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Ryusuke Konishi 947b10ae0a nilfs2: fix regression of garbage collection ioctl
On 2.6.37-rc1, garbage collection ioctl of nilfs was broken due to the
commit 263d90cefc ("nilfs2: remove own inode hash used for GC"),
and leading to filesystem corruption.

The patch doesn't queue gc-inodes for log writer if they are reused
through the vfs inode cache.  Here, gc-inode is the inode which
buffers blocks to be relocated on GC.  That patch queues gc-inodes in
nilfs_init_gcinode() function, but this function is not called when
they don't have I_NEW flag.  Thus, some of live blocks are wrongly
overrode without being moved to new logs.

This resolves the problem by moving the gc-inode queueing to an outer
function to ensure it's done right.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-12-16 14:35:18 +09:00
Dan Carpenter 103cfcf522 nilfs2: nilfs_iget_for_gc() returns ERR_PTR
nilfs_iget_for_gc() returns an ERR_PTR() on failure and doesn't return
NULL.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-11-23 16:32:19 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 5beb6e0b20 nilfs2: add bdev freeze/thaw support
Nilfs hasn't supported the freeze/thaw feature because it didn't work
due to the peculiar design that multiple super block instances could
be allocated for a device.  This limitation was removed by the patch
"nilfs2: do not allocate multiple super block instances for a device".

So now this adds the freeze/thaw support to nilfs.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-10-23 09:24:39 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 348fe8da13 nilfs2: simplify life cycle management of nilfs object
This stops pre-allocating nilfs object in nilfs_get_sb routine, and
stops managing its life cycle by reference counting.

nilfs_find_or_create_nilfs() function, nilfs->ns_mount_mutex,
nilfs_objects list, and the reference counter will be removed through
the simplification.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-10-23 09:24:36 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 263d90cefc nilfs2: remove own inode hash used for GC
This uses inode hash function that vfs provides instead of the own
hash table for caching gc inodes.  This finally removes the own inode
hash from nilfs.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-10-23 09:24:34 +09:00
Jan Blunck d6d4c19c5f BKL: Remove BKL from NILFS2
The BKL is only used in put_super, fill_super and remount_fs that are all
three protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is
safe to remove the BKL entirely.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2010-10-04 21:10:41 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 44fa2b4bee Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: fix typo "numer" -> "number" in alloc.c
  nilfs2: Remove an uninitialization warning in nilfs_btree_propagate_v()
  nilfs2: fix a wrong type conversion in nilfs_ioctl()
2010-04-12 18:34:25 -07:00
Li Hong 753234007f nilfs2: fix a wrong type conversion in nilfs_ioctl()
(void * __user *) should be (void __user *)

Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-03-31 16:55:00 +09:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Jiro SEKIBA 0d561f12b4 nilfs2: add reader's lock for cno in nilfs_ioctl_sync
This adds reader's lock for the_nilfs->cno in nilfs_ioctl_sync,
for the_nilfs->cno should be proctected by segctor_sem when reading.

Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-02-20 21:18:19 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 7512487e6d nilfs2: use mnt_want_write in ioctls where write access is needed
A few nilfs2 ioctls need to ask for and then later release write
access to the mount in order to avoid potential write to read-only
mounts.

This adds the missing mnt_want_write and mnt_drop_write in
nilfs_ioctl_change_cpmode, nilfs_ioctl_delete_checkpoint, and
nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-02-13 12:26:02 +09:00
Tobias Klauser 33e189bd57 nilfs2: Storage class should be before const qualifier
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:

The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning
of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent
feature.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-12-25 13:01:50 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi c1ea985c71 nilfs2: fix lock order reversal in chcp operation
Will fix the following lock order reversal lockdep detected:

=======================================================
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.32-rc6 #7
-------------------------------------------------------
chcp/30157 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&nilfs->ns_mount_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<fed7cfcc>] nilfs_cpfile_change_cpmode+0x46/0x752 [nilfs2]

but task is already holding lock:
 (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}, at: [<fed7ca32>] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xba/0x110 [nilfs2]

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #2 (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}:
       [<c105799c>] __lock_acquire+0x109c/0x139d
       [<c1057d26>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xa0
       [<c14151e2>] down_read+0x31/0x45
       [<fed6d77b>] nilfs_attach_checkpoint+0x8f/0x16b [nilfs2]
       [<fed6e393>] nilfs_get_sb+0x3e7/0x653 [nilfs2]
       [<c10c0ccb>] vfs_kern_mount+0x8b/0x124
       [<c10c0db2>] do_kern_mount+0x37/0xc3
       [<c10d7517>] do_mount+0x64d/0x69d
       [<c10d75cd>] sys_mount+0x66/0x95
       [<c1002a14>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32

-> #1 (&type->s_umount_key#31/1){+.+.+.}:
       [<c105799c>] __lock_acquire+0x109c/0x139d
       [<c1057d26>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xa0
       [<c104c0f3>] down_write_nested+0x34/0x52
       [<c10c08fe>] sget+0x22e/0x389
       [<fed6e133>] nilfs_get_sb+0x187/0x653 [nilfs2]
       [<c10c0ccb>] vfs_kern_mount+0x8b/0x124
       [<c10c0db2>] do_kern_mount+0x37/0xc3
       [<c10d7517>] do_mount+0x64d/0x69d
       [<c10d75cd>] sys_mount+0x66/0x95
       [<c1002a14>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32

-> #0 (&nilfs->ns_mount_mutex){+.+.+.}:
       [<c1057727>] __lock_acquire+0xe27/0x139d
       [<c1057d26>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xa0
       [<c1414d63>] mutex_lock_nested+0x41/0x23e
       [<fed7cfcc>] nilfs_cpfile_change_cpmode+0x46/0x752 [nilfs2]
       [<fed801b2>] nilfs_ioctl+0x11a/0x7da [nilfs2]
       [<c10cca12>] vfs_ioctl+0x27/0x6e
       [<c10ccf93>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x491/0x4db
       [<c10cd022>] sys_ioctl+0x45/0x5f
       [<c1002a14>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-11-13 10:33:24 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi c083234f15 nilfs2: fix missing cleanup of gc cache on error cases
This fixes an -rc1 regression brought by the commit:
1cf58fa840 ("nilfs2: shorten freeze
period due to GC in write operation v3").

Although the patch moved out a function call of
nilfs_ioctl_move_blocks() to nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments() from
nilfs_ioctl_prepare_clean_segments(), it didn't move corresponding
cleanup job needed for the error case.

This will move the missing cleanup job to the destination function.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
2009-11-08 19:04:25 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 5399dd1fc8 nilfs2: fix kernel oops in error case of nilfs_ioctl_move_blocks
This fixes a kernel oops reported by Markus Trippelsdorf in the email
titled "[NILFS users] kernel Oops while running nilfs_cleanerd".

The oops was caused by a bug of error path in
nilfs_ioctl_move_blocks() function, which was inlined in
nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments().

nilfs_ioctl_move_blocks checks duplication of blocks which will be
moved in garbage collection.  But, the check should have be done
within nilfs_ioctl_move_inode_block() to prevent list corruption among
buffers storing the target blocks.

To fix the kernel oops, this moves forward the duplication check
before the list insertion.

I also tested this for stable trees [2.6.30, 2.6.31].

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
2009-11-08 19:01:35 +09:00
Jiro SEKIBA 1cf58fa840 nilfs2: shorten freeze period due to GC in write operation v3
This is a re-revised patch to shorten freeze period.
This version include a fix of the bug Konishi-san mentioned last time.

When GC is runnning, GC moves live block to difference segments.
Copying live blocks into memory is done in a transaction,
however it is not necessarily to be in the transaction.
This patch will get the nilfs_ioctl_move_blocks() out from
transaction lock and put it before the transaction.

I ran sysbench fileio test against nilfs partition.
I copied some DVD/CD images and created snapshot to create live blocks
before starting the benchmark.

Followings are summary of rc8 and rc8 w/ the patch of per-request
statistics, which is min/max and avg.  I ran each test three times and
bellow is average of those numers.

According to this benchmark result, average time is slightly degrated.
However, worstcase (max) result is significantly improved.
This can address a few seconds write freeze.

- random write per-request performance of rc8
 min   0.843ms
 max 680.406ms
 avg   3.050ms
- random write per-request performance of rc8 w/ this patch
 min   0.843ms -> 100.00%
 max 380.490ms ->  55.90%
 avg   3.233ms -> 106.00%

- sequential write per-request performance of rc8
 min   0.736ms
 max 774.343ms
 avg   2.883ms
- sequential write per-request performance of rc8 w/ this patch
 min   0.720ms ->  97.80%
 max  644.280ms->  83.20%
 avg   3.130ms -> 108.50%

-----8<-----8<-----nilfs_cleanerd.conf-----8<-----8<-----
protection_period       150
selection_policy        timestamp       # timestamp in ascend order
nsegments_per_clean     2
cleaning_interval       2
retry_interval          60
use_mmap
log_priority            info
-----8<-----8<-----nilfs_cleanerd.conf-----8<-----8<-----

Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-09-14 18:27:15 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 003ff182fd nilfs2: allow future expansion of metadata read out via get info ioctl
Nilfs has some ioctl commands to read out metadata from meta data
files:

 - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPINFO for checkpoint file,
 - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUINFO for segment usage file, and
 - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_VINFO for Disk Address Transalation (DAT) file,
   respectively.

Every routine on these metadata files is implemented so that it allows
future expansion of on-disk format.  But, the above ioctl commands do
not support expansion even though nilfs_argv structure can handle
arbitrary size for data exchanged via ioctl.

This allows future expansion of the following structures which give
basic format of the "get information" ioctls:

 - struct nilfs_cpinfo
 - struct nilfs_suinfo
 - struct nilfs_vinfo

So, this introduces forward compatility of such ioctl commands.

In this patch, a sanity check in nilfs_ioctl_get_info() function is
changed to accept larger data structure [1], and metadata read
routines are rewritten so that they become compatible for larger
structures; the routines will just ignore the remaining fields which
the current version of nilfs doesn't know.

[1] The ioctl function already has another upper limit (PAGE_SIZE
    against a structure, which appears in nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy
    function), and this will not cause security problem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-06-10 23:41:11 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 071cb4b819 nilfs2: eliminate removal list of segments
This will clean up the removal list of segments and the related
functions from segment.c and ioctl.c, which have hurt code
readability.

This elimination is applied by using nilfs_sufile_updatev() previously
introduced in the patch ("nilfs2: add sufile function that can modify
multiple segment usages").

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-06-10 23:41:09 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi d504685363 nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments
This fixes a new memory leak problem in garbage collection.  The
problem was brought by the bugfix patch ("nilfs2: fix lock order
reversal in nilfs_clean_segments ioctl").

Thanks to Kentaro Suzuki for finding this problem.

Reported-by: Kentaro Suzuki <k_suzuki@ms.sylc.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-05-22 20:49:04 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 83aca8f480 nilfs2: check size of array structured data exchanged via ioctls
Although some ioctls of nilfs2 exchange data in the form of indirectly
referenced array, some of them lack size check on the array elements.

This inserts the missing checks and rejects requests if data of ioctl
does not have a valid format.

We usually don't have to check size of structures that we associated
with ioctl commands because the size is tested implicitly for
identifying ioctl command; the checks this patch adds are for the
cases where the implicit check is not applied.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-05-12 01:48:54 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 4f6b828837 nilfs2: fix lock order reversal in nilfs_clean_segments ioctl
This is a companion patch to ("nilfs2: fix possible circular locking
for get information ioctls").

This corrects lock order reversal between mm->mmap_sem and
nilfs->ns_segctor_sem in nilfs_clean_segments() which was detected by
lockdep check:

 =======================================================
 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 2.6.30-rc3-nilfs-00003-g360bdc1 #7
 -------------------------------------------------------
 mmap/5294 is trying to acquire lock:
  (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}, at: [<d0d0e846>] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2]

 but task is already holding lock:
  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c043700a>] do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x30a

 which lock already depends on the new lock.

 the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

 -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}:
        [<c01470a5>] __lock_acquire+0x1066/0x13b0
        [<c01474a9>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd
        [<c01836bc>] might_fault+0x68/0x88
        [<c023c61d>] copy_from_user+0x2a/0x111
        [<d0d120d0>] nilfs_ioctl_prepare_clean_segments+0x1d/0xf1 [nilfs2]
        [<d0d0e2aa>] nilfs_clean_segments+0x6d/0x1b9 [nilfs2]
        [<d0d11f68>] nilfs_ioctl+0x2ad/0x318 [nilfs2]
        [<c01a3be7>] vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x69
        [<c01a408e>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x460/0x499
        [<c01a4107>] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5a
        [<c01031a4>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38
        [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

 -> #0 (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}:
        [<c0146e0b>] __lock_acquire+0xdcc/0x13b0
        [<c01474a9>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd
        [<c0433f1d>] down_read+0x2a/0x3e
        [<d0d0e846>] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2]
        [<d0cfe0e5>] nilfs_page_mkwrite+0xe7/0x154 [nilfs2]
        [<c0183b0b>] __do_fault+0x165/0x376
        [<c01855cd>] handle_mm_fault+0x287/0x5d1
        [<c043712d>] do_page_fault+0x2fb/0x30a
        [<c0435462>] error_code+0x72/0x78
        [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

where nilfs_clean_segments() holds:

  nilfs->ns_segctor_sem -> copy_from_user()
                             --> page fault -> mm->mmap_sem

And, page fault path may hold:

  page fault -> mm->mmap_sem
         --> nilfs_page_mkwrite() -> nilfs->ns_segctor_sem

Even though nilfs_clean_segments() does not perform write access on
given user pages, it may cause deadlock because nilfs->ns_segctor_sem
is shared per device and mm->mmap_sem can be shared with other tasks.

To avoid this problem, this patch moves all calls of copy_from_user()
outside the nilfs->ns_segctor_sem lock in the ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-05-11 14:54:41 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 47eb6b9c8f nilfs2: fix possible circular locking for get information ioctls
This is one of two patches which are to correct possible circular
locking between mm->mmap_sem and nilfs->ns_segctor_sem.

The problem was detected by lockdep check as follows:

 =======================================================
 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 2.6.30-rc3-nilfs-00002-g3552613 #6
 -------------------------------------------------------
 mmap/5418 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}, at: [<d0d0e852>] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2]

 but task is already holding lock:
 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c043700a>] do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x30a

 which lock already depends on the new lock.

 the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

 -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}:
 [<c01470a5>] __lock_acquire+0x1066/0x13b0
 [<c01474a9>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd
 [<c01836bc>] might_fault+0x68/0x88
 [<c023c730>] copy_to_user+0x2c/0xfc
 [<d0d11b4f>] nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy+0x103/0x160 [nilfs2]
 [<d0d11fa9>] nilfs_ioctl+0x30a/0x3b0 [nilfs2]
 [<c01a3be7>] vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x69
 [<c01a408e>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x460/0x499
 [<c01a4107>] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5a
 [<c01031a4>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38
 [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

 -> #0 (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}:
 [<c0146e0b>] __lock_acquire+0xdcc/0x13b0
 [<c01474a9>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd
 [<c0433f1d>] down_read+0x2a/0x3e
 [<d0d0e852>] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2]
 [<d0cfe0e5>] nilfs_page_mkwrite+0xe7/0x154 [nilfs2]
 [<c0183b0b>] __do_fault+0x165/0x376
 [<c01855cd>] handle_mm_fault+0x287/0x5d1
 [<c043712d>] do_page_fault+0x2fb/0x30a
 [<c0435462>] error_code+0x72/0x78
 [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

 other info that might help us debug this:

 1 lock held by mmap/5418:
 #0:  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c043700a>] do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x30a

 stack backtrace:
 Pid: 5418, comm: mmap Not tainted 2.6.30-rc3-nilfs-00002-g3552613 #6
 Call Trace:
 [<c0432145>] ? printk+0xf/0x12
 [<c0145c48>] print_circular_bug_tail+0xaa/0xb5
 [<c0146e0b>] __lock_acquire+0xdcc/0x13b0
 [<d0d10149>] ? nilfs_sufile_get_stat+0x1e/0x105 [nilfs2]
 [<c013b59a>] ? up_read+0x16/0x2c
 [<d0d10225>] ? nilfs_sufile_get_stat+0xfa/0x105 [nilfs2]
 [<c01474a9>] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd
 [<d0d0e852>] ? nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2]
 [<c0433f1d>] down_read+0x2a/0x3e
 [<d0d0e852>] ? nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2]
 [<d0d0e852>] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2]
 [<d0cfe0e5>] nilfs_page_mkwrite+0xe7/0x154 [nilfs2]
 [<c0183b0b>] __do_fault+0x165/0x376
 [<c01855cd>] handle_mm_fault+0x287/0x5d1
 [<c043700a>] ? do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x30a
 [<c013b54f>] ? down_read_trylock+0x39/0x43
 [<c043712d>] do_page_fault+0x2fb/0x30a
 [<c0436e32>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x30a
 [<c0435462>] error_code+0x72/0x78
 [<c0436e32>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x30a

This makes the lock granularity of nilfs->ns_segctor_sem finer than
that of the mmap semaphore for ioctl commands except
nilfs_clean_segments().

The successive patch ("nilfs2: fix lock order reversal in
nilfs_clean_segments ioctl") is required to fully resolve the problem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-05-11 12:57:46 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 201913ed74 nilfs2: fix circular locking dependency of writer mutex
This fixes the following circular locking dependency problem:

 =======================================================
 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 2.6.30-rc3 #5
 -------------------------------------------------------
 segctord/3895 is trying to acquire lock:
  (&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<d0d02172>]
   nilfs_mdt_get_block+0x89/0x20f [nilfs2]

 but task is already holding lock:
  (&bmap->b_sem){++++..}, at: [<d0d02d99>]
   nilfs_bmap_propagate+0x14/0x2e [nilfs2]

 which lock already depends on the new lock.

The bugfix is done by replacing call sites of nilfs_get_writer() which
are never called from read-only context with direct dereferencing of
pointer to a writable FS-instance.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-05-09 13:36:57 +09:00
Ryusuke Konishi 1f5abe7e7d nilfs2: replace BUG_ON and BUG calls triggerable from ioctl
Pekka Enberg advised me:
> It would be nice if BUG(), BUG_ON(), and panic() calls would be
> converted to proper error handling using WARN_ON() calls. The BUG()
> call in nilfs_cpfile_delete_checkpoints(), for example, looks to be
> triggerable from user-space via the ioctl() system call.

This will follow the comment and keep them to a minimum.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:19 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 7a9461939a nilfs2: use unlocked_ioctl
Pekka Enberg suggested converting ->ioctl operations to use
->unlocked_ioctl to avoid BKL.

The conversion was verified to be safe, so I will take it on this
occasion.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:19 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 8082d36aed nilfs2: remove compat ioctl code
This removes compat code from the nilfs ioctls and applies the same
function for both .ioctl and .compat_ioctl file operations.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:18 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi dc498d09be nilfs2: use fixed sized types for ioctl structures
Nilfs ioctl had structures not having fixed sized types such as:

  struct nilfs_argv {
         void *v_base;
         size_t v_nmembs;
         size_t v_size;
         int v_index;
         int v_flags;
  };

Further, some of them are wrongly aligned:

  e.g.

  struct nilfs_cpmode {
        __u64 cm_cno;
        int cm_mode;
  };

The size of wrongly aligned structures varies depending on
architectures, and it breaks the identity of ioctl commands, which
leads to arch dependent errors.

Previously, these are compensated by using compat_ioctl.

This fixes these problems and allows removal of compat ioctl.

Since this will change sizes of those structures, binary compatibility
for the past utilities will once break; new utilities have to be used
instead.  However, it would be helpful to avoid platform dependent
problems in the long term.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:18 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 1088dcf4c3 nilfs2: remove timedwait ioctl command
This removes NILFS_IOCTL_TIMEDWAIT command from ioctl interface along
with the related flags and wait queue.

The command is terrible because it just sleeps in the ioctl.  I prefer
to avoid this by devising means of event polling in userland program.
By reconsidering the userland GC daemon, I found this is possible
without changing behaviour of the daemon and sacrificing efficiency.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:18 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 8acfbf0939 nilfs2: clean up indirect function calling conventions
This cleans up the strange indirect function calling convention used in
nilfs to follow the normal kernel coding style.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:17 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi b028fcfc4c nilfs2: fix gc failure on volumes keeping numerous snapshots
This resolves the following failure of nilfs2 cleaner daemon:

 nilfs_cleanerd[20670]: cannot clean segments: No such file or directory
 nilfs_cleanerd[20670]: shutdown

When creating thousands of snapshots, the cleaner daemon had rarely died
as above due to an error returned from the kernel code.

After applying the recent patch which fixed memory allocation problems in
ioctl (Message-Id: <20081215.155840.105124170.ryusuke@osrg.net>), the
problem gets more frequent.

It turned out to be a bug of nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy function and one of its
callback routines to read out information of snapshots; if the
nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy function divided a large read request into multiple
requests, the second and later requests have failed since a restart
position on snapshot meta data was not properly set forward.

It's a deficiency of the callback interface that cannot pass the restart
position among multiple requests.  This patch fixes the issue by allowing
nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy and snapshot read functions to exchange a position
argument.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:17 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 47420c7998 nilfs2: avoid double error caused by nilfs_transaction_end
Pekka Enberg pointed out that double error handlings found after
nilfs_transaction_end() can be avoided by separating abort operation:

 OK, I don't understand this. The only way nilfs_transaction_end() can
 fail is if we have NILFS_TI_SYNC set and we fail to construct the
 segment. But why do we want to construct a segment if we don't commit?

 I guess what I'm asking is why don't we have a separate
 nilfs_transaction_abort() function that can't fail for the erroneous
 case to avoid this double error value tracking thing?

This does the separation and renames nilfs_transaction_end() to
nilfs_transaction_commit() for clarification.

Since, some calls of these functions were used just for exclusion control
against the segment constructor, they are replaced with semaphore
operations.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:17 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 3358b4aaa8 nilfs2: fix problems of memory allocation in ioctl
This is another patch for fixing the following problems of a memory
copy function in nilfs2 ioctl:

(1) It tries to allocate 128KB size of memory even for small objects.

(2) Though the function repeatedly tries large memory allocations
    while reducing the size, GFP_NOWAIT flag is not specified.
    This increases the possibility of system memory shortage.

(3) During the retries of (2), verbose warnings are printed
    because _GFP_NOWARN flag is not used for the kmalloc calls.

The first patch was still doing large allocations by kmalloc which are
repeatedly tried while reducing the size.

Andi Kleen told me that using copy_from_user for large memory is not
good from the viewpoint of preempt latency:

 On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:24:11 +0100, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
 > > In the current interface, each data item is copied twice: one is to
 > > the allocated memory from user space (via copy_from_user), and another
 >
 > For such large copies it is better to use multiple smaller (e.g. 4K)
 > copy user, that gives better real time preempt latencies. Each cfu has a
 > cond_resched(), but only one, not multiple times in the inner loop.

He also advised me that:

 On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:13:27 +0100, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
 > Better would be if you could go to PAGE_SIZE. order 0 allocations
 > are typically the fastest / least likely to stall.
 >
 > Also in this case it's a good idea to use __get_free_pages()
 > directly, kmalloc tends to be become less efficient at larger
 > sizes.

For the function in question, the size of buffer memory can be reduced
since the buffer is repeatedly used for a number of small objects.  On
the other hand, it may incur large preempt latencies for larger buffer
because a copy_from_user (and a copy_to_user) was applied only once
each cycle.

With that, this revision uses the order 0 allocations with
__get_free_pages() to fix the original problems.

Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:16 -07:00
Koji Sato 7942b919f7 nilfs2: ioctl operations
This adds userland interface implemented with ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:16 -07:00