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<title>gfs2: Add missing else in trans_add_meta/data</title>
<updated>2015-10-01T17:00:59+00:00</updated>
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<name>Bob Peterson</name>
<email>rpeterso@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2015-10-01T16:47:31+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes a timing window that causes a segfault.
The problem is that bd can remain NULL throughout the function
and then reference that NULL pointer if the bh-&gt;b_private starts
out NULL, then someone sets it to non-NULL inside the locking.
In that case, bd still needs to be set.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch fixes a timing window that causes a segfault.
The problem is that bd can remain NULL throughout the function
and then reference that NULL pointer if the bh-&gt;b_private starts
out NULL, then someone sets it to non-NULL inside the locking.
In that case, bd still needs to be set.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>GFS2: Move glock superblock pointer to field gl_name</title>
<updated>2015-09-03T18:33:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bob Peterson</name>
<email>rpeterso@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2015-03-16T16:52:05+00:00</published>
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What uniquely identifies a glock in the glock hash table is not
gl_name, but gl_name and its superblock pointer. This patch makes
the gl_name field correspond to a unique glock identifier. That will
allow us to simplify hashing with a future patch, since the hash
algorithm can then take the gl_name and hash its components in one
operation.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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What uniquely identifies a glock in the glock hash table is not
gl_name, but gl_name and its superblock pointer. This patch makes
the gl_name field correspond to a unique glock identifier. That will
allow us to simplify hashing with a future patch, since the hash
algorithm can then take the gl_name and hash its components in one
operation.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>GFS2: update freeze code to use freeze/thaw_super on all nodes</title>
<updated>2014-11-17T10:36:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Marzinski</name>
<email>bmarzins@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2014-11-14T02:42:04+00:00</published>
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The current gfs2 freezing code is considerably more complicated than it
should be because it doesn't use the vfs freezing code on any node except
the one that begins the freeze.  This is because it needs to acquire a
cluster glock before calling the vfs code to prevent a deadlock, and
without the new freeze_super and thaw_super hooks, that was impossible. To
deal with the issue, gfs2 had to do some hacky locking tricks to make sure
that a frozen node couldn't be holding on a lock it needed to do the
unfreeze ioctl.

This patch makes use of the new hooks to simply the gfs2 locking code. Now,
all the nodes in the cluster freeze and thaw in exactly the same way. Every
node in the cluster caches the freeze glock in the shared state.  The new
freeze_super hook allows the freezing node to grab this freeze glock in
the exclusive state without first calling the vfs freeze_super function.
All the nodes in the cluster see this lock change, and call the vfs
freeze_super function. The vfs locking code guarantees that the nodes can't
get stuck holding the glocks necessary to unfreeze the system.  To
unfreeze, the freezing node uses the new thaw_super hook to drop the freeze
glock. Again, all the nodes notice this, reacquire the glock in shared mode
and call the vfs thaw_super function.

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

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The current gfs2 freezing code is considerably more complicated than it
should be because it doesn't use the vfs freezing code on any node except
the one that begins the freeze.  This is because it needs to acquire a
cluster glock before calling the vfs code to prevent a deadlock, and
without the new freeze_super and thaw_super hooks, that was impossible. To
deal with the issue, gfs2 had to do some hacky locking tricks to make sure
that a frozen node couldn't be holding on a lock it needed to do the
unfreeze ioctl.

This patch makes use of the new hooks to simply the gfs2 locking code. Now,
all the nodes in the cluster freeze and thaw in exactly the same way. Every
node in the cluster caches the freeze glock in the shared state.  The new
freeze_super hook allows the freezing node to grab this freeze glock in
the exclusive state without first calling the vfs freeze_super function.
All the nodes in the cluster see this lock change, and call the vfs
freeze_super function. The vfs locking code guarantees that the nodes can't
get stuck holding the glocks necessary to unfreeze the system.  To
unfreeze, the freezing node uses the new thaw_super hook to drop the freeze
glock. Again, all the nodes notice this, reacquire the glock in shared mode
and call the vfs thaw_super function.

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

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<entry>
<title>GFS2: use _RET_IP_ instead of (unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0)</title>
<updated>2014-10-08T08:57:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Frederick</name>
<email>fabf@skynet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-03T18:15:36+00:00</published>
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use macro definition

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;

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use macro definition

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>GFS2: remove transaction glock</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T09:04:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Marzinski</name>
<email>bmarzins@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-02T03:26:55+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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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 &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>GFS2: Use pr_&lt;level&gt; more consistently</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T09:30:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-06T20:10:45+00:00</published>
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Add pr_fmt, remove embedded "GFS2: " prefixes.
This now consistently emits lower case "gfs2: " for each message.

Other miscellanea around these changes:

o Add missing newlines
o Coalesce formats
o Realign arguments

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

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Add pr_fmt, remove embedded "GFS2: " prefixes.
This now consistently emits lower case "gfs2: " for each message.

Other miscellanea around these changes:

o Add missing newlines
o Coalesce formats
o Realign arguments

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

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<entry>
<title>GFS2: global conversion to pr_foo()</title>
<updated>2014-03-06T17:34:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Frederick</name>
<email>fabf@skynet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-05T14:06:42+00:00</published>
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-All printk(KERN_foo converted to pr_foo().
-Messages updated to fit in 80 columns.
-fs_macros converted as well.
-fs_printk removed.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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-All printk(KERN_foo converted to pr_foo().
-Messages updated to fit in 80 columns.
-fs_macros converted as well.
-fs_printk removed.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>GFS2: Move log buffer accounting to transaction</title>
<updated>2014-02-24T19:49:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Whitehouse</name>
<email>swhiteho@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2014-02-21T21:55:33+00:00</published>
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Now we have a master transaction into which other transactions
are merged, the accounting can be done using this master
transaction. We no longer require the superblock fields which
were being used for this function.

In addition, this allows for a clean up in calc_reserved()
making it rather easier understand. Also, by reducing the
number of variables used to track the buffers being added
and removed from the journal, a number of error checks are
now no longer required.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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Now we have a master transaction into which other transactions
are merged, the accounting can be done using this master
transaction. We no longer require the superblock fields which
were being used for this function.

In addition, this allows for a clean up in calc_reserved()
making it rather easier understand. Also, by reducing the
number of variables used to track the buffers being added
and removed from the journal, a number of error checks are
now no longer required.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>GFS2: Move log buffer lists into transaction</title>
<updated>2014-02-24T16:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Whitehouse</name>
<email>swhiteho@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-21T15:22:35+00:00</published>
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Over time, we hope to be able to improve the concurrency available
in the log code. This is one small step towards that, by moving
the buffer lists from the super block, and into the transaction
structure, so that each transaction builds its own buffer lists.

At transaction commit time, the buffer lists are merged into
the currently accumulating transaction. That transaction then
is passed into the before and after commit functions at journal
flush time. Thus there should be no change in overall behaviour
yet.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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Over time, we hope to be able to improve the concurrency available
in the log code. This is one small step towards that, by moving
the buffer lists from the super block, and into the transaction
structure, so that each transaction builds its own buffer lists.

At transaction commit time, the buffer lists are merged into
the currently accumulating transaction. That transaction then
is passed into the before and after commit functions at journal
flush time. Thus there should be no change in overall behaviour
yet.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>GFS2: Reduce struct gfs2_trans in size</title>
<updated>2014-02-21T11:52:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Whitehouse</name>
<email>swhiteho@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-21T11:52:00+00:00</published>
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A couple of "int" fields were being used as boolean values
so we can make them bitfields of one bit, and put them in
what might otherwise be a hole in the structure with 64
bit alignment.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
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A couple of "int" fields were being used as boolean values
so we can make them bitfields of one bit, and put them in
what might otherwise be a hole in the structure with 64
bit alignment.

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