linux-toradex.git/fs, branch v3.14.25

fs/superblock: avoid locking counting inodes and dentries before reclaiming them

2014-11-21T17:23:07+00:00

commit d23da150a37c9fe3cc83dbaf71b3e37fd434ed52 upstream.

We remove the call to grab_super_passive in call to super_cache_count.
This becomes a scalability bottleneck as multiple threads are trying to do
memory reclamation, e.g.  when we are doing large amount of file read and
page cache is under pressure.  The cached objects quickly got reclaimed
down to 0 and we are aborting the cache_scan() reclaim.  But counting
creates a log jam acquiring the sb_lock.

We are holding the shrinker_rwsem which ensures the safety of call to
list_lru_count_node() and s_op->nr_cached_objects.  The shrinker is
unregistered now before ->kill_sb() so the operation is safe when we are
doing unmount.

The impact will depend heavily on the machine and the workload but for a
small machine using postmark tuned to use 4xRAM size the results were

                                  3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                                     vanilla         shrinker-v1r1
Ops/sec Transactions         21.00 (  0.00%)       24.00 ( 14.29%)
Ops/sec FilesCreate          39.00 (  0.00%)       44.00 ( 12.82%)
Ops/sec CreateTransact       10.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 ( 20.00%)
Ops/sec FilesDeleted       6202.00 (  0.00%)     6202.00 (  0.00%)
Ops/sec DeleteTransact       11.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 (  9.09%)
Ops/sec DataRead/MB          25.97 (  0.00%)       29.10 ( 12.05%)
Ops/sec DataWrite/MB         49.99 (  0.00%)       56.02 ( 12.06%)

ffsb running in a configuration that is meant to simulate a mail server showed

                                 3.15.0-rc5             3.15.0-rc5
                                    vanilla          shrinker-v1r1
Ops/sec readall           9402.63 (  0.00%)      9567.97 (  1.76%)
Ops/sec create            4695.45 (  0.00%)      4735.00 (  0.84%)
Ops/sec delete             173.72 (  0.00%)       179.83 (  3.52%)
Ops/sec Transactions     14271.80 (  0.00%)     14482.81 (  1.48%)
Ops/sec Read                37.00 (  0.00%)        37.60 (  1.62%)
Ops/sec Write               18.20 (  0.00%)        18.30 (  0.55%)

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Tested-by: Yuanhan Liu 
Cc: Bob Liu 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/superblock: unregister sb shrinker before ->kill_sb()

2014-11-21T17:23:07+00:00

commit 28f2cd4f6da24a1aa06c226618ed5ad69e13df64 upstream.

This series is aimed at regressions noticed during reclaim activity.  The
first two patches are shrinker patches that were posted ages ago but never
merged for reasons that are unclear to me.  I'm posting them again to see
if there was a reason they were dropped or if they just got lost.  Dave?
Time?  The last patch adjusts proportional reclaim.  Yuanhan Liu, can you
retest the vm scalability test cases on a larger machine?  Hugh, does this
work for you on the memcg test cases?

Based on ext4, I get the following results but unfortunately my larger
test machines are all unavailable so this is based on a relatively small
machine.

postmark
                                  3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                                     vanilla       proportion-v1r4
Ops/sec Transactions         21.00 (  0.00%)       25.00 ( 19.05%)
Ops/sec FilesCreate          39.00 (  0.00%)       45.00 ( 15.38%)
Ops/sec CreateTransact       10.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 ( 20.00%)
Ops/sec FilesDeleted       6202.00 (  0.00%)     6202.00 (  0.00%)
Ops/sec DeleteTransact       11.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 (  9.09%)
Ops/sec DataRead/MB          25.97 (  0.00%)       30.02 ( 15.59%)
Ops/sec DataWrite/MB         49.99 (  0.00%)       57.78 ( 15.58%)

ffsb (mail server simulator)
                                 3.15.0-rc5             3.15.0-rc5
                                    vanilla        proportion-v1r4
Ops/sec readall           9402.63 (  0.00%)      9805.74 (  4.29%)
Ops/sec create            4695.45 (  0.00%)      4781.39 (  1.83%)
Ops/sec delete             173.72 (  0.00%)       177.23 (  2.02%)
Ops/sec Transactions     14271.80 (  0.00%)     14764.37 (  3.45%)
Ops/sec Read                37.00 (  0.00%)        38.50 (  4.05%)
Ops/sec Write               18.20 (  0.00%)        18.50 (  1.65%)

dd of a large file
                                3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                                   vanilla       proportion-v1r4
WallTime DownloadTar       75.00 (  0.00%)       61.00 ( 18.67%)
WallTime DD               423.00 (  0.00%)      401.00 (  5.20%)
WallTime Delete             2.00 (  0.00%)        5.00 (-150.00%)

stutter (times mmap latency during large amounts of IO)

                            3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                               vanilla       proportion-v1r4
Unit >5ms Delays  80252.0000 (  0.00%)  81523.0000 ( -1.58%)
Unit Mmap min         8.2118 (  0.00%)      8.3206 ( -1.33%)
Unit Mmap mean       17.4614 (  0.00%)     17.2868 (  1.00%)
Unit Mmap stddev     24.9059 (  0.00%)     34.6771 (-39.23%)
Unit Mmap max      2811.6433 (  0.00%)   2645.1398 (  5.92%)
Unit Mmap 90%        20.5098 (  0.00%)     18.3105 ( 10.72%)
Unit Mmap 93%        22.9180 (  0.00%)     20.1751 ( 11.97%)
Unit Mmap 95%        25.2114 (  0.00%)     22.4988 ( 10.76%)
Unit Mmap 99%        46.1430 (  0.00%)     43.5952 (  5.52%)
Unit Ideal  Tput     85.2623 (  0.00%)     78.8906 (  7.47%)
Unit Tput min        44.0666 (  0.00%)     43.9609 (  0.24%)
Unit Tput mean       45.5646 (  0.00%)     45.2009 (  0.80%)
Unit Tput stddev      0.9318 (  0.00%)      1.1084 (-18.95%)
Unit Tput max        46.7375 (  0.00%)     46.7539 ( -0.04%)

This patch (of 3):

We will like to unregister the sb shrinker before ->kill_sb().  This will
allow cached objects to be counted without call to grab_super_passive() to
update ref count on sb.  We want to avoid locking during memory
reclamation especially when we are skipping the memory reclaim when we are
out of cached objects.

This is safe because grab_super_passive does a try-lock on the
sb->s_umount now, and so if we are in the unmount process, it won't ever
block.  That means what used to be a deadlock and races we were avoiding
by using grab_super_passive() is now:

        shrinker                        umount

        down_read(shrinker_rwsem)
                                        down_write(sb->s_umount)
                                        shrinker_unregister
                                          down_write(shrinker_rwsem)
                                            
        grab_super_passive(sb)
          down_read_trylock(sb->s_umount)
            
        
        ....
        
        up_read(shrinker_rwsem)
                                          
                                          
                                          up_write(shrinker_rwsem)
                                        ->kill_sb()
                                        ....

So it is safe to deregister the shrinker before ->kill_sb().

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Tested-by: Yuanhan Liu 
Cc: Bob Liu 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

callers of iov_copy_from_user_atomic() don't need pagecache_disable()

2014-11-21T17:23:06+00:00

commit 9e8c2af96e0d2d5fe298dd796fb6bc16e888a48d upstream.

... it does that itself (via kmap_atomic())

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: remove read_cache_page_async()

2014-11-21T17:23:06+00:00

commit 67f9fd91f93c582b7de2ab9325b6e179db77e4d5 upstream.

This patch removes read_cache_page_async() which wasn't really needed
anywhere and simplifies the code around it a bit.

read_cache_page_async() is useful when we want to read a page into the
cache without waiting for it to complete.  This happens when the
appropriate callback 'filler' doesn't complete its read operation and
releases the page lock immediately, and instead queues a different
completion routine to do that.  This never actually happened anywhere in
the code.

read_cache_page_async() had 3 different callers:

- read_cache_page() which is the sync version, it would just wait for
  the requested read to complete using wait_on_page_read().

- JFFS2 would call it from jffs2_gc_fetch_page(), but the filler
  function it supplied doesn't do any async reads, and would complete
  before the filler function returns - making it actually a sync read.

- CRAMFS would call it using the read_mapping_page_async() wrapper, with
  a similar story to JFFS2 - the filler function doesn't do anything that
  reminds async reads and would always complete before the filler function
  returns.

To sum it up, the code in mm/filemap.c never took advantage of having
read_cache_page_async().  While there are filler callbacks that do async
reads (such as the block one), we always called it with the
read_cache_page().

This patch adds a mandatory wait for read to complete when adding a new
page to the cache, and removes read_cache_page_async() and its wrappers.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees

2014-11-21T17:23:06+00:00

commit 0cd6144aadd2afd19d1aca880153530c52957604 upstream.

shmem mappings already contain exceptional entries where swap slot
information is remembered.

To be able to store eviction information for regular page cache, prepare
every site dealing with the radix trees directly to handle entries other
than pages.

The common lookup functions will filter out non-page entries and return
NULL for page cache holes, just as before.  But provide a raw version of
the API which returns non-page entries as well, and switch shmem over to
use it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Bob Liu 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Luigi Semenzato 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Metin Doslu 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Roman Gushchin 
Cc: Ryan Mallon 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: filemap: move radix tree hole searching here

2014-11-21T17:23:06+00:00

commit e7b563bb2a6f4d974208da46200784b9c5b5a47e upstream.

The radix tree hole searching code is only used for page cache, for
example the readahead code trying to get a a picture of the area
surrounding a fault.

It sufficed to rely on the radix tree definition of holes, which is
"empty tree slot".  But this is about to change, though, as shadow page
descriptors will be stored in the page cache after the actual pages get
evicted from memory.

Move the functions over to mm/filemap.c and make them native page cache
operations, where they can later be adapted to handle the new definition
of "page cache hole".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Bob Liu 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Luigi Semenzato 
Cc: Metin Doslu 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Roman Gushchin 
Cc: Ryan Mallon 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

GFS2: Fix address space from page function

2014-11-21T17:23:05+00:00

commit 1b2ad41214c9bf6e8befa000f0522629194bf540 upstream.

Now that rgrps use the address space which is part of the super
block, we need to update gfs2_mapping2sbd() to take account of
that. The only way to do that easily is to use a different set
of address_space_operations for rgrps.

Reported-by: Abhi Das 
Tested-by: Abhi Das 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

NFSv4.1: nfs41_clear_delegation_stateid shouldn't trust NFS_DELEGATED_STATE

2014-11-21T17:23:04+00:00

commit 0c116cadd94b16b30b1dd90d38b2784d9b39b01a upstream.

This patch removes the assumption made previously, that we only need to
check the delegation stateid when it matches the stateid on a cached
open.

If we believe that we hold a delegation for this file, then we must assume
that its stateid may have been revoked or expired too. If we don't test it
then our state recovery process may end up caching open/lock state in a
situation where it should not.
We therefore rename the function nfs41_clear_delegation_stateid as
nfs41_check_delegation_stateid, and change it to always run through the
delegation stateid test and recovery process as outlined in RFC5661.

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAN-5tyHwG=Cn2Q9KsHWadewjpTTy_K26ee+UnSvHvG4192p-Xw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

NFSv4: Fix races between nfs_remove_bad_delegation() and delegation return

2014-11-21T17:23:04+00:00

commit 869f9dfa4d6d57b79e0afc3af14772c2a023eeb1 upstream.

Any attempt to call nfs_remove_bad_delegation() while a delegation is being
returned is currently a no-op. This means that we can end up looping
forever in nfs_end_delegation_return() if something causes the delegation
to be revoked.
This patch adds a mechanism whereby the state recovery code can communicate
to the delegation return code that the delegation is no longer valid and
that it should not be used when reclaiming state.
It also changes the return value for nfs4_handle_delegation_recall_error()
to ensure that nfs_end_delegation_return() does not reattempt the lock
reclaim before state recovery is done.

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAN-5tyHwG=Cn2Q9KsHWadewjpTTy_K26ee+UnSvHvG4192p-Xw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

nfs: Fix use of uninitialized variable in nfs_getattr()

2014-11-21T17:23:04+00:00

commit 16caf5b6101d03335b386e77e9e14136f989be87 upstream.

Variable 'err' needn't be initialized when nfs_getattr() uses it to
check whether it should call generic_fillattr() or not. That can result
in spurious error returns. Initialize 'err' properly.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman