replacement for vn_write_suspend_wait() to better account for secondary write
processing.
Close race where secondary writes could be started after ffs_sync() returned
but before the file system was marked as suspended.
Detect if secondary writes or softdep processing occurred during vnode sync
loop in ffs_sync() and retry the loop if needed.
has many positive effects including improved smp locking, reducing
interdependencies between mounts that can lead to deadlocks, etc.
- Add the softdep worklist and various counters to the ufsmnt structure.
- Add a mount pointer to the workitem and remove mount pointers from the
various structures derived from the workitem as they are now redundant.
- Remove the poor-man's semaphore protecting softdep_process_worklist and
softdep_flushworklist. Several threads may now process the list
simultaneously.
- Add softdep_waitidle() to block the thread until all pending
dependencies being operated on by other threads have been flushed.
- Use softdep_waitidle() in unmount and snapshots to block either
operation until the fs is stable.
- Remove softdep worklist processing from the syncer and move it into the
softdep_flush() thread. This thread processes all softdep mounts
once each second and when it is called via the new softdep_speedup()
when there is a resource shortage. This removes the softdep hook
from the kernel and various hacks in header files to support it.
Reviewed by/Discussed with: tegge, truckman, mckusick
Tested by: kris
two bugs.
- ffs_disk_prewrite was pulling the vp from the buf and checking for
COPYONWRITE, when really it wanted the vp from the bufobj that we're
writing to, which is the devvp. This lead to us skipping the copy on
write to all file data, which significantly broke snapshots for the
last few months.
- When the SOFTUPDATES option was not included in the kernel config we
would also skip the copy on write check, which would effectively disable
snapshots.
- Remove an invalid mp_fixme().
Debugging tips from: mckusick
Reported by: iedowse, others
Discussed with: phk
Give FFS vnodes a specific bufwrite method which contains all the
background write stuff and then calls into the default bufwrite()
for the rest of the job.
Remove all the background write related stuff from the normal bufwrite.
This drags the softdep_move_dependencies() back into FFS.
Long term, it is worth looking at simply copying the data into
allocated memory and issuing the bio directly and not create the
"shadow buf" in the first place (just like copy-on-write is done
in snapshots for instance). I don't think we really gain anything
but complexity from doing this with a buf.
The "business class upgrade" was implemented in UFS's VOP_LOCK
implementation ufs_lock() which is the wrong layer, so move it to
ffs_lock().
Also, as long as we have not abandonned advanced vfs-stacking we
should not preclude it from happening: instead of implementing a
copy locally, use the VOP_LOCK_APV(&ufs) to correctly arrive at
vop_stdlock() at the bottom.
initializations but we did have lofty goals and big ideals.
Adjust to more contemporary circumstances and gain type checking.
Replace the entire vop_t frobbing thing with properly typed
structures. The only casualty is that we can not add a new
VOP_ method with a loadable module. History has not given
us reason to belive this would ever be feasible in the the
first place.
Eliminate in toto VOCALL(), vop_t, VNODEOP_SET() etc.
Give coda correct prototypes and function definitions for
all vop_()s.
Generate a bit more data from the vnode_if.src file: a
struct vop_vector and protype typedefs for all vop methods.
Add a new vop_bypass() and make vop_default be a pointer
to another struct vop_vector.
Remove a lot of vfs_init since vop_vector is ready to use
from the compiler.
Cast various vop_mumble() to void * with uppercase name,
for instance VOP_PANIC, VOP_NULL etc.
Implement VCALL() by making vdesc_offset the offsetof() the
relevant function pointer in vop_vector. This is disgusting
but since the code is generated by a script comparatively
safe. The alternative for nullfs etc. would be much worse.
Fix up all vnode method vectors to remove casts so they
become typesafe. (The bulk of this is generated by scripts)
This eliminates a bunch of vnode overhead (approx 1-2 % speed
improvement) and gives us more control over the access to the storage
device.
Access counts on the underlying device are not correctly tracked and
therefore it is possible to read-only mount the same disk device multiple
times:
syv# mount -p
/dev/md0 /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0 /mnt ufs ro 1 1
/dev/ad0 /mnt2 ufs ro 1 1
/dev/ad0 /mnt3 ufs ro 1 1
Since UFS/FFS is not a synchrousely consistent filesystem (ie: it caches
things in RAM) this is not possible with read-write mounts, and the system
will correctly reject this.
Details:
Add a geom consumer and a bufobj pointer to ufsmount.
Eliminate the vnode argument from softdep_disk_prewrite().
Pick the vnode out of bp->b_vp for now. Eventually we
should find it through bp->b_bufobj->b_private.
In the mountcode, use g_vfs_open() once we have used
VOP_ACCESS() to check permissions.
When upgrading and downgrading between r/o and r/w do the
right thing with GEOM access counts. Remove all the
workarounds for not being able to do this with VOP_OPEN().
If we are the root mount, drop the exclusive access count
until we upgrade to r/w. This allows fsck of the root
filesystem and the MNT_RELOAD to work correctly.
Set bo_private to the GEOM consumer on the device bufobj.
Change the ffs_ops->strategy function to call g_vfs_strategy()
In ufs_strategy() directly call the strategy on the disk
bufobj. Same in rawread.
In ffs_fsync() we will no longer see VCHR device nodes, so
remove code which synced the filesystem mounted on it, in
case we came there. I'm not sure this code made sense in
the first place since we would have taken the specfs route
on such a vnode.
Redo the highly bogus readblock() function in the snapshot
code to something slightly less bogus: Constructing an uio
and using physio was really quite a detour. Instead just
fill in a bio and ship it down.
Give ffs it's own bufobj->bo_ops vector and create a private strategy
routine, (currently misnamed for forwards compatibility), which is
just a copy of the generic bufstrategy routine except we call
softdep_disk_prewrite() directly instead of through the buf_prewrite()
indirection.
Teach UFS about the need for softdep_disk_prewrite() and call the
function directly in FFS.
Remove buf_prewrite() from the default bufstrategy() and from the
global bio_ops method vector.
is ffs_copyonwrite() and the only place it can be called from is FFS which
would never want to call another filesystems copyonwrite method, should one
exist, so there is no reason why anything generic should know about this.
and refuse initializing filesystems with a wrong version. This will
aid maintenance activites on the 5-stable branch.
s/vfs_mount/vfs_omount/
s/vfs_nmount/vfs_mount/
Name our filesystems mount function consistently.
Eliminate the namiedata argument to both vfs_mount and vfs_omount.
It was originally there to save stack space. A few places abused
it to get hold of some credentials to pass around. Effectively
it is unused.
Reorganize the root filesystem selection code.
license, per letter dated July 22, 1999 and irc message from Robert
Watson saying that clause 3 can be removed from those files with an
NAI copyright that also have only a University of California
copyrights.
Approved by: core, rwatson
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.
Remove the malloctype from the ufs mount structure, instead add a callback
to the storage method for freeing inodes: UFS_IFREE().
Add vfs_ifree() method function which frees an inode.
Unvariablelize the malloc type used for allocating inodes.
these in the main filesystems. This does not change the resulting code
but makes the source a little bit more grepable.
Sponsored by: DARPA and NAI Labs.
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.
module. This adds an ffs_uninit() function that calls ufs_uninit()
and also calls a new softdep_uninitialize() function. Add a stub
for softdep_uninitialize() to cover the non-SOFTUPDATES case.
Reviewed by: mckusick
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.
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 small and/or nearly full filesystems would fail with `file
system full' messages when trying to replace a number of existing
files (for example during a system installation). When the allocation
routines are about to fail with a file system full condition, they
make a call to softdep_request_cleanup() which attempts to accelerate
the flushing of pending deletion requests in an effort to free up
space. In the face of filesystem I/O requests that exceed the
available disk transfer capacity, the cleanup request could take
an unbounded amount of time. Thus, the softdep_request_cleanup()
routine will only try for tickdelay seconds (default 2 seconds)
before giving up and returning a filesystem full error. Under typical
conditions, the softdep_request_cleanup() routine is able to free
up space in under fifty milliseconds.
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
structure rather than assuming that the device vnode would reside
in the FFS filesystem (which is obviously a broken assumption with
the device filesystem).
1) Be more tolerant of missing snapshot files by only trying to decrement
their reference count if they are registered as active.
2) Fix for snapshots of filesystems with block sizes larger than 8K
(from Ollivier Robert <roberto@eurocontrol.fr>).
3) Fix to avoid losing last block in snapshot file when calculating blocks
that need to be copied (from Don Coleman <coleman@coleman.org>).
description:
How it works:
--
Basically ifs is a copy of ffs, overriding some vfs/vnops. (Yes, hack.)
I didn't see the need in duplicating all of sys/ufs/ffs to get this
off the ground.
File creation is done through a special file - 'newfile' . When newfile
is called, the system allocates and returns an inode. Note that newfile
is done in a cloning fashion:
fd = open("newfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644);
fstat(fd, &st);
printf("new file is %d\n", (int)st.st_ino);
Once you have created a file, you can open() and unlink() it by its returned
inode number retrieved from the stat call, ie:
fd = open("5", O_RDWR);
The creation permissions depend entirely if you have write access to the
root directory of the filesystem.
To get the list of currently allocated inodes, VOP_READDIR has been added
which returns a directory listing of those currently allocated.
--
What this entails:
* patching conf/files and conf/options to include IFS as a new compile
option (and since ifs depends upon FFS, include the FFS routines)
* An entry in i386/conf/NOTES indicating IFS exists and where to go for
an explanation
* Unstaticize a couple of routines in src/sys/ufs/ffs/ which the IFS
routines require (ffs_mount() and ffs_reload())
* a new bunch of routines in src/sys/ufs/ifs/ which implement the IFS
routines. IFS replaces some of the vfsops, and a handful of vnops -
most notably are VFS_VGET(), VOP_LOOKUP(), VOP_UNLINK() and VOP_READDIR().
Any other directory operation is marked as invalid.
What this results in:
* an IFS partition's create permissions are controlled by the perm/ownership of
the root mount point, just like a normal directory
* Each inode has perm and ownership too
* IFS does *NOT* mean an FFS partition can be opened per inode. This is a
completely seperate filesystem here
* Softupdates doesn't work with IFS, and really I don't think it needs it.
Besides, fsck's are FAST. (Try it :-)
* Inodes 0 and 1 aren't allocatable because they are special (dump/swap IIRC).
Inode 2 isn't allocatable since UFS/FFS locks all inodes in the system against
this particular inode, and unravelling THAT code isn't trivial. Therefore,
useful inodes start at 3.
Enjoy, and feedback is definitely appreciated!
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).
in mount.h instead of ffs_extern.h. The correct solution is to use
an indirect function pointer so that the kernel does not have to be
built with options FFS, but that will be left for another day.
a sync on the block device for the filesystem. That allows it to push the
bitmap blocks before the inode blocks which greatly reduces the number of
inode rollbacks that need to be done.