While investigating interactivity problems it was clear that processes
sometimes stall for long periods of times if an attempt is made to
lock a buffer which is undergoing writeback. It would stall in
a trace looking something like
[<ffffffff811a39de>] __lock_buffer+0x2e/0x30
[<ffffffff8123a60f>] do_get_write_access+0x43f/0x4b0
[<ffffffff8123a7cb>] jbd2_journal_get_write_access+0x2b/0x50
[<ffffffff81220f79>] __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0x39/0x80
[<ffffffff811f3198>] ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x78/0xa0
[<ffffffff811f3209>] ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x49/0x220
[<ffffffff811f57d1>] ext4_dirty_inode+0x41/0x60
[<ffffffff8119ac3e>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x4e/0x2d0
[<ffffffff8118b9b9>] update_time+0x79/0xc0
[<ffffffff8118ba98>] file_update_time+0x98/0x100
[<ffffffff81110ffc>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x17c/0x3b0
[<ffffffff811112aa>] generic_file_aio_write+0x7a/0xf0
[<ffffffff811ea853>] ext4_file_write+0x83/0xd0
[<ffffffff81172b23>] do_sync_write+0xa3/0xe0
[<ffffffff811731ae>] vfs_write+0xae/0x180
[<ffffffff8117361d>] sys_write+0x4d/0x90
[<ffffffff8159d62d>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Handles which stay open a long time are problematic when it comes time
to close down a transaction so it can be committed. These tracepoints
will help us determine which ones are the problematic ones, and to
validate whether changes makes things better or worse.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Track the delay between when we first request that the commit begin
and when it actually begins, so we can see how much of a gap exists.
In theory, this should just be the remaining scheduling quantuum of
the thread which requested the commit (assuming it was not a
synchronous operation which triggered the commit request) plus
scheduling overhead; however, it's possible that real time processes
might get in the way of letting the kjournald thread from executing.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When we reach jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail(), there is no guarantee that
checkpointed buffers are on a stable storage - especially if buffers were
written out by jbd2_log_do_checkpoint(), they are likely to be only in disk's
caches. Thus when we update journal superblock effectively removing old
transaction from journal, this write of superblock can get to stable storage
before those checkpointed buffers which can result in filesystem corruption
after a crash. Thus we must unconditionally issue a cache flush before we
update journal superblock in these cases.
A similar problem can also occur if journal superblock is written only in
disk's caches, other transaction starts reusing space of the transaction
cleaned from the log and power failure happens. Subsequent journal replay would
still try to replay the old transaction but some of it's blocks may be already
overwritten by the new transaction. For this reason we must use WRITE_FUA when
updating log tail and we must first write new log tail to disk and update
in-memory information only after that.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There are three case of updating journal superblock. In the first case, we want
to mark journal as empty (setting s_sequence to 0), in the second case we want
to update log tail, in the third case we want to update s_errno. Split these
cases into separate functions. It makes the code slightly more straightforward
and later patches will make the distinction even more important.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch adds trace_jbd2_drop_transaction and
trace_jbd2_update_superblock_end because there are similar tracepoints
in jbd and they are needed in jbd2 as well.
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Using function calls in TP_printk causes perf heartburn, so print the
MAJOR/MINOR device numbers instead.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
- Add more ext4 tracepoints.
- Change ext4 tracepoints to use dev_t field with MAJOR/MINOR macros
so that we can save 4 bytes in the ring buffer on some platforms.
- Add sync_mode to ext4_da_writepages, ext4_da_write_pages, and
ext4_da_writepages_result tracepoints. Also remove for_reclaim
field from ext4_da_writepages since it is usually not very useful.
Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Unfortunately perf can't deal with anything other than direct structure
accesses in the TP_printk() section. It will drop dead when it sees
jbd2_dev_to_name() in the "print fmt" section of the tracepoint.
Addresses-Google-Bug: 3138508
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The /proc/fs/jbd2/<dev>/history was maintained manually; by using
tracepoints, we can get all of the existing functionality of the /proc
file plus extra capabilities thanks to the ftrace infrastructure. We
save memory as a bonus.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Unlike on some other architectures ino_t is an unsigned int on s390.
So add an explicit cast to avoid lots of compile warnings:
In file included from include/trace/ftrace.h:285,
from include/trace/define_trace.h:61,
from include/trace/events/ext4.h:711,
from fs/ext4/super.c:50:
include/trace/events/ext4.h: In function 'ftrace_raw_output_ext4_free_inode':
include/trace/events/ext4.h:12: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If TRACE_INCLDUE_FILE is defined, <trace/events/TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE.h>
will be included and compiled, otherwise it will be
<trace/events/TRACE_SYSTEM.h>
So TRACE_SYSTEM should be defined outside of #if proctection,
just like TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE.
Imaging this scenario:
#include <trace/events/foo.h>
-> TRACE_SYSTEM == foo
...
#include <trace/events/bar.h>
-> TRACE_SYSTEM == bar
...
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/foo.h>
-> TRACE_SYSTEM == bar !!!
and then bar.h will be included and compiled.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A5A9CF1.2010007@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Theodore Ts'o
Jan Kara
Seiji Aguchi
Jiaying Zhang
Li Zefan