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Steven Whitehouse
66fc061bda GFS2: FITRIM ioctl support
The FITRIM ioctl provides an alternative way to send discard requests to
the underlying device. Using the discard mount option results in every
freed block generating a discard request to the block device. This can
be slow, since many block devices can only process discard requests of
larger sizes, and also such operations can be time consuming.

Rather than using the discard mount option, FITRIM allows a sweep of the
filesystem on an occasional basis, and also to optionally avoid sending
down discard requests for smaller regions.

In GFS2 FITRIM will work at resource group granularity. There is a flag
for each resource group which keeps track of which resource groups have
been trimmed. This flag is reset whenever a deallocation occurs in the
resource group, and set whenever a successful FITRIM of that resource
group has taken place. This helps to reduce repeated discard requests
for the same block ranges, again improving performance.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-02-28 17:10:21 +00:00
David Teigland
e0c2a9aa1e GFS2: dlm based recovery coordination
This new method of managing recovery is an alternative to
the previous approach of using the userland gfs_controld.

- use dlm slot numbers to assign journal id's
- use dlm recovery callbacks to initiate journal recovery
- use a dlm lock to determine the first node to mount fs
- use a dlm lock to track journals that need recovery

Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-01-11 09:23:05 +00:00
Abhijith Das
1ccaba3056 GFS2: Remove old, unused linked list code from quota
This is the kernel portion of the patch-set for upstream gfs2,
to remove the quota-linked-list stuff and replace it with
fiemap-based traversal of the quota file.

The corresponding userland fixes have been pushed to
STABLE3 and master branches of cluster.git and gfs2-utils.git
respectively (Refer Red Hat bug #536902).

Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 14:08:10 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
0ab7d13fcb GFS2: Tag all metadata with jid
There are two spare field in the header common to all GFS2
metadata. One is just the right size to fit a journal id
in it, and this patch updates the journal code so that each
time a metadata block is modified, we tag it with the journal
id of the node which is performing the modification.

The reason for this is that it should make it much easier to
debug issues which arise if we can tell which node was the
last to modify a particular metadata block.

Since the field is updated before the block is written into
the journal, each journal should only contain metadata which
is tagged with its own journal id. The one exception to this
is the journal header block, which might have a different node's
id in it, if that journal was recovered by another node in the
cluster.

Thus each journal will contain a record of which nodes recovered
it, via the journal header.

The other field in the metadata header could potentially be
used to hold information about what kind of operation was
performed, but for the time being we just zero it on each
transaction so that if we use it for that in future, we'll
know that the information (where it exists) is reliable.

I did consider using the other field to hold the journal
sequence number, however since in GFS2's journaling we write
the modified data into the journal and not the original
data, this gives no information as to what action caused the
modification, so I think we can probably come up with a better
use for those 64 bits in the future.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 11:58:47 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
b6ed2e03df GFS2: Add explanation of extended attr on-disk format
Some useful info regarding the on-disk representation of
GFS2 extended attributes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-08-25 13:44:04 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
237416fe05 headers_check fix: linux/gfs2_ondisk.h
fix the following 'make headers_check' warning:

  usr/include/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h:109: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
2009-01-30 23:50:12 +05:30
Steven Whitehouse
6d80c39f91 GFS2: Add UUID to GFS2 sb
This patch adds a UUID to the GFS2 sb structure. This field is not
actually referenced from kernel space at all, but is added for
completeness and due to the userland tools which get their on-disk
structure information from the gfs2_ondisk.h header file.

Since we have to be backwards compatible, we will assume that any GFS2
sb for which the UUID is all 0 does not have a UUID as such.

We should then be (after some userland changes) able to support the -U
mount option. This addresses Fedora bugzilla #242689

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-09-22 07:29:31 +01:00
Abhijith Das
2d9a4bbf6d [GFS2] Fix quota do_list operation hang
This is the filesystem part of the patches to fix this bz. There are
additional userland patches (gfs2_quota, libgfs2) for the complete
solution. This patch adds a new field qu_ll_next to the gfs2_quota
structure. This field allows us to create linked lists of quotas in the
ondisk quota inode. Instead of scanning through the entire sparse quota
file for valid quotas, we can now simply walk through the user and group
quota linked lists to perform the do_list operation.

Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-10-10 08:55:27 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
4bd91ba181 [GFS2] Add nanosecond timestamp feature
This adds a nanosecond timestamp feature to the GFS2 filesystem. Due
to the way that the on-disk format works, older filesystems will just
appear to have this field set to zero. When mounted by an older version
of GFS2, the filesystem will simply ignore the extra fields so that
it will again appear to have whole second resolution, so that its
trivially backward compatible.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09 08:23:12 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
bb8d8a6f54 [GFS2] Fix sign problem in quota/statfs and cleanup _host structures
This patch fixes some sign issues which were accidentally introduced
into the quota & statfs code during the endianess annotation process.
Also included is a general clean up which moves all of the _host
structures out of gfs2_ondisk.h (where they should not have been to
start with) and into the places where they are actually used (often only
one place). Also those _host structures which are not required any more
are removed entirely (which is the eventual plan for all of them).

The conversion routines from ondisk.c are also moved into the places
where they are actually used, which for almost every one, was just one
single place, so all those are now static functions. This also cleans up
the end of gfs2_ondisk.h which no longer needs the #ifdef __KERNEL__.

The net result is a reduction of about 100 lines of code, many functions
now marked static plus the bug fixes as mentioned above. For good
measure I ran the code through sparse after making these changes to
check that there are no warnings generated.

This fixes Red Hat bz #239686

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09 08:23:10 +01:00
Abhijith Das
1990e91765 [GFS2] Quotas non-functional - fix another bug
This patch fixes a bug where gfs2 was writing update quota usage
information to the wrong location in the quota file.

Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09 08:23:01 +01:00
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
518bbde33f [GFS2] latest gfs2-nmw headers break userland build
2e8701a15cd6f7c95e74d6660615a69b09e453ef commit breaks libgfs2 build:

gcc -Wall -I/usr/src/ubuntu/mypkgs/rhcluster/cluster/config -DHELPER_PROGRAM
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DGFS2_RELEASE_NAME=\"2.0\" -ggdb  -I/usr/include
-I../include -I../libgfs2 -c -o gfs2hex.o gfs2hex.c
In file included from hexedit.h:22,
                  from gfs2hex.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h:505: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
before ‘u32’
make[2]: *** [gfs2hex.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ubuntu/mypkgs/rhcluster/cluster/gfs2/edit'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ubuntu/mypkgs/rhcluster/cluster/gfs2'
make: *** [gfs2] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09 08:22:47 +01:00
Abhijith Das
2a87ab0806 [GFS2] Quotas non-functional - fix bug
This patch fixes an error in the quota code where a 'struct
gfs2_quota_lvb*' was being passed to gfs2_adjust_quota() instead of a
'struct gfs2_quota_data*'. Also moved 'struct gfs2_quota_lvb' from
fs/gfs2/incore.h to include/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h as per Steve's suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09 08:22:26 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
dbb7cae2a3 [GFS2] Clean up inode number handling
This patch cleans up the inode number handling code. The main difference
is that instead of looking up the inodes using a struct gfs2_inum_host
we now use just the no_addr member of this structure. The tests relating
to no_formal_ino can then be done by the calling code. This has
advantages in that we want to do different things in different code
paths if the no_formal_ino doesn't match. In the NFS patch we want to
return -ESTALE, but in the ->lookup() path, its a bug in the fs if the
no_formal_ino doesn't match and thus we can withdraw in this case.

In order to later fix bz #201012, we need to be able to look up an inode
without knowing no_formal_ino, as the only information that is known to
us is the on-disk location of the inode in question.

This patch will also help us to fix bz #236099 at a later date by
cleaning up a lot of the code in that area.

There are no user visible changes as a result of this patch and there
are no changes to the on-disk format either.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09 08:22:24 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
f6e58f01e8 [GFS2] Don't copy meta_header for rgrp in and out
The meta_header for an ondisk rgrp never changes, so there is no point
copying it in and back out to disk. Also there is no reason to keep
a copy for each rgrp in memory.

The code already checks to ensure that the header is correct before
it calls the routine to copy the data in, so that we don't even need
to check whether its correct on disk in the functions in ondisk.c

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:36 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
a9583c7983 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (7) - di_payload_format
This is almost never used. Its there for backward
compatibility with GFS1. It doesn't need its own
field since it can always be calculated from the
inode mode & flags. This saves a bit more space
in the gfs2_inode.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:26 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
1a7b1eed58 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (6) - di_atime/di_mtime/di_ctime
Remove the di_[amc]time fields and use inode->i_[amc]time
fields instead. This saves 24 bytes from the gfs2_inode.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:23 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
4f56110a00 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (5) - di_nlink
Remove the di_nlink field in favour of inode->i_nlink and
update the nlink handling to use the proper macros. This
saves 4 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:20 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
2933f9254a [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (4) - di_uid/di_gid
Remove duplicate di_uid/di_gid fields in favour of using
inode->i_uid/inode->i_gid instead. This saves 8 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:17 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
b60623c238 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (3) - di_mode
This removes the duplicate di_mode field in favour of using the
inode->i_mode field. This saves 4 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:14 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
e7f14f4d09 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (2) - di_major/di_minor
This removes the device numbers from this structure by using
inode->i_rdev instead. It also cleans up the code in gfs2_mknod.
It results in shrinking the gfs2_inode by 8 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:11 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
af339c0241 [GFS2] Shrink gfs2_inode (1) - di_header/di_num
The metadata header doesn't need to be stored in the incore
struct gfs2_inode since its constant, and this patch removes it.
Also, there is already a field for the inode's number in the
struct gfs2_inode, so we don't need one in struct gfs2_dinode_host
as well.

This saves 28 bytes of space in the struct gfs2_inode.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:07 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
4cc14f0b88 [GFS2] Change argument to gfs2_dinode_print
Change argument for gfs2_dinode_print in order to prepare
for removal of duplicate fields between struct inode and
struct gfs2_dinode_host.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:03 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
ea744d01c6 [GFS2] Move gfs2_dinode_in to inode.c
gfs2_dinode_in() is only ever called from one place, so move it
to that place (in inode.c) and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:34:00 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
891ea14712 [GFS2] Change argument to gfs2_dinode_in
This is a preliminary patch to enable the removal of fields
in gfs2_dinode_host which are duplicated in struct inode.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:57 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
539e5d6b7a [GFS2] Change argument of gfs2_dinode_out
Everywhere this was called, a struct gfs2_inode was available,
but despite that, it was always called with a struct gfs2_dinode
as an argument. By making this change it paves the way to start
eliminating fields duplicated between the kernel's struct inode
and the struct gfs2_dinode.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:54 -05:00
Al Viro
b62f963e1f [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_quota_change
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:41 -05:00
Al Viro
bd209cc017 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_statfs_change
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:38 -05:00
Al Viro
b5bc9e8b06 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_quota
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:35 -05:00
Al Viro
629a21e7ec [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_inum
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:32 -05:00
Al Viro
1e81c4c3e0 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs_rindex
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:29 -05:00
Al Viro
e928a76f95 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_meta_header
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:26 -05:00
Al Viro
5516762261 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_log_head
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:14 -05:00
Al Viro
e697264709 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_inum_range
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:11 -05:00
Al Viro
68826664d1 [GFS2] split and annotate gfs2_rgrp
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:07 -05:00
Al Viro
bc558c87bb [GFS2] fields of gfs2_sb_host are host-endian
... and several could be killed, but that's another story.
Annotate scalar ones, kill completely unused.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:04 -05:00
Al Viro
f50dfaf78c [GFS2] split gfs2_sb
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:00 -05:00
Al Viro
5c6edb576f [GFS2] gfs2_dinode_host fields are host-endian
Annotated scalar fields, dropped unused ones.  Note that
it's not at all obvious that we want to convert all of them
to host-endian...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:32:55 -05:00
Al Viro
3ca68df6ee [GFS2] split gfs2_dinode into on-disk and host variants
The latter is used as part of gfs2-private part of struct inode.
It actually stores a lot of fields differently; for now the
declaration is just cloned, inode field is swtiched and changes
propagated.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:32:50 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
38c60ef228 [GFS2] Use const in endian conversion routines
Use const in endian conversion and printing of on-disk structures.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04 14:48:37 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
4340fe6253 [GFS2] Add generation number
This adds a generation number for the eventual use of NFS to the
ondisk inode. Its backward compatible with the current code since
it doesn't really matter what the generation number is to start with,
and indeed since its set to zero, due to it being taken from padding
in both the inode and rgrp header, it should be fine.

The eventual plan is to use this rather than no_formal_ino in the
NFS filehandles. At that point no_formal_ino will be unused.

At the same time we also add a releasepages call back to the
"normal" address space for gfs2 inodes. Also I've removed a
one-linrer function thats not required any more.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-07-11 09:46:33 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
feaa7bba02 [GFS2] Fix unlinked file handling
This patch fixes the way we have been dealing with unlinked,
but still open files. It removes all limits (other than memory
for inodes, as per every other filesystem) on numbers of these
which we can support on GFS2. It also means that (like other
fs) its the responsibility of the last process to close the file
to deallocate the storage, rather than the person who did the
unlinking. Note that with GFS2, those two events might take place
on different nodes.

Also there are a number of other changes:

 o We use the Linux inode subsystem as it was intended to be
used, wrt allocating GFS2 inodes
 o The Linux inode cache is now the point which we use for
local enforcement of only holding one copy of the inode in
core at once (previous to this we used the glock layer).
 o We no longer use the unlinked "special" file. We just ignore it
completely. This makes unlinking more efficient.
 o We now use the 4th block allocation state. The previously unused
state is used to track unlinked but still open inodes.
 o gfs2_inoded is no longer needed
 o Several fields are now no longer needed (and removed) from the in
core struct gfs2_inode
 o Several fields are no longer needed (and removed) from the in core
superblock

There are a number of future possible optimisations and clean ups
which have been made possible by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-06-14 15:32:57 -04:00
Ryan O'Hara
639b6d79b8 [GFS2] selinux support
This adds support to GFS2 for selinux extended attributes. There is a
known bug in gfs2_ea_get() which is believed to be independant of this
patch. Further patches will follow once that bug is fixed in order to
make GFS2 use as much of the generic eattr infrastructure as possible.

Signed-off-by: Ryan O'Hara <rohara@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-05-22 10:08:35 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
08bc2dbc73 [GFS2] [-mm patch] fs/gfs2/: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- #if 0 unused functions
- remove the following global function that was both unused and
  unimplemented:
  - super.c: gfs2_do_upgrade()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-04-28 10:59:12 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
7ea9ea8322 [GFS2] Update ioctl() to new interface
This is designed as a fs independent way to set flags on a
particular inode. The values of the ioctl() and flags are
designed to be identical to the ext2/3 values. Assuming that
this plan is acceptable to people in general, the plan is to
then move other fs across to using the same set of #defines,
etc.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-03-31 15:01:28 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
c752666c17 [GFS2] Fix bug in directory code and tidy up
Due to a typo, the dir leaf split operation was (for the first
split in a directory) writing the new hash vaules at the
wrong offset. This is now fixed.

Also some other tidy ups are included:

 - We use GFS2's hash function for dentries (see ops_dentry.c) so that
   we don't have to keep recalculating the hash values.
 - A lot of common code is eliminated between the various directory
   lookup routines.
 - Better error checking on directory lookup (previously different
   routines checked for different errors)
 - The leaf split operation has a couple of redundant operations
   removed from it, so it should be faster.

There is still further scope for further clean ups in the directory
code, and readdir in particular could do with slimming down a bit.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-03-20 12:30:04 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
5c676f6d35 [GFS2] Macros removal in gfs2.h
As suggested by Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>.

The DIV_RU macro is renamed DIV_ROUND_UP and and moved to kernel.h
The other macros are gone from gfs2.h as (although not requested
by Pekka Enberg) are a number of included header file which are now
included individually. The inode number comparison function is
now an inline function.

The DT2IF and IF2DT may be addressed in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-02-27 17:23:27 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
fc69d0d336 [GFS2] Change ondisk format (hopefully for the last time)
There were one or two fields in structures which didn't get changed
last time back to their gfs1 sizes and alignments. One or two constants
have also changed back to their original values which were missed the
first time.

Its possible that indirect pointer blocks might need to change. If
they don't we'll have to rewrite them all on upgrade due to a change
in the amount of padding that they use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-02-13 16:21:47 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
18ec7d5c3f [GFS2] Make journaled data files identical to normal files on disk
This is a very large patch, with a few still to be resolved issues
so you might want to check out the previous head of the tree since
this is known to be unstable. Fixes for the various bugs will be
forthcoming shortly.

This patch removes the special data format which has been used
up till now for journaled data files. Directories still retain the
old format so that they will remain on disk compatible with earlier
releases. As a result you can now do the following with journaled
data files:

 1) mmap them
 2) export them over NFS
 3) convert to/from normal files whenever you want to (the zero length
    restriction is gone)

In addition the level at which GFS' locking is done has changed for all
files (since they all now use the page cache) such that the locking is
done at the page cache level rather than the level of the fs operations.
This should mean that things like loopback mounts and other things which
touch the page cache directly should now work.

Current known issues:

 1. There is a lock mode inversion problem related to the resource
    group hold function which needs to be resolved.
 2. Any significant amount of I/O causes an oops with an offset of hex 320
    (NULL pointer dereference) which appears to be related to a journaled data
    buffer appearing on a list where it shouldn't be.
 3. Direct I/O writes are disabled for the time being (will reappear later)
 4. There is probably a deadlock between the page lock and GFS' locks under
    certain combinations of mmap and fs operation I/O.
 5. Issue relating to ref counting on internally used inodes causes a hang
    on umount (discovered before this patch, and not fixed by it)
 6. One part of the directory metadata is different from GFS1 and will need
    to be resolved before next release.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-02-08 11:50:51 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
b96ca4fa4e [GFS2] Update init_dinode() to reduce stack usage
We no longer allocate a dinode on the stack in init_dinode()
and we no longer use gfs2_dinode_out (eliminating one copy) and
gfs2_meta_header_in (eliminating another copy). The meta_header_in
fucntion is now no longer referenced from outside gfs2_ondisk.c, so
make it static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-01-18 10:57:10 +00:00