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Brian Behlendorf
e3fb781c5f Add kernel module auto-loading
Historically a dynamic misc minor number was registered for the
/dev/zfs device in order to prevent minor number collisions.  This
was fine but it prevented us from being able to use the kernel
module auto-loaded which requires a known reserved value.

Resolve this issue by adding a configure test to find an available
misc minor number which can then be used in MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV at
build time.  By adding this alias the zfs kmod is added to the list
of known static-nodes and the systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev service
will create a /dev/zfs character device at boot time.

This in turn allows us to update the 90-zfs.rules file to make it
aware this is a static node.  The upshot of this is that whenever
a process (zpool, zfs, zed) opens the /dev/zfs the kmods will be
automatic loaded.  This even works for unprivileged users so there
is no longer a need to manually load the modules at boot time.

As an additional bonus the zed now no longer needs to start after
the zfs-import.service since it will trigger the module load.

In the unlikely event the minor number we selected conflicts with
another out of tree unregistered minor number the code falls back
to dynamically allocating it.  In this case the modules again
must be manually loaded.

Note that due to the change in the method of registering the minor
number the zimport.sh test case may incorrectly fail when the
static node for the installed packages is created instead of the
dynamic one.  This issue will only transiently impact zimport.sh
for this single commit when we transition and are mixing and
matching methods.

Reviewed-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
TEST_ZIMPORT_SKIP="yes"
Closes #7287
2019-02-22 09:47:34 -08:00
ka7
4e33ba4c38 Fix spelling
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov
Reviewed-by: Giuseppe Di Natale <dinatale2@llnl.gov>>
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Haakan T Johansson <f96hajo@chalmers.se>
Closes #5547 
Closes #5543
2017-01-03 11:31:18 -06:00
Brian Behlendorf
dabb6f4fab Allow partition aliases in vdev_id.conf (#5266)
When pools are assembled from partitions, vdev_id.conf aliases
do not work.  The directory /dev/disk/by-vdev is not created because
the associated udev rule for parsing vdev_id.conf is never called.
Extend to logic to match "disk" and "partition".

Patch-proposed-by: @sparksh
Reviewed-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3859
Closes #5266
2016-10-14 16:11:16 -07:00
Chunwei Chen
5b1bc1a1d8 Set proper dependency for string replacement targets
A lot of string replacement target don't have dependency or incorrect
dependency. We setup proper dependency by pattern rules.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4908
2016-08-02 10:28:29 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
f74b821a66 Add zfs allow and zfs unallow support
ZFS allows for specific permissions to be delegated to normal users
with the `zfs allow` and `zfs unallow` commands.  In addition, non-
privileged users should be able to run all of the following commands:

  * zpool [list | iostat | status | get]
  * zfs [list | get]

Historically this functionality was not available on Linux.  In order
to add it the secpolicy_* functions needed to be implemented and mapped
to the equivalent Linux capability.  Only then could the permissions on
the `/dev/zfs` be relaxed and the internal ZFS permission checks used.

Even with this change some limitations remain.  Under Linux only the
root user is allowed to modify the namespace (unless it's a private
namespace).  This means the mount, mountpoint, canmount, unmount,
and remount delegations cannot be supported with the existing code.  It
may be possible to add this functionality in the future.

This functionality was validated with the cli_user and delegation test
cases from the ZFS Test Suite.  These tests exhaustively verify each
of the supported permissions which can be delegated and ensures only
an authorized user can perform it.

Two minor bug fixes were required for test-running.py.  First, the
Timer() object cannot be safely created in a `try:` block when there
is an unconditional `finally` block which references it.  Second,
when running as a normal user also check for scripts using the
both the .ksh and .sh suffixes.

Finally, existing users who are simulating delegations by setting
group permissions on the /dev/zfs device should revert that
customization when updating to a version with this change.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Closes #362 
Closes #434 
Closes #4100
Closes #4394 
Closes #4410 
Closes #4487
2016-06-07 09:16:52 -07:00
Turbo Fredriksson
47a4a6fd5f Support parallel build trees (VPATH builds)
Build products from an out of tree build should be written
relative to the build directory.  Sources should be referred
to by their locations in the source directory.

This is accomplished by adding the 'src' and 'obj' variables
for the module Makefile.am, using relative paths to reference
source files, and by setting VPATH when source files are not
co-located with the Makefile.  This enables the following:

  $ mkdir build
  $ cd build
  $ ../configure \
    --with-spl=$HOME/src/git/spl/ \
    --with-spl-obj=$HOME/src/git/spl/build
  $ make -s

This change also has the advantage of resolving the following
warning which is generated by modern versions of automake.

  Makefile.am:00: warning: source file 'xxx' is in a subdirectory,
  Makefile.am:00: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1082
2015-07-17 13:42:51 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
91604b298c Open pools asynchronously after module load
One of the side effects of calling zvol_create_minors() in
zvol_init() is that all pools listed in the cache file will
be opened.  Depending on the state and contents of your pool
this operation can take a considerable length of time.

Doing this at load time is undesirable because the kernel
is holding a global module lock.  This prevents other modules
from loading and can serialize an otherwise parallel boot
process.  Doing this after module inititialization also
reduces the chances of accidentally introducing a race
during module init.

To ensure that /dev/zvol/<pool>/<dataset> devices are
still automatically created after the module load completes
a udev rules has been added.  When udev notices that the
/dev/zfs device has been create the 'zpool list' command
will be run.  This then will cause all the pools listed
in the zpool.cache file to be opened.

Because this process in now driven asynchronously by udev
there is the risk of problems in downstream distributions.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #756
Issue #1020
Issue #1234
2013-07-03 09:24:38 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
dbf763b39b Retire zpool_id infrastructure
In the interest of maintaining only one udev helper to give vdevs
user friendly names, the zpool_id and zpool_layout infrastructure
is being retired.  They are superseded by vdev_id which incorporates
all the previous functionality.

Documentation for the new vdev_id(8) helper and its configuration
file, vdev_id.conf(5), can be found in their respective man pages.
Several useful example files are installed under /etc/zfs/.

  /etc/zfs/vdev_id.conf.alias.example
  /etc/zfs/vdev_id.conf.multipath.example
  /etc/zfs/vdev_id.conf.sas_direct.example
  /etc/zfs/vdev_id.conf.sas_switch.example

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #981
2013-01-29 12:23:17 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
bd192c4f48 Update 69-vdev.rules .gitignore
Commit 2957f38 renamed 60-vdev.rules to 69-vdev.rules but failed
to update the .gitignore file to reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-12-14 12:16:42 -08:00
Ned Bass
2957f38d78 vdev_id support for device link aliases
Add a vdev_id feature to map device names based on already defined
udev device links.  To increase the odds that vdev_id will run after
the rules it depends on, increase the vdev.rules rule number from 60
to 69.  With this change, vdev_id now provides functionality analogous
to zpool_id and zpool_layout, paving the way to retire those tools.

A defined alias takes precedence over a topology-derived name, but the
two naming methods can otherwise coexist. For example, one might name
drives in a JBOD with the sas_direct topology while naming an internal
L2ARC device with an alias.

For example, the following lines in vdev_id.conf will result in the
creation of links /dev/disk/by-vdev/{d1,d2}, each pointing to the same
target as the device link specified in the third field.

  #     by-vdev
  #     name     fully qualified or base name of device link
  alias d1       /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000c5002de3b9ca
  alias d2       wwn-0x5000c5002def789e

Also perform some minor vdev_id cleanup, such as removal of the unused
-s command line option.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #981
2012-12-03 14:04:47 -08:00
Richard Yao
2af96a5df5 Fix hard coded path in 60-vdev.rules.in
The udev data directory was hard coded in 60-vdev.rules.in. That causes
a problem when a distribution changes the location of the directory.
This was not an issue in the past because virtually all distributions
used the same path, but that is beginning to change following a decision
by the systemd developers to change the directory location to reflect
their take-over of udev maintainership. The testing branch of Gentoo
Linux adopted this change, which enabled the hardcoded directory
location to trigger a regression.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1085
2012-11-13 12:04:15 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
ca8b5af89d Remove autotools products
Remove all of the generated autotools products from the repository
and update the .gitignore files accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #718
2012-08-27 11:47:44 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
ee5fd0bb80 Set zvol discard_granularity to the volblocksize.
Currently, zvols have a discard granularity set to 0, which suggests to
the upper layer that discard requests of arbirarily small size and
alignment can be made efficiently.

In practice however, ZFS does not handle unaligned discard requests
efficiently: indeed, it is unable to free a part of a block. It will
write zeros to the specified range instead, which is both useless and
inefficient (see dnode_free_range).

With this patch, zvol block devices expose volblocksize as their discard
granularity, so the upper layer is aware that it's not supposed to send
discard requests smaller than volblocksize.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #862
2012-08-07 14:55:31 -07:00
Richard Yao
739a1a82e0 Linux 3.5 compat, end_writeback() changed to clear_inode()
The end_writeback() function was changed by moving the call to
inode_sync_wait() earlier in to evict().   This effecitvely changes
the ordering of the sync but it does not impact the details of
the zfs implementation.

However, as part of this change end_writeback() was renamed to
clear_inode() to reflect the new semantics.  This change does
impact us and clear_inode() now maps to end_writeback() for
kernels prior to 3.5.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #784
2012-07-23 12:29:36 -07:00
Richard Yao
ea1fdf46e2 Linux 3.5 compat, iops->truncate_range() removed
The vmtruncate_range() support has been removed from the kernel in
favor of using the fallocate method in the file_operations table.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #784
2012-07-23 12:29:32 -07:00
Richard Yao
756c3e5a9c Linux 3.5 compat, eops->encode_fh() takes inodes
The export_operations member ->encode_fh() has been updated to
take both the child and parent inodes.  This interface used to
take the child dentry and a bool describing if the parent is needed.

NOTE: While updating this code I noticed that we do not currently
cleanly handle the case where we're passed a connectable parent.
This code should be audited to make sure we're doing the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #784
2012-07-23 12:29:23 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
b5a28807cd Move partition scanning from userspace to module.
Currently, zpool online -e (dynamic vdev expansion) doesn't work on
whole disks because we're invoking ioctl(BLKRRPART) from userspace
while ZFS still has a partition open on the disk, which results in
EBUSY.

This patch moves the BLKRRPART invocation from the zpool utility to the
module. Specifically, this is done just before opening the device in
vdev_disk_open() which is called inside vdev_reopen(). This requires
jumping through some hoops to get to the disk device from the partition
device, and to make sure we can still open the partition after the
BLKRRPART call.

Note that this new code path is triggered on dynamic vdev expansion
only; other actions, like creating a new pool, are unchanged and still
call BLKRRPART from userspace.

This change also depends on API changes which are available in 2.6.37
and latter kernels.  The build system has been updated to detect this,
but there is no compatibility mode for older kernels.  This means that
online expansion will NOT be available in older kernels.  However, it
will still be possible to expand the vdev offline.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #808
2012-07-17 09:17:31 -07:00
Richard Yao
6a0936babc Linux 3.4 compat, d_make_root() replaces d_alloc_root()
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
2012-06-11 10:04:49 -07:00
Ned A. Bass
821b683436 Add vdev_id for JBOD-friendly udev aliases
vdev_id parses the file /etc/zfs/vdev_id.conf to map a physical path
in a storage topology to a channel name.  The channel name is combined
with a disk enclosure slot number to create an alias that reflects the
physical location of the drive.  This is particularly helpful when it
comes to tasks like replacing failed drives.  Slot numbers may also be
re-mapped in case the default numbering is unsatisfactory.  The drive
aliases will be created as symbolic links in /dev/disk/by-vdev.

The only currently supported topologies are sas_direct and sas_switch:

o  sas_direct - a channel is uniquely identified by a PCI slot and a
   HBA port

o  sas_switch - a channel is uniquely identified by a SAS switch port

A multipath mode is supported in which dm-mpath devices are handled by
examining the first running component disk, as reported by 'multipath
-l'.  In multipath mode the configuration file should contain a
channel definition with the same name for each path to a given
enclosure.

vdev_id can replace the existing zpool_id script on systems where the
storage topology conforms to sas_direct or sas_switch.  The script
could be extended to support other topologies as well.  The advantage
of vdev_id is that it is driven by a single static input file that can
be shared across multiple nodes having a common storage toplogy.
zpool_id, on the other hand, requires a unique /etc/zfs/zdev.conf per
node and a separate slot-mapping file.  However, zpool_id provides the
flexibility of using any device names that show up in
/dev/disk/by-path, so it may still be needed on some systems.

vdev_id's functionality subsumes that of the sas_switch_id script, and
it is unlikely that anyone is using it, so sas_switch_id is removed.

Finally, /dev/disk/by-vdev is added to the list of directories that
'zpool import' will scan.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #713
2012-06-01 08:55:14 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
b39d3b9f7b Linux 3.3 compat, iops->create()/mkdir()/mknod()
The mode argument of iops->create()/mkdir()/mknod() was changed from
an 'int' to a 'umode_t'.  To prevent a compiler warning an autoconf
check was added to detect the API change and then correctly set a
zpl_umode_t typedef.  There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #701
2012-04-30 12:52:38 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
1c5de20ae2 Add --enable-debug-dmu-tx configure option
Allow rigorous (and expensive) tx validation to be enabled/disabled
indepentantly from the standard zfs debugging.  When enabled these
checks ensure that all txs are constructed properly and that a dbuf
is never dirtied without taking the correct tx hold.

This checking is particularly helpful when adding new dmu consumers
like Lustre.  However, for established consumers such as the zpl
with no known outstanding tx construction problems this is just
overhead.

--enable-debug-dmu-tx  - Enable/disable validation of each tx as
--disable-debug-dmu-tx   it is constructed.  By default validation
                         is disabled due to performance concerns.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-03-23 12:25:17 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
ebe7e575ea Add .zfs control directory
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
2012-03-22 13:03:47 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
4b787d75c8 Cleanly support debug packages
Allow a source rpm to be rebuilt with debugging enabled.  This
avoids the need to have to manually modify the spec file.  By
default debugging is still largely disabled.  To enable specific
debugging features use the following options with rpmbuild.

  '--with debug'               - Enables ASSERTs

  # For example:
  $ rpmbuild --rebuild --with debug zfs-modules-0.6.0-rc6.src.rpm

Additionally, ZFS_CONFIG has been added to zfs_config.h for
packages which build against these headers.  This is critical
to ensure both zfs and the dependant package are using the same
prototype and structure definitions.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-27 14:08:17 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps
30930fba21 Add support for DISCARD to ZVOLs.
DISCARD (REQ_DISCARD, BLKDISCARD) is useful for thin provisioning.
It allows ZVOL clients to discard (unmap, trim) block ranges from
a ZVOL, thus optimizing disk space usage by allowing a ZVOL to
shrink instead of just grow.

We can't use zfs_space() or zfs_freesp() here, since these functions
only work on regular files, not volumes. Fortunately we can use the
low-level function dmu_free_long_range() which does exactly what we
want.

Currently the discard operation is not added to the log. That's not
a big deal since losing discard requests cannot result in data
corruption. It would however result in disk space usage higher than
it should be. Thus adding log support to zvol_discard() is probably
a good idea for a future improvement.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-09 16:19:38 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps
cb2d19010d Support the fallocate() file operation.
Currently only the (FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) flag combination is
supported, since it's the only one that matches the behavior of
zfs_space(). This makes it pretty much useless in its current
form, but it's a start.

To support other flag combinations we would need to modify
zfs_space() to make it more flexible, or emulate the desired
functionality in zpl_fallocate().

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #334
2012-02-09 16:19:32 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps
34037afe24 Improve ZVOL queue behavior.
The Linux block device queue subsystem exposes a number of configurable
settings described in Linux block/blk-settings.c. The defaults for these
settings are tuned for hard drives, and are not optimized for ZVOLs. Proper
configuration of these options would allow upper layers (I/O scheduler) to
take better decisions about write merging and ordering.

Detailed rationale:

 - max_hw_sectors is set to unlimited (UINT_MAX). zvol_write() is able to
   handle writes of any size, so there's no reason to impose a limit. Let the
   upper layer decide.

 - max_segments and max_segment_size are set to unlimited. zvol_write() will
   copy the requests' contents into a dbuf anyway, so the number and size of
   the segments are irrelevant. Let the upper layer decide.

 - physical_block_size and io_opt are set to the ZVOL's block size. This
   has the potential to somewhat alleviate issue #361 for ZVOLs, by warning
   the upper layers that writes smaller than the volume's block size will be
   slow.

 - The NONROT flag is set to indicate this isn't a rotational device.
   Although the backing zpool might be composed of rotational devices, the
   resulting ZVOL often doesn't exhibit the same behavior due to the COW
   mechanisms used by ZFS. Setting this flag will prevent upper layers from
   making useless decisions (such as reordering writes) based on incorrect
   assumptions about the behavior of the ZVOL.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps
b18019d2d8 Fix synchronicity for ZVOLs.
zvol_write() assumes that the write request must be written to stable storage
if rq_is_sync() is true. Unfortunately, this assumption is incorrect. Indeed,
"sync" does *not* mean what we think it means in the context of the Linux
block layer. This is well explained in linux/fs.h:

    WRITE:       A normal async write. Device will be plugged.
    WRITE_SYNC:  Synchronous write. Identical to WRITE, but passes down
                 the hint that someone will be waiting on this IO
                 shortly.
    WRITE_FLUSH: Like WRITE_SYNC but with preceding cache flush.
    WRITE_FUA:   Like WRITE_SYNC but data is guaranteed to be on
                 non-volatile media on completion.

In other words, SYNC does not *mean* that the write must be on stable storage
on completion. It just means that someone is waiting on us to complete the
write request. Thus triggering a ZIL commit for each SYNC write request on a
ZVOL is unnecessary and harmful for performance. To make matters worse, ZVOL
users have no way to express that they actually want data to be written to
stable storage, which means the ZIL is broken for ZVOLs.

The request for stable storage is expressed by the FUA flag, so we must
commit the ZIL after the write if the FUA flag is set. In addition, we must
commit the ZIL before the write if the FLUSH flag is set.

Also, we must inform the block layer that we actually support FLUSH and FUA.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
47621f3d76 Linux 3.3 compat, sops->show_options()
The second argument of sops->show_options() was changed from a
'struct vfsmount *' to a 'struct dentry *'.  Add an autoconf check
to detect the API change and then conditionally define the expected
interface.  In either case we are only interested in the zfs_sb_t.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #549
2012-02-03 10:02:01 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
ab26409db7 Linux 3.1 compat, super_block->s_shrink
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 #466
Closes #292
2012-01-11 11:46:02 -08:00
Darik Horn
28eb9213d8 Linux 3.2 compat: set_nlink()
Directly changing inode->i_nlink is deprecated in Linux 3.2 by commit

  SHA: bfe8684869601dacfcb2cd69ef8cfd9045f62170

Use the new set_nlink() kernel function instead.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes: #462
2011-12-16 20:02:52 -08:00
Prakash Surya
6ba3b44614 Add make rule for building Arch Linux packages
Added the necessary build infrastructure for building packages
compatible with the Arch Linux distribution. As such, one can now run:

    $ ./configure
    $ make pkg     # Alternatively, one can run 'make arch' as well

on the Arch Linux machine to create two binary packages compatible with
the pacman package manager, one for the zfs userland utilities and
another for the zfs kernel modules. The new packages can then be
installed by running:

    # pacman -U $package.pkg.tar.xz

In addition, source-only packages suitable for an Arch Linux chroot
environment or remote builder can also be build using the 'sarch' make
rule.

NOTE: Since the source dist tarball is created on the fly from the head
of the build tree, it's MD5 hash signature will be continually influx.
As a result, the md5sum variable was intentionally omitted from the
PKGBUILD files, and the '--skipinteg' makepkg option is used. This may
or may not have any serious security implications, as the source tarball
is not being downloaded from an outside source.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #491
2011-12-14 19:14:23 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
5547c2f1bf Simplify BDI integration
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
2011-11-08 10:19:03 -08:00
Kyle Fuller
146cde8f4a Move 90-zfs udev rule from dracut to udev/rules.d
This rule does not need to be dracut specific.  Automatically loading
the zfs module stack when a zfs device is detected is usually desirable.
My only concern is that this might cause trouble for large pools where
we don't want to automatically import the pool until all the disks are
available.  However, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-08-19 16:26:13 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
de0a1c099b Autogen refresh for udev changes
Run autogen.sh using the same autotools versions as upstream:

 * autoconf-2.63
 * automake-1.11.1
 * libtool-2.2.6b
2011-08-08 16:30:27 -07:00
Kyle Fuller
12d06bac9b Move udev rules from /etc/udev to /lib/udev
This change moves the default install location for the zfs udev
rules from /etc/udev/ to /lib/udev/.  The correct convention is
for rules provided by a package to be installed in /lib/udev/.
The /etc/udev/ directory is reserved for custom rules or local
overrides.

Additionally, this patch cleans up some abuse of the bindir install
location by adding a udevdir and udevruledir install directories.
This allows us to revert to the default bin install location.  The
udev install directories can be set with the following new options.

  --with-udevdir=DIR      install udev helpers [EPREFIX/lib/udev]
  --with-udevruledir=DIR  install udev rules [UDEVDIR/rules.d]

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #356
2011-08-08 16:21:10 -07:00