Provide a pair of functions to count the number of users of a cookie (open
files, writeback, invalidation, resizing, reads, writes), to obtain and pin
resources for the cookie and to prevent culling for the whilst there are
users.
The first function marks a cookie as being in use:
void fscache_use_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
bool will_modify);
The caller should indicate the cookie to use and whether or not the caller
is in a context that may modify the cookie (e.g. a file open O_RDWR).
If the cookie is not already resourced, fscache will ask the cache backend
in the background to do whatever it needs to look up, create or otherwise
obtain the resources necessary to access data. This is pinned to the
cookie and may not be culled, though it may be withdrawn if the cache as a
whole is withdrawn.
The second function removes the in-use mark from a cookie and, optionally,
updates the coherency data:
void fscache_unuse_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
const void *aux_data,
const loff_t *object_size);
If non-NULL, the aux_data buffer and/or the object_size will be saved into
the cookie and will be set on the backing store when the object is
committed.
If this removes the last usage on a cookie, the cookie is placed onto an
LRU list from which it will be removed and closed after a couple of seconds
if it doesn't get reused. This prevents resource overload in the cache -
in particular it prevents it from holding too many files open.
Changes
=======
ver #2:
- Fix fscache_unuse_cookie() to use atomic_dec_and_lock() to avoid a
potential race if the cookie gets reused before it completes the
unusement.
- Added missing transition to LRU_DISCARDING state.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819600612.215744.13678350304176542741.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906907567.143852.16979631199380722019.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967106467.1823006.6790864931048582667.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021511674.640689.10084988363699111860.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Add a number of helper functions to manage access to a cookie, pinning the
cache object in place for the duration to prevent cache withdrawal from
removing it:
(1) void fscache_init_access_gate(struct fscache_cookie *cookie);
This function initialises the access count when a cache binds to a
cookie. An extra ref is taken on the access count to prevent wakeups
while the cache is active. We're only interested in the wakeup when a
cookie is being withdrawn and we're waiting for it to quiesce - at
which point the counter will be decremented before the wait.
The FSCACHE_COOKIE_NACC_ELEVATED flag is set on the cookie to keep
track of the extra ref in order to handle a race between
relinquishment and withdrawal both trying to drop the extra ref.
(2) bool fscache_begin_cookie_access(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
enum fscache_access_trace why);
This function attempts to begin access upon a cookie, pinning it in
place if it's cached. If successful, it returns true and leaves a the
access count incremented.
(3) void fscache_end_cookie_access(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
enum fscache_access_trace why);
This function drops the access count obtained by (2), permitting
object withdrawal to take place when it reaches zero.
A tracepoint is provided to track changes to the access counter on a
cookie.
Changes
=======
ver #2:
- Don't hold n_accesses elevated whilst cache is bound to a cookie, but
rather add a flag that prevents the state machine from being queued when
n_accesses reaches 0.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819595085.215744.1706073049250505427.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906895313.143852.10141619544149102193.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967095980.1823006.1133648159424418877.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021503063.640689.8870918985269528670.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Add a pair of helper functions to manage access to a volume, pinning the
volume in place for the duration to prevent cache withdrawal from removing
it:
bool fscache_begin_volume_access(struct fscache_volume *volume,
enum fscache_access_trace why);
void fscache_end_volume_access(struct fscache_volume *volume,
enum fscache_access_trace why);
The way the access gate on the volume works/will work is:
(1) If the cache tests as not live (state is not FSCACHE_CACHE_IS_ACTIVE),
then we return false to indicate access was not permitted.
(2) If the cache tests as live, then we increment the volume's n_accesses
count and then recheck the cache liveness, ending the access if it
ceased to be live.
(3) When we end the access, we decrement the volume's n_accesses and wake
up the any waiters if it reaches 0.
(4) Whilst the cache is caching, the volume's n_accesses is kept
artificially incremented to prevent wakeups from happening.
(5) When the cache is taken offline, the state is changed to prevent new
accesses, the volume's n_accesses is decremented and we wait for it to
become 0.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819594158.215744.8285859817391683254.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906894315.143852.5454793807544710479.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967095028.1823006.9173132503876627466.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021501546.640689.9631510472149608443.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Add functions to the fscache API to allow data file cookies to be acquired
and relinquished by the network filesystem. It is intended that the
filesystem will create such cookies per-inode under a volume.
To request a cookie, the filesystem should call:
struct fscache_cookie *
fscache_acquire_cookie(struct fscache_volume *volume,
u8 advice,
const void *index_key,
size_t index_key_len,
const void *aux_data,
size_t aux_data_len,
loff_t object_size)
The filesystem must first have created a volume cookie, which is passed in
here. If it passes in NULL then the function will just return a NULL
cookie.
A binary key should be passed in index_key and is of size index_key_len.
This is saved in the cookie and is used to locate the associated data in
the cache.
A coherency data buffer of size aux_data_len will be allocated and
initialised from the buffer pointed to by aux_data. This is used to
validate cache objects when they're opened and is stored on disk with them
when they're committed. The data is stored in the cookie and will be
updateable by various functions in later patches.
The object_size must also be given. This is also used to perform a
coherency check and to size the backing storage appropriately.
This function disallows a cookie from being acquired twice in parallel,
though it will cause the second user to wait if the first is busy
relinquishing its cookie.
When a network filesystem has finished with a cookie, it should call:
void
fscache_relinquish_cookie(struct fscache_volume *volume,
bool retire)
If retire is true, any backing data will be discarded immediately.
Changes
=======
ver #3:
- fscache_hash()'s size parameter is now in bytes. Use __le32 as the unit
to round up to.
- When comparing cookies, simply see if the attributes are the same rather
than subtracting them to produce a strcmp-style return[1].
- Add a check to see if the cookie is still hashed at the point of
freeing.
ver #2:
- Don't hold n_accesses elevated whilst cache is bound to a cookie, but
rather add a flag that prevents the state machine from being queued when
n_accesses reaches 0.
- Remove the unused cookie pointer field from the fscache_acquire
tracepoint.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whtkzB446+hX0zdLsdcUJsJ=8_-0S1mE_R+YurThfUbLA@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819590658.215744.14934902514281054323.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906891983.143852.6219772337558577395.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967088507.1823006.12659006350221417165.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021498432.640689.12743483856927722772.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Add functions to the fscache API to allow volumes to be acquired and
relinquished by the network filesystem. A volume is an index of data
storage cache objects. A volume is represented by a volume cookie in the
API. A filesystem would typically create a volume for a superblock and
then create per-inode cookies within it.
To request a volume, the filesystem calls:
struct fscache_volume *
fscache_acquire_volume(const char *volume_key,
const char *cache_name,
const void *coherency_data,
size_t coherency_len)
The volume_key is a printable string used to match the volume in the cache.
It should not contain any '/' characters. For AFS, for example, this would
be "afs,<cellname>,<volume_id>", e.g. "afs,example.com,523001".
The cache_name can be NULL, but if not it should be a string indicating the
name of the cache to use if there's more than one available.
The coherency data, if given, is an arbitrarily-sized blob that's attached
to the volume and is compared when the volume is looked up. If it doesn't
match, the old volume is judged to be out of date and it and everything
within it is discarded.
Acquiring a volume twice concurrently is disallowed, though the function
will wait if an old volume cookie is being relinquishing.
When a network filesystem has finished with a volume, it should return the
volume cookie by calling:
void
fscache_relinquish_volume(struct fscache_volume *volume,
const void *coherency_data,
bool invalidate)
If invalidate is true, the entire volume will be discarded; if false, the
volume will be synced and the coherency data will be updated.
Changes
=======
ver #4:
- Removed an extraneous param from kdoc on fscache_relinquish_volume()[3].
ver #3:
- fscache_hash()'s size parameter is now in bytes. Use __le32 as the unit
to round up to.
- When comparing cookies, simply see if the attributes are the same rather
than subtracting them to produce a strcmp-style return[2].
- Make the coherency data an arbitrary blob rather than a u64, but don't
store it for the moment.
ver #2:
- Fix error check[1].
- Make a fscache_acquire_volume() return errors, including EBUSY if a
conflicting volume cookie already exists. No error is printed now -
that's left to the netfs.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203095608.GC2480@kili/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whtkzB446+hX0zdLsdcUJsJ=8_-0S1mE_R+YurThfUbLA@mail.gmail.com/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211220224646.30e8205c@canb.auug.org.au/ [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819588944.215744.1629085755564865996.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906890630.143852.13972180614535611154.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967086836.1823006.8191672796841981763.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021495816.640689.4403156093668590217.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
fscache_cookie_put() accesses the cookie it has just put inside the
tracepoint that monitors the change - but this is something it's not
allowed to do if we didn't reduce the count to zero.
Fix this by dropping most of those values from the tracepoint and grabbing
the cookie debug ID before doing the dec.
Also take the opportunity to switch over the usage and where arguments on
the tracepoint to put the reason last.
Fixes: a18feb5576 ("fscache: Add tracepoints")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162431203107.2908479.3259582550347000088.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
The current hash algorithm used for hashing cookie keys is really bad,
producing almost no dispersion (after a test kernel build, ~30000 files
were split over just 18 out of the 32768 hash buckets).
Borrow the full_name_hash() hash function into fscache to do the hashing
for cookie keys and, in the future, volume keys.
I don't want to use full_name_hash() as-is because I want the hash value to
be consistent across arches and over time as the hash value produced may
get used on disk.
I can also optimise parts of it away as the key will always be a padded
array of aligned 32-bit words.
Fixes: ec0328e46d ("fscache: Maintain a catalogue of allocated cookies")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162431201844.2908479.8293647220901514696.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-or-later
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The inline key in struct rxrpc_cookie is insufficiently initialized,
zeroing only 3 of the 4 slots, therefore an index_key_len between 13 and 15
bytes will end up hashing uninitialized memory because the memcpy only
partially fills the last buf[] element.
Fix this by clearing fscache_cookie objects on allocation rather than using
the slab constructor to initialise them. We're going to pretty much fill
in the entire struct anyway, so bringing it into our dcache writably
shouldn't incur much overhead.
This removes the need to do clearance in fscache_set_key() (where we aren't
doing it correctly anyway).
Also, we don't need to set cookie->key_len in fscache_set_key() as we
already did it in the only caller, so remove that.
Fixes: ec0328e46d ("fscache: Maintain a catalogue of allocated cookies")
Reported-by: syzbot+a95b989b2dde8e806af8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a seq_file show
callback and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers.
All trivial callers converted over.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations
argument and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers.
All trivial callers converted over.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Maintain a catalogue of allocated cookies so that cookie collisions can be
handled properly. For the moment, this just involves printing a warning
and returning a NULL cookie to the caller of fscache_acquire_cookie(), but
in future it might make sense to wait for the old cookie to finish being
cleaned up.
This requires the cookie key to be stored attached to the cookie so that we
still have the key available if the netfs relinquishes the cookie. This is
done by an earlier patch.
The catalogue also renders redundant fscache_netfs_list (used for checking
for duplicates), so that can be removed.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Attach copies of the index key and auxiliary data to the fscache cookie so
that:
(1) The callbacks to the netfs for this stuff can be eliminated. This
can simplify things in the cache as the information is still
available, even after the cache has relinquished the cookie.
(2) Simplifies the locking requirements of accessing the information as we
don't have to worry about the netfs object going away on us.
(3) The cache can do lazy updating of the coherency information on disk.
As long as the cache is flushed before reboot/poweroff, there's no
need to update the coherency info on disk every time it changes.
(4) Cookies can be hashed or put in a tree as the index key is easily
available. This allows:
(a) Checks for duplicate cookies can be made at the top fscache layer
rather than down in the bowels of the cache backend.
(b) Caching can be added to a netfs object that has a cookie if the
cache is brought online after the netfs object is allocated.
A certain amount of space is made in the cookie for inline copies of the
data, but if it won't fit there, extra memory will be allocated for it.
The downside of this is that live cache operation requires more memory.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Add some tracepoints to fscache:
(*) fscache_cookie - Tracks a cookie's usage count.
(*) fscache_netfs - Logs registration of a network filesystem, including
the pointer to the cookie allocated.
(*) fscache_acquire - Logs cookie acquisition.
(*) fscache_relinquish - Logs cookie relinquishment.
(*) fscache_enable - Logs enablement of a cookie.
(*) fscache_disable - Logs disablement of a cookie.
(*) fscache_osm - Tracks execution of states in the object state machine.
and cachefiles:
(*) cachefiles_ref - Tracks a cachefiles object's usage count.
(*) cachefiles_lookup - Logs result of lookup_one_len().
(*) cachefiles_mkdir - Logs result of vfs_mkdir().
(*) cachefiles_create - Logs result of vfs_create().
(*) cachefiles_unlink - Logs calls to vfs_unlink().
(*) cachefiles_rename - Logs calls to vfs_rename().
(*) cachefiles_mark_active - Logs an object becoming active.
(*) cachefiles_wait_active - Logs a wait for an old object to be
destroyed.
(*) cachefiles_mark_inactive - Logs an object becoming inactive.
(*) cachefiles_mark_buried - Logs the burial of an object.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Make wait_on_atomic_t() pass the TASK_* mode onto its action function as an
extra argument and make it 'unsigned int throughout.
Also, consolidate a bunch of identical action functions into a default
function that can do the appropriate thing for the mode.
Also, change the argument name in the bit_wait*() function declarations to
reflect the fact that it's the mode and not the bit number.
[Peter Z gives this a grudging ACK, but thinks that the whole atomic_t wait
should be done differently, though he's not immediately sure as to how]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Any time an incomplete operation is cancelled, the operation cancellation
function needs to be called to clean up. This is currently being passed
directly to some of the functions that might want to call it, but not all.
Instead, pass the cancellation method pointer to the fscache_operation_init()
and have that cache it in the operation struct. Further, plug in a dummy
cancellation handler if the caller declines to set one as this allows us to
call the function unconditionally (the extra overhead isn't worth bothering
about as we don't expect to be calling this typically).
The cancellation method must thence be called everywhere the CANCELLED state
is set. Note that we call it *before* setting the CANCELLED state such that
the method can use the old state value to guide its operation.
fscache_do_cancel_retrieval() needs moving higher up in the sources so that
the init function can use it now.
Without this, the following oops may be seen:
FS-Cache: Assertion failed
FS-Cache: 3 == 0 is false
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at ../fs/fscache/page.c:261!
...
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0089c1b>] fscache_release_retrieval_op+0x77/0x100
[<ffffffffa008853d>] fscache_put_operation+0x114/0x2da
[<ffffffffa008b8c2>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x358/0x3b3
[<ffffffffa00b761f>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x59/0xbf [nfs]
[<ffffffffa00b06c5>] nfs_readpages+0x10c/0x185 [nfs]
[<ffffffff81124925>] ? alloc_pages_current+0x119/0x13e
[<ffffffff810ee5fd>] ? __page_cache_alloc+0xfb/0x10a
[<ffffffff810f87f8>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x188/0x22c
[<ffffffff810f8b3a>] ondemand_readahead+0x29e/0x2af
[<ffffffff810f8c92>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x38/0x3a
[<ffffffff810ef337>] generic_file_read_iter+0x1a2/0x55a
[<ffffffffa00a9dff>] ? nfs_revalidate_mapping+0xd6/0x288 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa00a6a23>] nfs_file_read+0x49/0x70 [nfs]
[<ffffffff811363be>] new_sync_read+0x78/0x9c
[<ffffffff81137164>] __vfs_read+0x13/0x38
[<ffffffff8113721e>] vfs_read+0x95/0x121
[<ffffffff811372f6>] SyS_read+0x4c/0x8a
[<ffffffff81557a52>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
The assertion is showing that the remaining number of pages (n_pages) is not 0
when the operation is being released.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Count and display through /proc/fs/fscache/stats the number of initialised
operations.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Currently, fscache_cancel_op() only cancels pending operations - attempts to
cancel in-progress operations are ignored. This leads to a problem in
fscache_wait_for_operation_activation() whereby the wait is terminated, but
the object has been killed.
The check at the end of the function now triggers because it's no longer
contingent on the cache having produced an I/O error since the commit that
fixed the logic error in fscache_object_is_dead().
The result of the check is that it tries to cancel the operation - but since
the object may not be pending by this point, the cancellation request may be
ignored - with the result that the the object is just put by the caller and
fscache_put_operation has an assertion failure because the operation isn't in
either the COMPLETE or the CANCELLED states.
To fix this, we permit in-progress ops to be cancelled under some
circumstances.
The bug results in an oops that looks something like this:
FS-Cache: fscache_wait_for_operation_activation() = -ENOBUFS [obj dead 3]
FS-Cache:
FS-Cache: Assertion failed
FS-Cache: 3 == 5 is false
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at ../fs/fscache/operation.c:432!
...
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0088574>] fscache_put_operation+0xf2/0x2cd
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa008b92a>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x2ec/0x3b3
[<ffffffffa00b761f>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x59/0xbf [nfs]
[<ffffffffa00b06c5>] nfs_readpages+0x10c/0x185 [nfs]
[<ffffffff81124925>] ? alloc_pages_current+0x119/0x13e
[<ffffffff810ee5fd>] ? __page_cache_alloc+0xfb/0x10a
[<ffffffff810f87f8>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x188/0x22c
[<ffffffff810f8b3a>] ondemand_readahead+0x29e/0x2af
[<ffffffff810f8c92>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x38/0x3a
[<ffffffff810ef337>] generic_file_read_iter+0x1a2/0x55a
[<ffffffffa00a9dff>] ? nfs_revalidate_mapping+0xd6/0x288 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa00a6a23>] nfs_file_read+0x49/0x70 [nfs]
[<ffffffff811363be>] new_sync_read+0x78/0x9c
[<ffffffff81137164>] __vfs_read+0x13/0x38
[<ffffffff8113721e>] vfs_read+0x95/0x121
[<ffffffff811372f6>] SyS_read+0x4c/0x8a
[<ffffffff81557a52>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Count the number of objects that get culled by the cache backend and the
number of objects that the cache backend declines to instantiate due to lack
of space in the cache.
These numbers are made available through /proc/fs/fscache/stats
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
The current "wait_on_bit" interface requires an 'action'
function to be provided which does the actual waiting.
There are over 20 such functions, many of them identical.
Most cases can be satisfied by one of just two functions, one
which uses io_schedule() and one which just uses schedule().
So:
Rename wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock to
wait_on_bit_action and wait_on_bit_lock_action
to make it explicit that they need an action function.
Introduce new wait_on_bit{,_lock} and wait_on_bit{,_lock}_io
which are *not* given an action function but implicitly use
a standard one.
The decision to error-out if a signal is pending is now made
based on the 'mode' argument rather than being encoded in the action
function.
All instances of the old wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock which
can use the new version have been changed accordingly and their
action functions have been discarded.
wait_on_bit{_lock} does not return any specific error code in the
event of a signal so the caller must check for non-zero and
interpolate their own error code as appropriate.
The wait_on_bit() call in __fscache_wait_on_invalidate() was
ambiguous as it specified TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE but used
fscache_wait_bit_interruptible as an action function.
David Howells confirms this should be uniformly
"uninterruptible"
The main remaining user of wait_on_bit{,_lock}_action is NFS
which needs to use a freezer-aware schedule() call.
A comment in fs/gfs2/glock.c notes that having multiple 'action'
functions is useful as they display differently in the 'wchan'
field of 'ps'. (and /proc/$PID/wchan).
As the new bit_wait{,_io} functions are tagged "__sched", they
will not show up at all, but something higher in the stack. So
the distinction will still be visible, only with different
function names (gds2_glock_wait versus gfs2_glock_dq_wait in the
gfs2/glock.c case).
Since first version of this patch (against 3.15) two new action
functions appeared, on in NFS and one in CIFS. CIFS also now
uses an action function that makes the same freezer aware
schedule call as NFS.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (fscache, keys)
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> (gfs2)
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051603.28027.72349.stgit@notabene.brown
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Extend the fscache netfs API so that the netfs can ask as to whether a cache
object is up to date with respect to its corresponding netfs object:
int fscache_check_consistency(struct fscache_cookie *cookie)
This will call back to the netfs to check whether the auxiliary data associated
with a cookie is correct. It returns 0 if it is and -ESTALE if it isn't; it
may also return -ENOMEM and -ERESTARTSYS.
The backends now have to implement a mandatory operation pointer:
int (*check_consistency)(struct fscache_object *object)
that corresponds to the above API call. FS-Cache takes care of pinning the
object and the cookie in memory and managing this call with respect to the
object state.
Original-author: Hongyi Jia <jiayisuse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Hongyi Jia <jiayisuse@gmail.com>
cc: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Simplify the way fscache cache objects retain their cookie. The way I
implemented the cookie storage handling made synchronisation a pain (ie. the
object state machine can't rely on the cookie actually still being there).
Instead of the the object being detached from the cookie and the cookie being
freed in __fscache_relinquish_cookie(), we defer both operations:
(*) The detachment of the object from the list in the cookie now takes place
in fscache_drop_object() and is thus governed by the object state machine
(fscache_detach_from_cookie() has been removed).
(*) The release of the cookie is now in fscache_object_destroy() - which is
called by the cache backend just before it frees the object.
This means that the fscache_cookie struct is now available to the cache all the
way through from ->alloc_object() to ->drop_object() and ->put_object() -
meaning that it's no longer necessary to take object->lock to guarantee access.
However, __fscache_relinquish_cookie() doesn't wait for the object to go all
the way through to destruction before letting the netfs proceed. That would
massively slow down the netfs. Since __fscache_relinquish_cookie() leaves the
cookie around, in must therefore break all attachments to the netfs - which
includes ->def, ->netfs_data and any outstanding page read/writes.
To handle this, struct fscache_cookie now has an n_active counter:
(1) This starts off initialised to 1.
(2) Any time the cache needs to get at the netfs data, it calls
fscache_use_cookie() to increment it - if it is not zero. If it was zero,
then access is not permitted.
(3) When the cache has finished with the data, it calls fscache_unuse_cookie()
to decrement it. This does a wake-up on it if it reaches 0.
(4) __fscache_relinquish_cookie() decrements n_active and then waits for it to
reach 0. The initialisation to 1 in step (1) ensures that we only get
wake ups when we're trying to get rid of the cookie.
This leaves __fscache_relinquish_cookie() a lot simpler.
***
This fixes a problem in the current code whereby if fscache_invalidate() is
followed sufficiently quickly by fscache_relinquish_cookie() then it is
possible for __fscache_relinquish_cookie() to have detached the cookie from the
object and cleared the pointer before a thread is dispatched to process the
invalidation state in the object state machine.
Since the pending write clearance was deferred to the invalidation state to
make it asynchronous, we need to either wait in relinquishment for the stores
tree to be cleared in the invalidation state or we need to handle the clearance
in relinquishment.
Further, if the relinquishment code does clear the tree, then the invalidation
state need to make the clearance contingent on still having the cookie to hand
(since that's where the tree is rooted) and we have to prevent the cookie from
disappearing for the duration.
This can lead to an oops like the following:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000c
...
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8151023e>] _spin_lock+0xe/0x30
...
CR2: 000000000000000c ...
...
Process kslowd002 (...)
....
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa01c3278>] fscache_invalidate_writes+0x38/0xd0 [fscache]
[<ffffffff810096f0>] ? __switch_to+0xd0/0x320
[<ffffffff8105e759>] ? find_busiest_queue+0x69/0x150
[<ffffffff8110ddd4>] ? slow_work_enqueue+0x104/0x180
[<ffffffffa01c1303>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5e3/0x9d0 [fscache]
[<ffffffff81096b67>] ? bit_waitqueue+0x17/0xd0
[<ffffffff8110e233>] slow_work_execute+0x233/0x310
[<ffffffff8110e515>] slow_work_thread+0x205/0x360
[<ffffffff81096ca0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[<ffffffff8110e310>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x360
[<ffffffff81096936>] kthread+0x96/0xa0
[<ffffffff8100c0ca>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff810968a0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
[<ffffffff8100c0c0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
The parameter to fscache_invalidate_writes() was object->cookie which is NULL.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Fix object state machine to have separate work and wait states as that makes
it easier to envision.
There are now three kinds of state:
(1) Work state. This is an execution state. No event processing is performed
by a work state. The function attached to a work state returns a pointer
indicating the next state to which the OSM should transition. Returning
NO_TRANSIT repeats the current state, but goes back to the scheduler
first.
(2) Wait state. This is an event processing state. No execution is
performed by a wait state. Wait states are just tables of "if event X
occurs, clear it and transition to state Y". The dispatcher returns to
the scheduler if none of the events in which the wait state has an
interest are currently pending.
(3) Out-of-band state. This is a special work state. Transitions to normal
states can be overridden when an unexpected event occurs (eg. I/O error).
Instead the dispatcher disables and clears the OOB event and transits to
the specified work state. This then acts as an ordinary work state,
though object->state points to the overridden destination. Returning
NO_TRANSIT resumes the overridden transition.
In addition, the states have names in their definitions, so there's no need for
tables of state names. Further, the EV_REQUEUE event is no longer necessary as
that is automatic for work states.
Since the states are now separate structs rather than values in an enum, it's
not possible to use comparisons other than (non-)equality between them, so use
some object->flags to indicate what phase an object is in.
The EV_RELEASE, EV_RETIRE and EV_WITHDRAW events have been squished into one
(EV_KILL). An object flag now carries the information about retirement.
Similarly, the RELEASING, RECYCLING and WITHDRAWING states have been merged
into an KILL_OBJECT state and additional states have been added for handling
waiting dependent objects (JUMPSTART_DEPS and KILL_DEPENDENTS).
A state has also been added for synchronising with parent object initialisation
(WAIT_FOR_PARENT) and another for initiating look up (PARENT_READY).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
nfs_migrate_page() does not wait for FS-Cache to finish with a page, probably
leading to the following bad-page-state:
BUG: Bad page state in process python-bin pfn:17d39b
page:ffffea00053649e8 flags:004000000000100c count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:(null)
index:38686 (Tainted: G B ---------------- )
Pid: 31053, comm: python-bin Tainted: G B ----------------
2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8111bfe7>] bad_page+0x107/0x160
[<ffffffff8111ee69>] free_hot_cold_page+0x1c9/0x220
[<ffffffff8111ef19>] __pagevec_free+0x59/0xb0
[<ffffffff8104b988>] ? flush_tlb_others_ipi+0x128/0x130
[<ffffffff8112230c>] release_pages+0x21c/0x250
[<ffffffff8115b92a>] ? remove_migration_pte+0x28a/0x2b0
[<ffffffff8115f3f8>] ? mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_stat_from_page+0x18/0x70
[<ffffffff81122687>] ____pagevec_lru_add+0x167/0x180
[<ffffffff811226f8>] __lru_cache_add+0x58/0x70
[<ffffffff81122731>] lru_cache_add_lru+0x21/0x40
[<ffffffff81123f49>] putback_lru_page+0x69/0x100
[<ffffffff8115c0bd>] migrate_pages+0x13d/0x5d0
[<ffffffff81122687>] ? ____pagevec_lru_add+0x167/0x180
[<ffffffff81152ab0>] ? compaction_alloc+0x0/0x370
[<ffffffff8115255c>] compact_zone+0x4cc/0x600
[<ffffffff8111cfac>] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x15c/0x820
[<ffffffff810672f4>] ? check_preempt_wakeup+0x1c4/0x3c0
[<ffffffff8115290e>] compact_zone_order+0x7e/0xb0
[<ffffffff81152a49>] try_to_compact_pages+0x109/0x170
[<ffffffff8111e94d>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5ed/0x850
[<ffffffff814c9136>] ? thread_return+0x4e/0x778
[<ffffffff81150d43>] alloc_pages_vma+0x93/0x150
[<ffffffff81167ea5>] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x135/0x340
[<ffffffff814cb6f6>] ? rwsem_down_read_failed+0x26/0x30
[<ffffffff81136755>] handle_mm_fault+0x245/0x2b0
[<ffffffff814ce383>] do_page_fault+0x123/0x3a0
[<ffffffff814cbdf5>] page_fault+0x25/0x30
nfs_migrate_page() calls nfs_fscache_release_page() which doesn't actually wait
- even if __GFP_WAIT is set. The reason that doesn't wait is that
fscache_maybe_release_page() might deadlock the allocator as the work threads
writing to the cache may all end up sleeping on memory allocation.
However, I wonder if that is actually a problem. There are a number of things
I can do to deal with this:
(1) Make nfs_migrate_page() wait.
(2) Make fscache_maybe_release_page() honour the __GFP_WAIT flag.
(3) Set a timeout around the wait.
(4) Make nfs_migrate_page() return an error if the page is still busy.
For the moment, I'll select (2) and (4).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
The function to submit an exclusive op (fscache_submit_exclusive_op()) can BUG
if there's been an I/O error because it may see the parent cache object in an
unexpected state. It should only BUG if there hasn't been an I/O error.
In this case the problem was produced by remounting the cache partition to be
R/O. The EROFS state was detected and the cache was aborted, but not
everything handled the aborting correctly.
SysRq : Emergency Remount R/O
EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
Emergency Remount complete
CacheFiles: I/O Error: Failed to update xattr with error -30
FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/fscache/operation.c:128!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in: cachefiles nfs fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc
Pid: 6612, comm: kworker/u:2 Not tainted 3.1.0-rc8-fsdevel+ #1093 /DG965RY
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa00739c0>] [<ffffffffa00739c0>] fscache_submit_exclusive_op+0x2ad/0x2c2 [fscache]
RSP: 0018:ffff880000853d40 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: ffff880038ac72a8 RBX: ffff8800181f2260 RCX: ffffffff81f2b2b0
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8179a478 RDI: ffff8800181f2280
RBP: ffff880000853d60 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff880038ac7268
R13: ffff8800181f2280 R14: ffff88003a359190 R15: 000000010122b162
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000034cc4a77f0 CR3: 0000000010e96000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process kworker/u:2 (pid: 6612, threadinfo ffff880000852000, task ffff880014c3c040)
Stack:
ffff8800181f2260 ffff8800181f2310 ffff880038ac7268 ffff8800181f2260
ffff880000853dc0 ffffffffa0072375 ffff880037ecfe00 ffff88003a359198
ffff880000853dc0 0000000000000246 0000000000000000 ffff88000a91d308
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa0072375>] fscache_object_work_func+0x792/0xe65 [fscache]
[<ffffffff81047e44>] process_one_work+0x1eb/0x37f
[<ffffffff81047de6>] ? process_one_work+0x18d/0x37f
[<ffffffffa0071be3>] ? fscache_enqueue_dependents+0xd8/0xd8 [fscache]
[<ffffffff810482e4>] worker_thread+0x15a/0x21a
[<ffffffff8104818a>] ? rescuer_thread+0x188/0x188
[<ffffffff8104bf96>] kthread+0x7f/0x87
[<ffffffff813ad6f4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff81026b98>] ? finish_task_switch+0x45/0xc0
[<ffffffff813abd1d>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
[<ffffffff8104bf17>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x53/0x53
[<ffffffff813ad6f0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Provide a proper invalidation method rather than relying on the netfs retiring
the cookie it has and getting a new one. The problem with this is that isn't
easy for the netfs to make sure that it has completed/cancelled all its
outstanding storage and retrieval operations on the cookie it is retiring.
Instead, have the cache provide an invalidation method that will cancel or wait
for all currently outstanding operations before invalidating the cache, and
will cause new operations to queue up behind that. Whilst invalidation is in
progress, some requests will be rejected until the cache can stack a barrier on
the operation queue to cause new operations to be deferred behind it.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc
format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make fscache operation to use only workqueue instead of combination of
workqueue and slow-work. FSCACHE_OP_SLOW is dropped and
FSCACHE_OP_FAST is renamed to FSCACHE_OP_ASYNC and uses newly added
fscache_op_wq workqueue to execute op->processor().
fscache_operation_init_slow() is dropped and fscache_operation_init()
now takes @processor argument directly.
* Unbound workqueue is used.
* fscache_retrieval_work() is no longer necessary as OP_ASYNC now does
the equivalent thing.
* sysctl fscache.operation_max_active added to control concurrency.
The default value is nr_cpus clamped between 2 and
WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.
* debugfs support is dropped for now. Tracing API based debug
facility is planned to be added.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Make fscache object state transition callbacks use workqueue instead
of slow-work. New dedicated unbound CPU workqueue fscache_object_wq
is created. get/put callbacks are renamed and modified to take
@object and called directly from the enqueue wrapper and the work
function. While at it, make all open coded instances of get/put to
use fscache_get/put_object().
* Unbound workqueue is used.
* work_busy() output is printed instead of slow-work flags in object
debugging outputs. They mean basically the same thing bit-for-bit.
* sysctl fscache.object_max_active added to control concurrency. The
default value is nr_cpus clamped between 4 and
WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE.
* slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed() is replaced with fscache
private implementation fscache_object_sleep_till_congested() which
waits on fscache_object_wq congestion.
* debugfs support is dropped for now. Tracing API based debug
facility is planned to be added.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Provide nop fscache_stat_d() macro if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n lest errors like
the following occur:
fs/fscache/cache.c: In function 'fscache_withdraw_cache':
fs/fscache/cache.c:386: error: implicit declaration of function 'fscache_stat_d'
fs/fscache/cache.c:386: error: 'fscache_n_cop_sync_cache' undeclared (first use in this function)
fs/fscache/cache.c:386: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
fs/fscache/cache.c:386: error: for each function it appears in.)
fs/fscache/cache.c:392: error: 'fscache_n_cop_dissociate_pages' undeclared (first use in this function)
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to
replace it with a new one. The probability is that all the slow-work threads
are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in.
What we do instead is:
(1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying
object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue
behind which we can queue our object.
(2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to
fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue,
presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by. We are then
deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue -
without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily.
A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch:
INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
kslowd004 D 0000000000000000 0 5711 2 0x00000080
ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000
ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8
000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa011c4e1>] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles]
[<ffffffff81353153>] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76
[<ffffffff8111ae39>] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270
[<ffffffff813531ef>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74
[<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
[<ffffffff8104c125>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e
[<ffffffffa011bc79>] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa011c209>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa011a429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa00aa1e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00aafc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00ab4ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
[<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
[<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
[<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
[<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
[<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
1 lock held by kslowd004/5711:
#0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa011be64>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Start processing an object's operations when that object moves into the DYING
state as the object cannot be destroyed until all its outstanding operations
have completed.
Furthermore, make sure that read and allocation operations handle being woken
up on a dead object. Such events are recorded in the Allocs.abt and
Retrvls.abt statistics as viewable through /proc/fs/fscache/stats.
The code for waiting for object activation for the read and allocation
operations is also extracted into its own function as it is much the same in
all cases, differing only in the stats incremented.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Add a stat counter to count retirement events rather than ordinary release
events (the retire argument to fscache_relinquish_cookie()).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache. Under these
conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
page can be discarded.
The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:
kslowd005 D 0000000000000000 0 4253 2 0x00000080
ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
[<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
[<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
[<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
[<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
[<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
[<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
[<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
[<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
[<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
[<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
[<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
[<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
[<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
[<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
[<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
[<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
[<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
[<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
[<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
[<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
[<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
[<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
[<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
[<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
[<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
[<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
[<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
[<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
In the above backtrace, the following is happening:
(1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
(fscache_write_op()).
(2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
(cachefiles_write_page()).
(3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
page.
(4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
can copy the data from the netfs page.
(5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
(try_to_free_pages()).
(6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
one it's trying to write out).
(7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).
(8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.
The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
cache without allocating more memory.
To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
actually being performed. This means that some data won't make it into the
cache this time. To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
functions used to do with respect to the cache.
The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan". There are four
counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
of.
What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages. If there are
plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
FS-Cache doesn't correctly handle the netfs requesting a read from the cache
on an object that failed or was withdrawn by the cache. A trace similar to
the following might be seen:
CacheFiles: Lookup failed error -105
[exe ] unexpected submission OP165afe [OBJ6cac OBJECT_LC_DYING]
[exe ] objstate=OBJECT_LC_DYING [OBJECT_LC_DYING]
[exe ] objflags=0
[exe ] objevent=9 [fffffffffffffffb]
[exe ] ops=0 inp=0 exc=0
Pid: 6970, comm: exe Not tainted 2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #50
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa0076477>] fscache_submit_op+0x3ff/0x45a [fscache]
[<ffffffffa0077997>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x187/0x3c4 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00b6480>] ? nfs_readpage_from_fscache_complete+0x0/0x66 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa00b6388>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x7e/0x176 [nfs]
[<ffffffff8108e483>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x11c/0x5cf
[<ffffffffa009d796>] nfs_readpages+0x114/0x1d7 [nfs]
[<ffffffff81090314>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x15f/0x1ec
[<ffffffff81090228>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0x73/0x1ec
[<ffffffff810903bd>] ra_submit+0x1c/0x20
[<ffffffff810906bb>] ondemand_readahead+0x227/0x23a
[<ffffffff81090762>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x17/0x19
[<ffffffff8108a99e>] generic_file_aio_read+0x236/0x5a0
[<ffffffffa00937bd>] nfs_file_read+0xe4/0xf3 [nfs]
[<ffffffff810b2fa2>] do_sync_read+0xe3/0x120
[<ffffffff81354cc3>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x31
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff811848e5>] ? selinux_file_permission+0x5d/0x10f
[<ffffffff81352bdb>] ? thread_return+0x3e/0x101
[<ffffffff8117d7b0>] ? security_file_permission+0x11/0x13
[<ffffffff810b3b06>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x16f
[<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
[<ffffffff810b3c84>] sys_read+0x45/0x6c
[<ffffffff8100ae2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
The object state might also be OBJECT_DYING or OBJECT_WITHDRAWING.
This should be handled by simply rejecting the new operation with ENOBUFS.
There's no need to log an error for it. Events of this type now appear in the
stats file under Ops:rej.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
FS-Cache has two structs internally for keeping track of the internal state of
a cached file: the fscache_cookie struct, which represents the netfs's state,
and fscache_object struct, which represents the cache's state. Each has a
pointer that points to the other (when both are in existence), and each has a
spinlock for pointer maintenance.
Since netfs operations approach these structures from the cookie side, they get
the cookie lock first, then the object lock. Cache operations, on the other
hand, approach from the object side, and get the object lock first. It is not
then permitted for a cache operation to get the cookie lock whilst it is
holding the object lock lest deadlock occur; instead, it must do one of two
things:
(1) increment the cookie usage counter, drop the object lock and then get both
locks in order, or
(2) simply hold the object lock as certain parts of the cookie may not be
altered whilst the object lock is held.
It is also not permitted to follow either pointer without holding the lock at
the end you start with. To break the pointers between the cookie and the
object, both locks must be held.
fscache_write_op(), however, violates the locking rules: It attempts to get the
cookie lock without (a) checking that the cookie pointer is a valid pointer,
and (b) holding the object lock to protect the cookie pointer whilst it follows
it. This is so that it can access the pending page store tree without
interference from __fscache_write_page().
This is fixed by splitting the cookie lock, such that the page store tracking
tree is protected by its own lock, and checking that the cookie pointer is
non-NULL before we attempt to follow it whilst holding the object lock.
The new lock is subordinate to both the cookie lock and the object lock, and so
should be taken after those.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Permit the operations to retrieve data from the cache or to allocate space in
the cache for future writes to be interrupted whilst they're waiting for
permission for the operation to proceed. Typically this wait occurs whilst the
cache object is being looked up on disk in the background.
If an interruption occurs, and the operation has not yet been given the
go-ahead to run, the operation is dequeued and cancelled, and control returns
to the read operation of the netfs routine with none of the requested pages
having been read or in any way marked as known by the cache.
This means that the initial wait is done interruptibly rather than
uninterruptibly.
In addition, extra stats values are made available to show the number of ops
cancelled and the number of cache space allocations interrupted.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
