1. 14 5月, 2014 1 次提交
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      GFS2: remove transaction glock · 24972557
      Benjamin Marzinski 提交于
      GFS2 has a transaction glock, which must be grabbed for every
      transaction, whose purpose is to deal with freezing the filesystem.
      Aside from this involving a large amount of locking, it is very easy to
      make the current fsfreeze code hang on unfreezing.
      
      This patch rewrites how gfs2 handles freezing the filesystem. The
      transaction glock is removed. In it's place is a freeze glock, which is
      cached (but not held) in a shared state by every node in the cluster
      when the filesystem is mounted. This lock only needs to be grabbed on
      freezing, and actions which need to be safe from freezing, like
      recovery.
      
      When a node wants to freeze the filesystem, it grabs this glock
      exclusively.  When the freeze glock state changes on the nodes (either
      from shared to unlocked, or shared to exclusive), the filesystem does a
      special log flush.  gfs2_log_flush() does all the work for flushing out
      the and shutting down the incore log, and then it tries to grab the
      freeze glock in a shared state again.  Since the filesystem is stuck in
      gfs2_log_flush, no new transaction can start, and nothing can be written
      to disk. Unfreezing the filesytem simply involes dropping the freeze
      glock, allowing gfs2_log_flush() to grab and then release the shared
      lock, so it is cached for next time.
      
      However, in order for the unfreezing ioctl to occur, gfs2 needs to get a
      shared lock on the filesystem root directory inode to check permissions.
      If that glock has already been grabbed exclusively, fsfreeze will be
      unable to get the shared lock and unfreeze the filesystem.
      
      In order to allow the unfreeze, this patch makes gfs2 grab a shared lock
      on the filesystem root directory during the freeze, and hold it until it
      unfreezes the filesystem.  The functions which need to grab a shared
      lock in order to allow the unfreeze ioctl to be issued now use the lock
      grabbed by the freeze code instead.
      
      The freeze and unfreeze code take care to make sure that this shared
      lock will not be dropped while another process is using it.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      24972557
  2. 21 10月, 2011 1 次提交
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      GFS2: Fix AIL flush issue during fsync · b5b24d7a
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      Unfortunately, it is not enough to just ignore locked buffers during
      the AIL flush from fsync. We need to be able to ignore all buffers
      which are locked, dirty or pinned at this stage as they might have
      been added subsequent to the log flush earlier in the fsync function.
      
      In addition, this means that we no longer need to rely on i_mutex to
      keep out writes during fsync, so we can, as a side-effect, remove
      that protection too.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Tested-By: NAbhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
      b5b24d7a
  3. 20 4月, 2011 1 次提交
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      GFS2: Clean up fsync() · dba898b0
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This patch is designed to clean up GFS2's fsync
      implementation and ensure that it really does get everything on
      disk. Since ->write_inode() has been updated, we can call that
      via the vfs library function sync_inode_metadata() and the only
      remaining thing that has to be done is to ensure that we get
      any revoke records in the log after the inode has been written back.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      dba898b0
  4. 24 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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      GFS2: Add a "demote a glock" interface to sysfs · 64d576ba
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This adds a sysfs file called demote_rq to GFS2's
      per filesystem directory. Its possible to use this
      file to demote arbitrary glocks in exactly the same
      way as if a request had come in from a remote node.
      
      This is intended for testing issues relating to caching
      of data under glocks. Despite that, the interface is
      generic enough to send requests to any type of glock,
      but be careful as its not always safe to send an
      arbitrary message to an arbitrary glock. For that reason
      and to prevent DoS, this interface is restricted to root
      only.
      
      The messages look like this:
      
      <type>:<glocknumber> <mode>
      
      Example:
      
      echo -n "2:13324 EX" >/sys/fs/gfs2/unity:myfs/demote_rq
      
      Which means "please demote inode glock (type 2) number 13324 so that
      I can get an EX (exclusive) lock". The lock modes are those which
      would normally be sent by a remote node in its callback so if you
      want to unlock a glock, you use EX, to demote to shared, use SH or PR
      (depending on whether you like GFS2 or DLM lock modes better!).
      
      If the glock doesn't exist, you'll get -ENOENT returned. If the
      arguments don't make sense, you'll get -EINVAL returned.
      
      The plan is that this interface will be used in combination with
      the blktrace patch which I recently posted for comments although
      it is, of course, still useful in its own right.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      64d576ba
  5. 05 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  6. 01 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [GFS2] Update copyright, tidy up incore.h · e9fc2aa0
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      As per comments from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> this
      updates the copyright message to say "version" in full rather than
      "v.2". Also incore.h has been updated to remove forward structure
      declarations which are not required.
      
      The gfs2_quota_lvb structure has now had endianess annotations added
      to it. Also quota.c has been updated so that we now store the
      lvb data locally in endian independant format to avoid needing
      a structure in host endianess too. As a result the endianess
      conversions are done as required at various points and thus the
      conversion routines in lvb.[ch] are no longer required. I've
      moved the one remaining constant in lvb.h thats used into lm.h
      and removed the unused lvb.[ch].
      
      I have not changed the HIF_ constants. That is left to a later patch
      which I hope will unify the gh_flags and gh_iflags fields of the
      struct gfs2_holder.
      
      Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      e9fc2aa0
  7. 30 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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  9. 17 1月, 2006 1 次提交