Note however that blocks can be added to the Ifile even when the segment
block is held because of inodes' atime. Do not panic with "dirty blocks"
if these blocks are present.
be expanded to cover other per-fs and subsystem-wide data as well.
Fix a case of IN_MODIFIED being set without updating lfs_uinodes, resulting
in a "lfs_uinodes < 0" panic.
Fix a deadlock in lfs_putpages arising from the need to busy all pages in a
block; unbusy any that had already been busied before starting over.
always true) and accompanying dead code.
- When constructing write clusters in lfs_writeseg, if the block we are
about to add is itself a cluster from GOP_WRITE, don't put a cluster
in a cluster, just write the GOP_WRITE cluster on its own. This seems
to represent a slight performance gain on my test machine.
- Charge someone's rusage for writes on LFSes. It's difficult to tell
who the "right" process to charge is; just charge whoever triggered
the write.
where the cleaner is trying to write, instead of tying up the "live"
buffers (or pages).
Fix a bug in the LFS_UBC case where oversized buffers would not be
checksummed correctly, causing uncleanable segments.
Make sure that wakeup(fs->lfs_iocount) is done if fs->lfs_iocount is 1
as well as 0, since we wait in some places for it to drop to 1.
Activate all pages that make it into lfs_gop_write without the segment
lock held, since they must have been dirtied very recently, even if
PG_DELWRI is not set.
actually happens.
Add a new fcntl call that will write the minimum necessary to checkpoint
(i.e., for on-disk directory structure to be consistent, not including
updates to file data) so that the cleaner can clean segments more quickly
without sacrificing three-way commit for cleaning.
either as a mysterious UVM error or as "panic: dirty bufs". Verify
maximum size in lfs_malloc.
Teach lfs_updatemeta and lfs_shellsort about oversized cluster blocks from
lfs_gop_write.
When unwiring pages in lfs_gop_write, deactivate them, under the theory
that the pagedaemon wanted to free them last we knew.
(there are still some details to work out) but expect that to go
away soon. To support these basic changes (creation of lfs_putpages,
lfs_gop_write, mods to lfs_balloc) several other changes were made, to
wit:
* Create a writer daemon kernel thread whose purpose is to handle page
writes for the pagedaemon, but which also takes over some of the
functions of lfs_check(). This thread is started the first time an
LFS is mounted.
* Add a "flags" parameter to GOP_SIZE. Current values are
GOP_SIZE_READ, meaning that the call should return the size of the
in-core version of the file, and GOP_SIZE_WRITE, meaning that it
should return the on-disk size. One of GOP_SIZE_READ or
GOP_SIZE_WRITE must be specified.
* Instead of using malloc(...M_WAITOK) for everything, reserve enough
resources to get by and use malloc(...M_NOWAIT), using the reserves if
necessary. Use the pool subsystem for structures small enough that
this is feasible. This also obsoletes LFS_THROTTLE.
And a few that are not strictly necessary:
* Moves the LFS inode extensions off onto a separately allocated
structure; getting closer to LFS as an LKM. "Welcome to 1.6O."
* Unified GOP_ALLOC between FFS and LFS.
* Update LFS copyright headers to correct values.
* Actually cast to unsigned in lfs_shellsort, like the comment says.
* Keep track of which segments were empty before the previous
checkpoint; any segments that pass two checkpoints both dirty and
empty can be summarily cleaned. Do this. Right now lfs_segclean
still works, but this should be turned into an effectless
compatibility syscall.
malloc types into a structure, a pointer to which is passed around,
instead of an int constant. Allow the limit to be adjusted when the
malloc type is defined, or with a function call, as suggested by
Jonathan Stone.
exist on an on-disk inode, we keep a record of its size in struct inode,
which is updated when we write the block to disk. The cleaner routines
thus have ready access to what size is the correct size for this block,
on disk.
Fixed a related bug: if a file with fragments is being cleaned
(fragments being cleaned) at the same time it is being extended beyond
NDADDR blocks, we could write a bogus FINFO record that has a frag in the
middle; when it was cleaned this would give back bogus file data. Don't
write the indirect blocks in this case, since there is no need.
lfs_fragextend and lfs_truncate no longer require the seglock, but instead
take a shared lock, which the seglock locks exclusively.
processes don't have to wait for one another to finish (e.g., nfsd seems
to be a little happier now, though I haven't measured the difference).
Synchronous checkpoints, however, must always wait for all i/o to finish.
Take the contents of the callback functions and have them run in thread
context instead (aiodoned thread). lfs_iocount no longer has to be
protected in splbio(), and quite a bit less of the segment construction
loop needs to be in splbio() as well.
If lfs_markv is handed a block that is not the correct size according to
the inode, refuse to process it. (Formerly it was extended to the "correct"
size.) This is possibly more prone to deadlock, but less prone to corruption.
lfs_segclean now outright refuses to clean segments that appear to have live
bytes in them. Again this may be more prone to deadlock but avoids
corruption.
Replace ufsspec_close and ufsfifo_close with LFS equivalents; this means
that no UFS functions need to know about LFS_ITIMES any more. Remove
the reference from ufs/inode.h.
Tested on i386, test-compiled on alpha.
enough to be useful, and broadening it so that it did would have meant
that operations possibly requiring synchronous disk activity would have
to be done in splbio(). This clearly was not going to work.
Worked around this in the LFS case by having lfs_cluster_callback put an
extra hold on the vnode before calling biodone(), and taking the hold
off without HOLDRELE's problematic list swapping. lfs_vunref() will take
care of that---in thread context---on the next write if need be.
Also, ensure that the list walking in lfs_{writevnodes,segunlock,gather}
takes into account the possibility that the list may change
underneath it (possibly because it itself deleted an element).
Tested on i386, test-compiled on alpha.
I found while making sure there weren't any new ones.
* Make the write clusters keep track of the buffers whose blocks they contain.
This should make it possible to (1) write clusters using a page mapping
instead of malloc, if desired, and (2) schedule blocks for rewriting
(somewhere else) if a write error occurs. Code is present to use
pagemove() to construct the clusters but that is untested and will go away
anyway in favor of page mapping.
* DEBUG now keeps a log of Ifile writes, so that any lingering instances of
the "dirty bufs" problem can be properly debugged.
* Keep track of whether the Ifile has been dirtied by various routines that
can be called by lfs_segwrite, and loop on that until it is clean, for
a checkpoint. Checkpoints need to be squeaky clean.
* Warn the user (once) if the Ifile grows larger than is reasonable for their
buffer cache. Both lfs_mountfs and lfs_unmount check since the Ifile can
grow.
* If an inode is not found in a disk block, try rereading the block, under
the assumption that the block was copied to a cluster and then freed.
* Protect WRITEINPROG() with splbio() to fix a hang in lfs_update.
Kernels and tools understand both v1 and v2 filesystems; newfs_lfs
generates v2 by default. Changes for the v2 layout include:
- Segments of non-PO2 size and arbitrary block offset, so these can be
matched to convenient physical characteristics of the partition (e.g.,
stripe or track size and offset).
- Address by fragment instead of by disk sector, paving the way for
non-512-byte-sector devices. In theory fragments can be as large
as you like, though in reality they must be smaller than MAXBSIZE in size.
- Use serial number and filesystem identifier to ensure that roll-forward
doesn't get old data and think it's new. Roll-forward is enabled for
v2 filesystems, though not for v1 filesystems by default.
- The inode free list is now a tailq, paving the way for undelete (undelete
is not yet implemented, but can be without further non-backwards-compatible
changes to disk structures).
- Inode atime information is kept in the Ifile, instead of on the inode;
that is, the inode is never written *just* because atime was changed.
Because of this the inodes remain near the file data on the disk, rather
than wandering all over as the disk is read repeatedly. This speeds up
repeated reads by a small but noticeable amount.
Other changes of note include:
- The ifile written by newfs_lfs can now be of arbitrary length, it is no
longer restricted to a single indirect block.
- Fixed an old bug where ctime was changed every time a vnode was created.
I need to look more closely to make sure that the times are only updated
during write(2) and friends, not after-the-fact during a segment write,
and certainly not by the cleaner.
lfs_writeseg (possibly after they had been freed).
If MALLOCLOG is defined, make lfs_newbuf and lfs_freebuf pass along the
caller's file and line to _malloc and _free.
