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file are after snaplock, while other ffs device buffers are before snaplock in global lock order. By itself, this could cause deadlock when bdwrite() tries to flush dirty buffers on snapshotted ffs. If, during the flush, COW activity for snapshot needs to allocate block and ffs_alloccg() selects the cylinder group that is being written by bdwrite(), then kernel would panic due to recursive buffer lock acquision. Avoid dealing with buffers in bdwrite() that are from other side of snaplock divisor in the lock order then the buffer being written. Add new BOP, bop_bdwrite(), to do dirty buffer flushing for same vnode in the bdwrite(). Default implementation, bufbdflush(), refactors the code from bdwrite(). For ffs device buffers, specialized implementation is used. Reviewed by: tegge, jeff, Russell Cattelan (cattelan xfs org, xfs changes) Tested by: Peter Holm X-MFC after: 3 weeks (if ever: it changes ABI) |
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| ffs_softdep.c | ||
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| ffs_tables.c | ||
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| README.snapshot | ||
| README.softupdates | ||
| softdep.h | ||
$FreeBSD$ Using Soft Updates To enable the soft updates feature in your kernel, add option SOFTUPDATES to your kernel configuration. Once you are running a kernel with soft update support, you need to enable it for whichever filesystems you wish to run with the soft update policy. This is done with the -n option to tunefs(8) on the UNMOUNTED filesystems, e.g. from single-user mode you'd do something like: tunefs -n enable /usr To permanently enable soft updates on the /usr filesystem (or at least until a corresponding ``tunefs -n disable'' is done). Soft Updates Copyright Restrictions As of June 2000 the restrictive copyright has been removed and replaced with a `Berkeley-style' copyright. The files implementing soft updates now reside in the sys/ufs/ffs directory and are compiled into the generic kernel by default. Soft Updates Status The soft updates code has been running in production on many systems for the past two years generally quite successfully. The two current sets of shortcomings are: 1) On filesystems that are chronically full, the two minute lag from the time a file is deleted until its free space shows up will result in premature filesystem full failures. This failure mode is most evident in small filesystems such as the root. For this reason, use of soft updates is not recommended on the root filesystem. 2) If your system routines runs parallel processes each of which remove many files, the kernel memory rate limiting code may not be able to slow removal operations to a level sustainable by the disk subsystem. The result is that the kernel runs out of memory and hangs. Both of these problems are being addressed, but have not yet been resolved. There are no other known problems at this time. How Soft Updates Work For more general information on soft updates, please see: http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/ http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/ -- Marshall Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> July 2000