linux.git/fs/f2fs/data.c, branch v3.10

Merge tag 'f2fs-for-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs

2013-05-08T22:11:48+00:00

Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
   - introduce a new gloabl lock scheme
   - add tracepoints on several major functions
   - fix the overall cleaning process focused on victim selection
   - apply the block plugging to merge IOs as much as possible
   - enhance management of free nids and its list
   - enhance the readahead mode for node pages
   - address several cretical deadlock conditions
   - reduce lock_page calls

  The other minor bug fixes and enhancements are as follows.
   - calculation mistakes: overflow
   - bio types: READ, READA, and READ_SYNC
   - fix the recovery flow, data races, and null pointer errors"

* tag 'f2fs-for-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (68 commits)
  f2fs: cover free_nid management with spin_lock
  f2fs: optimize scan_nat_page()
  f2fs: code cleanup for scan_nat_page() and build_free_nids()
  f2fs: bugfix for alloc_nid_failed()
  f2fs: recover when journal contains deleted files
  f2fs: continue to mount after failing recovery
  f2fs: avoid deadlock during evict after f2fs_gc
  f2fs: modify the number of issued pages to merge IOs
  f2fs: remove useless #include  as we're now using sysfs as debug entry.
  f2fs: fix inconsistent using of NM_WOUT_THRESHOLD
  f2fs: check truncation of mapping after lock_page
  f2fs: enhance alloc_nid and build_free_nids flows
  f2fs: add a tracepoint on f2fs_new_inode
  f2fs: check nid == 0 in add_free_nid
  f2fs: add REQ_META about metadata requests for submit
  f2fs: give a chance to merge IOs by IO scheduler
  f2fs: avoid frequent background GC
  f2fs: add tracepoints to debug checkpoint request
  f2fs: add tracepoints for write page operations
  f2fs: add tracepoints to debug the block allocation
  ...

f2fs: avoid deadlock during evict after f2fs_gc

2013-05-08T10:54:08+00:00

o Deadlock case #1

Thread 1:
- writeback_sb_inodes
 - do_writepages
  - f2fs_write_data_pages
   - write_cache_pages
    - f2fs_write_data_page
     - f2fs_balance_fs
      - wait mutex_lock(gc_mutex)

Thread 2:
- f2fs_balance_fs
 - mutex_lock(gc_mutex)
 - f2fs_gc
  - f2fs_iget
   - wait iget_locked(inode->i_lock)

Thread 3:
- do_unlinkat
 - iput
  - lock(inode->i_lock)
   - evict
    - inode_wait_for_writeback

o Deadlock case #2

Thread 1:
- __writeback_single_inode
 : set I_SYNC
  - do_writepages
   - f2fs_write_data_page
    - f2fs_balance_fs
     - f2fs_gc
      - iput
       - evict
        - inode_wait_for_writeback(I_SYNC)

In order to avoid this, even though iput is called with the zero-reference
count, we need to stop the eviction procedure if the inode is on writeback.
So this patch links f2fs_drop_inode which checks the I_SYNC flag.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

2013-05-08T03:16:25+00:00

Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Zach Brown 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise 
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

f2fs: check truncation of mapping after lock_page

2013-04-29T02:19:32+00:00

We call lock_page when we need to update a page after readpage.
Between grab and lock page, the page can be truncated by other thread.
So, we should check the page after lock_page whether it was truncated or not.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: give a chance to merge IOs by IO scheduler

2013-04-26T01:35:10+00:00

Previously, background GC submits many 4KB read requests to load victim blocks
and/or its (i)node blocks.

...
f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 1, page_index = 0xb61, blkaddr = 0x3b964ed
f2fs_gc : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 499854968 + 8 [0]
f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 1, page_index = 0xb6f, blkaddr = 0x3b964ee
f2fs_gc : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 499854976 + 8 [0]
f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 1, page_index = 0xb79, blkaddr = 0x3b964ef
f2fs_gc : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 499854984 + 8 [0]
...

However, by the fact that many IOs are sequential, we can give a chance to merge
the IOs by IO scheduler.
In order to do that, let's use blk_plug.

...
f2fs_gc : f2fs_iget: ino = 143
f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 143, page_index = 0x1c6, blkaddr = 0x2e6ee
f2fs_gc : f2fs_iget: ino = 143
f2fs_gc : f2fs_readpage: ino = 143, page_index = 0x1c7, blkaddr = 0x2e6ef
 : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1519616 + 8 [0]
 : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1519848 + 8 [0]
 : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1520432 + 96 [0]
 : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1520536 + 104 [0]
 : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1521008 + 112 [0]
 : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1521440 + 152 [0]
 : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1521688 + 144 [0]
 : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1522128 + 192 [0]
 : block_rq_complete: 8,16 R () 1523256 + 328 [0]
...

Note that this issue should be addressed in checkpoint, and some readahead
flows too.

Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: add tracepoints to debug the block allocation

2013-04-23T09:15:16+00:00

Add tracepoints to debug the block allocation & fallocate.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
[Jaegeuk: enhance information]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: add tracepoint for tracing the page i/o

2013-04-23T07:40:43+00:00

Add tracepoints for page i/o operations and block allocation
tracing during page read operation.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
[Jaegeuk: combine and modify the tracepoint structures]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: fix typo mistakes

2013-04-09T10:01:03+00:00

Fix typo mistakes.
1. I think that it should be 'L' instead of 'V'.
2. and try to fix 'Front' instead of 'Frone'

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: introduce a new global lock scheme

2013-04-09T09:21:18+00:00

In the previous version, f2fs uses global locks according to the usage types,
such as directory operations, block allocation, block write, and so on.

Reference the following lock types in f2fs.h.
enum lock_type {
	RENAME,		/* for renaming operations */
	DENTRY_OPS,	/* for directory operations */
	DATA_WRITE,	/* for data write */
	DATA_NEW,	/* for data allocation */
	DATA_TRUNC,	/* for data truncate */
	NODE_NEW,	/* for node allocation */
	NODE_TRUNC,	/* for node truncate */
	NODE_WRITE,	/* for node write */
	NR_LOCK_TYPE,
};

In that case, we lose the performance under the multi-threading environment,
since every types of operations must be conducted one at a time.

In order to address the problem, let's share the locks globally with a mutex
array regardless of any types.
So, let users grab a mutex and perform their jobs in parallel as much as
possbile.

For this, I propose a new global lock scheme as follows.

0. Data structure
 - f2fs_sb_info -> mutex_lock[NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS]
 - f2fs_sb_info -> node_write

1. mutex_lock_op(sbi)
 - try to get an avaiable lock from the array.
 - returns the index of the gottern lock variable.

2. mutex_unlock_op(sbi, index of the lock)
 - unlock the given index of the lock.

3. mutex_lock_all(sbi)
 - grab all the locks in the array before the checkpoint.

4. mutex_unlock_all(sbi)
 - release all the locks in the array after checkpoint.

5. block_operations()
 - call mutex_lock_all()
 - sync_dirty_dir_inodes()
 - grab node_write
 - sync_node_pages()

Note that,
 the pairs of mutex_lock_op()/mutex_unlock_op() and
 mutex_lock_all()/mutex_unlock_all() should be used together.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: add NULL pointer check

2013-04-03T08:27:52+00:00

Commit - fa9150a84c - replaces a call to generic_writepages() in
f2fs_write_data_pages() with write_cache_pages(), with a function pointer
argument pointing to routine: __f2fs_writepage.

  -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/fa9150a84ca333f68127097c4fa1eda4b3913a22

  This patch adds a NULL pointer check in f2fs_write_data_pages() to avoid
  a possible NULL pointer dereference, in case if - mapping->a_ops->writepage -
  is NULL.

Signed-off-by: P J P 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim