The suspension helpers are now put into file system specific operations.
This means every file system not supporting these helpers cannot be suspended
and therefore snapshots are no longer possible.
Implemented for file systems of type ffs.
The new API is enabled on a kernel option NEWVNGATE. This option is
not enabled by default in any kernel config.
Presented and discussed on tech-kern with much input from
Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org> and YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@netbsd.org>.
Welcome to 4.99.9 (new vfs op vfs_suspendctl).
loops where vnodes can get removed or added during the loops. This could
lead to panic's on unmount since nodes are skipped or otherwise
TAILQ_NEXT(0xdeadbeef, ...) was dereferenced.
After a rmdir()ed directory has been truncated, force an update of
the directory's inode after queuing the dirrem that will decrement
the parent directory's link count. This will force the update of
the parent directory's actual link to actually be scheduled. Without
this change the parent directory's actual link count would not be
updated until ufs_inactive() cleared the inode of the newly removed
directory, which might be deferred indefinitely. ufs_inactive()
will not be called as long as any process holds a reference to the
removed directory, and ufs_inactive() will not clear the inode if
the link count is non-zero, which could be the result of an earlier
system crash.
[plus description about problems woth background fsck solved
by this; irrelevant to NetBSD]
For me, the good effect is at least that I'm getting less filesystem
inconsistencies after a crash.
Approved by christos quite a while ago.
vnodes were synced and processed backwards. This meant that the last
accessed node was processed first and the earlierst last.
An extra benefit is the removal of the ugly hack from the Berkly days on
LFS.
In the proces, i've also replaced the various variations hand written loops
by the TAILQ_FOREACH() macro's.
instead of just vnode pointers. Fixes erroneous "does not match mounted
device" errors from mount(8) in the presence of MFS /dev, init.root, &c.
No objections on tech-kern.
While touching all vptofh/fhtovp functions, get rid of VFS_MAXFIDSIZ,
version the getfh(2) syscall and explicitly pass the size available in
the filehandle from userland.
Discussed on tech-kern, with lots of help from yamt (thanks!).
the precision of getnanotime() is not suitable for file timestamps.
esp. when it's nfs-exported.
- introduce vfs_timestamp().
(the name is from freebsd. currently merely a wrapper of nanotime())
- for ufs-like filesystems, use it rather than getnanotime().
XXX check other filesystems.
posted for it even if the vnode is locked. This will deadlock with wmesg
"softgetdbuf" if it gets a BMSAFEMAP dependency as here we have "bp == nbp"
and try to get a buffer we already own.
Approved by: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
- struct timeval time is gone
time.tv_sec -> time_second
- struct timeval mono_time is gone
mono_time.tv_sec -> time_uptime
- access to time via
{get,}{micro,nano,bin}time()
get* versions are fast but less precise
- support NTP nanokernel implementation (NTP API 4)
- further reading:
Timecounter Paper: http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/timecounter.pdf
NTP Nanokernel: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/kern.html
- remove GOP_SIZE_READ/GOP_SIZE_WRITE flags.
they have not been used since the change.
- ufs_balloc_range: remove code which has been no-op since the change.
thanks Konrad Schroder for explaining the original intention of the code.
- ffs_gop_size: don't extend past eof, in the case of GOP_SIZE_MEM.
otherwise genfs_getpages end up to allocate pages past eof unnecessarily.
- for structure fields that are conditionally present,
make those fields always present.
- for functions which are conditionally inline, make them never inline.
- remove some other functions which are conditionally defined but
don't actually do anything anymore.
- make a lock-debugging function conditional on only LOCKDEBUG.
as discussed on tech-kern some time back.
otherwise, once the corresponding bit in the inode bitmap is cleared,
an unrelated inode with the same inode number can be allocated and
ufs_ihashget() picks a stale in-core vnode for it.
PR/32301 by Matthias Scheler.
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