linux.git/fs/jbd2, branch v3.17-rc2

sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions

2014-07-16T13:10:39+00:00

The current "wait_on_bit" interface requires an 'action'
function to be provided which does the actual waiting.
There are over 20 such functions, many of them identical.
Most cases can be satisfied by one of just two functions, one
which uses io_schedule() and one which just uses schedule().

So:
 Rename wait_on_bit and        wait_on_bit_lock to
        wait_on_bit_action and wait_on_bit_lock_action
 to make it explicit that they need an action function.

 Introduce new wait_on_bit{,_lock} and wait_on_bit{,_lock}_io
 which are *not* given an action function but implicitly use
 a standard one.
 The decision to error-out if a signal is pending is now made
 based on the 'mode' argument rather than being encoded in the action
 function.

 All instances of the old wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock which
 can use the new version have been changed accordingly and their
 action functions have been discarded.
 wait_on_bit{_lock} does not return any specific error code in the
 event of a signal so the caller must check for non-zero and
 interpolate their own error code as appropriate.

The wait_on_bit() call in __fscache_wait_on_invalidate() was
ambiguous as it specified TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE but used
fscache_wait_bit_interruptible as an action function.
David Howells confirms this should be uniformly
"uninterruptible"

The main remaining user of wait_on_bit{,_lock}_action is NFS
which needs to use a freezer-aware schedule() call.

A comment in fs/gfs2/glock.c notes that having multiple 'action'
functions is useful as they display differently in the 'wchan'
field of 'ps'. (and /proc/$PID/wchan).
As the new bit_wait{,_io} functions are tagged "__sched", they
will not show up at all, but something higher in the stack.  So
the distinction will still be visible, only with different
function names (gds2_glock_wait versus gfs2_glock_dq_wait in the
gfs2/glock.c case).

Since first version of this patch (against 3.15) two new action
functions appeared, on in NFS and one in CIFS.  CIFS also now
uses an action function that makes the same freezer aware
schedule call as NFS.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Acked-by: David Howells  (fscache, keys)
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse  (gfs2)
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Steve French 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051603.28027.72349.stgit@notabene.brown
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ext4: disable synchronous transaction batching if max_batch_time==0

2014-07-05T23:18:22+00:00

The mount manpage says of the max_batch_time option,

	This optimization can be turned off entirely
	by setting max_batch_time to 0.

But the code doesn't do that.  So fix the code to do
that.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()

2014-04-18T12:20:48+00:00

Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

jbd2: improve error messages for inconsistent journal heads

2014-03-12T20:38:03+00:00

Fix up error messages printed when the transaction pointers in a
journal head are inconsistent.  This improves the error messages which
are printed when running xfstests generic/068 in data=journal mode.
See the bug report at: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60786

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in jbd2_journal_forget()

2014-03-09T05:56:58+00:00

It's not needed until we start trying to modifying fields in the
journal_head which are protected by j_list_lock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in journal_get_create_access()

2014-03-09T05:46:23+00:00

It's not needed until we start trying to modifying fields in the
journal_head which are protected by j_list_lock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

jbd2: check jh->b_transaction without taking j_list_lock

2014-03-09T05:07:19+00:00

jh->b_transaction is adequately protected for reading by the
jbd_lock_bh_state(bh), so we don't need to take j_list_lock in
__journal_try_to_free_buffer().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

jbd2: add transaction to checkpoint list earlier

2014-03-09T03:34:10+00:00

We don't otherwise need j_list_lock during the rest of commit phase
#7, so add the transaction to the checkpoint list at the very end of
commit phase #6.  This allows us to drop j_list_lock earlier, which is
a good thing since it is a super hot lock.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

jbd2: calculate statistics without holding j_state_lock and j_list_lock

2014-03-09T00:51:16+00:00

The two hottest locks, and thus the biggest scalability bottlenecks,
in the jbd2 layer, are the j_list_lock and j_state_lock.  This has
inspired some people to do some truly unnatural things[1].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast14/fast14-paper_kang.pdf

We don't need to be holding both j_state_lock and j_list_lock while
calculating the journal statistics, so move those calculations to the
very end of jbd2_journal_commit_transaction.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

jbd2: don't hold j_state_lock while calling wake_up()

2014-03-09T00:11:36+00:00

The j_state_lock is one of the hottest locks in the jbd2 layer and
thus one of its scalability bottlenecks.

We don't need to be holding the j_state_lock while we are calling
wake_up(&journal->j_wait_commit), so release the lock a little bit
earlier.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"