This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time
now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change
such as:
 o Reducing overhead by eliminating duplicated fields between structures
 o Simplifcation of the code (reduces the code size by a fair bit)
 o The locking interface is now the DLM interface itself as proposed
   some time ago.
 o Fewer lookups of glocks when processing replies from the DLM
 o Fewer memory allocations/deallocations for each glock
 o Scope to do further optimisations in the future (but this patch is
   more than big enough for now!)

Please note that (a) this patch relates to the lock_dlm module and
not the DLM itself, that is still a separate module; and (b) that
we retain the ability to build GFS2 as a standalone single node
filesystem with out requiring the DLM.

This patch needs a lot of testing, hence my keeping it I restarted
my -git tree after the last merge window. That way, this has the maximum
exposure before its merged. This is (modulo a few minor bug fixes) the
same patch that I've been posting on and off the the last three months
and its passed a number of different tests so far.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The following patch fixes an issue relating to remount and argument
parsing. After this fix is applied, remount becomes atomic in that
it either succeeds changing the mount to the new state, or it fails
and leaves it in the old state. Previously it was possible for the
parsing of options to fail part way though and for the fs to be left
in a state where some of the new arguments had been applied, but some
had not.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which
suspends write requests.  So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the
filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and
replication) while it is mounted.

In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g.  VxFS) has the freeze feature
and it would be used to get the consistent backup.

If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it
without a commercial filesystem.

So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature.
I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps.
1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl.
2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot
   with the storage device's feature.
3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl.
4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume
   or the snapshot.

This patch:

VFS:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that they can return an error.
Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation
freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion.

ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed,
and unlockfs always returns 0.

reiserfs:
Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior.
Signed-off-by: NTakashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: NMasayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com>
Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This should solve the issue with the previous attempt at fixing this.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This reverts commit 78802499912f1ba31ce83a94c55b5a980f250a43.

The original patch is causing problems in relation to order of
operations at umount in relation to jdata files. I need to fix
this a different way.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

There was a use-after-free with the GFS2 super block during
umount. This patch moves almost all of the umount code from
->put_super into ->kill_sb, the only bit that cannot be moved
being the glock hash clearing which has to remain as ->put_super
due to umount ordering requirements. As a result its now obvious
that the kfree is the final operation, whereas before it was
hidden in ->put_super.

Also gfs2_jindex_free is then only referenced from a single file
so thats moved and marked static too.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The functions which are being moved can all be marked
static in their new locations, since they only have
a single caller each. Their new locations are more
logical than before and some of the functions are
small enough that the compiler might well inline them.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch removes the two daemons, gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd
and replaces them with a shrinker which is called from the VM.

The net result is that GFS2 responds better when there is memory
pressure, since it shrinks the glock cache at the same rate
as the VFS shrinks the dcache and icache. There are no longer
any time based criteria for shrinking glocks, they are kept
until such time as the VM asks for more memory and then we
demote just as many glocks as required.

There are potential future changes to this code, including the
possibility of sorting the glocks which are to be written back
into inode number order, to get a better I/O ordering. It would
be very useful to have an elevator based workqueue implementation
for this, as that would automatically deal with the read I/O cases
at the same time.

This patch is my answer to Andrew Morton's remark, made during
the initial review of GFS2, asking why GFS2 needs so many kernel
threads, the answer being that it doesn't :-) This patch is a
net loss of about 200 lines of code.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The final field in gfs2_dinode_host was the i_flags field. Thats
renamed to i_diskflags in order to avoid confusion with the existing
inode flags, and moved into the inode proper at a suitable location
to avoid creating a "hole".

At that point struct gfs2_dinode_host is no longer needed and as
promised (quite some time ago!) it can now be removed completely.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This moves the di_eattr field out of gfs2_inode_host and
into the inode proper.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

There is a bug in writepage and delete_inode which allows jdata files to
invalidate pages from the address space without being in a transaction at
the time. This causes problems in case the pages are in the journal. This
patch fixes that case and prevents the resulting oops.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Move the contents of some headers which contained very
little into more sensible places, and remove the original
header files. This should make it easier to find things.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Until now, we've used the same scheme as GFS1 for atime. This has failed
since atime is a per vfsmnt flag, not a per fs flag and as such the
"noatime" flag was not getting passed down to the filesystems. This
patch removes all the "special casing" around atime updates and we
simply use the VFS's atime code.

The net result is that GFS2 will now support all the same atime related
mount options of any other filesystem on a per-vfsmnt basis. We do lose
the "lazy atime" updates, but we gain "relatime". We could add lazy
atime to the VFS at a later date, if there is a requirement for that
variant still - I suspect relatime will be enough.

Also we lose about 100 lines of code after this patch has been applied,
and I have a suspicion that it will speed things up a bit, even when
atime is "on". So it seems like a nice clean up as well.

From a user perspective, everything stays the same except the loss of
the per-fs atime quantum tweekable (ought to be per-vfsmnt at the very
least, and to be honest I don't think anybody ever used it) and that a
number of options which were ignored before now work correctly.

Please let me know if you've got any comments. I'm pushing this out
early so that you can all see what my plans are.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch is intended to fix the issues reported in bz #457798. Instead
of having the metafs as a separate filesystem, it becomes a second root
of gfs2. As a result it will appear as type gfs2 in /proc/mounts, but it
is still possible (for backwards compatibility purposes) to mount it as
type gfs2meta. A new mount flag "meta" is introduced so that its possible
to tell the two cases apart in /proc/mounts.

As a result it becomes possible to mount type gfs2 with -o meta and
get the same result as mounting type gfs2meta. So it is possible to
mount just the metafs on its own. Currently if you do this, its then
impossible to mount the "normal" root of the gfs2 filesystem without
first unmounting the metafs root. I'm not sure if thats a feature or
a bug :-)

Either way, this is a great improvement on the previous scheme and I've
verified that it works ok with bind mounts on both the "normal" root
and the metafs root in various combinations.

There were also a bunch of functions in super.c which didn't belong there,
so this moves them into ops_fstype.c where they can be static. Hopefully
the mount/umount sequence is now more obvious as a result.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>

There are several reasons why this is undesirable:

 1. It never happens during normal operation anyway
 2. If it does happen it causes performance to be very, very poor
 3. It isn't likely to solve the original problem (memory shortage
    on remote DLM node) it was supposed to solve
 4. It uses a bunch of arbitrary constants which are unlikely to be
    correct for any particular situation and for which the tuning seems
    to be a black art.
 5. In an N node cluster, only 1/N of the dropped locked will actually
    contribute to solving the problem on average.

So all in all we are better off without it. This also makes merging
the lock_dlm module into GFS2 a bit easier.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch fixes Red Hat bugzilla bug 450156.

This started with a not-too-improbable mount failure because the
locking protocol was never set back to its proper "lock_dlm" after the
system was rebooted in the middle of a gfs2_fsck.  That left a
(purposely) invalid locking protocol in the superblock, which caused an
error when the file system was mounted the next time.

When there's an error mounting, vfs calls DQUOT_OFF, which calls
vfs_quota_off which calls gfs2_sync_fs.  Next, gfs2_sync_fs calls
gfs2_log_flush passing s_fs_info.  But due to the error, s_fs_info
had been previously set to NULL, and so we have the kernel oops.

My solution in this patch is to test for the NULL value before passing
it.  I tested this patch and it fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch fixes a GFS2 filesystem consistency error reported from
function do_strip.  The problem was caused by a timing window
that allowed two vfs inodes to be created in memory that point
to the same file.  The problem is fixed by making the vfs's
iget_test, iget_set mechanism check and set a new bit in the
in-core gfs2_inode structure while the vfs inode spin_lock is held.
Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The functions in lm.c were just wrappers which were mostly
only used in one other file. By moving the functions to
the files where they are being used, they can be marked
static and also this will usually result in them being inlined
since they are often only used from one point in the code.

A couple of really trivial functions have been inlined by hand
into the function which called them as it makes the code clearer
to do that.

We also gain from one fewer function call in the glock lock and
unlock paths.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Removes a field that is not used.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch cleans up the code for writing journaled data into the log.
It also removes the need to allocate a small "tag" structure for each
block written into the log. Instead we just keep count of the outstanding
I/O so that we can be sure that its all been written at the correct time.
Another result of this patch is that a number of ll_rw_block() calls
have become submit_bh() calls, closing some races at the same time.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

We only need a single gfs2_scand process rather than the one
per filesystem which we had previously. As a result the parameter
determining the frequency of gfs2_scand runs becomes a module
parameter rather than a mount parameter as it was before.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

There were two issues during deallocation of unlinked inodes. The
first was relating to the use of a "try" lock which in the case of
the inode lock wasn't trying hard enough to deallocate in all
circumstances (now changed to a normal glock) and in the case of
the iopen lock didn't wait for the demotion of the shared lock before
attempting to get the exclusive lock, and thereby sometimes (timing dependent)
not completing the deallocation when it should have done.

The second issue related to the lack of a way to invalidate dcache entries
on remote nodes (now fixed by this patch) which meant that unlinks were
taking a long time to return disk space to the fs. By adding some code to
invalidate the dcache entries across the cluster for unlinked inodes, that
is now fixed.

This patch was written jointly by Abhijith Das and Steven Whitehouse.
Signed-off-by: NAbhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch prevents the printing of a warning message in cases where
the fs is functioning normally by handing off responsibility for
unlinked, but still open inodes, to another node for eventual deallocation.
Also, there is now an improved system for ensuring that such requests
to other nodes do not get lost. The callback on the iopen lock is
only ever called when i_nlink == 0 and when a node is unable to deallocate
it due to it still being in use on another node. When a node receives
the callback therefore, it knows that i_nlink must be zero, so we mark
it as such (in gfs2_drop_inode) in order that it will then attempt
deallocation of the inode itself.

As an additional benefit, queuing a demote request no longer requires
a memory allocation. This simplifies the code for dealing with gfs2_holders
as it removes one special case.

There are two new fields in struct gfs2_glock. gl_demote_state is the
state which the remote node has requested and gl_demote_time is the
time when the request came in. Both fields are only valid when the
GLF_DEMOTE flag is set in gl_flags.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.
Signed-off-by: NJosef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The "greedy" code was an attempt to retain glocks for a minimum length
of time when they relate to mmap()ed files. The current implementation
of this feature is not, however, ideal in that it required allocating
memory in order to do this and its overly complicated.

It also misses the mark by ignoring the other I/O operations which are
just as likely to suffer from the same problem. So the plan is to remove
this now and then add the functionality back as part of the glock state
machine at a later date (and thus take into account all the possible
users of this feature)
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

In case of unlinked files with dirty pages GFS2 wasn't clearing
the pages in quite the right order. This patch clears the pages
earlier (before the qlock_dq) to avoid the situation that the
release of the glock results in attempting to write back data that
has already been deallocated.

This fixes Red Hat bugzilla: #220117
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

If an fs has already been shut down, a lockfs callback should do nothing.
An fs that's been shut down can't acquire locks or do anything with
respect to the cluster.

Also, remove FIXME comment in withdraw function.  The missing bits of the
withdraw procedure are now all done by user space.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This fixes a bug which resulted in poor performance due to flushing
the journal too often. The code path in question was via the inode_go_sync()
function in glops.c. The solution is not to flush the journal immediately
when inodes are ejected from memory, but batch up the work for glockd to
deal with later on. This means that glocks may now live on beyond the end of
the lifetime of their inodes (but not very much longer in the normal case).

Also fixed in this patch is a bug (which was hidden by the bug mentioned above) in
calculation of the number of free journal blocks.

The gfs2_logd process has been altered to be more responsive to the journal
filling up. We now wake it up when the number of uncommitted journal blocks
has reached the threshold level rather than trying to flush directly at the
end of each transaction. This again means doing fewer, but larger, log
flushes in general.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This removes the duplicate di_mode field in favour of using the
inode->i_mode field. This saves 4 bytes.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This adds a sync_fs superblock operation for GFS2 and removes
the journal flush from write_super in favour of sync_fs where it
ought to be. This is more or less identical to the way in which ext3
does this.

This bug was pointed out by Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>

Cc: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86.  (It would be more on an x86_64 system).  This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).

This patch:

The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer.  Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer.  This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

As per Andrew Morton's request, removed trailing whitespace.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

lm_interface.h has a few out of the tree clients such as GFS1
and userland tools.

Right now, these clients keeps a copy of the file in their build tree
that can go out of sync.

Move lm_interface.h to include/linux, export it to userland and
clean up fs/gfs2 to use the new location.
Signed-off-by: NFabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The superblock is now created with kmalloc, not vmalloc.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

As per comments from Jan Engelhardt, remove redundant casts, redundant
endian conversions, add a smattering of const and rewrite the
dirent_next function in order to avoid as many casts as possible.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Introduce a couple of new constants which make the NFS filehandle
sizes that GFS2 uses a bit clearer. Also fix one or two minor
issues as per Jan Engelhardt's sixth email.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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>

This patch allows the simultaneous mounting of gfs2meta and gfs2
filesystems. A restriction however is that a gfs2meta fs may only be
mounted if its corresponding gfs2 filesystem is also mounted. Also, a
gfs2 filesystem cannot be unmounted before its gfs2meta filesystem.
Signed-off-by: NAbhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This fixes a memory leak of struct gfs2_bufdata and also some
problems in the ordered write handling code. It needs a bit
more testing, but I believe that the reference counting of
ordered write buffers should now be correct.

This is aimed at fixing Red Hat bugzilla: #201028 and #201082
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>