All vnode ops now take struct xfs_inode pointers and the behaviour related
glue is split out into methods of it's own. This required fixing
xfs_create/mkdir/symlink to not mess with the inode pointer but rather use
a separate boolean for error handling. Thanks to Dave Chinner for that
fix.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29492a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
XFS inodes are dynamically allocated on demand, rather than being
allocated at mkfs time. Chunks of 64 inodes are allocated at once, but
they are never freed. Over time, this can lead to filesystem
fragmentation, clusters of inodes and the btrees which point at them can
be scattered around the system.
By freeing clusters as they are emptied, we will reduce fragmentation of
the free space after removing files. This in turn will allow us to make
better placement decisions when repopulating a filesystem. The
XFSMNT_IDELETE mount option enables freeing clusters when they get empty.
Unfortunately a side effect of freeing inode clusters is that the inode
generation numbers of such inodes would be reset to zero when the cluster
is reclaimed. This is a problem in particular for a DMAPI enabled
filesystem as the the DMAPI handles need to be unique and persistent in
time. An unique DMAPI handle is built with the help of the inode
generation number. When the last one is prematurely reset by an inode
cluster reclaim, there is a high probability of different generation
inodes to end up having identical DMAPI handles.
To avoid the problem with identical DMAPI handles, the XFSMNT_IDELETE
mount option should be set as default, only if the filesystem is not
mounted with XFSMNT_DMAPI.
SGI-PV: 969192
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29486a
Signed-off-by: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
One of the perpetual scaling problems XFS has is indexing it's incore
inodes. We currently uses hashes and the default hash sizes chosen can
only ever be a tradeoff between memory consumption and the maximum
realistic size of the cache.
As a result, anyone who has millions of inodes cached on a filesystem
needs to tunes the size of the cache via the ihashsize mount option to
allow decent scalability with inode cache operations.
A further problem is the separate inode cluster hash, whose size is based
on the ihashsize but is smaller, and so under certain conditions (sparse
cluster cache population) this can become a limitation long before the
inode hash is causing issues.
The following patchset removes the inode hash and cluster hash and
replaces them with radix trees to avoid the scalability limitations of the
hashes. It also reduces the size of the inodes by 3 pointers....
SGI-PV: 969561
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29481a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Kill uio related functions and defines now that they're unused.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29480a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Simplify the readlink code to get rid of the last user of uio.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29479a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Currently xfs has a rather complicated internal scheme to allow for
different directory formats in IRIX. This patch rips all code related to
this out and pushes useage of the Linux filldir callback into the lowlevel
directory code. This does not make the code any less portable because
filldir can be used to create dirents of all possible variations
(including the IRIX ones as proved by the IRIX binary emulation code under
arch/mips/).
This patch get rid of an unessecary copy in the readdir path, about 400
lines of code and one of the last two users of the uio structure.
This version is updated to deal with dmapi aswell which greatly simplifies
the get_dirattrs code. The dmapi part has been tested using the
get_dirattrs tools from the xfstest dmapi suite1 with various small and
large directories.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29478a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Creates a new xfs_dsb_t that is __be annotated and keeps xfs_sb_t for the
incore one. xfs_xlatesb is renamed to xfs_sb_to_disk and only handles the
incore -> disk conversion. A new helper xfs_sb_from_disk handles the other
direction and doesn't need the slightly hacky table-driven approach
because we only ever read the full sb from disk.
The handling of shared r/o filesystems has been buggy on little endian
system and fixing this required shuffling around of some code in that
area.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29477a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Biggest bit is duplicating the dinode structure so we have one annotated for
native endianess and one for disk endianess. The other significant change
is that xfs_xlate_dinode_core is split into one helper per direction to
allow for proper annotations, everything else is trivial.
As a sidenode splitting out the incore dinode means we can move it into
xfs_inode.h in a later patch and severely improving on the include hell in
xfs.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29476a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
In sgi mod# xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29319a, the variable renaming was not
complete and variable 'b' was left unchanged for non-lbd 32 bit machines.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29469a
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
If we fail to open the the log device buftarg, we can fall through to
error handling code that fails to check for a NULL log device buftarg
before calling xfs_free_buftarg().
This patch fixes the issue by checking mp->m_logdev_targp against NULL in
xfs_unmountfs_close() and doing the proper xfs_blkdev_put(logdev); and
xfs_blkdev_put(rtdev); on (!mp->m_rtdev_targp) in xfs_mount().
Discovered by the Coverity checker.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29328a
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
xfs_start_flags can make use of is_power_of_2 to tidy up the test a little
bit.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29327a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Generally we try not to directly include linux header files in core xfs
code; xfs_linux.h is the spot for that.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29326a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Now that nobody's using it, remove xfs_physmem & friends.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29325a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Remove scaling of inode "clusters" based on machine memory; small cluster
cut-point was an unrealistic 32MB and was probably never tested.
Removes another user of xfs_physmem.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29324a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Remove sizing of logbuf size & count based on physical memory; this was
never a very good gauge as it's looking at global memory, but deciding on
sizing per-filesystem; no account is made of the total number of
filesystems, for example.
For now just take the largest "default" case, as was set for machines with
>400MB - 8 x 32k buffers. This can always be tuned higher or lower with
mount options if necessary. Removes one more user of xfs_physmem.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29323a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
m_nreadaheads in the mount struct is never used; remove it and the various
macros assigned to it. Also remove a couple other unused macros in the
same areas.
Removes one user of xfs_physmem.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29322a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
The BMBT_*BITLEN are currently defined in a complicated way depending on
XFS_NATIVE_HOST. But if all the macros are expanded they (obviously)
expand to the same value for both cases.
This patch defines the macros in the most simple way and updates the
comment describing them to remove outdated bits.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29320a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
xfs_bmbt_set_all/xfs_bmbt_disk_set_all are identical to
xfs_bmbt_set_allf/xfs_bmbt_disk_set_allf except that the former take a
xfs_bmbt_irec_t and the latter take the individual extent fields as scalar
values.
This patch reimplements xfs_bmbt_set_all/xfs_bmbt_disk_set_all as trivial
wrappers around xfs_bmbt_set_allf/xfs_bmbt_disk_set_allf and cleans up the
variable naming in xfs_bmbt_set_allf/xfs_bmbt_disk_set_allf to have some
meaning instead of one char variable names.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29319a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
currently xfs_bmbt_rec_t is used both for ondisk extents as well as
host-endian ones. This patch adds a new xfs_bmbt_rec_host_t for the native
endian ones and cleans up the fallout. There have been various endianess
issues in the tracing / debug printf code that are fixed by this patch.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29318a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
If the underlying block device suddenly stops supporting barriers, we need
to handle the -EOPNOTSUPP error in a sane manner rather than shutting
down the filesystem. If we get this error, clear the barrier flag, reissue
the I/O, and tell the world bad things are occurring.
SGI-PV: 964544
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28568a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
The new xlog_recover_do_reg_buffer checks call be16_to_cpu on di_gen which
is a 32bit value so sparse rightly complains. Fortunately the warning is
harmless because we don't care for the value, but only whether it's
non-NULL. Due to that fact we can simply kill the endian swaps on this and
the previous di_mode check entirely.
SGI-PV: 969656
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29709a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
xfs_filestream_mount() sets up an mru cache with:
err = xfs_mru_cache_create(&mp->m_filestream, lifetime, grp_count,
(xfs_mru_cache_free_func_t)xfs_fstrm_free_func);
but that cast is causing problems...
typedef void (*xfs_mru_cache_free_func_t)(unsigned long, void*);
but:
void xfs_fstrm_free_func( xfs_ino_t ino, fstrm_item_t *item)
so on a 32-bit box, it's casting (32, 32) args into (64, 32) and I assume
it's getting garbage for *item, which subsequently causes an explosion.
With this change the filestreams xfsqa tests don't oops on my 32-bit box.
SGI-PV: 967795
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29510a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Instead of running the mru cache reaper all the time based on a timeout,
we should only run it when the cache has active objects. This allows CPUs
to sleep when there is no activity rather than be woken repeatedly just to
check if there is anything to do.
SGI-PV: 968554
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29305a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
This git mod: 77e4635ae1
converted to a "greedy" allocation interface, but for the quota hashtables
it switched from allocating XFS_QM_HASHSIZE (nr of elements)
xfs_dqhash_t's to allocating only XFS_QM_HASHSIZE *bytes* - quite a lot
smaller! Then when we converted hsize "back" to nr of elements (the
division line) hsize went to 0. This was leading to oopses when running
any quota tests on the Fedora 8 test kernel, but the problem has been
there for almost a year.
SGI-PV: 968837
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29354a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
- in xfs_probe_cluster rename the inner len to pg_len. There's no harm
here because the outer len isn't used after the inner len comes into
existence but it keeps the code clean.
- in xfs_da_do_buf remove the inner i because they don't overlap
and they are both the same type.
SGI-PV: 968555
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29311a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
- remove the != 0 inside the unlikely in ASSERT_ALWAYS because sparse now
complains about comparisons between pointers and 0
- add a standalone ASSERT implementation because defining it to
ASSERT_ALWAYS means the string is expanded before the token passing
stringification. This way we get the actual content of the
assertion in the assfail message and don't overflow sparse's
stringification buffer leading to sparse error messages.
SGI-PV: 968555
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29310a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
We can't return a masked result of a __bitwise type. Compare it to 0 first
to keep the behaviour without the warning.
SGI-PV: 968555
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29309a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Sparse now warns about comparing pointers to 0, so change all instance
where that happens to NULL instead.
SGI-PV: 968555
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29308a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.
This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6:
[XFS] Fix inode size update before data write in xfs_setattr
[XFS] Allow punching holes to free space when at ENOSPC
[XFS] Implement ->page_mkwrite in XFS.
[FS] Implement block_page_mkwrite.
Manually fix up conflict with Nick's VM fault handling patches in
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change ->fault prototype. We now return an int, which contains
VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.
FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been
locked, and potentially other things. This is not quite the way he wanted
it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to
arch code).
This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say
that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we
can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were
going to do that anyway.
struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address
is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use
without really good reason.
The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.
->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping. The hitch here
is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie. pgoff).
But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).
Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
to be doing.
This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
->populate and (later) ->nopfn. Most of the old mechanism is still in place
so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
everyone switches over.
The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.
After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
pagecache. Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.
NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed. This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
users have hit mainline yet.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the race between invalidate_inode_pages and do_no_page.
Andrea Arcangeli identified a subtle race between invalidation of pages from
pagecache with userspace mappings, and do_no_page.
The issue is that invalidation has to shoot down all mappings to the page,
before it can be discarded from the pagecache. Between shooting down ptes to
a particular page, and actually dropping the struct page from the pagecache,
do_no_page from any process might fault on that page and establish a new
mapping to the page just before it gets discarded from the pagecache.
The most common case where such invalidation is used is in file truncation.
This case was catered for by doing a sort of open-coded seqlock between the
file's i_size, and its truncate_count.
Truncation will decrease i_size, then increment truncate_count before
unmapping userspace pages; do_no_page will read truncate_count, then find the
page if it is within i_size, and then check truncate_count under the page
table lock and back out and retry if it had subsequently been changed (ptl
will serialise against unmapping, and ensure a potentially updated
truncate_count is actually visible).
Complexity and documentation issues aside, the locking protocol fails in the
case where we would like to invalidate pagecache inside i_size. do_no_page
can come in anytime and filemap_nopage is not aware of the invalidation in
progress (as it is when it is outside i_size). The end result is that
dangling (->mapping == NULL) pages that appear to be from a particular file
may be mapped into userspace with nonsense data. Valid mappings to the same
place will see a different page.
Andrea implemented two working fixes, one using a real seqlock, another using
a page->flags bit. He also proposed using the page lock in do_no_page, but
that was initially considered too heavyweight. However, it is not a global or
per-file lock, and the page cacheline is modified in do_no_page to increment
_count and _mapcount anyway, so a further modification should not be a large
performance hit. Scalability is not an issue.
This patch implements this latter approach. ->nopage implementations return
with the page locked if it is possible for their underlying file to be
invalidated (in that case, they must set a special vm_flags bit to indicate
so). do_no_page only unlocks the page after setting up the mapping
completely. invalidation is excluded because it holds the page lock during
invalidation of each page (and ensures that the page is not mapped while
holding the lock).
This also allows significant simplifications in do_no_page, because we have
the page locked in the right place in the pagecache from the start.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When changing the file size by a truncate() call, we log the change in the
inode size. However, we do not flush any outstanding data that might not
have been written to disk, thereby violating the data/inode size update
order. This can leave files full of NULLs on crash.
Hence if we are truncating the file, flush any unwritten data that may lie
between the curret on disk inode size and the new inode size that is being
logged to ensure that ordering is preserved.
SGI-PV: 966308
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29174a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Make the free file space transaction able to dip into the reserved blocks
to ensure that we can successfully free blocks when the filesystem is at
ENOSPC.
SGI-PV: 967788
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29167a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Hook XFS up to ->page_mkwrite to ensure that we know about mmap pages
being written to. This allows use to do correct delayed allocation and
ENOSPC checking as well as remap unwritten extents so that they get
converted correctly during writeback. This is done via the generic
block_page_mkwrite code.
SGI-PV: 940392
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29149a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
currently the export_operation structure and helpers related to it are in
fs.h. fs.h is already far too large and there are very few places needing the
export bits, so split them off into a separate header.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs build]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I can never remember what the function to register to receive VM pressure
is called. I have to trace down from __alloc_pages() to find it.
It's called "set_shrinker()", and it needs Your Help.
1) Don't hide struct shrinker. It contains no magic.
2) Don't allocate "struct shrinker". It's not helpful.
3) Call them "register_shrinker" and "unregister_shrinker".
4) Call the function "shrink" not "shrinker".
5) Reduce the 17 lines of waffly comments to 13, but document it properly.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
