant" which is not
easy to determine. For now the buffers have grown a b_magic
element which will make such issues a tiny bit easier to debug.
actually in the kernel. This structure is a different size than
what is currently in -CURRENT, but should hopefully be the last time
any application breakage is caused there. As soon as any major
inconveniences are removed, the definition of the in-kernel struct
ucred should be conditionalized upon defined(_KERNEL).
This also changes struct export_args to remove dependency on the
constantly-changing struct ucred, as well as limiting the bounds
of the size fields to the correct size. This means: a) mountd and
friends won't break all the time, b) mountd and friends won't crash
the kernel all the time if they don't know what they're doing wrt
actual struct export_args layout.
Reviewed by: bde
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:
mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)
similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:
mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.
The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.
Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:
MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH
The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:
mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.
Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.
Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.
Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.
Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.
Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
calls returning EACCES instead of EPERM. This patch modifies vaccess()
to return EPERM instead of EACCES if VADMIN is among the requested
rights. This affects functions normally limited to the owners of
a file, such as chmod(), as EPERM is the error indicating that
privilege would allow the operation, rather than a chance in mandatory
or discretionary rights.
Reported by: bde
and numvnodes are longs in the kernel. They should remain longs in systat,
what really needs to change is that they should be using SYSCTL_LONG rather
than SYSCTL_INT. I also changed wantfreevnodes to SYSCTL_LONG because I
happened to notice it.
I wish there was a way to find all of these automatically..
Pointed out by: bde
Removed most of the hacks that were trying to deal with low-memory
situations prior to now.
The new code is based on the concept that I/O must be able to function in
a low memory situation. All major modules related to I/O (except
networking) have been adjusted to allow allocation out of the system
reserve memory pool. These modules now detect a low memory situation but
rather then block they instead continue to operate, then return resources
to the memory pool instead of cache them or leave them wired.
Code has been added to stall in a low-memory situation prior to a vnode
being locked.
Thus situations where a process blocks in a low-memory condition while
holding a locked vnode have been reduced to near nothing. Not only will
I/O continue to operate, but many prior deadlock conditions simply no
longer exist.
Implement a number of VFS/BIO fixes
(found by Ian): in biodone(), bogus-page replacement code, the loop
was not properly incrementing loop variables prior to a continue
statement. We do not believe this code can be hit anyway but we
aren't taking any chances. We'll turn the whole section into a
panic (as it already is in brelse()) after the release is rolled.
In biodone(), the foff calculation was incorrectly
clamped to the iosize, causing the wrong foff to be calculated
for pages in the case of an I/O error or biodone() called without
initiating I/O. The problem always caused a panic before. Now it
doesn't. The problem is mainly an issue with NFS.
Fixed casts for ~PAGE_MASK. This code worked properly before only
because the calculations use signed arithmatic. Better to properly
extend PAGE_MASK first before inverting it for the 64 bit masking
op.
In brelse(), the bogus_page fixup code was improperly throwing
away the original contents of 'm' when it did the j-loop to
fix the bogus pages. The result was that it would potentially
invalidate parts of the *WRONG* page(!), leading to corruption.
There may still be cases where a background bitmap write is
being duplicated, causing potential corruption. We have identified
a potentially serious bug related to this but the fix is still TBD.
So instead this patch contains a KASSERT to detect the problem
and panic the machine rather then continue to corrupt the filesystem.
The problem does not occur very often.. it is very hard to
reproduce, and it may or may not be the cause of the corruption
people have reported.
Review by: (VFS/BIO: mckusick, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>)
Testing by: (VM/Deadlock) Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
getnewvnode(). Otherwise routines called from VOP_INACTIVE() might
attempt to remove the vnode from a free list the vnode isn't on,
causing corruption.
PR: 18012
"administrative" authorization checks. In most cases, the VADMIN test
checks to make sure the credential effective uid is the same as the file
owner.
o Modify vaccess() to set VADMIN as an available right if the uid is
appropriate.
o Modify references to uid-based access control operations such that they
now always invoke VOP_ACCESS() instead of using hard-coded policy checks.
o This allows alternative UFS policies to be implemented by replacing only
ufs_access() (such as mandatory system policies).
o VOP_ACCESS() requires the caller to hold an exclusive vnode lock on the
vnode: I believe that new invocations of VOP_ACCESS() are always called
with the lock held.
o Some direct checks of the uid remain, largely associated with the QUOTA
and SUIDDIR code.
Reviewed by: eivind
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Add lockdestroy() and appropriate invocations, which corresponds to
lockinit() and must be called to clean up after a lockmgr lock is no
longer needed.
separately (nfs, cd9660 etc) or keept as a first element of structure
referenced by v_data pointer(ffs). Such organization leads to known problems
with stacked filesystems.
From this point vop_no*lock*() functions maintain only interlock lock.
vop_std*lock*() functions maintain built-in v_lock structure using lockmgr().
vop_sharedlock() is compatible with vop_stdunlock(), but maintains a shared
lock on vnode.
If filesystem wishes to export lockmgr compatible lock, it can put an address
of this lock to v_vnlock field. This indicates that the upper filesystem
can take advantage of it and use single lock structure for entire (or part)
of stack of vnodes. This field shouldn't be examined or modified by VFS code
except for initialization purposes.
Reviewed in general by: mckusick
* Add lots of comments
* Convert a couple of assertions to KASSERT()
* Minimal whitespace & misapplied {} fixes
* Convert #if 0 to #if COMPILING_LINT for code we presently do not
support, but want to keep available.
Reviewed by: adrian, markm
which hides the 'hole' in the minor bits.
Introduce unit2minor() to do the reverse operation.
Fix some some make_dev() calls which didn't use UID_* or GID_* macros.
Kill the v_hashchain alias macro, it hides the real relationship.
Introduce experimental SI_CHEAPCLONE flag set it on cloned bpfs.
include:
* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)
* Per-CPU idle processes.
* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).
Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
object before falling back on privilege. Make vaccess() accept an
additional optional argument, privused, to determine whether
privilege was required for vaccess() to return 0. Add commented
out capability checks for reference. Rename some variables to make
it more clear which modes/uids/etc are associated with the object,
and which with the access mode.
o Update file system use of vaccess() to pass NULL as the optional
privused argument. Once additional patches are applied, suser()
will no longer set ASU, so privused will permit passing of
privilege information up the stack to the caller.
Reviewed by: bde, green, phk, -security, others
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
with the new snapshot code.
Update addaliasu to correctly implement the semantics of the old
checkalias function. When a device vnode first comes into existence,
check to see if an anonymous vnode for the same device was created
at boot time by bdevvp(). If so, adopt the bdevvp vnode rather than
creating a new vnode for the device. This corrects a problem which
caused the kernel to panic when taking a snapshot of the root
filesystem.
Change the calling convention of vn_write_suspend_wait() to be the
same as vn_start_write().
Split out softdep_flushworklist() from softdep_flushfiles() so that
it can be used to clear the work queue when suspending filesystem
operations.
Access to buffers becomes recursive so that snapshots can recursively
traverse their indirect blocks using ffs_copyonwrite() when checking
for the need for copy on write when flushing one of their own indirect
blocks. This eliminates a deadlock between the syncer daemon and a
process taking a snapshot.
Ensure that softdep_process_worklist() can never block because of a
snapshot being taken. This eliminates a problem with buffer starvation.
Cleanup change in ffs_sync() which did not synchronously wait when
MNT_WAIT was specified. The result was an unclean filesystem panic
when doing forcible unmount with heavy filesystem I/O in progress.
Return a zero'ed block when reading a block that was not in use at
the time that a snapshot was taken. Normally, these blocks should
never be read. However, the readahead code will occationally read
them which can cause unexpected behavior.
Clean up the debugging code that ensures that no blocks be written
on a filesystem while it is suspended. Snapshots must explicitly
label the blocks that they are writing during the suspension so that
they do not cause a `write on suspended filesystem' panic.
Reorganize ffs_copyonwrite() to eliminate a deadlock and also to
prevent a race condition that would permit the same block to be
copied twice. This change eliminates an unexpected soft updates
inconsistency in fsck caused by the double allocation.
Use bqrelse rather than brelse for buffers that will be needed
soon again by the snapshot code. This improves snapshot performance.
the gating of system calls that cause modifications to the underlying
filesystem. The gating can be enabled by any filesystem that needs
to consistently suspend operations by adding the vop_stdgetwritemount
to their set of vnops. Once gating is enabled, the function
vfs_write_suspend stops all new write operations to a filesystem,
allows any filesystem modifying system calls already in progress
to complete, then sync's the filesystem to disk and returns. The
function vfs_write_resume allows the suspended write operations to
begin again. Gating is not added by default for all filesystems as
for SMP systems it adds two extra locks to such critical kernel
paths as the write system call. Thus, gating should only be added
as needed.
Details on the use and current status of snapshots in FFS can be
found in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot so for brevity and timelyness
is not included here. Unless and until you create a snapshot file,
these changes should have no effect on your system (famous last words).
This function will probably rewritten/renamed to devpp.
Submitted by: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> on -current
Confirmed to work: Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no>,
Manfred Antar <mantar@pacbell.net>
Reviewed by: phk
<sys/bio.h>.
<sys/bio.h> is now a prerequisite for <sys/buf.h> but it shall
not be made a nested include according to bdes teachings on the
subject of nested includes.
Diskdrivers and similar stuff below specfs::strategy() should no
longer need to include <sys/buf.> unless they need caching of data.
Still a few bogus uses of struct buf to track down.
Repocopy by: peter
substitute BUF_WRITE(foo) for VOP_BWRITE(foo->b_vp, foo)
substitute BUF_STRATEGY(foo) for VOP_STRATEGY(foo->b_vp, foo)
This patch is machine generated except for the ccd.c and buf.h parts.
return ENXIO (Device not configured). Without this, vn_isdisk()
could (and did in the case of lstat() under fdesc) pass a NULL pointer
to devsw(), which caused a page fault.
Reviewed by: alfred
to recycle full fsids after only 16 mount/unmount's. This is probably
too often for exported fsids. Now we recycle the full fsids only
after 2^16 mount/ umount's and only ensure uniqueness in the lower 16
bits if there have been <= 256 calls to vfs_getnewfsid() since the
system started.
number was packed very wastefully, giving perfect non-uniqeness in
the lower 16 bits of fsids for filesystems with the same vfs type.
This made linux_stat() return perfectly non-unique (broken) 16-bit
st_dev's for nfs mount points, and effectively reduced mntid_base to
8 bits so that the vfs_getnewfsid() looped endlessly when there are
already 256 mounted filesystems with the required vfs type.
Approved by: jkh
the codepath is followed.
From the PR:
vclean calls vrele leading to deadlock (if usecount > 0)
vclean() calls vrele() if v_usecount of the node was higher than one.
But before calling it, it sets the VXLOCK flag, which will make
vn_lock called from vrele dead-lock.
PR: kern/15117
Submitted by: Assar Westerlund <assar@stacken.kth.se>
Reviewed by: rwatson
Obtained from: NetBSD
it only on the buf_daemon process). The problem is that when the
syncer process starts running the worklist, it wants to delete
lots of files. It does this by VFS_VGET'ing the vnodes, clearing
the blocks in them and bdwrite'ing the buffer. It can process close
to a thousand files per second which generates a large number of
dirty buffers. So, giving it special priviledge at the buffer trough
leads to trouble as the buf_daemon does occationally need a free
buffer to proceed and if the syncer has used every last one up,
we are toast.
into vnode dirtyblkhd we append it to the list instead of prepend it to
the list in order to maintain a 'forward' locality of reference, which
is arguably better then 'reverse'. The original algorithm did things this
way to but at a huge time cost.
Enhance the append interlock for NFS writes to handle intr/soft mounts
better.
Fix the hysteresis for NFS async daemon I/O requests to reduce the
number of unnecessary context switches.
Modify handling of NFS mount options. Any given user option that is
too high now defaults to the kernel maximum for that option rather then
the kernel default for that option.
Reviewed by: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
