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Linus Torvalds
f793f29611 Merge http://sucs.org/~rohan/git/gfs2-3.0-nmw
* http://sucs.org/~rohan/git/gfs2-3.0-nmw: (24 commits)
  GFS2: Move readahead of metadata during deallocation into its own function
  GFS2: Remove two unused variables
  GFS2: Misc fixes
  GFS2: rewrite fallocate code to write blocks directly
  GFS2: speed up delete/unlink performance for large files
  GFS2: Fix off-by-one in gfs2_blk2rgrpd
  GFS2: Clean up ->page_mkwrite
  GFS2: Correctly set goal block after allocation
  GFS2: Fix AIL flush issue during fsync
  GFS2: Use cached rgrp in gfs2_rlist_add()
  GFS2: Call do_strip() directly from recursive_scan()
  GFS2: Remove obsolete assert
  GFS2: Cache the most recently used resource group in the inode
  GFS2: Make resource groups "append only" during life of fs
  GFS2: Use rbtree for resource groups and clean up bitmap buffer ref count scheme
  GFS2: Fix lseek after SEEK_DATA, SEEK_HOLE have been added
  GFS2: Clean up gfs2_create
  GFS2: Use ->dirty_inode()
  GFS2: Fix bug trap and journaled data fsync
  GFS2: Fix inode allocation error path
  ...
2011-10-28 10:44:50 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
54335b1fca GFS2: Cache the most recently used resource group in the inode
This means that after the initial allocation for any inode, the
last used resource group is cached in the inode for future use.
This drastically reduces the number of lookups of resource
groups in the common case, and this the contention on that
data structure.

The allocation algorithm is the same as previously, except that we
always check to see if the goal block is within the cached rgrp
first before going to the rbtree to look one up.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:34 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
8339ee543e GFS2: Make resource groups "append only" during life of fs
Since we have ruled out supporting online filesystem shrink,
it is possible to make the resource group list append only
during the life of a super block. This gives several benefits:

Firstly, we only need to read new rindex elements as they are added
rather than needing to reread the whole rindex file each time one
element is added.

Secondly, the rindex glock can be held for much shorter periods of
time, and is completely removed from the fast path for allocations.
The lock is taken in shared mode only when updating the resource
groups when the first allocation occurs, and after a grow has
taken place.

Thirdly, this results in a reduction in code size, and everything
gets a lot simpler to understand in this area.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:33 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
9a63edd12b GFS2: Clean up gfs2_create
If we pass through knowledge of whether the creation is intended to be
exclusive or not, then we can deal with that in gfs2_create_inode
and remove one set of locking. Also this removes the loop in
gfs2_create and simplifies the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:28 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
ab9bbda020 GFS2: Use ->dirty_inode()
The aim of this patch is to use the newly enhanced ->dirty_inode()
super block operation to deal with atime updates, rather than
piggy backing that code into ->write_inode() as is currently
done.

The net result is a simplification of the code in various places
and a reduction of the number of gfs2_dinode_out() calls since
this is now implied by ->dirty_inode().

Some of the mark_inode_dirty() calls have been moved under glocks
in order to take advantage of then being able to avoid locking in
->dirty_inode() when we already have suitable locks.

One consequence is that generic_write_end() now correctly deals
with file size updates, so that we do not need a separate check
for that afterwards. This also, indirectly, means that fdatasync
should work correctly on GFS2 - the current code always syncs the
metadata whether it needs to or not.

Has survived testing with postmark (with and without atime) and
also fsx.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:26 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
40ac218f52 GFS2: Fix inode allocation error path
If we have got far enough through the inode allocation code
path that an inode has already been allocated, then we must
call iput to dispose of it, if an error occurs during a
later part of the process. This will always be the final iput
since there will be no other references to the inode.

Unlike when the inode has been unlinked, its block state will
be GFS2_BLKST_INODE rather than GFS2_BLKST_UNLINKED so we need
to skip the test in ->evict_inode() for this one case in order
to ensure that it will be deallocated correctly. This patch adds
a new flag in order to ensure that this will happen correctly.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21 12:39:23 +01:00
James Morris
5a2f3a02ae Merge branch 'next-evm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/ima-2.6 into next
Conflicts:
	fs/attr.c

Resolve conflict manually.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-08-09 10:31:03 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
4e34e719e4 fs: take the ACL checks to common code
Replace the ->check_acl method with a ->get_acl method that simply reads an
ACL from disk after having a cache miss.  This means we can replace the ACL
checking boilerplate code with a single implementation in namei.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-25 14:30:23 -04:00
Al Viro
6c673ab393 simplify gfs2_lookup()
d_splice_alias() will DTRT when given NULL or ERR_PTR

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:48:02 -04:00
Al Viro
10556cb21a ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission()
not used by the instances anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:24 -04:00
Al Viro
2830ba7f34 ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to generic_permission()
redundant; all callers get it duplicated in mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK and none of
them removes that bit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:22 -04:00
Al Viro
178ea73521 kill check_acl callback of generic_permission()
its value depends only on inode and does not change; we might as
well store it in ->i_op->check_acl and be done with that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:16 -04:00
Mimi Zohar
9d8f13ba3f security: new security_inode_init_security API adds function callback
This patch changes the security_inode_init_security API by adding a
filesystem specific callback to write security extended attributes.
This change is in preparation for supporting the initialization of
multiple LSM xattrs and the EVM xattr.  Initially the callback function
walks an array of xattrs, writing each xattr separately, but could be
optimized to write multiple xattrs at once.

For existing security_inode_init_security() calls, which have not yet
been converted to use the new callback function, such as those in
reiserfs and ocfs2, this patch defines security_old_inode_init_security().

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-18 12:29:38 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
f2741d9898 GFS2: Move all locking inside the inode creation function
Now that there are no longer any exceptions to the normal inode
creation code path, we can move the parts of the locking code
which were duplicated in mkdir/mknod/create/symlink into the
inode create function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-13 12:11:17 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
160b4026dc GFS2: Clean up symlink creation
This moves the symlink specific parts of inode creation
into the function where we initialise the rest of the
dinode. As a result we have one less place where we need
to look up the inode's buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-13 10:34:59 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
e2d0a13bba GFS2: Clean up mkdir
This moves the initialisation of the directory into the inode
creation functions to avoid having to duplicate the lookup
of the inode's buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-13 09:55:55 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
2ab9cd1c63 GFS2: Rename ops_inode.c to inode.c
This is the final part of the ops_inode.c/inode.c reordering. We
are left with a single file called inode.c which now contains
all the inode operations, as expected.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-10 13:12:49 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
64ea540258 GFS2: Inode.c is empty now, remove it
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-10 13:09:53 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
9eed04cd99 GFS2: Move final part of inode.c into super.c
Now inode.c is empty.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-09 16:45:38 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
194c011fc4 GFS2: Move most of the remaining inode.c into ops_inode.c
This is in preparation to remove inode.c and rename ops_inode.c
to inode.c. Also most of the functions which were left in inode.c
relate to the creation and lookup of inodes. I'm intending to work
on consolidating some of that code, and its easier when its all in
one place.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-09 16:45:14 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
d4b2cf1b05 GFS2: Move gfs2_refresh_inode() and friends into glops.c
Eventually there will only be a single caller of this code, so lets
move it where it can be made static at some future date.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-09 16:44:49 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
94fb763b1a GFS2: Remove gfs2_dinode_print() function
This function was intended for debugging purposes, but it is not very
useful. If we want to know what is on disk then all we need is a
block number and gfs2_edit can give us much better information about
what is there. Otherwise, if we are interested in what is stored in
the in-core inode, it doesn't help us out there either.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-09 16:44:29 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
3d6ecb7d16 GFS2: When adding a new dir entry, inc link count if it is a subdir
This adds an increment of the link count when we add a new directory
entry, if that entry is itself a directory. This means that we no
longer need separate code to perform this operation.

Now that both adding and removing directory entries automatically
update the parent directory's link count if required, that makes
the code shorter and simpler than before.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-09 16:43:53 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
d192a8e5c6 GFS2: Double check link count under glock
To avoid any possible races relating to the link count, we need to
recheck it under the inode's glock in all cases where it matters.
Also to ensure we never get any nasty surprises, this patch also
ensures that once the link count has hit zero it can never be
elevated by rereading in data from disk.

The only place we cannot provide a proper solution is in rename
in the case where we are removing a target inode and we discover
that the target inode has been already unlinked on another node.
The race window is very small, and we return EAGAIN in this case
to indicate what has happened. The proper solution would be to move
the lookup parts of rename from the vfs into library calls which
the fs could call directly, but that is potentially a very big job
and this fix should cover most cases for now.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-05-05 12:35:40 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
4667a0ec32 GFS2: Make writeback more responsive to system conditions
This patch adds writeback_control to writing back the AIL
list. This means that we can then take advantage of the
information we get in ->write_inode() in order to set off
some pre-emptive writeback.

In addition, the AIL code is cleaned up a bit to make it
a bit simpler to understand.

There is still more which can usefully be done in this area,
but this is a good start at least.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-04-20 09:01:37 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
f42ab08529 GFS2: Optimise glock lru and end of life inodes
The GLF_LRU flag introduced in the previous patch can be
used to check if a glock is on the lru list when a new
holder is queued and if so remove it, without having first
to get the lru_lock.

The main purpose of this patch however is to optimise the
glocks left over when an inode at end of life is being
evicted. Previously such glocks were left with the GLF_LFLUSH
flag set, so that when reclaimed, each one required a log flush.
This patch resets the GLF_LFLUSH flag when there is nothing
left to flush thus preventing later log flushes as glocks are
reused or demoted.

In order to do this, we need to keep track of the number of
revokes which are outstanding, and also to clear the GLF_LFLUSH
bit after a log commit when only revokes have been processed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-04-20 09:01:17 +01:00
Bob Peterson
44ad37d69b GFS2: filesystem hang caused by incorrect lock order
This patch fixes a deadlock in GFS2 where two processes are trying
to reclaim an unlinked dinode:
One holds the inode glock and calls gfs2_lookup_by_inum trying to look
up the inode, which it can't, due to I_FREEING.  The other has set
I_FREEING from vfs and is at the beginning of gfs2_delete_inode
waiting for the glock, which is held by the first.  The solution is to
add a new non_block parameter to the gfs2_iget function that causes it
to return -ENOENT if the inode is being freed.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-04-18 15:23:50 +01:00
James Morris
fe3fa43039 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/selinux into next 2011-03-08 11:38:10 +11:00
Eric Paris
2a7dba391e fs/vfs/security: pass last path component to LSM on inode creation
SELinux would like to implement a new labeling behavior of newly created
inodes.  We currently label new inodes based on the parent and the creating
process.  This new behavior would also take into account the name of the
new object when deciding the new label.  This is not the (supposed) full path,
just the last component of the path.

This is very useful because creating /etc/shadow is different than creating
/etc/passwd but the kernel hooks are unable to differentiate these
operations.  We currently require that userspace realize it is doing some
difficult operation like that and than userspace jumps through SELinux hoops
to get things set up correctly.  This patch does not implement new
behavior, that is obviously contained in a seperate SELinux patch, but it
does pass the needed name down to the correct LSM hook.  If no such name
exists it is fine to pass NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2011-02-01 11:12:29 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
24d9765fc1 GFS2: Fix error path in gfs2_lookup_by_inum()
In the (impossible, except if there is fs corruption) error path
in gfs2_lookup_by_inum() if the call to gfs2_inode_refresh()
fails, it was leaving the function by calling iput() rather
than iget_failed(). This would cause future lookups of the same
inode to block forever.

This patch fixes the problem by moving the call to gfs2_inode_refresh()
into gfs2_inode_lookup() where iget_failed() is part of the error path
already. Also this cleans up some unreachable code and makes
gfs2_set_iop() static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-01-18 14:49:08 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
b4a45f5fe8 Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin
* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin: (57 commits)
  fs: scale mntget/mntput
  fs: rename vfsmount counter helpers
  fs: implement faster dentry memcmp
  fs: prefetch inode data in dcache lookup
  fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems
  fs: dcache per-inode inode alias locking
  fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking
  bit_spinlock: add required includes
  kernel: add bl_list
  xfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
  btrfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
  ext2,3,4: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
  fs: provide simple rcu-walk generic_check_acl implementation
  fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
  fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method
  fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walk
  fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
  fs: dcache remove d_mounted
  fs: fs_struct use seqlock
  fs: rcu-walk for path lookup
  ...
2011-01-07 08:56:33 -08:00
Nick Piggin
b74c79e993 fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Steven Whitehouse
9e55cd5372 GFS2: Remove unreachable calls to vmtruncate
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-11-30 10:22:48 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
044b9414c7 GFS2: Fix inode deallocation race
This area of the code has always been a bit delicate due to the
subtleties of lock ordering. The problem is that for "normal"
alloc/dealloc, we always grab the inode locks first and the rgrp lock
later.

In order to ensure no races in looking up the unlinked, but still
allocated inodes, we need to hold the rgrp lock when we do the lookup,
which means that we can't take the inode glock.

The solution is to borrow the technique already used by NFS to solve
what is essentially the same problem (given an inode number, look up
the inode carefully, checking that it really is in the expected
state).

We cannot do that directly from the allocation code (lock ordering
again) so we give the job to the pre-existing delete workqueue and
carry on with the allocation as normal.

If we find there is no space, we do a journal flush (required anyway
if space from a deallocation is to be released) which should block
against the pending deallocations, so we should always get the space
back.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-11-15 12:44:42 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
a2e0f79939 GFS2: Remove i_disksize
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>
2010-09-20 11:18:29 +01:00
Al Viro
a4ffdde6e5 simplify checks for I_CLEAR/I_FREEING
add I_CLEAR instead of replacing I_FREEING with it.  I_CLEAR is
equivalent to I_FREEING for almost all code looking at either;
it's there to keep track of having called clear_inode() exactly
once per inode lifetime, at some point after having set I_FREEING.
I_CLEAR and I_FREEING never get set at the same time with the
current code, so we can switch to setting i_flags to I_FREEING | I_CLEAR
instead of I_CLEAR without loss of information.  As the result of
such change, checks become simpler and the amount of code that needs
to know about I_CLEAR shrinks a lot.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:44 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
1025774ce4 remove inode_setattr
Replace inode_setattr with opencoded variants of it in all callers.  This
moves the remaining call to vmtruncate into the filesystem methods where it
can be replaced with the proper truncate sequence.

In a few cases it was obvious that we would never end up calling vmtruncate
so it was left out in the opencoded variant:

 spufs: explicitly checks for ATTR_SIZE earlier
 btrfs,hugetlbfs,logfs,dlmfs: explicitly clears ATTR_SIZE earlier
 ufs: contains an opencoded simple_seattr + truncate that sets the filesize just above

In addition to that ncpfs called inode_setattr with handcrafted iattrs,
which allowed to trim down the opencoded variant.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:37 -04:00
Bob Peterson
b1becbdee7 GFS2: Fix kernel NULL pointer dereference by dlm_astd
This patch fixes a problem in an error path when looking
up dinodes.  There are two sister-functions, gfs2_inode_lookup
and gfs2_process_unlinked_inode.  Both functions acquire and
hold the i_iopen glock for the dinode being looked up. The last
thing they try to do is hold the i_gl glock for the dinode.
If that glock fails for some reason, the error path was
incorrectly calling gfs2_glock_put for the i_iopen glock twice.
This resulted in the glock being prematurely freed.  The
"minimum hold time" usually kept the glock in memory, but the
lock interface to dlm (aka lock_dlm) freed its memory for the
glock.  In some circumstances, it would cause dlm's dlm_astd daemon
to try to call the bast function for the freed lock_dlm memory,
which resulted in a NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-07-15 09:06:25 +01:00
Bob Peterson
ed4878e8a4 GFS2: Rework reclaiming unlinked dinodes
The previous patch I wrote for reclaiming unlinked dinodes
had some shortcomings and did not prevent all hangs.
This version is much cleaner and more logical, and has
passed very difficult testing.  Sorry for the churn.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-05-21 16:11:36 +01:00
Bob Peterson
1a0eae8848 GFS2: glock livelock
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>
2010-04-14 16:48:05 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
009d851837 GFS2: Metadata address space clean up
Since the start of GFS2, an "extra" inode has been used to store
the metadata belonging to each inode. The only reason for using
this inode was to have an extra address space, the other fields
were unused. This means that the memory usage was rather inefficient.

The reason for keeping each inode's metadata in a separate address
space is that when glocks are requested on remote nodes, we need to
be able to efficiently locate the data and metadata which relating
to that glock (inode) in order to sync or sync and invalidate it
(depending on the remotely requested lock mode).

This patch adds a new type of glock, which has in addition to
its normal fields, has an address space. This applies to all
inode and rgrp glocks (but to no other glock types which remain
as before). As a result, we no longer need to have the second
inode.

This results in three major improvements:
 1. A saving of approx 25% of memory used in caching inodes
 2. A removal of the circular dependency between inodes and glocks
 3. No confusion between "normal" and "metadata" inodes in super.c

Although the first of these is the more immediately apparent, the
second is just as important as it now enables a number of clean
ups at umount time. Those will be the subject of future patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 14:07:37 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig
eaff8079d4 kill I_LOCK
After I_SYNC was split from I_LOCK the leftover is always used together with
I_NEW and thus superflous.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-17 11:03:25 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
431547b3c4 sanitize xattr handler prototypes
Add a flags argument to struct xattr_handler and pass it to all xattr
handler methods.  This allows using the same methods for multiple
handlers, e.g. for the ACL methods which perform exactly the same action
for the access and default ACLs, just using a different underlying
attribute.  With a little more groundwork it'll also allow sharing the
methods for the regular user/trusted/secure handlers in extN, ocfs2 and
jffs2 like it's already done for xfs in this patch.

Also change the inode argument to the handlers to a dentry to allow
using the handlers mechnism for filesystems that require it later,
e.g. cifs.

[with GFS2 bits updated by Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:49 -05:00
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
479c427dd6 GFS2: Clean up ACLs
To prepare for support for caching of ACLs, this cleans up the GFS2
ACL support by pushing the xattr code back into xattr.c and changing
the acl_get function into one which only returns ACLs so that we
can drop the caching function into it shortly.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 11:47:35 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
8d8291ae93 GFS2: Remove no_formal_ino generating code
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>
2009-08-27 15:51:07 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
307cf6e63c GFS2: Rename eattr.[ch] as xattr.[ch]
Use the more conventional name for the extended attribute
support code. Update all the places which care.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-08-26 18:51:04 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
40b78a3223 GFS2: Clean up of extended attribute support
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>
2009-08-26 18:41:32 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
6050b9c74f GFS2: Improve error handling in inode allocation
A little while back, block allocation was given some improved
error handling which meant that -EIO was returned in the case
of there being a problem in the resource group data. In addition
a message is printed explaning what went wrong and how to fix it.
This extends that error handling so that it also covers inode
allocation too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-08-17 11:05:31 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
87ec217411 GFS2: Move gfs2_unlink_ok into ops_inode.c
Another function which is only called from one ops_inode.c so
we move it and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-05-22 10:54:50 +01:00