piecemeal, middle-of-file writes for NFS. These hacks have caused no
end of trouble, especially when combined with mmap(). I've removed
them. Instead, NFS will issue a read-before-write to fully
instantiate the struct buf containing the write. NFS does, however,
optimize piecemeal appends to files. For most common file operations,
you will not notice the difference. The sole remaining fragment in
the VFS/BIO system is b_dirtyoff/end, which NFS uses to avoid cache
coherency issues with read-merge-write style operations. NFS also
optimizes the write-covers-entire-buffer case by avoiding the
read-before-write. There is quite a bit of room for further
optimization in these areas.
The VM system marks pages fully-valid (AKA vm_page_t->valid =
VM_PAGE_BITS_ALL) in several places, most noteably in vm_fault. This
is not correct operation. The vm_pager_get_pages() code is now
responsible for marking VM pages all-valid. A number of VM helper
routines have been added to aid in zeroing-out the invalid portions of
a VM page prior to the page being marked all-valid. This operation is
necessary to properly support mmap(). The zeroing occurs most often
when dealing with file-EOF situations. Several bugs have been fixed
in the NFS subsystem, including bits handling file and directory EOF
situations and buf->b_flags consistancy issues relating to clearing
B_ERROR & B_INVAL, and handling B_DONE.
getblk() and allocbuf() have been rewritten. B_CACHE operation is now
formally defined in comments and more straightforward in
implementation. B_CACHE for VMIO buffers is based on the validity of
the backing store. B_CACHE for non-VMIO buffers is based simply on
whether the buffer is B_INVAL or not (B_CACHE set if B_INVAL clear,
and vise-versa). biodone() is now responsible for setting B_CACHE
when a successful read completes. B_CACHE is also set when a bdwrite()
is initiated and when a bwrite() is initiated. VFS VOP_BWRITE
routines (there are only two - nfs_bwrite() and bwrite()) are now
expected to set B_CACHE. This means that bowrite() and bawrite() also
set B_CACHE indirectly.
There are a number of places in the code which were previously using
buf->b_bufsize (which is DEV_BSIZE aligned) when they should have
been using buf->b_bcount. These have been fixed. getblk() now clears
B_DONE on return because the rest of the system is so bad about
dealing with B_DONE.
Major fixes to NFS/TCP have been made. A server-side bug could cause
requests to be lost by the server due to nfs_realign() overwriting
other rpc's in the same TCP mbuf chain. The server's kernel must be
recompiled to get the benefit of the fixes.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
In heavy-writing situations, QUEUE_LRU can contain a large number
of DELWRI buffers at its head. These buffers must be moved
to the tail if they cannot be written async in order to reduce
the scanning time required to skip past these buffers in later
getnewbuf() calls.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
condition ( bufspace > hibufspace ), an inappropriate scan of the empty
queue was performed looking for buffer space to free up.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
unallocated parts of the last page when the file ended on a frag
but not a page boundary.
Delimitted by tags PRE_MATT_MMAP_EOF and POST_MATT_MMAP_EOF,
in files alpha/alpha/pmap.c i386/i386/pmap.c nfs/nfs_bio.c vm/pmap.h
vm/vm_page.c vm/vm_page.h vm/vnode_pager.c miscfs/specfs/spec_vnops.c
ufs/ufs/ufs_readwrite.c kern/vfs_bio.c
Submitted by: Matt Dillon <dillon@freebsd.org>
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@freebsd.org>
including alan, john, me, luoqi, and kirk
Submitted by: Matt Dillon <dillon@frebsd.org>
This change implements a relatively sophisticated fix to getnewbuf().
There were two problems with getnewbuf(). First, the writerecursion
can lead to a system stack overflow when you have NFS and/or VN
devices in the system. Second, the free/dirty buffer accounting was
completely broken. Not only did the nfs routines blow it trying to
manually account for the buffer state, but the accounting that was
done did not work well with the purpose of their existance: figuring
out when getnewbuf() needs to sleep.
The meat of the change is to kern/vfs_bio.c. The remaining diffs are
all minor except for NFS, which includes both the fixes for bp
interaction AND fixes for a 'biodone(): buffer already done' lockup.
Sys/buf.h also contains a chaining structure which is not used by
this patchset but is used by other patches that are coming soon.
This patch deliniated by tags PRE_MAT_GETBUF and POST_MAT_GETBUF.
(sorry for the missing T matt)
This produced races resulting in panics and filesystem corruptions
under some circumstances.
Reviewed by: luoqi chen <luoqi@freebsd.org>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
Submitted by: Matt Dillon <dillon@freebsd.org>
the buffer as still being dirty. This isn't a perfect solution, but
throwing away the buffer contents will often result in filesystem
corruption and this solution will at least correctly deal with transient
errors.
Submitted by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
B_DELWRI and B_CACHE flags, fixing a bug that showed up with NFS.
Also, a number of cases where manually inserted code has been removed
and replaced with an inline function call giving us better functional
isolation in the source.
changes to the VM system to support the new swapper, VM bug
fixes, several VM optimizations, and some additional revamping of the
VM code. The specific bug fixes will be documented with additional
forced commits. This commit is somewhat rough in regards to code
cleanup issues.
Reviewed by: "John S. Dyson" <root@dyson.iquest.net>, "David Greenman" <dg@root.com>
Fix NFS file corruption problem introduced in 1.188. The valid range
was not being set properly, causing a later reference to the buffer
to clear the B_CACHE bit.
object are not page aligned). This should fix the mount_msdos panic after a
failed attemp to mount as ffs.
Reviewed By: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
bio interrupts, and a truncated file that along with the precise alignment
of the planets could result in a page being freed multiple times or a
just-freed page being put onto the inactive queue.
1) The vnode pager wasn't properly tracking the file size due to
"size" being page rounded in some cases and not in others.
This sometimes resulted in corrupted files. First noticed by
Terry Lambert.
Fixed by changing the "size" pager_alloc parameter to be a 64bit
byte value (as opposed to a 32bit page index) and changing the
pagers and their callers to deal with this properly.
2) Fixed a bogus type cast in round_page() and trunc_page() that
caused some 64bit offsets and sizes to be scrambled. Removing
the cast required adding casts at a few dozen callers.
There may be problems with other bogus casts in close-by
macros. A quick check seemed to indicate that those were okay,
however.
Reviewed by: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
Fixed problem where write()s can get lost due to buffers flagged B_DELWRI
being improperly released in brelse().
The last consumer of this code (the old SCSI system) has left us and
the CAM code does it's own bouncing. The isa dma system has been
doing it's own bouncing for a while too.
Reviewed by: core
device drivers about sectors no longer in use.
Device-drivers receive the call through d_strategy, if they have
D_CANFREE in d_flags.
This allows flash based devices to erase the sectors and avoid
pointlessly carrying them around in compactions.
Reviewed by: Kirk Mckusick, bde
Sponsored by: M-Systems (www.m-sys.com)
Add some overflow checks to read/write (from bde).
Change all modifications to vm_page::flags, vm_page::busy, vm_object::flags
and vm_object::paging_in_progress to use operations which are not
interruptable.
Reviewed by: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
managed to avoid corruption of this variable by luck (the compiler used a
memory read-modify-write instruction which wasn't interruptable) but other
architectures cannot.
With this change, I am now able to 'make buildworld' on the alpha (sfx: the
crowd goes wild...)
as the value in b_vp is often not really what you want.
(and needs to be frobbed). more cleanups will follow this.
Reviewed by: Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org>
expecting a sub-page offset. We were passing the file position,
and vm_page_bits() could do some interesting things when base was
larger PAGE_SIZE.
if (size > PAGE_SIZE - base)
size = PAGE_SIZE - base;
is interesting when (PAGE_SIZE - base) is negative. I could imagine that
this could have interesting consequences for memory page -> device block
bit validation.
