History log of /linux-master/fs/afs/vl_probe.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# f49b594d 31-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Keep a record of the current fileserver endpoint state

Keep a record of the current fileserver endpoint state, including the probe
state, and replace it when a new probe is started rather than just
squelching the old state and overwriting it. Clearance of the old state
can cause a race if there's another thread also currently trying to
communicate with that server.

It appears that this race might be the culprit for some occasions where
kafs complains about invalid data in the RPC reply because the rotation
algorithm fell all the way through without actually issuing an RPC call and
the error return got filled in from the probe state (which has a zero error
recorded). Whatever happens to be in the caller's reply buffer is then
taken as the response.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# e6a7d7f7 30-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Dispatch vlserver probes in priority order

When probing all the addresses for a volume location server, dispatch them
in order of descending priority to try and get back highest priority one
first.

Also add a tracepoint to show the transmission and completion of the
probes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# 98f9fda2 20-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fold the afs_addr_cursor struct in

Fold the afs_addr_cursor struct into the afs_operation struct and the
afs_vl_cursor struct and fold its operations into their callers also.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# e38f299e 26-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Use peer + service_id as call address

Use the rxrpc_peer plus the service ID as the call address instead of
passing in a sockaddr_srx down to rxrpc. The peer record is obtained by
using rxrpc_kernel_get_peer(). This avoids the need to repeatedly look up
the peer and allows rxrpc to hold on to resources for it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# aa453bec 25-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Simplify error handling

Simplify error handling a bit by moving it from the afs_addr_cursor struct
to the afs_operation and afs_vl_cursor structs and using the error
prioritisation function for accumulating errors from multiple sources (AFS
tries to rotate between multiple fileservers, some of which may be
inaccessible or in some state of offlinedness).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# aa4917d6 20-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Rename addr_list::failed to probe_failed

Rename the failed member of struct addr_list to probe_failed as it's
specifically related to probe failures.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# 72904d7b 18-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc, afs: Allow afs to pin rxrpc_peer objects

Change rxrpc's API such that:

(1) A new function, rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer(), is provided to look up an
rxrpc_peer record for a remote address and a corresponding function,
rxrpc_kernel_put_peer(), is provided to dispose of it again.

(2) When setting up a call, the rxrpc_peer object used during a call is
now passed in rather than being set up by rxrpc_connect_call(). For
afs, this meenat passing it to rxrpc_kernel_begin_call() rather than
the full address (the service ID then has to be passed in as a
separate parameter).

(3) A new function, rxrpc_kernel_remote_addr(), is added so that afs can
get a pointer to the transport address for display purposed, and
another, rxrpc_kernel_remote_srx(), to gain a pointer to the full
rxrpc address.

(4) The function to retrieve the RTT from a call, rxrpc_kernel_get_srtt(),
is then altered to take a peer. This now returns the RTT or -1 if
there are insufficient samples.

(5) Rename rxrpc_kernel_get_peer() to rxrpc_kernel_call_get_peer().

(6) Provide a new function, rxrpc_kernel_get_peer(), to get a ref on a
peer the caller already has.

This allows the afs filesystem to pin the rxrpc_peer records that it is
using, allowing faster lookups and pointer comparisons rather than
comparing sockaddr_rxrpc contents. It also makes it easier to get hold of
the RTT. The following changes are made to afs:

(1) The addr_list struct's addrs[] elements now hold a peer struct pointer
and a service ID rather than a sockaddr_rxrpc.

(2) When displaying the transport address, rxrpc_kernel_remote_addr() is
used.

(3) The port arg is removed from afs_alloc_addrlist() since it's always
overridden.

(4) afs_merge_fs_addr4() and afs_merge_fs_addr6() do peer lookup and may
now return an error that must be handled.

(5) afs_find_server() now takes a peer pointer to specify the address.

(6) afs_find_server(), afs_compare_fs_alists() and afs_merge_fs_addr[46]{}
now do peer pointer comparison rather than address comparison.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# 07f3502b 18-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Turn the afs_addr_list address array into an array of structs

Turn the afs_addr_list address array into an array of structs, thereby
allowing per-address (such as RTT) info to be added.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# ba00b190 16-Jun-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fix vlserver probe RTT handling

In the same spirit as commit ca57f02295f1 ("afs: Fix fileserver probe
RTT handling"), don't rule out using a vlserver just because there
haven't been enough packets yet to calculate a real rtt. Always set the
server's probe rtt from the estimate provided by rxrpc_kernel_get_srtt,
which is capped at 1 second.

This could lead to EDESTADDRREQ errors when accessing a cell for the
first time, even though the vl servers are known and have responded to a
probe.

Fixes: 1d4adfaf6574 ("rxrpc: Make rxrpc_kernel_get_srtt() indicate validity")
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2023-June/006746.html
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b95b3094 19-Aug-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Don't use VL probe running state to make decisions outside probe code

Don't use the running state for VL server probes to make decisions about
which server to use as the state is cleared at the start of a probe and
intermediate values might also be misleading.

Instead, add a separate 'latest known' rtt in the afs_vlserver struct and a
flag to indicate if the server is known to be responding and update these
as and when we know what to change them to.

Fixes: 3bf0fb6f33dd ("afs: Probe multiple fileservers simultaneously")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# fb72cd3d 20-Aug-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Expose information from afs_vlserver through /proc for debugging

Convert various bitfields in afs_vlserver::probe to a mask and then expose
this and some other bits of information through /proc/net/afs/<cell>/vlservers
to make it easier to debug VL server communication issues.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 4f4c2c05 19-Aug-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Remove afs_vlserver->probe.have_result

Remove afs_vlserver->probe.have_result as it's neither read nor waited
upon.

Fixes: 3bf0fb6f33dd ("afs: Probe multiple fileservers simultaneously")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 1d4adfaf 20-Aug-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Make rxrpc_kernel_get_srtt() indicate validity

Fix rxrpc_kernel_get_srtt() to indicate the validity of the returned
smoothed RTT. If we haven't had any valid samples yet, the SRTT isn't
useful.

Fixes: c410bf01933e ("rxrpc: Fix the excessive initial retransmission timeout")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# c410bf01 11-May-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Fix the excessive initial retransmission timeout

rxrpc currently uses a fixed 4s retransmission timeout until the RTT is
sufficiently sampled. This can cause problems with some fileservers with
calls to the cache manager in the afs filesystem being dropped from the
fileserver because a packet goes missing and the retransmission timeout is
greater than the call expiry timeout.

Fix this by:

(1) Copying the RTT/RTO calculation code from Linux's TCP implementation
and altering it to fit rxrpc.

(2) Altering the various users of the RTT to make use of the new SRTT
value.

(3) Replacing the use of rxrpc_resend_timeout to use the calculated RTO
value instead (which is needed in jiffies), along with a backoff.

Notes:

(1) rxrpc provides RTT samples by matching the serial numbers on outgoing
DATA packets that have the RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK set and PING ACK packets
against the reference serial number in incoming REQUESTED ACK and
PING-RESPONSE ACK packets.

(2) Each packet that is transmitted on an rxrpc connection gets a new
per-connection serial number, even for retransmissions, so an ACK can
be cross-referenced to a specific trigger packet. This allows RTT
information to be drawn from retransmitted DATA packets also.

(3) rxrpc maintains the RTT/RTO state on the rxrpc_peer record rather than
on an rxrpc_call because many RPC calls won't live long enough to
generate more than one sample.

(4) The calculated SRTT value is in units of 8ths of a microsecond rather
than nanoseconds.

The (S)RTT and RTO values are displayed in /proc/net/rxrpc/peers.

Fixes: 17926a79320a ([AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both"")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# b4d0d230 20-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public licence as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the licence or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 114 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520170857.552531963@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# ffba718e 09-May-2019 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Get rid of afs_call::reply[]

Replace the afs_call::reply[] array with a bunch of typed members so that
the compiler can use type-checking on them. It's also easier for the eye
to see what's going on.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 0b9bf381 25-Apr-2019 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Split wait from afs_make_call()

Split the call to afs_wait_for_call_to_complete() from afs_make_call() to
make it easier to handle asynchronous calls and to make it easier to
convert a synchronous call to an asynchronous one in future, for instance
when someone tries to interrupt an operation by pressing Ctrl-C.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 08d405c8 03-Jan-2019 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>

fs/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions

This is already done for us internally by the signal machinery.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/buffer.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116002713.8474-7-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 4584ae96 13-Nov-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fix missing net error handling

kAFS can be given certain network errors (EADDRNOTAVAIL, EHOSTDOWN and
ERFKILL) that it doesn't handle in its server/address rotation algorithms.
They cause the probing and rotation to abort immediately rather than
rotating.

Fix this by:

(1) Abstracting out the error prioritisation from the VL and FS rotation
algorithms into a common function and expand usage into the server
probing code.

When multiple errors are available, this code selects the one we'd
prefer to return.

(2) Add handling for EADDRNOTAVAIL, EHOSTDOWN and ERFKILL.

Fixes: 0fafdc9f888b ("afs: Fix file locking")
Fixes: 0338747d8454 ("afs: Probe multiple fileservers simultaneously")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3bf0fb6f 19-Oct-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Probe multiple fileservers simultaneously

Send probes to all the unprobed fileservers in a fileserver list on all
addresses simultaneously in an attempt to find out the fastest route whilst
not getting stuck for 20s on any server or address that we don't get a
reply from.

This alleviates the problem whereby attempting to access a new server can
take a long time because the rotation algorithm ends up rotating through
all servers and addresses until it finds one that responds.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>