softdep_count_dependencies().
Buffer's b_dep list is protected by the SU mount lock. Owning the
buffer lock is not enough to guarantee the stability of the list.
Calculation of the UFS mount owning the workitems from the buffer must
be much more careful to not dereference the work item which might be
freed meantime. To get to ump, use the pointers chain which does not
involve workitems at all.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: mckusick
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
host.
Problems start appearing when there are several threads all doing
operations on a UFS volume and the SU workqueue needs a cleanup. It is
possible that each thread calling softdep_request_cleanup() owns the
lock for some dirty vnode (e.g. all of them are executing mkdir(2),
mknod(2), creat(2) etc) and all vnodes which must be flushed are locked
by corresponding thread. Then, we get all the threads simultaneously
entering softdep_request_cleanup().
There are two problems:
- Several threads execute MNT_VNODE_FOREACH_ALL() loops in parallel. Due
to the locking, they quickly start executing 'in phase' with the speed
of the slowest thread.
- Since each thread already owns the lock for a dirty vnode, other threads
non-blocking attempt to lock the vnode owned by other thread fail,
and loops executing without making the progress.
Retry logic does not allow the situation to recover. The result is
a livelock.
Fix these problems by making the following changes:
- Allow only one thread to enter MNT_VNODE_FOREACH_ALL() loop per mp.
A new flag FLUSH_RC_ACTIVE guards the loop.
- If there were failed locking attempts during the loop, abort retry
even if there are still work items on the mp work list. An
assumption is that the items will be cleaned when other thread
either fsyncs its vnode, or unlock and allow yet another thread to
make the progress.
It is possible now that some calls would get undeserved ENOSPC from
ffs_alloc(), because the cleanup is not aggressive enough. But I do
not see how can we reliably clean up workitems if calling
softdep_request_cleanup() while still owning the vnode lock. I thought
about scheme where ffs_alloc() returns ERESTART and saves the retry
counter somewhere in struct thread, to return to the top level, unlock
the vnode and retry. But IMO the very rare (and unproven) spurious
ENOSPC is not worth the complications.
Reported and tested by: pho
Style and comments by: mckusick
Reviewed by: mckusick
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Thread might create a condition for delayed SU cleanup, which creates
a reference to the mount point in td_su, but exit without returning
through userret(), e.g. when terminating due to single-threading or
process exit. In this case, td_su reference is not dropped and mount
point cannot be freed.
Handle the situation by clearing td_su also in the thread destructor
and in exit1(). softdep_ast_cleanup() has to receive the thread as
argument, since e.g. thread destructor is executed in different
context.
Reported and tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Remove redunand i_dev and i_fs pointers, which are available as
ip->i_ump->um_dev and ip->i_ump->um_fs, and reorder members by size to
reduce padding. To compensate added derefences, the most often i_ump
access to differentiate between UFS1 and UFS2 dinode layout is
removed, by addition of the new i_flag IN_UFS2. Overall, this
actually reduces the amount of memory dereferences.
On 64bit machine, original struct inode size is 176, reduced to 152
bytes with the change.
Tested by: pho (previous version)
Reviewed by: mckusick
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
The buffer lock is retried on failed LK_SLEEPFAIL attempt, and error
from the failed attempt is irrelevant. But since there is path after
retry which does not clear error, it is possible to return spurious
error from the function.
The issue resulted in a spurious failure of softdep_sync_buf(),
causing further spurious failure of ffs_sync().
In collaboration with: pho
Reviewed by: mckusick
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
with softupdates panics the kernel. The problem that has been pointed
out is that when there is a transient write error on certain metadata
blocks, specifically directory blocks (PAGEDEP), inode blocks
(INODEDEP), indirect pointer blocks (INDIRDEPS), and cylinder group
(BMSAFEMAP, but only when journaling is enabled), we get a panic
in one of the routines called by softdep_disk_io_initiation that
the I/O is "already started" when we retry the write.
These dependency types potentially need to do roll-backs when called
by softdep_disk_io_initiation before doing a write and then a
roll-forward when called by softdep_disk_write_complete after the
I/O completes. The panic happens when there is a transient error.
At the top of softdep_disk_write_complete we check to see if the
write had an error and if an error occurred we just return. This
return is correct most of the time because the main role of the routines
called by softdep_disk_write_complete is to process the now-completed
dependencies so that the next I/O steps can happen.
But for the four types listed above, they do not get to do their
rollback operations. This causes the panic when softdep_disk_io_initiation
gets called on the second attempt to do the write and the roll-back
routines find that the roll-backs have already been done. As an
aside I note that there is also the problem that the buffer will
have been unlocked and thus made visible to the filesystem and to
user applications with the roll-backs in place.
The way to resolve the problem is to add a flag to the routines called
by softdep_disk_write_complete for the four dependency types noted
that indicates whether the write was successful (WRITESUCCEEDED).
If the write does not succeed, they do just the roll-backs and then
return. If the write was successful they also do their usual
processing of the now-completed dependencies.
The fix was tested by selectively injecting write errors for buffers
holding dependencies of each of the four types noted above and then
verifying that the kernel no longer paniced and that following the
successful retry of the write that the filesystem could be unmounted
and successfully checked cleanly.
PR: 211013
Reviewed by: kib
rounddown2 tends to produce longer lines than the original code
and when the code has a high indentation level it was not really
advantageous to do the replacement.
This tries to strike a balance between readability using the macros
and flexibility of having the expressions, so not everything is
converted.
for limiting disk (actually filesystem) IO.
Note that in some cases these limits are not quite precise. It's ok,
as long as it's within some reasonable bounds.
Testing - and review of the code, in particular the VFS and VM parts - is
very welcome.
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5080
expects that the loop is always exited with the SU lock owned, even on
error.
Reported and tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days
ast was rescheduled during VFS_SYNC(). It is possible that enough
parallel writes or slow/hung volume result in VFS_SYNC() deferring to
the ast flushing of workqueue.
Reported and tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
of the D_NEWBLK kinds of dependencies (i.e. D_ALLOCDIRECT and
D_ALLOCINDIR), which can exhaust kmem.
Handle excess of D_NEWBLK in the same way as excess of D_INODEDEP and
D_DIRREM, by scheduling ast to flush dependencies, after the thread,
which created new dep, left the VFS/FFS innards. For D_NEWBLK, the
only way to get rid of them is to do full sync, since items are
attached to data blocks of arbitrary vnodes. The check for D_NEWBLK
excess in softdep_ast_cleanup_proc() is unlocked.
For 32bit arches, reduce the total amount of allowed dependencies by
two. It could be considered increasing the limit for 64 bit platforms
with direct maps.
Reported and tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
When deallocate_dependencies() is performed,
softdep_journal_freeblocks() already called cancel_allocdirect() which
should have eliminated direct dependencies for all truncated full
blocks. The indirect dependencies are allowed above, since second-
and third-level dependencies are only dealt with by the code which
frees indirect block, which happens after the inode write.
Discussed with: mckusick, jeff
Reviewed by: jeff
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
buildkernel run.
Some of them were write-only under some kernel options, e.g. variables
keeping values only used by CTR() macros. It costs nothing to the
code readability and correctness to eliminate the warnings in those
cases too by removing the local cached values used only for
single-access.
Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2665
Reviewed by: rodrigc
Looked at by: bjk
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Eliminate it, and simplify code by removing the local dflags variable
always initialized to DEPALLOC.
Noted by: mckusick
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
limits in the code which is deep in the call stack, and owns several
critical system resources, like vnode locks. Attempt to wait while
the per-mount softupdate thread cleans up the backlog may deadlock,
because the thread might need to lock the same vnode which is owned by
the waiting thread.
Instead of synchronously waiting for the worker, perform the worker'
tickle and pause until the backlog is cleaned, at the safe point
during return from kernel to usermode. A new ast request to call
softdep_ast_cleanup() is created, the SU code now only checks the size
of queue and schedules ast.
There is no ast delivery for the kernel threads, so they are exempted
from the mechanism, except NFS daemon threads. NFS server loop
explicitely checks for the request, and informs the schedule_cleanup()
that it is capable of handling the requests by the process P2_AST_SU
flag. This is needed because nfsd may be the sole cause of the SU
workqueue overflow. But, to not cause nsfd to spawn additional
threads just because we slow down existing workers, only tickle su
threads, without waiting for the backlog cleanup.
Reviewed by: jhb, mckusick
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
sequence is performed on UFS SU+J rootfs:
cp -Rp /sbin/init /sbin/init.old
mv -f /sbin/init.old /sbin/init
Hang occurs on the rootfs unmount. There are two issues:
1. Removed init binary, which is still mapped, creates a reference to
the removed vnode. The inodeblock for such vnode must have active
inodedep, which is (eventually) linked through the unlinked list. This
means that ffs_sync(MNT_SUSPEND) cannot succeed, because number of
softdep workitems for the mp is always > 0. FFS is suspended during
unmount, so unmount just hangs.
2. As noted above, the inodedep is linked eventually. It is not
linked until the superblock is written. But at the vfs_unmountall()
time, when the rootfs is unmounted, the call is made to
ffs_unmount()->ffs_sync() before vflush(), and ffs_sync() only calls
ffs_sbupdate() after all workitems are flushed. It is masked for
normal system operations, because syncer works in parallel and
eventually flushes superblock. Syncer is stopped when rootfs
unmounted, so ffs_sync() must do sb update on its own.
Correct the issues listed above. For MNT_SUSPEND, count the number of
linked unlinked inodedeps (this is not a typo) and substract the count
of such workitems from the total. For the second issue, the
ffs_sbupdate() is called right after device sync in ffs_sync() loop.
There is third problem, occuring with both SU and SU+J. The
softdep_waitidle() loop, which waits for softdep_flush() thread to
clear the worklist, only waits 20ms max. It seems that the 1 tick,
specified for msleep(9), was a typo.
Add fsync(devvp, MNT_WAIT) call to softdep_waitidle(), which seems to
significantly help the softdep thread, and change the MNT_LAZY update
at the reboot time to MNT_WAIT for similar reasons. Note that
userspace cannot create more work while devvp is flushed, since the
mount point is always suspended before the call to softdep_waitidle()
in unmount or remount path.
PR: 195458
In collaboration with: gjb, pho
Reviewed by: mckusick
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
instead of waiting for the FLUSH_* flags. Also, when requesting
flush, do the wakeups unconditionally even when FLUSH_CLEANUP flag was
already set.
Reported and tested by: dim,
"Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp>
Bisected by: dim
MFC after: 2 weeks
thread started and incremented the stat_flush_threads [1].
Unconditionally wakeup softdep_flush threads when needed, do not try
to check wchan, which is racy and breaks abstraction.
Reported by and discussed with: glebius, neel
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
are not suspended. In particular, on the SU-enabled vulumes, there is
no reason why, between the call to softdep_flushfiles() and
softdep_waitidle(), SU work items cannot be queued.
Correct the condition to trigger the panic by only checking when
forced operation is done. Convert direct panic() call into KASSERT(),
there is no invalid on-disk data structures directly involved, so
follow the usual debugging vs. non-debugging approach.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: mckusick
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
r269533, which was tested before r269457 was committed, implicitely
relied on the Giant to protect the manipulations of the softdepmounts
list. Use softdep global lock consistently to guarantee the list
structure now.
Insert the new struct mount_softdeps into the softdepmounts only after
it is sufficiently initialized, to prevent softdep_speedup() from
accessing bare memory. Similarly, remove struct mount_softdeps for
the unmounted filesystem from the tailq before destroying structure
rwlock.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: mckusick
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
have to adjust freeblk records to reflect the change to a full-size block.
For example, suppose we have a block made up of fragments 8-15 and
want to free its last two fragments. We are given a request that says:
FREEBLK ino=5, blkno=14, lbn=0, frags=2, oldfrags=0
where frags are the number of fragments to free and oldfrags are the
number of fragments to keep. To block align it, we have to change it to
have a valid full-size blkno, so it becomes:
FREEBLK ino=5, blkno=8, lbn=0, frags=2, oldfrags=6
Submitted by: Mikihito Takehara
Tested by: Mikihito Takehara
Reviewed by: Jeff Roberson
MFC after: 1 week
Replace a single soft updates thread with a thread per FFS-filesystem
mount point. The threads are associated with the bufdaemon process.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: Peter Holm and Scott Long
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Netflix
a journal block even when there are no journal entries to be written.
Until the root cause is found, handle this case by ensuring that a
valid journal segment is always written.
Second, the data buffer used for writing journal entries was never
being scrubbed of old data. Fix this.
Submitted by: Takehara Mikihito
Obtained from: Netflix, Inc.
MFC after: 3 days
We had previously tried to flush all MKDIR_PARENT dependencies (and
all the NEWBLOCK pagedeps) by calling ffs_update(). However this will
only resolve these dependencies in direct blocks. So very large
directories with MKDIR_PARENT dependencies in indirect blocks had
not yet gotten flushed. As the directory is in the midst of doing a
complete sync, we simply defer the checking of the MKDIR_PARENT
dependencies until the indirect blocks have been sync'ed.
Reported by: Shawn Wallbridge of imaginaryforces.com
Tested by: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
PR: 183424
MFC after: 2 weeks
single kernel-wide soft update lock can be replaced with a
per-filesystem soft-updates lock. This per-filesystem lock will
allow each filesystem to have its own soft-updates flushing thread
rather than being limited to a single soft-updates flushing thread
for the entire kernel.
Move soft update variables out of the ufsmount structure and into
their own mount_softdeps structure referenced by ufsmount field
um_softdep. Eventually the per-filesystem lock will be in this
structure. For now there is simply a pointer to the kernel-wide
soft updates lock.
Change all instances of ACQUIRE_LOCK and FREE_LOCK to pass the lock
pointer in the mount_softdeps structure instead of a pointer to the
kernel-wide soft-updates lock.
Replace the five hash tables used by soft updates with per-filesystem
copies of these tables allocated in the mount_softdeps structure.
Several functions that flush dependencies when too many are allocated
in the kernel used to operate across all filesystems. They are now
parameterized to flush dependencies from a specified filesystem.
For now, we stick with the round-robin flushing strategy when the
kernel as a whole has too many dependencies allocated.
While there are many lines of changes, there should be no functional
change in the operation of soft updates.
Tested by: Peter Holm and Scott Long
Sponsored by: Netflix
Add KASSERTS that soft dependency functions only get called
for filesystems running with soft dependencies. Calling these
functions when soft updates are not compiled into the system
become panic's.
No functional change.
Tested by: Peter Holm and Scott Long
Sponsored by: Netflix
Ensure that softdep_unmount() and softdep_setup_sbupdate()
only get called for filesystems running with soft dependencies.
No functional change.
Tested by: Peter Holm and Scott Long
Sponsored by: Netflix
Convert three functions exported from ffs_softdep.c to static
functions as they are not used outside of ffs_softdep.c.
No functional change.
Tested by: Peter Holm and Scott Long
Sponsored by: Netflix
persist much longer than previously. Historically we had at most 100
entries; now the count may reach a million. With the increased count
we spent far too much time looking them up in the grossly undersized
newblk hash table. Configure the newblk hash table to accurately reflect
the number of entries that it must index.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: Peter Holm
MFC after: 2 weeks
we need to collect the highest level of allocation for each of the
different soft update dependency structures. This change collects these
statistics and makes them available using `sysctl debug.softdep.highuse'.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: Peter Holm
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Use a shared bufobj lock in getblk() and inmem().
- Convert softdep's lk to rwlock to match the bufobj lock.
- Move INFREECNT to b_flags and protect it with the buf lock.
- Remove unnecessary locking around bremfree() and BKGRDINPROG.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Discussed with: mckusick, kib, mdf
an error. One could argue that returning a buffer even when it is
not valid is incorrect, but bread has always returned a buffer
valid or not.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
the return value is NULL. Based on the returned flags, the
return value should never be inspected in the case where NULL
is returned, but it is good coding practice not to return a
pointer to freed memory.
Found by: Coverity Scan, CID 1006096
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
