Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"This the bunch that sat in -next + lock_parent() fix. This is the
minimal set; there's more pending stuff.
In particular, I really hope to get acct.c fixes merged this cycle -
we need that to deal sanely with delayed-mntput stuff. In the next
pile, hopefully - that series is fairly short and localized
(kernel/acct.c, fs/super.c and fs/namespace.c). In this pile: more
iov_iter work. Most of prereqs for ->splice_write with sane locking
order are there and Kent's dio rewrite would also fit nicely on top of
this pile"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (70 commits)
lock_parent: don't step on stale ->d_parent of all-but-freed one
kill generic_file_splice_write()
ceph: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
shmem: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
nfs: switch to iter_splice_write_file()
fs/splice.c: remove unneeded exports
ocfs2: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
->splice_write() via ->write_iter()
bio_vec-backed iov_iter
optimize copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
bury generic_file_aio_{read,write}
lustre: get rid of messing with iovecs
ceph: switch to ->write_iter()
ceph_sync_direct_write: stop poking into iov_iter guts
ceph_sync_read: stop poking into iov_iter guts
new helper: copy_page_from_iter()
fuse: switch to ->write_iter()
btrfs: switch to ->write_iter()
ocfs2: switch to ->write_iter()
xfs: switch to ->write_iter()
...
aops->write_begin may allocate a new page and make it visible only to have
mark_page_accessed called almost immediately after. Once the page is
visible the atomic operations are necessary which is noticable overhead
when writing to an in-memory filesystem like tmpfs but should also be
noticable with fast storage. The objective of the patch is to initialse
the accessed information with non-atomic operations before the page is
visible.
The bulk of filesystems directly or indirectly use
grab_cache_page_write_begin or find_or_create_page for the initial
allocation of a page cache page. This patch adds an init_page_accessed()
helper which behaves like the first call to mark_page_accessed() but may
called before the page is visible and can be done non-atomically.
The primary APIs of concern in this care are the following and are used
by most filesystems.
find_get_page
find_lock_page
find_or_create_page
grab_cache_page_nowait
grab_cache_page_write_begin
All of them are very similar in detail to the patch creates a core helper
pagecache_get_page() which takes a flags parameter that affects its
behavior such as whether the page should be marked accessed or not. Then
old API is preserved but is basically a thin wrapper around this core
function.
Each of the filesystems are then updated to avoid calling
mark_page_accessed when it is known that the VM interfaces have already
done the job. There is a slight snag in that the timing of the
mark_page_accessed() has now changed so in rare cases it's possible a page
gets to the end of the LRU as PageReferenced where as previously it might
have been repromoted. This is expected to be rare but it's worth the
filesystem people thinking about it in case they see a problem with the
timing change. It is also the case that some filesystems may be marking
pages accessed that previously did not but it makes sense that filesystems
have consistent behaviour in this regard.
The test case used to evaulate this is a simple dd of a large file done
multiple times with the file deleted on each iterations. The size of the
file is 1/10th physical memory to avoid dirty page balancing. In the
async case it will be possible that the workload completes without even
hitting the disk and will have variable results but highlight the impact
of mark_page_accessed for async IO. The sync results are expected to be
more stable. The exception is tmpfs where the normal case is for the "IO"
to not hit the disk.
The test machine was single socket and UMA to avoid any scheduling or NUMA
artifacts. Throughput and wall times are presented for sync IO, only wall
times are shown for async as the granularity reported by dd and the
variability is unsuitable for comparison. As async results were variable
do to writback timings, I'm only reporting the maximum figures. The sync
results were stable enough to make the mean and stddev uninteresting.
The performance results are reported based on a run with no profiling.
Profile data is based on a separate run with oprofile running.
async dd
3.15.0-rc3 3.15.0-rc3
vanilla accessed-v2
ext3 Max elapsed 13.9900 ( 0.00%) 11.5900 ( 17.16%)
tmpfs Max elapsed 0.5100 ( 0.00%) 0.4900 ( 3.92%)
btrfs Max elapsed 12.8100 ( 0.00%) 12.7800 ( 0.23%)
ext4 Max elapsed 18.6000 ( 0.00%) 13.3400 ( 28.28%)
xfs Max elapsed 12.5600 ( 0.00%) 2.0900 ( 83.36%)
The XFS figure is a bit strange as it managed to avoid a worst case by
sheer luck but the average figures looked reasonable.
samples percentage
ext3 86107 0.9783 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
ext3 23833 0.2710 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext3 5036 0.0573 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
ext4 64566 0.8961 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
ext4 5322 0.0713 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext4 2869 0.0384 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs 62126 1.7675 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
xfs 1904 0.0554 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs 103 0.0030 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
btrfs 10655 0.1338 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
btrfs 2020 0.0273 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
btrfs 587 0.0079 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
tmpfs 59562 3.2628 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
tmpfs 1210 0.0696 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
tmpfs 94 0.0054 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't run init_page_accessed() against an uninitialised pointer]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
GFS2 has a transaction glock, which must be grabbed for every transaction, whose purpose is to deal with freezing the filesystem. Aside from this involving a large amount of locking, it is very easy to make the current fsfreeze code hang on unfreezing. This patch rewrites how gfs2 handles freezing the filesystem. The transaction glock is removed. In it's place is a freeze glock, which is cached (but not held) in a shared state by every node in the cluster when the filesystem is mounted. This lock only needs to be grabbed on freezing, and actions which need to be safe from freezing, like recovery. When a node wants to freeze the filesystem, it grabs this glock exclusively. When the freeze glock state changes on the nodes (either from shared to unlocked, or shared to exclusive), the filesystem does a special log flush. gfs2_log_flush() does all the work for flushing out the and shutting down the incore log, and then it tries to grab the freeze glock in a shared state again. Since the filesystem is stuck in gfs2_log_flush, no new transaction can start, and nothing can be written to disk. Unfreezing the filesytem simply involes dropping the freeze glock, allowing gfs2_log_flush() to grab and then release the shared lock, so it is cached for next time. However, in order for the unfreezing ioctl to occur, gfs2 needs to get a shared lock on the filesystem root directory inode to check permissions. If that glock has already been grabbed exclusively, fsfreeze will be unable to get the shared lock and unfreeze the filesystem. In order to allow the unfreeze, this patch makes gfs2 grab a shared lock on the filesystem root directory during the freeze, and hold it until it unfreezes the filesystem. The functions which need to grab a shared lock in order to allow the unfreeze ioctl to be issued now use the lock grabbed by the freeze code instead. The freeze and unfreeze code take care to make sure that this shared lock will not be dropped while another process is using it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
all callers have iov_length(iter->iov, iter->nr_segs) == iov_iter_count(iter) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
unmodified, for now Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
GFS2 has carried what is more or less a copy of the write_cache_pages() for some time. It seems that this copy has slipped behind the core code over time. This patch brings it back uptodate, and in addition adds the tracepoint which would otherwise be missing. We could go further, and eliminate some or all of the code duplication here. The issue is that if we do that, then the function we need to split out from the existing write_cache_pages(), which will look a lot like gfs2_jdata_write_pagevec(), would land up putting quite a lot of extra variables on the stack. I know that has been a problem in the past in the writeback code path, which is why I've hesitated to do it here. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We recently fixed the writeback of pages prior to performing direct i/o, however the initial fix was perhaps a bit heavy handed. There is no need to invalidate pages if the direct i/o is only a read, since they will be identical to what has been flushed to disk anyway. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
For historical reasons, we drop and retake the log lock in ->releasepage() however, since there is no reason why we cannot hold the log lock over the whole function, this allows some simplification. In particular, pinning a buffer is only ever done under the log lock, so it is possible here to remove the test for pinned buffers in the second loop, since it is impossible for that to happen (it is also tested in the first loop). As a result, two tests made later in the second loop become constants and can also be reduced to the only possible branch. So the net result is to remove various bits of unreachable code and make this more readable. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In patch 209806aba9d540dde3db0a5ce72307f85f33468f we allowed local deferred locks to be granted against a cached exclusive lock. That opened up a corner case which this patch now fixes. The solution to the problem is to check whether we have cached pages each time we do direct I/O and if so to unmap, flush and invalidate those pages. Since the glock state machine normally does that for us, mostly the code will be a no-op. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>