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  1. 14 Sep, 2009 9 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: release the write lock inside get_neighbors() · 148d3504
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      get_neighbors() is used to get the left and/or right blocks
against a given one in order to balance a tree.

sb_bread() is used to read the buffer of these neighors blocks and
while it waits for this operation, it might sleep.

The bkl was released at this point, and then we can also release
the write lock before calling sb_bread().

This is safe because if the filesystem is changed after this
lock release, the function returns REPEAT_SEARCH (aka SCHEDULE_OCCURRED
in the function header comments) in order to repeat the neighbhor
research.

[ Impact: release the reiserfs write lock when it is not needed ]

Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      148d3504
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: release write lock while rescheduling on prepare_for_delete_or_cut() · 5e69e3a4
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      prepare_for_delete_or_cut() can process several types of items, including
indirect items, ie: items which contain no file data but pointers to
unformatted nodes scattering the datas of a file.

In this case it has to zero out these pointers to block numbers of
unformatted nodes and release the bitmap from these block numbers.

It can take some time, so a rescheduling() is performed between each
block processed. We can safely release the write lock while
rescheduling(), like the bkl did, because the code checks just after
if the item has moved after sleeping.

[ Impact: release the reiserfs write lock when it is not needed ]

Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      5e69e3a4
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: release the write lock before rescheduling on do_journal_end() · e6950a4d
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      When do_journal_end() copies data to the journal blocks buffers in memory,
it reschedules if needed between each block copied and dirtyfied.

We can also release the write lock at this rescheduling stage,
like did the bkl implicitly.

[ Impact: release the reiserfs write lock when it is not needed ]

Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      e6950a4d
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: release write lock on fs_changed() · f32049dc
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      fs_changed() is a macro used by reiserfs to check whether its tree has been
rebalanced. It has been designed to check parallel changes on the tree after
calling a sleeping function, which released the Bkl.

fs_changed() also calls cond_resched(), so that if rescheduling is needed,
we are in the best place to do that, since we check if the tree has changed
just after (because of the bkl release on schedule()).

Even if we are not anymore using the Bkl, we still want to release the lock
while we reschedule, so that other waiters for the lock can acquire it safely,
because of the following __fs_changed() check.

[ Impact: release the reiserfs write lock when it is not needed ]

Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      f32049dc
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: only acquire the write lock once in reiserfs_dirty_inode · dc8f6d89
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Impact: fix a deadlock

reiserfs_dirty_inode() is the super_operations::dirty_inode() callback
of reiserfs. It can be called from different contexts where the write
lock can be already held.

But this function also grab the write lock (possibly recursively).
Subsequent release of the lock before sleep will actually not release
the lock if the caller of mark_inode_dirty() (which in turn calls
reiserfs_dirty_inode()) already owns the lock.

A typical case:

reiserfs_write_end() {
	acquire_write_lock()
	mark_inode_dirty() {
		reiserfs_dirty_inode() {
			reacquire_write_lock() {
				journal_begin() {
					do_journal_begin_r() {
						/*
						 * fail to release, still
						 * one depth of lock
						 */
						release_write_lock()
						reiserfs_wait_on_write_block() {
							wait_event()

The event is usually provided by something which needs the write lock but
it hasn't been released.

We use reiserfs_write_lock_once() here to ensure we only grab the
write lock in one level.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239680065-25013-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      dc8f6d89
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: lock only once in reiserfs_truncate_file · 22c963ad
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Impact: fix a deadlock

reiserfs_truncate_file() can be called from multiple context where
the write lock can be already hold or not.

This function also acquire (possibly recursively) the write
lock. Subsequent releases before sleeping will not actually release
the lock because we may be in more than one lock depth degree.

A typical case is:

reiserfs_file_release {
	acquire_the_lock()
	reiserfs_truncate_file()
		reacquire_the_lock()
		journal_begin() {
			do_journal_begin_r() {
				reiserfs_wait_on_write_block() {
					/*
					 * Not released because still one
					 * depth owned
					 */
					release_lock()
					wait_for_event()

At this stage the event never happen because the one which provides
it needs the write lock.

We use reiserfs_write_lock_once() here to ensure that we don't acquire the
write lock recursively.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239680065-25013-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      22c963ad
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: provide a tool to lock only once the write lock · daf88c89
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Sometimes we don't want to recursively hold the per superblock write
lock because we want to be sure it is actually released when we come
to sleep.

This patch introduces the necessary tools for that.

reiserfs_write_lock_once() does the same job than reiserfs_write_lock()
except that it won't try to acquire recursively the lock if the current
task already owns it. Also the lock_depth before the call of this function
is returned.

reiserfs_write_unlock_once() unlock only if reiserfs_write_lock_once()
returned a depth equal to -1, ie: only if it actually locked.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239680065-25013-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      daf88c89
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      reiserfs, kill-the-BKL: fix unsafe j_flush_mutex lock · a412f9ef
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Impact: fix a deadlock

The j_flush_mutex is acquired safely in journal.c:
if we can't take it, we free the reiserfs per superblock lock
and wait a bit.

But we have a remaining place in kupdate_transactions() where
j_flush_mutex is still acquired traditionnaly. Thus the following
scenario (warned by lockdep) can happen:

A						B

mutex_lock(&write_lock)			mutex_lock(&write_lock)
	mutex_lock(&j_flush_mutex)	mutex_lock(&j_flush_mutex) //block
	mutex_unlock(&write_lock)
	sleep...
	mutex_lock(&write_lock) //deadlock

Fix this by using reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe() in kupdate_transactions().
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239660635-12940-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a412f9ef
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      reiserfs: kill-the-BKL · 8ebc4232
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      This patch is an attempt to remove the Bkl based locking scheme from
reiserfs and is intended.

It is a bit inspired from an old attempt by Peter Zijlstra:

   http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0704.2/2174.html

The bkl is heavily used in this filesystem to prevent from
concurrent write accesses on the filesystem.

Reiserfs makes a deep use of the specific properties of the Bkl:

- It can be acqquired recursively by a same task
- It is released on the schedule() calls and reacquired when schedule() returns

The two properties above are a roadmap for the reiserfs write locking so it's
very hard to simply replace it with a common mutex.

- We need a recursive-able locking unless we want to restructure several blocks
  of the code.
- We need to identify the sites where the bkl was implictly relaxed
  (schedule, wait, sync, etc...) so that we can in turn release and
  reacquire our new lock explicitly.
  Such implicit releases of the lock are often required to let other
  resources producer/consumer do their job or we can suffer unexpected
  starvations or deadlocks.

So the new lock that replaces the bkl here is a per superblock mutex with a
specific property: it can be acquired recursively by a same task, like the
bkl.

For such purpose, we integrate a lock owner and a lock depth field on the
superblock information structure.

The first axis on this patch is to turn reiserfs_write_(un)lock() function
into a wrapper to manage this mutex. Also some explicit calls to
lock_kernel() have been converted to reiserfs_write_lock() helpers.

The second axis is to find the important blocking sites (schedule...(),
wait_on_buffer(), sync_dirty_buffer(), etc...) and then apply an explicit
release of the write lock on these locations before blocking. Then we can
safely wait for those who can give us resources or those who need some.
Typically this is a fight between the current writer, the reiserfs workqueue
(aka the async commiter) and the pdflush threads.

The third axis is a consequence of the second. The write lock is usually
on top of a lock dependency chain which can include the journal lock, the
flush lock or the commit lock. So it's dangerous to release and trying to
reacquire the write lock while we still hold other locks.

This is fine with the bkl:

      T1                       T2

lock_kernel()
    mutex_lock(A)
    unlock_kernel()
    // do something
                            lock_kernel()
                                mutex_lock(A) -> already locked by T1
                                schedule() (and then unlock_kernel())
    lock_kernel()
    mutex_unlock(A)
    ....

This is not fine with a mutex:

      T1                       T2

mutex_lock(write)
    mutex_lock(A)
    mutex_unlock(write)
    // do something
                           mutex_lock(write)
                              mutex_lock(A) -> already locked by T1
                              schedule()

    mutex_lock(write) -> already locked by T2
    deadlock

The solution in this patch is to provide a helper which releases the write
lock and sleep a bit if we can't lock a mutex that depend on it. It's another
simulation of the bkl behaviour.

The last axis is to locate the fs callbacks that are called with the bkl held,
according to Documentation/filesystem/Locking.

Those are:

- reiserfs_remount
- reiserfs_fill_super
- reiserfs_put_super

Reiserfs didn't need to explicitly lock because of the context of these callbacks.
But now we must take care of that with the new locking.

After this patch, reiserfs suffers from a slight performance regression (for now).
On UP, a high volume write with dd reports an average of 27 MB/s instead
of 30 MB/s without the patch applied.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1239070789-13354-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8ebc4232
  3. 09 Sep, 2009 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 2.6.31 · 74fca6a4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      74fca6a4
    • Ed Cashin's avatar
      aoe: allocate unused request_queue for sysfs · 7135a71b
      Ed Cashin authored 
      Andy Whitcroft reported an oops in aoe triggered by use of an
incorrectly initialised request_queue object:

  [ 2645.959090] kobject '<NULL>' (ffff880059ca22c0): tried to add
		an uninitialized object, something is seriously wrong.
  [ 2645.959104] Pid: 6, comm: events/0 Not tainted 2.6.31-5-generic #24-Ubuntu
  [ 2645.959107] Call Trace:
  [ 2645.959139] [<ffffffff8126ca2f>] kobject_add+0x5f/0x70
  [ 2645.959151] [<ffffffff8125b4ab>] blk_register_queue+0x8b/0xf0
  [ 2645.959155] [<ffffffff8126043f>] add_disk+0x8f/0x160
  [ 2645.959161] [<ffffffffa01673c4>] aoeblk_gdalloc+0x164/0x1c0 [aoe]

The request queue of an aoe device is not used but can be allocated in
code that does not sleep.

Bruno bisected this regression down to

  cd43e26f

  block: Expose stacked device queues in sysfs

"This seems to generate /sys/block/$device/queue and its contents for
 everyone who is using queues, not just for those queues that have a
 non-NULL queue->request_fn."

Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410198
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13942

Note that embedding a queue inside another object has always been
an illegal construct, since the queues are reference counted and
must persist until the last reference is dropped. So aoe was
always buggy in this respect (Jens).
Signed-off-by: default avatarEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Bruno Premont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      7135a71b
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      i915: disable interrupts before tearing down GEM state · e6890f6f
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Reinette Chatre reports a frozen system (with blinking keyboard LEDs)
when switching from graphics mode to the text console, or when
suspending (which does the same thing). With netconsole, the oops
turned out to be

	BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000084
	IP: [<ffffffffa03ecaab>] i915_driver_irq_handler+0x26b/0xd20 [i915]

and it's due to the i915_gem.c code doing drm_irq_uninstall() after
having done i915_gem_idle(). And the i915_gem_idle() path will do

  i915_gem_idle() ->
    i915_gem_cleanup_ringbuffer() ->
      i915_gem_cleanup_hws() ->
        dev_priv->hw_status_page = NULL;

but if an i915 interrupt comes in after this stage, it may want to
access that hw_status_page, and gets the above NULL pointer dereference.

And since the NULL pointer dereference happens from within an interrupt,
and with the screen still in graphics mode, the common end result is
simply a silently hung machine.

Fix it by simply uninstalling the irq handler before idling rather than
after. Fixes

    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13819Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e6890f6f
  5. 08 Sep, 2009 1 commit
  7. 07 Sep, 2009 7 commits
  9. 06 Sep, 2009 1 commit
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      gianfar: Fix build. · d9d8e041
      David S. Miller authored 
      Reported by Michael Guntsche <mike@it-loops.com>

--------------------
Commit
38bddf04 gianfar: gfar_remove needs to call unregister_netdev()

breaks the build of the gianfar driver because "dev" is undefined in
this function. To quickly test rc9 I changed this to priv->ndev but I do
not know if this is the correct one.
--------------------
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      d9d8e041
  11. 05 Sep, 2009 19 commits