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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/gfs2/glock.c, branch tegra-11.2.11</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>GFS2: Fix recovery stuck bug (try #2)</title>
<updated>2010-08-02T09:15:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Whitehouse</name>
<email>swhiteho@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-08-02T09:15:17+00:00</published>
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This is a clean up of the code which deals with LM_FLAG_NOEXP
which aims to remove any possible race conditions by using
gl_spin to cover the gap between testing for the LM_FLAG_NOEXP
and the GL_FROZEN flag.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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This is a clean up of the code which deals with LM_FLAG_NOEXP
which aims to remove any possible race conditions by using
gl_spin to cover the gap between testing for the LM_FLAG_NOEXP
and the GL_FROZEN flag.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>Revert "GFS2: recovery stuck on transaction lock"</title>
<updated>2010-07-29T13:39:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Whitehouse</name>
<email>swhiteho@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-07-29T13:39:29+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit b7dc2df5725fe7355fd76000ead7e39728e1b8a9.

The initial patch didn't quite work since it doesn't cover all
the possible routes by which the GLF_FROZEN flag might be set.
A revised fix is coming up in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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This reverts commit b7dc2df5725fe7355fd76000ead7e39728e1b8a9.

The initial patch didn't quite work since it doesn't cover all
the possible routes by which the GLF_FROZEN flag might be set.
A revised fix is coming up in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>GFS2: Make "try" lock not try quite so hard</title>
<updated>2010-07-29T08:37:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Whitehouse</name>
<email>swhiteho@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-07-23T13:05:51+00:00</published>
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This looks like a big change, but in reality its only a single line of actual
code change, the rest is just moving a function to before its new caller.
The "try" flag for glocks is a rather subtle and delicate setting since it
requires that the state machine tries just hard enough to ensure that it has
a good chance of getting the requested lock, but no so hard that the
request can land up blocked behind another.

The patch adds in an additional check which will fail any queued try
locks if there is another request blocking the try lock request which
is not granted and compatible, nor in progress already. The check is made
only after all pending locks which may be granted have been granted.

I've checked this with the reproducer for the reported flock bug which
this is intended to fix, and it now passes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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This looks like a big change, but in reality its only a single line of actual
code change, the rest is just moving a function to before its new caller.
The "try" flag for glocks is a rather subtle and delicate setting since it
requires that the state machine tries just hard enough to ensure that it has
a good chance of getting the requested lock, but no so hard that the
request can land up blocked behind another.

The patch adds in an additional check which will fail any queued try
locks if there is another request blocking the try lock request which
is not granted and compatible, nor in progress already. The check is made
only after all pending locks which may be granted have been granted.

I've checked this with the reproducer for the reported flock bug which
this is intended to fix, and it now passes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>mm: add context argument to shrinker callback</title>
<updated>2010-07-19T04:56:17+00:00</updated>
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<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-07-19T04:56:17+00:00</published>
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The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback
to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink
caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass the shrinker
structure to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure
in the context the shrinker needs to operate on and get back to it in the
callback via container_of().

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback
to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink
caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass the shrinker
structure to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure
in the context the shrinker needs to operate on and get back to it in the
callback via container_of().

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<title>GFS2: recovery stuck on transaction lock</title>
<updated>2010-07-15T08:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bob Peterson</name>
<email>rpeterso@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-23T15:44:47+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes bugzilla bug #590878: GFS2: recovery stuck on
transaction lock.  We set the frozen flag on the glock when we receive
a completion that cannot be delivered due to blocked locks. At that
point we check to see whether the first waiting holder has the noexp
flag set. If the noexp lock is queued later, then we need to unfreeze
the glock at that point in time, namely, in the glock work function.

This patch was originally written by Steve Whitehouse, but since
he's on holiday, I'm submitting it.  It's been well tested with a
complex recovery test called revolver.

Signed-off-by: Steve Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch fixes bugzilla bug #590878: GFS2: recovery stuck on
transaction lock.  We set the frozen flag on the glock when we receive
a completion that cannot be delivered due to blocked locks. At that
point we check to see whether the first waiting holder has the noexp
flag set. If the noexp lock is queued later, then we need to unfreeze
the glock at that point in time, namely, in the glock work function.

This patch was originally written by Steve Whitehouse, but since
he's on holiday, I'm submitting it.  It's been well tested with a
complex recovery test called revolver.

Signed-off-by: Steve Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>GFS2: glock livelock</title>
<updated>2010-04-14T15:48:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bob Peterson</name>
<email>rpeterso@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-14T15:58:16+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes a couple gfs2 problems with the reclaiming of
unlinked dinodes.  First, there were a couple of livelocks where
everything would come to a halt waiting for a glock that was
seemingly held by a process that no longer existed.  In fact, the
process did exist, it just had the wrong pid number in the holder
information.  Second, there was a lock ordering problem between
inode locking and glock locking.  Third, glock/inode contention
could sometimes cause inodes to be improperly marked invalid by
iget_failed.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch fixes a couple gfs2 problems with the reclaiming of
unlinked dinodes.  First, there were a couple of livelocks where
everything would come to a halt waiting for a glock that was
seemingly held by a process that no longer existed.  In fact, the
process did exist, it just had the wrong pid number in the holder
information.  Second, there was a lock ordering problem between
inode locking and glock locking.  Third, glock/inode contention
could sometimes cause inodes to be improperly marked invalid by
iget_failed.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>GFS2: print glock numbers in hex</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T14:09:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bob Peterson</name>
<email>rpeterso@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-23T17:20:00+00:00</published>
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This patch changes glock numbers from printing in decimal to hex.
Since DLM prints corresponding resource IDs in hex, it makes debugging
easier.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch changes glock numbers from printing in decimal to hex.
Since DLM prints corresponding resource IDs in hex, it makes debugging
easier.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>GFS2: Remove loopy umount code</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T14:07:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Whitehouse</name>
<email>swhiteho@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-08T16:14:29+00:00</published>
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As a consequence of the previous patch, we can now remove the
loop which used to be required due to the circular dependency
between the inodes and glocks. Instead we can just invalidate
the inodes, and then clear up any glocks which are left.

Also we no longer need the rwsem since there is no longer any
danger of the inode invalidation calling back into the glock
code (and from there back into the inode code).

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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As a consequence of the previous patch, we can now remove the
loop which used to be required due to the circular dependency
between the inodes and glocks. Instead we can just invalidate
the inodes, and then clear up any glocks which are left.

Also we no longer need the rwsem since there is no longer any
danger of the inode invalidation calling back into the glock
code (and from there back into the inode code).

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>GFS2: Metadata address space clean up</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T14:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Whitehouse</name>
<email>swhiteho@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-08T12:12:13+00:00</published>
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Since the start of GFS2, an "extra" inode has been used to store
the metadata belonging to each inode. The only reason for using
this inode was to have an extra address space, the other fields
were unused. This means that the memory usage was rather inefficient.

The reason for keeping each inode's metadata in a separate address
space is that when glocks are requested on remote nodes, we need to
be able to efficiently locate the data and metadata which relating
to that glock (inode) in order to sync or sync and invalidate it
(depending on the remotely requested lock mode).

This patch adds a new type of glock, which has in addition to
its normal fields, has an address space. This applies to all
inode and rgrp glocks (but to no other glock types which remain
as before). As a result, we no longer need to have the second
inode.

This results in three major improvements:
 1. A saving of approx 25% of memory used in caching inodes
 2. A removal of the circular dependency between inodes and glocks
 3. No confusion between "normal" and "metadata" inodes in super.c

Although the first of these is the more immediately apparent, the
second is just as important as it now enables a number of clean
ups at umount time. Those will be the subject of future patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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Since the start of GFS2, an "extra" inode has been used to store
the metadata belonging to each inode. The only reason for using
this inode was to have an extra address space, the other fields
were unused. This means that the memory usage was rather inefficient.

The reason for keeping each inode's metadata in a separate address
space is that when glocks are requested on remote nodes, we need to
be able to efficiently locate the data and metadata which relating
to that glock (inode) in order to sync or sync and invalidate it
(depending on the remotely requested lock mode).

This patch adds a new type of glock, which has in addition to
its normal fields, has an address space. This applies to all
inode and rgrp glocks (but to no other glock types which remain
as before). As a result, we no longer need to have the second
inode.

This results in three major improvements:
 1. A saving of approx 25% of memory used in caching inodes
 2. A removal of the circular dependency between inodes and glocks
 3. No confusion between "normal" and "metadata" inodes in super.c

Although the first of these is the more immediately apparent, the
second is just as important as it now enables a number of clean
ups at umount time. Those will be the subject of future patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>GFS2: Extend umount wait coverage to full glock lifetime</title>
<updated>2010-02-03T09:56:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Whitehouse</name>
<email>swhiteho@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-29T15:21:27+00:00</published>
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Although all glocks are, by the time of the umount glock wait,
scheduled for demotion, some of them haven't made it far
enough through the process for the original set of waiting
code to wait for them.

This extends the ref count to the whole glock lifetime in order
to ensure that the waiting does catch all glocks. It does make
it a bit more invasive, but it seems the only sensible solution
at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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Although all glocks are, by the time of the umount glock wait,
scheduled for demotion, some of them haven't made it far
enough through the process for the original set of waiting
code to wait for them.

This extends the ref count to the whole glock lifetime in order
to ensure that the waiting does catch all glocks. It does make
it a bit more invasive, but it seems the only sensible solution
at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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