History log of /linux-master/drivers/md/bcache/journal.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 32feee36 24-May-2022 Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>

bcache: avoid journal no-space deadlock by reserving 1 journal bucket

The journal no-space deadlock was reported time to time. Such deadlock
can happen in the following situation.

When all journal buckets are fully filled by active jset with heavy
write I/O load, the cache set registration (after a reboot) will load
all active jsets and inserting them into the btree again (which is
called journal replay). If a journaled bkey is inserted into a btree
node and results btree node split, new journal request might be
triggered. For example, the btree grows one more level after the node
split, then the root node record in cache device super block will be
upgrade by bch_journal_meta() from bch_btree_set_root(). But there is no
space in journal buckets, the journal replay has to wait for new journal
bucket to be reclaimed after at least one journal bucket replayed. This
is one example that how the journal no-space deadlock happens.

The solution to avoid the deadlock is to reserve 1 journal bucket in
run time, and only permit the reserved journal bucket to be used during
cache set registration procedure for things like journal replay. Then
the journal space will never be fully filled, there is no chance for
journal no-space deadlock to happen anymore.

This patch adds a new member "bool do_reserve" in struct journal, it is
inititalized to 0 (false) when struct journal is allocated, and set to
1 (true) by bch_journal_space_reserve() when all initialization done in
run_cache_set(). In the run time when journal_reclaim() tries to
allocate a new journal bucket, free_journal_buckets() is called to check
whether there are enough free journal buckets to use. If there is only
1 free journal bucket and journal->do_reserve is 1 (true), the last
bucket is reserved and free_journal_buckets() will return 0 to indicate
no free journal bucket. Then journal_reclaim() will give up, and try
next time to see whetheer there is free journal bucket to allocate. By
this method, there is always 1 jouranl bucket reserved in run time.

During the cache set registration, journal->do_reserve is 0 (false), so
the reserved journal bucket can be used to avoid the no-space deadlock.

Reported-by: Nikhil Kshirsagar <nkshirsagar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220524102336.10684-5-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 00b89892 18-Nov-2019 Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Revert "bcache: fix fifo index swapping condition in journal_pin_cmp()"

Coly says:

"Guoju Fang talked to me today, he told me this change was unnecessary
and I was over-thought.

Then I realize fifo_idx() uses a mask to handle the array index overflow
condition, so the index swap in journal_pin_cmp() won't happen. And yes,
Guoju and Kent are correct.

Since you already applied this patch, can you please to remove this
patch from your for-next branch? This single patch does not break
thing, but it is unecessary at this moment."

This reverts commit c0e0954e909c17b43d176ab219fc598964616ae6.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# c0e0954e 13-Nov-2019 Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>

bcache: fix fifo index swapping condition in journal_pin_cmp()

Fifo structure journal.pin is implemented by a cycle buffer, if the back
index reaches highest location of the cycle buffer, it will be swapped
to 0. Once the swapping happens, it means a smaller fifo index might be
associated to a newer journal entry. So the btree node with oldest
journal entry won't be selected in bch_btree_leaf_dirty() to reference
the dirty B+tree leaf node. This problem may cause bcache journal won't
protect unflushed oldest B+tree dirty leaf node in power failure, and
this B+tree leaf node is possible to beinconsistent after reboot from
power failure.

This patch fixes the fifo index comparing logic in journal_pin_cmp(),
to avoid potential corrupted B+tree leaf node when the back index of
journal pin is swapped.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 91be66e1 28-Jun-2019 Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>

bcache: performance improvement for btree_flush_write()

This patch improves performance for btree_flush_write() in following
ways,
- Use another spinlock journal.flush_write_lock to replace the very
hot journal.lock. We don't have to use journal.lock here, selecting
candidate btree nodes takes a lot of time, hold journal.lock here will
block other jouranling threads and drop the overall I/O performance.
- Only select flushing btree node from c->btree_cache list. When the
machine has a large system memory, mca cache may have a huge number of
cached btree nodes. Iterating all the cached nodes will take a lot
of CPU time, and most of the nodes on c->btree_cache_freeable and
c->btree_cache_freed lists are cleared and have need to flush. So only
travel mca list c->btree_cache to select flushing btree node should be
enough for most of the cases.
- Don't iterate whole c->btree_cache list, only reversely select first
BTREE_FLUSH_NR btree nodes to flush. Iterate all btree nodes from
c->btree_cache and select the oldest journal pin btree nodes consumes
huge number of CPU cycles if the list is huge (push and pop a node
into/out of a heap is expensive). The last several dirty btree nodes
on the tail of c->btree_cache list are earlest allocated and cached
btree nodes, they are relative to the oldest journal pin btree nodes.
Therefore only flushing BTREE_FLUSH_NR btree nodes from tail of
c->btree_cache probably includes the oldest journal pin btree nodes.

In my testing, the above change decreases 50%+ CPU consumption when
journal space is full. Some times IOPS drops to 0 for 5-8 seconds,
comparing blocking I/O for 120+ seconds in previous code, this is much
better. Maybe there is room to improve in future, but at this momment
the fix looks fine and performs well in my testing.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# fc2d5988 10-Aug-2018 Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>

bcache: add identifier names to arguments of function definitions

There are many function definitions do not have identifier argument names,
scripts/checkpatch.pl complains warnings like this,

WARNING: function definition argument 'struct bcache_device *' should
also have an identifier name
#16735: FILE: writeback.h:120:
+void bch_sectors_dirty_init(struct bcache_device *);

This patch adds identifier argument names to all bcache function
definitions to fix such warnings.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed: Shenghui Wang <shhuiw@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 6f10f7d1 10-Aug-2018 Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>

bcache: style fix to replace 'unsigned' by 'unsigned int'

This patch fixes warning reported by checkpatch.pl by replacing 'unsigned'
with 'unsigned int'.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Shenghui Wang <shhuiw@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# dabb4433 19-Feb-2014 Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>

bcache: Fix a shutdown bug

Shutdown wasn't cancelling/waiting on journal_write_work()

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>


# cb7a583e 16-Dec-2013 Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>

bcache: kill closure locking usage

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>


# 81ab4190 31-Oct-2013 Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>

bcache: Pull on disk data structures out into a separate header

Now, the on disk data structures are in a header that can be exported to
userspace - and having them all centralized is nice too.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>


# c18536a7 24-Jul-2013 Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>

bcache: Prune struct btree_op

Eventual goal is for struct btree_op to contain only what is necessary
for traversing the btree.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>


# a34a8bfd 24-Oct-2013 Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>

bcache: Refactor journalling flow control

Making things less asynchronous that don't need to be - bch_journal()
only has to block when the journal or journal entry is full, which is
emphatically not a fast path. So make it a normal function that just
returns when it finishes, to make the code and control flow easier to
follow.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>


# 7857d5d4 08-Oct-2013 Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>

bcache: Fix a journalling performance bug


# cafe5635 23-Mar-2013 Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>

bcache: A block layer cache

Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and
has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage.

See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>