over just the active vnodes associated with a mount point to replace
MNT_VNODE_FOREACH_ALL in the vfs_msync, ffs_sync_lazy, and qsync
routines.
The vfs_msync routine is run every 30 seconds for every writably
mounted filesystem. It ensures that any files mmap'ed from the
filesystem with modified pages have those pages queued to be
written back to the file from which they are mapped.
The ffs_lazy_sync and qsync routines are run every 30 seconds for
every writably mounted UFS/FFS filesystem. The ffs_lazy_sync routine
ensures that any files that have been accessed in the previous
30 seconds have had their access times queued for updating in the
filesystem. The qsync routine ensures that any files with modified
quotas have those quotas queued to be written back to their
associated quota file.
In a system configured with 250,000 vnodes, less than 1000 are
typically active at any point in time. Prior to this change all
250,000 vnodes would be locked and inspected twice every minute
by the syncer. For UFS/FFS filesystems they would be locked and
inspected six times every minute (twice by each of these three
routines since each of these routines does its own pass over the
vnodes associated with a mount point). With this change the syncer
now locks and inspects only the tiny set of vnodes that are active.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: Peter Holm
MFC after: 2 weeks
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
static and declare its prototype in sys/vnode.h) so that it can be
called from process_deferred_inactive() (in ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.c)
instead of the body of vinactive() being cut and pasted into
process_deferred_inactive().
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
privilege attempts to toggle SF_SETTABLE flags.
- Use the '^' operator in the SF_SNAPSHOT anti-toggling check.
Flags are now stored to ip->i_flags in one place after all checks.
Submitted by: bde
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
flags check.
- Add a comment for the immutable/append check done after handling of
the flags.
- Style improvements.
No functional change intended.
Submitted by: bde
MFC after: 2 weeks
While we have a snapshot vnode unlocked to avoid a deadlock with another
inode in the same inode block being updated, the filesystem containing
it may be forcibly unmounted. When that happens the snapshot vnode is
revoked. We need to check for that condition and fail appropriately.
This change will be included along with 232351 when it is MFC'ed to 9.
Spotted by: kib
Reviewed by: kib
to enable the collection of counts of synchronous and asynchronous
reads and writes for its associated filesystem. The counts are
displayed using `mount -v'.
Ensure that buffers used for paging indicate the vnode from
which they are operating so that counts of paging I/O operations
from the filesystem are collected.
This checkin only adds the setting of the mount point for the
UFS/FFS filesystem, but it would be trivial to add the setting
and clearing of the mount point at filesystem mount/unmount
time for other filesystems too.
Reviewed by: kib
While there, make some style adjustments, like missed () around
return values.
Submitted by: bde
Reviewed by: mckusick
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks
The bawrite() schedules the write to happen immediately, and its use
frees the current thread to do more cleanups.
Submitted by: bde
Reviewed by: mckusick
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks
Synchronous inode block update is not needed for MNT_LAZY callers (syncer),
and since waitfor values are not zero, code did unneccessary synchronous
update.
Submitted by: bde
Reviewed by: mckusick
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks
associated with the previous vnode (if any) associated with the target of
a rename(). Otherwise, a lookup of the target pathname concurrent with a
rename() could re-add a name cache entry after the namei(RENAME) lookup
in kern_renameat() had purged the target pathname.
MFC after: 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
Add the sysctl debug.iosize_max_clamp, enabled by default. Setting the
sysctl to zero allows to perform the SSIZE_MAX-sized i/o requests from
the usermode.
Discussed with: bde, das (previous versions)
MFC after: 1 month
the kernel allocated a buffer but did not zero it as it was about
to be completely filled by a uiomove() from the user's buffer.
However, if the uiomove() failed, the old contents of the buffer
could be exposed especially if the file was being mmap'ed. The
fix was to always zero the buffer when it was allocated.
This change first attempts the uiomove() to the newly allocated
(and dirty) buffer and only zeros it if the uiomove() fails. The
effect is to eliminate the gratuitous zeroing of the buffer in
the usual case where the uiomove() successfully fills it.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: scottl
MFC after: 2 weeks (to 9 only)
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
