Hello,
here is the seventh iteration of my patches to improve filesystem freezing.
I've rebased patches on top of 3.5-rc2 as Al requested. Otherwise I've just
fixed some outdated text in the introduction below and added one ack.
Introductory text to first time readers:
Filesystem freezing is currently racy and thus we can end up with dirty data on
frozen filesystem (see changelog patch 13 for detailed race description). This
patch series aims at fixing this.
To be able to block all places where inodes get dirtied, I've moved filesystem
file_update_time() call to ->page_mkwrite callback (patches 01-07) and put
freeze handling in mnt_want_write() / mnt_drop_write(). That however required
some code shuffling and changes to kern_path_create() (see patches 09-12). I
think the result is OK but opinions may differ ;). The advantage of this change
also is that all filesystems get freeze protection almost for free - even ext2
can handle freezing well now.
I'm not able to hit any deadlocks, lockdep warnings, or dirty data on frozen
filesystem despite beating it with fsstress, bash-shared-mapping, and
aio-stress while freezing and unfreezing for several hours (using ext4 and xfs)
so I'm reasonably confident this could finally be the right solution.
Changes since v6:
* rebased on 3.5-rc2
* added ack
Changes since v5:
* handle unlinked & open files on frozen filesystem
* lockdep keys for freeze protection are now per filesystem type
* taught lockdep that freeze protection at lower level does not create
dependency when we already hold freeze protection at higher level
* rebased on 3.5-rc1-ish
Changes since v4:
* added a couple of Acked-by's
* added some comments & doc update
* added patches from series "Push file_update_time() into .page_mkwrite"
since it doesn't make much sense to keep them separate anymore
* rebased on top of 3.4-rc2
Changes since v3:
* added third level of freezing for fs internal purposes - hooked some
filesystems to use it (XFS, nilfs2)
* removed racy i_size check from filemap_mkwrite()
Changes since v2:
* completely rewritten
* freezing is now blocked at VFS entry points
* two stage freezing to handle both mmapped writes and other IO
The biggest changes since v1:
* have two counters to provide safe state transitions for SB_FREEZE_WRITE
and SB_FREEZE_TRANS states
* use percpu counters instead of own percpu structure
* added documentation fixes from the old fs freezing series
* converted XFS to use SB_FREEZE_TRANS counter instead of its private
m_active_trans counter
Honza
CC: Alex Elder <[email protected]>
CC: Anton Altaparmakov <[email protected]>
CC: Ben Myers <[email protected]>
CC: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
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CC: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
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CC: "J. Bruce Fields" <[email protected]>
CC: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
CC: KONISHI Ryusuke <[email protected]>
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CC: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
CC: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
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CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]>
CC: Steven Whitehouse <[email protected]>
CC: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
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