In fill_super() we hadn't MS_ACTIVE set yet, so there won't
be any inodes with zero i_count sitting around.
In put_super() we already have MS_ACTIVE removed *and* we
had called invalidate_inodes() since then. So again there
won't be any inodes with zero i_count...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Recently a feature was added to GFS2 to allow journal id allocation
via sysfs. This patch builds upon that so that a negative journal id
will be treated as an error code to be passed back as the return code
from mount. This allows termination of the mount process if there is
a failure.
Also, the process has been updated so that the kernel will wait
for a journal id, even in the "spectator" case. This is required
in order to avoid mounting a filesystem in case there is an error
while joining the cluster. In the spectator case, 0 is written into
the file to indicate that all is well, and that mount should continue.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This option has never done anything useful. Also at the same time
this cleans up the sb checks which are done at mount time. The
debug option will be accepted, but ignored in future. Since it
didn't do anything, there didn't seem much point in retaining it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This option defaulted to on for lock_nolock mounts and off
otherwise. The only function was to avoid the revalidation of
dentries. In the cluster case, that is entirely pointless and
liable to cause coherency problems.
The patch changes the revalidation to depend upon whether the
fs is a local or cluster fs (i.e. it follows the existing default
behaviour). I very much doubt anybody ever used this option as
there is no reason to. Even so we will continue to accept it
on the mount command line, but ignore it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
With the update of the truncate code, ip->i_disksize and
inode->i_size are merely copies of each other. This means
we can remove ip->i_disksize and use inode->i_size exclusively
reducing the size of a GFS2 inode by 8 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
block: update request stacking methods to support discards
block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
writeback: cleanup bdi_register
writeback: add new tracepoints
writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
writeback: move last_active to bdi
writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
writeback: simplify bdi code a little
writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
...
Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (55 commits)
workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall()
workqueue: explain for_each_*cwq_cpu() iterators
fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL
slow-work: kill it
gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work
drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work
cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work
fscache: drop references to slow-work
fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work
fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work
workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work->data
workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP
workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP
workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker()
async: use workqueue for worker pool
workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead
workqueue: implement unbound workqueue
workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation
libata: take advantage of cmwq and remove concurrency limitations
workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works
...
Fixed up conflicts in fs/cifs/* as per Tejun. Other trivial conflicts in
include/linux/workqueue.h, kernel/trace/Kconfig and kernel/workqueue.c
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.
Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This patch implements a wait for the journal id in the case that it has
not been specified on the command line. This is to allow the future
removal of the mount.gfs2 helper. The journal id would instead be
directly communicated by gfs_controld to the file system. Here is a
comparison of the two systems:
Current:
1. mount calls mount.gfs2
2. mount.gfs2 connects to gfs_controld to retrieve the journal id
3. mount.gfs2 adds the journal id to the mount command line and calls
the mount system call
4. gfs_controld receives the status of the mount request via a uevent
Proposed:
1. mount calls the mount system call (no mount.gfs2 helper)
2. gfs_controld receives a uevent for a gfs2 fs which it doesn't know
about already
3. gfs_controld assigns a journal id to it via sysfs
4. the mount system call then completes as normal (sending a uevent
according to status)
The advantage of the proposed system is that it is completely backward
compatible with the current system both at the kernel and at the
userland levels. The "first" parameter can also be set the same way,
with the restriction that it must be set before the journal id is
assigned.
In addition, if mount becomes stuck waiting for a reply from
gfs_controld which never arrives, then it is killable and will abort the
mount gracefully.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Workqueue can now handle high concurrency. Convert gfs to use
workqueue instead of slow-work.
* Steven pointed out that recovery path might be run from allocation
path and thus requires forward progress guarantee without memory
allocation. Create and use gfs_recovery_wq with rescuer. Please
note that forward progress wasn't guaranteed with slow-work.
* Updated to use non-reentrant workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch contains various tweaks to how log flushes and active item writeback
work. gfs2_logd is now managed by a waitqueue, and gfs2_log_reseve now waits
for gfs2_logd to do the log flushing. Multiple functions were rewritten to
remove the need to call gfs2_log_lock(). Instead of using one test to see if
gfs2_logd had work to do, there are now seperate tests to check if there
are two many buffers in the incore log or if there are two many items on the
active items list.
This patch is a port of a patch Steve Whitehouse wrote about a year ago, with
some minor changes. Since gfs2_ail1_start always submits all the active items,
it no longer needs to keep track of the first ai submitted, so this has been
removed. In gfs2_log_reserve(), the order of the calls to
prepare_to_wait_exclusive() and wake_up() when firing off the logd thread has
been switched. If it called wake_up first there was a small window for a race,
where logd could run and return before gfs2_log_reserve was ready to get woken
up. If gfs2_logd ran, but did not free up enough blocks, gfs2_log_reserve()
would be left waiting for gfs2_logd to eventualy run because it timed out.
Finally, gt_logd_secs, which controls how long to wait before gfs2_logd times
out, and flushes the log, can now be set on mount with ar_commit.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a couple gfs2 problems with the reclaiming of
unlinked dinodes. First, there were a couple of livelocks where
everything would come to a halt waiting for a glock that was
seemingly held by a process that no longer existed. In fact, the
process did exist, it just had the wrong pid number in the holder
information. Second, there was a lock ordering problem between
inode locking and glock locking. Third, glock/inode contention
could sometimes cause inodes to be improperly marked invalid by
iget_failed.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
As a consequence of the previous patch, we can now remove the
loop which used to be required due to the circular dependency
between the inodes and glocks. Instead we can just invalidate
the inodes, and then clear up any glocks which are left.
Also we no longer need the rwsem since there is no longer any
danger of the inode invalidation calling back into the glock
code (and from there back into the inode code).
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We need this one-liner to signal the mount helper of the 'insufficient journals' condition.
Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Although all glocks are, by the time of the umount glock wait,
scheduled for demotion, some of them haven't made it far
enough through the process for the original set of waiting
code to wait for them.
This extends the ref count to the whole glock lifetime in order
to ensure that the waiting does catch all glocks. It does make
it a bit more invasive, but it seems the only sensible solution
at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch adds a wait on umount between the point at which we
dispose of all glocks and the point at which we unmount the
lock protocol. This ensures that we've received all the replies
to our unlock requests before we stop the locking.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com>
Currently gfs2 issues barrier unconditionally. There are various reasons
to disable them, be that just for testing or for stupid devices flushing
large battert backed caches. Add a nobarrier option that matches xfs and
btrfs for this. Also add a symmetric barrier option to turn it back on
at remount time.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
GFS2 now has three new mount options, statfs_quantum, quota_quantum and
statfs_percent. statfs_quantum and quota_quantum simply allow you to
set the tunables of the same name. Setting setting statfs_quantum to 0
will also turn on the statfs_slow tunable. statfs_percent accepts an
integer between 0 and 100. Numbers between 1 and 100 will cause GFS2 to
do any early sync when the local number of blocks free changes by at
least statfs_percent from the totoal number of blocks free. Setting
statfs_percent to 0 disables this.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The plan is to add further operations to the gfs2_quotactl_ops
in future patches. The sync operation is easy, so we start with
that one.
We plan to use the XFS quota control functions because they more
closely match the GFS2 ones.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We have a long term plan to use the "-o meta" flag to GFS2 mounts to
access the alternate root which is used to store metadata for a GFS2
filesystem. This will allow us to eventually remove support for the
gfs2meta filesystem type (which is in any case just a "front end" to
the gfs2 filesystem type with the meta/master root).
Currently the "-o meta" option is only taken into account on the
initial mount of the filesystem. Subsequent mounts of the same
filesystem (i.e. on the same device) result in basically the same
as bind mounting the root of the original mount.
This patch changes that by using what is more or less a copy
of get_sb_bdev() and extending it so that it will take into
account the alternate root in all cases. The main difference
is that we have to parse the mount options a bit earlier. We can
then use them to select the appropriate root towards the end of
the function.
In addition this also fixes a bug where it was possible (but certainly
not desirable) to set different ro/rw options for the meta root
when mounted via the gfs2meta fs compared with the original mount.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
The /sys/fs/gfs2/<fsname>/lock_module/id file has been unused for
some time now, so we can remove it. We still accept the mount option
though, as userspace still sends that.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The inum structure used throughout GFS2 has two fields. One
no_addr is the disk block number of the inode in question and
is used everywhere as the inode number. The other, no_formal_ino,
is used only as the generation number for NFS.
Historically the no_formal_ino field was set using a complicated
system of one global and one per-node file containing inode numbers
in order to ensure that each no_formal_ino was unique. Also this
code made no provision for what would happen when eventually the
(64 bit) numbers ran out. Now I know that is pretty unlikely to
happen given the large space of numbers, but it is possible
nevertheless.
The only guarantee required for no_formal_ino is that, for any
single inode, the same number doesn't get reused too quickly.
We already have a generation number which is kept in the inode
and initialised from a counter in the resource group (almost
no overhead, since we have to touch the resource group anyway
in order to allocate an inode in the first place). Aside from
ensuring that we never use the value 0 in the no_formal_ino
field, we can use that counter directly.
As a result of that change, we lose about 200 lines of code and
also gain about 10 creates/sec on the postmark benchmark (on
my test machine).
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This has been on my list for some time. We need to change the way
in which we handle extended attributes to allow faster file creation
times (by reducing the number of transactions required) and the
extended attribute code is the main obstacle to this.
In addition to that, the VFS provides a way to demultiplex the xattr
calls which we ought to be using, rather than rolling our own. This
patch changes the GFS2 code to use that VFS feature and as a result
the code shrinks by a couple of hundred lines or so, and becomes
easier to read.
I'm planning on doing further clean up work in this area, but this
patch is a good start. The cleaned up code also uses the more usual
"xattr" shorthand, I plan to eliminate the use of "eattr" eventually
and in the mean time it serves as a flag as to which bits of the code
have been updated.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch adds "-o errors=panic" and "-o errors=withdraw" to the
gfs2 mount options. The "errors=withdraw" option is today's
current behaviour, meaning to withdraw from the file system if a
non-serious gfs2 error occurs. The new "errors=panic" option
tells gfs2 to force a kernel panic if a non-serious gfs2 file
system error occurs. This may be useful, for example, where
fabric-level fencing is used that has no way to reboot (such as
fence_scsi).
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We already have an offline uevent (used when a withdraw occurs)
but no online uevent. This adds an online uevent so that userspace
will be able to detect a successful mount by means other than
not receiving a remove event after the add & recovery (change)
uevents.
It has also been added to the remount path as well - we can't use
a change uevent there as older GFS2 userspace acts on change uevents
according to the state that it thinks the fs is in, so we can't
easily add any new ones.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch adds the ability to trace various aspects of the GFS2
filesystem. The trace points are divided into three groups,
glocks, logging and bmap. These points have been chosen because
they allow inspection of the major internal functions of GFS2
and they are also generic enough that they are unlikely to need
any major changes as the filesystem evolves.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
block: add request clone interface (v2)
floppy: fix hibernation
ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
...
Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
block/blk-sysfs.c
drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
include/trace/events/block.h
kernel/trace/blktrace.c
This patch uses sget() to get a reference to the
existing gfs2 sb when mouting the gfs2meta filesystem
(in fact thats just another mount of the gfs2
filesystem with a different root and this interface
is for backward compatibility).
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.
This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch fixes a race condition where we can receive recovery
requests part way through processing a umount. This was causing
problems since the recovery thread had already gone away.
Looking in more detail at the recovery code, it was really trying
to implement a slight variation on a work queue, and that happens to
align nicely with the recently introduced slow-work subsystem. As a
result I've updated the code to use slow-work, rather than its own home
grown variety of work queue.
When using the wait_on_bit() function, I noticed that the wait function
that was supplied as an argument was appearing in the WCHAN field, so
I've updated the function names in order to produce more meaningful
output.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
It has always been possible to adjust the gfs2 log commit
interval, but only from the sysfs interface. This adds a
mount option, commit=<nn>, which will be familar to ext3
users.
The sysfs interface continues to be available as well, although
this might be removed in the future.
Also this patch cleans up some duplicated structures in the GFS2
sysfs code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This cleans up a number of bits of code mostly based in glops.c.
A couple of simple functions have been merged into the callers
to make it more obvious what is going on, the mysterious raising
of i_writecount around the truncate_inode_pages() call has been
removed. The meta_go_* operations have been renamed rgrp_go_*
since that is the only lock type that they are used with.
The unused argument of gfs2_read_sb has been removed. Also
a bug has been fixed where a check for the rindex inode was
in the wrong callback. More comments are added, and the
debugging code is improved too.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since we have a UUID, we ought to expose it to the user via sysfs
and uevents. We already have the fs name in both of these places
(a combination of the lock proto and lock table name) so if we add
the UUID as well, we have a full set.
For older filesystems (i.e. those created before mkfs.gfs2 was writing
UUIDs by default) the sysfs file will appear zero length, and no UUID
env var will be added to the uevents.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We were keeping hold of an extra ref to the root inode in one
of the error paths, that resulted in a hang.
Reported-by: Nate Straz <nstraz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time
now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change
such as:
o Reducing overhead by eliminating duplicated fields between structures
o Simplifcation of the code (reduces the code size by a fair bit)
o The locking interface is now the DLM interface itself as proposed
some time ago.
o Fewer lookups of glocks when processing replies from the DLM
o Fewer memory allocations/deallocations for each glock
o Scope to do further optimisations in the future (but this patch is
more than big enough for now!)
Please note that (a) this patch relates to the lock_dlm module and
not the DLM itself, that is still a separate module; and (b) that
we retain the ability to build GFS2 as a standalone single node
filesystem with out requiring the DLM.
This patch needs a lot of testing, hence my keeping it I restarted
my -git tree after the last merge window. That way, this has the maximum
exposure before its merged. This is (modulo a few minor bug fixes) the
same patch that I've been posting on and off the the last three months
and its passed a number of different tests so far.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We only really need a single spin lock for the quota data, so
lets just use the lru lock for now.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Deallocation of gfs2_quota_data objects now happens on-demand through a
shrinker instead of routinely deallocating through the quotad daemon.
Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The following patch fixes an issue relating to remount and argument
parsing. After this fix is applied, remount becomes atomic in that
it either succeeds changing the mount to the new state, or it fails
and leaves it in the old state. Previously it was possible for the
parsing of options to fail part way though and for the fs to be left
in a state where some of the new arguments had been applied, but some
had not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 78802499912f1ba31ce83a94c55b5a980f250a43.
The original patch is causing problems in relation to order of
operations at umount in relation to jdata files. I need to fix
this a different way.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
There was a use-after-free with the GFS2 super block during
umount. This patch moves almost all of the umount code from
->put_super into ->kill_sb, the only bit that cannot be moved
being the glock hash clearing which has to remain as ->put_super
due to umount ordering requirements. As a result its now obvious
that the kfree is the final operation, whereas before it was
hidden in ->put_super.
Also gfs2_jindex_free is then only referenced from a single file
so thats moved and marked static too.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
gfs2_lock_fs_check_clean() should not be calling gfs2_jindex_hold()
since it doesn't work like rindex hold, despite the comment. That
allows gfs2_jindex_hold() to be moved into ops_fstype.c where it
can be made static.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch removes the two daemons, gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd
and replaces them with a shrinker which is called from the VM.
The net result is that GFS2 responds better when there is memory
pressure, since it shrinks the glock cache at the same rate
as the VFS shrinks the dcache and icache. There are no longer
any time based criteria for shrinking glocks, they are kept
until such time as the VM asks for more memory and then we
demote just as many glocks as required.
There are potential future changes to this code, including the
possibility of sorting the glocks which are to be written back
into inode number order, to get a better I/O ordering. It would
be very useful to have an elevator based workqueue implementation
for this, as that would automatically deal with the read I/O cases
at the same time.
This patch is my answer to Andrew Morton's remark, made during
the initial review of GFS2, asking why GFS2 needs so many kernel
threads, the answer being that it doesn't :-) This patch is a
net loss of about 200 lines of code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
By moving gfs2_recoverd, we can make an additional function static
and it also leaves only (the already scheduled for removal) gfs2_glockd
in daemon.c.
At the same time the declaration of gfs2_quotad is moved to quota.h
to reflect the new location of gfs2_quotad in a previous patch. Also
the recovery.h and quota.h headers are cleaned up.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Following on from the recent clean up of gfs2_quotad, this patch moves
the processing of "truncate in progress" inodes from the glock workqueue
into gfs2_quotad. This fixes a hang due to the "truncate in progress"
processing requiring glocks in order to complete.
It might seem odd to use gfs2_quotad for this particular item, but
we have to use a pre-existing thread since creating a thread implies
a GFP_KERNEL memory allocation which is not allowed from the glock
workqueue context. Of the existing threads, gfs2_logd and gfs2_recoverd
may deadlock if used for this operation. gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd are
both scheduled for removal at some (hopefully not too distant) future
point. That leaves only gfs2_quotad whose workload is generally fairly
light and is easily adapted for this extra task.
Also, as a result of this change, it opens the way for a future patch to
make the reading of the inode's information asynchronous with respect to
the glock workqueue, which is another improvement that has been on the list
for some time now.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
