every 30 seconds. This spike in I/O caused the system to pause every
30 seconds which was quite annoying. So, the way that sync worked
was changed so that when a vnode was first dirtied, it was put on
a 30-second cleaning queue (see the syncer_workitem_pending queues
in kern/vfs_subr.c). If the file has not been written or deleted
after 30 seconds, the syncer pushes it out. As the syncer runs once
per second, dirty files are trickled out slowly over the 30-second
period instead of all at once by a call to sync(2).
The one drawback to this is that it does not cover the filesystem
metadata. To handle the metadata, vfs_allocate_syncvnode() is called
to create a "filesystem syncer vnode" at mount time which cycles
around the cleaning queue being sync'ed every 30 seconds. In the
original design, the only things it would sync for UFS were the
filesystem metadata: inode blocks, cylinder group bitmaps, and the
superblock (e.g., by VOP_FSYNC'ing devvp, the device vnode from
which the filesystem is mounted).
Somewhere in its path to integration with FreeBSD the flushing of
the filesystem syncer vnode got changed to sync every vnode associated
with the filesystem. The result of this change is to return to the
old filesystem-wide flush every 30-seconds behavior and makes the
whole 30-second delay per vnode useless.
This change goes back to the originally intended trickle out sync
behavior. Key to ensuring that all the intended semantics are
preserved (e.g., that all inode updates get flushed within a bounded
period of time) is that all inode modifications get pushed to their
corresponding inode blocks so that the metadata flush by the
filesystem syncer vnode gets them to the disk in a timely way.
Thanks to Konstantin Belousov (kib@) for doing the audit and commit
-r231122 which ensures that all of these updates are being made.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: scottl
MFC after: 2 weeks
guarantee that all UFS inode metadata changes results in the dirtiness
of the inodeblock. Due to missed inodeblock updates, syncer was
required to fsync each mount point' vnode to guarantee periodic
metadata flush.
Reviewed by: mckusick
Tested by: scottl
MFC 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
mnt_noasync counter to temporary remove MNTK_ASYNC mount option, which
is needed to guarantee a synchronous completion of the initiated i/o
before syscall or VOP return. Global removal of MNTK_ASYNC option is
harmful because not only i/o started from corresponding thread becomes
synchronous, but all i/o is synchronous on the filesystem which is
initiated during sync(2) or syncer activity.
Instead of removing MNTK_ASYNC from mnt_kern_flag, provide a local
thread flag to disable async i/o for current thread only. Use the
opportunity to move DOINGASYNC() macro into sys/vnode.h and
consistently use it through places which tested for MNTK_ASYNC.
Some testing demonstrated 60-70% improvements in run time for the
metadata-intensive operations on async-mounted UFS volumes, but still
with great deviation due to other reasons.
Reviewed by: mckusick
Tested by: scottl
MFC after: 2 weeks
filesystem running with journaled soft updates. Until these problems
have been tracked down, return ENOTSUPP when an attempt is made to
take a snapshot on a filesystem running with journaled soft updates.
MFC after: 2 weeks
vfs_mount_error error message facility provided by the nmount
interface.
Clean up formatting of mount warnings which still need to use
kernel printf's since they do not return errors.
Requested by: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
MFC after: 2 weeks
The vfs_busy() is after covered vnode lock in the global lock order, but
since quotaon() does recursive VFS call to open quota file, we usually
end up locking covered vnode after mp is busied in sys_quotactl().
Change the interface of VFS_QUOTACTL(), requiring that mp was unbusied
by fs code, and do not try to pick up vfs_busy() reference in ufs quotaon,
esp. if vfs_busy cannot succeed due to unmount being performed.
Reported and tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 week
While there, remove a useless check from the code. memcchr() always
returns characters unequal to 0xff in this case, so inosused[i] ^ 0xff
can never be equal to zero. Also, the fact that memcchr() returns a
pointer instead of the number of bytes until the end, makes conversion
to an offset far more easy.
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.
whle tracking down the system hang reported in kern/160662 and
corrected in revision 225806. The LOR is not the cause of the system
hang and indeed cannot cause an actual deadlock. However, it can
be easily eliminated by defering the acquisition of a buflock until
after all the vnode locks have been acquired.
Reported by: Hans Ottevanger
PR: kern/160662
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
(1) opt_capsicum.h is no longer required in ffs_alloc.c, so remove the
#include.
(2) portalfs depends on opt_capsicum.h, so have the Makefile generate one
if required.
These affect only modules built without a kernel (i.e, not buildkernel,
but yes buildworld if the dubious MODULES_WITH_WORLD is used).
Approved by: re (bz)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
kernel for FreeBSD 9.0:
Add a new capability mask argument to fget(9) and friends, allowing system
call code to declare what capabilities are required when an integer file
descriptor is converted into an in-kernel struct file *. With options
CAPABILITIES compiled into the kernel, this enforces capability
protection; without, this change is effectively a no-op.
Some cases require special handling, such as mmap(2), which must preserve
information about the maximum rights at the time of mapping in the memory
map so that they can later be enforced in mprotect(2) -- this is done by
narrowing the rights in the existing max_protection field used for similar
purposes with file permissions.
In namei(9), we assert that the code is not reached from within capability
mode, as we're not yet ready to enforce namespace capabilities there.
This will follow in a later commit.
Update two capability names: CAP_EVENT and CAP_KEVENT become
CAP_POST_KEVENT and CAP_POLL_KEVENT to more accurately indicate what they
represent.
Approved by: re (bz)
Submitted by: jonathan
Sponsored by: Google Inc
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)
(typically fsck_ffs) to register that it wishes to use FFS specific
sysctl's to update the filesystem. This ensures that two checkers
cannot run on a given filesystem at the same time and that no other
process accidentally or maliciously uses the filesystem updating
sysctls inappropriately. This functionality is needed by the
journaling soft-updates recovery code.
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.
filesystems to be opened for writing. This functionality used to
be special-cased for just the root filesystem, but with this change
is now available for all UFS filesystems. This change is needed for
journaled soft updates recovery.
Discussed with: Jeff Roberson
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
option to vm_object_page_remove() asserts that the specified range of pages
is not mapped, or more precisely that none of these pages have any managed
mappings. Thus, vm_object_page_remove() need not call pmap_remove_all() on
the pages.
This change not only saves time by eliminating pointless calls to
pmap_remove_all(), but it also eliminates an inconsistency in the use of
pmap_remove_all() versus related functions, like pmap_remove_write(). It
eliminates harmless but pointless calls to pmap_remove_all() that were being
performed on PG_UNMANAGED pages.
Update all of the existing assertions on pmap_remove_all() to reflect this
change.
Reviewed by: kib
and usr.sbin/makefs/ffs/ffs_subr.c as they have no need of anything in that
file. No other programs or libraries include <ufs/ffs/ffs_extern.h> (nor
should they as it is totally in-kernel interfaces). For added protection
I enclosed the entire contents of <ufs/ffs/ffs_extern.h> in ifdef _KERNEL.
Feedback from: Bruce Evans and Tai-hwa Liang
messages for a filesystem being out of space need to be moved so that
they do not print out until after a failed cleanup attempt.
Suggested by: Jeff Roberson
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
