Using yield() is strongly discouraged (see sched/core.c) especially
since we can just use cond_resched().
Replace all use of yield() with cond_resched().
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_releasepage() warns when it is passed a page with PageChecked set.
However this can correctly happen when invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
invalidates pages - and we should fail the release in that case. Since
the page was dirty anyway, it won't be discarded and no harm has
happened but it's good to be safe. Also remove bogus page_has_buffers()
check - we are guaranteed page has buffers in this function.
Reported-by: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
This commit fixes a wrong return value of the number of the allocated
blocks in ext4_split_extent. When the length of blocks we want to
allocate is greater than the length of the current extent, we return a
wrong number. Let's see what happens in the following case when we
call ext4_split_extent().
map: [48, 72]
ex: [32, 64, u]
'ex' will be split into two parts:
ex1: [32, 47, u]
ex2: [48, 64, w]
'map->m_len' is returned from this function, and the value is 24. But
the real length is 16. So it should be fixed.
Meanwhile in this commit we use right length of the allocated blocks
when get_reserved_cluster_alloc in ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents
is called.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
When we try to split an extent, this extent could be zeroed out and mark
as initialized. But we don't know this in ext4_map_blocks because it
only returns a length of allocated extent. Meanwhile we will mark this
extent as uninitialized because we only check m_flags.
This commit update extent status tree when we try to split an unwritten
extent. We don't need to worry about the status of this extent because
we always mark it as initialized.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
The ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents() function was assuming the
return value of ext4_ext_map_blocks() is equal to map->m_len. This
incorrect assumption was harmless until we started use status tree as
a extent cache because we need to update status tree according to
'm_len' value.
Meanwhile this commit marks EXT4_MAP_MAPPED flag after unwritten extent
conversion. It shouldn't cause a bug because we update status tree
according to checking EXT4_MAP_UNWRITTEN flag. But it should be fixed.
After applied this commit, the following error message from self-testing
infrastructure disappears.
...
kernel: ES len assertation failed for inode: 230 retval 1 !=
map->m_len 3 in ext4_map_blocks (allocation)
...
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
This commit adds a self-testing infrastructure like extent tree does to
do a sanity check for extent status tree. After status tree is as a
extent cache, we'd better to make sure that it caches right result.
After applied this commit, we will get a lot of messages when we run
xfstests as below.
...
kernel: ES len assertation failed for inode: 230 retval 1 != map->m_len
3 in ext4_map_blocks (allocation)
...
kernel: ES cache assertation failed for inode: 230 es_cached ex
[974/2/4781/20] != found ex [974/1/4781/1000]
...
kernel: ES insert assertation failed for inode: 635 ex_status
[0/45/21388/w] != es_status [44/1/21432/u]
...
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Check the length of an extent to avoid a potential overflow in
ext4_es_can_be_merged().
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
mext_replace_branches() will change inode's extents layout so
we have to drop corresponding cache.
TESTCASE: 301'th xfstest was not yet accepted to official xfstest's branch
and can be found here: 7b7efeee30
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Now that we don't merge uninitialized extents anymore,
ext4_fallocate() is free to operate on the inode while there are still
some extent conversions pending - it won't disturb them in any way.
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Splitting extents inside endio is a bad thing, but unfortunately it is
still possible. In fact we are pretty close to the moment when all
related issues will be fixed. Let's warn developer if it still the
case.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Derived from Jan's patch:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/36470
Merging of uninitialized extents creates all sorts of interesting race
possibilities when writeback / DIO races with fallocate. Thus
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio() has to deal with a case where
extent to be converted needs to be split out first. That isn't nice
for two reasons:
1) It may need allocation of extent tree block so ENOSPC is possible.
2) It complicates end_io handling code
So we disable merging of uninitialized extents which allows us to simplify
the code. Extents will get merged after they are converted to initialized
ones.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
When ext4_split_extent_at() ends up doing zeroout & conversion to
initialized instead of split & conversion, ext4_split_extent() gets
confused and can wrongly mark the extent back as uninitialized
resulting in end IO code getting confused from large unwritten extents
and may result in data loss.
The example of problematic behavior is:
lblk len lblk len
ext4_split_extent() (ex=[1000,30,uninit], map=[1010,10])
ext4_split_extent_at() (split [1000,30,uninit] at 1020)
ext4_ext_insert_extent() -> ENOSPC
ext4_ext_zeroout()
-> extent [1000,30] is now initialized
ext4_split_extent_at() (split [1000,30,init] at 1010,
MARK_UNINIT1 | MARK_UNINIT2)
-> extent is split and parts marked as uninitialized
Fix the problem by rechecking extent type after the first
ext4_split_extent_at() returns. None of split_flags can not be applied
to initialized extent so this patch also add BUG_ON to prevent similar
issues in future.
TESTCASE: b8a55eb5ce
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
When using quota feature we need to enable quotas before orphan cleanup
so that changes happening during it are properly reflected in quota
accounting.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
So far we silently ignored when quota mount options were set while quota
feature was enabled. But this can create confusion in userspace when
mount options are set but silently ignored and also creates opportunities
for bugs when we don't properly test all quota types. Actually
ext4_mark_dquot_dirty() forgets to test for quota feature so it was
dependent on journaled quota options being set. OTOH ext4_orphan_cleanup()
tries to enable journaled quota when quota options are specified which is
wrong when quota feature is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_dir_llseek is only used as a callback function, and no one calls
it directly. So make it as a static function in order to remove a
warning message from sparse check.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We're using macro EXT4_B2C() to convert number of blocks to number of
clusters for bigalloc file systems. However, we should be using
EXT4_NUM_B2C().
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
'orig_data' is malloced in ext4_remount() and should be freed
before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will
cause memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Use a percpu counter rather than atomic types for shrinker accounting.
There's no need for ultimate accuracy in the shrinker, so this
should come a little more cheaply. The percpu struct is somewhat
large, but there was a big gap before the cache-aligned
s_es_lru_lock anyway, and it fits nicely in there.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When the system is under memory pressure, ext4_es_srhink() will get
called very often. So optimize returning the number of items in the
file system's extent status cache by keeping a per-filesystem count,
instead of calculating it each time by scanning all of the inodes in
the extent status cache.
Also rename the slab used for the extent status cache to be
"ext4_extent_status" so it's obviousl the slab in question is created
by ext4.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
This fixes a regression introduced by commit f7fec032aa. The
problem was that the extents status flags caused us to mask out block
numbers smaller than 2**28 blocks. Since we didn't test with file
systems smaller than 512GB, we didn't notice this during the
development cycle.
A typical failure looks like this:
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): htree_dirblock_to_tree:919: inode #172235804: block
152052301: comm ls: bad entry in directory: rec_len is smaller than minimal -
offset=0(0), inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
... where 'debugfs -R "stat <172235804>" /dev/sdb1' reports that the
inode has block number 688923213. When viewed in hex, block number
152052301 (from the syslog) is 0x910224D, while block number 688923213
is 0x2910224D. Note the missing "0x20000000" in the block number.
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Verified-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Verified-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_has_free_clusters() should tell us whether there is enough free
clusters to allocate, however number of free clusters in the file system
is converted to blocks using EXT4_C2B() which is not only wrong use of
the macro (we should have used EXT4_NUM_B2C) but it's also completely
wrong concept since everything else is in cluster units.
Moreover when calculating number of root clusters we should be using
macro EXT4_NUM_B2C() instead of EXT4_B2C() otherwise the result might be
off by one. However r_blocks_count should always be a multiple of the
cluster ratio so doing a plain bit shift should be enough here. We
avoid using EXT4_B2C() because it's confusing.
As a result of the first problem number of free clusters is much bigger
than it should have been and ext4_has_free_clusters() would return 1 even
if there is really not enough free clusters available.
Fix this by removing the EXT4_C2B() conversion of free clusters and
using bit shift when calculating number of root clusters. This bug
affects number of xfstests tests covering file system ENOSPC situation
handling. With this patch most of the ENOSPC problems with bigalloc file
system disappear, especially the errors caused by delayed allocation not
having enough space when the actual allocation is finally requested.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
len is 0 means no extent needs to be removed, so return immediately.
Otherwise it could trigger the following BUG_ON() in
ext4_es_remove_extent()
end = lblk + len - 1;
BUG_ON(end < lblk);
This could be reproduced by a simple truncate(1) command by an
unprivileged user
truncate -s $(($((2**32 - 1)) * 4096)) /mnt/ext4/testfile
The same is true for __es_insert_extent().
Patched kernel passed xfstests regression test.
Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Currently when new xattr block is created or released we we would call
dquot_free_block() or dquot_alloc_block() respectively, among the else
decrementing or incrementing the number of blocks assigned to the
inode by one block.
This however does not work for bigalloc file system because we always
allocate/free the whole cluster so we have to count with that in
dquot_free_block() and dquot_alloc_block() as well.
Use the clusters-to-blocks conversion EXT4_C2B() when passing number of
blocks to the dquot_alloc/free functions to fix the problem.
The problem has been revealed by xfstests #117 (and possibly others).
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Although extent status is loaded on-demand, we also need to reclaim
extent from the tree when we are under a heavy memory pressure because
in some cases fragmented extent tree causes status tree costs too much
memory.
Here we maintain a lru list in super_block. When the extent status of
an inode is accessed and changed, this inode will be move to the tail
of the list. The inode will be dropped from this list when it is
cleared. In the inode, a counter is added to count the number of
cached objects in extent status tree. Here only written/unwritten/hole
extent is counted because delayed extent doesn't be reclaimed due to
fiemap, bigalloc and seek_data/hole need it. The counter will be
increased as a new extent is allocated, and it will be decreased as a
extent is freed.
In this commit we use normal shrinker framework to reclaim memory from
the status tree. ext4_es_reclaim_extents_count() traverses the lru list
to count the number of reclaimable extents. ext4_es_shrink() tries to
reclaim written/unwritten/hole extents from extent status tree. The
inode that has been shrunk is moved to the tail of lru list.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
This commit changes some interfaces in extent status tree because we
need to use inode to count the cached objects in a extent status tree.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
Single extent cache could be removed because we have extent status tree
as a extent cache, and it would be better.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
After tracking all extent status, we already have a extent cache in
memory. Every time we want to lookup a block mapping, we can first
try to lookup it in extent status tree to avoid a potential disk I/O.
A new function called ext4_es_lookup_extent is defined to finish this
work. When we try to lookup a block mapping, we always call
ext4_map_blocks and/or ext4_da_map_blocks. So in these functions we
first try to lookup a block mapping in extent status tree.
A new flag EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_PUT_HOLE is used in ext4_da_map_blocks
in order not to put a hole into extent status tree because this hole
will be converted to delayed extent in the tree immediately.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
By recording the phycisal block and status, extent status tree is able
to track the status of every extents. When we call _map_blocks
functions to lookup an extent or create a new written/unwritten/delayed
extent, this extent will be inserted into extent status tree.
We don't load all extents from disk in alloc_inode() because it costs
too much memory, and if a file is opened and closed frequently it will
takes too much time to load all extent information. So currently when
we create/lookup an extent, this extent will be inserted into extent
status tree. Hence, the extent status tree may not comprehensively
contain all of the extents found in the file.
Here a condition we need to take care is that an extent might contains
unwritten and delayed status simultaneously because an extent is delayed
allocated and could be allocated by fallocate. At this time we need to
keep delayed status because later we need to update delayed reservation
space using it.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
This commit lets ext4_ext_map_blocks return EXT4_MAP_UNWRITTEN flag
because in later commit ext4_map_blocks needs to use this flag to
determine the extent status.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
This commit renames ext4_es_find_extent with ext4_es_find_delayed_extent
and improve this function. First, we split input and output parameter.
Second, this function never return the first block of the next delayed
extent after 'es'.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
This commit adds two members in extent_status structure to let it record
physical block and extent status. Here es_pblk is used to record both
of them because physical block only has 48 bits. So extent status could
be stashed into it so that we can save some memory. Now written,
unwritten, delayed and hole are defined as status.
Due to new member is added into extent status tree, all interfaces need
to be adjusted.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
This commit refines the extent status tree code.
1) A prefix 'es_' is added to to the extent status tree structure
members.
2) Refactored es_remove_extent() so that __es_remove_extent() can be
used by es_insert_extent() to remove the old extent entry(-ies) before
inserting a new one.
3) Rename extent_status_end() to ext4_es_end()
4) ext4_es_can_be_merged() is define to check whether two extents can
be merged or not.
5) Update and clarified comments.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Use ERR_PTR()/IS_ERR() abstraction instead of passing in a separate
pointer to an integer for the error code, as a code cleanup.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The code to read in directory blocks and verify their metadata
checksums was replicated in ten different places across
fs/ext4/namei.c, and the code was buggy in subtle ways in a number of
those replicated sites. In some cases, ext4_error() was called with a
training newline. In others, in particularly in empty_dir(), it was
possible to call ext4_dirent_csum_verify() on an index block, which
would trigger false warnings requesting the system adminsitrator to
run e2fsck.
By refactoring the code, we make the code more readable, as well as
shrinking the compiled object file by over 700 bytes and 50 lines of
code.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Print some additional debugging context to hopefully help to debug a
warning which is getting triggered by xfstests #74.
Also remove extraneous newlines from when printk's were converted to
ext4_warning() and ext4_msg().
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Some messages printed related to a WARN_ON(1) were printed using
KERN_NOTICE. Use KERN_WARNING or ext4_warning() instead so that
context related to the WARN_ON() is printed at the same printk warning
level (and log files, etc.)
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There are multiple reasons to move away from debugfs. First of all,
we are only using it for a single parameter, and it is much more
complicated to set up (some 30 lines of code compared to 3), and one
more thing that might fail while loading the jbd2 module.
Secondly, as a module paramter it can be specified as a boot option if
jbd2 is built into the kernel, or as a parameter when the module is
loaded, and it can also be manipulated dynamically under
/sys/module/jbd2/parameters/jbd2_debug. So it is more flexible.
Ultimately we want to move away from using jbd_debug() towards
tracepoints, but for now this is still a useful simplification of the
code base.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There are multiple reasons to move away from debugfs. First of all,
we are only using it for a single parameter, and it is much more
complicated to set up (some 30 lines of code compared to 3), and one
more thing that might fail while loading the ext4 module.
Secondly, as a module paramter it can be specified as a boot option if
ext4 is built into the kernel, or as a parameter when the module is
loaded, and it can also be manipulated dynamically under
/sys/module/ext4/parameters/mballoc_debug. So it is more flexible.
Ultimately we want to move away from using mb_debug() towards
tracepoints, but for now this is still a useful simplification of the
code base.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In ext4_{create,mknod,mkdir,symlink}(), don't start the journal handle
until the inode has been succesfully allocated. In order to do this,
we need to start the handle in the ext4_new_inode(). So create a new
variant of this function, ext4_new_inode_start_handle(), so the handle
can be created at the last possible minute, before we need to modify
the inode allocation bitmap block.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Operations which modify extended attributes may need extra journal
credits if inline data is used, since there is a chance that some
extended attributes may need to get pushed to an external attribute
block.
Changes to reflect this was made in xattr.c, but they were missed in
fs/ext4/acl.c. To fix this, abstract the calculation of the number of
credits needed for xattr operations to an inline function defined in
ext4_jbd2.h, and use it in acl.c and xattr.c.
Also move the function declarations used in inline.c from xattr.h
(where they are non-obviously hidden, and caused problems since
ext4_jbd2.h needs to use the function ext4_has_inline_data), and move
them to ext4.h.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The ext4_unlink() and ext4_rmdir() don't actually release the blocks
associated with the file/directory. This gets done in a separate jbd2
handle called via ext4_evict_inode(). Thus, we don't need to reserve
lots of journal credits for the truncate.
Note that using too many journal credits is non-optimal because it can
leading to the journal transmit getting closed too early, before it is
strictly necessary.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The migration ioctl creates a temporary inode. Since this inode is
never linked to a directory, we don't need to reserve journal credits
required for modifying the directory.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Don't start the jbd2 transaction handle until after the directory
entry has been found, to minimize the amount of time that a handle is
held active.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Don't start the jbd2 transaction handle until after the directory
entry has been found, to minimize the amount of time that a handle is
held active.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The grab_cache_page_write_begin() function can potentially sleep for a
long time, since it may need to do memory allocation which can block
if the system is under significant memory pressure, and because it may
be blocked on page writeback. If it does take a long time to grab the
page, it's better that we not hold an active jbd2 handle.
So grab a handle on the page first, and _then_ start the transaction
handle.
This commit fixes the following long transaction handle hold time:
postmark-2917 [000] .... 196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32
tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1
dirtied_blocks 0
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
So we can better understand what bits of ext4 are responsible for
long-running jbd2 handles, use jbd2__journal_start() so we can pass
context information for logging purposes.
The recommended way for finding the longer-running handles is:
T=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
EVENT=$T/events/jbd2/jbd2_handle_stats
echo "interval > 5" > $EVENT/filter
echo 1 > $EVENT/enable
./run-my-fs-benchmark
cat $T/trace > /tmp/problem-handles
This will list handles that were active for longer than 20ms. Having
longer-running handles is bad, because a commit started at the wrong
time could stall for those 20+ milliseconds, which could delay an
fsync() or an O_SYNC operation. Here is an example line from the
trace file describing a handle which lived on for 311 jiffies, or over
1.2 seconds:
postmark-2917 [000] .... 196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32
tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1
dirtied_blocks 0
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Move the jbd2 wrapper functions which start and stop handles out of
super.c, where they don't really logically belong, and into
ext4_jbd2.c.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Handles which stay open a long time are problematic when it comes time
to close down a transaction so it can be committed. These tracepoints
will help us determine which ones are the problematic ones, and to
validate whether changes makes things better or worse.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
