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SubjectRe: Major XFS problems...
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:36:58AM +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 01:44, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> > SMP systems on 2.6 have a problem with XFS+NFS.
>
> Knfsd threads in 2.6 are no longer serialised by the BKL, and the
> change has exposed a number of SMP issues in the dcache. Try the
> two patches at

Ok - the "small" server just hosed itself with a debug.c:106 - so I'll
be doing some testing on that one as well (after hours, today).

>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108330112505555&w=2

Ok, I must say that mail has some *scary* comments to the patch... This
should be interesting :)

The patch assumes some dcache code is
--------------
if (res) {
spin_lock(&res->d_lock);
res->d_sb = inode->i_sb;
res->d_parent = res;
res->d_inode = inode;
res->d_bucket = d_hash(res, res->d_name.hash);
res->d_flags |= DCACHE_DISCONNECTED;
res->d_vfs_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED;
list_add(&res->d_alias, &inode->i_dentry);
hlist_add_head(&res->d_hash, &inode->i_sb->s_anon);
spin_unlock(&res->d_lock);
}
--------------
While it was actually changed to
--------------
if (res) {
spin_lock(&res->d_lock);
res->d_sb = inode->i_sb;
res->d_parent = res;
res->d_inode = inode;

/*
* Set d_bucket to an "impossible" bucket address so
* that d_move() doesn't get a false positive
*/
res->d_bucket = NULL;
res->d_flags |= DCACHE_DISCONNECTED;
res->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED;
list_add(&res->d_alias, &inode->i_dentry);
hlist_add_head(&res->d_hash, &inode->i_sb->s_anon);
spin_unlock(&res->d_lock);
}
--------------

I'm assuming I should just adapt this to the res->d_bucket change...

New patch against 2.6.8.1 attached.

>
> and
>
> http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1722.48.23

This one is in plain 2.6.8.1 (as you said).

--

/ jakob

--- fs/dcache.c.orig Sat Aug 14 12:54:50 2004
+++ fs/dcache.c Thu Sep 9 15:56:04 2004
@@ -286,12 +286,11 @@
* any other hashed alias over that one.
*/

-struct dentry * d_find_alias(struct inode *inode)
+static struct dentry * __d_find_alias(struct inode *inode, int want_discon)
{
struct list_head *head, *next, *tmp;
struct dentry *alias, *discon_alias=NULL;

- spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
head = &inode->i_dentry;
next = inode->i_dentry.next;
while (next != head) {
@@ -302,19 +301,26 @@
if (!d_unhashed(alias)) {
if (alias->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED)
discon_alias = alias;
- else {
+ else if (!want_discon) {
__dget_locked(alias);
- spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
return alias;
}
}
}
if (discon_alias)
__dget_locked(discon_alias);
- spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
return discon_alias;
}

+struct dentry * d_find_alias(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ struct dentry *de;
+ spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
+ de = __d_find_alias(inode, 0);
+ spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+ return de;
+}
+
/*
* Try to kill dentries associated with this inode.
* WARNING: you must own a reference to inode.
@@ -833,33 +839,27 @@
tmp->d_parent = tmp; /* make sure dput doesn't croak */

spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
- if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && !list_empty(&inode->i_dentry)) {
- /* A directory can only have one dentry.
- * This (now) has one, so use it.
- */
- res = list_entry(inode->i_dentry.next, struct dentry, d_alias);
- __dget_locked(res);
- } else {
+ res = __d_find_alias(inode, 0);
+ if (!res) {
/* attach a disconnected dentry */
res = tmp;
tmp = NULL;
- if (res) {
- spin_lock(&res->d_lock);
- res->d_sb = inode->i_sb;
- res->d_parent = res;
- res->d_inode = inode;
+ spin_lock(&res->d_lock);
+ res->d_sb = inode->i_sb;
+ res->d_parent = res;
+ res->d_inode = inode;
+
+ /*
+ * Set d_bucket to an "impossible" bucket address so
+ * that d_move() doesn't get a false positive
+ */
+ res->d_bucket = NULL;
+ res->d_flags |= DCACHE_DISCONNECTED;
+ res->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED;
+ list_add(&res->d_alias, &inode->i_dentry);
+ hlist_add_head(&res->d_hash, &inode->i_sb->s_anon);
+ spin_unlock(&res->d_lock);

- /*
- * Set d_bucket to an "impossible" bucket address so
- * that d_move() doesn't get a false positive
- */
- res->d_bucket = NULL;
- res->d_flags |= DCACHE_DISCONNECTED;
- res->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED;
- list_add(&res->d_alias, &inode->i_dentry);
- hlist_add_head(&res->d_hash, &inode->i_sb->s_anon);
- spin_unlock(&res->d_lock);
- }
inode = NULL; /* don't drop reference */
}
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@
* DCACHE_DISCONNECTED), then d_move that in place of the given dentry
* and return it, else simply d_add the inode to the dentry and return NULL.
*
- * This is (will be) needed in the lookup routine of any filesystem that is exportable
+ * This is needed in the lookup routine of any filesystem that is exportable
* (via knfsd) so that we can build dcache paths to directories effectively.
*
* If a dentry was found and moved, then it is returned. Otherwise NULL
@@ -892,11 +892,11 @@
{
struct dentry *new = NULL;

- if (inode && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
+ if (inode) {
spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
- if (!list_empty(&inode->i_dentry)) {
- new = list_entry(inode->i_dentry.next, struct dentry, d_alias);
- __dget_locked(new);
+ new = __d_find_alias(inode, 1);
+ if (new) {
+ BUG_ON(!(new->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED));
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
security_d_instantiate(new, inode);
d_rehash(dentry);
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