delta 1.371) we must ensure that we do not get ourselves into a
recursive trap endlessly trying to clean up after ourselves.
Reported by: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
track of the number of dirty buffers held by a vnode. When a
bdwrite is done on a buffer, check the existing number of dirty
buffers associated with its vnode. If the number rises above
vfs.dirtybufthresh (currently 90% of vfs.hidirtybuffers), one
of the other (hopefully older) dirty buffers associated with
the vnode is written (using bawrite). In the event that this
approach fails to curb the growth in it the vnode's number of
dirty buffers (due to soft updates rollback dependencies),
the more drastic approach of doing a VOP_FSYNC on the vnode
is used. This code primarily affects very large and actively
written files such as snapshots. This change should eliminate
hanging when taking snapshots or doing background fsck on
very large filesystems.
Hopefully, one day it will be possible to cache filesystem
metadata in the VM cache as is done with file data. As it
stands, only the buffer cache can be used which limits total
metadata storage to about 20Mb no matter how much memory is
available on the system. This rather small memory gets badly
thrashed causing a lot of extra I/O. For example, taking a
snapshot of a 1Tb filesystem minimally requires about 35,000
write operations, but because of the cache thrashing (we only
have about 350 buffers at our disposal) ends up doing about
237,540 I/O's thus taking twenty-five minutes instead of four
if it could run entirely in the cache.
Reported by: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
- Remove the buftimelock mutex and acquire the buf's interlock to protect
these fields instead.
- Hold the vnode interlock while locking bufs on the clean/dirty queues.
This reduces some cases from one BUF_LOCK with a LK_NOWAIT and another
BUF_LOCK with a LK_TIMEFAIL to a single lock.
Reviewed by: arch, mckusick
queue lock already held.
- In getblk() and flushbufqueues() use bremfreel() while we still have the
buf queue lock held to keep the lists consistent.
- Add LK_NOWAIT to two cases where we're essentially asserting that the bufs
are not locked while acquiring the locks. This will make sure that we get
the appropriate panic() and not another one for sleeping with a lock held.
that is protected by the vnode lock.
- Move B_SCANNED into b_vflags and call it BV_SCANNED.
- Create a vop_stdfsync() modeled after spec's sync.
- Replace spec_fsync, msdos_fsync, and hpfs_fsync with the stdfsync and some
fs specific processing. This gives all of these filesystems proper
behavior wrt MNT_WAIT/NOWAIT and the use of the B_SCANNED flag.
- Annotate the locking in buf.h
buf lists, synchronization variables, and atomic ops for the counters.
This change does not remove giant from any code although some pushdown
may be possible.
- In vfs_bio_awrite() don't access buf fields without the buf lock.
vm_pageout_deficit:
1. Update vm_pageout_deficit before VM_WAIT. There is no sense in
delaying the update; the sooner the pageout daemon receives this
information the better. Reviewed by: tegge
2. Update vm_pageout_deficit according to the number of pages still
needed to complete the allocation, not the original size of the
allocation. Submitted by: tegge
(These errors have existed since the introduction of vm_pageout_deficit
in revision 1.144.)
portable copy. Note that pmap_extract() must be used instead of
pmap_kextract().
This is precursor work to a reorganization of vmapbuf() to close remaining
user/kernel races (which can lead to a panic).
to sort out disk-io from file-io in the vm/buffer/filesystem space.
The intent is to sort VOP_STRATEGY calls into those which operate
on "real" vnodes and those which operate on VCHR vnodes. For
the latter kind, the call will be changed to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY,
possibly conditionally for those places where dual-use happens.
Add a default VOP_SPECSTRATEGY method which will call the normal
VOP_STRATEGY. First time it is called it will print debugging
information. This will only happen if a normal vnode is passed
to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY by mistake.
Add a real VOP_SPECSTRATEGY in specfs, which does what VOP_STRATEGY
does on a VCHR vnode today.
Add a new VOP_STRATEGY method in specfs to catch instances where
the conversion to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY has not yet happened. Handle
the request just like we always did, but first time called print
debugging information.
Apart up to two instances of console messages per boot, this amounts
to a glorified no-op commit.
If you get any of the messages on your console I would very much
like a copy of them mailed to phk@freebsd.org
they may be the only viable ones to flush. Thus it will now wait for
an inode lock if the other alternatives will result in rollbacks (and
immediate redirtying of the buffer). If only buffers with rollbacks
are available, one will be flushed, but then the buffer daemon will
wait briefly before proceeding. Failing to wait briefly effectively
deadlocks a uniprocessor since every other process writing to that
filesystem will wait for the buffer daemon to clean up which takes
close enough to forever to feel like a deadlock.
Reported by: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Approved by: re
indirectly through vm_page_protect(). The one remaining page flag that
is updated by vm_page_protect() is already being updated by our various
pmap implementations.
Note: A later commit will similarly change the VM_PROT_READ case and
eliminate vm_page_protect().
to help clean up. After selecting a potential buffer to write, this
patch has it acquire a lock on the vnode that owns the buffer before
trying to write it. The vnode lock is necessary to avoid a race with
some other process holding the vnode locked and trying to flush its
dirty buffers. In particular, if the vnode in question is a snapshot
file, then the race can lead to a deadlock. To avoid slowing down the
buf_daemon, it does a non-blocking lock request when trying to lock
the vnode. If it fails to get the lock it skips over the buffer and
continues down its queue looking for buffers to flush.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
v_tag is now const char * and should only be used for debugging.
Additionally:
1. All users of VT_NTS now check vfsconf->vf_type VFCF_NETWORK
2. The user of VT_PROCFS now checks for the new flag VV_PROCDEP, which
is propagated by pseudofs to all child vnodes if the fs sets PFS_PROCDEP.
Suggested by: phk
Reviewed by: bde, rwatson (earlier version)
Introduce biowait() function. Currently there is a race condition and the
mitigation is a timeout/retry. It is not obvious what kind of locking (if any)
is suitable for BIO_DONE, since the majority of users take are of this
themselves, and only a few places actually rely on the wakeup.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
in the original hardwired sysctl implementation.
The buf size calculator still overflows an integer on machines with large
KVA (eg: ia64) where the number of pages does not fit into an int. Use
'long' there.
Change Maxmem and physmem and related variables to 'long', mostly for
completeness. Machines are not likely to overflow 'int' pages in the
near term, but then again, 640K ought to be enough for anybody. This
comes for free on 32 bit machines, so why not?
- v_vflag is protected by the vnode lock and is used when synchronization
with VOP calls is needed.
- v_iflag is protected by interlock and is used for dealing with vnode
management issues. These flags include X/O LOCK, FREE, DOOMED, etc.
- All accesses to v_iflag and v_vflag have either been locked or marked with
mp_fixme's.
- Many ASSERT_VOP_LOCKED calls have been added where the locking was not
clear.
- Many functions in vfs_subr.c were restructured to provide for stronger
locking.
Idea stolen from: BSD/OS
