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Ryusuke Konishi 3358b4aaa8 nilfs2: fix problems of memory allocation in ioctl
This is another patch for fixing the following problems of a memory
copy function in nilfs2 ioctl:

(1) It tries to allocate 128KB size of memory even for small objects.

(2) Though the function repeatedly tries large memory allocations
    while reducing the size, GFP_NOWAIT flag is not specified.
    This increases the possibility of system memory shortage.

(3) During the retries of (2), verbose warnings are printed
    because _GFP_NOWARN flag is not used for the kmalloc calls.

The first patch was still doing large allocations by kmalloc which are
repeatedly tried while reducing the size.

Andi Kleen told me that using copy_from_user for large memory is not
good from the viewpoint of preempt latency:

 On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:24:11 +0100, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
 > > In the current interface, each data item is copied twice: one is to
 > > the allocated memory from user space (via copy_from_user), and another
 >
 > For such large copies it is better to use multiple smaller (e.g. 4K)
 > copy user, that gives better real time preempt latencies. Each cfu has a
 > cond_resched(), but only one, not multiple times in the inner loop.

He also advised me that:

 On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:13:27 +0100, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
 > Better would be if you could go to PAGE_SIZE. order 0 allocations
 > are typically the fastest / least likely to stall.
 >
 > Also in this case it's a good idea to use __get_free_pages()
 > directly, kmalloc tends to be become less efficient at larger
 > sizes.

For the function in question, the size of buffer memory can be reduced
since the buffer is repeatedly used for a number of small objects.  On
the other hand, it may incur large preempt latencies for larger buffer
because a copy_from_user (and a copy_to_user) was applied only once
each cycle.

With that, this revision uses the order 0 allocations with
__get_free_pages() to fix the original problems.

Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:16 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 0c4fb87764 nilfs2: update makefile and Kconfig
This adds a Makefile for the nilfs2 file system, and updates the
makefile and Kconfig file in the file system directory.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:16 -07:00
Koji Sato 7942b919f7 nilfs2: ioctl operations
This adds userland interface implemented with ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:16 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi a3d93f709e nilfs2: block cache for garbage collection
This adds the cache of on-disk blocks to be moved in garbage
collection.  The disk blocks are held with dummy inodes (called
gcinodes), and this file provides lookup function of the dummy inodes,
and their buffer read function.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Kihara <kihara.seiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Yoshiji Amagai <amagai.yoshiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:16 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 84ef1ecfde nilfs2: another dat for garbage collection
NILFS2 uses another DAT inode during garbage collection to ensure
atomicity and consistency of the DAT in the transient state.  This
twin inode is called GCDAT.

This adds functions to initialize the GCDAT and to switch page caches
and B-tree node caches between these two inodes.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Kihara <kihara.seiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Yoshiji Amagai <amagai.yoshiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:16 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 0f3e1c7f23 nilfs2: recovery functions
This adds recovery function on mount.

Usually the recovery is achieved by just finding the latest super
root.  When logs without checkpoints were appended for data sync
operations after the latest super root, the recovery function will
perform roll forwarding and reconstruct new log(s) with a super root.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:16 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi f30bf3e40f nilfs2: fix missed-sync issue for do_sync_mapping_range()
Chris Mason pointed out that there is a missed sync issue in
nilfs_writepages():

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:52:55 -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> It looks like nilfs_writepage ignores WB_SYNC_NONE, which is used by
> do_sync_mapping_range().

where WB_SYNC_NONE in do_sync_mapping_range() was replaced with
WB_SYNC_ALL by Nick's patch (commit:
ee53a891f4).

This fixes the problem by letting nilfs_writepages() write out the log of
file data within the range if sync_mode is WB_SYNC_ALL.

This involves removal of nilfs_file_aio_write() which was previously
needed to ensure O_SYNC sync writes.

Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:15 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 9ff05123e3 nilfs2: segment constructor
This adds the segment constructor (also called log writer).

The segment constructor collects dirty buffers for every dirty inode,
makes summaries of the buffers, assigns disk block addresses to the
buffers, and then submits BIOs for the buffers.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:15 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 64b5a32e0b nilfs2: segment buffer
This adds the segment buffer which is used to constuct logs.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: BIO_RW_SYNC got removed]
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:15 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 783f61843e nilfs2: super block operations
This adds super block operations for the nilfs2 file system.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:15 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 8a9d2191e9 nilfs2: operations for the_nilfs core object
This adds functions on the_nilfs object, which keeps shared resources and
states among a read/write mount and snapshots mounts going individually.

the_nilfs is allocated per block device; it is created when user first
mount a snapshot or a read/write mount on the device, then it is reused
for successive mounts.  It will be freed when all mount instances on the
device are detached.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:15 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi d25006523d nilfs2: pathname operations
This adds pathname operations, most of which comes from the ext2 file
system.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:15 -07:00
Yoshiji Amagai 2ba466d74e nilfs2: directory entry operations
This adds directory handling functions, most of which comes from the ext2
file system.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Yoshiji Amagai <amagai.yoshiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:15 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi f183ff4f05 nilfs2: file operations
This adds primitives for regular file handling.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:14 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 05fe58fdc1 nilfs2: inode operations
This adds inode level operations of the nilfs2 file system.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:14 -07:00
Koji Sato 6c98cd4ecb nilfs2: segment usage file
This adds a meta data file which stores the allocation state of segments.

[konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp: fix wrong counting of checkpoints and dirty segments]
Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:14 -07:00
Koji Sato 2961980972 nilfs2: checkpoint file
This adds a meta data file which holds checkpoint entries in its data
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:14 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 43bfb45ed4 nilfs2: inode map file
This adds a meta data file which stores on-disk inodes in its data blocks.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Yoshiji Amagai <amagai.yoshiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:14 -07:00
Koji Sato a17564f58b nilfs2: disk address translator
This adds the disk address translation file (DAT) whose primary function
is to convert virtual disk block numbers to actual disk block numbers.

The virtual block numbers of NILFS are associated with checkpoint
generation numbers, and this file also provides functions to manage the
lifetime information of each virtual block number.

Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:14 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 5442680fd2 nilfs2: persistent object allocator
This adds common functions to allocate or deallocate entries with bitmaps
on a meta data file.  This feature is used by the DAT and ifile.

Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Yoshiji Amagai <amagai.yoshiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:13 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 5eb563f5f2 nilfs2: meta data file
This adds the meta data file, which serves common buffer functions to the
DAT, sufile, cpfile, ifile, and so forth.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:13 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 0bd49f9446 nilfs2: buffer and page operations
This adds common routines for buffer/page operations used in B-tree
node caches, meta data files, or segment constructor (log writer).

NILFS uses copy functions for buffers and pages due to the following
reasons:

 1) Relocation required for COW
    Since NILFS changes address of on-disk blocks, moving buffers
    in page cache is needed for the buffers which are not addressed
    by a file offset.  If buffer size is smaller than page size,
    this involves partial copy of pages.

 2) Freezing mmapped pages
    NILFS calculates checksums for each log to ensure its validity.
    If page data changes after the checksum calculation, this validity
    check will not work correctly.  To avoid this failure for mmaped
    pages, NILFS freezes their data by copying.

 3) Copy-on-write for DAT pages
    NILFS makes clones of DAT page caches in a copy-on-write manner
    during GC processes, and this ensures atomicity and consistency
    of the DAT in the transient state.

In addition, NILFS uses two obsolete functions, nilfs_mark_buffer_dirty()
and nilfs_clear_page_dirty() respectively.

* nilfs_mark_buffer_dirty() was required to avoid NULL pointer
  dereference faults:

  Since the page cache of B-tree node pages or data page cache of pseudo
  inodes does not have a valid mapping->host, calling mark_buffer_dirty()
  for their buffers causes the fault; it calls __mark_inode_dirty(NULL)
  through __set_page_dirty().

* nilfs_clear_page_dirty() was needed in the two cases:

 1) For B-tree node pages and data pages of the dat/gcdat, NILFS2 clears
    page dirty flags when it copies back pages from the cloned cache
    (gcdat->{i_mapping,i_btnode_cache}) to its original cache
    (dat->{i_mapping,i_btnode_cache}).

 2) Some B-tree operations like insertion or deletion may dispose buffers
    in dirty state, and this needs to cancel the dirty state of their
    pages.  clear_page_dirty_for_io() caused faults because it does not
    clear the dirty tag on the page cache.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Kihara <kihara.seiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:13 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi a60be987d4 nilfs2: B-tree node cache
This adds routines for B-tree node buffers.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Kihara <kihara.seiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:13 -07:00
Koji Sato 36a580eb48 nilfs2: direct block mapping
This adds block mappings using direct pointers which are stored in the
i_bmap array of inode.

Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:13 -07:00
Koji Sato 17c76b0104 nilfs2: B-tree based block mapping
This adds declarations and functions of NILFS2 B-tree.

Two variants are integrated in the NILFS2 B-tree.  The B-tree for the most
files points to the child nodes or data blocks with virtual block
addresses, whereas the B-tree of the DAT uses actual block addresses.

Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:13 -07:00
Koji Sato bdb265eae0 nilfs2: integrated block mapping
This adds structures and operations for the block mapping (bmap for
short).  NILFS2 uses direct mappings for short files or B-tree based
mappings for longer files.

Every on-disk data block is held with inodes and managed through this
block mapping.  The nilfs_bmap structure and a set of functions here
provide this capability to the NILFS2 inode.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: remove a bunch of bmap wrapper macros]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:13 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi 65b4643d3b nilfs2: add inode and other major structures
This adds the following common structures of the NILFS2 file system.

* nilfs_inode_info structure:
  gives on-memory inode.

* nilfs_sb_info structure:
  keeps per-mount state and a special inode for the ifile.
  This structure is attached to the super_block structure.

* the_nilfs structure:
  keeps shared state and locks among a read/write mount and snapshot
  mounts.  This keeps special inodes for the sufile, cpfile, dat, and
  another dat inode used during GC (gcdat).  This also has a hash table
  of dummy inodes to cache disk blocks during GC (gcinodes).

* nilfs_transaction_info structure:
  keeps per task state while nilfs is writing logs or doing indivisible
  inode or namespace operations.  This structure is used to identify
  context during log making and store nest level of the lock which
  ensures atomicity of file system operations.

Signed-off-by: Koji Sato <sato.koji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00