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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux.git/fs/fscache/cookie.c, branch linux-3.12.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>fscache: check consistency does not decrement refcount</title>
<updated>2013-09-10T16:04:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milosz Tanski</name>
<email>milosz@adfin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-09T18:28:57+00:00</published>
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__fscache_check_consistency() does not decrement the count of operations
active after it finishes in the success case. This leads to a hung tasks on
cookie de-registration (commonly in inode eviction).

INFO: task kworker/1:2:4214 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
kworker/1:2     D ffff880443513fc0     0  4214      2 0x00000000
Workqueue: ceph-msgr con_work [libceph]
  ...
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff81569fc6&gt;] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x16/0x20
 [&lt;ffffffffa0016570&gt;] ? fscache_wait_bit_interruptible+0x30/0x30 [fscache]
 [&lt;ffffffff81568d09&gt;] schedule+0x29/0x70
 [&lt;ffffffffa001657e&gt;] fscache_wait_atomic_t+0xe/0x20 [fscache]
 [&lt;ffffffff815665cf&gt;] out_of_line_wait_on_atomic_t+0x9f/0xe0
 [&lt;ffffffff81083560&gt;] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x40/0x40
 [&lt;ffffffffa0015a9c&gt;] __fscache_relinquish_cookie+0x15c/0x310 [fscache]
 [&lt;ffffffffa00a4fae&gt;] ceph_fscache_unregister_inode_cookie+0x3e/0x50 [ceph]
 [&lt;ffffffffa007e373&gt;] ceph_destroy_inode+0x33/0x200 [ceph]
 [&lt;ffffffff811c13ae&gt;] ? __fsnotify_inode_delete+0xe/0x10
 [&lt;ffffffff8119ba1c&gt;] destroy_inode+0x3c/0x70
 [&lt;ffffffff8119bb69&gt;] evict+0x119/0x1b0

Signed-off-by: Milosz Tanski &lt;milosz@adfin.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Add interface to check consistency of a cached object</title>
<updated>2013-09-06T08:17:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-21T21:29:38+00:00</published>
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Extend the fscache netfs API so that the netfs can ask as to whether a cache
object is up to date with respect to its corresponding netfs object:

	int fscache_check_consistency(struct fscache_cookie *cookie)

This will call back to the netfs to check whether the auxiliary data associated
with a cookie is correct.  It returns 0 if it is and -ESTALE if it isn't; it
may also return -ENOMEM and -ERESTARTSYS.

The backends now have to implement a mandatory operation pointer:

	int (*check_consistency)(struct fscache_object *object)

that corresponds to the above API call.  FS-Cache takes care of pinning the
object and the cookie in memory and managing this call with respect to the
object state.

Original-author: Hongyi Jia &lt;jiayisuse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Hongyi Jia &lt;jiayisuse@gmail.com&gt;
cc: Milosz Tanski &lt;milosz@adfin.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Simplify cookie retention for fscache_objects, fixing oops</title>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:16:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-10T18:50:26+00:00</published>
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Simplify the way fscache cache objects retain their cookie.  The way I
implemented the cookie storage handling made synchronisation a pain (ie. the
object state machine can't rely on the cookie actually still being there).

Instead of the the object being detached from the cookie and the cookie being
freed in __fscache_relinquish_cookie(), we defer both operations:

 (*) The detachment of the object from the list in the cookie now takes place
     in fscache_drop_object() and is thus governed by the object state machine
     (fscache_detach_from_cookie() has been removed).

 (*) The release of the cookie is now in fscache_object_destroy() - which is
     called by the cache backend just before it frees the object.

This means that the fscache_cookie struct is now available to the cache all the
way through from -&gt;alloc_object() to -&gt;drop_object() and -&gt;put_object() -
meaning that it's no longer necessary to take object-&gt;lock to guarantee access.

However, __fscache_relinquish_cookie() doesn't wait for the object to go all
the way through to destruction before letting the netfs proceed.  That would
massively slow down the netfs.  Since __fscache_relinquish_cookie() leaves the
cookie around, in must therefore break all attachments to the netfs - which
includes -&gt;def, -&gt;netfs_data and any outstanding page read/writes.

To handle this, struct fscache_cookie now has an n_active counter:

 (1) This starts off initialised to 1.

 (2) Any time the cache needs to get at the netfs data, it calls
     fscache_use_cookie() to increment it - if it is not zero.  If it was zero,
     then access is not permitted.

 (3) When the cache has finished with the data, it calls fscache_unuse_cookie()
     to decrement it.  This does a wake-up on it if it reaches 0.

 (4) __fscache_relinquish_cookie() decrements n_active and then waits for it to
     reach 0.  The initialisation to 1 in step (1) ensures that we only get
     wake ups when we're trying to get rid of the cookie.

This leaves __fscache_relinquish_cookie() a lot simpler.


***
This fixes a problem in the current code whereby if fscache_invalidate() is
followed sufficiently quickly by fscache_relinquish_cookie() then it is
possible for __fscache_relinquish_cookie() to have detached the cookie from the
object and cleared the pointer before a thread is dispatched to process the
invalidation state in the object state machine.

Since the pending write clearance was deferred to the invalidation state to
make it asynchronous, we need to either wait in relinquishment for the stores
tree to be cleared in the invalidation state or we need to handle the clearance
in relinquishment.

Further, if the relinquishment code does clear the tree, then the invalidation
state need to make the clearance contingent on still having the cookie to hand
(since that's where the tree is rooted) and we have to prevent the cookie from
disappearing for the duration.

This can lead to an oops like the following:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000c
...
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff8151023e&gt;] _spin_lock+0xe/0x30
...
CR2: 000000000000000c ...
...
Process kslowd002 (...)
....
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffffa01c3278&gt;] fscache_invalidate_writes+0x38/0xd0 [fscache]
 [&lt;ffffffff810096f0&gt;] ? __switch_to+0xd0/0x320
 [&lt;ffffffff8105e759&gt;] ? find_busiest_queue+0x69/0x150
 [&lt;ffffffff8110ddd4&gt;] ? slow_work_enqueue+0x104/0x180
 [&lt;ffffffffa01c1303&gt;] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5e3/0x9d0 [fscache]
 [&lt;ffffffff81096b67&gt;] ? bit_waitqueue+0x17/0xd0
 [&lt;ffffffff8110e233&gt;] slow_work_execute+0x233/0x310
 [&lt;ffffffff8110e515&gt;] slow_work_thread+0x205/0x360
 [&lt;ffffffff81096ca0&gt;] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
 [&lt;ffffffff8110e310&gt;] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x360
 [&lt;ffffffff81096936&gt;] kthread+0x96/0xa0
 [&lt;ffffffff8100c0ca&gt;] child_rip+0xa/0x20
 [&lt;ffffffff810968a0&gt;] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
 [&lt;ffffffff8100c0c0&gt;] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

The parameter to fscache_invalidate_writes() was object-&gt;cookie which is NULL.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski &lt;milosz@adfin.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Fix object state machine to have separate work and wait states</title>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:16:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-10T18:50:26+00:00</published>
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Fix object state machine to have separate work and wait states as that makes
it easier to envision.

There are now three kinds of state:

 (1) Work state.  This is an execution state.  No event processing is performed
     by a work state.  The function attached to a work state returns a pointer
     indicating the next state to which the OSM should transition.  Returning
     NO_TRANSIT repeats the current state, but goes back to the scheduler
     first.

 (2) Wait state.  This is an event processing state.  No execution is
     performed by a wait state.  Wait states are just tables of "if event X
     occurs, clear it and transition to state Y".  The dispatcher returns to
     the scheduler if none of the events in which the wait state has an
     interest are currently pending.

 (3) Out-of-band state.  This is a special work state.  Transitions to normal
     states can be overridden when an unexpected event occurs (eg. I/O error).
     Instead the dispatcher disables and clears the OOB event and transits to
     the specified work state.  This then acts as an ordinary work state,
     though object-&gt;state points to the overridden destination.  Returning
     NO_TRANSIT resumes the overridden transition.

In addition, the states have names in their definitions, so there's no need for
tables of state names.  Further, the EV_REQUEUE event is no longer necessary as
that is automatic for work states.

Since the states are now separate structs rather than values in an enum, it's
not possible to use comparisons other than (non-)equality between them, so use
some object-&gt;flags to indicate what phase an object is in.

The EV_RELEASE, EV_RETIRE and EV_WITHDRAW events have been squished into one
(EV_KILL).  An object flag now carries the information about retirement.

Similarly, the RELEASING, RECYCLING and WITHDRAWING states have been merged
into an KILL_OBJECT state and additional states have been added for handling
waiting dependent objects (JUMPSTART_DEPS and KILL_DEPENDENTS).

A state has also been added for synchronising with parent object initialisation
(WAIT_FOR_PARENT) and another for initiating look up (PARENT_READY).

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski &lt;milosz@adfin.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Wrap checks on object state</title>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:16:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-10T18:50:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Wrap checks on object state (mostly outside of fs/fscache/object.c) with
inline functions so that the mechanism can be replaced.

Some of the state checks within object.c are left as-is as they will be
replaced.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-By: Milosz Tanski &lt;milosz@adfin.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators</title>
<updated>2013-02-28T03:10:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sasha Levin</name>
<email>sasha.levin@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-28T01:06:00+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived

        list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)

The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:

        hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)

Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.

Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:

 - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
 - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
 - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
 was modified to use 'obj-&gt;member' instead.
 - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
 properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.

The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:

@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;

type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@

-T b;
    &lt;+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
    ...+&gt;

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin &lt;peter.senna@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Provide proper invalidation</title>
<updated>2012-12-20T22:04:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-20T21:52:36+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Provide a proper invalidation method rather than relying on the netfs retiring
the cookie it has and getting a new one.  The problem with this is that isn't
easy for the netfs to make sure that it has completed/cancelled all its
outstanding storage and retrieval operations on the cookie it is retiring.

Instead, have the cache provide an invalidation method that will cancel or wait
for all currently outstanding operations before invalidating the cache, and
will cause new operations to queue up behind that.  Whilst invalidation is in
progress, some requests will be rejected until the cache can stack a barrier on
the operation queue to cause new operations to be deferred behind it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Make cookie relinquishment wait for outstanding reads</title>
<updated>2012-12-20T21:58:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-20T21:52:35+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:ef46ed888efb1e8da33be5d33c9b54476289a43b</id>
<content type='text'>
Make fscache_relinquish_cookie() log a warning and wait if there are any
outstanding reads left on the cookie it was given.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Check that there are no read ops when cookie relinquished</title>
<updated>2012-12-20T21:58:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-20T21:52:33+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:0f972b5696c0a0677a9b3a18fee45cc0e8de4184</id>
<content type='text'>
Check that the netfs isn't trying to relinquish a cookie that still has read
operations in progress upon it.  If there are, then give log a warning and BUG.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter</title>
<updated>2009-11-19T18:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-19T18:11:38+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Add a stat counter to count retirement events rather than ordinary release
events (the retire argument to fscache_relinquish_cookie()).

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
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