xfs: buffer pins need to hold a buffer reference

When a buffer is unpinned by xfs_buf_item_unpin(), we need to access
the buffer after we've dropped the buffer log item reference count.
This opens a

xfs: buffer pins need to hold a buffer reference

When a buffer is unpinned by xfs_buf_item_unpin(), we need to access
the buffer after we've dropped the buffer log item reference count.
This opens a window where we can have two racing unpins for the
buffer item (e.g. shutdown checkpoint context callback processing
racing with journal IO iclog completion processing) and both attempt
to access the buffer after dropping the BLI reference count. If we
are unlucky, the "BLI freed" context wins the race and frees the
buffer before the "BLI still active" case checks the buffer pin
count.

This results in a use after free that can only be triggered
in active filesystem shutdown situations.

To fix this, we need to ensure that buffer existence extends beyond
the BLI reference count checks and until the unpin processing is
complete. This implies that a buffer pin operation must also take a
buffer reference to ensure that the buffer cannot be freed until the
buffer unpin processing is complete.

Reported-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

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xfs: fix super block buf log item UAF during force shutdown

xfs log io error will trigger xlog shut down, and end_io worker call
xlog_state_shutdown_callbacks to unpin and release the buf log item.

xfs: fix super block buf log item UAF during force shutdown

xfs log io error will trigger xlog shut down, and end_io worker call
xlog_state_shutdown_callbacks to unpin and release the buf log item.
The race condition is that when there are some thread doing transaction
commit and happened not to be intercepted by xlog_is_shutdown, then,
these log item will be insert into CIL, when unpin and release these
buf log item, UAF will occur. BTW, add delay before `xlog_cil_commit`
can increase recurrence probability.

The following call graph actually encountered this bad situation.
fsstress io end worker kworker/0:1H-216
xlog_ioend_work
->xlog_force_shutdown
->xlog_state_shutdown_callbacks
->xlog_cil_process_committed
->xlog_cil_committed
->xfs_trans_committed_bulk
->xfs_trans_apply_sb_deltas ->li_ops->iop_unpin(lip, 1);
->xfs_trans_getsb
->_xfs_trans_bjoin
->xfs_buf_item_init
->if (bip) { return 0;} //relog
->xlog_cil_commit
->xlog_cil_insert_items //insert into CIL
->xfs_buf_ioend_fail(bp);
->xfs_buf_ioend
->xfs_buf_item_done
->xfs_buf_item_relse
->xfs_buf_item_free

when cil push worker gather percpu cil and insert super block buf log item
into ctx->log_items then uaf occurs.

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in xlog_cil_push_work+0x1c8f/0x22f0
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88801800f3f0 by task kworker/u4:4/105

CPU: 0 PID: 105 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Tainted: G W
6.1.0-rc1-00001-g274115149b42 #136
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: xfs-cil/sda xlog_cil_push_work
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x4d/0x66
print_report+0x171/0x4a6
kasan_report+0xb3/0x130
xlog_cil_push_work+0x1c8f/0x22f0
process_one_work+0x6f9/0xf70
worker_thread+0x578/0xf30
kthread+0x28c/0x330
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>

Allocated by task 2145:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x54/0x60
kmem_cache_alloc+0x14a/0x510
xfs_buf_item_init+0x160/0x6d0
_xfs_trans_bjoin+0x7f/0x2e0
xfs_trans_getsb+0xb6/0x3f0
xfs_trans_apply_sb_deltas+0x1f/0x8c0
__xfs_trans_commit+0xa25/0xe10
xfs_symlink+0xe23/0x1660
xfs_vn_symlink+0x157/0x280
vfs_symlink+0x491/0x790
do_symlinkat+0x128/0x220
__x64_sys_symlink+0x7a/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Freed by task 216:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x40
__kasan_slab_free+0x105/0x1a0
kmem_cache_free+0xb6/0x460
xfs_buf_ioend+0x1e9/0x11f0
xfs_buf_item_unpin+0x3d6/0x840
xfs_trans_committed_bulk+0x4c2/0x7c0
xlog_cil_committed+0xab6/0xfb0
xlog_cil_process_committed+0x117/0x1e0
xlog_state_shutdown_callbacks+0x208/0x440
xlog_force_shutdown+0x1b3/0x3a0
xlog_ioend_work+0xef/0x1d0
process_one_work+0x6f9/0xf70
worker_thread+0x578/0xf30
kthread+0x28c/0x330
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88801800f388
which belongs to the cache xfs_buf_item of size 272
The buggy address is located 104 bytes inside of
272-byte region [ffff88801800f388, ffff88801800f498)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0000600380 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
index:0xffff88801800f208 pfn:0x1800e
head:ffffea0000600380 order:1 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x1fffff80010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
raw: 001fffff80010200 ffffea0000699788 ffff88801319db50 ffff88800fb50640
raw: ffff88801800f208 000000000015000a 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88801800f280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88801800f300: fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88801800f380: fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88801800f400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88801800f480: fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

Signed-off-by: Guo Xuenan <guoxuenan@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: log items should have a xlog pointer, not a mount

Log items belong to the log, not the xfs_mount. Convert the mount
pointer in the log item to a xlog pointer in preparation for
upcoming log cen

xfs: log items should have a xlog pointer, not a mount

Log items belong to the log, not the xfs_mount. Convert the mount
pointer in the log item to a xlog pointer in preparation for
upcoming log centric changes to the log items.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: rename _zone variables to _cache

Now that we've gotten rid of the kmem_zone_t typedef, rename the
variables to _cache since that's what they are.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.

xfs: rename _zone variables to _cache

Now that we've gotten rid of the kmem_zone_t typedef, rename the
variables to _cache since that's what they are.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>

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xfs: remove kmem_zone typedef

Remove these typedefs by referencing kmem_cache directly.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>

xfs: convert bp->b_bn references to xfs_buf_daddr()

Stop directly referencing b_bn in code outside the buffer cache, as
b_bn is supposed to be used only as an internal cache index.

Signed-off-by: D

xfs: convert bp->b_bn references to xfs_buf_daddr()

Stop directly referencing b_bn in code outside the buffer cache, as
b_bn is supposed to be used only as an internal cache index.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: replace XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN with xfs_is_shutdown

Remove the shouty macro and instead use the inline function that
matches other state/feature check wrapper naming. This conversion
was done with

xfs: replace XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN with xfs_is_shutdown

Remove the shouty macro and instead use the inline function that
matches other state/feature check wrapper naming. This conversion
was done with sed.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: replace xfs_sb_version checks with feature flag checks

Convert the xfs_sb_version_hasfoo() to checks against
mp->m_features. Checks of the superblock itself during disk
operations (e.g. in the

xfs: replace xfs_sb_version checks with feature flag checks

Convert the xfs_sb_version_hasfoo() to checks against
mp->m_features. Checks of the superblock itself during disk
operations (e.g. in the read/write verifiers and the to/from disk
formatters) are not converted - they operate purely on the
superblock state. Everything else should use the mount features.

Large parts of this conversion were done with sed with commands like
this:

for f in `git grep -l xfs_sb_version_has fs/xfs/*.c`; do
sed -i -e 's/xfs_sb_version_has\(.*\)(&\(.*\)->m_sb)/xfs_has_\1(\2)/' $f
done

With manual cleanups for things like "xfs_has_extflgbit" and other
little inconsistencies in naming.

The result is ia lot less typing to check features and an XFS binary
size reduced by a bit over 3kB:

$ size -t fs/xfs/built-in.a
text data bss dec hex filenam
before 1130866 311352 484 1442702 16038e (TOTALS)
after 1127727 311352 484 1439563 15f74b (TOTALS)

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: remove dead stale buf unpin handling code

This code goes back to a time when transaction commits wrote
directly to iclogs. The associated log items were pinned, written to
the log, and then "un

xfs: remove dead stale buf unpin handling code

This code goes back to a time when transaction commits wrote
directly to iclogs. The associated log items were pinned, written to
the log, and then "uncommitted" if some part of the log write had
failed. This uncommit sequence called an ->iop_unpin_remove()
handler that was eventually folded into ->iop_unpin() via the remove
parameter. The log subsystem has since changed significantly in that
transactions commit to the CIL instead of direct to iclogs, though
log items must still be aborted in the event of an eventual log I/O
error. However, the context for a log item abort is now asynchronous
from transaction commit, which means the committing transaction has
been freed by this point in time and the transaction uncommit
sequence of events is no longer relevant.

Further, since stale buffers remain locked at transaction commit
through unpin, we can be certain that the buffer is not associated
with any transaction when the unpin callback executes. Remove this
unused hunk of code and replace it with an assertion that the buffer
is disassociated from transaction context.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: hold buffer across unpin and potential shutdown processing

The special processing used to simulate a buffer I/O failure on fs
shutdown has a difficult to reproduce race that can result in a use

xfs: hold buffer across unpin and potential shutdown processing

The special processing used to simulate a buffer I/O failure on fs
shutdown has a difficult to reproduce race that can result in a use
after free of the associated buffer. Consider a buffer that has been
committed to the on-disk log and thus is AIL resident. The buffer
lands on the writeback delwri queue, but is subsequently locked,
committed and pinned by another transaction before submitted for
I/O. At this point, the buffer is stuck on the delwri queue as it
cannot be submitted for I/O until it is unpinned. A log checkpoint
I/O failure occurs sometime later, which aborts the bli. The unpin
handler is called with the aborted log item, drops the bli reference
count, the pin count, and falls into the I/O failure simulation
path.

The potential problem here is that once the pin count falls to zero
in ->iop_unpin(), xfsaild is free to retry delwri submission of the
buffer at any time, before the unpin handler even completes. If
delwri queue submission wins the race to the buffer lock, it
observes the shutdown state and simulates the I/O failure itself.
This releases both the bli and delwri queue holds and frees the
buffer while xfs_buf_item_unpin() sits on xfs_buf_lock() waiting to
run through the same failure sequence. This problem is rare and
requires many iterations of fstest generic/019 (which simulates disk
I/O failures) to reproduce.

To avoid this problem, grab a hold on the buffer before the log item
is unpinned if the associated item has been aborted and will require
a simulated I/O failure. The hold is already required for the
simulated I/O failure, so the ordering simply guarantees the unpin
handler access to the buffer before it is unpinned and thus
processed by the AIL. This particular ordering is required so long
as the AIL does not acquire a reference on the bli, which is the
long term solution to this problem.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: xfs_log_force_lsn isn't passed a LSN

In doing an investigation into AIL push stalls, I was looking at the
log force code to see if an async CIL push could be done instead.
This lead me to xfs_l

xfs: xfs_log_force_lsn isn't passed a LSN

In doing an investigation into AIL push stalls, I was looking at the
log force code to see if an async CIL push could be done instead.
This lead me to xfs_log_force_lsn() and looking at how it works.

xfs_log_force_lsn() is only called from inode synchronisation
contexts such as fsync(), and it takes the ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn
value as the LSN to sync the log to. This gets passed to
xlog_cil_force_lsn() via xfs_log_force_lsn() to flush the CIL to the
journal, and then used by xfs_log_force_lsn() to flush the iclogs to
the journal.

The problem is that ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn does not store a
log sequence number. What it stores is passed to it from the
->iop_committing method, which is called by xfs_log_commit_cil().
The value this passes to the iop_committing method is the CIL
context sequence number that the item was committed to.

As it turns out, xlog_cil_force_lsn() converts the sequence to an
actual commit LSN for the related context and returns that to
xfs_log_force_lsn(). xfs_log_force_lsn() overwrites it's "lsn"
variable that contained a sequence with an actual LSN and then uses
that to sync the iclogs.

This caused me some confusion for a while, even though I originally
wrote all this code a decade ago. ->iop_committing is only used by
a couple of log item types, and only inode items use the sequence
number it is passed.

Let's clean up the API, CIL structures and inode log item to call it
a sequence number, and make it clear that the high level code is
using CIL sequence numbers and not on-disk LSNs for integrity
synchronisation purposes.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: Fix CIL throttle hang when CIL space used going backwards

A hang with tasks stuck on the CIL hard throttle was reported and
largely diagnosed by Donald Buczek, who discovered that it was a
resu

xfs: Fix CIL throttle hang when CIL space used going backwards

A hang with tasks stuck on the CIL hard throttle was reported and
largely diagnosed by Donald Buczek, who discovered that it was a
result of the CIL context space usage decrementing in committed
transactions once the hard throttle limit had been hit and processes
were already blocked. This resulted in the CIL push not waking up
those waiters because the CIL context was no longer over the hard
throttle limit.

The surprising aspect of this was the CIL space usage going
backwards regularly enough to trigger this situation. Assumptions
had been made in design that the relogging process would only
increase the size of the objects in the CIL, and so that space would
only increase.

This change and commit message fixes the issue and documents the
result of an audit of the triggers that can cause the CIL space to
go backwards, how large the backwards steps tend to be, the
frequency in which they occur, and what the impact on the CIL
accounting code is.

Even though the CIL ctx->space_used can go backwards, it will only
do so if the log item is already logged to the CIL and contains a
space reservation for it's entire logged state. This is tracked by
the shadow buffer state on the log item. If the item is not
previously logged in the CIL it has no shadow buffer nor log vector,
and hence the entire size of the logged item copied to the log
vector is accounted to the CIL space usage. i.e. it will always go
up in this case.

If the item has a log vector (i.e. already in the CIL) and the size
decreases, then the existing log vector will be overwritten and the
space usage will go down. This is the only condition where the space
usage reduces, and it can only occur when an item is already tracked
in the CIL. Hence we are safe from CIL space usage underruns as a
result of log items decreasing in size when they are relogged.

Typically this reduction in CIL usage occurs from metadata blocks
being free, such as when a btree block merge occurs or a directory
enter/xattr entry is removed and the da-tree is reduced in size.
This generally results in a reduction in size of around a single
block in the CIL, but also tends to increase the number of log
vectors because the parent and sibling nodes in the tree needs to be
updated when a btree block is removed. If a multi-level merge
occurs, then we see reduction in size of 2+ blocks, but again the
log vector count goes up.

The other vector is inode fork size changes, which only log the
current size of the fork and ignore the previously logged size when
the fork is relogged. Hence if we are removing items from the inode
fork (dir/xattr removal in shortform, extent record removal in
extent form, etc) the relogged size of the inode for can decrease.

No other log items can decrease in size either because they are a
fixed size (e.g. dquots) or they cannot be relogged (e.g. relogging
an intent actually creates a new intent log item and doesn't relog
the old item at all.) Hence the only two vectors for CIL context
size reduction are relogging inode forks and marking buffers active
in the CIL as stale.

Long story short: the majority of the code does the right thing and
handles the reduction in log item size correctly, and only the CIL
hard throttle implementation is problematic and needs fixing. This
patch makes that fix, as well as adds comments in the log item code
that result in items shrinking in size when they are relogged as a
clear reminder that this can and does happen frequently.

The throttle fix is based upon the change Donald proposed, though it
goes further to ensure that once the throttle is activated, it
captures all tasks until the CIL push issues a wakeup, regardless of
whether the CIL space used has gone back under the throttle
threshold.

This ensures that we prevent tasks reducing the CIL slightly under
the throttle threshold and then making more changes that push it
well over the throttle limit. This is acheived by checking if the
throttle wait queue is already active as a condition of throttling.
Hence once we start throttling, we continue to apply the throttle
until the CIL context push wakes everything on the wait queue.

We can use waitqueue_active() for the waitqueue manipulations and
checks as they are all done under the ctx->xc_push_lock. Hence the
waitqueue has external serialisation and we can safely peek inside
the wait queue without holding the internal waitqueue locks.

Many thanks to Donald for his diagnostic and analysis work to
isolate the cause of this hang.

Reported-and-tested-by: Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: optimise xfs_buf_item_size/format for contiguous regions

We process the buf_log_item bitmap one set bit at a time with
xfs_next_bit() so we can detect if a region crosses a memcpy
discontinuity

xfs: optimise xfs_buf_item_size/format for contiguous regions

We process the buf_log_item bitmap one set bit at a time with
xfs_next_bit() so we can detect if a region crosses a memcpy
discontinuity in the buffer data address. This has massive overhead
on large buffers (e.g. 64k directory blocks) because we do a lot of
unnecessary checks and xfs_buf_offset() calls.

For example, 16-way concurrent create workload on debug kernel
running CPU bound has this at the top of the profile at ~120k
create/s on 64kb directory block size:

20.66% [kernel] [k] xfs_dir3_leaf_check_int
7.10% [kernel] [k] memcpy
6.22% [kernel] [k] xfs_next_bit
3.55% [kernel] [k] xfs_buf_offset
3.53% [kernel] [k] xfs_buf_item_format
3.34% [kernel] [k] __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
3.04% [kernel] [k] do_raw_spin_lock
2.84% [kernel] [k] xfs_buf_item_size_segment.isra.0
2.31% [kernel] [k] __raw_callee_save___pv_queued_spin_unlock
1.36% [kernel] [k] xfs_log_commit_cil

(debug checks hurt large blocks)

The only buffers with discontinuities in the data address are
unmapped buffers, and they are only used for inode cluster buffers
and only for logging unlinked pointers. IOWs, it is -rare- that we
even need to detect a discontinuity in the buffer item formatting
code.

Optimise all this by using xfs_contig_bits() to find the size of
the contiguous regions, then test for a discontiunity inside it. If
we find one, do the slow "bit at a time" method we do now. If we
don't, then just copy the entire contiguous range in one go.

Profile now looks like:

25.26% [kernel] [k] xfs_dir3_leaf_check_int
9.25% [kernel] [k] memcpy
5.01% [kernel] [k] __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
2.84% [kernel] [k] do_raw_spin_lock
2.22% [kernel] [k] __raw_callee_save___pv_queued_spin_unlock
1.88% [kernel] [k] xfs_buf_find
1.53% [kernel] [k] memmove
1.47% [kernel] [k] xfs_log_commit_cil
....
0.34% [kernel] [k] xfs_buf_item_format
....
0.21% [kernel] [k] xfs_buf_offset
....
0.16% [kernel] [k] xfs_contig_bits
....
0.13% [kernel] [k] xfs_buf_item_size_segment.isra.0

So the bit scanning over for the dirty region tracking for the
buffer log items is basically gone. Debug overhead hurts even more
now...

Perf comparison

dir block creates unlink
size (kb) time rate time

Original 4 4m08s 220k 5m13s
Original 64 7m21s 115k 13m25s
Patched 4 3m59s 230k 5m03s
Patched 64 6m23s 143k 12m33s

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: xfs_buf_item_size_segment() needs to pass segment offset

Otherwise it doesn't correctly calculate the number of vectors
in a logged buffer that has a contiguous map that gets split into
multipl

xfs: xfs_buf_item_size_segment() needs to pass segment offset

Otherwise it doesn't correctly calculate the number of vectors
in a logged buffer that has a contiguous map that gets split into
multiple regions because the range spans discontigous memory.

Probably never been hit in practice - we don't log contiguous ranges
on unmapped buffers (inode clusters).

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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xfs: reduce buffer log item shadow allocations

When we modify btrees repeatedly, we regularly increase the size of
the logged region by a single chunk at a time (per transaction
commit). This result

xfs: reduce buffer log item shadow allocations

When we modify btrees repeatedly, we regularly increase the size of
the logged region by a single chunk at a time (per transaction
commit). This results in the CIL formatting code having to
reallocate the log vector buffer every time the buffer dirty region
grows. Hence over a typical 4kB btree buffer, we might grow the log
vector 4096/128 = 32x over a short period where we repeatedly add
or remove records to/from the buffer over a series of running
transaction. This means we are doing 32 memory allocations and frees
over this time during a performance critical path in the journal.

The amount of space tracked in the CIL for the object is calculated
during the ->iop_format() call for the buffer log item, but the
buffer memory allocated for it is calculated by the ->iop_size()
call. The size callout determines the size of the buffer, the format
call determines the space used in the buffer.

Hence we can oversize the buffer space required in the size
calculation without impacting the amount of space used and accounted
to the CIL for the changes being logged. This allows us to reduce
the number of allocations by rounding up the buffer size to allow
for future growth. This can safe a substantial amount of CPU time in
this path:

- 46.52% 2.02% [kernel] [k] xfs_log_commit_cil
- 44.49% xfs_log_commit_cil
- 30.78% _raw_spin_lock
- 30.75% do_raw_spin_lock
30.27% __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath

(oh, ouch!)
....
- 1.05% kmem_alloc_large
- 1.02% kmem_alloc
0.94% __kmalloc

This overhead here us what this patch is aimed at. After:

- 0.76% kmem_alloc_large
- 0.75% kmem_alloc
0.70% __kmalloc

The size of 512 bytes is based on the bitmap chunk size being 128
bytes and that random directory entry updates almost never require
more than 3-4 128 byte regions to be logged in the directory block.

The other observation is for per-ag btrees. When we are inserting
into a new btree block, we'll pack it from the front. Hence the
first few records land in the first 128 bytes so we log only 128
bytes, the next 8-16 records land in the second region so now we log
256 bytes. And so on. If we are doing random updates, it will only
allocate every 4 random 128 byte regions that are dirtied instead of
every single one.

Any larger than 512 bytes and I noticed an increase in memory
footprint in my scalability workloads. Any less than this and I
didn't really see any significant benefit to CPU usage.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>

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xfs: remove xfs_buf_t typedef

Prepare for kernel xfs_buf alignment by getting rid of the
xfs_buf_t typedef from userspace.

[darrick: This patch is a port of a userspace patch removing the
xfs_buf_

xfs: remove xfs_buf_t typedef

Prepare for kernel xfs_buf alignment by getting rid of the
xfs_buf_t typedef from userspace.

[darrick: This patch is a port of a userspace patch removing the
xfs_buf_t typedef in preparation to make the userspace xfs_buf code
behave more like its kernel counterpart.]

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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xfs: remove xlog_recover_iodone

The log recovery I/O completion handler does not substancially differ from
the normal one except for the fact that it:

a) never retries failed writes
b) can have l

xfs: remove xlog_recover_iodone

The log recovery I/O completion handler does not substancially differ from
the normal one except for the fact that it:

a) never retries failed writes
b) can have log items that aren't on the AIL
c) never has inode/dquot log items attached and thus don't need to
handle them

Add conditionals for (a) and (b) to the ioend code, while (c) doesn't
need special handling anyway.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

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xfs: use xfs_buf_item_relse in xfs_buf_item_done

Reuse xfs_buf_item_relse instead of duplicating it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.

xfs: use xfs_buf_item_relse in xfs_buf_item_done

Reuse xfs_buf_item_relse instead of duplicating it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

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xfs: move the buffer retry logic to xfs_buf.c

Move the buffer retry state machine logic to xfs_buf.c and call it once
from xfs_ioend instead of duplicating it three times for the three kinds
of buff

xfs: move the buffer retry logic to xfs_buf.c

Move the buffer retry state machine logic to xfs_buf.c and call it once
from xfs_ioend instead of duplicating it three times for the three kinds
of buffers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

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xfs: refactor the buf ioend disposition code

Handle the no-error case in xfs_buf_iodone_error as well, and to clarify
the code rename the function, use the actual enum type as return value
and then

xfs: refactor the buf ioend disposition code

Handle the no-error case in xfs_buf_iodone_error as well, and to clarify
the code rename the function, use the actual enum type as return value
and then switch on it in the callers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

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xfs: delete duplicated words + other fixes

Delete repeated words in fs/xfs/.
{we, that, the, a, to, fork}
Change "it it" to "it is" in one location.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.o

xfs: delete duplicated words + other fixes

Delete repeated words in fs/xfs/.
{we, that, the, a, to, fork}
Change "it it" to "it is" in one location.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

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xfs: Remove kmem_zone_zalloc() usage

Use kmem_cache_zalloc() directly.

With the exception of xlog_ticket_alloc() which will be dealt on the
next patch for readability.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellw

xfs: Remove kmem_zone_zalloc() usage

Use kmem_cache_zalloc() directly.

With the exception of xlog_ticket_alloc() which will be dealt on the
next patch for readability.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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xfs: remove duplicated include from xfs_buf_item.c

Remove duplicated include.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by:

xfs: remove duplicated include from xfs_buf_item.c

Remove duplicated include.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>

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xfs: attach inodes to the cluster buffer when dirtied

Rather than attach inodes to the cluster buffer just when we are
doing IO, attach the inodes to the cluster buffer when they are
dirtied. The me

xfs: attach inodes to the cluster buffer when dirtied

Rather than attach inodes to the cluster buffer just when we are
doing IO, attach the inodes to the cluster buffer when they are
dirtied. The means the buffer always carries a list of dirty inodes
that reference it, and we can use that list to make more fundamental
changes to inode writeback that aren't otherwise possible.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

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xfs: pin inode backing buffer to the inode log item

When we dirty an inode, we are going to have to write it disk at
some point in the near future. This requires the inode cluster
backing buffer to

xfs: pin inode backing buffer to the inode log item

When we dirty an inode, we are going to have to write it disk at
some point in the near future. This requires the inode cluster
backing buffer to be present in memory. Unfortunately, under severe
memory pressure we can reclaim the inode backing buffer while the
inode is dirty in memory, resulting in stalling the AIL pushing
because it has to do a read-modify-write cycle on the cluster
buffer.

When we have no memory available, the read of the cluster buffer
blocks the AIL pushing process, and this causes all sorts of issues
for memory reclaim as it requires inode writeback to make forwards
progress. Allocating a cluster buffer causes more memory pressure,
and results in more cluster buffers to be reclaimed, resulting in
more RMW cycles to be done in the AIL context and everything then
backs up on AIL progress. Only the synchronous inode cluster
writeback in the the inode reclaim code provides some level of
forwards progress guarantees that prevent OOM-killer rampages in
this situation.

Fix this by pinning the inode backing buffer to the inode log item
when the inode is first dirtied (i.e. in xfs_trans_log_inode()).
This may mean the first modification of an inode that has been held
in cache for a long time may block on a cluster buffer read, but
we can do that in transaction context and block safely until the
buffer has been allocated and read.

Once we have the cluster buffer, the inode log item takes a
reference to it, pinning it in memory, and attaches it to the log
item for future reference. This means we can always grab the cluster
buffer from the inode log item when we need it.

When the inode is finally cleaned and removed from the AIL, we can
drop the reference the inode log item holds on the cluster buffer.
Once all inodes on the cluster buffer are clean, the cluster buffer
will be unpinned and it will be available for memory reclaim to
reclaim again.

This avoids the issues with needing to do RMW cycles in the AIL
pushing context, and hence allows complete non-blocking inode
flushing to be performed by the AIL pushing context.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

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