The mount field is only passed to xfs_extent_busy_clear, which never uses
it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Use !try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) != old in
xlog_cil_insert_pcp_aggregate(). x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns
success in ZF flag, so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg.
Also, try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when
cmpxchg fails. There is no need to re-read the value in the loop.
Note that the value from *ptr should be read using READ_ONCE to
prevent the compiler from merging, refetching or reordering the read.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
The grant heads in the log track the space reserved in the log for
running transactions. They do this by tracking how far ahead of the
tail that the reservation has reached, and the units for doing this
are {cycle,bytes} for the reserve head rather than {cycle,blocks}
which are normal used by LSNs.
This is annoyingly complex because we have to split, crack and
combined these tuples for any calculation we do to determine log
space and targets. This is computationally expensive as well as
difficult to do atomically and locklessly, as well as limiting the
size of the log to 2^32 bytes.
Really, though, all the grant heads are tracking is how much space
is currently available for use in the log. We can track this as a
simply byte count - we just don't care what the actual physical
location in the log the head and tail are at, just how much space we
have remaining before the head and tail overlap.
So, convert the grant heads to track the byte reservations that are
active rather than the current (cycle, offset) tuples. This means an
empty log has zero bytes consumed, and a full log is when the
reservations reach the size of the log minus the space consumed by
the AIL.
This greatly simplifies the accounting and checks for whether there
is space available. We no longer need to crack or combine LSNs to
determine how much space the log has left, nor do we need to look at
the head or tail of the log to determine how close to full we are.
There is, however, a complexity that needs to be handled. We know
how much space is being tracked in the AIL now via log->l_tail_space
and the log tickets track active reservations and return the unused
portions to the grant heads when ungranted. Unfortunately, we don't
track the used portion of the grant, so when we transfer log items
from the CIL to the AIL, the space accounted to the grant heads is
transferred to the log tail space. Hence when we move the AIL head
forwards on item insert, we have to remove that space from the grant
heads.
We also remove the xlog_verify_grant_tail() debug function as it is
no longer useful. The check it performs has been racy since delayed
logging was introduced, but now it is clearly only detecting false
positives so remove it.
The result of this substantially simpler accounting algorithm is an
increase in sustained transaction rate from ~1.3 million
transactions/s to ~1.9 million transactions/s with no increase in
CPU usage. We also remove the 32 bit space limitation on the grant
heads, which will allow us to increase the journal size beyond 2GB
in future.
Note that this renames the sysfs files exposing the log grant space
now that the values are exported in bytes. This allows xfstests
to auto-detect the old or new ABI.
[hch: move xlog_grant_sub_space out of line,
update the xlog_grant_{add,sub}_space prototypes,
rename the sysfs files to allow auto-detection in xfstests]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
Currently we track space used in the log by grant heads.
These store the reserved space as a physical log location and
combine both space reserved for future use with space already used in
the log in a single variable. The amount of space consumed in the
log is then calculated as the distance between the log tail and
the grant head.
The problem with tracking the grant head as a physical location
comes from the fact that it tracks both log cycle count and offset
into the log in bytes in a single 64 bit variable. because the cycle
count on disk is a 32 bit number, this also limits the offset into
the log to 32 bits. ANd because that is in bytes, we are limited to
being able to track only 2GB of log space in the grant head.
Hence to support larger physical logs, we need to track used space
differently in the grant head. We no longer use the grant head for
guiding AIL pushing, so the only thing it is now used for is
determining if we've run out of reservation space via the
calculation in xlog_space_left().
What we really need to do is move the grant heads away from tracking
physical space in the log. The issue here is that space consumed in
the log is not directly tracked by the current mechanism - the
space consumed in the log by grant head reservations gets returned
to the free pool by the tail of the log moving forward. i.e. the
space isn't directly tracked or calculated, but the used grant space
gets "freed" as the physical limits of the log are updated without
actually needing to update the grant heads.
Hence to move away from implicit, zero-update log space tracking we
need to explicitly track the amount of physical space the log
actually consumes separately to the in-memory reservations for
operations that will be committed to the journal. Luckily, we
already track the information we need to calculate this in the AIL
itself.
That is, the space currently consumed by the journal is the maximum
LSN that the AIL has seen minus the current log tail. As we update
both of these items dynamically as the head and tail of the log
moves, we always know exactly how much space the journal consumes.
This means that we also know exactly how much space the currently
active reservations require, and exactly how much free space we have
remaining for new reservations to be made. Most importantly, we know
what these spaces are indepedently of the physical locations of
the head and tail of the log.
Hence by separating out the physical space consumed by the journal,
we can now track reservations in the grant heads purely as a byte
count, and the log can be considered full when the tail space +
reservation space exceeds the size of the log. This means we can use
the full 64 bits of grant head space for reservation space,
completely removing the 32 bit byte count limitation on log size
that they impose.
Hence the first step in this conversion is to track and update the
"log tail space" every time the AIL tail or maximum seen LSN
changes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
The current implementation of xlog_assign_tail_lsn() assumes that
when the AIL is empty, the log tail matches the LSN of the last
written commit record. This is recorded in xlog_state_set_callback()
as log->l_last_sync_lsn when the iclog state changes to
XLOG_STATE_CALLBACK. This change is then immediately followed by
running the callbacks on the iclog which then insert the log items
into the AIL at the "commit lsn" of that checkpoint.
The AIL tracks log items via the start record LSN of the checkpoint,
not the commit record LSN. This is because we can pipeline multiple
checkpoints, and so the start record of checkpoint N+1 can be
written before the commit record of checkpoint N. i.e:
start N commit N
+-------------+------------+----------------+
start N+1 commit N+1
The tail of the log cannot be moved to the LSN of commit N when all
the items of that checkpoint are written back, because then the
start record for N+1 is no longer in the active portion of the log
and recovery will fail/corrupt the filesystem.
Hence when all the log items in checkpoint N are written back, the
tail of the log most now only move as far forwards as the start LSN
of checkpoint N+1.
Hence we cannot use the maximum start record LSN the AIL sees as a
replacement the pointer to the current head of the on-disk log
records. However, we currently only use the l_last_sync_lsn when the
AIL is empty - when there is no start LSN remaining, the tail of the
log moves to the LSN of the last commit record as this is where
recovery needs to start searching for recoverable records. THe next
checkpoint will have a start record LSN that is higher than
l_last_sync_lsn, and so everything still works correctly when new
checkpoints are written to an otherwise empty log.
l_last_sync_lsn is an atomic variable because it is currently
updated when an iclog with callbacks attached moves to the CALLBACK
state. While we hold the icloglock at this point, we don't hold the
AIL lock. When we assign the log tail, we hold the AIL lock, not the
icloglock because we have to look up the AIL. Hence it is an atomic
variable so it's not bound to a specific lock context.
However, the iclog callbacks are only used for CIL checkpoints. We
don't use callbacks with unmount record writes, so the
l_last_sync_lsn variable only gets updated when we are processing
CIL checkpoint callbacks. And those callbacks run under AIL lock
contexts, not icloglock context. The CIL checkpoint already knows
what the LSN of the iclog the commit record was written to (obtained
when written into the iclog before submission) and so we can update
the l_last_sync_lsn under the AIL lock in this callback. No other
iclog callbacks will run until the currently executing one
completes, and hence we can update the l_last_sync_lsn under the AIL
lock safely.
This means l_last_sync_lsn can move to the AIL as the "ail_head_lsn"
and it can be used to replace the atomic l_last_sync_lsn in the
iclog code. This makes tracking the log tail belong entirely to the
AIL, rather than being smeared across log, iclog and AIL state and
locking.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
Ever since the CIL and delayed logging was introduced,
xfs_trans_committed_bulk() has been a purely CIL checkpoint
completion function and not a transaction commit completion
function. Now that we are adding log specific updates to this
function, it really does not have anything to do with the
transaction subsystem - it is really log and log item level
functionality.
This should be part of the CIL code as it is the callback
that moves log items from the CIL checkpoint to the AIL. Move it
and rename it to xlog_cil_ail_insert().
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
Sparse reports:
fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c:1127:1: warning: context imbalance in 'xlog_cil_push_work' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c:1380:1: warning: context imbalance in 'xlog_cil_push_background' - wrong count at exit
fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c:1623:9: warning: context imbalance in 'xlog_cil_commit' - unexpected unlock
xlog_cil_push_background() has a locking annotations for an rw_sem.
Sparse does not track lock contexts for rw_sems, so the
annotation generates false warnings. Remove the annotation.
xlog_wait_on_iclog() drops the log->l_ic_loglock. The function has a
sparse annotation, but the prototype in xfs_log_priv.h does not.
Hence the warning from xlog_cil_push_work() which calls
xlog_wait_on_iclog(). Add the missing annotation.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
The xfs_log_vec items are allocated by xlog_kvmalloc(), and so need
to be freed with kvfree. This was missed when coverting from the
kmem_free() API.
Fixes: 4929257613 ("xfs: convert kmem_free() for kvmalloc users to kvfree()")
Reported-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
This is core code that needs to run in low memory conditions and
can be triggered from memory reclaim. While it runs in a workqueue,
it really shouldn't be recursing back into the filesystem during
any memory allocation it needs to function.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
The remaining callers of kmem_free() are freeing heap memory, so
we can convert them directly to kfree() and get rid of kmem_free()
altogether.
This conversion was done with:
$ for f in `git grep -l kmem_free fs/xfs`; do
> sed -i s/kmem_free/kfree/ $f
> done
$
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
Start getting rid of kmem_free() by converting all the cases where
memory can come from vmalloc interfaces to calling kvfree()
directly.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
There's no reason to keep the kmem_zalloc() around anymore, it's
just a thin wrapper around kmalloc(), so lets get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
Because we are going to use the same list-based discard submission
interface for fstrim-based discards, too.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
In commit 7c8ade2121 ("xfs: implement percpu cil space used
calculation"), the XFS committed (log) item list code was converted to
use per-cpu lists and space tracking to reduce cpu contention when
multiple threads are modifying different parts of the filesystem and
hence end up contending on the log structures during transaction commit.
Each CPU tracks its own commit items and space usage, and these do not
have to be merged into the main CIL until either someone wants to push
the CIL items, or we run over a soft threshold and switch to slower (but
more accurate) accounting with atomics.
Unfortunately, the for_each_cpu iteration suffers from the same race
with cpu dying problem that was identified in commit 8b57b11cca
("pcpcntrs: fix dying cpu summation race") -- CPUs are removed from
cpu_online_mask before the CPUHP_XFS_DEAD callback gets called. As a
result, both CIL percpu structure aggregation functions fail to collect
the items and accounted space usage at the correct point in time.
If we're lucky, the items that are collected from the online cpus exceed
the space given to those cpus, and the log immediately shuts down in
xlog_cil_insert_items due to the (apparent) log reservation overrun.
This happens periodically with generic/650, which exercises cpu hotplug
vs. the filesystem code:
smpboot: CPU 3 is now offline
XFS (sda3): ctx ticket reservation ran out. Need to up reservation
XFS (sda3): ticket reservation summary:
XFS (sda3): unit res = 9268 bytes
XFS (sda3): current res = -40 bytes
XFS (sda3): original count = 1
XFS (sda3): remaining count = 1
XFS (sda3): Filesystem has been shut down due to log error (0x2).
Applying the same sort of fix from 8b57b11cca to the CIL code seems
to make the generic/650 problem go away, but I've been told that tglx
was not happy when he saw:
"...the only thing we actually need to care about is that
percpu_counter_sum() iterates dying CPUs. That's trivial to do, and when
there are no CPUs dying, it has no addition overhead except for a
cpumask_or() operation."
The CPU hotplug code is rather complex and difficult to understand and I
don't want to try to understand the cpu hotplug locking well enough to
use cpu_dying mask. Furthermore, there's a performance improvement that
could be had here. Attach a private cpu mask to the CIL structure so
that we can track exactly which cpus have accessed the percpu data at
all. It doesn't matter if the cpu has since gone offline; log item
aggregation will still find the items. Better yet, we skip cpus that
have not recently logged anything.
Worse yet, Ritesh Harjani and Eric Sandeen both reported today that CPU
hot remove racing with an xfs mount can crash if the cpu_dead notifier
tries to access the log but the mount hasn't yet set up the log.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/ZOLzgBOuyWHapOyZ@dread.disaster.area/T/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/877cuj1mt1.ffs@tglx/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230414162755.281993820@linutronix.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/ZOVkjxWZq0YmjrJu@dread.disaster.area/T/
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Reported-by: ritesh.list@gmail.com
Reported-by: sandeen@sandeen.net
Fixes: af1c2146a5 ("xfs: introduce per-cpu CIL tracking structure")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
When xlog_sync() rounds off the tail the iclog that is being
flushed, it manually subtracts that space from the grant heads. This
space is actually reserved by the transaction ticket that covers
the xlog_sync() call from xlog_write(), but we don't plumb the
ticket down far enough for it to account for the space consumed in
the current log ticket.
The grant heads are hot, so we really should be accounting this to
the ticket is we can, rather than adding thousands of extra grant
head updates every CIL commit.
Interestingly, this actually indicates a potential log space overrun
can occur when we force the log. By the time that xfs_log_force()
pushes out an active iclog and consumes the roundoff space, the
reservation for that roundoff space has been returned to the grant
heads and is no longer covered by a reservation. In theory the
roundoff added to log force on an already full log could push the
write head past the tail. In practice, the CIL commit that writes to
the log and needs the iclog pushed will have reserved space for
roundoff, so when it releases the ticket there will still be
physical space for the roundoff to be committed to the log, even
though it is no longer reserved. This roundoff won't be enough space
to allow a transaction to be woken if the log is full, so overruns
should not actually occur in practice.
That said, it indicates that we should not release the CIL context
log ticket until after we've released the commit iclog. It also
means that xlog_sync() still needs the direct grant head
manipulation if we don't provide it with a ticket. Log forces are
rare when we are in fast paths running 1.5 million transactions/s
that make the grant heads hot, so let's optimise the hot case and
pass CIL log tickets down to the xlog_sync() code.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Because now it hurts when the CIL fills up.
- 37.20% __xfs_trans_commit
- 35.84% xfs_log_commit_cil
- 19.34% _raw_spin_lock
- do_raw_spin_lock
19.01% __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
- 4.20% xfs_log_ticket_ungrant
0.90% xfs_log_space_wake
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Adding a list_sort() call to the CIL push work while the xc_ctx_lock
is held exclusively has resulted in fairly long lock hold times and
that stops all front end transaction commits from making progress.
We can move the sorting out of the xc_ctx_lock if we can transfer
the ordering information to the log vectors as they are detached
from the log items and then we can sort the log vectors. With these
changes, we can move the list_sort() call to just before we call
xlog_write() when we aren't holding any locks at all.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Because the next change is going to require sorting log vectors, and
that requires arbitrary rearrangement of the list which cannot be
done easily with a single linked list.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
So that we can remove the cil_lock which is a global serialisation
point. We've already got ordering sorted, so all we need to do is
treat the CIL list like the busy extent list and reconstruct it
before the push starts.
This is what we're trying to avoid:
- 75.35% 1.83% [kernel] [k] xfs_log_commit_cil
- 46.35% xfs_log_commit_cil
- 41.54% _raw_spin_lock
- 67.30% do_raw_spin_lock
66.96% __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
Which happens on a 32p system when running a 32-way 'rm -rf'
workload. After this patch:
- 20.90% 3.23% [kernel] [k] xfs_log_commit_cil
- 17.67% xfs_log_commit_cil
- 6.51% xfs_log_ticket_ungrant
1.40% xfs_log_space_wake
2.32% memcpy_erms
- 2.18% xfs_buf_item_committing
- 2.12% xfs_buf_item_release
- 1.03% xfs_buf_unlock
0.96% up
0.72% xfs_buf_rele
1.33% xfs_inode_item_format
1.19% down_read
0.91% up_read
0.76% xfs_buf_item_format
- 0.68% kmem_alloc_large
- 0.67% kmem_alloc
0.64% __kmalloc
0.50% xfs_buf_item_size
It kinda looks like the workload is running out of log space all
the time. But all the spinlock contention is gone and the
transaction commit rate has gone from 800k/s to 1.3M/s so the amount
of real work being done has gone up a *lot*.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Before we split the ordered CIL up into per cpu lists, we need a
mechanism to track the order of the items in the CIL. We need to do
this because there are rules around the order in which related items
must physically appear in the log even inside a single checkpoint
transaction.
An example of this is intents - an intent must appear in the log
before it's intent done record so that log recovery can cancel the
intent correctly. If we have these two records misordered in the
CIL, then they will not be recovered correctly by journal replay.
We also will not be able to move items to the tail of
the CIL list when they are relogged, hence the log items will need
some mechanism to allow the correct log item order to be recreated
before we write log items to the hournal.
Hence we need to have a mechanism for recording global order of
transactions in the log items so that we can recover that order
from un-ordered per-cpu lists.
Do this with a simple monotonic increasing commit counter in the CIL
context. Each log item in the transaction gets stamped with the
current commit order ID before it is added to the CIL. If the item
is already in the CIL, leave it where it is instead of moving it to
the tail of the list and instead sort the list before we start the
push work.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
To get them out from under the CIL lock.
This is an unordered list, so we can simply punt it to per-cpu lists
during transaction commits and reaggregate it back into a single
list during the CIL push work.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Now that we have the CIL percpu structures in place, implement the
space used counter as a per-cpu counter.
We have to be really careful now about ensuring that the checks and
updates run without arbitrary delays, which means they need to run
with pre-emption disabled. We do this by careful placement of
the get_cpu_ptr/put_cpu_ptr calls to access the per-cpu structures
for that CPU.
We need to be able to reliably detect that the CIL has reached
the hard limit threshold so we can take extra reservations for the
iclog headers when the space used overruns the original reservation.
hence we factor out xlog_cil_over_hard_limit() from
xlog_cil_push_background().
The global CIL space used is an atomic variable that is backed by
per-cpu aggregation to minimise the number of atomic updates we do
to the global state in the fast path. While we are under the soft
limit, we aggregate only when the per-cpu aggregation is over the
proportion of the soft limit assigned to that CPU. This means that
all CPUs can use all but one byte of their aggregation threshold
and we will not go over the soft limit.
Hence once we detect that we've gone over both a per-cpu aggregation
threshold and the soft limit, we know that we have only
exceeded the soft limit by one per-cpu aggregation threshold. Even
if all CPUs hit this at the same time, we can't be over the hard
limit, so we can run an aggregation back into the atomic counter
at this point and still be under the hard limit.
At this point, we will be over the soft limit and hence we'll
aggregate into the global atomic used space directly rather than the
per-cpu counters, hence providing accurate detection of hard limit
excursion for accounting and reservation purposes.
Hence we get the best of both worlds - lockless, scalable per-cpu
fast path plus accurate, atomic detection of hard limit excursion.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
The CIL push lock is highly contended on larger machines, becoming a
hard bottleneck that about 700,000 transaction commits/s on >16p
machines. To address this, start moving the CIL tracking
infrastructure to utilise per-CPU structures.
We need to track the space used, the amount of log reservation space
reserved to write the CIL, the log items in the CIL and the busy
extents that need to be completed by the CIL commit. This requires
a couple of per-cpu counters, an unordered per-cpu list and a
globally ordered per-cpu list.
Create a per-cpu structure to hold these and all the management
interfaces needed, as well as the hooks to handle hotplug CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
For every iclog that a CIL push will use up, we need to ensure we
have space reserved for the iclog header in each iclog. It is
extremely difficult to do this accurately with a per-cpu counter
without expensive summing of the counter in every commit. However,
we know what the maximum CIL size is going to be because of the
hard space limit we have, and hence we know exactly how many iclogs
we are going to need to write out the CIL.
We are constrained by the requirement that small transactions only
have reservation space for a single iclog header built into them.
At commit time we don't know how much of the current transaction
reservation is made up of iclog header reservations as calculated by
xfs_log_calc_unit_res() when the ticket was reserved. As larger
reservations have multiple header spaces reserved, we can steal
more than one iclog header reservation at a time, but we only steal
the exact number needed for the given log vector size delta.
As a result, we don't know exactly when we are going to steal iclog
header reservations, nor do we know exactly how many we are going to
need for a given CIL.
To make things simple, start by calculating the worst case number of
iclog headers a full CIL push will require. Record this into an
atomic variable in the CIL. Then add a byte counter to the log
ticket that records exactly how much iclog header space has been
reserved in this ticket by xfs_log_calc_unit_res(). This tells us
exactly how much space we can steal from the ticket at transaction
commit time.
Now, at transaction commit time, we can check if the CIL has a full
iclog header reservation and, if not, steal the entire reservation
the current ticket holds for iclog headers. This minimises the
number of times we need to do atomic operations in the fast path,
but still guarantees we get all the reservations we need.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
The xc_cil_lock is the most highly contended lock in XFS now. To
start the process of getting rid of it, lift the initial reservation
of the CIL log space out from under the xc_cil_lock.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
In the next patches we are going to make the CIL list itself
per-cpu, and so we cannot use list_empty() to check is the list is
empty. Replace the list_empty() checks with a flag in the CIL to
indicate we have committed at least one transaction to the CIL and
hence the CIL is not empty.
We need this flag to be an atomic so that we can clear it without
holding any locks in the commit fast path, but we also need to be
careful to avoid atomic operations in the fast path. Hence we use
the fact that test_bit() is not an atomic op to first check if the
flag is set and then run the atomic test_and_clear_bit() operation
to clear it and steal the initial unit reservation for the CIL
context checkpoint.
When we are switching to a new context in a push, we place the
setting of the XLOG_CIL_EMPTY flag under the xc_push_lock. THis
allows all the other places that need to check whether the CIL is
empty to use test_bit() and still be serialised correctly with the
CIL context swaps that set the bit.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
This update includes:
- support for printk message indexing.
- large extent counts to provide support for up to 2^47 data extents and 2^32
attribute extents, allowing us to scale beyond 4 billion data extents
to billions of xattrs per inode.
- conversion of various flags fields to be consistently declared as
unsigned bit fields.
- improvements to realtime extent accounting and converts them to per-cpu
counters to match all the other block and inode accounting.
- reworks core log formatting code to reduce iterations, have a shorter, cleaner
fast path and generally be easier to understand and maintain.
- improvements to rmap btree searches that reduce overhead by up
to 30% resulting in xfs_scrub runtime reductions of 15%.
- improvements to reflink that remove the size limitations in remapping operations
and greatly reduce the size of transaction reservations.
- reworks the minimum log size calculations to allow us to change transaction
reservations without changing the minimum supported log size.
- removal of quota warning support as it has never been used on Linux.
- intent whiteouts to allow us to cancel intents that are completed entirely
in memory rather than having use CPU and disk bandwidth formatting and writing
them into the journal when it is not necessary. This makes rmap, reflink and
extent freeing slightly more efficient, but provides massive improvements
for....
- Logged Attribute Replay feature support. This is a fundamental change to the
way we modify attributes, laying the foundation for future integration of
attribute modifications as part of other atomic transactional operations the
filesystem performs.
- Lots of cleanups and fixes for the logged attribute replay functionality.
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Merge tag 'xfs-5.19-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux
Pull xfs updates from Dave Chinner:
"This is a big update with lots of new code. The summary below them
all, so I'll just touch on teh higlights. The two main new features
are Large Extent Counts and Logged Attribute Replay - these are two
new foundational features that we are building more complex future
features on top of.
For upcoming functionality, we need to be able to store hundreds of
millions of xattrs per inode. The Large Extent Count feature removes
the limits that prevent this scale of xattr storage, and while we were
modifying the on disk extent count format we also increased the number
of data extents we support per inode from 2^32 to 2^47.
We also need to be able to modify xattrs as part of larger atomic
transactions rather than as standalone transactions. The Logged
Attribute Replay feature introduces the infrastructure that allows us
to use intents to record the attribute modifications in the journal
before we start them, hence allowing other atomic transactions to log
attribute modification intents and then defer the actual modification
to later. If we then crash, log recovery then guarantees that the
attribute is replayed in the context of the atomic transaction that
logged the intent.
A significant chunk of the commits in this merge are for the base
attribute replay functionality along with fixes, improvements and
cleanups related to this new functioanlity. Allison deserves a big
round of thanks for her ongoing work to get this functionality into
XFS.
There are also many other smaller changes and improvements, so overall
this is one of the bigger XFS merge requests in some time.
I will be following up next week with another smaller pull request -
we already have another round of fixes and improvements to the logged
attribute replay functionality just about ready to go. They'll soak
and test over the next week, and I'll send a pull request for them
near the end of the merge window.
Summary:
- support for printk message indexing.
- large extent counts to provide support for up to 2^47 data extents
and 2^32 attribute extents, allowing us to scale beyond 4 billion
data extents to billions of xattrs per inode.
- conversion of various flags fields to be consistently declared as
unsigned bit fields.
- improvements to realtime extent accounting and converts them to
per-cpu counters to match all the other block and inode accounting.
- reworks core log formatting code to reduce iterations, have a
shorter, cleaner fast path and generally be easier to understand
and maintain.
- improvements to rmap btree searches that reduce overhead by up to
30% resulting in xfs_scrub runtime reductions of 15%.
- improvements to reflink that remove the size limitations in
remapping operations and greatly reduce the size of transaction
reservations.
- reworks the minimum log size calculations to allow us to change
transaction reservations without changing the minimum supported log
size.
- removal of quota warning support as it has never been used on
Linux.
- intent whiteouts to allow us to cancel intents that are completed
entirely in memory rather than having use CPU and disk bandwidth
formatting and writing them into the journal when it is not
necessary. This makes rmap, reflink and extent freeing slightly
more efficient, but provides massive improvements for....
- Logged Attribute Replay feature support. This is a fundamental
change to the way we modify attributes, laying the foundation for
future integration of attribute modifications as part of other
atomic transactional operations the filesystem performs.
- Lots of cleanups and fixes for the logged attribute replay
functionality"
* tag 'xfs-5.19-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (124 commits)
xfs: can't use kmem_zalloc() for attribute buffers
xfs: detect empty attr leaf blocks in xfs_attr3_leaf_verify
xfs: ATTR_REPLACE algorithm with LARP enabled needs rework
xfs: use XFS_DA_OP flags in deferred attr ops
xfs: remove xfs_attri_remove_iter
xfs: switch attr remove to xfs_attri_set_iter
xfs: introduce attr remove initial states into xfs_attr_set_iter
xfs: xfs_attr_set_iter() does not need to return EAGAIN
xfs: clean up final attr removal in xfs_attr_set_iter
xfs: remote xattr removal in xfs_attr_set_iter() is conditional
xfs: XFS_DAS_LEAF_REPLACE state only needed if !LARP
xfs: split remote attr setting out from replace path
xfs: consolidate leaf/node states in xfs_attr_set_iter
xfs: kill XFS_DAC_LEAF_ADDNAME_INIT
xfs: separate out initial attr_set states
xfs: don't set quota warning values
xfs: remove warning counters from struct xfs_dquot_res
xfs: remove quota warning limit from struct xfs_quota_limits
xfs: rework deferred attribute operation setup
xfs: make xattri_leaf_bp more useful
...
Because heap allocation of 64kB buffers will fail:
....
XFS: fs_mark(8414) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
XFS: fs_mark(8417) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
XFS: fs_mark(8409) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
XFS: fs_mark(8428) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
XFS: fs_mark(8430) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
XFS: fs_mark(8437) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
XFS: fs_mark(8433) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
XFS: fs_mark(8406) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
XFS: fs_mark(8412) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
XFS: fs_mark(8432) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
XFS: fs_mark(8424) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
....
I'd use kvmalloc() instead, but....
- 48.19% xfs_attr_create_intent
- 46.89% xfs_attri_init
- kvmalloc_node
- 46.04% __kmalloc_node
- kmalloc_large_node
- 45.99% __alloc_pages
- 39.39% __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0
- 38.89% __alloc_pages_direct_compact
- 38.71% try_to_compact_pages
- compact_zone_order
- compact_zone
- 21.09% isolate_migratepages_block
10.31% PageHuge
5.82% set_pfnblock_flags_mask
0.86% get_pfnblock_flags_mask
- 4.48% __reset_isolation_suitable
4.44% __reset_isolation_pfn
- 3.56% __pageblock_pfn_to_page
1.33% pfn_to_online_page
2.83% get_pfnblock_flags_mask
- 0.87% migrate_pages
0.86% compaction_alloc
0.84% find_suitable_fallback
- 6.60% get_page_from_freelist
4.99% clear_page_erms
- 1.19% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
- do_raw_spin_lock
__pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
- 0.86% __vmalloc_node_range
0.65% __alloc_pages_bulk
.... this is just yet another reminder of how much kvmalloc() sucks.
So lift xlog_cil_kvmalloc(), rename it to xlog_kvmalloc() and use
that instead....
We also clean up the attribute name and value lengths as they no
longer need to be rounded out to sizes compatible with log vectors.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
When we log modifications based on intents, we add both intent
and intent done items to the modification being made. These get
written to the log to ensure that the operation is re-run if the
intent done is not found in the log.
However, for operations that complete wholly within a single
checkpoint, the change in the checkpoint is atomic and will never
need replay. In this case, we don't need to actually write the
intent and intent done items to the journal because log recovery
will never need to manually restart this modification.
Log recovery currently handles intent/intent done matching by
inserting the intent into the AIL, then removing it when a matching
intent done item is found. Hence for all the intent-based operations
that complete within a checkpoint, we spend all that time parsing
the intent/intent done items just to cancel them and do nothing with
them.
Hence it follows that the only time we actually need intents in the
log is when the modification crosses checkpoint boundaries in the
log and so may only be partially complete in the journal. Hence if
we commit and intent done item to the CIL and the intent item is in
the same checkpoint, we don't actually have to write them to the
journal because log recovery will always cancel the intents.
We've never really worried about the overhead of logging intents
unnecessarily like this because the intents we log are generally
very much smaller than the change being made. e.g. freeing an extent
involves modifying at lease two freespace btree blocks and the AGF,
so the EFI/EFD overhead is only a small increase in space and
processing time compared to the overall cost of freeing an extent.
However, delayed attributes change this cost equation dramatically,
especially for inline attributes. In the case of adding an inline
attribute, we only log the inode core and attribute fork at present.
With delayed attributes, we now log the attr intent which includes
the name and value, the inode core adn attr fork, and finally the
attr intent done item. We increase the number of items we log from 1
to 3, and the number of log vectors (regions) goes up from 3 to 7.
Hence we tripple the number of objects that the CIL has to process,
and more than double the number of log vectors that need to be
written to the journal.
At scale, this means delayed attributes cause a non-pipelined CIL to
become CPU bound processing all the extra items, resulting in a > 40%
performance degradation on 16-way file+xattr create worklaods.
Pipelining the CIL (as per 5.15) reduces the performance degradation
to 20%, but now the limitation is the rate at which the log items
can be written to the iclogs and iclogs be dispatched for IO and
completed.
Even log IO completion is slowed down by these intents, because it
now has to process 3x the number of items in the checkpoint.
Processing completed intents is especially inefficient here, because
we first insert the intent into the AIL, then remove it from the AIL
when the intent done is processed. IOWs, we are also doing expensive
operations in log IO completion we could completely avoid if we
didn't log completed intent/intent done pairs.
Enter log item whiteouts.
When an intent done is committed, we can check to see if the
associated intent is in the same checkpoint as we are currently
committing the intent done to. If so, we can mark the intent log
item with a whiteout and immediately free the intent done item
rather than committing it to the CIL. We can basically skip the
entire formatting and CIL insertion steps for the intent done item.
However, we cannot remove the intent item from the CIL at this point
because the unlocked per-cpu CIL item lists do not permit removal
without holding the CIL context lock exclusively. Transaction commit
only holds the context lock shared, hence the best we can do is mark
the intent item with a whiteout so that the CIL push can release it
rather than writing it to the log.
This means we never write the intent to the log if the intent done
has also been committed to the same checkpoint, but we'll always
write the intent if the intent done has not been committed or has
been committed to a different checkpoint. This will result in
correct log recovery behaviour in all cases, without the overhead of
logging unnecessary intents.
This intent whiteout concept is generic - we can apply it to all
intent/intent done pairs that have a direct 1:1 relationship. The
way deferred ops iterate and relog intents mean that all intents
currently have a 1:1 relationship with their done intent, and hence
we can apply this cancellation to all existing intent/intent done
implementations.
For delayed attributes with a 16-way 64kB xattr create workload,
whiteouts reduce the amount of journalled metadata from ~2.5GB/s
down to ~600MB/s and improve the creation rate from 9000/s to
14000/s.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
In preparation for adding support for intent item whiteouts.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Now that we account for log opheaders in the log item formatting
code, we don't actually use the aggregated count of log iovecs in
the CIL for anything. Remove it and the tracking code that
calculates it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
So remove it from the interface and callers.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
The caller of xlog_write() usually has a close accounting of the
aggregated vector length contained in the log vector chain passed to
xlog_write(). There is no need to iterate the chain to calculate he
length of the data in xlog_write_calculate_len() if the caller is
already iterating that chain to build it.
Passing in the vector length avoids doing an extra chain iteration,
which can be a significant amount of work given that large CIL
commits can have hundreds of thousands of vectors attached to the
chain.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Current xlog_write() adds op headers to the log manually for every
log item region that is in the vector passed to it. While
xlog_write() needs to stamp the transaction ID into the ophdr, we
already know it's length, flags, clientid, etc at CIL commit time.
This means the only time that xlog write really needs to format and
reserve space for a new ophdr is when a region is split across two
iclogs. Adding the opheader and accounting for it as part of the
normal formatted item region means we simplify the accounting
of space used by a transaction and we don't have to special case
reserving of space in for the ophdrs in xlog_write(). It also means
we can largely initialise the ophdr in transaction commit instead
of xlog_write, making the xlog_write formatting inner loop much
tighter.
xlog_prepare_iovec() is now too large to stay as an inline function,
so we move it out of line and into xfs_log.c.
Object sizes:
text data bss dec hex filename
1125934 305951 484 1432369 15db31 fs/xfs/built-in.a.before
1123360 305951 484 1429795 15d123 fs/xfs/built-in.a.after
So the code is a roughly 2.5kB smaller with xlog_prepare_iovec() now
out of line, even though it grew in size itself.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We currently set the log ticket client ID when we reserve a
transaction. This client ID is only ever written to the log by
a CIL checkpoint or unmount records, and so anything using a high
level transaction allocated through xfs_trans_alloc() does not need
a log ticket client ID to be set.
For the CIL checkpoint, the client ID written to the journal is
always XFS_TRANSACTION, and for the unmount record it is always
XFS_LOG, and nothing else writes to the log. All of these operations
tell xlog_write() exactly what they need to write to the log (the
optype) and build their own opheaders for start, commit and unmount
records. Hence we no longer need to set the client id in either the
log ticket or the xfs_trans.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Remove the final case where xlog_write() has to prepend an opheader
to a log transaction. Similar to the start record, the commit record
is just an empty opheader with a XLOG_COMMIT_TRANS type, so we can
just make this the payload for the region being passed to
xlog_write() and remove the special handling in xlog_write() for
the commit record.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
So move the one-off start record writing in xlog_write() out into
the static header that the CIL push builds to write into the log
initially. This simplifes the xlog_write() logic a lot.
pahole on x86-64 confirms that the xlog_cil_trans_hdr is correctly
32 bit aligned and packed for copying the log op and transaction
headers directly into the log as a single log region copy.
struct xlog_cil_trans_hdr {
struct xlog_op_header oph[2]; /* 0 24 */
struct xfs_trans_header thdr; /* 24 16 */
struct xfs_log_iovec lhdr[2]; /* 40 32 */
/* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 3 */
/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};
A wart is needed to handle the fact that length of the region the
opheader points to doesn't include the opheader length. hence if
we embed the opheader, we have to substract the opheader length from
the length written into the opheader by the generic copying code.
This will eventually go away when everything is converted to
embedded opheaders.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
It is static code deep in the middle of the CIL push logic. Factor
it out into a helper so that it is clear and easy to modify
separately.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Secure erase is a very different operation from discard in that it is
a data integrity operation vs hint. Fully split the limits and helper
infrastructure to make the separation more clear.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com> [drbd]
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com> [nifs2]
Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> [f2fs]
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> [bcache]
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> [btrfs]
Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220415045258.199825-27-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Jan Kara reported a performance regression in dbench that he
bisected down to commit bad77c375e ("xfs: CIL checkpoint
flushes caches unconditionally").
Whilst developing the journal flush/fua optimisations this cache was
part of, it appeared to made a significant difference to
performance. However, now that this patchset has settled and all the
correctness issues fixed, there does not appear to be any
significant performance benefit to asynchronous cache flushes.
In fact, the opposite is true on some storage types and workloads,
where additional cache flushes that can occur from fsync heavy
workloads have measurable and significant impact on overall
throughput.
Local dbench testing shows little difference on dbench runs with
sync vs async cache flushes on either fast or slow SSD storage, and
no difference in streaming concurrent async transaction workloads
like fs-mark.
Fast NVME storage.
From `dbench -t 30`, CIL scale:
clients async sync
BW Latency BW Latency
1 935.18 0.855 915.64 0.903
8 2404.51 6.873 2341.77 6.511
16 3003.42 6.460 2931.57 6.529
32 3697.23 7.939 3596.28 7.894
128 7237.43 15.495 7217.74 11.588
512 5079.24 90.587 5167.08 95.822
fsmark, 32 threads, create w/ 64 byte xattr w/32k logbsize
create chown unlink
async 1m41s 1m16s 2m03s
sync 1m40s 1m19s 1m54s
Slower SATA SSD storage:
From `dbench -t 30`, CIL scale:
clients async sync
BW Latency BW Latency
1 78.59 15.792 83.78 10.729
8 367.88 92.067 404.63 59.943
16 564.51 72.524 602.71 76.089
32 831.66 105.984 870.26 110.482
128 1659.76 102.969 1624.73 91.356
512 2135.91 223.054 2603.07 161.160
fsmark, 16 threads, create w/32k logbsize
create unlink
async 5m06s 4m15s
sync 5m00s 4m22s
And on Jan's test machine:
5.18-rc8-vanilla 5.18-rc8-patched
Amean 1 71.22 ( 0.00%) 64.94 * 8.81%*
Amean 2 93.03 ( 0.00%) 84.80 * 8.85%*
Amean 4 150.54 ( 0.00%) 137.51 * 8.66%*
Amean 8 252.53 ( 0.00%) 242.24 * 4.08%*
Amean 16 454.13 ( 0.00%) 439.08 * 3.31%*
Amean 32 835.24 ( 0.00%) 829.74 * 0.66%*
Amean 64 1740.59 ( 0.00%) 1686.73 * 3.09%*
Performance and cache flush behaviour is restored to pre-regression
levels.
As such, we can now consider the async cache flush mechanism an
unnecessary exercise in premature optimisation and hence we can
now remove it and the infrastructure it requires completely.
Fixes: bad77c375e ("xfs: CIL checkpoint flushes caches unconditionally")
Reported-and-tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
We've got a mess on our hands.
1. xfs_trans_commit() cannot cancel transactions because the mount is
shut down - that causes dirty, aborted, unlogged log items to sit
unpinned in memory and potentially get written to disk before the
log is shut down. Hence xfs_trans_commit() can only abort
transactions when xlog_is_shutdown() is true.
2. xfs_force_shutdown() is used in places to cause the current
modification to be aborted via xfs_trans_commit() because it may be
impractical or impossible to cancel the transaction directly, and
hence xfs_trans_commit() must cancel transactions when
xfs_is_shutdown() is true in this situation. But we can't do that
because of #1.
3. Log IO errors cause log shutdowns by calling xfs_force_shutdown()
to shut down the mount and then the log from log IO completion.
4. xfs_force_shutdown() can result in a log force being issued,
which has to wait for log IO completion before it will mark the log
as shut down. If #3 races with some other shutdown trigger that runs
a log force, we rely on xfs_force_shutdown() silently ignoring #3
and avoiding shutting down the log until the failed log force
completes.
5. To ensure #2 always works, we have to ensure that
xfs_force_shutdown() does not return until the the log is shut down.
But in the case of #4, this will result in a deadlock because the
log Io completion will block waiting for a log force to complete
which is blocked waiting for log IO to complete....
So the very first thing we have to do here to untangle this mess is
dissociate log shutdown triggers from mount shutdowns. We already
have xlog_forced_shutdown, which will atomically transistion to the
log a shutdown state. Due to internal asserts it cannot be called
multiple times, but was done simply because the only place that
could call it was xfs_do_force_shutdown() (i.e. the mount shutdown!)
and that could only call it once and once only. So the first thing
we do is remove the asserts.
We then convert all the internal log shutdown triggers to call
xlog_force_shutdown() directly instead of xfs_force_shutdown(). This
allows the log shutdown triggers to shut down the log without
needing to care about mount based shutdown constraints. This means
we shut down the log independently of the mount and the mount may
not notice this until it's next attempt to read or modify metadata.
At that point (e.g. xfs_trans_commit()) it will see that the log is
shutdown, error out and shutdown the mount.
To ensure that all the unmount behaviours and asserts track
correctly as a result of a log shutdown, propagate the shutdown up
to the mount if it is not already set. This keeps the mount and log
state in sync, and saves a huge amount of hassle where code fails
because of a log shutdown but only checks for mount shutdowns and
hence ends up doing the wrong thing. Cleaning up that mess is
an exercise for another day.
This enables us to address the other problems noted above in
followup patches.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Log items belong to the log, not the xfs_mount. Convert the mount
pointer in the log item to a xlog pointer in preparation for
upcoming log centric changes to the log items.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
When the AIL tries to flush the CIL, it relies on the CIL push
ending up on stable storage without having to wait for and
manipulate iclog state directly. However, if there is already a
pending CIL push when the AIL tries to flush the CIL, it won't set
the cil->xc_push_commit_stable flag and so the CIL push will not
actively flush the commit record iclog.
generic/530 when run on a single CPU test VM can trigger this fairly
reliably. This test exercises unlinked inode recovery, and can
result in inodes being pinned in memory by ongoing modifications to
the inode cluster buffer to record unlinked list modifications. As a
result, the first inode unlinked in a buffer can pin the tail of the
log whilst the inode cluster buffer is pinned by the current
checkpoint that has been pushed but isn't on stable storage because
because the cil->xc_push_commit_stable was not set. This results in
the log/AIL effectively deadlocking until something triggers the
commit record iclog to be pushed to stable storage (i.e. the
periodic log worker calling xfs_log_force()).
The fix is two-fold - first we should always set the
cil->xc_push_commit_stable when xlog_cil_flush() is called,
regardless of whether there is already a pending push or not.
Second, if the CIL is empty, we should trigger an iclog flush to
ensure that the iclogs of the last checkpoint have actually been
submitted to disk as that checkpoint may not have been run under
stable completion constraints.
Reported-and-tested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Fixes: 0020a190cf ("xfs: AIL needs asynchronous CIL forcing")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Oh, let me count the ways that the kvmalloc API sucks dog eggs.
The problem is when we are logging lots of large objects, we hit
kvmalloc really damn hard with costly order allocations, and
behaviour utterly sucks:
- 49.73% xlog_cil_commit
- 31.62% kvmalloc_node
- 29.96% __kmalloc_node
- 29.38% kmalloc_large_node
- 29.33% __alloc_pages
- 24.33% __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0
- 18.35% __alloc_pages_direct_compact
- 17.39% try_to_compact_pages
- compact_zone_order
- 15.26% compact_zone
5.29% __pageblock_pfn_to_page
3.71% PageHuge
- 1.44% isolate_migratepages_block
0.71% set_pfnblock_flags_mask
1.11% get_pfnblock_flags_mask
- 0.81% get_page_from_freelist
- 0.59% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
- do_raw_spin_lock
__pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
- 3.24% try_to_free_pages
- 3.14% shrink_node
- 2.94% shrink_slab.constprop.0
- 0.89% super_cache_count
- 0.66% xfs_fs_nr_cached_objects
- 0.65% xfs_reclaim_inodes_count
0.55% xfs_perag_get_tag
0.58% kfree_rcu_shrink_count
- 2.09% get_page_from_freelist
- 1.03% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
- do_raw_spin_lock
__pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
- 4.88% get_page_from_freelist
- 3.66% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
- do_raw_spin_lock
__pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
- 1.63% __vmalloc_node
- __vmalloc_node_range
- 1.10% __alloc_pages_bulk
- 0.93% __alloc_pages
- 0.92% get_page_from_freelist
- 0.89% rmqueue_bulk
- 0.69% _raw_spin_lock
- do_raw_spin_lock
__pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
13.73% memcpy_erms
- 2.22% kvfree
On this workload, that's almost a dozen CPUs all trying to compact
and reclaim memory inside kvmalloc_node at the same time. Yet it is
regularly falling back to vmalloc despite all that compaction, page
and shrinker reclaim that direct reclaim is doing. Copying all the
metadata is taking far less CPU time than allocating the storage!
Direct reclaim should be considered extremely harmful.
This is a high frequency, high throughput, CPU usage and latency
sensitive allocation. We've got memory there, and we're using
kvmalloc to allow memory allocation to avoid doing lots of work to
try to do contiguous allocations.
Except it still does *lots of costly work* that is unnecessary.
Worse: the only way to avoid the slowpath page allocation trying to
do compaction on costly allocations is to turn off direct reclaim
(i.e. remove __GFP_RECLAIM_DIRECT from the gfp flags).
Unfortunately, the stupid kvmalloc API then says "oh, this isn't a
GFP_KERNEL allocation context, so you only get kmalloc!". This
cuts off the vmalloc fallback, and this leads to almost instant OOM
problems which ends up in filesystems deadlocks, shutdowns and/or
kernel crashes.
I want some basic kvmalloc behaviour:
- kmalloc for a contiguous range with fail fast semantics - no
compaction direct reclaim if the allocation enters the slow path.
- run normal vmalloc (i.e. GFP_KERNEL) if kmalloc fails
The really, really stupid part about this is these kvmalloc() calls
are run under memalloc_nofs task context, so all the allocations are
always reduced to GFP_NOFS regardless of the fact that kvmalloc
requires GFP_KERNEL to be passed in. IOWs, we're already telling
kvmalloc to behave differently to the gfp flags we pass in, but it
still won't allow vmalloc to be run with anything other than
GFP_KERNEL.
So, this patch open codes the kvmalloc() in the commit path to have
the above described behaviour. The result is we more than halve the
CPU time spend doing kvmalloc() in this path and transaction commits
with 64kB objects in them more than doubles. i.e. we get ~5x
reduction in CPU usage per costly-sized kvmalloc() invocation and
the profile looks like this:
- 37.60% xlog_cil_commit
16.01% memcpy_erms
- 8.45% __kmalloc
- 8.04% kmalloc_order_trace
- 8.03% kmalloc_order
- 7.93% alloc_pages
- 7.90% __alloc_pages
- 4.05% __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0
- 2.18% get_page_from_freelist
- 1.77% wake_all_kswapds
....
- __wake_up_common_lock
- 0.94% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
- 3.72% get_page_from_freelist
- 2.43% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
- 5.72% vmalloc
- 5.72% __vmalloc_node_range
- 4.81% __get_vm_area_node.constprop.0
- 3.26% alloc_vmap_area
- 2.52% _raw_spin_lock
- 1.46% _raw_spin_lock
0.56% __alloc_pages_bulk
- 4.66% kvfree
- 3.25% vfree
- __vfree
- 3.23% __vunmap
- 1.95% remove_vm_area
- 1.06% free_vmap_area_noflush
- 0.82% _raw_spin_lock
- 0.68% _raw_spin_lock
- 0.92% _raw_spin_lock
- 1.40% kfree
- 1.36% __free_pages
- 1.35% __free_pages_ok
- 1.02% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
It's worth noting that over 50% of the CPU time spent allocating
these shadow buffers is now spent on spinlocks. So the shadow buffer
allocation overhead is greatly reduced by getting rid of direct
reclaim from kmalloc, and could probably be made even less costly if
vmalloc() didn't use global spinlocks to protect it's structures.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
While I was running with KASAN and lockdep enabled, I stumbled upon an
KASAN report about a UAF to a freed CIL checkpoint. Looking at the
comment for xfs_log_item_in_current_chkpt, it seems pretty obvious to me
that the original patch to xfs_defer_finish_noroll should have done
something to lock the CIL to prevent it from switching the CIL contexts
while the predicate runs.
For upper level code that needs to know if a given log item is new
enough not to need relogging, add a new wrapper that takes the CIL
context lock long enough to sample the current CIL context. This is
kind of racy in that the CIL can switch the contexts immediately after
sampling, but that's ok because the consequence is that the defer ops
code is a little slow to relog items.
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in xfs_log_item_in_current_chkpt+0x139/0x160 [xfs]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88804ea5f608 by task fsstress/527999
CPU: 1 PID: 527999 Comm: fsstress Tainted: G D 5.16.0-rc4-xfsx #rc4
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x59
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x140
kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf
xfs_log_item_in_current_chkpt+0x139/0x160
xfs_defer_finish_noroll+0x3bb/0x1e30
__xfs_trans_commit+0x6c8/0xcf0
xfs_reflink_remap_extent+0x66f/0x10e0
xfs_reflink_remap_blocks+0x2dd/0xa90
xfs_file_remap_range+0x27b/0xc30
vfs_dedupe_file_range_one+0x368/0x420
vfs_dedupe_file_range+0x37c/0x5d0
do_vfs_ioctl+0x308/0x1260
__x64_sys_ioctl+0xa1/0x170
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f2c71a2950b
Code: 0f 1e fa 48 8b 05 85 39 0d 00 64 c7 00 26 00 00 00 48 c7 c0 ff ff
ff ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01
f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 55 39 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffe8c0e03c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005600862a8740 RCX: 00007f2c71a2950b
RDX: 00005600862a7be0 RSI: 00000000c0189436 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 000000000000000b R08: 0000000000000027 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000005a
R13: 00005600862804a8 R14: 0000000000016000 R15: 00005600862a8a20
</TASK>
Allocated by task 464064:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x50
__kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0
kmem_alloc+0xcd/0x2c0 [xfs]
xlog_cil_ctx_alloc+0x17/0x1e0 [xfs]
xlog_cil_push_work+0x141/0x13d0 [xfs]
process_one_work+0x7f6/0x1380
worker_thread+0x59d/0x1040
kthread+0x3b0/0x490
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Freed by task 51:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x50
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30
__kasan_slab_free+0xed/0x130
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x7f/0x160
kfree+0xde/0x340
xlog_cil_committed+0xbfd/0xfe0 [xfs]
xlog_cil_process_committed+0x103/0x1c0 [xfs]
xlog_state_do_callback+0x45d/0xbd0 [xfs]
xlog_ioend_work+0x116/0x1c0 [xfs]
process_one_work+0x7f6/0x1380
worker_thread+0x59d/0x1040
kthread+0x3b0/0x490
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x50
__kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb7/0xc0
insert_work+0x48/0x2e0
__queue_work+0x4e7/0xda0
queue_work_on+0x69/0x80
xlog_cil_push_now.isra.0+0x16b/0x210 [xfs]
xlog_cil_force_seq+0x1b7/0x850 [xfs]
xfs_log_force_seq+0x1c7/0x670 [xfs]
xfs_file_fsync+0x7c1/0xa60 [xfs]
__x64_sys_fsync+0x52/0x80
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88804ea5f600
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
256-byte region [ffff88804ea5f600, ffff88804ea5f700)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00013a9780 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88804ea5ea00 pfn:0x4ea5e
head:ffffea00013a9780 order:1 compound_mapcount:0
flags: 0x4fff80000010200(slab|head|node=1|zone=1|lastcpupid=0xfff)
raw: 04fff80000010200 ffffea0001245908 ffffea00011bd388 ffff888004c42b40
raw: ffff88804ea5ea00 0000000000100009 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88804ea5f500: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff88804ea5f580: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88804ea5f600: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88804ea5f680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88804ea5f700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
Fixes: 4e919af782 ("xfs: periodically relog deferred intent items")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Replace m_flags feature checks with xfs_has_<feature>() calls and
rework the setup code to set flags in m_features.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
We only use the CIL workqueue in the CIL, so it makes no sense to
hang it off the xfs_mount and have to walk multiple pointers back up
to the mount when we have the CIL structures right there.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Because we use a single work structure attached to the CIL rather
than the CIL context, we can only queue a single work item at a
time. This results in the CIL being single threaded and limits
performance when it becomes CPU bound.
The design of the CIL is that it is pipelined and multiple commits
can be running concurrently, but the way the work is currently
implemented means that it is not pipelining as it was intended. The
critical work to switch the CIL context can take a few milliseconds
to run, but the rest of the CIL context flush can take hundreds of
milliseconds to complete. The context switching is the serialisation
point of the CIL, once the context has been switched the rest of the
context push can run asynchrnously with all other context pushes.
Hence we can move the work to the CIL context so that we can run
multiple CIL pushes at the same time and spread the majority of
the work out over multiple CPUs. We can keep the per-cpu CIL commit
state on the CIL rather than the context, because the context is
pinned to the CIL until the switch is done and we aggregate and
drain the per-cpu state held on the CIL during the context switch.
However, because we no longer serialise the CIL work, we can have
effectively unlimited CIL pushes in progress. We don't want to do
this - not only does it create contention on the iclogs and the
state machine locks, we can run the log right out of space with
outstanding pushes. Instead, limit the work concurrency to 4
concurrent works being processed at a time. This is enough
concurrency to remove the CIL from being a CPU bound bottleneck but
not enough to create new contention points or unbound concurrency
issues.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
The AIL pushing is stalling on log forces when it comes across
pinned items. This is happening on removal workloads where the AIL
is dominated by stale items that are removed from AIL when the
checkpoint that marks the items stale is committed to the journal.
This results is relatively few items in the AIL, but those that are
are often pinned as directories items are being removed from are
still being logged.
As a result, many push cycles through the CIL will first issue a
blocking log force to unpin the items. This can take some time to
complete, with tracing regularly showing push delays of half a
second and sometimes up into the range of several seconds. Sequences
like this aren't uncommon:
....
399.829437: xfsaild: last lsn 0x11002dd000 count 101 stuck 101 flushing 0 tout 20
<wanted 20ms, got 270ms delay>
400.099622: xfsaild: target 0x11002f3600, prev 0x11002f3600, last lsn 0x0
400.099623: xfsaild: first lsn 0x11002f3600
400.099679: xfsaild: last lsn 0x1100305000 count 16 stuck 11 flushing 0 tout 50
<wanted 50ms, got 500ms delay>
400.589348: xfsaild: target 0x110032e600, prev 0x11002f3600, last lsn 0x0
400.589349: xfsaild: first lsn 0x1100305000
400.589595: xfsaild: last lsn 0x110032e600 count 156 stuck 101 flushing 30 tout 50
<wanted 50ms, got 460ms delay>
400.950341: xfsaild: target 0x1100353000, prev 0x110032e600, last lsn 0x0
400.950343: xfsaild: first lsn 0x1100317c00
400.950436: xfsaild: last lsn 0x110033d200 count 105 stuck 101 flushing 0 tout 20
<wanted 20ms, got 200ms delay>
401.142333: xfsaild: target 0x1100361600, prev 0x1100353000, last lsn 0x0
401.142334: xfsaild: first lsn 0x110032e600
401.142535: xfsaild: last lsn 0x1100353000 count 122 stuck 101 flushing 8 tout 10
<wanted 10ms, got 10ms delay>
401.154323: xfsaild: target 0x1100361600, prev 0x1100361600, last lsn 0x1100353000
401.154328: xfsaild: first lsn 0x1100353000
401.154389: xfsaild: last lsn 0x1100353000 count 101 stuck 101 flushing 0 tout 20
<wanted 20ms, got 300ms delay>
401.451525: xfsaild: target 0x1100361600, prev 0x1100361600, last lsn 0x0
401.451526: xfsaild: first lsn 0x1100353000
401.451804: xfsaild: last lsn 0x1100377200 count 170 stuck 22 flushing 122 tout 50
<wanted 50ms, got 500ms delay>
401.933581: xfsaild: target 0x1100361600, prev 0x1100361600, last lsn 0x0
....
In each of these cases, every AIL pass saw 101 log items stuck on
the AIL (pinned) with very few other items being found. Each pass, a
log force was issued, and delay between last/first is the sleep time
+ the sync log force time.
Some of these 101 items pinned the tail of the log. The tail of the
log does slowly creep forward (first lsn), but the problem is that
the log is actually out of reservation space because it's been
running so many transactions that stale items that never reach the
AIL but consume log space. Hence we have a largely empty AIL, with
long term pins on items that pin the tail of the log that don't get
pushed frequently enough to keep log space available.
The problem is the hundreds of milliseconds that we block in the log
force pushing the CIL out to disk. The AIL should not be stalled
like this - it needs to run and flush items that are at the tail of
the log with minimal latency. What we really need to do is trigger a
log flush, but then not wait for it at all - we've already done our
waiting for stuff to complete when we backed off prior to the log
force being issued.
Even if we remove the XFS_LOG_SYNC from the xfs_log_force() call, we
still do a blocking flush of the CIL and that is what is causing the
issue. Hence we need a new interface for the CIL to trigger an
immediate background push of the CIL to get it moving faster but not
to wait on that to occur. While the CIL is pushing, the AIL can also
be pushing.
We already have an internal interface to do this -
xlog_cil_push_now() - but we need a wrapper for it to be used
externally. xlog_cil_force_seq() can easily be extended to do what
we need as it already implements the synchronous CIL push via
xlog_cil_push_now(). Add the necessary flags and "push current
sequence" semantics to xlog_cil_force_seq() and convert the AIL
pushing to use it.
One of the complexities here is that the CIL push does not guarantee
that the commit record for the CIL checkpoint is written to disk.
The current log force ensures this by submitting the current ACTIVE
iclog that the commit record was written to. We need the CIL to
actually write this commit record to disk for an async push to
ensure that the checkpoint actually makes it to disk and unpins the
pinned items in the checkpoint on completion. Hence we need to pass
down to the CIL push that we are doing an async flush so that it can
switch out the commit_iclog if necessary to get written to disk when
the commit iclog is finally released.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>