Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Now that the buffer cache has it's own LRU, we do not need to use
the page cache to provide persistent caching and reclaim
infrastructure. Convert the buffer cache to use alloc_pages()
instead of the page cache. This will remove all the overhead of page
cache management from setup and teardown of the buffers, as well as
needing to mark pages accessed as we find buffers in the buffer
cache.

By avoiding the page cache, we also remove the need to keep state in
the page_private(page) field for persistant storage across buffer
free/buffer rebuild and so all that code can be removed. This also
fixes the long-standing problem of not having enough bits in the
page_private field to track all the state needed for a 512
sector/64k page setup.

It also removes the need for page locking during reads as the pages
are unique to the buffer and nobody else will be attempting to
access them.

Finally, it removes the buftarg address space lock as a point of
global contention on workloads that allocate and free buffers
quickly such as when creating or removing large numbers of inodes in
parallel. This remove the 16TB limit on filesystem size on 32 bit
machines as the page index (32 bit) is no longer used for lookups
of metadata buffers - the buffer cache is now solely indexed by disk
address which is stored in a 64 bit field in the buffer.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

On 32 bit systems, vmalloc space is limited and XFS can chew through
it quickly as the vmalloc space is lazily freed. This can result in
failure to map buffers, even when there is apparently large amounts
of vmalloc space available. Hence, if we fail to map a buffer, purge
the aliases that have not yet been freed to hopefuly free up enough
vmalloc space to allow a retry to succeed.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Convert the files in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/ to use the new xfs_<level>
logging format that replaces the old Irix inherited cmn_err()
interfaces. While there, also convert naked printk calls to use the
relevant xfs logging function to standardise output format.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Convert from create[_singlethread]_workqueue() to alloc_workqueue().

* xfsdatad_workqueue and xfsconvertd_workqueue are identity converted.
  Using higher concurrency limit might be useful but given the
  complexity of workqueue usage in xfs, proceeding cautiously seems
  better.

* xfs_mru_reap_wq is converted to non-ordered workqueue with max
  concurrency of 1 as the work items don't require any specific
  ordering and already have proper synchronization.  It seems it was
  singlethreaded to save worker threads, which is no longer a concern.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

If we get an IO error on a synchronous superblock write, we attach an
error release function to it so that when the last reference goes away
the release function is called and the buffer is invalidated and
unlocked. The buffer is left locked until the release function is
called so that other concurrent users of the buffer will be locked out
until the buffer error is fully processed.

Unfortunately, for the superblock buffer the filesyetm itself holds a
reference to the buffer which prevents the reference count from
dropping to zero and the release function being called. As a result,
once an IO error occurs on a sync write, the buffer will never be
unlocked and all future attempts to lock the buffer will hang.

To make matters worse, this problems is not unique to such buffers;
if there is a concurrent _xfs_buf_find() running, the lookup will grab
a reference to the buffer and then wait on the buffer lock, preventing
the reference count from ever falling to zero and hence unlocking the
buffer.

As such, the whole b_relse function implementation is broken because it
cannot rely on the buffer reference count falling to zero to unlock the
errored buffer. The synchronous write error path is the only path that
uses this callback - it is used to ensure that the synchronous waiter
gets the buffer error before the error state is cleared from the buffer
by the release function.

Given that the only sychronous buffer writes now go through xfs_bwrite
and the error path in question can only occur for a write of a dirty,
logged buffer, we can move most of the b_relse processing to happen
inline in xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, just like a normal I/O completion.
In addition to that we make sure the error is not cleared in
xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, so that xfs_bwrite can reliably check it.
Given that xfs_bwrite keeps the buffer locked until it has waited for
it and checked the error this allows to reliably propagate the error
to the caller, and make sure that the buffer is reliably unlocked.

Given that xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks was the only instance of the
b_relse callback we can remove it entirely.

Based on earlier patches by Dave Chinner and Ajeet Yadav.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: NAjeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Introduce a per-buftarg LRU for memory reclaim to operate on. This
is the last piece we need to put in place so that we can fully
control the buffer lifecycle. This allows XFS to be responsibile for
maintaining the working set of buffers under memory pressure instead
of relying on the VM reclaim not to take pages we need out from
underneath us.

The implementation introduces a b_lru_ref counter into the buffer.
This is currently set to 1 whenever the buffer is referenced and so is used to
determine if the buffer should be added to the LRU or not when freed.
Effectively it allows lazy LRU initialisation of the buffer so we do not need
to touch the LRU list and locks in xfs_buf_find().

Instead, when the buffer is being released and we drop the last
reference to it, we check the b_lru_ref count and if it is none zero
we re-add the buffer reference and add the inode to the LRU. The
b_lru_ref counter is decremented by the shrinker, and whenever the
shrinker comes across a buffer with a zero b_lru_ref counter, if
released the LRU reference on the buffer. In the absence of a lookup
race, this will result in the buffer being freed.

This counting mechanism is used instead of a reference flag so that
it is simple to re-introduce buffer-type specific reclaim reference
counts to prioritise reclaim more effectively. We still have all
those hooks in the XFS code, so this will provide the infrastructure
to re-implement that functionality.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

As reported by Nick Piggin, XFS is suffering from long pauses under
highly concurrent workloads when hosted on ramdisks. The problem is
that an inode buffer is stuck in the pinned state in memory and as a
result either the inode buffer or one of the inodes within the
buffer is stopping the tail of the log from being moved forward.

The system remains in this state until a periodic log force issued
by xfssyncd causes the buffer to be unpinned. The main problem is
that these are stale buffers, and are hence held locked until the
transaction/checkpoint that marked them state has been committed to
disk. When the filesystem gets into this state, only the xfssyncd
can cause the async transactions to be committed to disk and hence
unpin the inode buffer.

This problem was encountered when scaling the busy extent list, but
only the blocking lock interface was fixed to solve the problem.
Extend the same fix to the buffer trylock operations - if we fail to
lock a pinned, stale buffer, then force the log immediately so that
when the next attempt to lock it comes around, it will have been
unpinned.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Before we introduce per-buftarg LRU lists, split the shrinker
implementation into per-buftarg shrinker callbacks. At the moment
we wake all the xfsbufds to run the delayed write queues to free
the dirty buffers and make their pages available for reclaim.
However, with an LRU, we want to be able to free clean, unused
buffers as well, so we need to separate the xfsbufd from the
shrinker callbacks.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

The delayed write buffer split trace currently issues a trace for
every buffer it scans. These buffers are not necessarily queued for
delayed write. Indeed, when buffers are pinned, there can be
thousands of traces of buffers that aren't actually queued for
delayed write and the ones that are are lost in the noise. Move the
trace point to record only buffers that are split out for IO to be
issued on.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
by themselves.  For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
but that's left for later patches.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Get rid of init_MUTEX[_LOCKED]() and use sema_init() instead.

(Ported to current XFS code by <aelder@sgi.com>.)
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Stop having two different names for many buffer functions and use
the more descriptive xfs_buf_* names directly.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

The buffer cache hash is showing typical hash scalability problems.
In large scale testing the number of cached items growing far larger
than the hash can efficiently handle. Hence we need to move to a
self-scaling cache indexing mechanism.

I have selected rbtrees for indexing becuse they can have O(log n)
search scalability, and insert and remove cost is not excessive,
even on large trees. Hence we should be able to cache large numbers
of buffers without incurring the excessive cache miss search
penalties that the hash is imposing on us.

To ensure we still have parallel access to the cache, we need
multiple trees. Rather than hashing the buffers by disk address to
select a tree, it seems more sensible to separate trees by typical
access patterns. Most operations use buffers from within a single AG
at a time, so rather than searching lots of different lists,
separate the buffer indexes out into per-AG rbtrees. This means that
searches during metadata operation have a much higher chance of
hitting cache resident nodes, and that updates of the tree are less
likely to disturb trees being accessed on other CPUs doing
independent operations.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

For RT and external log devices, we never use hashed buffers on them
now.  Remove the buftarg hash tables that are set up for them.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Filesystem level managed buffers are buffers that have their
lifecycle controlled by the filesystem layer, not the buffer cache.
We currently cache these buffers, which makes cleanup and cache
walking somewhat troublesome. Convert the fs managed buffers to
uncached buffers obtained by via xfs_buf_get_uncached(), and remove
the XBF_FS_MANAGED special cases from the buffer cache.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Each buffer contains both a buftarg pointer and a mount pointer. If
we add a mount pointer into the buftarg, we can avoid needing the
b_mount field in every buffer and grab it from the buftarg when
needed instead. This shrinks the xfs_buf by 8 bytes.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

To avoid the need to use cached buffers for single-shot or buffers
cached at the filesystem level, introduce a new buffer read
primitive that bypasses the cache an reads directly from disk.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() is really used to allocate a buffer that is
uncached. While it is not directly assigned a disk address, the fact
that they are not cached is a more important distinction. With the
upcoming uncached buffer read primitive, we should be consistent
with this disctinction.

While there, make page allocation in xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() safe
against memory reclaim re-entrancy into the filesystem by allowing
a flags parameter to be passed.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Add WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag which currently maps to WQ_RESCUER, mark
WQ_RESCUER as internal and replace all external WQ_RESCUER usages to
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.

This makes the API users express the intent of the workqueue instead
of indicating the internal mechanism used to guarantee forward
progress.  This is also to make it cleaner to add more semantics to
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.  For example, if deemed necessary, memory reclaim
workqueues can be made highpri.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The workqueue implementation in 2.6.36-rcX has changed, resulting
in the workqueues no longer having dedicated threads for work
processing. This has caused severe livelocks under heavy parallel
create workloads because the log IO completions have been getting
held up behind metadata IO completions.  Hence log commits would
stall, memory allocation would stall because pages could not be
cleaned, and lock contention on the AIL during inode IO completion
processing was being seen to slow everything down even further.

By making the log Io completion workqueue a high priority workqueue,
they are queued ahead of all data/metadata IO completions and
processed before the data/metadata completions. Hence the log never
gets stalled, and operations needed to clean memory can continue as
quickly as possible. This avoids the livelock conditions and allos
the system to keep running under heavy load as per normal.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Switch to the WRITE_FLUSH_FUA flag for log writes and remove the EOPNOTSUPP
detection for barriers.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

When doing large parallel file creates on a 16p machines, large amounts of
time is being spent in _xfs_buf_find(). A system wide profile with perf top
shows this:

          1134740.00 19.3% _xfs_buf_find
           733142.00 12.5% __ticket_spin_lock

The problem is that the hash contains 45,000 buffers, and the hash table width
is only 256 buffers. That means we've got around 200 buffers per chain, and
searching it is quite expensive. The hash table size needs to increase.

Secondly, every time we do a lookup, we promote the buffer we find to the head
of the hash chain. This is causing cachelines to be dirtied and causes
invalidation of cachelines across all CPUs that may have walked the hash chain
recently. hence every walk of the hash chain is effectively a cold cache walk.
Remove the promotion to avoid this invalidation.

The results are:

          1045043.00 21.2% __ticket_spin_lock
           326184.00  6.6% _xfs_buf_find

A 70% drop in the CPU usage when looking up buffers. Unfortunately that does
not result in an increase in performance underthis workload as contention on
the inode_lock soaks up most of the reduction in CPU usage.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

The b_strat callback is used by xfs_buf_iostrategy to perform additional
checks before submitting a buffer.  It is used in xfs_bwrite and when
writing out delayed buffers.  In xfs_bwrite it we can de-virtualize the
call easily as b_strat is set a few lines above the call to
xfs_buf_iostrategy.  For the delayed buffers the rationale is a bit
more complicated:

 - there are three callers of xfs_buf_delwri_queue, which places buffers
   on the delwri list:
    (1) xfs_bdwrite - this sets up b_strat, so it's fine
    (2) xfs_buf_iorequest.  None of the callers can have XBF_DELWRI set:
	- xlog_bdstrat is only used for log buffers, which are never delwri
	- _xfs_buf_read explicitly clears the delwri flag
	- xfs_buf_iodone_work retries log buffers only
	- xfsbdstrat - only used for reads, superblock writes without the
	  delwri flag, log I/O and file zeroing with explicitly allocated
	  buffers.
	- xfs_buf_iostrategy - only calls xfs_buf_iorequest if b_strat is
	  not set
    (3) xfs_buf_unlock
	- only puts the buffer on the delwri list if the DELWRI flag is
	  already set.  The DELWRI flag is only ever set in xfs_bwrite,
	  xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, or xfs_trans_log_buf.  For
	  xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks and xfs_trans_log_buf we require
	  an initialized buf item, which means b_strat was set to
	  xfs_bdstrat_cb in xfs_buf_item_init.

Conclusion: we can just get rid of the callback and replace it with
explicit calls to xfs_bdstrat_cb.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

xfs_buf_read() fails to detect dispatch errors before attempting to
wait on sychronous IO. If there was an error, it will get stuck
forever, waiting for an I/O that was never started. Make sure the
error is detected correctly.

Further, such a failure can leave locked pages in the page cache
which will cause a later operation to hang on the page. Ensure that
we correctly process pages in the buffers when we get a dispatch
error.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

Get rid of the xfs_buf_pin/xfs_buf_unpin/xfs_buf_ispin helpers and opencode
them in their only callers, just like we did for the inode pinning a while
ago.  Also remove duplicate trace points - the bufitem tracepoints cover
all the information that is present in a buffer tracepoint.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

Dmapi support was never merged upstream, but we still have a lot of hooks
bloating XFS for it, all over the fast pathes of the filesystem.

This patch drops over 700 lines of dmapi overhead.  If we'll ever get HSM
support in mainline at least the namespace events can be done much saner
in the VFS instead of the individual filesystem, so it's not like this
is much help for future work.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback
to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink
caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass the shrinker
structure to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure
in the context the shrinker needs to operate on and get back to it in the
callback via container_of().
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

When we free a metadata extent, we record it in the per-AG busy
extent array so that it is not re-used before the freeing
transaction hits the disk. This array is fixed size, so when it
overflows we make further allocation transactions synchronous
because we cannot track more freed extents until those transactions
hit the disk and are completed. Under heavy mixed allocation and
freeing workloads with large log buffers, we can overflow this array
quite easily.

Further, the array is sparsely populated, which means that inserts
need to search for a free slot, and array searches often have to
search many more slots that are actually used to check all the
busy extents. Quite inefficient, really.

To enable this aspect of extent freeing to scale better, we need
a structure that can grow dynamically. While in other areas of
XFS we have used radix trees, the extents being freed are at random
locations on disk so are better suited to being indexed by an rbtree.

So, use a per-AG rbtree indexed by block number to track busy
extents.  This incures a memory allocation when marking an extent
busy, but should not occur too often in low memory situations. This
should scale to an arbitrary number of extents so should not be a
limitation for features such as in-memory aggregation of
transactions.

However, there are still situations where we can't avoid allocating
busy extents (such as allocation from the AGFL). To minimise the
overhead of such occurences, we need to avoid doing a synchronous
log force while holding the AGF locked to ensure that the previous
transactions are safely on disk before we use the extent. We can do
this by marking the transaction doing the allocation as synchronous
rather issuing a log force.

Because of the locking involved and the ordering of transactions,
the synchronous transaction provides the same guarantees as a
synchronous log force because it ensures that all the prior
transactions are already on disk when the synchronous transaction
hits the disk. i.e. it preserves the free->allocate order of the
extent correctly in recovery.

By doing this, we avoid holding the AGF locked while log writes are
in progress, hence reducing the length of time the lock is held and
therefore we increase the rate at which we can allocate and free
from the allocation group, thereby increasing overall throughput.

The only problem with this approach is that when a metadata buffer is
marked stale (e.g. a directory block is removed), then buffer remains
pinned and locked until the log goes to disk. The issue here is that
if that stale buffer is reallocated in a subsequent transaction, the
attempt to lock that buffer in the transaction will hang waiting
the log to go to disk to unlock and unpin the buffer. Hence if
someone tries to lock a pinned, stale, locked buffer we need to
push on the log to get it unlocked ASAP. Effectively we are trading
off a guaranteed log force for a much less common trigger for log
force to occur.

Ideally we should not reallocate busy extents. That is a much more
complex fix to the problem as it involves direct intervention in the
allocation btree searches in many places. This is left to a future
set of modifications.

Finally, now that we track busy extents in allocated memory, we
don't need the descriptors in the transaction structure to point to
them. We can replace the complex busy chunk infrastructure with a
simple linked list of busy extents. This allows us to remove a large
chunk of code, making the overall change a net reduction in code
size.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

xfs_bwrite is used with the intention of synchronously writing out
buffers, but currently it does not actually clear the async flag if
that's left from previous writes but instead implements async
behaviour if it finds it.  Remove the code handling asynchronous
writes as we've got rid of those entirely outside of the log and
delwri buffers, and make sure that we clear the async and read flags
before writing the buffer.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

This allows to see in `ps` and similar tools which kthreads are
allotted to which block device/filesystem, similar to what jbd2
does. As the process name is a fixed 16-char array, no extra
space is needed in tasks.

  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    2 ?        S      0:00 [kthreadd]
  197 ?        S      0:00  \_ [jbd2/sda2-8]
  198 ?        S      0:00  \_ [ext4-dio-unwrit]
  204 ?        S      0:00  \_ [flush-8:0]
 2647 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xfs_mru_cache]
 2648 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xfslogd/0]
 2649 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xfsdatad/0]
 2650 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xfsconvertd/0]
 2651 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xfsbufd/ram0]
 2652 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xfsaild/ram0]
 2653 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xfssyncd/ram0]
Signed-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

Re-apply a commit that had been reverted due to regressions
that have since been fixed.

    From 95f8e302 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
    From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
    Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:43:09 +1100

    Implement XFS's large buffer support with the new vmap APIs. See the vmap
    rewrite (db64fe02) for some numbers. The biggest improvement that comes from
    using the new APIs is avoiding the global KVA allocation lock on every call.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>

Only modifications here were a minor reformat, plus making the patch
apply given the new use of xfs_buf_is_vmapped().
Modified-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Re-apply a commit that had been reverted due to regressions
that have since been fixed.

    Original commit: d2859751
    Author: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
    Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:40:44 +1100

    XFS's vmap batching simply defers a number (up to 64) of vunmaps,
    and keeps track of them in a list. To purge the batch, it just goes
    through the list and calls vunamp on each one. This is pretty poor:
    a global TLB flush is generally still performed on each vunmap, with
    the most expensive parts of the operation being the broadcast IPIs
    and locking involved in the SMP callouts, and the locking involved
    in the vmap management -- none of these are avoided by just batching
    up the calls. I'm actually surprised it ever made much difference.
    (Now that the lazy vmap allocator is upstream, this description is
    not quite right, but the vunmap batching still doesn't seem to do
    much).

    Rip all this logic out of XFS completely. I will improve vmap
    performance and scalability directly in subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>

The only change I made was to use the "new" xfs_buf_is_vmapped()
function in a place it had been open-coded in the original.
Modified-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

xfs_buf.c includes what is essentially a hand rolled version of
blk_rq_map_kern().  In order to work properly with the vmalloc buffers
that xfs uses, this hand rolled routine must also implement the flushing
API for vmap/vmalloc areas.

[style updates from hch@lst.de]
Acked-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

There are no more users of this function left in the XFS code
now that we've switched everything to delayed write flushing.
Remove it.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Currently when the xfsbufd writes delayed write buffers, it pushes
them to disk in the order they come off the delayed write list. If
there are lots of buffers ѕpread widely over the disk, this results
in overwhelming the elevator sort queues in the block layer and we
end up losing the posibility of merging adjacent buffers to minimise
the number of IOs.

Use the new generic list_sort function to sort the delwri dispatch
queue before issue to ensure that the buffers are pushed in the most
friendly order possible to the lower layers.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

All buffers logged into the AIL are marked as delayed write.
When the AIL needs to push the buffer out, it issues an async write of the
buffer. This means that IO patterns are dependent on the order of
buffers in the AIL.

Instead of flushing the buffer, promote the buffer in the delayed
write list so that the next time the xfsbufd is run the buffer will
be flushed by the xfsbufd. Return the state to the xfsaild that the
buffer was promoted so that the xfsaild knows that it needs to cause
the xfsbufd to run to flush the buffers that were promoted.

Using the xfsbufd for issuing the IO allows us to dispatch all
buffer IO from the one queue. This means that we can make much more
enlightened decisions on what order to flush buffers to disk as
we don't have multiple places issuing IO. Optimisations to xfsbufd
will be in a future patch.

Version 2
- kill XFS_ITEM_FLUSHING as it is now unused.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

We use the KM_LARGE flag to make kmem_alloc and friends use vmalloc
if necessary.  As we only need this for a few boot/mount time
allocations just switch to explicit vmalloc calls there.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>