GFS2: Remove gfs2_refresh_inode from inode creation path

The original method for creating inodes used in GFS2 was to fill
out a buffer, with all the information, and then to read that

GFS2: Remove gfs2_refresh_inode from inode creation path

The original method for creating inodes used in GFS2 was to fill
out a buffer, with all the information, and then to read that
buffer into the in-core inode, using gfs2_refresh_inode()

The problem with this approach is that all the inode's fields
need to be calculated ahead of time, and were stored in various
variables making the code rather complicated.

The new approach is simply to allocate the in-core inode earlier
and fill in as many fields as possible ahead of time. These can
then be used to initilise the on disk representation. The
code has been working towards the point where it is possible
to remove gfs2_refresh_inode() because all the fields are
correctly initialised ahead of time. We've now reached that
milestone, and have reversed the order of setting up the in
core and on disk inodes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Review bug traps in glops.c

Two of the bug traps here could really be warnings. The others are
converted from BUG() to GLOCK_BUG_ON() since we'll most likely
need to know the g

GFS2: Review bug traps in glops.c

Two of the bug traps here could really be warnings. The others are
converted from BUG() to GLOCK_BUG_ON() since we'll most likely
need to know the glock state in order to debug any issues which
arise. As a result of this, __dump_glock has to be renamed and
is no longer static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: dlm based recovery coordination

This new method of managing recovery is an alternative to
the previous approach of using the userland gfs_controld.

- use dlm slot numbers

GFS2: dlm based recovery coordination

This new method of managing recovery is an alternative to
the previous approach of using the userland gfs_controld.

- use dlm slot numbers to assign journal id's
- use dlm recovery callbacks to initiate journal recovery
- use a dlm lock to determine the first node to mount fs
- use a dlm lock to track journals that need recovery

Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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treewide: use __printf not __attribute__((format(printf,...)))

Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification.
Standardized the location of __printf too.

Do

treewide: use __printf not __attribute__((format(printf,...)))

Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification.
Standardized the location of __printf too.

Done via script and a little typing.

$ grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] -w "__attribute__" * | \
grep -vP "^(tools|scripts|include/linux/compiler-gcc.h)" | \
xargs perl -n -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s/\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(\s*format\s*\(\s*printf\s*,\s*(.+)\s*,\s*(.+)\s*\)\s*\)\s*\)/__printf($1, $2)/g ; print; }'

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert arch bits]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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GFS2: Automatically adjust glock min hold time

This patch is a performance improvement for GFS2 in a clustered
environment. It makes the glock hold time self-adjusting.

Signed-o

GFS2: Automatically adjust glock min hold time

This patch is a performance improvement for GFS2 in a clustered
environment. It makes the glock hold time self-adjusting.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Alter point of entry to glock lru list for glocks with an address_space

Rather than allowing the glocks to be scheduled for possible
reclaim as soon as they have exited the journal

GFS2: Alter point of entry to glock lru list for glocks with an address_space

Rather than allowing the glocks to be scheduled for possible
reclaim as soon as they have exited the journal, this patch
delays their entry to the list until the glocks in question
are no longer in use.

This means that we will rely on the vm for writeback of all
dirty data and metadata from now on. When glocks are added
to the lru list they should be freeable much faster since all
the I/O required to free them should have already been completed.

This should lead to much better I/O patterns under low memory
conditions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Fix glock deallocation race

This patch fixes a race in deallocating glocks which was introduced
in the RCU glock patch. We need to ensure that the glock count is
kept correct e

GFS2: Fix glock deallocation race

This patch fixes a race in deallocating glocks which was introduced
in the RCU glock patch. We need to ensure that the glock count is
kept correct even in the case that there is a race to add a new
glock into the hash table. Also, to avoid having to wait for an
RCU grace period, the glock counter can be decremented before
call_rcu() is called.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Use RCU for glock hash table

This has a number of advantages:

- Reduces contention on the hash table lock
- Makes the code smaller and simpler
- Should speed up glo

GFS2: Use RCU for glock hash table

This has a number of advantages:

- Reduces contention on the hash table lock
- Makes the code smaller and simpler
- Should speed up glock dumps when under load
- Removes ref count changing in examine_bucket
- No longer need hash chain lock in glock_put() in common case

There are some further changes which this enables and which
we may do in the future. One is to look at using SLAB_RCU,
and another is to look at using a per-cpu counter for the
per-sb glock counter, since that is touched twice in the
lifetime of each glock (but only used at umount time).

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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GFS2: Remove duplicate #defines from glock.h

There are a number of duplicated #defines in glock.h
plus one which is unused. This removes the extra
definitions.

Signed-off-by

GFS2: Remove duplicate #defines from glock.h

There are a number of duplicated #defines in glock.h
plus one which is unused. This removes the extra
definitions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Clean up of gdlm_lock function

The DLM never returns -EAGAIN in response to dlm_lock(), and even
if it did, the test in gdlm_lock() was wrong anyway. Once that
test is removed,

GFS2: Clean up of gdlm_lock function

The DLM never returns -EAGAIN in response to dlm_lock(), and even
if it did, the test in gdlm_lock() was wrong anyway. Once that
test is removed, it is possible to greatly simplify this code
by simply using a "normal" error return code (0 for success).

We then no longer need the LM_OUT_ASYNC return code which can
be removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: fs/gfs2/glock.h: Add __attribute__((format(printf,2,3)) to gfs2_print_dbg

Functions that use printf formatting, especially
those that use %pV, should have their uses of
printf

GFS2: fs/gfs2/glock.h: Add __attribute__((format(printf,2,3)) to gfs2_print_dbg

Functions that use printf formatting, especially
those that use %pV, should have their uses of
printf format and arguments checked by the compiler.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: fixed typo

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

GFS2: Metadata address space clean up

Since the start of GFS2, an "extra" inode has been used to store
the metadata belonging to each inode. The only reason for using
this inode was

GFS2: Metadata address space clean up

Since the start of GFS2, an "extra" inode has been used to store
the metadata belonging to each inode. The only reason for using
this inode was to have an extra address space, the other fields
were unused. This means that the memory usage was rather inefficient.

The reason for keeping each inode's metadata in a separate address
space is that when glocks are requested on remote nodes, we need to
be able to efficiently locate the data and metadata which relating
to that glock (inode) in order to sync or sync and invalidate it
(depending on the remotely requested lock mode).

This patch adds a new type of glock, which has in addition to
its normal fields, has an address space. This applies to all
inode and rgrp glocks (but to no other glock types which remain
as before). As a result, we no longer need to have the second
inode.

This results in three major improvements:
1. A saving of approx 25% of memory used in caching inodes
2. A removal of the circular dependency between inodes and glocks
3. No confusion between "normal" and "metadata" inodes in super.c

Although the first of these is the more immediately apparent, the
second is just as important as it now enables a number of clean
ups at umount time. Those will be the subject of future patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Extend umount wait coverage to full glock lifetime

Although all glocks are, by the time of the umount glock wait,
scheduled for demotion, some of them haven't made it far
enoug

GFS2: Extend umount wait coverage to full glock lifetime

Although all glocks are, by the time of the umount glock wait,
scheduled for demotion, some of them haven't made it far
enough through the process for the original set of waiting
code to wait for them.

This extends the ref count to the whole glock lifetime in order
to ensure that the waiting does catch all glocks. It does make
it a bit more invasive, but it seems the only sensible solution
at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Remove obsolete code in quota.c

There is no point in testing for GLF_DEMOTE here, we might as
well always release the glock at that point.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Remove obsolete code in quota.c

There is no point in testing for GLF_DEMOTE here, we might as
well always release the glock at that point.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: remove dcache entries for remote deleted inodes

When a file is deleted from a gfs2 filesystem on one node, a dcache
entry for it may still exist on other nodes in the cluster. If t

GFS2: remove dcache entries for remote deleted inodes

When a file is deleted from a gfs2 filesystem on one node, a dcache
entry for it may still exist on other nodes in the cluster. If this
happens, gfs2 will be unable to free this file on disk. Because of this,
it's possible to have a gfs2 filesystem with no files on it and no free
space. With this patch, when a node receives a callback notifying it
that the file is being deleted on another node, it schedules a new
workqueue thread to remove the file's dcache entry.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Merge lock_dlm module into GFS2

This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time
now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change
such as:
o Reduci

GFS2: Merge lock_dlm module into GFS2

This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time
now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change
such as:
o Reducing overhead by eliminating duplicated fields between structures
o Simplifcation of the code (reduces the code size by a fair bit)
o The locking interface is now the DLM interface itself as proposed
some time ago.
o Fewer lookups of glocks when processing replies from the DLM
o Fewer memory allocations/deallocations for each glock
o Scope to do further optimisations in the future (but this patch is
more than big enough for now!)

Please note that (a) this patch relates to the lock_dlm module and
not the DLM itself, that is still a separate module; and (b) that
we retain the ability to build GFS2 as a standalone single node
filesystem with out requiring the DLM.

This patch needs a lot of testing, hence my keeping it I restarted
my -git tree after the last merge window. That way, this has the maximum
exposure before its merged. This is (modulo a few minor bug fixes) the
same patch that I've been posting on and off the the last three months
and its passed a number of different tests so far.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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Revert "GFS2: Fix use-after-free bug on umount"

This reverts commit 78802499912f1ba31ce83a94c55b5a980f250a43.

The original patch is causing problems in relation to order of
oper

Revert "GFS2: Fix use-after-free bug on umount"

This reverts commit 78802499912f1ba31ce83a94c55b5a980f250a43.

The original patch is causing problems in relation to order of
operations at umount in relation to jdata files. I need to fix
this a different way.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Fix use-after-free bug on umount

There was a use-after-free with the GFS2 super block during
umount. This patch moves almost all of the umount code from
->put_super into ->kill

GFS2: Fix use-after-free bug on umount

There was a use-after-free with the GFS2 super block during
umount. This patch moves almost all of the umount code from
->put_super into ->kill_sb, the only bit that cannot be moved
being the glock hash clearing which has to remain as ->put_super
due to umount ordering requirements. As a result its now obvious
that the kfree is the final operation, whereas before it was
hidden in ->put_super.

Also gfs2_jindex_free is then only referenced from a single file
so thats moved and marked static too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Kill two daemons with one patch

This patch removes the two daemons, gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd
and replaces them with a shrinker which is called from the VM.

The net resul

GFS2: Kill two daemons with one patch

This patch removes the two daemons, gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd
and replaces them with a shrinker which is called from the VM.

The net result is that GFS2 responds better when there is memory
pressure, since it shrinks the glock cache at the same rate
as the VFS shrinks the dcache and icache. There are no longer
any time based criteria for shrinking glocks, they are kept
until such time as the VM asks for more memory and then we
demote just as many glocks as required.

There are potential future changes to this code, including the
possibility of sorting the glocks which are to be written back
into inode number order, to get a better I/O ordering. It would
be very useful to have an elevator based workqueue implementation
for this, as that would automatically deal with the read I/O cases
at the same time.

This patch is my answer to Andrew Morton's remark, made during
the initial review of GFS2, asking why GFS2 needs so many kernel
threads, the answer being that it doesn't :-) This patch is a
net loss of about 200 lines of code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Fix "truncate in progress" hang

Following on from the recent clean up of gfs2_quotad, this patch moves
the processing of "truncate in progress" inodes from the glock workqueue

GFS2: Fix "truncate in progress" hang

Following on from the recent clean up of gfs2_quotad, this patch moves
the processing of "truncate in progress" inodes from the glock workqueue
into gfs2_quotad. This fixes a hang due to the "truncate in progress"
processing requiring glocks in order to complete.

It might seem odd to use gfs2_quotad for this particular item, but
we have to use a pre-existing thread since creating a thread implies
a GFP_KERNEL memory allocation which is not allowed from the glock
workqueue context. Of the existing threads, gfs2_logd and gfs2_recoverd
may deadlock if used for this operation. gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd are
both scheduled for removal at some (hopefully not too distant) future
point. That leaves only gfs2_quotad whose workload is generally fairly
light and is easily adapted for this extra task.

Also, as a result of this change, it opens the way for a future patch to
make the reading of the inode's information asynchronous with respect to
the glock workqueue, which is another improvement that has been on the list
for some time now.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: high time to take some time over atime

Until now, we've used the same scheme as GFS1 for atime. This has failed
since atime is a per vfsmnt flag, not a per fs flag and as such the

GFS2: high time to take some time over atime

Until now, we've used the same scheme as GFS1 for atime. This has failed
since atime is a per vfsmnt flag, not a per fs flag and as such the
"noatime" flag was not getting passed down to the filesystems. This
patch removes all the "special casing" around atime updates and we
simply use the VFS's atime code.

The net result is that GFS2 will now support all the same atime related
mount options of any other filesystem on a per-vfsmnt basis. We do lose
the "lazy atime" updates, but we gain "relatime". We could add lazy
atime to the VFS at a later date, if there is a requirement for that
variant still - I suspect relatime will be enough.

Also we lose about 100 lines of code after this patch has been applied,
and I have a suspicion that it will speed things up a bit, even when
atime is "on". So it seems like a nice clean up as well.

From a user perspective, everything stays the same except the loss of
the per-fs atime quantum tweekable (ought to be per-vfsmnt at the very
least, and to be honest I don't think anybody ever used it) and that a
number of options which were ignored before now work correctly.

Please let me know if you've got any comments. I'm pushing this out
early so that you can all see what my plans are.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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[GFS2] Remove remote lock dropping code

There are several reasons why this is undesirable:

1. It never happens during normal operation anyway
2. If it does happen it causes pe

[GFS2] Remove remote lock dropping code

There are several reasons why this is undesirable:

1. It never happens during normal operation anyway
2. If it does happen it causes performance to be very, very poor
3. It isn't likely to solve the original problem (memory shortage
on remote DLM node) it was supposed to solve
4. It uses a bunch of arbitrary constants which are unlikely to be
correct for any particular situation and for which the tuning seems
to be a black art.
5. In an N node cluster, only 1/N of the dropped locked will actually
contribute to solving the problem on average.

So all in all we are better off without it. This also makes merging
the lock_dlm module into GFS2 a bit easier.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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[GFS2] Clean up the glock core

This patch implements a number of cleanups to the core of the
GFS2 glock code. As a result a lot of code is removed. It looks
like a really big change,

[GFS2] Clean up the glock core

This patch implements a number of cleanups to the core of the
GFS2 glock code. As a result a lot of code is removed. It looks
like a really big change, but actually a large part of this patch
is either removing or moving existing code.

There are some new bits too though, such as the new run_queue()
function which is considerably streamlined. Highlights of this
patch include:

o Fixes a cluster coherency bug during SH -> EX lock conversions
o Removes the "glmutex" code in favour of a single bit lock
o Removes the ->go_xmote_bh() for inodes since it was duplicating
->go_lock()
o We now only use the ->lm_lock() function for both locks and
unlocks (i.e. unlock is a lock with target mode LM_ST_UNLOCKED)
o The fast path is considerably shortly, giving performance gains
especially with lock_nolock
o The glock_workqueue is now used for all the callbacks from the DLM
which allows us to simplify the lock_dlm module (see following patch)
o The way is now open to make further changes such as eliminating the two
threads (gfs2_glockd and gfs2_scand) in favour of a more efficient
scheme.

This patch has undergone extensive testing with various test suites
so it should be pretty stable by now.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>

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[GFS2] Fix a page lock / glock deadlock

We've previously been using a "try lock" in readpage on the basis that
it would prevent deadlocks due to the inverted lock ordering (our normal

[GFS2] Fix a page lock / glock deadlock

We've previously been using a "try lock" in readpage on the basis that
it would prevent deadlocks due to the inverted lock ordering (our normal
lock ordering is glock first and then page lock). Unfortunately tests
have shown that this isn't enough. If the glock has a demote request
queued such that run_queue() in the glock code tries to do a demote when
its called under readpage then it will try and write out all the dirty
pages which requires locking them. This then deadlocks with the page
locked by readpage.

The solution is to always require two calls into readpage. The first
unlocks the page, gets the glock and returns AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, the
second does the actual readpage and unlocks the glock & page as
required.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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