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Btrfs has printks for various IO errors, including bad checksums and
mismatches between what we expect the block headers to contain and what
we actually find on the disk.
Longer term we need a real reporting mechanism for this, but for now
printk is going to have to do.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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The btrfs fallocate call takes an extent lock on the entire range
being fallocated, and then runs through insert_reserved_extent on each
extent as they are allocated.
The problem with this is that btrfs_drop_extents may decide to try
and take the same extent lock fallocate was already holding. The solution
used here is to push down knowledge of the range that is already locked
going into btrfs_drop_extents.
It turns out that at least one other caller had the same bug.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Just use kmem_cache_create directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Btrfs fallocate was incorrectly starting a transaction with a lock held
on the extent_io tree for the file, which could deadlock. Strictly
speaking it was using join_transaction which would be safe, but it is better
to move the transaction outside of the lock.
When preallocated extents are overwritten, btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty was
being called on an unlocked buffer. This was triggering an assertion and
oops because the lock is supposed to be held.
The bug was calling btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty on a leaf after btrfs_del_item had
been run. btrfs_del_item takes care of dirtying things, so the solution is a
to skip the btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty call in this case.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
Btrfs: BUG to BUG_ON changes
Btrfs: remove dead code
Btrfs: remove dead code
Btrfs: fix typos in comments
Btrfs: remove unused ftrace include
Btrfs: fix __ucmpdi2 compile bug on 32 bit builds
Btrfs: free inode struct when btrfs_new_inode fails
Btrfs: fix race in worker_loop
Btrfs: add flushoncommit mount option
Btrfs: notreelog mount option
Btrfs: introduce btrfs_show_options
Btrfs: rework allocation clustering
Btrfs: Optimize locking in btrfs_next_leaf()
Btrfs: break up btrfs_search_slot into smaller pieces
Btrfs: kill the pinned_mutex
Btrfs: kill the block group alloc mutex
Btrfs: clean up find_free_extent
Btrfs: free space cache cleanups
Btrfs: unplug in the async bio submission threads
Btrfs: keep processing bios for a given bdev if our proc is batching
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btrfs_new_inode doesn't call iput to free the inode
when it fails.
Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
Btrfs: try to free metadata pages when we free btree blocks
Btrfs: add extra flushing for renames and truncates
Btrfs: make sure btrfs_update_delayed_ref doesn't increase ref_mod
Btrfs: optimize fsyncs on old files
Btrfs: tree logging unlink/rename fixes
Btrfs: Make sure i_nlink doesn't hit zero too soon during log replay
Btrfs: limit balancing work while flushing delayed refs
Btrfs: readahead checksums during btrfs_finish_ordered_io
Btrfs: leave btree locks spinning more often
Btrfs: Only let very young transactions grow during commit
Btrfs: Check for a blocking lock before taking the spin
Btrfs: reduce stack in cow_file_range
Btrfs: reduce stalls during transaction commit
Btrfs: process the delayed reference queue in clusters
Btrfs: try to cleanup delayed refs while freeing extents
Btrfs: reduce stack usage in some crucial tree balancing functions
Btrfs: do extent allocation and reference count updates in the background
Btrfs: don't preallocate metadata blocks during btrfs_search_slot
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page_mkwrite is called with neither the page lock nor the ptl held. This
means a page can be concurrently truncated or invalidated out from
underneath it. Callers are supposed to prevent truncate races themselves,
however previously the only thing they can do in case they hit one is to
raise a SIGBUS. A sigbus is wrong for the case that the page has been
invalidated or truncated within i_size (eg. hole punched). Callers may
also have to perform memory allocations in this path, where again, SIGBUS
would be wrong.
The previous patch ("mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault")
made it possible to properly specify errors. Convert the generic buffer.c
code and btrfs to return sane error values (in the case of page removed
from pagecache, VM_FAULT_NOPAGE will cause the fault handler to exit
without doing anything, and the fault will be retried properly).
This fixes core code, and converts btrfs as a template/example. All other
filesystems defining their own page_mkwrite should be fixed in a similar
manner.
Acked-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return
VM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change.
This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to
the VM (and also can provide more information eg. virtual_address to the
driver, which might be important in some special cases).
This is required for a subsequent fix. And will also make it easier to
merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Renames and truncates are both common ways to replace old data with new
data. The filesystem can make an effort to make sure the new data is
on disk before actually replacing the old data.
This is especially important for rename, which many application use as
though it were atomic for both the data and the metadata involved. The
current btrfs code will happily replace a file that is fully on disk
with one that was just created and still has pending IO.
If we crash after transaction commit but before the IO is done, we'll end
up replacing a good file with a zero length file. The solution used
here is to create a list of inodes that need special ordering and force
them to disk before the commit is done. This is similar to the
ext3 style data=ordering, except it is only done on selected files.
Btrfs is able to get away with this because it does not wait on commits
very often, even for fsync (which use a sub-commit).
For renames, we order the file when it wasn't already
on disk and when it is replacing an existing file. Larger files
are sent to filemap_flush right away (before the transaction handle is
opened).
For truncates, we order if the file goes from non-zero size down to
zero size. This is a little different, because at the time of the
truncate the file has no dirty bytes to order. But, we flag the inode
so that it is added to the ordered list on close (via release method). We
also immediately add it to the ordered list of the current transaction
so that we can try to flush down any writes the application sneaks in
before commit.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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The tree logging code allows individual files or directories to be logged
without including operations on other files and directories in the FS.
It tries to commit the minimal set of changes to disk in order to
fsync the single file or directory that was sent to fsync or O_SYNC.
The tree logging code was allowing files and directories to be unlinked
if they were part of a rename operation where only one directory
in the rename was in the fsync log. This patch adds a few new rules
to the tree logging.
1) on rename or unlink, if the inode being unlinked isn't in the fsync
log, we must force a full commit before doing an fsync of the directory
where the unlink was done. The commit isn't done during the unlink,
but it is forced the next time we try to log the parent directory.
Solution: record transid of last unlink/rename per directory when the
directory wasn't already logged. For renames this is only done when
renaming to a different directory.
mkdir foo/some_dir
normal commit
rename foo/some_dir foo2/some_dir
mkdir foo/some_dir
fsync foo/some_dir/some_file
The fsync above will unlink the original some_dir without recording
it in its new location (foo2). After a crash, some_dir will be gone
unless the fsync of some_file forces a full commit
2) we must log any new names for any file or dir that is in the fsync
log. This way we make sure not to lose files that are unlinked during
the same transaction.
2a) we must log any new names for any file or dir during rename
when the directory they are being removed from was logged.
2a is actually the more important variant. Without the extra logging
a crash might unlink the old name without recreating the new one
3) after a crash, we must go through any directories with a link count
of zero and redo the rm -rf
mkdir f1/foo
normal commit
rm -rf f1/foo
fsync(f1)
The directory f1 was fully removed from the FS, but fsync was never
called on f1, only its parent dir. After a crash the rm -rf must
be replayed. This must be able to recurse down the entire
directory tree. The inode link count fixup code takes care of the
ugly details.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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This reads in blocks in the checksum btree before starting the
transaction in btrfs_finish_ordered_io. It makes it much more likely
we'll be able to do operations inside the transaction without
needing any btree reads, which limits transaction latencies overall.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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btrfs_mark_buffer dirty would set dirty bits in the extent_io tree
for the buffers it was dirtying. This may require a kmalloc and it
was not atomic. So, anyone who called btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty had to
set any btree locks they were holding to blocking first.
This commit changes dirty tracking for extent buffers to just use a flag
in the extent buffer. Now that we have one and only one extent buffer
per page, this can be safely done without losing dirty bits along the way.
This also introduces a path->leave_spinning flag that callers of
btrfs_search_slot can use to indicate they will properly deal with a
path returned where all the locks are spinning instead of blocking.
Many of the btree search callers now expect spinning paths,
resulting in better btree concurrency overall.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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The fs/btrfs/inode.c code to run delayed allocation during writout
needed some stack usage optimization. This is the first pass, it does
the check for compression earlier on, which allows us to do the common
(no compression) case higher up in the call chain.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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To avoid deadlocks and reduce latencies during some critical operations, some
transaction writers are allowed to jump into the running transaction and make
it run a little longer, while others sit around and wait for the commit to
finish.
This is a bit unfair, especially when the callers that jump in do a bunch
of IO that makes all the others procs on the box wait. This commit
reduces the stalls this produces by pre-reading file extent pointers
during btrfs_finish_ordered_io before the transaction is joined.
It also tunes the drop_snapshot code to politely wait for transactions
that have started writing out their delayed refs to finish. This avoids
new delayed refs being flooded into the queue while we're trying to
close off the transaction.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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This is a step in the direction of better -ENOSPC handling. Instead of
checking the global bytes counter we check the space_info bytes counters to
make sure we have enough space.
If we don't we go ahead and try to allocate a new chunk, and then if that fails
we return -ENOSPC. This patch adds two counters to btrfs_space_info,
bytes_delalloc and bytes_may_use.
bytes_delalloc account for extents we've actually setup for delalloc and will
be allocated at some point down the line.
bytes_may_use is to keep track of how many bytes we may use for delalloc at
some point. When we actually set the extent_bit for the delalloc bytes we
subtract the reserved bytes from the bytes_may_use counter. This keeps us from
not actually being able to allocate space for any delalloc bytes.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
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btrfs_init_path was initially used when the path objects were on the
stack. Now all the work is done by btrfs_alloc_path and btrfs_init_path
isn't required.
This patch removes it, and just uses kmem_cache_zalloc to zero out the object.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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btrfs_releasepage may call kmem_cache_alloc indirectly,
and provide same GFP flags it gets to kmem_cache_alloc.
So it's possible to use __GFP_HIGHMEM with the slab
allocator.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
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The S_ISGID check in btrfs_new_inode caused an oops during subvol creation
because sometimes the dir is null.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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btrfs_truncate_inode_items is setup to stop doing btree searches when
it has finished removing the items for the inode. It used to detect the
end of the inode by looking for an objectid that didn't match the
one we were searching for.
But, this would result in an extra search through the btree, which
adds extra balancing and cow costs to the operation.
This commit adds a check to see if we found the inode item, which means
we can stop searching early.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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The compression code had some checks to make sure we were only
compressing bytes inside of i_size, but it wasn't catching every
case. To make things worse, some incorrect math about the number
of bytes remaining would make it try to compress more pages than the
file really had.
The fix used here is to fall back to the non-compression code in this
case, which does all the proper cleanup of delalloc and other accounting.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Before this patch, new files/dirs would ignore the SGID bit on their
parent directory and always be owned by the creating user's uid/gid.
Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Every transaction in btrfs creates a new snapshot, and then schedules the
snapshot from the last transaction for deletion. Snapshot deletion
works by walking down the btree and dropping the reference counts
on each btree block during the walk.
If if a given leaf or node has a reference count greater than one,
the reference count is decremented and the subtree pointed to by that
node is ignored.
If the reference count is one, walking continues down into that node
or leaf, and the references of everything it points to are decremented.
The old code would try to work in small pieces, walking down the tree
until it found the lowest leaf or node to free and then returning. This
was very friendly to the rest of the FS because it didn't have a huge
impact on other operations.
But it wouldn't always keep up with the rate that new commits added new
snapshots for deletion, and it wasn't very optimal for the extent
allocation tree because it wasn't finding leaves that were close together
on disk and processing them at the same time.
This changes things to walk down to a level 1 node and then process it
in bulk. All the leaf pointers are sorted and the leaves are dropped
in order based on their extent number.
The extent allocation tree and commit code are now fast enough for
this kind of bulk processing to work without slowing the rest of the FS
down. Overall it does less IO and is better able to keep up with
snapshot deletions under high load.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Most of the btrfs metadata operations can be protected by a spinlock,
but some operations still need to schedule.
So far, btrfs has been using a mutex along with a trylock loop,
most of the time it is able to avoid going for the full mutex, so
the trylock loop is a big performance gain.
This commit is step one for getting rid of the blocking locks entirely.
btrfs_tree_lock takes a spinlock, and the code explicitly switches
to a blocking lock when it starts an operation that can schedule.
We'll be able get rid of the blocking locks in smaller pieces over time.
Tracing allows us to find the most common cause of blocking, so we
can start with the hot spots first.
The basic idea is:
btrfs_tree_lock() returns with the spin lock held
btrfs_set_lock_blocking() sets the EXTENT_BUFFER_BLOCKING bit in
the extent buffer flags, and then drops the spin lock. The buffer is
still considered locked by all of the btrfs code.
If btrfs_tree_lock gets the spinlock but finds the blocking bit set, it drops
the spin lock and waits on a wait queue for the blocking bit to go away.
Much of the code that needs to set the blocking bit finishes without actually
blocking a good percentage of the time. So, an adaptive spin is still
used against the blocking bit to avoid very high context switch rates.
btrfs_clear_lock_blocking() clears the blocking bit and returns
with the spinlock held again.
btrfs_tree_unlock() can be called on either blocking or spinning locks,
it does the right thing based on the blocking bit.
ctree.c has a helper function to set/clear all the locked buffers in a
path as blocking.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Add call to LSM security initialization and save
resulting security xattr for new inodes.
Add xattr support to symlink inode ops.
Set inode->i_op for existing special files.
Signed-off-by: jim owens <jowens@hp.com>
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After btrfs_readdir has gone through all the directory items, it
sets the directory f_pos to the largest possible int. This way
applications that mix readdir with creating new files don't
end up in an endless loop finding the new directory items as they go.
It was a workaround for a bug in git, but the assumption was that if git
could make this looping mistake than it would be a common problem.
The largest possible int chosen was INT_LIMIT(typeof(file->f_pos),
and it is possible for that to be a larger number than 32 bit glibc
expects to come out of readdir.
This patches switches that to INT_LIMIT(off_t), which should keep
applications happy on 32 and 64 bit machines.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Now that bmap support is gone, this is the only way to get extent
mappings for userland. These are still not valid for IO, but they
can tell us if a file has holes or how much fragmentation there is.
Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
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Swapfiles use bmap to build a list of extents belonging to the file,
and they assume these extents won't change over the life of the file.
They also use resulting list to do IO directly to the block device.
This causes problems for btrfs in a few ways:
btrfs returns logical block numbers through bmap, and these are not suitable
for IO. They might translate to different devices, raid etc.
COW means that file block mappings are going to change frequently.
Using swapfiles on btrfs will lead to corruption, so we're avoiding the
problem for now by dropping bmap support entirely. A later commit
will add fiemap support for people that really want to know how
a file is laid out.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Merge list_for_each* and list_entry to list_for_each_entry*
Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Removed unused #include <version.h>'s in btrfs
Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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None of the checksum verification code schedules, so we can use the faster
kmap_atomic
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Checksum verification happens in a helper thread, and there is no
need to mess with interrupts. This switches to kmap() instead.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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This patch contains following things.
1) Limit the max size of btrfs_ordered_sum structure to PAGE_SIZE. This
struct is kmalloced so we want to keep it reasonable.
2) Replace copy_extent_csums by btrfs_lookup_csums_range. This was
duplicated code in tree-log.c
3) Remove replay_one_csum. csum items are replayed at the same time as
replaying file extents. This guarantees we only replay useful csums.
4) nbytes accounting fix.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
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Snapshot creation happens at a specific time during transaction commit. We
need to make sure the code called by snapshot creation doesn't wait
for the running transaction to commit.
This changes btrfs_delete_inode and finish_pending_snaps to use
btrfs_join_transaction instead of btrfs_start_transaction to avoid deadlocks.
It would be better if btrfs_delete_inode didn't use the join, but the
call path that triggers it is:
btrfs_commit_transaction->create_pending_snapshots->
create_pending_snapshot->btrfs_lookup_dentry->
fixup_tree_root_location->btrfs_read_fs_root->
btrfs_read_fs_root_no_name->btrfs_orphan_cleanup->iput
This will be fixed in a later patch by moving the orphan cleanup to the
cleaner thread.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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There were many, most are fixed now. struct-funcs.c generates some warnings
but these are bogus.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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bio_end_io for reads without checksumming on and btree writes were
happening without using async thread pools. This means the extent_io.c
code had to use spin_lock_irq and friends on the rb tree locks for
extent state.
There were some irq safe vs unsafe lock inversions between the delallock
lock and the extent state locks. This patch gets rid of them by moving
all end_io code into the thread pools.
To avoid contention and deadlocks between the data end_io processing and the
metadata end_io processing yet another thread pool is added to finish
off metadata writes.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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The delalloc lock doesn't need to have irqs disabled, nobody that
changes the number of delalloc bytes in the FS is running with irqs off.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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The compression code was using isize to limit the amount of data it
sent through zlib. But, it wasn't properly limiting the looping to
just the pages inside i_size. The end result was trying to compress
too many pages, including those that had not been setup and properly locked
down. This made the compression code oops while trying find_get_page on a
page that didn't exist.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Checksums on data can be disabled by mount option, so it's
possible some data extents don't have checksums or have
invalid checksums. This causes trouble for data relocation.
This patch contains following things to make data relocation
work.
1) make nodatasum/nodatacow mount option only affects new
files. Checksums and COW on data are only controlled by the
inode flags.
2) check the existence of checksum in the nodatacow checker.
If checksums exist, force COW the data extent. This ensure that
checksum for a given block is either valid or does not exist.
3) update data relocation code to properly handle the case
of checksum missing.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
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The block group structs are referenced in many different
places, and it's not safe to free while balancing. So, those block
group structs were simply leaked instead.
This patch replaces the block group pointer in the inode with the starting byte
offset of the block group and adds reference counting to the block group
struct.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
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This adds a sequence number to the btrfs inode that is increased on
every update. NFS will be able to use that to detect when an inode has
changed, without relying on inaccurate time fields.
While we're here, this also:
Puts reserved space into the super block and inode
Adds a log root transid to the super so we can pick the newest super
based on the fsync log as well as the main transaction ID. For now
the log root transid is always zero, but that'll get fixed.
Adds a starting offset to the dev_item. This will let us do better
alignment calculations if we know the start of a partition on the disk.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Btrfs stores checksums for each data block. Until now, they have
been stored in the subvolume trees, indexed by the inode that is
referencing the data block. This means that when we read the inode,
we've probably read in at least some checksums as well.
But, this has a few problems:
* The checksums are indexed by logical offset in the file. When
compression is on, this means we have to do the expensive checksumming
on the uncompressed data. It would be faster if we could checksum
the compressed data instead.
* If we implement encryption, we'll be checksumming the plain text and
storing that on disk. This is significantly less secure.
* For either compression or encryption, we have to get the plain text
back before we can verify the checksum as correct. This makes the raid
layer balancing and extent moving much more expensive.
* It makes the front end caching code more complex, as we have touch
the subvolume and inodes as we cache extents.
* There is potentitally one copy of the checksum in each subvolume
referencing an extent.
The solution used here is to store the extent checksums in a dedicated
tree. This allows us to index the checksums by phyiscal extent
start and length. It means:
* The checksum is against the data stored on disk, after any compression
or encryption is done.
* The checksum is stored in a central location, and can be verified without
following back references, or reading inodes.
This makes compression significantly faster by reducing the amount of
data that needs to be checksummed. It will also allow much faster
raid management code in general.
The checksums are indexed by a key with a fixed objectid (a magic value
in ctree.h) and offset set to the starting byte of the extent. This
allows us to copy the checksum items into the fsync log tree directly (or
any other tree), without having to invent a second format for them.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Snapshot and subvolume creation no longer need this helper.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Shut up various sparse warnings about symbols that should be either
static or have their declarations in scope.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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The file preallocation code reversed the logic to force nodatacow.
This fixes it.
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The btrfs git kernel trees is used to build a standalone tree for
compiling against older kernels. This commit makes the standalone tree
work with 2.6.27
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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This fixes compile problems with linux-next
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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While building large bios in writepages, btrfs may end up waiting
for other page writeback to finish if WB_SYNC_ALL is used.
While it is waiting, the bio it is building has a number of pages with the
writeback bit set and they aren't getting to the disk any time soon. This
lowers the latencies of writeback in general by sending down the bio being
built before waiting for other pages.
The bio submission code tries to limit the total number of async bios in
flight by waiting when we're over a certain number of async bios. But,
the waits are happening while writepages is building bios, and this can easily
lead to stalls and other problems for people calling wait_on_page_writeback.
The current fix is to let the congestion tests take care of waiting.
sync() and others make sure to drain the current async requests to make
sure that everything that was pending when the sync was started really get
to disk. The code would drain pending requests both before and after
submitting a new request.
But, if one of the requests is waiting for page writeback to finish,
the draining waits might block that page writeback. This changes the
draining code to only wait after submitting the bio being processed.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Subvols and snapshots can now be referenced from any point in the directory
tree. We need to maintain back refs for them so we can find lost
subvols.
Forward refs are added so that we know all of the subvols and
snapshots referenced anywhere in the directory tree of a single subvol. This
can be used to do recursive snapshotting (but they aren't yet) and it is
also used to detect and prevent directory loops when creating new snapshots.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Each subvolume has its own private inode number space, and so we need
to fill in different device numbers for each subvolume to avoid confusing
applications.
This commit puts a struct super_block into struct btrfs_root so it can
call set_anon_super() and get a different device number generated for
each root.
btrfs_rename is changed to prevent renames across subvols.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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