linux-stable.git/fs/super.c, branch v3.16

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

2014-06-04T23:54:11+00:00

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

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

2014-06-04T23:54:11+00:00

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

fs: Don't return 0 from get_anon_bdev

2014-04-16T18:53:08+00:00

Commit 9e30cc9595303b27b48 removed an internal mount. This
has the side-effect that rootfs now has FSID 0. Many
userspace utilities assume that st_dev in struct stat
is never 0, so this change breaks a number of tools in
early userspace.

Since we don't know how many userspace programs are affected,
make sure that FSID is at least 1.

References: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1666905
References: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/8557
Cc: 3.14 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bächler 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Tested-by: Alexandre Demers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()

2014-03-13T14:14:33+00:00

Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs().  This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior.  In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Anders Larsen 
Cc: Phillip Lougher 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Mikulas Patocka 
Cc: Petr Vandrovec 
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org

fs/super.c: sync ro remount after blocking writers

2014-01-31T19:29:36+00:00

Move sync_filesystem() after sb_prepare_remount_readonly().  If writers
sneak in anywhere from sync_filesystem() to sb_prepare_remount_readonly()
it can cause inodes to be dirtied and writeback to occur well after
sys_mount() has completely successfully.

This was spotted by corrupted ubifs filesystems on reboot, but appears
that it can cause issues with any filesystem using writeback.

Cc: Artem Bityutskiy 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
CC: Richard Weinberger 
Co-authored-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs/super.c: fix WARN on alloc_super() fail path

2014-01-22T00:19:42+00:00

On fail path alloc_super() calls destroy_super(), which issues a warning
if the sb's s_mounts list is not empty, in particular if it has not been
initialized.  That said s_mounts must be initialized in alloc_super()
before any possible failure, but currently it is initialized close to
the end of the function leading to a useless warning dumped to log if
either percpu_counter_init() or list_lru_init() fails.  Let's fix this.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get rid of s_files and files_lock

2013-11-09T05:16:20+00:00

The only thing we need it for is alt-sysrq-r (emergency remount r/o)
and these days we can do just as well without going through the
list of files.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

make freeing super_block rcu-delayed

2013-10-25T03:43:26+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

uninline destroy_super(), consolidate alloc_super()

2013-10-25T03:35:00+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs/super.c: fix lru_list leak for real

2013-10-01T17:11:21+00:00

Freeing ->s_{inode,dentry}_lru in deactivate_locked_super() is wrong;
the right place is destroy_super().  As it is, we leak them if sget()
decides that new superblock it has allocated (and never shown to
anybody) isn't needed and should be freed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro