Introduce two new macros MNT_ILOCK(mp)/MNT_IUNLOCK(mp) to
operate on this mutex transparently.
Eventually new mutex will be protecting more fields in
struct mount, not only vnode list.
Discussed with: jeff
kg_nice is now protected by both. Being protected by both means that
other places in the kernel that want to read kg_nice only need one of the
two locks.
of a snapshot's copy of a superblock. This patch fixes a panic
when taking a snapshot of a 4096/512 filesystem.
Reported by: Ian Freislich <ianf@za.uu.net>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
- Define one flag GB_LOCK_NOWAIT that tells getblk() to pass the LK_NOWAIT
flag to the initial BUF_LOCK(). This will eventually be used in cases
were we want to use a buffer only if it is not currently in use.
- Convert all consumers of the getblk() api to use this extra parameter.
Reviwed by: arch
Not objected to by: mckusick
a snapshot. As part of taking a snapshot of a filesystem, the kernel
builds up a list of the filesystem metadata (such as the cylinder
group bitmaps) that are contained in the snapshot. When doing a
copy-on-write check, the list is first consulted. If the block being
written is found on the list, then the full snapshot lookup can be
avoided. Besides providing an important performance speedup this
check also avoids a potential deadlock between the code creating
the snapshot and the bufdaemon trying to cleanup snapshot related
buffers. This fix creates a temporary list containing the key
metadata blocks that can cause the deadlock. This temporary list
is used between the time that the snapshot is first enabled and the
time that the fully complete list is built.
Reported by: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
is being taken from panicing with either "freeing free block" or
"freeing free inode". The problem arises when the snapshot code
is scanning the filesystem looking for inodes with a reference
count of zero (e.g., unlinked but still open) so that it can
expunge them from its view. If it encounters a reclaimed vnode
and has to restart its scan, then it will panic if it encounters
and tries to free an inode that it has already processed. The fix
is to check each candidate inode to see if it has already been
processed before trying to delete it from the snapshot image.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
that they convert to 64-bit values before shifting rather than
afterwards. Once fixed, they can be used rather than inline expanded.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
so as to work correctly on 64-bit platforms.
Reported-by: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Approved by: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
that were copied in all of the earlier snapshots, thus its precomputed
list must be used in the copyonwrite test. Using incomplete lists may
lead to deadlock. Also do not include the blocks used for the indirect
pointers in the indirect pointers as this may lead to inconsistent
snapshots.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Approved by: re
previously allocated block as the previous use of the block may
have fallen out of the cache. Failure to reread its contents cause
zeroed results to be written instead of the proper contents.
Conversely, when the block is going to be entirely filled in, it
is not necessary reread the old contents.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Approved by: re
converting from individual vnode locks to the snapshot
lock, be sure to pass any waiting processes along to the
new lock as well. This transfer is done by a new function
in the lock manager, transferlockers(from_lock, to_lock);
Thanks to Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> for
his help in pounding on snapshots beyond all reason and
finding this deadlock.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
1) Release the snapshot file lock while suspending the system. Otherwise
a process trying to read the lock may block on its containing directory
preventing the suspension from completing. Thanks to Sean Kelly
<smkelly@zombie.org> for finding this deadlock.
2) Replace some bdwrite's with bawrite's so as not to fill all the
buffers with dirty data. The buffers could not be cleaned as the
snapshot vnode was locked hence the system could deadlock when
making snapshots of really massive filesystems. Thanks to
Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> for figuring
this out.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
the old 8-bit fs_old_flags to the new location the first time that the
filesystem is mounted by a new kernel. One of the unused flags in
fs_old_flags is used to indicate that the flags have been moved.
Leave the fs_old_flags word intact so that it will work properly if
used on an old kernel.
Change the fs_sblockloc superblock location field to be in units
of bytes instead of in units of filesystem fragments. The old units
did not work properly when the fragment size exceeeded the superblock
size (8192). Update old fs_sblockloc values at the same time that
the flags are moved.
Suggested by: BOUWSMA Barry <freebsd-misuser@netscum.dyndns.dk>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
check for and/or report I/O errors. The result is that a VFS_SYNC
or VOP_FSYNC called with MNT_WAIT could loop infinitely on ufs in
the presence of a hard error writing a disk sector or in a filesystem
full condition. This patch ensures that I/O errors will always be
checked and returned. This patch also ensures that every call to
VFS_SYNC or VOP_FSYNC with MNT_WAIT set checks for and takes
appropriate action when an error is returned.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
the ffs_copyonwrite routine to avoid a deadlock between the syncer
daemon trying to sync out a snapshot vnode and the bufdaemon
trying to write out a buffer containing the snapshot inode.
With any luck this will be the last snapshot race condition.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
that works in the new threaded kernel. It was commented out of
the disksort routine earlier this year for the reasons given in
kern/subr_disklabel.c (which is where this code used to reside
before it moved to kern/subr_disk.c):
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revision 1.65
date: 2002/04/22 06:53:20; author: phk; state: Exp; lines: +5 -0
Comment out Kirks io-request priority hack until we can do this in a
civilized way which doesn't cause grief.
The problem is that it is not generally safe to cast a "struct bio
*" to a "struct buf *". Things like ccd, vinum, ata-raid and GEOM
constructs bio's which are not entrails of a struct buf.
Also, curthread may or may not have anything to do with the I/O request
at hand.
The correct solution can either be to tag struct bio's with a
priority derived from the requesting threads nice and have disksort
act on this field, this wouldn't address the "silly-seek syndrome"
where two equal processes bang the diskheads from one edge to the
other of the disk repeatedly.
Alternatively, and probably better: a sleep should be introduced
either at the time the I/O is requested or at the time it is completed
where we can be sure to sleep in the right thread.
The sleep also needs to be in constant timeunits, 1/hz can be practicaly
any sub-second size, at high HZ the current code practically doesn't
do anything.
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As suggested in this comment, it is no longer located in the disk sort
routine, but rather now resides in spec_strategy where the disk operations
are being queued by the thread that is associated with the process that
is really requesting the I/O. At that point, the disk queues are not
visible, so the I/O for positively niced processes is always slowed
down whether or not there is other activity on the disk.
On the issue of scaling HZ, I believe that the current scheme is
better than using a fixed quantum of time. As machines and I/O
subsystems get faster, the resolution on the clock also rises.
So, ten years from now we will be slowing things down for shorter
periods of time, but the proportional effect on the system will
be about the same as it is today. So, I view this as a feature
rather than a drawback. Hence this patch sticks with using HZ.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Reviewed by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
a common lock. This change avoids a deadlock between snapshots when
separate requests cause them to deadlock checking each other for a
need to copy blocks that are close enough together that they fall
into the same indirect block. Although I had anticipated a slowdown
from contention for the single lock, my filesystem benchmarks show
no measurable change in throughput on a uniprocessor system with
three active snapshots. I conjecture that this result is because
every copy-on-write fault must check all the active snapshots, so
the process was inherently serial already. This change removes the
last of the deadlocks of which I am aware in snapshots.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Whenever doing a copy-on-write check, first look in the list of
initially allocated blocks to see if it is there. If so, no further
check is needed. If not, fall through and do the full check. This
change eliminates one of two known deadlocks caused by snapshots.
Handling the second deadlock will be the subject of another check-in.
This change also reduces the cost of the copy-on-write check by
speeding up the verification of frequently checked blocks.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
- 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
filesystem expands the inode to 256 bytes to make space for 64-bit
block pointers. It also adds a file-creation time field, an ability
to use jumbo blocks per inode to allow extent like pointer density,
and space for extended attributes (up to twice the filesystem block
size worth of attributes, e.g., on a 16K filesystem, there is space
for 32K of attributes). UFS2 fully supports and runs existing UFS1
filesystems. New filesystems built using newfs can be built in either
UFS1 or UFS2 format using the -O option. In this commit UFS1 is
the default format, so if you want to build UFS2 format filesystems,
you must specify -O 2. This default will be changed to UFS2 when
UFS2 proves itself to be stable. In this commit the boot code for
reading UFS2 filesystems is not compiled (see /sys/boot/common/ufsread.c)
as there is insufficient space in the boot block. Once the size of the
boot block is increased, this code can be defined.
Things to note: the definition of SBSIZE has changed to SBLOCKSIZE.
The header file <ufs/ufs/dinode.h> must be included before
<ufs/ffs/fs.h> so as to get the definitions of ufs2_daddr_t and
ufs_lbn_t.
Still TODO:
Verify that the first level bootstraps work for all the architectures.
Convert the utility ffsinfo to understand UFS2 and test growfs.
Add support for the extended attribute storage. Update soft updates
to ensure integrity of extended attribute storage. Switch the
current extended attribute interfaces to use the extended attribute
storage. Add the extent like functionality (framework is there,
but is currently never used).
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Reviewed by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
locking flags when acquiring a vnode. The immediate purpose is
to allow polling lock requests (LK_NOWAIT) needed by soft updates
to avoid deadlock when enlisting other processes to help with
the background cleanup. For the future it will allow the use of
shared locks for read access to vnodes. This change touches a
lot of files as it affects most filesystems within the system.
It has been well tested on FFS, loopback, and CD-ROM filesystems.
only lightly on the others, so if you find a problem there, please
let me (mckusick@mckusick.com) know.
the bio and buffer structures to have daddr64_t bio_pblkno,
b_blkno, and b_lblkno fields which allows access to disks
larger than a Terabyte in size. This change also requires
that the VOP_BMAP vnode operation accept and return daddr64_t
blocks. This delta should not affect system operation in
any way. It merely sets up the necessary interfaces to allow
the development of disk drivers that work with these larger
disk block addresses. It also allows for the development of
UFS2 which will use 64-bit block addresses.
and isn't strictly required. However, it lowers the number of false
positives found when grep'ing the kernel sources for p_ucred to ensure
proper locking.
been unlinked (e.g., with a zero link count). We have to expunge
all trace of these files from the snapshot so that they are neither
reclaimed prematurely by fsck nor saved unnecessarily by dump.
which caused incomplete snapshots to be taken. When background
fsck would run on these snapshots, the result would be files
being incorrectly released which would subsequently panic the
kernel with ``handle_workitem_freefile: inodedep survived'',
``handle_written_inodeblock: live inodedep'', and
``handle_workitem_remove: lost inodedep'' errors.
