When kern_yield() was introduced with the possibility to specify
a new priority, the behaviour changed by not lowering priority at all
in the consumers, making the yielding mechanism highly ineffective for
high priority kthreads like bufdaemon, syncer, vlrudaemon, etc.
There are no evidences that consumers could bear with such change in
semantic and this situation could finally lead to bugs similar to the
ones fixed in r244240.
Re-specify userland pri for kthreads involved.
Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: kib, mdf
MFC after: 1 week
crash. When truncating a file that never made it to disk we use the
canceled allocation dependencies to hold the journal records until
the truncation completes. Previously allocdirect dependencies on
the id_bufwait list were not considered and their journal space
could expire before the bitmaps were written. Cancel them and attach
them to the freeblks as we do for other allocdirects.
- Add KTR traces that were used to debug this problem.
- When adding jsegdeps, always use jwork_insert() so we don't have more
than one segdep on a given jwork list.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
When a background copy of a cg is written we complete any work associated
with that bmsafemap. If new work has been added to the non-background
copy of the buffer it will be completed before the next write happens.
The solution is to do the rollbacks when we make the copy so only those
dependencies that were present at the time of writing will be completed
when the background write completes. This would've resulted in various
bitmap related corruptions and panics. It also would've expired journal
entries early causing journal replay to miss some records.
MFC after: 2 weeks
solve power loss problems with dishonest write caches. However, it
should improve the situation and force a full fsck when it is unable
to resolve with the journal.
- Resolve a case where the journal could wrap in an unsafe way causing
us to prematurely lose journal entries in very specific scenarios.
Discussed with: mckusick
MFC after: 1 month
the previous diradd had already finished it could have been reclaimed
already. This would only happen under heavy dependency pressure.
Reported by: Andrey Zonov <zont@FreeBSD.org>
Discussed with: mckusick
MFC after: 1 week
with softupdates went away. Note that this does not fix the problem
entirely; I'm committing it now to make it easier for someone to pick
up the work.
Reviewed by: mckusick
In particular, do not lock Giant conditionally when calling into the
filesystem module, remove the VFS_LOCK_GIANT() and related
macros. Stop handling buffers belonging to non-mpsafe filesystems.
The VFS_VERSION is bumped to indicate the interface change which does
not result in the interface signatures changes.
Conducted and reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho
and bmsafemap dependency structures in inodedep_lookup() and
bmsafemap_lookup() respectively. The setup of these structures must
be done while holding the soft-dependency mutex. If the inodedep is
allocated first, it may be freed in the I/O completion callback when
the mutex is released to allocate the bmsafemap. If the bmsafemap is
allocated first, it may be freed in the I/O completion callback when
the mutex is released to allocate the inodedep.
To resolve this problem, bmsafemap_lookup has had a parameter added
that allows a pre-malloc'ed bmsafemap to be passed in so that it does
not need to release the mutex to create a new bmsafemap. The
softdep_setup_inomapdep() routine pre-malloc's a bmsafemap dependency
before acquiring the mutex and starting to build the inodedep with a
call to inodedep_lookup(). The subsequent call to bmsafemap_lookup()
is passed this pre-allocated bmsafemap entry so that it need not
release the mutex if it needs to create a new one.
Reported by: Peter Holm
Tested by: Peter Holm
MFC after: 1 week
The primary changes are that the user of the interface no longer
needs to manage the mount-mutex locking and that the vnode that
is returned has its mutex locked (thus avoiding the need to check
to see if its is DOOMED or other possible end of life senarios).
To minimize compatibility issues for third-party developers, the
old MNT_VNODE_FOREACH interface will remain available so that this
change can be MFC'ed to 9. Following the MFC to 9, MNT_VNODE_FOREACH
will be removed in head.
The reason for this update is to prepare for the addition of the
MNT_VNODE_FOREACH_ACTIVE interface that will loop over just the
active vnodes associated with a mount point (typically less than
1% of the vnodes associated with the mount point).
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: Peter Holm
MFC after: 2 weeks
and it is no longer referenced by a user process. The inode for a
file whose name has been removed, but is still referenced at the
time of a crash will still be allocated in the filesystem, but will
have no references (e.g., they will have no names referencing them
from any directory).
With traditional soft updates these unreferenced inodes will be
found and reclaimed when the background fsck is run. When using
journaled soft updates, the kernel must keep track of these inodes
so that it can find and reclaim them during the cleanup process.
Their existence cannot be stored in the journal as the journal only
handles short-term events, and they may persist for days. So, they
are tracked by keeping them in a linked list whose head pointer is
stored in the superblock. The journal tracks them only until their
linked list pointers have been commited to disk. Part of the cleanup
process involves traversing the list of unreferenced inodes and
reclaiming them.
This bug was triggered when confusion arose in the commit steps
of keeping the unreferenced-inode linked list coherent on disk.
Notably, a race between the link() system call adding a link-count
to a file and the unlink() system call removing a link-count to
the file. Here if the unlink() ran after link() had looked up
the file but before link() had incremented the link-count of the
file, the file's link-count would drop to zero before the link()
incremented it back up to one. If the file was referenced by a
user process, the first transition through zero made it appear
that it should be added to the unreferenced-inode list when in
fact it should not have been added. If the new name created by
link() was deleted within a few seconds (with the file still
referenced by a user process) it would legitimately be a candidate
for addition to the unreferenced-inode list. The result was that
there were two attempts to add the same inode to the unreferenced-inode
list which scrambled the unreferenced-inode list's pointers leading
to a panic. The fix is to detect and avoid the false attempt at
adding it to the unreferenced-inode list by having the link()
system call check to see if the link count is zero before it
increments it. If it is, the link() fails with ENOENT (showing that
it has failed the link()/unlink() race).
While tracking down this bug, we have added additional assertions
to detect the problem sooner and also simplified some of the code.
Reported by: Kirk Russell
Fix submitted by: Jeff Roberson
Tested by: Peter Holm
PR: kern/159971
MFC (to 9 only): 2 weeks
snapshots on UFS filesystems running with journaled soft updates.
This is the first of several bugs that need to be fixed before
removing the restriction added in -r230250 to prevent the use
of snapshots on filesystems running with journaled soft updates.
The deadlock occurs when holding the snapshot lock (snaplk)
and then trying to flush an inode via ffs_update(). We become
blocked by another process trying to flush a different inode
contained in the same inode block that we need. It holds the
inode block for which we are waiting locked. When it tries to
write the inode block, it gets blocked waiting for the our
snaplk when it calls ffs_copyonwrite() to see if the inode
block needs to be copied in our snapshot.
The most obvious place that this deadlock arises is in the
ffs_copyonwrite() routine when it updates critical metadata
in a snapshot and tries to write it out before proceeding.
The fix here is to write the data and indirect block pointer
for the snapshot, but to skip the call to ffs_update() to
write the snapshot inode. To ensure that we will never have
to update a pointer in the inode itself, the ffs_snapshot()
routine that creates the snapshot has to ensure that all the
direct blocks are allocated as part of the creation of the
snapshot.
A less obvious place that this deadlock occurs is when we hold
the snaplk because we are deleting a snapshot. In the course of
doing the deletion, we need to allocate various soft update
dependency structures and allocate some journal space. If we
hit a resource limit while doing this we decrease the resources
in use by flushing out an existing dirty file to get it to give
up the soft dependency resources that it holds. The flush can
cause an ffs_update() to be done on the inode for the file that
we have selected to flush resulting in the same deadlock as
described above when the inode that we have chosen to flush
resides in the same inode block as the snapshot inode that we hold.
The fix is to defer cleaning up any time that the inode on which
we are operating is a snapshot.
Help and review by: Jeff Roberson
Tested by: Peter Holm
MFC (to 9 only) after: 2 weeks
list. If softdep_sync_buf() discovers such dependency, it should do
nothing, which is safe as it is only waiting on the parent buffer to
be written, so it can be removed.
Committed on behalf of: jeff
MFC after: 1 week
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
Remove mapped pages for all dataset vnodes in zfs_rezget() using
new vn_pages_remove() to fix mmapped files changed by
zfs rollback or zfs receive -F.
PR: kern/160035, kern/156933
Reviewed by: kib, pjd
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
so that it is visible to userland programs. This change enables
the `mount' command with no arguments to be able to show if a
filesystem is mounted using journaled soft updates as opposed
to just normal soft updates.
Approved by: re (bz)
flag (FS_SUJ) when determining whether to do journaling-based
operations. The mount flag is set only when journaling is active
while the superblock flag is set to indicate that journaling is to
be used. For example, when the filesystem is mounted read-only, the
journaling may be present (FS_SUJ) but not active (MNTK_SUJ).
Inappropriate checking of the FS_SUJ flag was causing some
journaling actions to be attempted at inappropriate times.
This will most likely cause new block allocations which can recurse
into request cleanup.
- While here optimize the ufs locking slightly. We need only acquire and
drop once.
- process_removes() and process_truncates() also is only needed once.
- Attempt to flush each item on the worklist once but do not loop forever
if some can not be completed.
Discussed with: mckusick
to resolve errors which can cause corruption on recovery with the old
synchronous mechanism.
- Append partial truncation freework structures to indirdeps while
truncation is proceeding. These prevent new block pointers from
becoming valid until truncation completes and serialize truncations.
- On completion of a partial truncate journal work waits for zeroed
pointers to hit indirects.
- softdep_journal_freeblocks() handles last frag allocation and last
block zeroing.
- vtruncbuf/ffs_page_remove moved into softdep_*_freeblocks() so it
is only implemented in one place.
- Block allocation failure handling moved up one level so it does not
proceed with buf locks held. This permits us to do more extensive
reclaims when filesystem space is exhausted.
- softdep_sync_metadata() is broken into two parts, the first executes
once at the start of ffs_syncvnode() and flushes truncations and
inode dependencies. The second is called on each locked buf. This
eliminates excessive looping and rollbacks.
- Improve the mechanism in process_worklist_item() that handles
acquiring vnode locks for handle_workitem_remove() so that it works
more generally and does not loop excessively over the same worklist
items on each call.
- Don't corrupt directories by zeroing the tail in fsck. This is only
done for regular files.
- Push a fsync complete record for files that need it so the checker
knows a truncation in the journal is no longer valid.
Discussed with: mckusick, kib (ffs_pages_remove and ffs_truncate parts)
Tested by: pho
should not change. Fetch the td_user_pri under the thread lock. This
is probably not necessary but a magic number also seems preferable to
knowing the implementation details here.
Requested by: Jason Behmer < jason DOT behmer AT isilon DOT com >
for a new journal specific partial truncate routine.
- Use dep_current[] in place of specific dependency counts. This is
automatically maintained when workitems are allocated and has
less risk of becoming incorrect.
- Keep a hash of indirect blocks that have recently been freed and are
still referenced in the journal.
- Lookup blocks in this hash before forcing a new block write to wait on
the journal entry to hit the disk. This is only necessary to avoid
confusion between old identities as indirects and new identities as
file blocks.
- Don't free jseg structures until the journal has written a record that
invalidates it. This keeps the indirect block information around for
as long as is required to be safe.
- Force an empty journal block write when required to flush out stale
journal data that is simply waiting for the oldest valid sequence
number to advance beyond it.
will be removed. Permit the journal to proceed so that we don't leave
a rollback in a cg for a very long time as this can cause terrible perf
problems in low memory situations.
Tested by: pho
up and declaring a filesystem out of space. Especially necessary when
running on a small filesystem. With this improvement, it should be
possible to use soft updates on a small root filesystem.
Kudos to: Peter Holm
Testing by: Peter Holm
MFC: 2 weeks
- In softdep_revert_mkdir() find the dotaddref before we attempt to cancel
the jaddref so we can make assumptions about where the dotaddref is on
the list. cancel_jaddref() does not always remove items from the list
anymore.
- Always set GOINGAWAY on an inode in softdep_freefile() if DEPCOMPLETE
was never set. This ensures that dependencies will continue to be
processed on the inowait/bufwait list and is more an artifact of
the structure of the code than a pure ordering problem.
- Always set DEPCOMPLETE on canceled jaddrefs so that they can be freed
appropriately. This normally occurs when the refs are added to the
journal but if they are canceled before this point the state would
never be set and the dependency could never be freed.
Reported by: pho
Tested by: pho
journal blocks, instead of hard coding 512 byte sector size. Journal need
to atomically write the block, that can only be guaranteed at the device
sector size, not larger. Attempt to write less then sector size results in
driver errors.
Note that this is the first structure in UFS that depends on the
sector size. Other elements are written in the units of fragments.
In collaboration with: pho
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: bz, pho
SU+J is not included as a FEATURE macro:
- it was not in the tree during the GSoC
- I do not see an option to en-/disable it in NOTES
Two minor changes where made during the review compared to what was developed
during GSoC 2010.
No FreeBSD version bump, the userland application to query the features will
be committed last and can serve as an indication of the availablility if
needed.
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2010
Submitted by: kibab
Reviewed by: kib
X-MFC after: to be determined in last commit with code from this project
- entirely eliminate some calls to uio_yeild() as being unnecessary,
such as in a sysctl handler.
- move should_yield() and maybe_yield() to kern_synch.c and move the
prototypes from sys/uio.h to sys/proc.h
- add a slightly more generic kern_yield() that can replace the
functionality of uio_yield().
- replace source uses of uio_yield() with the functional equivalent,
or in some cases do not change the thread priority when switching.
- fix a logic inversion bug in vlrureclaim(), pointed out by bde@.
- instead of using the per-cpu last switched ticks, use a per thread
variable for should_yield(). With PREEMPTION, the only reasonable
use of this is to determine if a lock has been held a long time and
relinquish it. Without PREEMPTION, this is essentially the same as
the per-cpu variable.
should_yield(). Use this in various places. Encapsulate the common
case of check-and-yield into a new function maybe_yield().
Change several checks for a magic number of iterations to use
should_yield() instead.
MFC after: 1 week
