that was introduced in revision 1.80. The problem manifested
itself with a `locking against myself' panic and could also
result in soft updates inconsistences associated with inodedeps.
The two problems are:
1) One of the background operations could manipulate the bitmap
while holding it locked with intent to create. This held lock
results in a `locking against myself' panic, when the background
processing that we have been coopted to do tries to lock the bitmap
which we are already holding locked. To understand how to fix this
problem, first, observe that we can do the background cleanups in
inodedep_lookup only when allocating inodedeps (DEPALLOC is set in
the call to inodedep_lookup). Second observe that calls to
inodedep_lookup with DEPALLOC set can only happen from the following
calls into the softdep code:
softdep_setup_inomapdep
softdep_setup_allocdirect
softdep_setup_remove
softdep_setup_freeblocks
softdep_setup_directory_change
softdep_setup_directory_add
softdep_change_linkcnt
Only the first two of these can come from ffs_alloc.c while holding
a bitmap locked. Thus, inodedep_lookup must not go off to do
request_cleanups when being called from these functions. This change
adds a flag, NODELAY, that can be passed to inodedep_lookup to let
it know that it should not do background processing in those cases.
2) The return value from request_cleanup when helping out with the
cleanup was 0 instead of 1. This meant that despite the fact that
we may have slept while doing the cleanups, the code did not recheck
for the appearance of an inodedep (e.g., goto top in inodedep_lookup).
This lead to the softdep inconsistency in which we ended up with
two inodedep's for the same inode.
Reviewed by: Peter Wemm <peter@yahoo-inc.com>,
Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
filesystem softdep_process_worklist() is called in a loop until it indicates
that no dependancies remain, but the determination of that fact depends on
there only being one softdep_process_worklist() instance running. It was
possible for the syncer to also be running softdep_process_worklist()
and the pre-existing checks in the code to prevent this were not sufficient
to prevent the race. This patch solves the problem.
Approved-by: mckusick
Previously, the syncer process was the only process in the
system that could process the soft updates background work
list. If enough other processes were adding requests to that
list, it would eventually grow without bound. Because some of
the work list requests require vnodes to be locked, it was
not generally safe to let random processes process the work
list while they already held vnodes locked. By adding a flag
to the work list queue processing function to indicate whether
the calling process could safely lock vnodes, it becomes possible
to co-opt other processes into helping out with the work list.
Now when the worklist gets too large, other processes can safely
help out by picking off those work requests that can be handled
without locking a vnode, leaving only the small number of
requests requiring a vnode lock for the syncer process. With
this change, it appears possible to keep even the nastiest
workloads under control.
Submitted by: Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
in the face of multiple processes doing massive numbers of filesystem
operations. While this patch will work in nearly all situations, there
are still some perverse workloads that can overwhelm the system.
Detecting and handling these perverse workloads will be the subject
of another patch.
Reviewed by: Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
Obtained from: Ethan Solomita <ethan@geocast.com>
Removed most of the hacks that were trying to deal with low-memory
situations prior to now.
The new code is based on the concept that I/O must be able to function in
a low memory situation. All major modules related to I/O (except
networking) have been adjusted to allow allocation out of the system
reserve memory pool. These modules now detect a low memory situation but
rather then block they instead continue to operate, then return resources
to the memory pool instead of cache them or leave them wired.
Code has been added to stall in a low-memory situation prior to a vnode
being locked.
Thus situations where a process blocks in a low-memory condition while
holding a locked vnode have been reduced to near nothing. Not only will
I/O continue to operate, but many prior deadlock conditions simply no
longer exist.
Implement a number of VFS/BIO fixes
(found by Ian): in biodone(), bogus-page replacement code, the loop
was not properly incrementing loop variables prior to a continue
statement. We do not believe this code can be hit anyway but we
aren't taking any chances. We'll turn the whole section into a
panic (as it already is in brelse()) after the release is rolled.
In biodone(), the foff calculation was incorrectly
clamped to the iosize, causing the wrong foff to be calculated
for pages in the case of an I/O error or biodone() called without
initiating I/O. The problem always caused a panic before. Now it
doesn't. The problem is mainly an issue with NFS.
Fixed casts for ~PAGE_MASK. This code worked properly before only
because the calculations use signed arithmatic. Better to properly
extend PAGE_MASK first before inverting it for the 64 bit masking
op.
In brelse(), the bogus_page fixup code was improperly throwing
away the original contents of 'm' when it did the j-loop to
fix the bogus pages. The result was that it would potentially
invalidate parts of the *WRONG* page(!), leading to corruption.
There may still be cases where a background bitmap write is
being duplicated, causing potential corruption. We have identified
a potentially serious bug related to this but the fix is still TBD.
So instead this patch contains a KASSERT to detect the problem
and panic the machine rather then continue to corrupt the filesystem.
The problem does not occur very often.. it is very hard to
reproduce, and it may or may not be the cause of the corruption
people have reported.
Review by: (VFS/BIO: mckusick, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>)
Testing by: (VM/Deadlock) Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
is to first write the deleted directory entry to disk, second write
the zero'ed inode to disk, and finally to release the freed blocks
and the inode back to the cylinder-group map. As this ordering
requires two disk writes to occur which are normally spaced about
30 seconds apart (except when memory is under duress), it takes
about a minute from the time that a file is deleted until its inode
and data blocks show up in the cylinder-group map for reallocation.
If a file has had only a brief lifetime (less than 30 seconds from
creation to deletion), neither its inode nor its directory entry
may have been written to disk. If its directory entry has not been
written to disk, then we need not wait for that directory block to
be written as the on-disk directory block does not reference the
inode. Similarly, if the allocated inode has never been written to
disk, we do not have to wait for it to be written back either as
its on-disk representation is still zero'ed out. Thus, in the case
of a short lived file, we can simply release the blocks and inode
to the cylinder-group map immediately. As the inode and its blocks
are released immediately, they are immediately available for other
uses. If they are not released for a minute, then other inodes and
blocks must be allocated for short lived files, cluttering up the
vnode and buffer caches. The previous code was a bit too aggressive
in trying to release the blocks and inode back to the cylinder-group
map resulting in their being made available when in fact the inode
on disk had not yet been zero'ed. This patch takes a more conservative
approach to doing the release which avoids doing the release prematurely.
include:
* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)
* Per-CPU idle processes.
* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).
Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
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).
the system would panic when a user's inode quota was exceeded (see
PR 18959 for details). This fixes that problem.
PR: 18959
Submitted by: Jason Godsey <jason@unixguy.fidalgo.net>
check to see if it has been committed to disk. If it has never
been written, it can be freed immediately. For short lived files
this change allows the same inode to be reused repeatedly.
Similarly, when upgrading a fragment to a larger size, if it
has never been claimed by an inode on disk, it too can be freed
immediately making it available for reuse often in the next slowly
growing block of the same file.
<sys/bio.h>.
<sys/bio.h> is now a prerequisite for <sys/buf.h> but it shall
not be made a nested include according to bdes teachings on the
subject of nested includes.
Diskdrivers and similar stuff below specfs::strategy() should no
longer need to include <sys/buf.> unless they need caching of data.
Still a few bogus uses of struct buf to track down.
Repocopy by: peter
(name, value) pairs to be associated with inodes. This support is
used for ACLs, MAC labels, and Capabilities in the TrustedBSD
security extensions, which are currently under development.
In this implementation, attributes are backed to data vnodes in the
style of the quota support in FFS. Support for FFS extended
attributes may be enabled using the FFS_EXTATTR kernel option
(disabled by default). Userland utilities and man pages will be
committed in the next batch. VFS interfaces and man pages have
been in the repo since 4.0-RELEASE and are unchanged.
o ufs/ufs/extattr.h: UFS-specific extattr defines
o ufs/ufs/ufs_extattr.c: bulk of support routines
o ufs/{ufs,ffs,mfs}/*.[ch]: hooks and extattr.h includes
o contrib/softupdates/ffs_softdep.c: extattr.h includes
o conf/options, conf/files, i386/conf/LINT: added FFS_EXTATTR
o coda/coda_vfsops.c: XXX required extattr.h due to ufsmount.h
(This should not be the case, and will be fixed in a future commit)
Currently attributes are not supported in MFS. This will be fixed.
Reviewed by: adrian, bp, freebsd-fs, other unthanked souls
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
(Much of this done by script)
Move B_ORDERED flag to b_ioflags and call it BIO_ORDERED.
Move b_pblkno and b_iodone_chain to struct bio while we transition, they
will be obsoleted once bio structs chain/stack.
Add bio_queue field for struct bio aware disksort.
Address a lot of stylistic issues brought up by bde.
substitute BUF_WRITE(foo) for VOP_BWRITE(foo->b_vp, foo)
substitute BUF_STRATEGY(foo) for VOP_STRATEGY(foo->b_vp, foo)
This patch is machine generated except for the ccd.c and buf.h parts.
field in struct buf: b_iocmd. The b_iocmd is enforced to have
exactly one bit set.
B_WRITE was bogusly defined as zero giving rise to obvious coding
mistakes.
Also eliminate the redundant struct buf flag B_CALL, it can just
as efficiently be done by comparing b_iodone to NULL.
Should you get a panic or drop into the debugger, complaining about
"b_iocmd", don't continue. It is likely to write on your disk
where it should have been reading.
This change is a step in the direction towards a stackable BIO capability.
A lot of this patch were machine generated (Thanks to style(9) compliance!)
Vinum users: Greg has not had time to test this yet, be careful.
have a write in progress. Otherwise one can get in an infinite loop
trying to get them all flushed.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
set of restrictions for cancelling an inode dependency (inodedep)
is somewhat stronger than originally coded. Since this check appears
in two places, we codify it into the function check_inode_unwritten
which we then call from the two sites, one freeing blocks and the
other freeing directory entries.
Submitted by: Steinar Haug via Matthew Dillon
so that they never try to lock an inode corresponding to ".." as this
can lead to deadlock. We observe that any inode with an updated link count
is always pushed into its buffer at the time of the link count change, so
we do not need to do a VOP_UPDATE, but merely find its buffer and write it.
The only time we need to get the inode itself is from the result of a
mkdir whose name will never be ".." and hence locking such an inode will
never request a lock above us in the filesystem tree. Thanks to Brian
Fundakowski Feldman for providing the test program that tickled soft updates
into hanging in "inode" sleep.
Submitted by: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
to sleep). Locking 101, part 2: do not look at buffer contents after
you have been asleep. There is no telling what wonderous changes may
have occurred.
This seems to be responsible for a bunch of panics where the process
sleeps and something else finds softupdates "locked" when it shouldn't
be. This commit is unreviewed, but has been a big help here.
Previously my boxes would panic pretty much on the first fsync() that
wrote something to disk.
it is no longer sufficient to get a lock on a buffer to know
that its write has been completed. We have to first get the
lock on the buffer, then check to see if it is doing a
background write. If it is doing background write, we have
to wait for the background write to finish, then check to see
if that fullfilled our dependency, and if not to start another
write. Luckily the explanation is longer than the fix.
a vnode has not been written (which would clear certain of its
dependencies). The problems arises because fsync with MNT_NOWAIT
no longer pushes all the dirty blocks associated with a vnode. It
skips those that require rollbacks, since they will just get instantly
dirty again. Such skipped blocks are marked so that they will not be
skipped a second time (otherwise circular dependencies would never
clear). So, we fsync twice to ensure that everything will be written
at least once.
have been cleaned up by deallocte_dependencies(). Once that is done, it
is safe to post the request to free the blocks. A similar change is also
needed for the freefile case.
1) Fastpath deletions. When a file is being deleted, check to see if it
was so recently created that its inode has not yet been written to
disk. If so, the delete can proceed to immediately free the inode.
2) Background writes: No file or block allocations can be done while the
bitmap is being written to disk. To avoid these stalls, the bitmap is
copied to another buffer which is written thus leaving the original
available for futher allocations.
3) Link count tracking. Constantly track the difference in i_effnlink and
i_nlink so that inodes that have had no change other than i_effnlink
need not be written.
4) Identify buffers with rollback dependencies so that the buffer flushing
daemon can choose to skip over them.
of dirrem structure rather than the collaterally created freeblks
and freefile structures. Limit the rate of buffer dirtying by the
syncer process during periods of intense file removal.
check before the inode is unlocked while grabbing its parent directory.
Once it is unlocked, other operations may slip in that could make
the inode-is-flushed check fail. Allowing other writes to the inode
before returning from fsync does not break the semantics of fsync
since we have flushed everything that was dirty at the time of the
fsync call.
