Граф коммитов

169 Коммитов

Автор SHA1 Сообщение Дата
Randy Dunlap ff5fdb6149 fs: fix new dcache.c kernel-doc warnings
Fix new fs/dcache.c kernel-doc warnings:

  Warning(fs/dcache.c:184): No description found for parameter 'dentry'
  Warning(fs/dcache.c:296): No description found for parameter 'parent'
  Warning(fs/dcache.c:1985): No description found for parameter 'dparent'
  Warning(fs/dcache.c:1985): Excess function parameter 'parent' description in 'd_validate'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-22 20:32:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f8206b925f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (23 commits)
  sanitize vfsmount refcounting changes
  fix old umount_tree() breakage
  autofs4: Merge the remaining dentry ops tables
  Unexport do_add_mount() and add in follow_automount(), not ->d_automount()
  Allow d_manage() to be used in RCU-walk mode
  Remove a further kludge from __do_follow_link()
  autofs4: Bump version
  autofs4: Add v4 pseudo direct mount support
  autofs4: Fix wait validation
  autofs4: Clean up autofs4_free_ino()
  autofs4: Clean up dentry operations
  autofs4: Clean up inode operations
  autofs4: Remove unused code
  autofs4: Add d_manage() dentry operation
  autofs4: Add d_automount() dentry operation
  Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk
  CIFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()
  NFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()
  AFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()
  Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automount
  ...
2011-01-16 11:31:50 -08:00
David Howells 9875cf8064 Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link()
Add a dentry op (d_automount) to handle automounting directories rather than
abusing the follow_link() inode operation.  The operation is keyed off a new
dentry flag (DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT).

This also makes it easier to add an AT_ flag to suppress terminal segment
automount during pathwalk and removes the need for the kludge code in the
pathwalk algorithm to handle directories with follow_link() semantics.

The ->d_automount() dentry operation:

	struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *mountpoint);

takes a pointer to the directory to be mounted upon, which is expected to
provide sufficient data to determine what should be mounted.  If successful, it
should return the vfsmount struct it creates (which it should also have added
to the namespace using do_add_mount() or similar).  If there's a collision with
another automount attempt, NULL should be returned.  If the directory specified
by the parameter should be used directly rather than being mounted upon,
-EISDIR should be returned.  In any other case, an error code should be
returned.

The ->d_automount() operation is called with no locks held and may sleep.  At
this point the pathwalk algorithm will be in ref-walk mode.

Within fs/namei.c itself, a new pathwalk subroutine (follow_automount()) is
added to handle mountpoints.  It will return -EREMOTE if the automount flag was
set, but no d_automount() op was supplied, -ELOOP if we've encountered too many
symlinks or mountpoints, -EISDIR if the walk point should be used without
mounting and 0 if successful.  The path will be updated to point to the mounted
filesystem if a successful automount took place.

__follow_mount() is replaced by follow_managed() which is more generic
(especially with the patch that adds ->d_manage()).  This handles transits from
directories during pathwalk, including automounting and skipping over
mountpoints (and holding processes with the next patch).

__follow_mount_rcu() will jump out of RCU-walk mode if it encounters an
automount point with nothing mounted on it.

follow_dotdot*() does not handle automounts as you don't want to trigger them
whilst following "..".

I've also extracted the mount/don't-mount logic from autofs4 and included it
here.  It makes the mount go ahead anyway if someone calls open() or creat(),
tries to traverse the directory, tries to chdir/chroot/etc. into the directory,
or sticks a '/' on the end of the pathname.  If they do a stat(), however,
they'll only trigger the automount if they didn't also say O_NOFOLLOW.

I've also added an inode flag (S_AUTOMOUNT) so that filesystems can mark their
inodes as automount points.  This flag is automatically propagated to the
dentry as DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT by __d_instantiate().  This saves NFS and could
save AFS a private flag bit apiece, but is not strictly necessary.  It would be
preferable to do the propagation in d_set_d_op(), but that doesn't normally
have access to the inode.

[AV: fixed breakage in case if __follow_mount_rcu() fails and nameidata_drop_rcu()
succeeds in RCU case of do_lookup(); we need to fall through to non-RCU case after
that, rather than just returning with ungrabbed *path]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Was-Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:05:03 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 6f7f7caab2 Turn d_set_d_op() BUG_ON() into WARN_ON_ONCE()
It's indicative of a real problem, and it actually triggers with
autofs4, but the BUG_ON() is excessive.  The autofs4 case is being fixed
(to only set d_op in the ->lookup method) but not merged yet.  In the
meantime this gets the code limping along.

Reported-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-14 13:26:18 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 208898c17a fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::prepend_path
Fix function kernel-doc warning for prepend_path():

Warning(fs/dcache.c:1924): missing initial short description on line:

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:06:57 -05:00
Randy Dunlap 1c977540fd fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::d_validate
Fix function parameter kernel-doc for d_validate():

Warning(fs/dcache.c:1495): No description found for parameter 'parent'
Warning(fs/dcache.c:1495): Excess function parameter 'dparent' description in 'd_validate'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:06:55 -05:00
Al Viro c8aebb0c9f per-superblock default ->d_op
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:02:34 -05:00
Nick Piggin 9d55c369bb fs: implement faster dentry memcmp
The standard memcmp function on a Westmere system shows up hot in
profiles in the `git diff` workload (both parallel and single threaded),
and it is likely due to the costs associated with trapping into
microcode, and little opportunity to improve memory access (dentry
name is not likely to take up more than a cacheline).

So replace it with an open-coded byte comparison. This increases code
size by 8 bytes in the critical __d_lookup_rcu function, but the
speedup is huge, averaging 10 runs of each:

git diff st   user   sys   elapsed  CPU
before        1.15   2.57  3.82      97.1
after         1.14   2.35  3.61      96.8

git diff mt   user   sys   elapsed  CPU
before        1.27   3.85  1.46     349
after         1.26   3.54  1.43     333

Elapsed time for single threaded git diff at 95.0% confidence:
        -0.21  +/- 0.01
        -5.45% +/- 0.24%

It's -0.66% +/- 0.06% elapsed time on my Opteron, so rep cmp costs on the
fam10h seem to be relatively smaller, but there is still a win.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:32 +11:00
Nick Piggin e1bb578263 fs: prefetch inode data in dcache lookup
This makes single threaded git diff -1.25% +/- 0.05% elapsed time on my
2s12c24t Westmere system, and -0.86% +/- 0.05% on my 2s8c Barcelona, by
prefetching the important first cacheline of the inode in while we do the
actual name compare and other operations on the dentry.

There was no measurable slowdown in the single file stat case, or the creat
case (where negative dentries would be common).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:32 +11:00
Nick Piggin 4b936885ab fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems
Regardless of how much we possibly try to scale dcache, there is likely
always going to be some fundamental contention when adding or removing children
under the same parent. Pseudo filesystems do not seem need to have connected
dentries because by definition they are disconnected.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:32 +11:00
Nick Piggin 873feea09e fs: dcache per-inode inode alias locking
dcache_inode_lock can be replaced with per-inode locking. Use existing
inode->i_lock for this. This is slightly non-trivial because we sometimes
need to find the inode from the dentry, which requires d_inode to be
stabilised (either with refcount or d_lock).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:31 +11:00
Nick Piggin ceb5bdc2d2 fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking
We can turn the dcache hash locking from a global dcache_hash_lock into
per-bucket locking.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:31 +11:00
Nick Piggin 44a7d7a878 fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walk
Put dentry and inode fields into top of data structure.  This allows RCU path
traversal to perform an RCU dentry lookup in a path walk by touching only the
first 56 bytes of the dentry.

We also fit in 8 bytes of inline name in the first 64 bytes, so for short
names, only 64 bytes needs to be touched to perform the lookup. We should
get rid of the hash->prev pointer from the first 64 bytes, and fit 16 bytes
of name in there, which will take care of 81% rather than 32% of the kernel
tree.

inode is also rearranged so that RCU lookup will only touch a single cacheline
in the inode, plus one in the i_ops structure.

This is important for directory component lookups in RCU path walking. In the
kernel source, directory names average is around 6 chars, so this works.

When we reach the last element of the lookup, we need to lock it and take its
refcount which requires another cacheline access.

Align dentry and inode operations structs, so members will be at predictable
offsets and we can group common operations into head of structure.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin fb045adb99 fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin 5f57cbcc02 fs: dcache remove d_mounted
Rather than keep a d_mounted count in the dentry, set a dentry flag instead.
The flag can be cleared by checking the hash table to see if there are any
mounts left, which is not time critical because it is performed at detach time.

The mounted state of a dentry is only used to speculatively take a look in the
mount hash table if it is set -- before following the mount, vfsmount lock is
taken and mount re-checked without races.

This saves 4 bytes on 32-bit, nothing on 64-bit but it does provide a hole I
might use later (and some configs have larger than 32-bit spinlocks which might
make use of the hole).

Autofs4 conversion and changelog by Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>:
In autofs4, when expring direct (or offset) mounts we need to ensure that we
block user path walks into the autofs mount, which is covered by another mount.
To do this we clear the mounted status so that follows stop before walking into
the mount and are essentially blocked until the expire is completed. The
automount daemon still finds the correct dentry for the umount due to the
follow mount logic in fs/autofs4/root.c:autofs4_follow_link(), which is set as
an inode operation for direct and offset mounts only and is called following
the lookup that stopped at the covered mount.

At the end of the expire the covering mount probably has gone away so the
mounted status need not be restored. But we need to check this and only restore
the mounted status if the expire failed.

XXX: autofs may not work right if we have other mounts go over the top of it?

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin 31e6b01f41 fs: rcu-walk for path lookup
Perform common cases of path lookups without any stores or locking in the
ancestor dentry elements. This is called rcu-walk, as opposed to the current
algorithm which is a refcount based walk, or ref-walk.

This results in far fewer atomic operations on every path element,
significantly improving path lookup performance. It also avoids cacheline
bouncing on common dentries, significantly improving scalability.

The overall design is like this:
* LOOKUP_RCU is set in nd->flags, which distinguishes rcu-walk from ref-walk.
* Take the RCU lock for the entire path walk, starting with the acquiring
  of the starting path (eg. root/cwd/fd-path). So now dentry refcounts are
  not required for dentry persistence.
* synchronize_rcu is called when unregistering a filesystem, so we can
  access d_ops and i_ops during rcu-walk.
* Similarly take the vfsmount lock for the entire path walk. So now mnt
  refcounts are not required for persistence. Also we are free to perform mount
  lookups, and to assume dentry mount points and mount roots are stable up and
  down the path.
* Have a per-dentry seqlock to protect the dentry name, parent, and inode,
  so we can load this tuple atomically, and also check whether any of its
  members have changed.
* Dentry lookups (based on parent, candidate string tuple) recheck the parent
  sequence after the child is found in case anything changed in the parent
  during the path walk.
* inode is also RCU protected so we can load d_inode and use the inode for
  limited things.
* i_mode, i_uid, i_gid can be tested for exec permissions during path walk.
* i_op can be loaded.

When we reach the destination dentry, we lock it, recheck lookup sequence,
and increment its refcount and mountpoint refcount. RCU and vfsmount locks
are dropped. This is termed "dropping rcu-walk". If the dentry refcount does
not match, we can not drop rcu-walk gracefully at the current point in the
lokup, so instead return -ECHILD (for want of a better errno). This signals the
path walking code to re-do the entire lookup with a ref-walk.

Aside from the final dentry, there are other situations that may be encounted
where we cannot continue rcu-walk. In that case, we drop rcu-walk (ie. take
a reference on the last good dentry) and continue with a ref-walk. Again, if
we can drop rcu-walk gracefully, we return -ECHILD and do the whole lookup
using ref-walk. But it is very important that we can continue with ref-walk
for most cases, particularly to avoid the overhead of double lookups, and to
gain the scalability advantages on common path elements (like cwd and root).

The cases where rcu-walk cannot continue are:
* NULL dentry (ie. any uncached path element)
* parent with d_inode->i_op->permission or ACLs
* dentries with d_revalidate
* Following links

In future patches, permission checks and d_revalidate become rcu-walk aware. It
may be possible eventually to make following links rcu-walk aware.

Uncached path elements will always require dropping to ref-walk mode, at the
very least because i_mutex needs to be grabbed, and objects allocated.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:27 +11:00
Nick Piggin 77812a1ef1 fs: consolidate dentry kill sequence
The tricky locking for disposing of a dentry is duplicated 3 times in the
dcache (dput, pruning a dentry from the LRU, and pruning its ancestors).
Consolidate them all into a single function dentry_kill.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:25 +11:00
Nick Piggin ec33679d78 fs: use RCU in shrink_dentry_list to reduce lock nesting
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:25 +11:00
Nick Piggin be182bff72 fs: reduce dcache_inode_lock width in lru scanning
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:25 +11:00
Nick Piggin 89e6054836 fs: dcache reduce prune_one_dentry locking
prune_one_dentry can avoid quite a bit of locking in the common case where
ancestors have an elevated refcount. Alternatively, we could have gone the
other way and made fewer trylocks in the case where d_count goes to zero, but
is probably less common.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:25 +11:00
Nick Piggin a734eb458a fs: dcache reduce d_parent locking
Use RCU to simplify locking in dget_parent.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:24 +11:00
Nick Piggin dc0474be3e fs: dcache rationalise dget variants
dget_locked was a shortcut to avoid the lazy lru manipulation when we already
held dcache_lock (lru manipulation was relatively cheap at that point).
However, how that the lru lock is an innermost one, we never hold it at any
caller, so the lock cost can now be avoided. We already have well working lazy
dcache LRU, so it should be fine to defer LRU manipulations to scan time.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:24 +11:00
Nick Piggin 357f8e658b fs: dcache reduce dcache_inode_lock
dcache_inode_lock can be avoided in d_delete() and d_materialise_unique()
in cases where it is not required.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:24 +11:00
Nick Piggin 89ad485f01 fs: dcache reduce locking in d_alloc
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:24 +11:00
Nick Piggin 61f3dee4af fs: dcache reduce dput locking
It is possible to run dput without taking data structure locks up-front. In
many cases where we don't kill the dentry anyway, these locks are not required.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin 58db63d086 fs: dcache avoid starvation in dcache multi-step operations
Long lived dcache "multi-step" operations which retry on rename seq can
be starved with a lot of rename activity. If they fail after the 1st pass,
take the rename_lock for writing to avoid further starvation.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin b5c84bf6f6 fs: dcache remove dcache_lock
dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin 949854d024 fs: Use rename lock and RCU for multi-step operations
The remaining usages for dcache_lock is to allow atomic, multi-step read-side
operations over the directory tree by excluding modifications to the tree.
Also, to walk in the leaf->root direction in the tree where we don't have
a natural d_lock ordering.

This could be accomplished by taking every d_lock, but this would mean a
huge number of locks and actually gets very tricky.

Solve this instead by using the rename seqlock for multi-step read-side
operations, retry in case of a rename so we don't walk up the wrong parent.
Concurrent dentry insertions are not serialised against.  Concurrent deletes
are tricky when walking up the directory: our parent might have been deleted
when dropping locks so also need to check and retry for that.

We can also use the rename lock in cases where livelock is a worry (and it
is introduced in subsequent patch).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:22 +11:00
Nick Piggin 9abca36087 fs: increase d_name lock coverage
Cover d_name with d_lock in more cases, where there may be concurrent
modification to it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:22 +11:00
Nick Piggin b23fb0a603 fs: scale inode alias list
Add a new lock, dcache_inode_lock, to protect the inode's i_dentry list
from concurrent modification. d_alias is also protected by d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:22 +11:00
Nick Piggin 2fd6b7f507 fs: dcache scale subdirs
Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't
using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex).

Note: if we change the locking rule in future so that ->d_child protection is
provided only with ->d_parent->d_lock, it may allow us to reduce some locking.
But it would be an exception to an otherwise regular locking scheme, so we'd
have to see some good results. Probably not worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Nick Piggin da5029563a fs: dcache scale d_unhashed
Protect d_unhashed(dentry) condition with d_lock. This means keeping
DCACHE_UNHASHED bit in synch with hash manipulations.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Nick Piggin b7ab39f631 fs: dcache scale dentry refcount
Make d_count non-atomic and protect it with d_lock. This allows us to ensure a
0 refcount dentry remains 0 without dcache_lock. It is also fairly natural when
we start protecting many other dentry members with d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Nick Piggin 2304450783 fs: dcache scale lru
Add a new lock, dcache_lru_lock, to protect the dcache LRU list from concurrent
modification. d_lru is also protected by d_lock, which allows LRU lists to be
accessed without the lru lock, using RCU in future patches.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:20 +11:00
Nick Piggin 789680d1ee fs: dcache scale hash
Add a new lock, dcache_hash_lock, to protect the dcache hash table from
concurrent modification. d_hash is also protected by d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:20 +11:00
Nick Piggin ec2447c278 hostfs: simplify locking
Remove dcache_lock locking from hostfs filesystem, and move it into dcache
helpers. All that is required is a coherent path name. Protection from
concurrent modification of the namespace after path name generation is not
provided in current code, because dcache_lock is dropped before the path is
used.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:20 +11:00
Nick Piggin b1e6a015a5 fs: change d_hash for rcu-walk
Change d_hash so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. See similar
patch for d_compare for details.

For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:20 +11:00
Nick Piggin 621e155a35 fs: change d_compare for rcu-walk
Change d_compare so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. This
does put significant restrictions on what may be done from the callback,
however there don't seem to have been any problems with in-tree fses.
If some strange use case pops up that _really_ cannot cope with the
rcu-walk rules, we can just add new rcu-unaware callbacks, which would
cause name lookup to drop out of rcu-walk mode.

For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:19 +11:00
Nick Piggin fb2d5b86af fs: name case update method
smpfs and ncpfs want to update a live dentry name in-place. Rather than
have them open code the locking, provide a documented dcache API.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:19 +11:00
Nick Piggin fe15ce446b fs: change d_delete semantics
Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching
advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent,
and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback
anyway.

This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning
much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:18 +11:00
Nick Piggin 3e880fb5e4 fs: use fast counters for vfs caches
percpu_counter library generates quite nasty code, so unless you need
to dynamically allocate counters or take fast approximate value, a
simple per cpu set of counters is much better.

The percpu_counter can never be made to work as well, because it has an
indirection from pointer to percpu memory, and it can't use direct
this_cpu_inc interfaces because it doesn't use static PER_CPU data, so
code will always be worse.

In the fastpath, it is the difference between this:

        incl %gs:nr_dentry      # nr_dentry

and this:

        movl    percpu_counter_batch(%rip), %edx        # percpu_counter_batch,
        movl    $1, %esi        #,
        movq    $nr_dentry, %rdi        #,
        call    __percpu_counter_add    # (plus I clobber registers)

__percpu_counter_add:
        pushq   %rbp    #
        movq    %rsp, %rbp      #,
        subq    $32, %rsp       #,
        movq    %rbx, -24(%rbp) #,
        movq    %r12, -16(%rbp) #,
        movq    %r13, -8(%rbp)  #,
        movq    %rdi, %rbx      # fbc, fbc
#APP
# 216 "/home/npiggin/usr/src/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h" 1
        movq %gs:kernel_stack,%rax      #, pfo_ret__
# 0 "" 2
#NO_APP
        incl    -8124(%rax)     # <variable>.preempt_count
        movq    32(%rdi), %r12  # <variable>.counters, tcp_ptr__
#APP
# 78 "lib/percpu_counter.c" 1
        add %gs:this_cpu_off, %r12      # this_cpu_off, tcp_ptr__
# 0 "" 2
#NO_APP
        movslq  (%r12),%r13     #* tcp_ptr__, tmp73
        movslq  %edx,%rax       # batch, batch
        addq    %rsi, %r13      # amount, count
        cmpq    %rax, %r13      # batch, count
        jge     .L27    #,
        negl    %edx    # tmp76
        movslq  %edx,%rdx       # tmp76, tmp77
        cmpq    %rdx, %r13      # tmp77, count
        jg      .L28    #,
.L27:
        movq    %rbx, %rdi      # fbc,
        call    _raw_spin_lock  #
        addq    %r13, 8(%rbx)   # count, <variable>.count
        movq    %rbx, %rdi      # fbc,
        movl    $0, (%r12)      #,* tcp_ptr__
        call    _raw_spin_unlock        #
.L29:
#APP
# 216 "/home/npiggin/usr/src/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h" 1
        movq %gs:kernel_stack,%rax      #, pfo_ret__
# 0 "" 2
#NO_APP
        decl    -8124(%rax)     # <variable>.preempt_count
        movq    -8136(%rax), %rax       #, D.14625
        testb   $8, %al #, D.14625
        jne     .L32    #,
.L31:
        movq    -24(%rbp), %rbx #,
        movq    -16(%rbp), %r12 #,
        movq    -8(%rbp), %r13  #,
        leave
        ret
        .p2align 4,,10
        .p2align 3
.L28:
        movl    %r13d, (%r12)   # count,*
        jmp     .L29    #
.L32:
        call    preempt_schedule        #
        .p2align 4,,6
        jmp     .L31    #
        .size   __percpu_counter_add, .-__percpu_counter_add
        .p2align 4,,15

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:17 +11:00
Nick Piggin 86c8749ede vfs: revert per-cpu nr_unused counters for dentry and inodes
The nr_unused counters count the number of objects on an LRU, and as such they
are synchronized with LRU object insertion and removal and scanning, and
protected under the LRU lock.

Making it per-cpu does not actually get any concurrency improvements because of
this lock, and summing the counter is much slower, and
incrementing/decrementing it costs more code size and is slower too.

These counters should stay per-LRU, which currently means global.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:17 +11:00
Nick Piggin 786a5e15b6 fs: d_validate fixes
d_validate has been broken for a long time.

kmem_ptr_validate does not guarantee that a pointer can be dereferenced
if it can go away at any time. Even rcu_read_lock doesn't help, because
the pointer might be queued in RCU callbacks but not executed yet.

So the parent cannot be checked, nor the name hashed. The dentry pointer
can not be touched until it can be verified under lock. Hashing simply
cannot be used.

Instead, verify the parent/child relationship by traversing parent's
d_child list. It's slow, but only ncpfs and the destaged smbfs care
about it, at this point.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:16 +11:00
Nick Piggin d3a23e1678 Revert "fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate"
This reverts commit 3825bdb7ed.

You cannot dget() a dentry without having a reference, or holding
a lock that guarantees it remains valid.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-05 20:01:21 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig 3825bdb7ed fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
d_validate does a purely read lookup in the dentry hash, so use RCU read side
locking instead of dcache_lock.  Split out from a larget patch by
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:13 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig a4633357ac fs: clean up dentry lru modification
Always do a list_del_init on the LRU to make sure the list_empty invariant for
not beeing on the LRU always holds true, and fold dentry_lru_del_init into
dentry_lru_del.  Replace the dentry_lru_add_tail primitive with a
dentry_lru_move_tail operations that simpler when the dentry already is one
the list, which is always is.  Move the list_empty into dentry_lru_add to
fit the scheme of the other lru helpers, and simplify locking once we
move to a separate LRU lock.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:13 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 3049cfe24e fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
Currently __shrink_dcache_sb has an extremly awkward calling convention
because it tries to please very different callers.  Split out the
main loop into a shrink_dentry_list helper, which gets called directly
from shrink_dcache_sb for the cases where all dentries need to be pruned,
or from __shrink_dcache_sb for pruning only a certain number of dentries.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:13 -04:00
Nick Piggin 265ac90230 fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
dentry referenced bit is only set when installing the dentry back
onto the LRU. However with lazy LRU, the dentry can already be on
the LRU list at dput time, thus missing out on setting the referenced
bit. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:12 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 312d3ca856 fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
The nr_dentry stat is a globally touched cacheline and atomic operation
twice over the lifetime of a dentry. It is used for the benfit of userspace
only. Turn it into a per-cpu counter and always decrement it in d_free instead
of doing various batching operations to reduce lock hold times in the callers.

Based on an earlier patch from Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:12 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 9c82ab9c9e fs: simplify __d_free
Remove d_callback and always call __d_free with a RCU head.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:12 -04:00