linux.git/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c, branch v3.1

Btrfs: don't walk around with task->state != TASK_RUNNING

2010-05-25T14:34:58+00:00

Yan Zheng noticed two places we were doing a lot of work
without task->state set to TASK_RUNNING.  This sets the state
properly after we get ready to sleep but decide not to.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

Btrfs: fix deadlock on async thread startup

2009-10-05T13:44:45+00:00

The btrfs async worker threads are used for a wide variety of things,
including processing bio end_io functions.  This means that when
the endio threads aren't running, the rest of the FS isn't
able to do the final processing required to clear PageWriteback.

The endio threads also try to exit as they become idle and
start more as the work piles up.  The problem is that starting more
threads means kthreadd may need to allocate ram, and that allocation
may wait until the global number of writeback pages on the system is
below a certain limit.

The result of that throttling is that end IO threads wait on
kthreadd, who is waiting on IO to end, which will never happen.

This commit fixes the deadlock by handing off thread startup to a
dedicated thread.  It also fixes a bug where the on-demand thread
creation was creating far too many threads because it didn't take into
account threads being started by other procs.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

Btrfs: Fix async thread shutdown race

2009-09-16T00:20:17+00:00

It was possible for an async worker thread to be selected to
receive a new work item, but exit before the work item was
actually placed into that thread's work list.

This commit fixes the race by incrementing the num_pending
counter earlier, and making sure to check the number of pending
work items before a thread exits.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

Btrfs: fix worker thread double spin_lock_irq

2009-09-16T00:20:17+00:00

The exit-on-idle code for async worker threads was incorrectly
calling spin_lock_irq with interrupts already off.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

Btrfs: fix async worker startup race

2009-09-16T00:20:16+00:00

After a new worker thread starts, it is placed into the
list of idle threads.  But, this may race with a
check for idle done by the worker thread itself, resulting
in a double list_add operation.

This fix adds a check to make sure the idle thread addition
is done properly.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

Btrfs: reduce worker thread spin_lock_irq hold times

2009-09-11T17:31:04+00:00

This changes the btrfs worker threads to batch work items
into a local list.  It allows us to pull work items in
large chunks and significantly reduces the number of times we
need to take the worker thread spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

Btrfs: keep irqs on more often in the worker threads

2009-09-11T17:31:04+00:00

The btrfs worker thread spinlock was being used both for the
queueing of IO and for the processing of ordered events.

The ordered events never happen from end_io handlers, and so they
don't need to use the _irq version of spinlocks.  This adds a
dedicated lock to the ordered lists so they don't have to run
with irqs off.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

Btrfs: Allow worker threads to exit when idle

2009-09-11T17:30:56+00:00

The Btrfs worker threads don't currently die off after they have
been idle for a while, leading to a lot of threads sitting around
doing nothing for each mount.

Also, they are unable to start atomically (from end_io hanlders).

This commit reworks the worker threads so they can be started
from end_io handlers (just setting a flag that asks for a thread
to be added at a later date) and so they can exit if they
have been idle for a long time.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

Btrfs: convert nested spin_lock_irqsave to spin_lock

2009-07-22T20:49:00+00:00

If spin_lock_irqsave is called twice in a row with the same second
argument, the interrupt state at the point of the second call overwrites
the value saved by the first call.  Indeed, the second call does not need
to save the interrupt state, so it is changed to a simple spin_lock.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason