1. 23 7月, 2011 1 次提交
  2. 15 3月, 2011 2 次提交
  3. 30 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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>
      5a0e3ad6
  4. 01 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      9p: fix build breakage introduced by FS-Cache · 6f054164
      David Howells 提交于
      While building 2.6.32-rc8-git2 for Fedora I noticed the following thinko
      in commit 201a1542 ("FS-Cache: Handle
      pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions"):
      
        fs/9p/cache.c: In function '__v9fs_fscache_release_page':
        fs/9p/cache.c:346: error: 'vnode' undeclared (first use in this function)
        fs/9p/cache.c:346: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
        fs/9p/cache.c:346: error: for each function it appears in.)
        make[2]: *** [fs/9p/cache.o] Error 1
      
      Fix the 9P filesystem to correctly construct the argument to
      fscache_maybe_release_page().
      Signed-off-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> [from identical patch]
      Signed-off-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> [from identical patch]
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6f054164
  5. 20 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions · 201a1542
      David Howells 提交于
      Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
      under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache.  Under these
      conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
      page can be discarded.
      
      The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:
      
      	kslowd005     D 0000000000000000     0  4253      2 0x00000080
      	 ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
      	 0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
      	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
      	Call Trace:
      	 [<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
      	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
      	 [<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
      	 [<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
      	 [<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
      	 [<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
      	 [<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
      	 [<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
      	 [<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
      	 [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
      	 [<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
      	 [<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
      	 [<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
      	 [<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
      	 [<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
      	 [<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
      	 [<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
      	 [<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
      	 [<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
      	 [<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
      	 [<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
      	 [<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
      	 [<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
      	 [<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
      	 [<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
      	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
      	 [<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
      	 [<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
      	 [<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
      	 [<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
      	 [<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
      	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
      	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
      	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
      	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
      	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
      	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
      	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
      	 [<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
      	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
      	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
      
      In the above backtrace, the following is happening:
      
       (1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
           (fscache_write_op()).
      
       (2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
           (cachefiles_write_page()).
      
       (3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
           standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
           page.
      
       (4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
           particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
           can copy the data from the netfs page.
      
       (5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
           a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
           (try_to_free_pages()).
      
       (6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
           one it's trying to write out).
      
       (7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
           called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
           complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).
      
       (8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.
      
      The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
      cache without allocating more memory.
      
      To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
      actually being performed.  This means that some data won't make it into the
      cache this time.  To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
      fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
      functions used to do with respect to the cache.
      
      The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
      through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan".  There are four
      counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
      pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
      we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
      being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
      of.
      
      What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
      heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages.  If there are
      plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
      could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
      cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      201a1542
  6. 24 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      9p: Add fscache support to 9p · 60e78d2c
      Abhishek Kulkarni 提交于
      This patch adds a persistent, read-only caching facility for
      9p clients using the FS-Cache caching backend.
      
      When the fscache facility is enabled, each inode is associated
      with a corresponding vcookie which is an index into the FS-Cache
      indexing tree. The FS-Cache indexing tree is indexed at 3 levels:
      - session object associated with each mount.
      - inode/vcookie
      - actual data (pages)
      
      A cache tag is chosen randomly for each session. These tags can
      be read off /sys/fs/9p/caches and can be passed as a mount-time
      parameter to re-attach to the specified caching session.
      Signed-off-by: NAbhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
      60e78d2c