The PR and patch have the details. The ultimate fix requires architectural
changes and clarifications to the VFS API, but this will prevent the system
from panicking when someone does "ls /dev" while running in a shell under the
linuxulator.
This issue affects HEAD and RELENG_6 only.
PR: 88249
Submitted by: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@ixsystems.com>
MFC after: 3 days
- Prefer '_' to ' ', as it results in more easily parsed results in
memory monitoring tools such as vmstat.
- Remove punctuation that is incompatible with using memory type names
as file names, such as '/' characters.
- Disambiguate some collisions by adding subsystem prefixes to some
memory types.
- Generally prefer lower case to upper case.
- If the same type is defined in multiple architecture directories,
attempt to use the same name in additional cases.
Not all instances were caught in this change, so more work is required to
finish this conversion. Similar changes are required for UMA zone names.
so we are ready for mpsafevfs=1 by default on sparc64 too. I have been
running this on all my sparc64 machines for over 6 months, and have not
encountered MD problems.
MFC after: 1 week
Add a new private thread flag to indicate that the thread should
not sleep if runningbufspace is too large.
Set this flag on the bufdaemon and syncer threads so that they skip
the waitrunningbufspace() call in bufwrite() rather than than
checking the proc pointer vs. the known proc pointers for these two
threads. A way of preventing these threads from being starved for
I/O but still placing limits on their outstanding I/O would be
desirable.
Set this flag in ffs_copyonwrite() to prevent bufwrite() calls from
blocking on the runningbufspace check while holding snaplk. This
prevents snaplk from being held for an arbitrarily long period of
time if runningbufspace is high and greatly reduces the contention
for snaplk. The disadvantage is that ffs_copyonwrite() can start
a large amount of I/O if there are a large number of snapshots,
which could cause a deadlock in other parts of the code.
Call runningbufwakeup() in ffs_copyonwrite() to decrement runningbufspace
before attempting to grab snaplk so that I/O requests waiting on
snaplk are not counted in runningbufspace as being in-progress.
Increment runningbufspace again before actually launching the
original I/O request.
Prior to the above two changes, the system could deadlock if enough
I/O requests were blocked by snaplk to prevent runningbufspace from
falling below lorunningspace and one of the bawrite() calls in
ffs_copyonwrite() blocked in waitrunningbufspace() while holding
snaplk.
See <http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons143.html>
vlrureclaim() in vfs_subr.c 1.636 because waiting for the vnode
lock aggravates an existing race condition. It is also undesirable
according to the commit log for 1.631.
Fix the tiny race condition that remains by rechecking the vnode
state after grabbing the vnode lock and grabbing the vnode interlock.
Fix the problem of other threads being starved (which 1.636 attempted
to fix by removing LK_NOWAIT) by calling uio_yield() periodically
in vlrureclaim(). This should be more deterministic than hoping
that VOP_LOCK() without LK_NOWAIT will block, which may not happen
in this loop.
Reviewed by: kan
MFC after: 5 days
is a workaround for non-symetric teardown of the file systems at
shutdown with respect to the mount order at boot. The proper long term
fix is to properly detach devfs from the root mount before unmounting
each, and should be implemented, but since the problem is non-harmful,
this temporary band-aid will prevent false positive bug reports and
unnecessary error output for 6.0-RELEASE.
MFC after: 3 days
Tested by: pav, pjd
vnode is inactivated), possibly leading to a NULL dereference when
checking if the mount wants knotes to be activated in the VOP hooks.
So, we add a new vnode flag VV_NOKNOTE that is only set in getnewvnode(),
if necessary, and check it when activating knotes.
Since the flags are not erased when a vnode is being held, we can safely
read them.
Reviewed by: kris@
MFC after: 3 days
vnlru proc is extremely inefficient, potentially iteration over tens of
thousands of vnodes without blocking. Droping Giant allows other threads
to preempt us although we should revisit the algorithm to fix the runtime
problems especially since this may hold up all vnode allocations.
- Remove the LK_NOWAIT from the VOP_LOCK in vlrureclaim. This provides
a natural blocking point to help alleviate the situation described above
although it may not technically be desirable.
- yield after we make a pass on all mount points to prevent us from
blocking other threads which require Giant.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Introducing the possibility of using locks different than mutexes
for the knlist locking. In order to do this, we add three arguments to
knlist_init() to specify the functions to use to lock, unlock and
check if the lock is owned. If these arguments are NULL, we assume
mtx_lock, mtx_unlock and mtx_owned, respectively.
- Using the vnode lock for the knlist locking, when doing kqueue operations
on a vnode. This way, we don't have to lock the vnode while holding a
mutex, in filt_vfsread.
Reviewed by: jmg
Approved by: re (scottl), scottl (mentor override)
Pointyhat to: ssouhlal
Will be happy: everyone
are actually caused by a buf with both VNCLEAN and VNDIRTY set. In
the traces it is clear that the buf is removed from the dirty queue while
it is actually on the clean queue which leaves the tail pointer set.
Assert that both flags are not set in buf_vlist_add and buf_vlist_remove.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
Approved by: re (blanket vfs)
ref while we're calling vgone(). This prevents transient refs from
re-adding us to the free list. Previously, a vfree() triggered via
vinvalbuf() getting rid of all of a vnode's pages could place a partially
destructed vnode on the free list where vtryrecycle() could find it. The
first call to vtryrecycle would hang up on the vnode lock, but when it
failed it would place a now dead vnode onto the free list, and another
call to vtryrecycle() would free an already free vnode. There were many
complications of having a zero ref count while freeing which can now go
away.
- Change vdropl() to release the interlock before returning. All callers
now respect this, so vdropl() directly frees VI_DOOMED vnodes once the
last ref is dropped. This means that we'll never have VI_DOOMED vnodes
on the free list.
- Seperate v_incr_usecount() into v_incr_usecount(), v_decr_usecount() and
v_decr_useonly(). The incr/decr split is so that incr usecount can
return with the interlock still held while decr drops the interlock so
it can call vdropl() which will potentially free the vnode. The calling
function can't drop the lock of an already free'd node. v_decr_useonly()
drops a usecount without droping the hold count. This is done so the
usecount reaches zero in vput() before we recycle, however the holdcount
is still 1 which prevents any new references from placing the vnode
back on the free list.
- Fix vnlrureclaim() to vhold the vnode since it doesn't do a vget(). We
wouldn't want vnlrureclaim() to bump the usecount since this has
different semantics. Also change vnlrureclaim() to do a NOWAIT on the
vn_lock. When this function runs we're usually in a desperate situation
and we wouldn't want to wait for any specific vnode to be released.
- Fix a bunch of misc comments to reflect the new behavior.
- Add vhold() and vdrop() to vflush() for the same reasons that we do in
vlrureclaim(). Previously we held no reference and a vnode could have
been freed while we were waiting on the lock.
- Get rid of vlruvp() and vfreehead(). Neither are used. vlruvp() should
really be rethought before it's reintroduced.
- vgonel() always returns with the vnode locked now and never puts the
vnode back on a free list. The vnode will be freed as soon as the last
reference is released.
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Debugging help from: Kris Kennaway, Peter Holm
Approved by: re (blanket vfs)
of the clean and dirty lists. This is in an attempt to catch the wrong
bufobj problem sooner.
- In vgonel() don't acquire an extra reference in the active case, the
vnode lock and VI_DOOMED protect us from recursively cleaning.
- Also in vgonel() clean up some stale comments.
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Approved by: re (blanket vfs)
anyway and it's not used outside of vfs_subr.c.
- Change vgonel() to accept a parameter which determines whether or not
we'll put the vnode on the free list when we're done.
- Use the new vgonel() parameter rather than VI_DOOMED to signal our
intentions in vtryrecycle().
- In vgonel() return if VI_DOOMED is already set, this vnode has already
been reclaimed.
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events could be added to cover other interesting details.
- Add some VNASSERTs to discover places where we access vnodes after
they have been uma_zfree'd before we try to free them again.
- Add a few more VNASSERTs to vdestroy() to be certain that the vnode is
really unused.
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UFS by:
- Making the pre and post hooks for the VOP functions work even when
DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS is not defined.
- Moving the KNOTE activations into the corresponding VOP hooks.
- Creating a MNTK_NOKNOTE flag for the mnt_kern_flag field of struct
mount that permits filesystems to disable the new behavior.
- Creating a default VOP_KQFILTER function: vfs_kqfilter()
My benchmarks have not revealed any performance degradation.
Reviewed by: jeff, bde
Approved by: rwatson, jmg (kqueue changes), grehan (mentor)
1. Copy a NULL-terminated string into a fixed-length buffer, and
2. copyout that buffer to userland,
we really ought to
0. Zero the entire buffer
first.
Security: FreeBSD-SA-05:08.kmem
drop the check+initialization for a straight initialization. Also
assert that curthread will never be NULL just to be sure.
Discussed with: rwatson, peter
MFC after: 1 week
are set when we attempt to remove a buffer from a queue we should panic.
Hopefully this will catch the source of the wrong bufobj panics.
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vtryrecycle(). We could sometimes get into situations where two threads
could try to recycle the same vnode before this.
- vtryrecycle() is now responsible for returning the vnode to the free list
if it fails and someone else hasn't done it.
- Make a new function vfreehead() which moves a vnode to the head of the
free list and use it in vgone() to clean up that code a bit.
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Reported by: pho, kkenn
do not correctly deal with failures. This presently risks deadlock
problems if dependency processing is held up by failures to allocate
a vnode, however, this is better than the situation with the failures.
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potential lock order reversal. Also, don't unlock the vnode if this
fails, lockmgr has already unlocked it for us.
- Restructure vget() now that vn_lock() does all of VI_DOOMED checking
for us and also handles the case where there is no real lock type.
- If VI_OWEINACT is set, we need to upgrade the lock request to EXCLUSIVE
so that we can call inactive. It's not legal to vget a vnode that hasn't
had INACTIVE called yet.
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to root cause on exactly how this happens.
- If the assert is disabled, we presently try to handle this case, but the
BUF_UNLOCK was missing. Thus, if this condition ever hit we would leak
a buf lock.
Many thanks to Peter Holm for all his help in finding this bug. He really
put more effort into it than I did.
one to become available for one second and then return ENFILE. We
can run out of vnodes, and there must be a hard limit because without
one we can quickly run out of KVA on x86. Presently the system can
deadlock if there are maxvnodes directories in the namecache. The
original 4.x BSD behavior was to return ENFILE if we reached the max,
but 4.x BSD did not have the vnlru proc so it was less profitable to
wait.
on filesystems which safely support them. It appears that many
network filesystems specifically are not shared lock safe.
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vnodes whose names it caches, so we no longer need a `generation
number' to tell us if a referenced vnode is invalid. Replace the use
of the parent's v_id in the hash function with the address of the
parent vnode.
Tested by: Peter Holm
Glanced at by: jeff, phk
vhold()s us.
- Avoid an extra mutex acquire and release in the common case of vgonel()
by checking for OWEINACT at the start of the function.
- Fix the case where we set OWEINACT in vput(). LK_EXCLUPGRADE drops our
shared lock if it fails.
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