Also, use client minorversion to generate supported attrs
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
_nfsd4_verify currently skips 3 words from the encoded buffer begining.
With support for 3-word attr bitmaps in nfsd41, nfsd4_encode_fattr
may encode 1, 2, or 3 words, and not always 2 as it used to be, hence
we need to find out where to skip using the encoded bitmap length.
Note: This patch may be applied over pre-nfsd41 nfsd.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Support enabling and disabling nfsv4.1 via /proc/fs/nfsd/versions
by writing the strings "+4.1" or "-4.1" correspondingly.
Use user mode nfs-utils (rpc.nfsd option) to enable.
This will allow us to get rid of CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1
[nfsd41: disable support for minorversion by default]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Separate the access bits from the want bits and enable __set_bit to
work correctly with st_access_bmap.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
For nfs41, the open share flags are used also for
delegation "wants" and "signals". Check that they are valid.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Extract the clientid from sessionid to set the op_clientid on open.
Verify that the clid for other stateful ops is zero for minorversion != 0
Do all other checks for stateful ops without sessions.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[fixed whitespace indent]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41 remove sl_session from nfsd4_open]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Calculate the space the compound response has taken after encoding the current
operation.
pad: add on 8 bytes for the next operation's op_code and status so that
there is room to cache a failure on the next operation.
Compare this length to the session se_fmaxresp_cached and return
nfserr_rep_too_big_to_cache if the length is too large.
Our se_fmaxresp_cached will always be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE, and so
will be at least a page and will therefore hold the xdr_buf head.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[nfsd41: non-page DRC for solo sequence responses]
[fixed nfsd4_check_drc_limit cosmetics]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use cstate session in nfsd4_check_drc_limit]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
When sessions are used, stateful operation sequenceid and stateid handling
are not used. When sessions are used, on the first open set the seqid to 1,
mark state confirmed and skip seqid processing.
When sessionas are used the stateid generation number is ignored when it is zero
whereas without sessions bad_stateid or stale stateid is returned.
Add flags to propagate session use to all stateful ops and down to
check_stateid_generation.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[nfsd4_has_session should return a boolean, not u32]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: pass nfsd4_compoundres * to nfsd4_process_open1]
[nfsd41: calculate HAS_SESSION in nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op]
[nfsd41: calculate HAS_SESSION in nfs4_preprocess_seqid_op]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Currently we only use cstate->current_fh,
will also be used by nfsd41 code.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Implement the destory_session operation confoming to
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-26
[use sessionid_lock spin lock]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
A session inactivity time compound (lease renewal) or a compound where the
sequence operation has sa_cachethis set to FALSE do not require any pages
to be held in the v4.1 DRC. This is because struct nfsd4_slot is already
caching the session information.
Add logic to the nfs41 server to not cache response pages for solo sequence
responses.
Return nfserr_replay_uncached_rep on the operation following the sequence
operation when sa_cachethis is FALSE.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use cstate session in nfsd4_replay_cache_entry]
[nfsd41: rename nfsd4_no_page_in_cache]
[nfsd41 rename nfsd4_enc_no_page_replay]
[nfsd41 nfsd4_is_solo_sequence]
[nfsd41 change nfsd4_not_cached return]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[changed return type to bool]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41 drop parens in nfsd4_is_solo_sequence call]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[changed "== 0" to "!"]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Replace the nfs4_client cl_seqid field with a single struct nfs41_slot used
for the create session replay cache.
The CREATE_SESSION slot sets the sl_session pointer to NULL. Otherwise, the
slot and it's replay cache are used just like the session slots.
Fix unconfirmed create_session replay response by initializing the
create_session slot sequence id to 0.
A future patch will set the CREATE_SESSION cache when a SEQUENCE operation
preceeds the CREATE_SESSION operation. This compound is currently only cached
in the session slot table.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use bool inuse for slot state]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: revert portion of nfsd4_set_cache_entry]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netpp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Implement the create_session operation confoming to
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-26
Look up the client id (generated by the server on exchange_id,
given by the client on create_session).
If neither a confirmed or unconfirmed client is found
then the client id is stale
If a confirmed cilent is found (i.e. we already received
create_session for it) then compare the sequence id
to determine if it's a replay or possibly a mis-ordered rpc.
If the seqid is in order, update the confirmed client seqid
and procedd with updating the session parameters.
If an unconfirmed client_id is found then verify the creds
and seqid. If both match move the client id to confirmed state
and proceed with processing the create_session.
Currently, we do not support persistent sessions, and RDMA.
alloc_init_session generates a new sessionid and creates
a session structure.
NFSD_PAGES_PER_SLOT is used for the max response cached calculation, and for
the counting of DRC pages using the hard limits set in struct srv_serv.
A note on NFSD_PAGES_PER_SLOT:
Other patches in this series allow for NFSD_PAGES_PER_SLOT + 1 pages to be
cached in a DRC slot when the response size is less than NFSD_PAGES_PER_SLOT *
PAGE_SIZE but xdr_buf pages are used. e.g. a READDIR operation will encode a
small amount of data in the xdr_buf head, and then the READDIR in the xdr_buf
pages. So, the hard limit calculation use of pages by a session is
underestimated by the number of cached operations using the xdr_buf pages.
Yet another patch caches no pages for the solo sequence operation, or any
compound where cache_this is False. So the hard limit calculation use of
pages by a session is overestimated by the number of these operations in the
cache.
TODO: improve resource pre-allocation and negotiate session
parameters accordingly. Respect and possibly adjust
backchannel attributes.
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com>
[nfsd41: remove headerpadsz from channel attributes]
Our client and server only support a headerpadsz of 0.
[nfsd41: use DRC limits in fore channel init]
[nfsd41: do not change CREATE_SESSION back channel attrs]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[use sessionid_lock spin lock]
[nfsd41: use bool inuse for slot state]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41 remove sl_session from alloc_init_session]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[simplify nfsd4_encode_create_session error handling]
[nfsd41: fix comment style in init_forechannel_attrs]
[nfsd41: allocate struct nfsd4_session and slot table in one piece]
[nfsd41: no need to INIT_LIST_HEAD in alloc_init_session just prior to list_add]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Replay a request in nfsd4_sequence.
Add a minorversion to struct nfsd4_compound_state.
Pass the current slot to nfs4svc_encode_compound res via struct
nfsd4_compoundres to set an NFSv4.1 DRC entry.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use bool inuse for slot state]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use cstate session in nfs4svc_encode_compoundres]
[nfsd41 replace nfsd4_set_cache_entry]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Use no more than 1/128th of the number of free pages at nfsd startup for the
v4.1 DRC.
This is an arbitrary default which should probably end up under the control
of an administrator.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[moved added fields in struct svc_serv under CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[fix set_max_drc calculation of sv_drc_max_pages]
[moved NFSD_DRC_SIZE_SHIFT's declaration up in header file]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cache all the result pages, including the rpc header in rq_respages[0],
for a request in the slot table cache entry.
Cache the statp pointer from nfsd_dispatch which points into rq_respages[0]
just past the rpc header. When setting a cache entry, calculate and save the
length of the nfs data minus the rpc header for rq_respages[0].
When replaying a cache entry, replace the cached rpc header with the
replayed request rpc result header, unless there is not enough room in the
cached results first page. In that case, use the cached rpc header.
The sessions fore channel maxresponse size cached is set to NFSD_PAGES_PER_SLOT
* PAGE_SIZE. For compounds we are cacheing with operations such as READDIR
that use the xdr_buf->pages to hold data, we choose to cache the extra page of
data rather than copying data from xdr_buf->pages into the xdr_buf->head page.
[nfsd41: limit cache to maxresponsesize_cached]
[nfsd41: mv nfsd4_set_statp under CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1]
[nfsd41: rename nfsd4_move_pages]
[nfsd41: rename page_no variable]
[nfsd41: rename nfsd4_set_cache_entry]
[nfsd41: fix nfsd41_copy_replay_data comment]
[nfsd41: add to nfsd4_set_cache_entry]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
[nfsd41: do not verify nfserr_sequence_pos for minorversion 0]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Implement the sequence operation conforming to
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-26
Check for stale clientid (as derived from the sessionid).
Enforce slotid range and exactly-once semantics using
the slotid and seqid.
If everything went well renew the client lease and
mark the slot INPROGRESS.
Add a struct nfsd4_slot pointer to struct nfsd4_compound_state.
To be used for sessions DRC replay.
[nfsd41: rename sequence catchthis to cachethis]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
[pulled some code to set cstate->slot from "nfsd DRC logic"]
[use sessionid_lock spin lock]
[nfsd41: use bool inuse for slot state]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd: add a struct nfsd4_slot pointer to struct nfsd4_compound_state]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: add nfsd4_session pointer to nfsd4_compound_state]
[nfsd41: set cstate session]
[nfsd41: use cstate session in nfsd4_sequence]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[simplify nfsd4_encode_sequence error handling]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
We need to distinguish between client names provided by NFSv4.0 clients
SETCLIENTID and those provided by NFSv4.1 via EXCHANGE_ID when looking
up the clientid by string.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[nfsd41: use boolean values for use_exchange_id argument]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: simplify match_clientid_establishment logic]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Implement the exchange_id operation confoming to
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-28
Based on the client provided name, hash a client id.
If a confirmed one is found, compare the op's creds and
verifier. If the creds match and the verifier is different
then expire the old client (client re-incarnated), otherwise,
if both match, assume it's a replay and ignore it.
If an unconfirmed client is found, then copy the new creds
and verifer if need update, otherwise assume replay.
The client is moved to a confirmed state on create_session.
In the nfs41 branch set the exchange_id flags to
EXCHGID4_FLAG_USE_NON_PNFS | EXCHGID4_FLAG_SUPP_MOVED_REFER
(pNFS is not supported, Referrals are supported,
Migration is not.).
Address various scenarios from section 18.35 of the spec:
1. Check for EXCHGID4_FLAG_UPD_CONFIRMED_REC_A and set
EXCHGID4_FLAG_CONFIRMED_R as appropriate.
2. Return error codes per 18.35.4 scenarios.
3. Update client records or generate new client ids depending on
scenario.
Note: 18.35.4 case 3 probably still needs revisiting. The handling
seems not quite right.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamosn <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use utsname for major_id (and copy to server_scope)]
[nfsd41: fix handling of various exchange id scenarios]
Signed-off-by: Mike Sager <sager@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: reverse use of EXCHGID4_INVAL_FLAG_MASK_A]
[simplify nfsd4_encode_exchange_id error handling]
[nfsd41: embed an xdr_netobj in nfsd4_exchange_id]
[nfsd41: return nfserr_serverfault for spa_how == SP4_MACH_CRED]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Define nfsd41_dec_ops vector and add it to nfsd4_minorversion for
minorversion 1.
Note: nfsd4_enc_ops vector is shared for v4.0 and v4.1
since we don't need to filter out obsolete ops as this is
done in the decoding phase.
exchange_id, create_session, destroy_session, and sequence ops are
implemented as stubs returning nfserr_opnotsupp at this stage.
[was nfsd41: xdr stubs]
[get rid of CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Simple sessionid hashing using its monotonically increasing sequence number.
Locking considerations:
sessionid_hashtbl access is controlled by the sessionid_lock spin lock.
It must be taken for insert, delete, and lookup.
nfsd4_sequence looks up the session id and if the session is found,
it calls nfsd4_get_session (still under the sessionid_lock).
nfsd4_destroy_session calls nfsd4_put_session after unhashing
it, so when the session's kref reaches zero it's going to get freed.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[we don't use a prime for sessionid hash table size]
[use sessionid_lock spin lock]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
This patch provides basic data structures representing the nfs41
sessions and slots, plus helpers for keeping a reference count
on the session and freeing it.
Note that our server only support a headerpadsz of 0 and
it ignores backchannel attributes at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: remove headerpadsz from channel attributes]
[nfsd41: embed nfsd4_channel in nfsd4_session]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use bool inuse for slot state]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41 remove sl_session from nfsd4_slot]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
On an NFSv4.1 server cache miss that causes an upcall, NFS4ERR_DELAY will be
returned. It is up to the NFSv4.1 client to resend only the operations that
have not been processed.
Initialize rq_usedeferral to 1 in svc_process(). It sill be turned off in
nfsd4_proc_compound() only when NFSv4.1 Sessions are used.
Note: this isn't an adequate solution on its own. It's acceptable as a way
to get some minimal 4.1 up and working, but we're going to have to find a
way to avoid returning DELAY in all common cases before 4.1 can really be
considered ready.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: reverse rq_nodeferral negative logic]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[sunrpc: initialize rq_usedeferral]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
trivial: Update my email address
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
Btrfs: BUG to BUG_ON changes
Btrfs: remove dead code
Btrfs: remove dead code
Btrfs: fix typos in comments
Btrfs: remove unused ftrace include
Btrfs: fix __ucmpdi2 compile bug on 32 bit builds
Btrfs: free inode struct when btrfs_new_inode fails
Btrfs: fix race in worker_loop
Btrfs: add flushoncommit mount option
Btrfs: notreelog mount option
Btrfs: introduce btrfs_show_options
Btrfs: rework allocation clustering
Btrfs: Optimize locking in btrfs_next_leaf()
Btrfs: break up btrfs_search_slot into smaller pieces
Btrfs: kill the pinned_mutex
Btrfs: kill the block group alloc mutex
Btrfs: clean up find_free_extent
Btrfs: free space cache cleanups
Btrfs: unplug in the async bio submission threads
Btrfs: keep processing bios for a given bdev if our proc is batching
During recovery, a node recovers orphans in it's slot and the dead node(s). But
if the dead nodes were holding orphans in offline slots, they will be left
unrecovered.
If the dead node is the last one to die and is holding orphans in other slots
and is the first one to mount, then it only recovers it's own slot, which
leaves orphans in offline slots.
This patch queues complete_recovery to clean orphans for all offline slots
during mount and node recovery.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Eeda <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
A page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate, some buffers
can be uptodate on pagesize != blocksize environment.
This aops checks that all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate. If so, we do not have to issue actual
read IO to HDD even if a page is not uptodate because the portion we
want to read are uptodate.
"block_is_partially_uptodate" function is already used by ext2/3/4.
With the following patch random read/write mixed workloads or random read after
random write workloads can be optimized and we can get performance improvement.
Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
For nfs exporting, ocfs2_get_dentry() returns the dentry for fh.
ocfs2_get_dentry() may read from disk when the inode is not in memory,
without any cross cluster lock. this leads to the file system loading a
stale inode.
This patch fixes above problem.
Solution is that in case of inode is not in memory, we get the cluster
lock(PR) of alloc inode where the inode in question is allocated from (this
causes node on which deletion is done sync the alloc inode) before reading
out the inode itsself. then we check the bitmap in the group (the inode in
question allcated from) to see if the bit is clear. if it's clear then it's
stale. if the bit is set, we then check generation as the existing code
does.
We have to read out the inode in question from disk first to know its alloc
slot and allot bit. And if its not stale we read it out using ocfs2_iget().
The second read should then be from cache.
And also we have to add a per superblock nfs_sync_lock to cover the lock for
alloc inode and that for inode in question. this is because ocfs2_get_dentry()
and ocfs2_delete_inode() lock on them in reverse order. nfs_sync_lock is locked
in EX mode in ocfs2_get_dentry() and in PR mode in ocfs2_delete_inode(). so
that mutliple ocfs2_delete_inode() can run concurrently in normal case.
[mfasheh@suse.com: build warning fixes and comment cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
The debugfs file, mle_state, now prints the number of largest number of mles
in one hash link.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch attempts to fix a fine race between purging and migration.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch removes struct dlm_lock_name and adds the entries directly
to struct dlm_master_list_entry. Under the new scheme, both mles that
are backed by a lockres or not, will have the name populated in mle->mname.
This allows us to get rid of code that was figuring out the location of
the mle name.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch shows the number of lockres' and mles in the debugfs file, dlm_state.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch inlines dlm_set_lockres_owner() and dlm_change_lockres_owner().
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch replaces the lockres counts that tracked the number number of
locally and remotely mastered lockres' with a current and total count. The
total count is the number of lockres' that have been created since the dlm
domain was created.
The number of locally and remotely mastered counts can be computed using
the locking_state output.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
The lifetime of a mle is limited to the duration of the lockres mastery
process. While typically this lifetime is fairly short, we have noticed
the number of mles explode under certain circumstances. This patch tracks
the number of each different types of mles and should help us determine
how best to speed up the mastery process.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
The previous patch explicitly did not indent dlm_cleanup_master_list()
so as to make the patch readable. This patch properly indents the
function.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
With this patch, the mles are stored in a hash and not a simple list.
This should improve the mle lookup time when the number of outstanding
masteries is large.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch adds code to create and destroy the dlm->master_hash.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch refactors dlm_clean_master_list() so as to make it
easier to convert the mle list to a hash.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
For master mle, the name it stored in the attached lockres in struct qstr.
For block and migration mle, the name is stored inline in struct dlm_lock_name.
This patch attempts to make struct dlm_lock_name look like a struct qstr. While
we could use struct qstr, we don't because we want to avoid having to malloc
and free the lockname string as the mle's lifetime is fairly short.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch encapsulates adding and removing of the mle from the
dlm->master_list. This patch is part of the series of patches that
converts the mle list to a mle hash.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
In ocfs2, the block group search looks for the "emptiest" group
to allocate from. So if the allocator has many equally(or almost
equally) empty groups, new block group will tend to get spread
out amongst them.
So we add osb_inode_alloc_group in ocfs2_super to record the last
used inode allocation group.
For more details, please see
http://oss.oracle.com/osswiki/OCFS2/DesignDocs/InodeAllocationStrategy.
I have done some basic test and the results are a ten times improvement on
some cold-cache stat workloads.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Inode groups used to be allocated from local alloc file,
but since we want all inodes to be contiguous enough, we
will try to allocate them directly from global_bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
In ocfs2, the inode block search looks for the "emptiest" inode
group to allocate from. So if an inode alloc file has many equally
(or almost equally) empty groups, new inodes will tend to get
spread out amongst them, which in turn can put them all over the
disk. This is undesirable because directory operations on conceptually
"nearby" inodes force a large number of seeks.
So we add ip_last_used_group in core directory inodes which records
the last used allocation group. Another field named ip_last_used_slot
is also added in case inode stealing happens. When claiming new inode,
we passed in directory's inode so that the allocation can use this
information.
For more details, please see
http://oss.oracle.com/osswiki/OCFS2/DesignDocs/InodeAllocationStrategy.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
ocfs2_dx_dir_rebalance() is passed the block offset of a dx leaf which needs
rebalancing. Since we rebalance an entire cluster at a time however, this
function needs to calculate the beginning of that cluster, in blocks. The
calculation was wrong, which would result in a read of non-leaf blocks. Fix
the calculation by adding ocfs2_block_to_cluster_start() which is a more
straight-forward way of determining this.
Reported-by: Tristan Ye <tristan.ye@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
ocfs2_empty_dir() is far more expensive than checking link count. Since both
need to be checked at the same time, we can improve performance by checking
link count first.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Since the disk format is finalized, we can set this feature bit in the
supported mask.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
This little bit of extra accounting speeds up ocfs2_empty_dir()
dramatically by allowing us to short-circuit the full directory scan.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Since we've now got a directory format capable of handling a large number of
entries, we can increase the maximum link count supported. This only gets
increased if the directory indexing feature is turned on.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
The only operation which doesn't get faster with directory indexing is
insert, which still has to walk the entire unindexed directory portion to
find a free block. This patch provides an improvement in directory insert
performance by maintaining a singly linked list of directory leaf blocks
which have space for additional dirents.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Allow us to store a small number of directory index records in the
ocfs2_dx_root_block. This saves us a disk read on small to medium sized
directories (less than about 250 entries). The inline root is automatically
turned into a root block with extents if the directory size increases beyond
it's capacity.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
This patch makes use of Ocfs2's flexible btree code to add an additional
tree to directory inodes. The new tree stores an array of small,
fixed-length records in each leaf block. Each record stores a hash value,
and pointer to a block in the traditional (unindexed) directory tree where a
dirent with the given name hash resides. Lookup exclusively uses this tree
to find dirents, thus providing us with constant time name lookups.
Some of the hashing code was copied from ext3. Unfortunately, it has lots of
unfixed checkpatch errors. I left that as-is so that tracking changes would
be easier.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Many directory manipulation calls pass around a tuple of dirent, and it's
containing buffer_head. Dir indexing has a bit more state, but instead of
adding yet more arguments to functions, we introduce 'struct
ocfs2_dir_lookup_result'. In this patch, it simply holds the same tuple, but
future patches will add more state.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
This patch removes the debugfs file local_alloc_stats as that information
is now included in the fs_state debugfs file.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch creates a per mount debugfs file, fs_state, which exposes
information like, cluster stack in use, states of the downconvert, recovery
and commit threads, number of journal txns, some allocation stats, list of
all slots, etc.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Move the definition of struct recovery_map from journal.c to journal.h. This
is preparation for the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch creates a debugfs file, o2hb/livesnodes, which exposes the
aggregate list of heartbeating node across all heartbeat regions.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
* 'ext3-latency-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext3: Add replace-on-rename hueristics for data=writeback mode
ext3: Add replace-on-truncate hueristics for data=writeback mode
ext3: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()
block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacks
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (41 commits)
NFS: Add mount options to enable local caching on NFS
NFS: Display local caching state
NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cache
NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inode
NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local caching
NFS: Add read context retention for FS-Cache to call back with
NFS: FS-Cache page management
NFS: Add some new I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS
NFS: Invalidate FsCache page flags when cache removed
NFS: Use local disk inode cache
NFS: Define and create inode-level cache objects
NFS: Define and create superblock-level objects
NFS: Define and create server-level objects
NFS: Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level index
NFS: Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS
NFS: Add FS-Cache option bit and debug bit
NFS: Add comment banners to some NFS functions
FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache
CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
CacheFiles: Export things for CacheFiles
...
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (61 commits)
Revert "xfs: increase the maximum number of supported ACL entries"
xfs: cleanup uuid handling
xfs: remove m_attroffset
xfs: fix various typos
xfs: pagecache usage optimization
xfs: remove m_litino
xfs: kill ino64 mount option
xfs: kill mutex_t typedef
xfs: increase the maximum number of supported ACL entries
xfs: factor out code to find the longest free extent in the AG
xfs: kill VN_BAD
xfs: kill vn_atime_* helpers.
xfs: cleanup xlog_bread
xfs: cleanup xlog_recover_do_trans
xfs: remove another leftover of the old inode log item format
xfs: cleanup log unmount handling
Fix xfs debug build breakage by pushing xfs_error.h after
xfs: include header files for prototypes
xfs: make symbols static
xfs: move declaration to header file
...
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6:
udf: Don't write integrity descriptor too often
udf: Try anchor in block 256 first
udf: Some type fixes and cleanups
udf: use hardware sector size
udf: fix novrs mount option
udf: Fix oops when invalid character in filename occurs
udf: return f_fsid for statfs(2)
udf: Add checks to not underflow sector_t
udf: fix default mode and dmode options handling
udf: fix sparse warnings:
udf: unsigned last[i] cannot be less than 0
udf: implement mode and dmode mounting options
udf: reduce stack usage of udf_get_filename
udf: reduce stack usage of udf_load_pvoldesc
Fix the udf code not to pass structs on stack where possible.
Remove struct typedefs from fs/udf/ecma_167.h et al.
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (53 commits)
md/raid5 revise rules for when to update metadata during reshape
md/raid5: minor code cleanups in make_request.
md: remove CONFIG_MD_RAID_RESHAPE config option.
md/raid5: be more careful about write ordering when reshaping.
md: don't display meaningless values in sysfs files resync_start and sync_speed
md/raid5: allow layout and chunksize to be changed on active array.
md/raid5: reshape using largest of old and new chunk size
md/raid5: prepare for allowing reshape to change layout
md/raid5: prepare for allowing reshape to change chunksize.
md/raid5: clearly differentiate 'before' and 'after' stripes during reshape.
Documentation/md.txt update
md: allow number of drives in raid5 to be reduced
md/raid5: change reshape-progress measurement to cope with reshaping backwards.
md: add explicit method to signal the end of a reshape.
md/raid5: enhance raid5_size to work correctly with negative delta_disks
md/raid5: drop qd_idx from r6_state
md/raid6: move raid6 data processing to raid6_pq.ko
md: raid5 run(): Fix max_degraded for raid level 4.
md: 'array_size' sysfs attribute
md: centralize ->array_sectors modifications
...
Add NFS mount options to allow the local caching support to be enabled.
The attached patch makes it possible for the NFS filesystem to be told to make
use of the network filesystem local caching service (FS-Cache).
To be able to use this, a recent nfsutils package is required.
There are three variant NFS mount options that can be added to a mount command
to control caching for a mount. Only the last one specified takes effect:
(*) Adding "fsc" will request caching.
(*) Adding "fsc=<string>" will request caching and also specify a uniquifier.
(*) Adding "nofsc" will disable caching.
For example:
mount warthog:/ /a -o fsc
The cache of a particular superblock (NFS FSID) will be shared between all
mounts of that volume, provided they have the same connection parameters and
are not marked 'nosharecache'.
Where it is otherwise impossible to distinguish superblocks because all the
parameters are identical, but the 'nosharecache' option is supplied, a
uniquifying string must be supplied, else only the first mount will be
permitted to use the cache.
If there's a key collision, then the second mount will disable caching and give
a warning into the kernel log.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Display the local caching state in /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Store pages from an NFS inode into the cache data storage object associated
with that inode.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Read pages from an FS-Cache data storage object representing an inode into an
NFS inode.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
nfs_readpage_async() needs to be non-static so that it can be used as a
fallback for the local on-disk caching should an EIO crop up when reading the
cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Add read context retention so that FS-Cache can call back into NFS when a read
operation on the cache fails EIO rather than reading data. This permits NFS to
then fetch the data from the server instead using the appropriate security
context.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
FS-Cache page management for NFS. This includes hooking the releasing and
invalidation of pages marked with PG_fscache (aka PG_private_2) and waiting for
completion of the write-to-cache flag (PG_fscache_write aka PG_owner_priv_2).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Add some new NFS I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS. A new line is
emitted into /proc/pid/mountstats if caching is enabled that looks like:
fsc: <rok> <rfl> <wok> <wfl> <unc>
Where <rok> is the number of pages read successfully from the cache, <rfl> is
the number of failed page reads against the cache, <wok> is the number of
successful page writes to the cache, <wfl> is the number of failed page writes
to the cache, and <unc> is the number of NFS pages that have been disconnected
from the cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Invalidate the FsCache page flags on the pages belonging to an inode when the
cache backing that NFS inode is removed.
This allows a live cache to be withdrawn.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Bind data storage objects in the local cache to NFS inodes.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Define and create inode-level cache data storage objects (as managed by
nfs_inode structs).
Each inode-level object is created in a superblock-level index object and is
itself a data storage object into which pages from the inode are stored.
The inode object key is the NFS file handle for the inode.
The inode object is given coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data
permitted by the cache. This is a sequence made up of:
(1) i_mtime from the NFS inode.
(2) i_ctime from the NFS inode.
(3) i_size from the NFS inode.
(4) change_attr from the NFSv4 attribute data.
As the cache is a persistent cache, the auxiliary data is checked when a new
NFS in-memory inode is set up that matches an already existing data storage
object in the cache. If the coherency data is the same, the on-disk object is
retained and used; if not, it is scrapped and a new one created.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Define and create superblock-level cache index objects (as managed by
nfs_server structs).
Each superblock object is created in a server level index object and is itself
an index into which inode-level objects are inserted.
Ideally there would be one superblock-level object per server, and the former
would be folded into the latter; however, since the "nosharecache" option
exists this isn't possible.
The superblock object key is a sequence consisting of:
(1) Certain superblock s_flags.
(2) Various connection parameters that serve to distinguish superblocks for
sget().
(3) The volume FSID.
(4) The security flavour.
(5) The uniquifier length.
(6) The uniquifier text. This is normally an empty string, unless the fsc=xyz
mount option was used to explicitly specify a uniquifier.
The key blob is of variable length, depending on the length of (6).
The superblock object is given no coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data
permitted by the cache. It is assumed that the superblock is always coherent.
This patch also adds uniquification handling such that two otherwise identical
superblocks, at least one of which is marked "nosharecache", won't end up
trying to share the on-disk cache. It will be possible to manually provide a
uniquifier through a mount option with a later patch to avoid the error
otherwise produced.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Define and create server-level cache index objects (as managed by nfs_client
structs).
Each server object is created in the NFS top-level index object and is itself
an index into which superblock-level objects are inserted.
Ideally there would be one superblock-level object per server, and the former
would be folded into the latter; however, since the "nosharecache" option
exists this isn't possible.
The server object key is a sequence consisting of:
(1) NFS version
(2) Server address family (eg: AF_INET or AF_INET6)
(3) Server port.
(4) Server IP address.
The key blob is of variable length, depending on the length of (4).
The server object is given no coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data
permitted by the cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level cache index object cookie.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS in the kernel
configuration.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Add comment banners to some NFS functions so that they can be modified by the
NFS fscache patches for further information.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
The attached patch makes the kAFS filesystem in fs/afs/ use FS-Cache, and
through it any attached caches. The kAFS filesystem will use caching
automatically if it's available.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Add an FS-Cache cache-backend that permits a mounted filesystem to be used as a
backing store for the cache.
CacheFiles uses a userspace daemon to do some of the cache management - such as
reaping stale nodes and culling. This is called cachefilesd and lives in
/sbin. The source for the daemon can be downloaded from:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.c
And an example configuration from:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.conf
The filesystem and data integrity of the cache are only as good as those of the
filesystem providing the backing services. Note that CacheFiles does not
attempt to journal anything since the journalling interfaces of the various
filesystems are very specific in nature.
CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used
to communication with the daemon. Only one thing may have this open at once,
and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence. The daemon
opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache.
CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache.
CacheFiles attempts to maintain at least a certain percentage of free space on
the filesystem, shrinking the cache by culling the objects it contains to make
space if necessary - see the "Cache Culling" section. This means it can be
placed on the same medium as a live set of data, and will expand to make use of
spare space and automatically contract when the set of data requires more
space.
============
REQUIREMENTS
============
The use of CacheFiles and its daemon requires the following features to be
available in the system and in the cache filesystem:
- dnotify.
- extended attributes (xattrs).
- openat() and friends.
- bmap() support on files in the filesystem (FIBMAP ioctl).
- The use of bmap() to detect a partial page at the end of the file.
It is strongly recommended that the "dir_index" option is enabled on Ext3
filesystems being used as a cache.
=============
CONFIGURATION
=============
The cache is configured by a script in /etc/cachefilesd.conf. These commands
set up cache ready for use. The following script commands are available:
(*) brun <N>%
(*) bcull <N>%
(*) bstop <N>%
(*) frun <N>%
(*) fcull <N>%
(*) fstop <N>%
Configure the culling limits. Optional. See the section on culling
The defaults are 7% (run), 5% (cull) and 1% (stop) respectively.
The commands beginning with a 'b' are file space (block) limits, those
beginning with an 'f' are file count limits.
(*) dir <path>
Specify the directory containing the root of the cache. Mandatory.
(*) tag <name>
Specify a tag to FS-Cache to use in distinguishing multiple caches.
Optional. The default is "CacheFiles".
(*) debug <mask>
Specify a numeric bitmask to control debugging in the kernel module.
Optional. The default is zero (all off). The following values can be
OR'd into the mask to collect various information:
1 Turn on trace of function entry (_enter() macros)
2 Turn on trace of function exit (_leave() macros)
4 Turn on trace of internal debug points (_debug())
This mask can also be set through sysfs, eg:
echo 5 >/sys/modules/cachefiles/parameters/debug
==================
STARTING THE CACHE
==================
The cache is started by running the daemon. The daemon opens the cache device,
configures the cache and tells it to begin caching. At that point the cache
binds to fscache and the cache becomes live.
The daemon is run as follows:
/sbin/cachefilesd [-d]* [-s] [-n] [-f <configfile>]
The flags are:
(*) -d
Increase the debugging level. This can be specified multiple times and
is cumulative with itself.
(*) -s
Send messages to stderr instead of syslog.
(*) -n
Don't daemonise and go into background.
(*) -f <configfile>
Use an alternative configuration file rather than the default one.
===============
THINGS TO AVOID
===============
Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems. The
kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores
mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them.
Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the
cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain.
Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the
filename is part of the lookup key).
Do not change or remove the extended attributes attached to cache files by the
cache as this will cause the cache state management to get confused.
Do not create files or directories in the cache, lest the cache get confused or
serve incorrect data.
Do not chmod files in the cache. The module creates things with minimal
permissions to prevent random users being able to access them directly.
=============
CACHE CULLING
=============
The cache may need culling occasionally to make space. This involves
discarding objects from the cache that have been used less recently than
anything else. Culling is based on the access time of data objects. Empty
directories are culled if not in use.
Cache culling is done on the basis of the percentage of blocks and the
percentage of files available in the underlying filesystem. There are six
"limits":
(*) brun
(*) frun
If the amount of free space and the number of available files in the cache
rises above both these limits, then culling is turned off.
(*) bcull
(*) fcull
If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
cache falls below either of these limits, then culling is started.
(*) bstop
(*) fstop
If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
cache falls below either of these limits, then no further allocation of
disk space or files is permitted until culling has raised things above
these limits again.
These must be configured thusly:
0 <= bstop < bcull < brun < 100
0 <= fstop < fcull < frun < 100
Note that these are percentages of available space and available files, and do
_not_ appear as 100 minus the percentage displayed by the "df" program.
The userspace daemon scans the cache to build up a table of cullable objects.
These are then culled in least recently used order. A new scan of the cache is
started as soon as space is made in the table. Objects will be skipped if
their atimes have changed or if the kernel module says it is still using them.
===============
CACHE STRUCTURE
===============
The CacheFiles module will create two directories in the directory it was
given:
(*) cache/
(*) graveyard/
The active cache objects all reside in the first directory. The CacheFiles
kernel module moves any retired or culled objects that it can't simply unlink
to the graveyard from which the daemon will actually delete them.
The daemon uses dnotify to monitor the graveyard directory, and will delete
anything that appears therein.
The module represents index objects as directories with the filename "I..." or
"J...". Note that the "cache/" directory is itself a special index.
Data objects are represented as files if they have no children, or directories
if they do. Their filenames all begin "D..." or "E...". If represented as a
directory, data objects will have a file in the directory called "data" that
actually holds the data.
Special objects are similar to data objects, except their filenames begin
"S..." or "T...".
If an object has children, then it will be represented as a directory.
Immediately in the representative directory are a collection of directories
named for hash values of the child object keys with an '@' prepended. Into
this directory, if possible, will be placed the representations of the child
objects:
INDEX INDEX INDEX DATA FILES
========= ========== ================================= ================
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...DB1ry
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...N22ry
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...FP1ry
If the key is so long that it exceeds NAME_MAX with the decorations added on to
it, then it will be cut into pieces, the first few of which will be used to
make a nest of directories, and the last one of which will be the objects
inside the last directory. The names of the intermediate directories will have
'+' prepended:
J1223/@23/+xy...z/+kl...m/Epqr
Note that keys are raw data, and not only may they exceed NAME_MAX in size,
they may also contain things like '/' and NUL characters, and so they may not
be suitable for turning directly into a filename.
To handle this, CacheFiles will use a suitably printable filename directly and
"base-64" encode ones that aren't directly suitable. The two versions of
object filenames indicate the encoding:
OBJECT TYPE PRINTABLE ENCODED
=============== =============== ===============
Index "I..." "J..."
Data "D..." "E..."
Special "S..." "T..."
Intermediate directories are always "@" or "+" as appropriate.
Each object in the cache has an extended attribute label that holds the object
type ID (required to distinguish special objects) and the auxiliary data from
the netfs. The latter is used to detect stale objects in the cache and update
or retire them.
Note that CacheFiles will erase from the cache any file it doesn't recognise or
any file of an incorrect type (such as a FIFO file or a device file).
==========================
SECURITY MODEL AND SELINUX
==========================
CacheFiles is implemented to deal properly with the LSM security features of
the Linux kernel and the SELinux facility.
One of the problems that CacheFiles faces is that it is generally acting on
behalf of a process, and running in that process's context, and that includes a
security context that is not appropriate for accessing the cache - either
because the files in the cache are inaccessible to that process, or because if
the process creates a file in the cache, that file may be inaccessible to other
processes.
The way CacheFiles works is to temporarily change the security context (fsuid,
fsgid and actor security label) that the process acts as - without changing the
security context of the process when it the target of an operation performed by
some other process (so signalling and suchlike still work correctly).
When the CacheFiles module is asked to bind to its cache, it:
(1) Finds the security label attached to the root cache directory and uses
that as the security label with which it will create files. By default,
this is:
cachefiles_var_t
(2) Finds the security label of the process which issued the bind request
(presumed to be the cachefilesd daemon), which by default will be:
cachefilesd_t
and asks LSM to supply a security ID as which it should act given the
daemon's label. By default, this will be:
cachefiles_kernel_t
SELinux transitions the daemon's security ID to the module's security ID
based on a rule of this form in the policy.
type_transition <daemon's-ID> kernel_t : process <module's-ID>;
For instance:
type_transition cachefilesd_t kernel_t : process cachefiles_kernel_t;
The module's security ID gives it permission to create, move and remove files
and directories in the cache, to find and access directories and files in the
cache, to set and access extended attributes on cache objects, and to read and
write files in the cache.
The daemon's security ID gives it only a very restricted set of permissions: it
may scan directories, stat files and erase files and directories. It may
not read or write files in the cache, and so it is precluded from accessing the
data cached therein; nor is it permitted to create new files in the cache.
There are policy source files available in:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.8.tar.bz2
and later versions. In that tarball, see the files:
cachefilesd.te
cachefilesd.fc
cachefilesd.if
They are built and installed directly by the RPM.
If a non-RPM based system is being used, then copy the above files to their own
directory and run:
make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
semodule -i cachefilesd.pp
You will need checkpolicy and selinux-policy-devel installed prior to the
build.
By default, the cache is located in /var/fscache, but if it is desirable that
it should be elsewhere, than either the above policy files must be altered, or
an auxiliary policy must be installed to label the alternate location of the
cache.
For instructions on how to add an auxiliary policy to enable the cache to be
located elsewhere when SELinux is in enforcing mode, please see:
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd-*/move-cache.txt
When the cachefilesd rpm is installed; alternatively, the document can be found
in the sources.
==================
A NOTE ON SECURITY
==================
CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct. It allocates
its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it
when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context.
The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than
bypassing security and calling inode ops directly. Therefore the VFS and LSM
may deny the CacheFiles access to the cache data because under some
circumstances the caching code is running in the security context of whatever
process issued the original syscall on the netfs.
Furthermore, should CacheFiles create a file or directory, the security
parameters with that object is created (UID, GID, security label) would be
derived from that process that issued the system call, thus potentially
preventing other processes from accessing the cache - including CacheFiles's
cache management daemon (cachefilesd).
What is required is to temporarily override the security of the process that
issued the system call. We can't, however, just do an in-place change of the
security data as that affects the process as an object, not just as a subject.
This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what
the process looks like in /proc.
So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the
objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as). The
objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is
never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a
process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for
example).
The subjective security holds the active security properties of a process, and
may be overridden. This is not seen externally, and is used whan a process
acts upon another object, for example SIGKILLing another process or opening a
file.
LSM hooks exist that allow SELinux (or Smack or whatever) to reject a request
for CacheFiles to run in a context of a specific security label, or to create
files and directories with another security label.
This documentation is added by the patch to:
Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Export a number of functions for CacheFiles's use.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Implement the data I/O part of the FS-Cache netfs API. The documentation and
API header file were added in a previous patch.
This patch implements the following functions for the netfs to call:
(*) fscache_attr_changed().
Indicate that the object has changed its attributes. The only attribute
currently recorded is the file size. Only pages within the set file size
will be stored in the cache.
This operation is submitted for asynchronous processing, and will return
immediately. It will return -ENOMEM if an out of memory error is
encountered, -ENOBUFS if the object is not actually cached, or 0 if the
operation is successfully queued.
(*) fscache_read_or_alloc_page().
(*) fscache_read_or_alloc_pages().
Request data be fetched from the disk, and allocate internal metadata to
track the netfs pages and reserve disk space for unknown pages.
These operations perform semi-asynchronous data reads. Upon returning
they will indicate which pages they think can be retrieved from disk, and
will have set in progress attempts to retrieve those pages.
These will return, in order of preference, -ENOMEM on memory allocation
error, -ERESTARTSYS if a signal interrupted proceedings, -ENODATA if one
or more requested pages are not yet cached, -ENOBUFS if the object is not
actually cached or if there isn't space for future pages to be cached on
this object, or 0 if successful.
In the case of the multipage function, the pages for which reads are set
in progress will be removed from the list and the page count decreased
appropriately.
If any read operations should fail, the completion function will be given
an error, and will also be passed contextual information to allow the
netfs to fall back to querying the server for the absent pages.
For each successful read, the page completion function will also be
called.
Any pages subsequently tracked by the cache will have PG_fscache set upon
them on return. fscache_uncache_page() must be called for such pages.
If supplied by the netfs, the mark_pages_cached() cookie op will be
invoked for any pages now tracked.
(*) fscache_alloc_page().
Allocate internal metadata to track a netfs page and reserve disk space.
This will return -ENOMEM on memory allocation error, -ERESTARTSYS on
signal, -ENOBUFS if the object isn't cached, or there isn't enough space
in the cache, or 0 if successful.
Any pages subsequently tracked by the cache will have PG_fscache set upon
them on return. fscache_uncache_page() must be called for such pages.
If supplied by the netfs, the mark_pages_cached() cookie op will be
invoked for any pages now tracked.
(*) fscache_write_page().
Request data be stored to disk. This may only be called on pages that
have been read or alloc'd by the above three functions and have not yet
been uncached.
This will return -ENOMEM on memory allocation error, -ERESTARTSYS on
signal, -ENOBUFS if the object isn't cached, or there isn't immediately
enough space in the cache, or 0 if successful.
On a successful return, this operation will have queued the page for
asynchronous writing to the cache. The page will be returned with
PG_fscache_write set until the write completes one way or another. The
caller will not be notified if the write fails due to an I/O error. If
that happens, the object will become available and all pending writes will
be aborted.
Note that the cache may batch up page writes, and so it may take a while
to get around to writing them out.
The caller must assume that until PG_fscache_write is cleared the page is
use by the cache. Any changes made to the page may be reflected on disk.
The page may even be under DMA.
(*) fscache_uncache_page().
Indicate that the cache should stop tracking a page previously read or
alloc'd from the cache. If the page was alloc'd only, but unwritten, it
will not appear on disk.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Add and document asynchronous operation handling for use by FS-Cache's data
storage and retrieval routines.
The following documentation is added to:
Documentation/filesystems/caching/operations.txt
================================
ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATIONS HANDLING
================================
========
OVERVIEW
========
FS-Cache has an asynchronous operations handling facility that it uses for its
data storage and retrieval routines. Its operations are represented by
fscache_operation structs, though these are usually embedded into some other
structure.
This facility is available to and expected to be be used by the cache backends,
and FS-Cache will create operations and pass them off to the appropriate cache
backend for completion.
To make use of this facility, <linux/fscache-cache.h> should be #included.
===============================
OPERATION RECORD INITIALISATION
===============================
An operation is recorded in an fscache_operation struct:
struct fscache_operation {
union {
struct work_struct fast_work;
struct slow_work slow_work;
};
unsigned long flags;
fscache_operation_processor_t processor;
...
};
Someone wanting to issue an operation should allocate something with this
struct embedded in it. They should initialise it by calling:
void fscache_operation_init(struct fscache_operation *op,
fscache_operation_release_t release);
with the operation to be initialised and the release function to use.
The op->flags parameter should be set to indicate the CPU time provision and
the exclusivity (see the Parameters section).
The op->fast_work, op->slow_work and op->processor flags should be set as
appropriate for the CPU time provision (see the Parameters section).
FSCACHE_OP_WAITING may be set in op->flags prior to each submission of the
operation and waited for afterwards.
==========
PARAMETERS
==========
There are a number of parameters that can be set in the operation record's flag
parameter. There are three options for the provision of CPU time in these
operations:
(1) The operation may be done synchronously (FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD). A thread
may decide it wants to handle an operation itself without deferring it to
another thread.
This is, for example, used in read operations for calling readpages() on
the backing filesystem in CacheFiles. Although readpages() does an
asynchronous data fetch, the determination of whether pages exist is done
synchronously - and the netfs does not proceed until this has been
determined.
If this option is to be used, FSCACHE_OP_WAITING must be set in op->flags
before submitting the operation, and the operating thread must wait for it
to be cleared before proceeding:
wait_on_bit(&op->flags, FSCACHE_OP_WAITING,
fscache_wait_bit, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
(2) The operation may be fast asynchronous (FSCACHE_OP_FAST), in which case it
will be given to keventd to process. Such an operation is not permitted
to sleep on I/O.
This is, for example, used by CacheFiles to copy data from a backing fs
page to a netfs page after the backing fs has read the page in.
If this option is used, op->fast_work and op->processor must be
initialised before submitting the operation:
INIT_WORK(&op->fast_work, do_some_work);
(3) The operation may be slow asynchronous (FSCACHE_OP_SLOW), in which case it
will be given to the slow work facility to process. Such an operation is
permitted to sleep on I/O.
This is, for example, used by FS-Cache to handle background writes of
pages that have just been fetched from a remote server.
If this option is used, op->slow_work and op->processor must be
initialised before submitting the operation:
fscache_operation_init_slow(op, processor)
Furthermore, operations may be one of two types:
(1) Exclusive (FSCACHE_OP_EXCLUSIVE). Operations of this type may not run in
conjunction with any other operation on the object being operated upon.
An example of this is the attribute change operation, in which the file
being written to may need truncation.
(2) Shareable. Operations of this type may be running simultaneously. It's
up to the operation implementation to prevent interference between other
operations running at the same time.
=========
PROCEDURE
=========
Operations are used through the following procedure:
(1) The submitting thread must allocate the operation and initialise it
itself. Normally this would be part of a more specific structure with the
generic op embedded within.
(2) The submitting thread must then submit the operation for processing using
one of the following two functions:
int fscache_submit_op(struct fscache_object *object,
struct fscache_operation *op);
int fscache_submit_exclusive_op(struct fscache_object *object,
struct fscache_operation *op);
The first function should be used to submit non-exclusive ops and the
second to submit exclusive ones. The caller must still set the
FSCACHE_OP_EXCLUSIVE flag.
If successful, both functions will assign the operation to the specified
object and return 0. -ENOBUFS will be returned if the object specified is
permanently unavailable.
The operation manager will defer operations on an object that is still
undergoing lookup or creation. The operation will also be deferred if an
operation of conflicting exclusivity is in progress on the object.
If the operation is asynchronous, the manager will retain a reference to
it, so the caller should put their reference to it by passing it to:
void fscache_put_operation(struct fscache_operation *op);
(3) If the submitting thread wants to do the work itself, and has marked the
operation with FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD, then it should monitor
FSCACHE_OP_WAITING as described above and check the state of the object if
necessary (the object might have died whilst the thread was waiting).
When it has finished doing its processing, it should call
fscache_put_operation() on it.
(4) The operation holds an effective lock upon the object, preventing other
exclusive ops conflicting until it is released. The operation can be
enqueued for further immediate asynchronous processing by adjusting the
CPU time provisioning option if necessary, eg:
op->flags &= ~FSCACHE_OP_TYPE;
op->flags |= ~FSCACHE_OP_FAST;
and calling:
void fscache_enqueue_operation(struct fscache_operation *op)
This can be used to allow other things to have use of the worker thread
pools.
=====================
ASYNCHRONOUS CALLBACK
=====================
When used in asynchronous mode, the worker thread pool will invoke the
processor method with a pointer to the operation. This should then get at the
container struct by using container_of():
static void fscache_write_op(struct fscache_operation *_op)
{
struct fscache_storage *op =
container_of(_op, struct fscache_storage, op);
...
}
The caller holds a reference on the operation, and will invoke
fscache_put_operation() when the processor function returns. The processor
function is at liberty to call fscache_enqueue_operation() or to take extra
references.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Implement the cookie management part of the FS-Cache netfs client API. The
documentation and API header file were added in a previous patch.
This patch implements the following three functions:
(1) fscache_acquire_cookie().
Acquire a cookie to represent an object to the netfs. If the object in
question is a non-index object, then that object and its parent indices
will be created on disk at this point if they don't already exist. Index
creation is deferred because an index may reside in multiple caches.
(2) fscache_relinquish_cookie().
Retire or release a cookie previously acquired. At this point, the
object on disk may be destroyed.
(3) fscache_update_cookie().
Update the in-cache representation of a cookie. This is used to update
the auxiliary data for coherency management purposes.
With this patch it is possible to have a netfs instruct a cache backend to
look up, validate and create metadata on disk and to destroy it again.
The ability to actually store and retrieve data in the objects so created is
added in later patches.
Note that these functions will never return an error. _All_ errors are
handled internally to FS-Cache.
The worst that can happen is that fscache_acquire_cookie() may return a NULL
pointer - which is considered a negative cookie pointer and can be passed back
to any function that takes a cookie without harm. A negative cookie pointer
merely suppresses caching at that level.
The stub in linux/fscache.h will detect inline the negative cookie pointer and
abort the operation as fast as possible. This means that the compiler doesn't
have to set up for a call in that case.
See the documentation in Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt for
more information.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Implement the cache object management state machine.
The following documentation is added to illuminate the working of this state
machine. It will also be added as:
Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.txt
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IN-KERNEL CACHE OBJECT REPRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT
====================================================
==============
REPRESENTATION
==============
FS-Cache maintains an in-kernel representation of each object that a netfs is
currently interested in. Such objects are represented by the fscache_cookie
struct and are referred to as cookies.
FS-Cache also maintains a separate in-kernel representation of the objects that
a cache backend is currently actively caching. Such objects are represented by
the fscache_object struct. The cache backends allocate these upon request, and
are expected to embed them in their own representations. These are referred to
as objects.
There is a 1:N relationship between cookies and objects. A cookie may be
represented by multiple objects - an index may exist in more than one cache -
or even by no objects (it may not be cached).
Furthermore, both cookies and objects are hierarchical. The two hierarchies
correspond, but the cookies tree is a superset of the union of the object trees
of multiple caches:
NETFS INDEX TREE : CACHE 1 : CACHE 2
: :
: +-----------+ :
+----------->| IObject | :
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ :
| ICookie |-------+ : | :
+-----------+ | : | : +-----------+
| +------------------------------>| IObject |
| : | : +-----------+
| : V : |
| : +-----------+ : |
V +----------->| IObject | : |
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ : |
| ICookie |-------+ : | : V
+-----------+ | : | : +-----------+
| +------------------------------>| IObject |
+-----+-----+ : | : +-----------+
| | : | : |
V | : V : |
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ : |
| ICookie |------------------------->| IObject | : |
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ : |
| V : | : V
| +-----------+ : | : +-----------+
| | ICookie |-------------------------------->| IObject |
| +-----------+ : | : +-----------+
V | : V : |
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ : |
| DCookie |------------------------->| DObject | : |
+-----------+ | : +-----------+ : |
| : : |
+-------+-------+ : : |
| | : : |
V V : : V
+-----------+ +-----------+ : : +-----------+
| DCookie | | DCookie |------------------------>| DObject |
+-----------+ +-----------+ : : +-----------+
: :
In the above illustration, ICookie and IObject represent indices and DCookie
and DObject represent data storage objects. Indices may have representation in
multiple caches, but currently, non-index objects may not. Objects of any type
may also be entirely unrepresented.
As far as the netfs API goes, the netfs is only actually permitted to see
pointers to the cookies. The cookies themselves and any objects attached to
those cookies are hidden from it.
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OBJECT MANAGEMENT STATE MACHINE
===============================
Within FS-Cache, each active object is managed by its own individual state
machine. The state for an object is kept in the fscache_object struct, in
object->state. A cookie may point to a set of objects that are in different
states.
Each state has an action associated with it that is invoked when the machine
wakes up in that state. There are four logical sets of states:
(1) Preparation: states that wait for the parent objects to become ready. The
representations are hierarchical, and it is expected that an object must
be created or accessed with respect to its parent object.
(2) Initialisation: states that perform lookups in the cache and validate
what's found and that create on disk any missing metadata.
(3) Normal running: states that allow netfs operations on objects to proceed
and that update the state of objects.
(4) Termination: states that detach objects from their netfs cookies, that
delete objects from disk, that handle disk and system errors and that free
up in-memory resources.
In most cases, transitioning between states is in response to signalled events.
When a state has finished processing, it will usually set the mask of events in
which it is interested (object->event_mask) and relinquish the worker thread.
Then when an event is raised (by calling fscache_raise_event()), if the event
is not masked, the object will be queued for processing (by calling
fscache_enqueue_object()).
PROVISION OF CPU TIME
---------------------
The work to be done by the various states is given CPU time by the threads of
the slow work facility (see Documentation/slow-work.txt). This is used in
preference to the workqueue facility because:
(1) Threads may be completely occupied for very long periods of time by a
particular work item. These state actions may be doing sequences of
synchronous, journalled disk accesses (lookup, mkdir, create, setxattr,
getxattr, truncate, unlink, rmdir, rename).
(2) Threads may do little actual work, but may rather spend a lot of time
sleeping on I/O. This means that single-threaded and 1-per-CPU-threaded
workqueues don't necessarily have the right numbers of threads.
LOCKING SIMPLIFICATION
----------------------
Because only one worker thread may be operating on any particular object's
state machine at once, this simplifies the locking, particularly with respect
to disconnecting the netfs's representation of a cache object (fscache_cookie)
from the cache backend's representation (fscache_object) - which may be
requested from either end.
=================
THE SET OF STATES
=================
The object state machine has a set of states that it can be in. There are
preparation states in which the object sets itself up and waits for its parent
object to transit to a state that allows access to its children:
(1) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT.
Initialise the object and wait for the parent object to become active. In
the cache, it is expected that it will not be possible to look an object
up from the parent object, until that parent object itself has been looked
up.
There are initialisation states in which the object sets itself up and accesses
disk for the object metadata:
(2) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_LOOKING_UP.
Look up the object on disk, using the parent as a starting point.
FS-Cache expects the cache backend to probe the cache to see whether this
object is represented there, and if it is, to see if it's valid (coherency
management).
The cache should call fscache_object_lookup_negative() to indicate lookup
failure for whatever reason, and should call fscache_obtained_object() to
indicate success.
At the completion of lookup, FS-Cache will let the netfs go ahead with
read operations, no matter whether the file is yet cached. If not yet
cached, read operations will be immediately rejected with ENODATA until
the first known page is uncached - as to that point there can be no data
to be read out of the cache for that file that isn't currently also held
in the pagecache.
(3) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_CREATING.
Create an object on disk, using the parent as a starting point. This
happens if the lookup failed to find the object, or if the object's
coherency data indicated what's on disk is out of date. In this state,
FS-Cache expects the cache to create
The cache should call fscache_obtained_object() if creation completes
successfully, fscache_object_lookup_negative() otherwise.
At the completion of creation, FS-Cache will start processing write
operations the netfs has queued for an object. If creation failed, the
write ops will be transparently discarded, and nothing recorded in the
cache.
There are some normal running states in which the object spends its time
servicing netfs requests:
(4) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_AVAILABLE.
A transient state in which pending operations are started, child objects
are permitted to advance from FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT state, and temporary
lookup data is freed.
(5) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_ACTIVE.
The normal running state. In this state, requests the netfs makes will be
passed on to the cache.
(6) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_UPDATING.
The state machine comes here to update the object in the cache from the
netfs's records. This involves updating the auxiliary data that is used
to maintain coherency.
And there are terminal states in which an object cleans itself up, deallocates
memory and potentially deletes stuff from disk:
(7) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_LC_DYING.
The object comes here if it is dying because of a lookup or creation
error. This would be due to a disk error or system error of some sort.
Temporary data is cleaned up, and the parent is released.
(8) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_DYING.
The object comes here if it is dying due to an error, because its parent
cookie has been relinquished by the netfs or because the cache is being
withdrawn.
Any child objects waiting on this one are given CPU time so that they too
can destroy themselves. This object waits for all its children to go away
before advancing to the next state.
(9) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_ABORT_INIT.
The object comes to this state if it was waiting on its parent in
FSCACHE_OBJECT_INIT, but its parent died. The object will destroy itself
so that the parent may proceed from the FSCACHE_OBJECT_DYING state.
(10) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_RELEASING.
(11) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_RECYCLING.
The object comes to one of these two states when dying once it is rid of
all its children, if it is dying because the netfs relinquished its
cookie. In the first state, the cached data is expected to persist, and
in the second it will be deleted.
(12) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_WITHDRAWING.
The object transits to this state if the cache decides it wants to
withdraw the object from service, perhaps to make space, but also due to
error or just because the whole cache is being withdrawn.
(13) State FSCACHE_OBJECT_DEAD.
The object transits to this state when the in-memory object record is
ready to be deleted. The object processor shouldn't ever see an object in
this state.
THE SET OF EVENTS
-----------------
There are a number of events that can be raised to an object state machine:
(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_UPDATE
The netfs requested that an object be updated. The state machine will ask
the cache backend to update the object, and the cache backend will ask the
netfs for details of the change through its cookie definition ops.
(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_CLEARED
This is signalled in two circumstances:
(a) when an object's last child object is dropped and
(b) when the last operation outstanding on an object is completed.
This is used to proceed from the dying state.
(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_ERROR
This is signalled when an I/O error occurs during the processing of some
object.
(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_RELEASE
(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_RETIRE
These are signalled when the netfs relinquishes a cookie it was using.
The event selected depends on whether the netfs asks for the backing
object to be retired (deleted) or retained.
(*) FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_WITHDRAW
This is signalled when the cache backend wants to withdraw an object.
This means that the object will have to be detached from the netfs's
cookie.
Because the withdrawing releasing/retiring events are all handled by the object
state machine, it doesn't matter if there's a collision with both ends trying
to sever the connection at the same time. The state machine can just pick
which one it wants to honour, and that effects the other.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Add helpers for use with wait_on_bit().
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Add functions to register and unregister a network filesystem or other client
of the FS-Cache service. This allocates and releases the cookie representing
the top-level index for a netfs, and makes it available to the netfs.
If the FS-Cache facility is disabled, then the calls are optimised away at
compile time.
Note that whilst this patch may appear to work with FS-Cache enabled and a
netfs attempting to use it, it will leak the cookie it allocates for the netfs
as fscache_relinquish_cookie() is implemented in a later patch. This will
cause the slab code to emit a warning when the module is removed.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Provide a slab from which can be allocated the FS-Cache cookies that will be
presented to the netfs.
Also provide a slab constructor and a function to recursively discard a cookie
and its ancestor chain.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Implement the entry points by which a cache backend may initialise, add,
declare an error upon and withdraw a cache.
Further, an object is created in sysfs under which each cache added will get
an object created:
/sys/fs/fscache/<cachetag>/
All of this is described in Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.txt
added by a previous patch.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Implement two features of FS-Cache:
(1) The ability to request and release cache tags - names by which a cache may
be known to a netfs, and thus selected for use.
(2) An internal function by which a cache is selected by consulting the netfs,
if the netfs wishes to be consulted.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Add a description of the root index of the cache for later patches to make use
of.
The root index is owned by FS-Cache itself. When a netfs requests caching
facilities, FS-Cache will, if one doesn't already exist, create an entry in
the root index with the key being the name of the netfs ("AFS" for example),
and the auxiliary data holding the index structure version supplied by the
netfs:
FSDEF
|
+-----------+
| |
NFS AFS
[v=1] [v=1]
If an entry with the appropriate name does already exist, the version is
compared. If the version is different, the entire subtree from that entry
will be discarded and a new entry created.
The new entry will be an index, and a cookie referring to it will be passed to
the netfs. This is then the root handle by which the netfs accesses the
cache. It can create whatever objects it likes in that index, including
further indices.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Make FS-Cache create its /proc interface and present various statistical
information through it. Also provide the functions for updating this
information.
These features are enabled by:
CONFIG_FSCACHE_PROC
CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS
CONFIG_FSCACHE_HISTOGRAM
The /proc directory for FS-Cache is also exported so that caching modules can
add their own statistics there too.
The FS-Cache module is loadable at this point, and the statistics files can be
examined by userspace:
cat /proc/fs/fscache/stats
cat /proc/fs/fscache/histogram
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
