The AIL pushing is stalling on log forces when it comes across
pinned items. This is happening on removal workloads where the AIL
is dominated by stale items that are removed from AIL when the
checkpoint that marks the items stale is committed to the journal.
This results is relatively few items in the AIL, but those that are
are often pinned as directories items are being removed from are
still being logged.
As a result, many push cycles through the CIL will first issue a
blocking log force to unpin the items. This can take some time to
complete, with tracing regularly showing push delays of half a
second and sometimes up into the range of several seconds. Sequences
like this aren't uncommon:
....
399.829437: xfsaild: last lsn 0x11002dd000 count 101 stuck 101 flushing 0 tout 20
<wanted 20ms, got 270ms delay>
400.099622: xfsaild: target 0x11002f3600, prev 0x11002f3600, last lsn 0x0
400.099623: xfsaild: first lsn 0x11002f3600
400.099679: xfsaild: last lsn 0x1100305000 count 16 stuck 11 flushing 0 tout 50
<wanted 50ms, got 500ms delay>
400.589348: xfsaild: target 0x110032e600, prev 0x11002f3600, last lsn 0x0
400.589349: xfsaild: first lsn 0x1100305000
400.589595: xfsaild: last lsn 0x110032e600 count 156 stuck 101 flushing 30 tout 50
<wanted 50ms, got 460ms delay>
400.950341: xfsaild: target 0x1100353000, prev 0x110032e600, last lsn 0x0
400.950343: xfsaild: first lsn 0x1100317c00
400.950436: xfsaild: last lsn 0x110033d200 count 105 stuck 101 flushing 0 tout 20
<wanted 20ms, got 200ms delay>
401.142333: xfsaild: target 0x1100361600, prev 0x1100353000, last lsn 0x0
401.142334: xfsaild: first lsn 0x110032e600
401.142535: xfsaild: last lsn 0x1100353000 count 122 stuck 101 flushing 8 tout 10
<wanted 10ms, got 10ms delay>
401.154323: xfsaild: target 0x1100361600, prev 0x1100361600, last lsn 0x1100353000
401.154328: xfsaild: first lsn 0x1100353000
401.154389: xfsaild: last lsn 0x1100353000 count 101 stuck 101 flushing 0 tout 20
<wanted 20ms, got 300ms delay>
401.451525: xfsaild: target 0x1100361600, prev 0x1100361600, last lsn 0x0
401.451526: xfsaild: first lsn 0x1100353000
401.451804: xfsaild: last lsn 0x1100377200 count 170 stuck 22 flushing 122 tout 50
<wanted 50ms, got 500ms delay>
401.933581: xfsaild: target 0x1100361600, prev 0x1100361600, last lsn 0x0
....
In each of these cases, every AIL pass saw 101 log items stuck on
the AIL (pinned) with very few other items being found. Each pass, a
log force was issued, and delay between last/first is the sleep time
+ the sync log force time.
Some of these 101 items pinned the tail of the log. The tail of the
log does slowly creep forward (first lsn), but the problem is that
the log is actually out of reservation space because it's been
running so many transactions that stale items that never reach the
AIL but consume log space. Hence we have a largely empty AIL, with
long term pins on items that pin the tail of the log that don't get
pushed frequently enough to keep log space available.
The problem is the hundreds of milliseconds that we block in the log
force pushing the CIL out to disk. The AIL should not be stalled
like this - it needs to run and flush items that are at the tail of
the log with minimal latency. What we really need to do is trigger a
log flush, but then not wait for it at all - we've already done our
waiting for stuff to complete when we backed off prior to the log
force being issued.
Even if we remove the XFS_LOG_SYNC from the xfs_log_force() call, we
still do a blocking flush of the CIL and that is what is causing the
issue. Hence we need a new interface for the CIL to trigger an
immediate background push of the CIL to get it moving faster but not
to wait on that to occur. While the CIL is pushing, the AIL can also
be pushing.
We already have an internal interface to do this -
xlog_cil_push_now() - but we need a wrapper for it to be used
externally. xlog_cil_force_seq() can easily be extended to do what
we need as it already implements the synchronous CIL push via
xlog_cil_push_now(). Add the necessary flags and "push current
sequence" semantics to xlog_cil_force_seq() and convert the AIL
pushing to use it.
One of the complexities here is that the CIL push does not guarantee
that the commit record for the CIL checkpoint is written to disk.
The current log force ensures this by submitting the current ACTIVE
iclog that the commit record was written to. We need the CIL to
actually write this commit record to disk for an async push to
ensure that the checkpoint actually makes it to disk and unpins the
pinned items in the checkpoint on completion. Hence we need to pass
down to the CIL push that we are doing an async flush so that it can
switch out the commit_iclog if necessary to get written to disk when
the commit iclog is finally released.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Because log recovery depends on strictly ordered start records as
well as strictly ordered commit records.
This is a zero day bug in the way XFS writes pipelined transactions
to the journal which is exposed by fixing the zero day bug that
prevents the CIL from pipelining checkpoints. This re-introduces
explicit concurrent commits back into the on-disk journal and hence
out of order start records.
The XFS journal commit code has never ordered start records and we
have relied on strict commit record ordering for correct recovery
ordering of concurrently written transactions. Unfortunately, root
cause analysis uncovered the fact that log recovery uses the LSN of
the start record for transaction commit processing. Hence, whilst
the commits are processed in strict order by recovery, the LSNs
associated with the commits can be out of order and so recovery may
stamp incorrect LSNs into objects and/or misorder intents in the AIL
for later processing. This can result in log recovery failures
and/or on disk corruption, sometimes silent.
Because this is a long standing log recovery issue, we can't just
fix log recovery and call it good. This still leaves older kernels
susceptible to recovery failures and corruption when replaying a log
from a kernel that pipelines checkpoints. There is also the issue
that in-memory ordering for AIL pushing and data integrity
operations are based on checkpoint start LSNs, and if the start LSN
is incorrect in the journal, it is also incorrect in memory.
Hence there's really only one choice for fixing this zero-day bug:
we need to strictly order checkpoint start records in ascending
sequence order in the log, the same way we already strictly order
commit records.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Now that we have a mechanism to guarantee that the callbacks
attached to an iclog are owned by the context that attaches them
until they drop their reference to the iclog via
xlog_state_release_iclog(), we can attach callbacks to the iclog at
any time we have an active reference to the iclog.
xlog_state_get_iclog_space() always guarantees that the commit
record will fit in the iclog it returns, so we can move this IO
callback setting to xlog_cil_set_ctx_write_state(), record the
commit iclog in the context and remove the need for the commit iclog
to be returned by xlog_write() altogether.
This, in turn, allows us to move the wakeup for ordered commit
record writes up into xlog_cil_set_ctx_write_state(), too, because
we have been guaranteed that this commit record will be physically
located in the iclog before any waiting commit record at a higher
sequence number will be granted iclog space.
This further cleans up the post commit record write processing in
the CIL push code, especially as xlog_state_release_iclog() will now
clean up the context when shutdown errors occur.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
So we can use it for start record ordering as well as commit record
ordering in future.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Pass the CIL context to xlog_write() rather than a pointer to a LSN
variable. Only the CIL checkpoint calls to xlog_write() need to know
about the start LSN of the writes, so rework xlog_write to directly
write the LSNs into the CIL context structure.
This removes the commit_lsn variable from xlog_cil_push_work(), so
now we only have to issue the commit record ordering wakeup from
there.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
It is only used by the CIL checkpoints, and is the counterpart to
start record formatting and writing that is already local to
xfs_log_cil.c.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
When the log is shutdown, it currently walks all the iclogs and runs
callbacks that are attached to the iclogs, regardless of whether the
iclog is queued for IO completion or not. This creates a problem for
contexts attaching callbacks to iclogs in that a racing shutdown can
run the callbacks even before the attaching context has finished
processing the iclog and releasing it for IO submission.
If the callback processing of the iclog frees the structure that is
attached to the iclog, then this leads to an UAF scenario that can
only be protected against by holding the icloglock from the point
callbacks are attached through to the release of the iclog. While we
currently do this, it is not practical or sustainable.
Hence we need to make shutdown processing the responsibility of the
context that holds active references to the iclog. We know that the
contexts attaching callbacks to the iclog must have active
references to the iclog, and that means they must be in either
ACTIVE or WANT_SYNC states. xlog_state_do_callback() will skip over
iclogs in these states -except- when the log is shut down.
xlog_state_do_callback() checks the state of the iclogs while
holding the icloglock, therefore the reference count/state change
that occurs in xlog_state_release_iclog() after the callbacks are
atomic w.r.t. shutdown processing.
We can't push the responsibility of callback cleanup onto the CIL
context because we can have ACTIVE iclogs that have callbacks
attached that have already been released. Hence we really need to
internalise the cleanup of callbacks into xlog_state_release_iclog()
processing.
Indeed, we already have that internalisation via:
xlog_state_release_iclog
drop last reference
->SYNCING
xlog_sync
xlog_write_iclog
if (log_is_shutdown)
xlog_state_done_syncing()
xlog_state_do_callback()
<process shutdown on iclog that is now in SYNCING state>
The problem is that xlog_state_release_iclog() aborts before doing
anything if the log is already shut down. It assumes that the
callbacks have already been cleaned up, and it doesn't need to do
any cleanup.
Hence the fix is to remove the xlog_is_shutdown() check from
xlog_state_release_iclog() so that reference counts are correctly
released from the iclogs, and when the reference count is zero we
always transition to SYNCING if the log is shut down. Hence we'll
always enter the xlog_sync() path in a shutdown and eventually end
up erroring out the iclog IO and running xlog_state_do_callback() to
process the callbacks attached to the iclog.
This allows us to stop processing referenced ACTIVE/WANT_SYNC iclogs
directly in the shutdown code, and in doing so gets rid of the UAF
vector that currently exists. This then decouples the adding of
callbacks to the iclogs from xlog_state_release_iclog() as we
guarantee that xlog_state_release_iclog() will process the callbacks
if the log has been shut down before xlog_state_release_iclog() has
been called.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
We don't need an iclog state field to tell us the log has been shut
down. We can just check the xlog_is_shutdown() instead. The avoids
the need to have shutdown overwrite the current iclog state while
being active used by the log code and so having to ensure that every
iclog state check handles XLOG_STATE_IOERROR appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Make it less shouty and a static inline before adding more calls
through the log code.
Also convert internal log code that uses XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mount)
to use xlog_is_shutdown(log) as well.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
There is no reason for this wrapper existing anymore. All the places
that use KM_NOFS allocation are within transaction contexts and
hence covered by memalloc_nofs_save/restore contexts. Hence we don't
need any special handling of vmalloc for large IOs anymore and
so special casing this code isn't necessary.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
There is a race between the new CIL async data device metadata IO
completion cache flush and the log tail in the iclog the flush
covers being updated. This can be seen by repeating generic/482 in a
loop and eventually log recovery fails with a failures such as this:
XFS (dm-3): Starting recovery (logdev: internal)
XFS (dm-3): bad inode magic/vsn daddr 228352 #0 (magic=0)
XFS (dm-3): Metadata corruption detected at xfs_inode_buf_verify+0x180/0x190, xfs_inode block 0x37c00 xfs_inode_buf_verify
XFS (dm-3): Unmount and run xfs_repair
XFS (dm-3): First 128 bytes of corrupted metadata buffer:
00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
XFS (dm-3): metadata I/O error in "xlog_recover_items_pass2+0x55/0xc0" at daddr 0x37c00 len 32 error 117
Analysis of the logwrite replay shows that there were no writes to
the data device between the FUA @ write 124 and the FUA at write @
125, but log recovery @ 125 failed. The difference was the one log
write @ 125 moved the tail of the log forwards from (1,8) to (1,32)
and so the inode create intent in (1,8) was not replayed and so the
inode cluster was zero on disk when replay of the first inode item
in (1,32) was attempted.
What this meant was that the journal write that occurred at @ 125
did not ensure that metadata completed before the iclog was written
was correctly on stable storage. The tail of the log moved forward,
so IO must have been completed between the two iclog writes. This
means that there is a race condition between the unconditional async
cache flush in the CIL push work and the tail LSN that is written to
the iclog. This happens like so:
CIL push work AIL push work
------------- -------------
Add to committing list
start async data dev cache flush
.....
<flush completes>
<all writes to old tail lsn are stable>
xlog_write
.... push inode create buffer
<start IO>
.....
xlog_write(commit record)
.... <IO completes>
log tail moves
xlog_assign_tail_lsn()
start_lsn == commit_lsn
<no iclog preflush!>
xlog_state_release_iclog
__xlog_state_release_iclog()
<writes *new* tail_lsn into iclog>
xlog_sync()
....
submit_bio()
<tail in log moves forward without flushing written metadata>
Essentially, this can only occur if the commit iclog is issued
without a cache flush. If the iclog bio is submitted with
REQ_PREFLUSH, then it will guarantee that all the completed IO is
one stable storage before the iclog bio with the new tail LSN in it
is written to the log.
IOWs, the tail lsn that is written to the iclog needs to be sampled
*before* we issue the cache flush that guarantees all IO up to that
LSN has been completed.
To fix this without giving up the performance advantage of the
flush/FUA optimisations (e.g. g/482 runtime halves with 5.14-rc1
compared to 5.13), we need to ensure that we always issue a cache
flush if the tail LSN changes between the initial async flush and
the commit record being written. THis requires sampling the tail_lsn
before we start the flush, and then passing the sampled tail LSN to
xlog_state_release_iclog() so it can determine if the the tail LSN
has changed while writing the checkpoint. If the tail LSN has
changed, then it needs to set the NEED_FLUSH flag on the iclog and
we'll issue another cache flush before writing the iclog.
Fixes: eef983ffea ("xfs: journal IO cache flush reductions")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
The iclogbuf ring attached to the struct xlog is circular, hence the
first and last iclogs in the ring can only be determined by
comparing them against the log->l_iclog pointer.
In xfs_cil_push_work(), we want to wait on previous iclogs that were
issued so that we can flush them to stable storage with the commit
record write, and it simply waits on the previous iclog in the ring.
This, however, leads to CIL push hangs in generic/019 like so:
task:kworker/u33:0 state:D stack:12680 pid: 7 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: xfs-cil/pmem1 xlog_cil_push_work
Call Trace:
__schedule+0x30b/0x9f0
schedule+0x68/0xe0
xlog_wait_on_iclog+0x121/0x190
? wake_up_q+0xa0/0xa0
xlog_cil_push_work+0x994/0xa10
? _raw_spin_lock+0x15/0x20
? xfs_swap_extents+0x920/0x920
process_one_work+0x1ab/0x390
worker_thread+0x56/0x3d0
? rescuer_thread+0x3c0/0x3c0
kthread+0x14d/0x170
? __kthread_bind_mask+0x70/0x70
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
With other threads blocking in either xlog_state_get_iclog_space()
waiting for iclog space or xlog_grant_head_wait() waiting for log
reservation space.
The problem here is that the previous iclog on the ring might
actually be a future iclog. That is, if log->l_iclog points at
commit_iclog, commit_iclog is the first (oldest) iclog in the ring
and there are no previous iclogs pending as they have all completed
their IO and been activated again. IOWs, commit_iclog->ic_prev
points to an iclog that will be written in the future, not one that
has been written in the past.
Hence, in this case, waiting on the ->ic_prev iclog is incorrect
behaviour, and depending on the state of the future iclog, we can
end up with a circular ABA wait cycle and we hang.
The fix is made more complex by the fact that many iclogs states
cannot be used to determine if the iclog is a past or future iclog.
Hence we have to determine past iclogs by checking the LSN of the
iclog rather than their state. A past ACTIVE iclog will have a LSN
of zero, while a future ACTIVE iclog will have a LSN greater than
the current iclog. We don't wait on either of these cases.
Similarly, a future iclog that hasn't completed IO will have an LSN
greater than the current iclog and so we don't wait on them. A past
iclog that is still undergoing IO completion will have a LSN less
than the current iclog and those are the only iclogs that we need to
wait on.
Hence we can use the iclog LSN to determine what iclogs we need to
wait on here.
Fixes: 5fd9256ce156 ("xfs: separate CIL commit record IO")
Reported-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
The iclog callback chain has it's own lock. That was added way back
in 2008 by myself to alleviate severe lock contention on the
icloglock in commit 114d23aae5 ("[XFS] Per iclog callback chain
lock"). This was long before delayed logging took the icloglock out
of the hot transaction commit path and removed all contention on it.
Hence the separate ic_callback_lock doesn't serve any scalability
purpose anymore, and hasn't for close on a decade.
Further, we only attach callbacks to iclogs in one place where we
are already taking the icloglock soon after attaching the callbacks.
We also have to drop the icloglock to run callbacks and grab it
immediately afterwards again. So given that the icloglock is no
longer hot, making it cover callbacks again doesn't really change
the locking patterns very much at all.
We also need to extend the icloglock to cover callback addition to
fix a zero-day UAF in the CIL push code. This occurs when shutdown
races with xlog_cil_push_work() and the shutdown runs the callbacks
before the push releases the iclog. This results in the CIL context
structure attached to the iclog being freed by the callback before
the CIL push has finished referencing it, leading to UAF bugs.
Hence, to avoid this UAF, we need the callback attachment to be
atomic with post processing of the commit iclog and references to
the structures being attached to the iclog. This requires holding
the icloglock as that's the only way to serialise iclog state
against a shutdown in progress.
The result is we need to be using the icloglock to protect the
callback list addition and removal and serialise them with shutdown.
That makes the ic_callback_lock redundant and so it can be removed.
Fixes: 71e330b593 ("xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
In doing an investigation into AIL push stalls, I was looking at the
log force code to see if an async CIL push could be done instead.
This lead me to xfs_log_force_lsn() and looking at how it works.
xfs_log_force_lsn() is only called from inode synchronisation
contexts such as fsync(), and it takes the ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn
value as the LSN to sync the log to. This gets passed to
xlog_cil_force_lsn() via xfs_log_force_lsn() to flush the CIL to the
journal, and then used by xfs_log_force_lsn() to flush the iclogs to
the journal.
The problem is that ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn does not store a
log sequence number. What it stores is passed to it from the
->iop_committing method, which is called by xfs_log_commit_cil().
The value this passes to the iop_committing method is the CIL
context sequence number that the item was committed to.
As it turns out, xlog_cil_force_lsn() converts the sequence to an
actual commit LSN for the related context and returns that to
xfs_log_force_lsn(). xfs_log_force_lsn() overwrites it's "lsn"
variable that contained a sequence with an actual LSN and then uses
that to sync the iclogs.
This caused me some confusion for a while, even though I originally
wrote all this code a decade ago. ->iop_committing is only used by
a couple of log item types, and only inode items use the sequence
number it is passed.
Let's clean up the API, CIL structures and inode log item to call it
a sequence number, and make it clear that the high level code is
using CIL sequence numbers and not on-disk LSNs for integrity
synchronisation purposes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
A hang with tasks stuck on the CIL hard throttle was reported and
largely diagnosed by Donald Buczek, who discovered that it was a
result of the CIL context space usage decrementing in committed
transactions once the hard throttle limit had been hit and processes
were already blocked. This resulted in the CIL push not waking up
those waiters because the CIL context was no longer over the hard
throttle limit.
The surprising aspect of this was the CIL space usage going
backwards regularly enough to trigger this situation. Assumptions
had been made in design that the relogging process would only
increase the size of the objects in the CIL, and so that space would
only increase.
This change and commit message fixes the issue and documents the
result of an audit of the triggers that can cause the CIL space to
go backwards, how large the backwards steps tend to be, the
frequency in which they occur, and what the impact on the CIL
accounting code is.
Even though the CIL ctx->space_used can go backwards, it will only
do so if the log item is already logged to the CIL and contains a
space reservation for it's entire logged state. This is tracked by
the shadow buffer state on the log item. If the item is not
previously logged in the CIL it has no shadow buffer nor log vector,
and hence the entire size of the logged item copied to the log
vector is accounted to the CIL space usage. i.e. it will always go
up in this case.
If the item has a log vector (i.e. already in the CIL) and the size
decreases, then the existing log vector will be overwritten and the
space usage will go down. This is the only condition where the space
usage reduces, and it can only occur when an item is already tracked
in the CIL. Hence we are safe from CIL space usage underruns as a
result of log items decreasing in size when they are relogged.
Typically this reduction in CIL usage occurs from metadata blocks
being free, such as when a btree block merge occurs or a directory
enter/xattr entry is removed and the da-tree is reduced in size.
This generally results in a reduction in size of around a single
block in the CIL, but also tends to increase the number of log
vectors because the parent and sibling nodes in the tree needs to be
updated when a btree block is removed. If a multi-level merge
occurs, then we see reduction in size of 2+ blocks, but again the
log vector count goes up.
The other vector is inode fork size changes, which only log the
current size of the fork and ignore the previously logged size when
the fork is relogged. Hence if we are removing items from the inode
fork (dir/xattr removal in shortform, extent record removal in
extent form, etc) the relogged size of the inode for can decrease.
No other log items can decrease in size either because they are a
fixed size (e.g. dquots) or they cannot be relogged (e.g. relogging
an intent actually creates a new intent log item and doesn't relog
the old item at all.) Hence the only two vectors for CIL context
size reduction are relogging inode forks and marking buffers active
in the CIL as stale.
Long story short: the majority of the code does the right thing and
handles the reduction in log item size correctly, and only the CIL
hard throttle implementation is problematic and needs fixing. This
patch makes that fix, as well as adds comments in the log item code
that result in items shrinking in size when they are relogged as a
clear reminder that this can and does happen frequently.
The throttle fix is based upon the change Donald proposed, though it
goes further to ensure that once the throttle is activated, it
captures all tasks until the CIL push issues a wakeup, regardless of
whether the CIL space used has gone back under the throttle
threshold.
This ensures that we prevent tasks reducing the CIL slightly under
the throttle threshold and then making more changes that push it
well over the throttle limit. This is acheived by checking if the
throttle wait queue is already active as a condition of throttling.
Hence once we start throttling, we continue to apply the throttle
until the CIL context push wakes everything on the wait queue.
We can use waitqueue_active() for the waitqueue manipulations and
checks as they are all done under the ctx->xc_push_lock. Hence the
waitqueue has external serialisation and we can safely peek inside
the wait queue without holding the internal waitqueue locks.
Many thanks to Donald for his diagnostic and analysis work to
isolate the cause of this hang.
Reported-and-tested-by: Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Currently every journal IO is issued as REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA to
guarantee the ordering requirements the journal has w.r.t. metadata
writeback. THe two ordering constraints are:
1. we cannot overwrite metadata in the journal until we guarantee
that the dirty metadata has been written back in place and is
stable.
2. we cannot write back dirty metadata until it has been written to
the journal and guaranteed to be stable (and hence recoverable) in
the journal.
The ordering guarantees of #1 are provided by REQ_PREFLUSH. This
causes the journal IO to issue a cache flush and wait for it to
complete before issuing the write IO to the journal. Hence all
completed metadata IO is guaranteed to be stable before the journal
overwrites the old metadata.
The ordering guarantees of #2 are provided by the REQ_FUA, which
ensures the journal writes do not complete until they are on stable
storage. Hence by the time the last journal IO in a checkpoint
completes, we know that the entire checkpoint is on stable storage
and we can unpin the dirty metadata and allow it to be written back.
This is the mechanism by which ordering was first implemented in XFS
way back in 2002 by commit 95d97c36e5155075ba2eb22b17562cfcc53fcf96
("Add support for drive write cache flushing") in the xfs-archive
tree.
A lot has changed since then, most notably we now use delayed
logging to checkpoint the filesystem to the journal rather than
write each individual transaction to the journal. Cache flushes on
journal IO are necessary when individual transactions are wholly
contained within a single iclog. However, CIL checkpoints are single
transactions that typically span hundreds to thousands of individual
journal writes, and so the requirements for device cache flushing
have changed.
That is, the ordering rules I state above apply to ordering of
atomic transactions recorded in the journal, not to the journal IO
itself. Hence we need to ensure metadata is stable before we start
writing a new transaction to the journal (guarantee #1), and we need
to ensure the entire transaction is stable in the journal before we
start metadata writeback (guarantee #2).
Hence we only need a REQ_PREFLUSH on the journal IO that starts a
new journal transaction to provide #1, and it is not on any other
journal IO done within the context of that journal transaction.
The CIL checkpoint already issues a cache flush before it starts
writing to the log, so we no longer need the iclog IO to issue a
REQ_REFLUSH for us. Hence if XLOG_START_TRANS is passed
to xlog_write(), we no longer need to mark the first iclog in
the log write with REQ_PREFLUSH for this case. As an added bonus,
this ordering mechanism works for both internal and external logs,
meaning we can remove the explicit data device cache flushes from
the iclog write code when using external logs.
Given the new ordering semantics of commit records for the CIL, we
need iclogs containing commit records to issue a REQ_PREFLUSH. We
also require unmount records to do this. Hence for both
XLOG_COMMIT_TRANS and XLOG_UNMOUNT_TRANS xlog_write() calls we need
to mark the first iclog being written with REQ_PREFLUSH.
For both commit records and unmount records, we also want them
immediately on stable storage, so we want to also mark the iclogs
that contain these records to be marked REQ_FUA. That means if a
record is split across multiple iclogs, they are all marked REQ_FUA
and not just the last one so that when the transaction is completed
all the parts of the record are on stable storage.
And for external logs, unmount records need a pre-write data device
cache flush similar to the CIL checkpoint cache pre-flush as the
internal iclog write code does not do this implicitly anymore.
As an optimisation, when the commit record lands in the same iclog
as the journal transaction starts, we don't need to wait for
anything and can simply use REQ_FUA to provide guarantee #2. This
means that for fsync() heavy workloads, the cache flush behaviour is
completely unchanged and there is no degradation in performance as a
result of optimise the multi-IO transaction case.
The most notable sign that there is less IO latency on my test
machine (nvme SSDs) is that the "noiclogs" rate has dropped
substantially. This metric indicates that the CIL push is blocking
in xlog_get_iclog_space() waiting for iclog IO completion to occur.
With 8 iclogs of 256kB, the rate is appoximately 1 noiclog event to
every 4 iclog writes. IOWs, every 4th call to xlog_get_iclog_space()
is blocking waiting for log IO. With the changes in this patch, this
drops to 1 noiclog event for every 100 iclog writes. Hence it is
clear that log IO is completing much faster than it was previously,
but it is also clear that for large iclog sizes, this isn't the
performance limiting factor on this hardware.
With smaller iclogs (32kB), however, there is a substantial
difference. With the cache flush modifications, the journal is now
running at over 4000 write IOPS, and the journal throughput is
largely identical to the 256kB iclogs and the noiclog event rate
stays low at about 1:50 iclog writes. The existing code tops out at
about 2500 IOPS as the number of cache flushes dominate performance
and latency. The noiclog event rate is about 1:4, and the
performance variance is quite large as the journal throughput can
fall to less than half the peak sustained rate when the cache flush
rate prevents metadata writeback from keeping up and the log runs
out of space and throttles reservations.
As a result:
logbsize fsmark create rate rm -rf
before 32kb 152851+/-5.3e+04 5m28s
patched 32kb 221533+/-1.1e+04 5m24s
before 256kb 220239+/-6.2e+03 4m58s
patched 256kb 228286+/-9.2e+03 5m06s
The rm -rf times are included because I ran them, but the
differences are largely noise. This workload is largely metadata
read IO latency bound and the changes to the journal cache flushing
doesn't really make any noticable difference to behaviour apart from
a reduction in noiclog events from background CIL pushing.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
The CIL push is the only call to xlog_write that sets this variable
to true. The other callers don't need a start rec, and they tell
xlog_write what to do by passing the type of ophdr they need written
in the flags field. The need_start_rec parameter essentially tells
xlog_write to to write an extra ophdr with a XLOG_START_TRANS type,
so get rid of the variable to do this and pass XLOG_START_TRANS as
the flag value into xlog_write() from the CIL push.
$ size fs/xfs/xfs_log.o*
text data bss dec hex filename
27595 560 8 28163 6e03 fs/xfs/xfs_log.o.orig
27454 560 8 28022 6d76 fs/xfs/xfs_log.o.patched
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Currently every journal IO is issued as REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA to
guarantee the ordering requirements the journal has w.r.t. metadata
writeback. THe two ordering constraints are:
1. we cannot overwrite metadata in the journal until we guarantee
that the dirty metadata has been written back in place and is
stable.
2. we cannot write back dirty metadata until it has been written to
the journal and guaranteed to be stable (and hence recoverable) in
the journal.
These rules apply to the atomic transactions recorded in the
journal, not to the journal IO itself. Hence we need to ensure
metadata is stable before we start writing a new transaction to the
journal (guarantee #1), and we need to ensure the entire transaction
is stable in the journal before we start metadata writeback
(guarantee #2).
The ordering guarantees of #1 are currently provided by REQ_PREFLUSH
being added to every iclog IO. This causes the journal IO to issue a
cache flush and wait for it to complete before issuing the write IO
to the journal. Hence all completed metadata IO is guaranteed to be
stable before the journal overwrites the old metadata.
However, for long running CIL checkpoints that might do a thousand
journal IOs, we don't need every single one of these iclog IOs to
issue a cache flush - the cache flush done before the first iclog is
submitted is sufficient to cover the entire range in the log that
the checkpoint will overwrite because the CIL space reservation
guarantees the tail of the log (completed metadata) is already
beyond the range of the checkpoint write.
Hence we only need a full cache flush between closing off the CIL
checkpoint context (i.e. when the push switches it out) and issuing
the first journal IO. Rather than plumbing this through to the
journal IO, we can start this cache flush the moment the CIL context
is owned exclusively by the push worker. The cache flush can be in
progress while we process the CIL ready for writing, hence
reducing the latency of the initial iclog write. This is especially
true for large checkpoints, where we might have to process hundreds
of thousands of log vectors before we issue the first iclog write.
In these cases, it is likely the cache flush has already been
completed by the time we have built the CIL log vector chain.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
To allow for iclog IO device cache flush behaviour to be optimised,
we first need to separate out the commit record iclog IO from the
rest of the checkpoint so we can wait for the checkpoint IO to
complete before we issue the commit record.
This separation is only necessary if the commit record is being
written into a different iclog to the start of the checkpoint as the
upcoming cache flushing changes requires completion ordering against
the other iclogs submitted by the checkpoint.
If the entire checkpoint and commit is in the one iclog, then they
are both covered by the one set of cache flush primitives on the
iclog and hence there is no need to separate them for ordering.
Otherwise, we need to wait for all the previous iclogs to complete
so they are ordered correctly and made stable by the REQ_PREFLUSH
that the commit record iclog IO issues. This guarantees that if a
reader sees the commit record in the journal, they will also see the
entire checkpoint that commit record closes off.
This also provides the guarantee that when the commit record IO
completes, we can safely unpin all the log items in the checkpoint
so they can be written back because the entire checkpoint is stable
in the journal.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Delete repeated words in fs/xfs/.
{we, that, the, a, to, fork}
Change "it it" to "it is" in one location.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
xlog_ticket_alloc() is always called under NOFS context, except from
unmount path, which eitherway is holding many FS locks, so, there is no
need for its callers to keep passing allocation flags into it.
change xlog_ticket_alloc() to use default kmem_cache_zalloc(), remove
its alloc_flags argument, and always use GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL flags.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
xlog_wait() on the CIL context can reference a freed context if the
waiter doesn't get scheduled before the CIL context is freed. This
can happen when a task is on the hard throttle and the CIL push
aborts due to a shutdown. This was detected by generic/019:
thread 1 thread 2
__xfs_trans_commit
xfs_log_commit_cil
<CIL size over hard throttle limit>
xlog_wait
schedule
xlog_cil_push_work
wake_up_all
<shutdown aborts commit>
xlog_cil_committed
kmem_free
remove_wait_queue
spin_lock_irqsave --> UAF
Fix it by moving the wait queue to the CIL rather than keeping it in
in the CIL context that gets freed on push completion. Because the
wait queue is now independent of the CIL context and we might have
multiple contexts in flight at once, only wake the waiters on the
push throttle when the context we are pushing is over the hard
throttle size threshold.
Fixes: 0e7ab7efe7 ("xfs: Throttle commits on delayed background CIL push")
Reported-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
In certain situations the background CIL push can be indefinitely
delayed. While we have workarounds from the obvious cases now, it
doesn't solve the underlying issue. This issue is that there is no
upper limit on the CIL where we will either force or wait for
a background push to start, hence allowing the CIL to grow without
bound until it consumes all log space.
To fix this, add a new wait queue to the CIL which allows background
pushes to wait for the CIL context to be switched out. This happens
when the push starts, so it will allow us to block incoming
transaction commit completion until the push has started. This will
only affect processes that are running modifications, and only when
the CIL threshold has been significantly overrun.
This has no apparent impact on performance, and doesn't even trigger
until over 45 million inodes had been created in a 16-way fsmark
test on a 2GB log. That was limiting at 64MB of log space used, so
the active CIL size is only about 3% of the total log in that case.
The concurrent removal of those files did not trigger the background
sleep at all.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Collins <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
xlog_write_done() is just a thin wrapper around xlog_commit_record(), so
they can be merged together easily.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Remove xlog_ticket_done and just call the renamed low-level helpers for
ungranting or regranting log space directly. To make that a little
the reference put on the ticket and all tracing is moved into the actual
helpers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
xfs_log_done() does two separate things. Firstly, it triggers commit
records to be written for permanent transactions, and secondly it
releases or regrants transaction reservation space.
Since delayed logging was introduced, transactions no longer write
directly to the log, hence they never have the XLOG_TIC_INITED flag
cleared on them. Hence transactions never write commit records to
the log and only need to modify reservation space.
Split up xfs_log_done into two parts, and only call the parts of the
operation needed for the context xfs_log_done() is currently being
called from.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
The xlog_write() function iterates over iclogs until it completes
writing all the log vectors passed in. The ticket tracks whether
a start record has been written or not, so only the first iclog gets
a start record. We only ever pass single use tickets to
xlog_write() so we only ever need to write a start record once per
xlog_write() call.
Hence we don't need to store whether we should write a start record
in the ticket as the callers provide all the information we need to
determine if a start record should be written. For the moment, we
have to ensure that we clear the XLOG_TIC_INITED appropriately so
the code in xfs_log_done() still works correctly for committing
transactions.
(darrick: Note the slight behavior change that we always deduct the
size of the op header from the ticket, even for unmount records)
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
[hch: pass an explicit need_start_rec argument]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
We can just check for a shut down log all the way down in
xlog_cil_committed instead of passing the parameter. This means a
slight behavior change in that we now also abort log items if the
shutdown came in halfway into the I/O completion processing, which
actually is the right thing to do.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
The only caller of xfs_log_release_iclog doesn't care about the return
value, so remove it. Also don't bother passing the mount pointer,
given that we can trivially derive it from the iclog.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
xlog_cil_push is only called by xlog_cil_push_work, so merge the two
functions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Just fix the typos checkpatch notices...
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
ic_state really is a set of different states, even if the values are
encoded as non-conflicting bits and we sometimes use logical and
operations to check for them. Switch all comparisms to check for
exact values (and use switch statements in a few places to make it
more clear) and turn the values into an implicitly enumerated enum
type.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Since no caller is using KM_NOSLEEP and no callee branches on KM_SLEEP,
we can remove KM_NOSLEEP and replace KM_SLEEP with 0.
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
There are many, many xfs header files which are included but
unneeded (or included twice) in the xfs code, so remove them.
nb: xfs_linux.h includes about 9 headers for everyone, so those
explicit includes get removed by this. I'm not sure what the
preference is, but if we wanted explicit includes everywhere,
a followup patch could remove those xfs_*.h includes from
xfs_linux.h and move them into the files that need them.
Or it could be left as-is.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Replace the hand grown linked list handling and cil context attachment
with the standard list_head structure.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
The iop_unlock method is called when comitting or cancelling a
transaction. In the latter case, the transaction may or may not be
aborted. While there is no known problem with the current code in
practice, this implementation is limited in that any log item
implementation that might want to differentiate between a commit and a
cancellation must rely on the aborted state. The aborted bit is only
set when the cancelled transaction is dirty, however. This means that
there is no way to distinguish between a commit and a clean transaction
cancellation.
For example, intent log items currently rely on this distinction. The
log item is either transferred to the CIL on commit or released on
transaction cancel. There is currently no possibility for a clean intent
log item in a transaction, but if that state is ever introduced a cancel
of such a transaction will immediately result in memory leaks of the
associated log item(s). This is an interface deficiency and landmine.
To clean this up, replace the iop_unlock method with an iop_release
method that is specific to transaction cancel. The existing
iop_committing method occurs at the same time as iop_unlock in the
commit path and there is no need for two separate callbacks here.
Overload the iop_committing method with the current commit time
iop_unlock implementations to eliminate the need for the latter and
further simplify the interface.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
While commiting items looks very similar to freeing them on error it is
a different operation, and they will diverge a bit soon.
Split out the commit case from xfs_trans_free_items, inline it into
xfs_log_commit_cil and give it a separate trace point.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Just check if they are present first.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Just pass a straight bool aborted instead of abusing XFS_LI_ABORTED as a
flag in function parameters.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
XFS shutdown deadlocks have been reproduced by fstest generic/475.
The deadlock signature involves log I/O completion running error
handling to abort logged items and waiting for an inode cluster
buffer lock in the buffer item unpin handler. The buffer lock is
held by xfsaild attempting to flush an inode. The buffer happens to
be pinned and so xfs_iflush() triggers an async log force to begin
work required to get it unpinned. The log force is blocked waiting
on the commit completion, which never occurs and thus leaves the
filesystem deadlocked.
The root problem is that aborted log I/O completion pots commit
completion behind callback completion, which is unexpected for async
log forces. Under normal running conditions, an async log force
returns to the caller once the CIL ctx has been formatted/submitted
and the commit completion event triggered at the tail end of
xlog_cil_push(). If the filesystem has shutdown, however, we rely on
xlog_cil_committed() to trigger the completion event and it happens
to do so after running log item unpin callbacks. This makes it
unsafe to invoke an async log force from contexts that hold locks
that might also be required in log completion processing.
To address this problem, wake commit completion waiters before
aborting log items in the log I/O completion handler. This ensures
that an async log force will not deadlock on held locks if the
filesystem happens to shutdown. Note that it is still unsafe to
issue a sync log force while holding such locks because a sync log
force explicitly waits on the force completion, which occurs after
log I/O completion processing.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Remove the verbose license text from XFS files and replace them
with SPDX tags. This does not change the license of any of the code,
merely refers to the common, up-to-date license files in LICENSES/
This change was mostly scripted. fs/xfs/Makefile and
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_fs.h were modified by hand, the rest were detected
and modified by the following command:
for f in `git grep -l "GNU General" fs/xfs/` ; do
echo $f
cat $f | awk -f hdr.awk > $f.new
mv -f $f.new $f
done
And the hdr.awk script that did the modification (including
detecting the difference between GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0+ licenses)
is as follows:
$ cat hdr.awk
BEGIN {
hdr = 1.0
tag = "GPL-2.0"
str = ""
}
/^ \* This program is free software/ {
hdr = 2.0;
next
}
/any later version./ {
tag = "GPL-2.0+"
next
}
/^ \*\// {
if (hdr > 0.0) {
print "// SPDX-License-Identifier: " tag
print str
print $0
str=""
hdr = 0.0
next
}
print $0
next
}
/^ \* / {
if (hdr > 1.0)
next
if (hdr > 0.0) {
if (str != "")
str = str "\n"
str = str $0
next
}
print $0
next
}
/^ \*/ {
if (hdr > 0.0)
next
print $0
next
}
// {
if (hdr > 0.0) {
if (str != "")
str = str "\n"
str = str $0
next
}
print $0
}
END { }
$
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
It's just a connector between a transaction and a log item. There's
a 1:1 relationship between a log item descriptor and a log item,
and a 1:1 relationship between a log item descriptor and a
transaction. Both relationships are created and terminated at the
same time, so why do we even have the descriptor?
Replace it with a specific list_head in the log item and a new
log item dirtied flag to replace the XFS_LID_DIRTY flag.
Signed-Off-By: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[darrick: fix up deferred agfl intent finish_item use of LID_DIRTY]
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Because currently we have no idea what the transaction context we
are operating in is, and I need to know that information to track
down bugs in multiple log item joins to transactions.
Signed-Off-By: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
When using large directory blocks, we regularly see memory
allocations of >64k being made for the shadow log vector buffer.
When we are under memory pressure, kmalloc() may not be able to find
contiguous memory chunks large enough to satisfy these allocations
easily, and if memory is fragmented we can potentially stall here.
TO avoid this problem, switch the log vector buffer allocation to
use kmem_alloc_large(). This will allow failed allocations to fall
back to vmalloc and so remove the dependency on large contiguous
regions of memory being available. This should prevent slowdowns
and potential stalls when memory is low and/or fragmented.
Signed-Off-By: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
The bio describing discard operation is allocated by
__blkdev_issue_discard() which returns us a reference to it. That
reference is never released and thus we leak this bio. Drop the bio
reference once it completes in xlog_discard_endio().
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4560e78f40
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
The t_lsn is not used anymore and the t_commit_lsn is used as a tmp
storage for the checkpoint sequence number only in the current code.
And the start/commit lsn are tracked as a transaction group tag in
the xfs_cil_ctx instead of a single transaction, so remove them from
the xfs_trans structure and their users to match with the design.
Signed-off-by: Shan Hai <shan.hai@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
If a transaction log reservation overrun occurs, the ticket data
associated with the reservation is dumped in xfs_log_commit_cil().
This occurs long after the transaction items and details have been
removed from the transaction and effectively lost. This limited set
of ticket data provides very little information to support debugging
transaction overruns based on the typical report.
To improve transaction log reservation overrun reporting, create a
helper to dump transaction details such as log items, log vector
data, etc., as well as the underlying ticket data for the
transaction. Move the overrun detection from xfs_log_commit_cil() to
xlog_cil_insert_items() so it occurs prior to migration of the
logged items to the CIL. Call the new helper such that it is able to
dump this transaction data before it is lost.
Also, warn on overrun to provide callstack context for the offending
transaction and include a few additional messages from
xlog_cil_insert_items() to display the reservation consumed locally
for overhead such as log vector headers, split region headers and
the context ticket. This provides a complete general breakdown of
the reservation consumption of a transaction when/if it happens to
overrun the reservation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Transaction reservation overrun detection currently occurs too late
to print useful information about the offending transaction.
Ideally, the transaction data is printed before the associated log
items are moved from the transaction to the CIL, which occurs in
xlog_cil_insert_items(), such that details of the items logged by
the transaction are available for analysis.
Refactor xlog_cil_insert_items() to facilitate moving tx overrun
detection to this function. Update the function to track each bit of
extra log reservation stolen from the transaction (i.e., such as for
the CIL context ticket) and perform the log item migration as the
last operation before the CIL lock is released. This creates a
context where the transaction reservation consumption has been fully
calculated when the log items are moved to the CIL. This patch makes
no functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
xlog_print_tic_res() pre-dates delayed logging and the committed
items list (CIL) and thus retains some factoring warts, such as hard
coded function names in the output and the fact that it induces a
shutdown.
In preparation for more detailed logging of regular transaction
overrun situations, refactor xlog_print_tic_res() to be slightly
more generic. Reword some of the warning messages and pull the
shutdown into the callers.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Dave Chinner