in turn forces a flush of the vnode, whether or not it is involved in a dirop.
(This can happen during a remove or rmdir, when the directory is shrunk.)
Because of the nature of dirops, however, flushing a vnode involved in a dirop
is disallowed (and was marked with a panic). This patch has lfs_truncate
call a specialized vinvalbuf that only invalidates buffers following the new
end-of-file, and thus does not require a flush. Also the panic is demoted,
in case I missed any other path to lfs_vflush.
namely, toggle whether vnodes loaded only for cleaning (as opposed to
normal filesystem use) are freed to the *head* of the vnode free list,
rather than the tail. This should avoid a possible cache flushing
effect, if the cleaner cleans a segment containing a large number of
live inodes.
dirop is completely written to disk. This means that ordinary calls to
ufs vnops which would ordinarily call VOP_INACTIVE through vrele/vput,
don't. This patch detects that condition after such vnops have been
run, and calls VOP_INACTIVE if it would ordinarily have been called by
the ufs call.
if we are short on vnodes, lfs_vflush from another process can grab a
vnode that lfs_markv has already processed but not yet written; but
lfs_markv holds the seglock. When lfs_vflush gets around to writing it,
the context for copyin is gone. So, now lfs_markv calls copyin itself,
rather than having lfs_writeseg do it.
the LFS since the 4.4lite2 code was merged into NetBSD.
TODO updated to remove everything marked DONE in 4.4, and add in a list
of more current things to do.
Get rid of comments about the cleaner syscall code and missing fragment
support from README.
include:
- DIROP segregation is enabled, and greater care is taken
to make sure that a checkpoint completes. Fsck is not
needed to remount the filesystem.
- Several checks to make sure that the LFS subsystem does not
overuse various resources (memory, in particular).
- The cleaner routines, lfs_markv in particular, are completely
rewritten. A buffer overflow is removed. Greater care is taken
to ensure that inodes come from where lfs_cleanerd say they come
from (so we know nothing has changed since lfs_bmapv was called).
- Fragment allocation is fixed, so that writes beyond end-of-file
do the right thing.
minor of libc and the major of libutil). For little-endian architectures
merge the bnswap() assembly versions with nto* and hton* using symbols
aliasing. Use symbol renaming for the bswap function in this case to avoid
namespace pollution.
Declare bswap* in machine/bswap.h, not machine/endian.h. For little-endian
machines, common code for inline macros go in machine/byte_swap.h
Sync libkern with libc.
Adjust #include in kernel sources for machine/bswap.h.
Make ext2fs_init() call ufs_init(). it was doing the init by itself,
testing for extern done != 0. This bug was hidden by the fact that
ext2fs_init() is called before ffs_init().
