Originally when the ARC prune callback was introduced the idea was
to register a single callback for the ZPL. The ARC could invoke this
call back if it needed the ZPL to drop dentries, inodes, or other
cache objects which might be pinning buffers in the ARC. The ZPL
would iterate over all ZFS super blocks and perform the reclaim.
For the most part this design has worked well but due to limitations
in 2.6.35 and earlier kernels there were some problems. This patch
is designed to address those issues.
1) iterate_supers_type() is not provided by all kernels which makes
it impossible to safely iterate over all zpl_fs_type filesystems in
a single callback. The most straight forward and portable way to
resolve this is to register a callback per-filesystem during mount.
The arc_*_prune_callback() functions have always supported multiple
callbacks so this is functionally a very small change.
2) Commit 050d22b removed the non-portable shrink_dcache_memory()
and shrink_icache_memory() functions and didn't replace them with
equivalent functionality. This meant that for Linux 3.1 and older
kernels the ARC had no mechanism to drop dentries and inodes from
the caches if needed. This patch adds that missing functionality
by calling shrink_dcache_parent() to release dentries which may be
pinning inodes. This will result in all unused cache entries being
dropped which is a bit heavy handed but it's the only interface
available for old kernels.
3) A zpl_drop_inode() callback is registered for kernels older than
2.6.35 which do not support the .evict_inode callback. This ensures
that when the last reference on an inode is dropped it is immediately
removed from the cache. If this isn't done than inode can end up on
the global unused LRU with no mechanism available to ZFS to drop them.
Since the ARC buffers are not dropped the hottest inodes can still
be recreated without performing disk IO.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Snajdr <snajpa@snajpa.net>
Issue #3160
The 'capabilities' argument which was passed to bdi_setup_and_register()
has been removed. File systems should no longer pass BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY.
For our purposes this means there are now three different interfaces
which must be handled. A zpl_bdi_setup_and_register() wrapper function
has been introduced to provide a single interface to the ZPL code.
* 2.6.32 - 2.6.33, bdi_setup_and_register() is not exported.
* 2.6.34 - 3.19, bdi_setup_and_register() takes 3 arguments.
* 4.0 - x.y, bdi_setup_and_register() takes 2 arguments.
I've also taken this opportunity to remove HAVE_BDI because kernels
older then 2.6.32 are no longer supported. All kernels newer than
this will have one of the above interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Closes#3128
The split count/scan shrinker callbacks introduced in 3.12 broke the
test for HAVE_SHRINK, effectively disabling the per-superblock shrinkers.
This patch re-enables the per-superblock shrinkers when the split shrinker
callbacks have been detected.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#2975
Callers of kmem_alloc() which passed the KM_NODEBUG flag to suppress
the large allocation warning have been replaced by vmem_alloc() as
appropriate. The updated vmem_alloc() call will not print a warning
regardless of the size of the allocation.
A careful reader will notice that not all callers have been changed
to vmem_alloc(). Some have only had the KM_NODEBUG flag removed.
This was possible because the default warning threshold has been
increased to 32k. This is desirable because it minimizes the need
for Linux specific code changes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Fix a few dprintf format specifiers that disagreed with their argument
types. These came to light as compiler errors when converting dprintf
to use the Linux trace buffer. Previously this wasn't a problem,
presumably because the SPL debug logging uses vsnprintf which must
perform automatic type conversion.
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Change mount code to diagnose filesystem versions that
are not supported by the current implementation.
Change upgrade code to do likewise and refuse to upgrade
a pool if any filesystems on it are a version which is
not supported by the current implementation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com>
Closes: #2616
Various errors can occur when registering property callbacks. As the
author's comments indicate, the code is very paranoid about preserving
the first-seen error when registering callbacks. This patch causes an
error seen while registering the "relatime" callback to not clobber a
previously-seen error.
Reported-by: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#2117
Add the "relatime" property. When set to "on", a file's atime will only
be updated if the existing atime at least a day old or if the existing
ctime or mtime has been updated since the last access. This behavior
is compatible with the Linux "relatime" mount option.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#2064Closes#1917
It's unsafe to drain the iput taskq while holding the z_teardown_lock
as a writer. This is because when the last reference on an inode is
dropped it may still have pages which need to be written to disk.
This will be done through zpl_writepages which will acquire the
z_teardown_lock as a reader in ZFS_ENTER. Therefore, if we're
holding the lock as a writer in zfs_sb_teardown the unmount will
deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Closes#1988
The vast majority of these changes are in Linux specific code.
They are the result of not having an automated style checker to
validate the code when it was originally written. Others were
caused when the common code was slightly adjusted for Linux.
This patch contains no functional changes. It only refreshes
the code to conform to style guide.
Everyone submitting patches for inclusion upstream should now
run 'make checkstyle' and resolve any warning prior to opening
a pull request. The automated builders have been updated to
fail a build if when 'make checkstyle' detects an issue.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1821
As part of zfs_sb_teardown() there is an assertion that all inodes
which are part of the zsb->z_all_znodes list have at least one
reference on them. This is always true for the standard unmount
case but there are two other cases where it is not strictly true.
* zfs_ioc_rollback() - This is the most common case and it results
from the fact that we aren't unmounting the filesystem. During a
normal unmount the MS_ACTIVE flag will be cleared on the super block
causing iput_final() to evict the inode when its reference count
drops to zero. However, during a rollback MS_ACTIVE remains set
since we're rolling back a live filesystem and need to preserve the
existing super block. This allows inodes with a zero reference count
to stay in the cache thereby violating the assertion.
* destroy_inode() / zfs_sb_teardown() - There exists a small race
between dropping the last reference on an inode and removing it from
the zsb->z_all_znodes list. This is unlikely to occur but could also
trigger the assertion which is incorrect. The inode may safely have
a zero reference count in this case.
Since allowing a zero reference count on the inode is expected and
safe for both of these cases the simplest thing to do is remove the
ASSERT. This code is only enabled for default builds so removing
this entirely is a very safe change.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes#1417Closes#1536
The Illumos #3875 patch reverted a part of ZoL's 7b3e34b which added
special-case error handling for zfs_rezget(). The error handling dealt
with the case in which an all-ones object number ended up being passed
to dnode_hold() and causing an EINVAL to be returned from zfs_rezget().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1859Closes#1861
The required Posix ACL interfaces are only available for kernels
with CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL defined. Therefore, only enable Posix
ACL support for these kernels. All major distribution kernels
enable CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL by default.
If your kernel does not support Posix ACLs the following warning
will be printed at ZFS module load time.
"ZFS: Posix ACLs disabled by kernel"
Signed-off-by: Massimo Maggi <me@massimo-maggi.eu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1825
3875 panic in zfs_root() after failed rollback
Reviewed by: Jerry Jelinek <jerry.jelinek@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Approved by: Gordon Ross <gwr@nexenta.com>
References:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/3875illumos/illumos-gate@91948b51b8
Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775
3742 zfs comments need cleaner, more consistent style
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
Approved by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
References:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/3742illumos/illumos-gate@f717074149
Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775
Porting notes:
1. The change to zfs_vfsops.c was dropped because it involves
zfs_mount_label_policy, which does not exist in the Linux port.
References:
illumos/illumos-gate@44bffe012c
Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775
3598 want to dtrace when errors are generated in zfs
Reviewed by: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
References:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/3598illumos/illumos-gate@be6fd75a69
Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775
Porting notes:
1. include/sys/zfs_context.h has been modified to render some new
macros inert until dtrace is available on Linux.
2. Linux-specific changes have been adapted to use SET_ERROR().
3. I'm NOT happy about this change. It does nothing but ugly
up the code under Linux. Unfortunately we need to take it to
avoid more merge conflicts in the future. -Brian
This change adds support for Posix ACLs by storing them as an xattr
which is common practice for many Linux file systems. Since the
Posix ACL is stored as an xattr it will not overwrite any existing
ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs which may have been set. The Posix ACL will also
be non-functional on other platforms although it may be visible
as an xattr if that platform understands SA based xattrs.
By default Posix ACLs are disabled but they may be enabled with
the new 'aclmode=noacl|posixacl' property. Set the property to
'posixacl' to enable them. If ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support is ever added
an appropriate acltype will be added.
This change passes the POSIX Test Suite cleanly with the exception
of xacl/00.t test 45 which is incorrect for Linux (Ext4 fails too).
http://www.tuxera.com/community/posix-test-suite/
Signed-off-by: Massimo Maggi <me@massimo-maggi.eu>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#170
2882 implement libzfs_core
2883 changing "canmount" property to "on" should not always remount dataset
2900 "zfs snapshot" should be able to create multiple, arbitrary snapshots at once
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Chris Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
Reviewed by: Bill Pijewski <wdp@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Dan Kruchinin <dan.kruchinin@gmail.com>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <Eric.Schrock@delphix.com>
References:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/2882https://www.illumos.org/issues/2883https://www.illumos.org/issues/2900illumos/illumos-gate@4445fffbbb
Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1293
Porting notes:
WARNING: This patch changes the user/kernel ABI. That means that
the zfs/zpool utilities built from master are NOT compatible with
the 0.6.2 kernel modules. Ensure you load the matching kernel
modules from master after updating the utilities. Otherwise the
zfs/zpool commands will be unable to interact with your pool and
you will see errors similar to the following:
$ zpool list
failed to read pool configuration: bad address
no pools available
$ zfs list
no datasets available
Add zvol minor device creation to the new zfs_snapshot_nvl function.
Remove the logging of the "release" operation in
dsl_dataset_user_release_sync(). The logging caused a null dereference
because ds->ds_dir is zeroed in dsl_dataset_destroy_sync() and the
logging functions try to get the ds name via the dsl_dataset_name()
function. I've got no idea why this particular code would have worked
in Illumos. This code has subsequently been completely reworked in
Illumos commit 3b2aab1 (3464 zfs synctask code needs restructuring).
Squash some "may be used uninitialized" warning/erorrs.
Fix some printf format warnings for %lld and %llu.
Apply a few spa_writeable() changes that were made to Illumos in
illumos/illumos-gate.git@cd1c8b8 as part of the 3112, 3113, 3114 and
3115 fixes.
Add a missing call to fnvlist_free(nvl) in log_internal() that was added
in Illumos to fix issue 3085 but couldn't be ported to ZoL at the time
(zfsonlinux/zfs@9e11c73) because it depended on future work.
During mount a filesystem dataset would have the MS_RDONLY bit
incorrectly cleared even if the entire pool was read-only.
There is existing to code to handle this case but it was being run
before the property callbacks were registered. To resolve the
issue we move this read-only code after the callback registration.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1338
Fix a pair of conditions in which a concurrent umount can cause
NULL pointer dereferences:
* zfs_sb_teardown - prevent a NULL dereference by not calling
dmu_objset_pool with a null z_os.
* zfs_resume_fs - don't try to unmount with a null z_os. This
change makes the ZoL code more consistent
with both Illumos and FreeBSD.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1543
3006 VERIFY[S,U,P] and ASSERT[S,U,P] frequently check if first
argument is zero
Reviewed by Matt Ahrens <matthew.ahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Approved by Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
References:
illumos/illumos-gate@fb09f5aad4https://illumos.org/issues/3006
Requires:
zfsonlinux/spl@1c6d149feb
Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1509
As of Linux 2.6.37 the right way to register custom dentry
operations is to use the super block's ->s_d_op field.
For older kernels they should be registered as part of the
lookup operation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1223
This reverts commit 53c7411919
effectively reinstating the asynchronous xattr cleanup code.
These Linux changes were reverted because after testing
and careful contemplation I was convinced that due to the
89260a1c8851ce05ea04b23606ba438b271d890 commit they were no
longer required.
Unfortunately, the deadlock described in #1176 was a case
which wasn't considered. At mount zfs_unlinked_drain() can
occur which will unlink a list of znodes in effectively a
random order which isn't safe. The only reason it was safe
to originally revert this change was the we could guarantee
that the VFS would always prune the xattr leaves before the
parents.
Therefore, until we can cleanly resolve this deadlock for
all cases we need to keep this change in spite of the xattr
unlink performance penalty associated with it.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1176
Issue #457
Rolling back a mounted filesystem with open file handles and
cached dentries+inodes never worked properly in ZoL. The
major issue was that Linux provides no easy mechanism for
modules to invalidate the inode cache for a file system.
Because of this it was possible that an inode from the previous
filesystem would not get properly dropped from the cache during
rolling back. Then a new inode with the same inode number would
be create and collide with the existing cached inode. Ideally
this would trigger an VERIFY() but in practice the error wasn't
handled and it would just NULL reference.
Luckily, this issue can be resolved by sprucing up the existing
Solaris zfs_rezget() functionality for the Linux VFS.
The way it works now is that when a file system is rolled back
all the cached inodes will be traversed and refetched from disk.
If a version of the cached inode exists on disk the in-core
copy will be updated accordingly. If there is no match for that
object on disk it will be unhashed from the inode cache and
marked as stale.
This will effectively make the inode unfindable for lookups
allowing the inode number to be immediately recycled. The inode
will then only be accessible from the cached dentries. Subsequent
dentry lookups which reference a stale inode will result in the
dentry being invalidated. Once invalidated the dentry will drop
its reference on the inode allowing it to be safely pruned from
the cache.
Special care is taken for negative dentries since they do not
reference any inode. These dentires will be invalidate based
on when they were added to the dentry cache. Entries added
before the last rollback will be invalidate to prevent them
from masking real files in the dataset.
Two nice side effects of this fix are:
* Removes the dependency on spl_invalidate_inodes(), it can now
be safely removed from the SPL when we choose to do so.
* zfs_znode_alloc() no longer requires a dentry to be passed.
This effectively reverts this portition of the code to its
upstream counterpart. The dentry is not instantiated more
correctly in the Linux ZPL layer.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Closes#795
This reverts commit b00131d43c which
is no longer needed due to e89260a1c8.
This change forces all xattr znodes to hold a reference on their
parent which ensures prune_icache() will never attempt to evict
both the parent and child concurrently. This effectively prevents
the deadlock condition from ever occuring.
Therefore we can safely revert back to the upstream synchronous
cleanup code. This is nice because it keeps our code base closer
to upstream and resolves the performance issues introduced by the
original deadlock fix.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#457
illumos/illumos-gate@2e2c135528
Illumos changeset: 13780:6da32a929222
3100 zvol rename fails with EBUSY when dirty
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam H. Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
Ported-by: Etienne Dechamps <etienne.dechamps@ovh.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#995
Use ZFS dataset fsid guid as a unique file system id, similar to what is
done on Illumos/OpenSolaris.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko@mountall.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#888
When mutex debugging is enabled in your kernel the increased
size of the mutex structures can push the zfs_sb_t type beyond
the 8k warning threshold. This isn't harmful so we suppress
the warning for this case.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#628
torvalds/linux@adc0e91ab1 introduced
introduced d_make_root() as a replacement for d_alloc_root(). Further
commits appear to have removed d_alloc_root() from the Linux source
tree. This causes the following failure:
error: implicit declaration of function 'd_alloc_root'
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
To correct this we update the code to use the current d_make_root()
interface for readability. Then we introduce an autotools check
to determine if d_make_root() is available. If it isn't then we
define some compatibility logic which used the older d_alloc_root()
interface.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#776
When zpl_fill_super -> zfs_domount fails (e.g. because the dataset
was destroyed before it could be successfully mounted) the subsequent
call to zpl_kill_sb -> zfs_preumount would derefence a NULL pointer.
This bug can be reproduced using this shell script:
#!/bin/sh
(
while true; do
zfs create -o mountpoint=legacz tank/bar
zfs destroy tank/bar
done
) &
(
while true; do
mount -t zfs tank/bar /mnt
umount /mnt
done
) &
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#639
Add support for the .zfs control directory. This was accomplished
by leveraging as much of the existing ZFS infrastructure as posible
and updating it for Linux as required. The bulk of the core
functionality is now all there with the following limitations.
*) The .zfs/snapshot directory automount support requires a 2.6.37
or newer kernel. The exception is RHEL6.2 which has backported
the d_automount patches.
*) Creating/destroying/renaming snapshots with mkdir/rmdir/mv
in the .zfs/snapshot directory works as expected. However,
this functionality is only available to root until zfs
delegations are finished.
* mkdir - create a snapshot
* rmdir - destroy a snapshot
* mv - rename a snapshot
The following issues are known defeciences, but we expect them to
be addressed by future commits.
*) Add automount support for kernels older the 2.6.37. This should
be possible using follow_link() which is what Linux did before.
*) Accessing the .zfs/snapshot directory via NFS is not yet possible.
The majority of the ground work for this is complete. However,
finishing this work will require resolving some lingering
integration issues with the Linux NFS kernel server.
*) The .zfs/shares directory exists but no futher smb functionality
has yet been implemented.
Contributions-by: Rohan Puri <rohan.puri15@gmail.com>
Contributiobs-by: Andrew Barnes <barnes333@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#173
The Linux 3.1 kernel has introduced the concept of per-filesystem
shrinkers which are directly assoicated with a super block. Prior
to this change there was one shared global shrinker.
The zfs code relied on being able to call the global shrinker when
the arc_meta_limit was exceeded. This would cause the VFS to drop
references on a fraction of the dentries in the dcache. The ARC
could then safely reclaim the memory used by these entries and
honor the arc_meta_limit. Unfortunately, when per-filesystem
shrinkers were added the old interfaces were made unavailable.
This change adds support to use the new per-filesystem shrinker
interface so we can continue to honor the arc_meta_limit. The
major benefit of the new interface is that we can now target
only the zfs filesystem for dentry and inode pruning. Thus we
can minimize any impact on the caching of other filesystems.
In the context of making this change several other important
issues related to managing the ARC were addressed, they include:
* The dnlc_reduce_cache() function which was called by the ARC
to drop dentries for the Posix layer was replaced with a generic
zfs_prune_t callback. The ZPL layer now registers a callback to
drop these dentries removing a layering violation which dates
back to the Solaris code. This callback can also be used by
other ARC consumers such as Lustre.
arc_add_prune_callback()
arc_remove_prune_callback()
* The arc_reduce_dnlc_percent module option has been changed to
arc_meta_prune for clarity. The dnlc functions are specific to
Solaris's VFS and have already been largely eliminated already.
The replacement tunable now represents the number of bytes the
prune callback will request when invoked.
* Less aggressively invoke the prune callback. We used to call
this whenever we exceeded the arc_meta_limit however that's not
strictly correct since it results in over zeleous reclaim of
dentries and inodes. It is now only called once the arc_meta_limit
is exceeded and every effort has been made to evict other data from
the ARC cache.
* More promptly manage exceeding the arc_meta_limit. When reading
meta data in to the cache if a buffer was unable to be recycled
notify the arc_reclaim thread to invoke the required prune.
* Added arcstat_prune kstat which is incremented when the ARC
is forced to request that a consumer prune its cache. Remember
this will only occur when the ARC has no other choice. If it
can evict buffers safely without invoking the prune callback
it will.
* This change is also expected to resolve the unexpect collapses
of the ARC cache. This would occur because when exceeded just the
arc_meta_limit reclaim presure would be excerted on the arc_c
value via arc_shrink(). This effectively shrunk the entire cache
when really we just needed to reclaim meta data.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#466Closes#292
The current ZFS implementation stores xattrs on disk using a hidden
directory. In this directory a file name represents the xattr name
and the file contexts are the xattr binary data. This approach is
very flexible and allows for arbitrarily large xattrs. However,
it also suffers from a significant performance penalty. Accessing
a single xattr can requires up to three disk seeks.
1) Lookup the dnode object.
2) Lookup the dnodes's xattr directory object.
3) Lookup the xattr object in the directory.
To avoid this performance penalty Linux filesystems such as ext3
and xfs try to store the xattr as part of the inode on disk. When
the xattr is to large to store in the inode then a single external
block is allocated for them. In practice most xattrs are small
and this approach works well.
The addition of System Attributes (SA) to zfs provides us a clean
way to make this optimization. When the dataset property 'xattr=sa'
is set then xattrs will be preferentially stored as System Attributes.
This allows tiny xattrs (~100 bytes) to be stored with the dnode and
up to 64k of xattrs to be stored in the spill block. If additional
xattr space is required, which is unlikely under Linux, they will be
stored using the traditional directory approach.
This optimization results in roughly a 3x performance improvement
when accessing xattrs which brings zfs roughly to parity with ext4
and xfs (see table below). When multiple xattrs are stored per-file
the performance improvements are even greater because all of the
xattrs stored in the spill block will be cached.
However, by default SA based xattrs are disabled in the Linux port
to maximize compatibility with other implementations. If you do
enable SA based xattrs then they will not be visible on platforms
which do not support this feature.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Time in seconds to get/set one xattr of N bytes on 100,000 files
------+--------------------------------+------------------------------
| setxattr | getxattr
bytes | ext4 xfs zfs-dir zfs-sa | ext4 xfs zfs-dir zfs-sa
------+--------------------------------+------------------------------
1 | 2.33 31.88 21.50 4.57 | 2.35 2.64 6.29 2.43
32 | 2.79 30.68 21.98 4.60 | 2.44 2.59 6.78 2.48
256 | 3.25 31.99 21.36 5.92 | 2.32 2.71 6.22 3.14
1024 | 3.30 32.61 22.83 8.45 | 2.40 2.79 6.24 3.27
4096 | 3.57 317.46 22.52 10.73 | 2.78 28.62 6.90 3.94
16384 | n/a 2342.39 34.30 19.20 | n/a 45.44 145.90 7.55
65536 | n/a 2941.39 128.15 131.32* | n/a 141.92 256.85 262.12*
Legend:
* ext4 - Stock RHEL6.1 ext4 mounted with '-o user_xattr'.
* xfs - Stock RHEL6.1 xfs mounted with default options.
* zfs-dir - Directory based xattrs only.
* zfs-sa - Prefer SAs but spill in to directories as needed, a
trailing * indicates overflow in to directories occured.
NOTE: Ext4 supports 4096 bytes of xattr name/value pairs per file.
NOTE: XFS and ZFS have no limit on xattr name/value pairs per file.
NOTE: Linux limits individual name/value pairs to 65536 bytes.
NOTE: All setattr/getattr's were done after dropping the cache.
NOTE: All tests were run against a single hard drive.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #443
Update the code to use the bdi_setup_and_register() helper to
simplify the bdi integration code. The updated code now just
registers the bdi during mount and destroys it during unmount.
The only complication is that for 2.6.32 - 2.6.33 kernels the
helper wasn't available so in these cases the zfs code must
provide it. Luckily the bdi_setup_and_register() function
is trivial.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#367
Fix an unlikely failure cause in zfs_sb_create() which could
leave the dataset owned on error and thus unavailable until
after a reboot. Disown the dataset if SA are expected but
are in fact missing.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Export all symbols already marked extern in the zfs_vfsops.h
header. Several non-static symbols have also been added to
the header and exportewd. This allows external modules to
more easily create and manipulate properly created ZFS
filesystem type datasets.
Rename zfsvfs_teardown() to zfs_sb_teardown and export it.
This is done simply for consistency with the rest of the code
base. All other zfsvfs_* functions have already been renamed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Due to the confusion in Linux statfs between f_frsize and f_bsize
the blocks counts were changed to be in units of z_max_blksize
instead of SPA_MINBLOCKSIZE as it is on other platforms.
However, the free files calculation in zfs_statvfs() is limited by
the free blocks count, since each dnode consumes one block/sector.
This provided a reasonable estimate of free inodes, but on Linux
this meant that the free inodes count was underestimated by a large
amount, since 256 512-byte dnodes can fit into a 128kB block, and
more if the max blocksize is increased to 1MB or larger.
Also, the use of SPA_MINBLOCKSIZE is semantically incorrect since
DNODE_SIZE may change to a value other than SPA_MINBLOCKSIZE and
may even change per dataset, and devices with large sectors setting
ashift will also use a larger blocksize.
Correct the f_ffree calculation to use (availbytes >> DNODE_SHIFT)
to more accurately compute the maximum number of dnodes that can
be created.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#413Closes#400
For a long time now the kernel has been moving away from using the
pdflush daemon to write 'old' dirty pages to disk. The primary reason
for this is because the pdflush daemon is single threaded and can be
a limiting factor for performance. Since pdflush sequentially walks
the dirty inode list for each super block any delay in processing can
slow down dirty page writeback for all filesystems.
The replacement for pdflush is called bdi (backing device info). The
bdi system involves creating a per-filesystem control structure each
with its own private sets of queues to manage writeback. The advantage
is greater parallelism which improves performance and prevents a single
filesystem from slowing writeback to the others.
For a long time both systems co-existed in the kernel so it wasn't
strictly required to implement the bdi scheme. However, as of
Linux 2.6.36 kernels the pdflush functionality has been retired.
Since ZFS already bypasses the page cache for most I/O this is only
an issue for mmap(2) writes which must go through the page cache.
Even then adding this missing support for newer kernels was overlooked
because there are other mechanisms which can trigger writeback.
However, there is one critical case where not implementing the bdi
functionality can cause problems. If an application handles a page
fault it can enter the balance_dirty_pages() callpath. This will
result in the application hanging until the number of dirty pages in
the system drops below the dirty ratio.
Without a registered backing_device_info for the filesystem the
dirty pages will not get written out. Thus the application will hang.
As mentioned above this was less of an issue with older kernels because
pdflush would eventually write out the dirty pages.
This change adds a backing_device_info structure to the zfs_sb_t
which is already allocated per-super block. It is then registered
when the filesystem mounted and unregistered on unmount. It will
not be registered for mounted snapshots which are read-only. This
change will result in flush-<pool> thread being dynamically created
and destroyed per-mounted filesystem for writeback.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#174
The .get_sb callback has been replaced by a .mount callback
in the file_system_type structure. When using the new
interface the caller must now use the mount_nodev() helper.
Unfortunately, the new interface no longer passes the vfsmount
down to the zfs layers. This poses a problem for the existing
implementation because we currently save this pointer in the
super block for latter use. It provides our only entry point
in to the namespace layer for manipulating certain mount options.
This needed to be done originally to allow commands like
'zfs set atime=off tank' to work properly. It also allowed me
to keep more of the original Solaris code unmodified. Under
Solaris there is a 1-to-1 mapping between a mount point and a
file system so this is a fairly natural thing to do. However,
under Linux they many be multiple entries in the namespace
which reference the same filesystem. Thus keeping a back
reference from the filesystem to the namespace is complicated.
Rather than introduce some ugly hack to get the vfsmount and
continue as before. I'm leveraging this API change to update
the ZFS code to do things in a more natural way for Linux.
This has the upside that is resolves the compatibility issue
for the long term and fixes several other minor bugs which
have been reported.
This commit updates the code to remove this vfsmount back
reference entirely. All modifications to filesystem mount
options are now passed in to the kernel via a '-o remount'.
This is the expected Linux mechanism and allows the namespace
to properly handle any options which apply to it before passing
them on to the file system itself.
Aside from fixing the compatibility issue, removing the
vfsmount has had the benefit of simplifying the code. This
change which fairly involved has turned out nicely.
Closes#246Closes#217Closes#187Closes#248Closes#231
The problem here is that prune_icache() tries to evict/delete
both the xattr directory inode as well as at least one xattr
inode contained in that directory. Here's what happens:
1. File is created.
2. xattr is created for that file (behind the scenes a xattr
directory and a file in that xattr directory are created)
3. File is deleted.
4. Both the xattr directory inode and at least one xattr
inode from that directory are evicted by prune_icache();
prune_icache() acquires a lock on both inodes before it
calls ->evict() on the inodes
When the xattr directory inode is evicted zfs_zinactive attempts
to delete the xattr files contained in that directory. While
enumerating these files zfs_zget() is called to obtain a reference
to the xattr file znode - which tries to lock the xattr inode.
However that very same xattr inode was already locked by
prune_icache() further up the call stack, thus leading to a
deadlock.
This can be reliably reproduced like this:
$ touch test
$ attr -s a -V b test
$ rm test
$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
This patch fixes the deadlock by moving the zfs_purgedir() call to
zfs_unlinked_drain(). Instead zfs_rmnode() now checks whether the
xattr dir is empty and leaves the xattr dir in the unlinked set if
it finds any xattrs.
To ensure zfs_unlinked_drain() never accesses a stale super block
zfsvfs_teardown() has been update to block until the iput taskq
has been drained. This avoids a potential race where a file with
an xattr directory is removed and the file system is immediately
unmounted.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#266
Update code to use the spl_invalidate_inodes() wrapper. This hides
some of the complexity of determining if invalidate_inodes() was
exported, and if so what is its prototype. The second argument
of spl_invalidate_inodes() determined the behavior of how dirty
inodes are handled. By passing a zero we are indicated that we
want those inodes to be treated as busy and skipped.
Register the missing .remount_fs handler. This handler isn't strictly
required because the VFS does a pretty good job updating most of the
MS_* flags. However, there's no harm in using the hook to call the
registered zpl callback for various MS_* flags. Additionaly, this
allows us to lay the ground work for more complicated argument parsing
in the future.
Register the missing .sync_fs handler. This is a noop in most cases
because the usual requirement is that sync just be initiated. As part
of the DMU's normal transaction processing txgs will be frequently
synced. However, when the 'wait' flag is set the requirement is that
.sync_fs must not return until the data is safe on disk. With the
addition of the .sync_fs handler this is now properly implemented.
Filesystems like ZFS must use what the kernel calls an anonymous super
block. Basically, this is just a filesystem which is not backed by a
single block device. Normally this block device's dev_t is stored in
the super block. For anonymous super blocks a unique reserved dev_t
is assigned as part of get_sb().
This sb->s_dev must then be set in the returned stat structures as
stat->st_dev. This allows userspace utilities to easily detect the
boundries of a specific filesystem. Tools such as 'du' depend on this
for proper accounting.
Additionally, under OpenSolaris the statfs->f_fsid is set to the device
id. To preserve consistency with OpenSolaris we also set the fsid to
the device id. Other Linux filesystem (ext) set the fsid to a unique
value determined by the filesystems uuid. This value is unique but
maintains no relationship to the device id. This may be desirable
when exporting NFS filesystem because it minimizes to chance of a
client observing the same fsid from two different servers.
Closes#140
The underlying storage pool actually uses multiple block
size. Under Solaris frsize (fragment size) is reported as
the smallest block size we support, and bsize (block size)
as the filesystem's maximum block size. Unfortunately,
under Linux the fragment size and block size are often used
interchangeably. Thus we are forced to report both of them
as the filesystem's maximum block size.
Closes#112
When performing a 'zfs rollback' it's critical to invalidate
the previous dcache and inode cache. If we don't there will
stale cache entries which when accessed will result in EIOs.
