gfs2: invalidate_inodes() is no-op there

In fill_super() we hadn't MS_ACTIVE set yet, so there won't
be any inodes with zero i_count sitting around.

In put_super() we already have MS_ACTIVE removed

gfs2: invalidate_inodes() is no-op there

In fill_super() we hadn't MS_ACTIVE set yet, so there won't
be any inodes with zero i_count sitting around.

In put_super() we already have MS_ACTIVE removed *and* we
had called invalidate_inodes() since then. So again there
won't be any inodes with zero i_count...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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GFS2: Add "norecovery" mount option as a synonym for "spectator"

XFS supports the "norecovery" mount option which is basically the
same as the GFS2 spectator mode. This adds support for "norecovery"

GFS2: Add "norecovery" mount option as a synonym for "spectator"

XFS supports the "norecovery" mount option which is basically the
same as the GFS2 spectator mode. This adds support for "norecovery"
as a synonym for spectator mode, which is hopefully a more obvious
description of what it actually does.

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

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GFS2: Remove upgrade mount option

This option has never done anything useful. Also at the same time
this cleans up the sb checks which are done at mount time. The
debug option will be accepted, but

GFS2: Remove upgrade mount option

This option has never done anything useful. Also at the same time
this cleans up the sb checks which are done at mount time. The
debug option will be accepted, but ignored in future. Since it
didn't do anything, there didn't seem much point in retaining it.

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

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GFS2: Remove localcaching mount option

This option defaulted to on for lock_nolock mounts and off
otherwise. The only function was to avoid the revalidation of
dentries. In the cluster case, that is

GFS2: Remove localcaching mount option

This option defaulted to on for lock_nolock mounts and off
otherwise. The only function was to avoid the revalidation of
dentries. In the cluster case, that is entirely pointless and
liable to cause coherency problems.

The patch changes the revalidation to depend upon whether the
fs is a local or cluster fs (i.e. it follows the existing default
behaviour). I very much doubt anybody ever used this option as
there is no reason to. Even so we will continue to accept it
on the mount command line, but ignore it.

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

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GFS2: Remove ignore_local_fs mount argument

This is been a no-op for a very long time now. I'm pretty sure
nobody uses it, but just in case we'll still accept it on the
command line, but ignore it.

GFS2: Remove ignore_local_fs mount argument

This is been a no-op for a very long time now. I'm pretty sure
nobody uses it, but just in case we'll still accept it on the
command line, but ignore it.

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

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GFS2: Remove i_disksize

With the update of the truncate code, ip->i_disksize and
inode->i_size are merely copies of each other. This means
we can remove ip->i_disksize and use inode->i_size exclusiv

GFS2: Remove i_disksize

With the update of the truncate code, ip->i_disksize and
inode->i_size are merely copies of each other. This means
we can remove ip->i_disksize and use inode->i_size exclusively
reducing the size of a GFS2 inode by 8 bytes.

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

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Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped

... and let iput_final() do the actual eviction or retention

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

switch gfs2 to ->evict_inode()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

GFS2: Simplify gfs2_write_alloc_required

Function gfs2_write_alloc_required always returned zero as its
return code. Therefore, it doesn't need to return a return code
at all. Given that, we can u

GFS2: Simplify gfs2_write_alloc_required

Function gfs2_write_alloc_required always returned zero as its
return code. Therefore, it doesn't need to return a return code
at all. Given that, we can use the return value to return whether
or not the dinode needs block allocations rather than passing
that value in, which in turn simplifies a bunch of error checking.

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

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GFS2: Add some useful messages

The following patch adds a message to indicate when barriers have been
disabled due to a block device which doesn't support them. You could
already tell this via the m

GFS2: Add some useful messages

The following patch adds a message to indicate when barriers have been
disabled due to a block device which doesn't support them. You could
already tell this via the mount options in /proc/mounts, but all the
other filesystems also log a message at the same time.

Also, the same mechanisms are used to indicate when the lock
demote interface has been used (only ever used for debugging)
which is a request from our support team.

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

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GFS2: Various gfs2_logd improvements

This patch contains various tweaks to how log flushes and active item writeback
work. gfs2_logd is now managed by a waitqueue, and gfs2_log_reseve now waits
for

GFS2: Various gfs2_logd improvements

This patch contains various tweaks to how log flushes and active item writeback
work. gfs2_logd is now managed by a waitqueue, and gfs2_log_reseve now waits
for gfs2_logd to do the log flushing. Multiple functions were rewritten to
remove the need to call gfs2_log_lock(). Instead of using one test to see if
gfs2_logd had work to do, there are now seperate tests to check if there
are two many buffers in the incore log or if there are two many items on the
active items list.

This patch is a port of a patch Steve Whitehouse wrote about a year ago, with
some minor changes. Since gfs2_ail1_start always submits all the active items,
it no longer needs to keep track of the first ai submitted, so this has been
removed. In gfs2_log_reserve(), the order of the calls to
prepare_to_wait_exclusive() and wake_up() when firing off the logd thread has
been switched. If it called wake_up first there was a small window for a race,
where logd could run and return before gfs2_log_reserve was ready to get woken
up. If gfs2_logd ran, but did not free up enough blocks, gfs2_log_reserve()
would be left waiting for gfs2_logd to eventualy run because it timed out.
Finally, gt_logd_secs, which controls how long to wait before gfs2_logd times
out, and flushes the log, can now be set on mount with ar_commit.

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

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pass writeback_control to ->write_inode

This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
is happening. Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
and other filesys

pass writeback_control to ->write_inode

This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
is happening. Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to
distinguish between the different callers in more detail.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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quota: move code from sync_quota_sb into vfs_quota_sync

Currenly sync_quota_sb does a lot of sync and truncate action that only
applies to "VFS" style quotas and is actively harmful for the sync
per

quota: move code from sync_quota_sb into vfs_quota_sync

Currenly sync_quota_sb does a lot of sync and truncate action that only
applies to "VFS" style quotas and is actively harmful for the sync
performance in XFS. Move it into vfs_quota_sync and add a wait parameter
to ->quota_sync to tell if we need it or not.

My audit of the GFS2 code says it's also not needed given the way GFS2
implements quotas, but I'd be happy if this can get a detailed review.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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GFS2: Remove loopy umount code

As a consequence of the previous patch, we can now remove the
loop which used to be required due to the circular dependency
between the inodes and glocks. Instead we c

GFS2: Remove loopy umount code

As a consequence of the previous patch, we can now remove the
loop which used to be required due to the circular dependency
between the inodes and glocks. Instead we can just invalidate
the inodes, and then clear up any glocks which are left.

Also we no longer need the rwsem since there is no longer any
danger of the inode invalidation calling back into the glock
code (and from there back into the inode code).

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

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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

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
enough through the pr

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: Wait for unlock completion on umount

This patch adds a wait on umount between the point at which we
dispose of all glocks and the point at which we unmount the
lock protocol. This ensures that

GFS2: Wait for unlock completion on umount

This patch adds a wait on umount between the point at which we
dispose of all glocks and the point at which we unmount the
lock protocol. This ensures that we've received all the replies
to our unlock requests before we stop the locking.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Display nobarrier option in /proc/mounts

Since the default is barriers on, this only displays the
nobarrier option when that is active.

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

GFS2: add barrier/nobarrier mount options

Currently gfs2 issues barrier unconditionally. There are various reasons
to disable them, be that just for testing or for stupid devices flushing
large bat

GFS2: add barrier/nobarrier mount options

Currently gfs2 issues barrier unconditionally. There are various reasons
to disable them, be that just for testing or for stupid devices flushing
large battert backed caches. Add a nobarrier option that matches xfs and
btrfs for this. Also add a symmetric barrier option to turn it back on
at remount time.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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GFS2: remove division from new statfs code

It's not necessary to do any 64bit division for the statfs sync code, so
remove it.

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

GFS2: remove division from new statfs code

It's not necessary to do any 64bit division for the statfs sync code, so
remove it.

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

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GFS2: Improve statfs and quota usability

GFS2 now has three new mount options, statfs_quantum, quota_quantum and
statfs_percent. statfs_quantum and quota_quantum simply allow you to
set the tunable

GFS2: Improve statfs and quota usability

GFS2 now has three new mount options, statfs_quantum, quota_quantum and
statfs_percent. statfs_quantum and quota_quantum simply allow you to
set the tunables of the same name. Setting setting statfs_quantum to 0
will also turn on the statfs_slow tunable. statfs_percent accepts an
integer between 0 and 100. Numbers between 1 and 100 will cause GFS2 to
do any early sync when the local number of blocks free changes by at
least statfs_percent from the totoal number of blocks free. Setting
statfs_percent to 0 disables this.

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

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GFS2: Alter arguments of gfs2_quota/statfs_sync

These two functions are altered so that gfs2_quota_sync may
in future be called directly from the VFS. The GFS2 superblock
changes to a VFS super bloc

GFS2: Alter arguments of gfs2_quota/statfs_sync

These two functions are altered so that gfs2_quota_sync may
in future be called directly from the VFS. The GFS2 superblock
changes to a VFS super block and there is an addition of an int
argument which is currently ignored.

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

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GFS2: Fix -o meta mounts for subsequent mounts (i.e. all but the first one)

We have a long term plan to use the "-o meta" flag to GFS2 mounts to
access the alternate root which is used to store meta

GFS2: Fix -o meta mounts for subsequent mounts (i.e. all but the first one)

We have a long term plan to use the "-o meta" flag to GFS2 mounts to
access the alternate root which is used to store metadata for a GFS2
filesystem. This will allow us to eventually remove support for the
gfs2meta filesystem type (which is in any case just a "front end" to
the gfs2 filesystem type with the meta/master root).

Currently the "-o meta" option is only taken into account on the
initial mount of the filesystem. Subsequent mounts of the same
filesystem (i.e. on the same device) result in basically the same
as bind mounting the root of the original mount.

This patch changes that by using what is more or less a copy
of get_sb_bdev() and extending it so that it will take into
account the alternate root in all cases. The main difference
is that we have to parse the mount options a bit earlier. We can
then use them to select the appropriate root towards the end of
the function.

In addition this also fixes a bug where it was possible (but certainly
not desirable) to set different ro/rw options for the meta root
when mounted via the gfs2meta fs compared with the original mount.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>

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GFS2: Be extra careful about deallocating inodes

There is a potential race in the inode deallocation code if two
nodes try to deallocate the same inode at the same time. Most of
the issue is solved

GFS2: Be extra careful about deallocating inodes

There is a potential race in the inode deallocation code if two
nodes try to deallocate the same inode at the same time. Most of
the issue is solved by the iopen locking. There is still a small
window which is not covered by the iopen lock. This patches fixes
that and also makes the deallocation code more robust in the face of
any errors in the rgrp bitmaps, or erroneous iopen callbacks from
other nodes.

This does introduce one extra disk read, but that is generally not
an issue since its the same block that must be written to later
in the deallocation process. The total disk accesses therefore stay
the same,

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

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GFS2: Remove no_formal_ino generating code

The inum structure used throughout GFS2 has two fields. One
no_addr is the disk block number of the inode in question and
is used everywhere as the inode n

GFS2: Remove no_formal_ino generating code

The inum structure used throughout GFS2 has two fields. One
no_addr is the disk block number of the inode in question and
is used everywhere as the inode number. The other, no_formal_ino,
is used only as the generation number for NFS.

Historically the no_formal_ino field was set using a complicated
system of one global and one per-node file containing inode numbers
in order to ensure that each no_formal_ino was unique. Also this
code made no provision for what would happen when eventually the
(64 bit) numbers ran out. Now I know that is pretty unlikely to
happen given the large space of numbers, but it is possible
nevertheless.

The only guarantee required for no_formal_ino is that, for any
single inode, the same number doesn't get reused too quickly.

We already have a generation number which is kept in the inode
and initialised from a counter in the resource group (almost
no overhead, since we have to touch the resource group anyway
in order to allocate an inode in the first place). Aside from
ensuring that we never use the value 0 in the no_formal_ino
field, we can use that counter directly.

As a result of that change, we lose about 200 lines of code and
also gain about 10 creates/sec on the postmark benchmark (on
my test machine).

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

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