From 6e34eeddf7deec1444bbddab533f03f520d8458c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:12:43 -0400 Subject: block_write_full_page: switch synchronous writes to use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG Now that we have a distinction between WRITE_SYNC and WRITE_SYNC_PLUG, use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG in __block_write_full_page() to avoid unplugging the block device I/O queue between each page that gets flushed out. Otherwise, when we run sync() or fsync() and we need to write out a large number of pages, the block device queue will get unplugged between for every page that is flushed out, which will be a pretty serious performance regression caused by commit a64c8610. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- fs/buffer.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/buffer.c') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 6e35762b6169..13edf7ad3ff1 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -1596,6 +1596,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unmap_underlying_metadata); * locked buffer. This only can happen if someone has written the buffer * directly, with submit_bh(). At the address_space level PageWriteback * prevents this contention from occurring. + * + * If block_write_full_page() is called with wbc->sync_mode == + * WB_SYNC_ALL, the writes are posted using WRITE_SYNC_PLUG; this + * causes the writes to be flagged as synchronous writes, but the + * block device queue will NOT be unplugged, since usually many pages + * will be pushed to the out before the higher-level caller actually + * waits for the writes to be completed. The various wait functions, + * such as wait_on_writeback_range() will ultimately call sync_page() + * which will ultimately call blk_run_backing_dev(), which will end up + * unplugging the device queue. */ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block, struct writeback_control *wbc) @@ -1606,7 +1616,8 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, struct buffer_head *bh, *head; const unsigned blocksize = 1 << inode->i_blkbits; int nr_underway = 0; - int write_op = (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ? WRITE_SYNC : WRITE); + int write_op = (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ? + WRITE_SYNC_PLUG : WRITE); BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); -- cgit From 053c525fcf976810f023d96472f414c0d5e6339b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:44:08 +0200 Subject: buffer: switch do_emergency_thaw() away from pdflush_operation() This is (again) a preparatory patch similar to commit a2a9537ac0b37a5da6fbe7e1e9cb06c524d2a9c4. It open codes a simple async way of executing do_thaw_all() out of context, so we can get rid of pdflush. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- fs/buffer.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/buffer.c') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 13edf7ad3ff1..ff8bb1f2333a 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ repeat: return err; } -void do_thaw_all(unsigned long unused) +void do_thaw_all(struct work_struct *work) { struct super_block *sb; char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; @@ -567,6 +567,7 @@ restart: goto restart; } spin_unlock(&sb_lock); + kfree(work); printk(KERN_WARNING "Emergency Thaw complete\n"); } @@ -577,7 +578,13 @@ restart: */ void emergency_thaw_all(void) { - pdflush_operation(do_thaw_all, 0); + struct work_struct *work; + + work = kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC); + if (work) { + INIT_WORK(work, do_thaw_all); + schedule_work(work); + } } /** -- cgit From 35c80d5f400f68f2eccf3069d1c068e154bde9c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Mason Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:22:38 -0400 Subject: Add block_write_full_page_endio for passing endio handler block_write_full_page doesn't allow the caller to control what happens when the IO is over. This adds a new call named block_write_full_page_endio so the buffer head end_io handler can be provided by the caller. This will be used by the ext3 data=guarded mode to do i_size updates in a workqueue based end_io handler. end_buffer_async_write is also exported so it can be called to do the dirty work of managing page writeback for the higher level end_io handler. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason Acked-by: Theodore Tso Acked-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/buffer.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/buffer.c') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index ff8bb1f2333a..b3e5be7514f5 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ still_busy: * Completion handler for block_write_full_page() - pages which are unlocked * during I/O, and which have PageWriteback cleared upon I/O completion. */ -static void end_buffer_async_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate) +void end_buffer_async_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate) { char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; unsigned long flags; @@ -438,11 +438,17 @@ static void mark_buffer_async_read(struct buffer_head *bh) set_buffer_async_read(bh); } -void mark_buffer_async_write(struct buffer_head *bh) +void mark_buffer_async_write_endio(struct buffer_head *bh, + bh_end_io_t *handler) { - bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_async_write; + bh->b_end_io = handler; set_buffer_async_write(bh); } + +void mark_buffer_async_write(struct buffer_head *bh) +{ + mark_buffer_async_write_endio(bh, end_buffer_async_write); +} EXPORT_SYMBOL(mark_buffer_async_write); @@ -1615,7 +1621,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unmap_underlying_metadata); * unplugging the device queue. */ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, - get_block_t *get_block, struct writeback_control *wbc) + get_block_t *get_block, struct writeback_control *wbc, + bh_end_io_t *handler) { int err; sector_t block; @@ -1700,7 +1707,7 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, continue; } if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) { - mark_buffer_async_write(bh); + mark_buffer_async_write_endio(bh, handler); } else { unlock_buffer(bh); } @@ -1753,7 +1760,7 @@ recover: if (buffer_mapped(bh) && buffer_dirty(bh) && !buffer_delay(bh)) { lock_buffer(bh); - mark_buffer_async_write(bh); + mark_buffer_async_write_endio(bh, handler); } else { /* * The buffer may have been set dirty during @@ -2679,7 +2686,8 @@ int nobh_writepage(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block, out: ret = mpage_writepage(page, get_block, wbc); if (ret == -EAGAIN) - ret = __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc); + ret = __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc, + end_buffer_async_write); return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(nobh_writepage); @@ -2837,9 +2845,10 @@ out: /* * The generic ->writepage function for buffer-backed address_spaces + * this form passes in the end_io handler used to finish the IO. */ -int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block, - struct writeback_control *wbc) +int block_write_full_page_endio(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block, + struct writeback_control *wbc, bh_end_io_t *handler) { struct inode * const inode = page->mapping->host; loff_t i_size = i_size_read(inode); @@ -2848,7 +2857,8 @@ int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block, /* Is the page fully inside i_size? */ if (page->index < end_index) - return __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc); + return __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc, + handler); /* Is the page fully outside i_size? (truncate in progress) */ offset = i_size & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1); @@ -2871,9 +2881,20 @@ int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block, * writes to that region are not written out to the file." */ zero_user_segment(page, offset, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); - return __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc); + return __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc, handler); } +/* + * The generic ->writepage function for buffer-backed address_spaces + */ +int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block, + struct writeback_control *wbc) +{ + return block_write_full_page_endio(page, get_block, wbc, + end_buffer_async_write); +} + + sector_t generic_block_bmap(struct address_space *mapping, sector_t block, get_block_t *get_block) { @@ -3342,9 +3363,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_read_full_page); EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_sync_page); EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_truncate_page); EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_write_full_page); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_write_full_page_endio); EXPORT_SYMBOL(cont_write_begin); EXPORT_SYMBOL(end_buffer_read_sync); EXPORT_SYMBOL(end_buffer_write_sync); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(end_buffer_async_write); EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_fsync); EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_block_bmap); EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_cont_expand_simple); -- cgit From b827e496c893de0c0f142abfaeb8730a2fd6b37f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:08:16 -0700 Subject: mm: close page_mkwrite races Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the lock until the page is marked dirty. This allows the filesystem to have full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM. Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock. The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite. It currently then must return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according to existing page_mkwrite convention). In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty. The filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no longer dirty. It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in ->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail. The filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example. And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail. This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations (page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty) closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being initiated in that window. This provides the filesystem with a strong synchronisation against the VM here. - Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem. - Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913). - I need it for fsblock. - I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs). - I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot be fixed properly without this patch). - Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their page_mkwrite functions themselves. [ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping] Cc: Sage Weil Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Valdis Kletnieks Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/buffer.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/buffer.c') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index b3e5be7514f5..aed297739eb0 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -2397,7 +2397,8 @@ block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf, if ((page->mapping != inode->i_mapping) || (page_offset(page) > size)) { /* page got truncated out from underneath us */ - goto out_unlock; + unlock_page(page); + goto out; } /* page is wholly or partially inside EOF */ @@ -2411,14 +2412,15 @@ block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf, ret = block_commit_write(page, 0, end); if (unlikely(ret)) { + unlock_page(page); if (ret == -ENOMEM) ret = VM_FAULT_OOM; else /* -ENOSPC, -EIO, etc */ ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; - } + } else + ret = VM_FAULT_LOCKED; -out_unlock: - unlock_page(page); +out: return ret; } -- cgit