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Brian Behlendorf c8df41538d Revert "Add zio constructor/destructor"
This patch was slightly flawed and allowed for zio->io_logical
to potentially not be reinitialized for a new zio.  This could
lead to assertion failures in specific cases when debugging is
enabled (--enable-debug) and I/O errors are encountered.  It
may also have caused problems when issues logical I/Os.

Since we want to make sure this workaround can be easily removed
in the future (when we have the real fix).  I'm reverting this
change and applying a new version of the patch which includes
the zio->io_logical fix.

This reverts commit 2c6d0b1e07.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #602
Issue #604
2012-03-21 14:51:01 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 43c8454724 ZFS 0.6.0-rc7 2012-03-16 11:25:13 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 77a405ae52 Add missing NULL in zpl_xattr_handlers
The xattr_resolve_name() helper function expects the registered
list of xattr handlers to be NULL terminated.  This NULL was
accidentally missing which could result in a NULL dereference.

Interestingly this issue only manifested itself on certain 32-bit
systems.  Presumably on 64-bit kernels we just always happen to
get lucky and the memory following the structure is zeroed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #594
2012-03-15 15:18:29 -07:00
Gregor Kopka 42cb3819f1 Use stderr for 'no pools/datasets available' error
The 'zfs list' and 'zpool list' commands output the message
'no datasets/pools available' to stdout.  This should go to
stderr and only the available datasets/pools should go to
stdout.  Returning nothing to stdout is expected behavior
when there is nothing to list.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #581
2012-03-15 10:24:00 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 0ece356db5 Add sa_spill_rele() interface
Add a SA interface which allows us to release the spill block
from a SA handle without destroying the handle.  This is useful
because we can then ensure that a copy of the dirty spill block
is not made at sync time due to the extra hold.  Susequent calls
to sa_update() or sa_lookup() with transparently refetch the
spill block dbuf from the ARC hash.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-03-07 16:28:00 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 2c6d0b1e07 Add zio constructor/destructor
Add a standard zio constructor and destructor.  Normally, this is
done to reduce to cost of allocating a new structure by reducing
expensive operations such as memory allocations.  However, in this
case none of the operations moved out of zio_create() were really
very expensive.

This change was principly made as a debug patch (and workaround)
for a zio_destroy() race.  The is good evidence that zio_create()
is reinitializing a mutex which is really still in use by another
thread.  This would completely explain the observed symptoms in
the issue report.

This patch doesn't fix the root cause of the race, but it should
make it less likely by only initializing the mutex once in the
constructor.  Also, this particular flaw might have gone unnoticed
in other zfs implementations due to the specific implementation
details of Linux ticket spinlocks.

Once the real root cause is determined and resolved this change
can be safely reverted.  Until then this should help workaround
the issue.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #496
2012-03-07 16:06:23 -08:00
Richard Yao 76c2b24c61 Fix distribution detection
Improve the distribution detection by moving the tests for
distribution specific files first.  The Ubuntu and Debian
checks are left for last because they are the least likely
to be unique.  This is particularly true in the case of Debian
since so many distributions are based on Debian.

Since this is currently only used to identify the correct
packaging method for this system the result in many instances
is simply cosmetic.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-03-05 10:38:27 -08:00
Ned Bass 613d88eda8 Align parition end on 1 MiB boundary
Some devices have exhibited sensitivity to the ending alignment of
partitions.  In particular, even if the first partition begins at 1
MiB, we have seen many sd driver task abort errors with certain SSDs
if the first partition doesn't end on a 1 MiB boundary.  This occurs
when the vdev label is read during pool creation or importation and
causes a delay of about 30 seconds per device.  It can also be
simulated with dd when the pool isn't imported:

  dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/null bs=262144 count=1

For the record, this problem was observed with SMARTMOD
SG9XCA2E200GE01 200GB SSDs.  Unfortunately I don't have a good
explanation for this behavior. It seems to have something to do with
highly fragmented single-sector requests being issued to the device,
which it may not support.  With end-aligned partitions at least
page-sized requests were queued and issued to the driver according
to blktrace. In any case, aligning the partition end is a fairly
innocuous work-around, wasting at most 1 MiB of space.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #574
2012-03-05 09:49:50 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf ec2626ad3f Use SA_HDL_PRIVATE for SA xattrs
A private SA handle must be used to ensure we can drop the dbuf
hold on the spill block prior to calling dmu_tx_commit().  If we
call dmu_tx_commit() before sa_handle_destroy(), then our hold
will trigger a copy of the dbuf to be made.  This is done to
prevent data from leaking in to the syncing txg.  As a result
the original dirty spill block will remain cached.

Additionally, relying on the shared zp->z_sa_hdl is unsafe in
the xattr context because the znode may be asynchronously dropped
from the cache.  It's far safer and simpler just to use a private
handle for xattrs.  Plus any additional overhead is offset by
the avoidance of the previously mentioned memory copy.

These forever dirty buffers can be noticed in the arcstats under
the anon_size.  On a quiescent system the value should be zero.
Without this fix and a SA xattr write workload you will see
anon_size increase.  Eventually, if enough dirty data builds up
your system it will appear to hang.  This occurs because the dmu
won't allow new txs to be assigned until that dirty data is
flushed, and it won't be because it's not part of an assigned tx.

As an aside, I typically see anon_size lurk around 16k so I think
there is another place in the code which needs a similar fix.
However, this value doesn't grow over time so it isn't critical.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #503
Issue #513
2012-03-02 13:20:48 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 4b787d75c8 Cleanly support debug packages
Allow a source rpm to be rebuilt with debugging enabled.  This
avoids the need to have to manually modify the spec file.  By
default debugging is still largely disabled.  To enable specific
debugging features use the following options with rpmbuild.

  '--with debug'               - Enables ASSERTs

  # For example:
  $ rpmbuild --rebuild --with debug zfs-modules-0.6.0-rc6.src.rpm

Additionally, ZFS_CONFIG has been added to zfs_config.h for
packages which build against these headers.  This is critical
to ensure both zfs and the dependant package are using the same
prototype and structure definitions.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-27 14:08:17 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 570827e129 Add 'dmu_tx' kstats entry
Keep counters for the various reasons that a thread may end up
in txg_wait_open() waiting on a new txg.  This can be useful
when attempting to determine why a particular workload is
under performing.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-27 08:59:10 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 13be560d89 Add arc_state_t stats to arcstats
To ensure the arc is behaving properly we need greater visibility
in to exactly how it's managing the systems memory.  This patch
takes one step in that direction be adding the current arc_state_t
for the anon, mru, mru_ghost, mfu, and mfs_ghost lists.  The l2
arc_state_t is already well represented in the arcstats.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-27 08:58:59 -08:00
Ned Bass 3a4f6caf08 Return success from check_slice() if device doesn't exist
When creating a new pool, make_root_vdev() calls check_in_use() to
ensure that none of the consituent disks are in use.  If the disk
contains a valid vdev label it is read to retrieve the list of its
child vdevs and these are checked recursively.  However, the
partitions stored in the vdev label my no longer exist, for example
if the partition table has since been altered.  In any such case we
would want the pool creation to proceed, so this change removes the
check from check_slice() that returns an error if the device doesn't
exist.  As an added assurance, the Solaris implementation also
returns sucess on ENOENT.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-27 08:52:38 -08:00
Alex Zhuravlev a473d90cee Export symbols for zero-copy
Export additional symbols to make use of the DMU's zero-copy
API.  This allows external modules to move data in to and out of
the ARC without incurring the cost of a memory copy.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-17 12:43:02 -08:00
Richard Yao b41c9906dc Support ashift=13 for 8KB SSD block sizes
New SSDs are now available which use an internal 8k block size.
To make sure ZFS can get the maximum performance out of these
devices we're increasing the maximum ashift to 13 (8KB).

This value is still small enough that we can fit 16 uberblocks
in the vdev ring label.  However, I don't want to increase this
any futher or it will limit the ability the safely roll back a
pool to recover it.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #565
2012-02-13 12:25:27 -08:00
Turbo Fredriksson d2e032ca9c Add 'fsid' mount option to allowed options.
Resolves nfs-utils-1.0.x compatibility issue which requires
that the fsid be set in the export options.

  exportfs: Warning: /tank/dir requires fsid= for NFS export

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #570
2012-02-13 09:43:57 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf b10c77f70a Export symbols for zero-copy
Exported the required symbols to make use of the DMU's zero-copy
API.  This allows external modules to move data in to and out of
the ARC without incurring the cost of a memory copy.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-10 11:56:55 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf a31acb462d Use spl_debug_* helpers
When configuring the spl debug log support use the provided wrapper
functions.  This ensures that if --disable-debug-log was used when
buiding the spl the functions will have no effect.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-09 16:37:48 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps 30930fba21 Add support for DISCARD to ZVOLs.
DISCARD (REQ_DISCARD, BLKDISCARD) is useful for thin provisioning.
It allows ZVOL clients to discard (unmap, trim) block ranges from
a ZVOL, thus optimizing disk space usage by allowing a ZVOL to
shrink instead of just grow.

We can't use zfs_space() or zfs_freesp() here, since these functions
only work on regular files, not volumes. Fortunately we can use the
low-level function dmu_free_long_range() which does exactly what we
want.

Currently the discard operation is not added to the log. That's not
a big deal since losing discard requests cannot result in data
corruption. It would however result in disk space usage higher than
it should be. Thus adding log support to zvol_discard() is probably
a good idea for a future improvement.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-09 16:19:38 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps cb2d19010d Support the fallocate() file operation.
Currently only the (FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) flag combination is
supported, since it's the only one that matches the behavior of
zfs_space(). This makes it pretty much useless in its current
form, but it's a start.

To support other flag combinations we would need to modify
zfs_space() to make it more flexible, or emulate the desired
functionality in zpl_fallocate().

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #334
2012-02-09 16:19:32 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps aec69371a6 Check permissions in zfs_space().
This isn't done on Solaris because on this OS zfs_space() can
only be called with an opened file handle. Since the addition of
zpl_truncate_range() this isn't the case anymore, so we need to
enforce access rights.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #334
2012-02-09 15:20:37 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps 5cb63a57f8 Implement the truncate_range() inode operation.
This operation allows "hole punching" in ZFS files. On Solaris this
is done via the vop_space() system call, which maps to the zfs_space()
function. So we just need to write zpl_truncate_range() as a wrapper
around zfs_space().

Note that this only works for regular files, not ZVOLs.

This is currently an insecure implementation without permission
checking, although this isn't that big of a deal since truncate_range()
isn't even callable from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #334
2012-02-09 15:20:32 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 93648f314c Fix zconfig.sh non-optimal alignment
The recent zvol improvements have changed default suggested alignment
for zvols from 512b (default) to 8k (zvol blocksize).  Because of this
the zconfig.sh tests which create paritions are now generating a
warning about non-optimal alignments.

This change updates the need zconfig.sh tests such that a partition
will be properly aligned.  In the process, it shifts from using the
sfdisk utility to the parted utility to create partitions.  It also
moves the creation of labels, partitions, and filesystems in to
generic functions in common.sh.in.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-09 13:23:28 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps dde9380a1b Use 32 as the default number of zvol threads.
Currently, the `zvol_threads` variable, which controls the number of worker
threads which process items from the ZVOL queues, is set to the number of
available CPUs.

This choice seems to be based on the assumption that ZVOL threads are
CPU-bound. This is not necessarily true, especially for synchronous writes.
Consider the situation described in the comments for `zil_commit()`, which is
called inside `zvol_write()` for synchronous writes:

> itxs are committed in batches. In a heavily stressed zil there will be a
> commit writer thread who is writing out a bunch of itxs to the log for a
> set of committing threads (cthreads) in the same batch as the writer.
> Those cthreads are all waiting on the same cv for that batch.
>
> There will also be a different and growing batch of threads that are
> waiting to commit (qthreads). When the committing batch completes a
> transition occurs such that the cthreads exit and the qthreads become
> cthreads. One of the new cthreads becomes he writer thread for the batch.
> Any new threads arriving become new qthreads.

We can easily deduce that, in the case of ZVOLs, there can be a maximum of
`zvol_threads` cthreads and qthreads. The default value for `zvol_threads` is
typically between 1 and 8, which is way too low in this case. This means
there will be a lot of small commits to the ZIL, which is very inefficient
compared to a few big commits, especially since we have to wait for the data
to be on stable storage. Increasing the number of threads will increase the
amount of data waiting to be commited and thus the size of the individual
commits.

On my system, in the context of VM disk image storage (lots of small
synchronous writes), increasing `zvol_threads` from 8 to 32 results in a 50%
increase in sequential synchronous write performance.

We should choose a more sensible default for `zvol_threads`. Unfortunately
the optimal value is difficult to determine automatically, since it depends
on the synchronous write latency of the underlying storage devices. In any
case, a hardcoded value of 32 would probably be better than the current
situation. Having a lot of ZVOL threads doesn't seem to have any real
downside anyway.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Fixes #392
2012-02-08 13:58:10 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps 34037afe24 Improve ZVOL queue behavior.
The Linux block device queue subsystem exposes a number of configurable
settings described in Linux block/blk-settings.c. The defaults for these
settings are tuned for hard drives, and are not optimized for ZVOLs. Proper
configuration of these options would allow upper layers (I/O scheduler) to
take better decisions about write merging and ordering.

Detailed rationale:

 - max_hw_sectors is set to unlimited (UINT_MAX). zvol_write() is able to
   handle writes of any size, so there's no reason to impose a limit. Let the
   upper layer decide.

 - max_segments and max_segment_size are set to unlimited. zvol_write() will
   copy the requests' contents into a dbuf anyway, so the number and size of
   the segments are irrelevant. Let the upper layer decide.

 - physical_block_size and io_opt are set to the ZVOL's block size. This
   has the potential to somewhat alleviate issue #361 for ZVOLs, by warning
   the upper layers that writes smaller than the volume's block size will be
   slow.

 - The NONROT flag is set to indicate this isn't a rotational device.
   Although the backing zpool might be composed of rotational devices, the
   resulting ZVOL often doesn't exhibit the same behavior due to the COW
   mechanisms used by ZFS. Setting this flag will prevent upper layers from
   making useless decisions (such as reordering writes) based on incorrect
   assumptions about the behavior of the ZVOL.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps b18019d2d8 Fix synchronicity for ZVOLs.
zvol_write() assumes that the write request must be written to stable storage
if rq_is_sync() is true. Unfortunately, this assumption is incorrect. Indeed,
"sync" does *not* mean what we think it means in the context of the Linux
block layer. This is well explained in linux/fs.h:

    WRITE:       A normal async write. Device will be plugged.
    WRITE_SYNC:  Synchronous write. Identical to WRITE, but passes down
                 the hint that someone will be waiting on this IO
                 shortly.
    WRITE_FLUSH: Like WRITE_SYNC but with preceding cache flush.
    WRITE_FUA:   Like WRITE_SYNC but data is guaranteed to be on
                 non-volatile media on completion.

In other words, SYNC does not *mean* that the write must be on stable storage
on completion. It just means that someone is waiting on us to complete the
write request. Thus triggering a ZIL commit for each SYNC write request on a
ZVOL is unnecessary and harmful for performance. To make matters worse, ZVOL
users have no way to express that they actually want data to be written to
stable storage, which means the ZIL is broken for ZVOLs.

The request for stable storage is expressed by the FUA flag, so we must
commit the ZIL after the write if the FUA flag is set. In addition, we must
commit the ZIL before the write if the FLUSH flag is set.

Also, we must inform the block layer that we actually support FLUSH and FUA.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps 56c34bac44 Support "sync=always" for ZVOLs.
Currently the "sync=always" property works for regular ZFS datasets, but not
for ZVOLs. This patch remedies that.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Fixes #374.
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Darik Horn e67329d8e0 Let libnvpair be linked independently of libzfs.
Autoconf will fail to detect the ZoL libnvpair on systems that do not
implicitly link library runtime dependencies, which is anything that
has the GCC 4.5 DCO update.

Build libuutil before libnvpair, and put it on the the LDADD line of
the libnvpair automake template.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes: #560
2012-02-07 11:37:15 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 47621f3d76 Linux 3.3 compat, sops->show_options()
The second argument of sops->show_options() was changed from a
'struct vfsmount *' to a 'struct dentry *'.  Add an autoconf check
to detect the API change and then conditionally define the expected
interface.  In either case we are only interested in the zfs_sb_t.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #549
2012-02-03 10:02:01 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf d7e398ce1a Cleanup ZFS debug infrastructure
Historically the internal zfs debug infrastructure has been
scattered throughout the code.  Since we expect to start making
more use of this code this patch performs some cleanup.

* Consolidate the zfs debug infrastructure in the zfs_debug.[ch]
  files.  This includes moving the zfs_flags and zfs_recover
  variables, plus moving the zfs_panic_recover() function.

* Remove the existing unused functionality in zfs_debug.c and
  replace it with code which correctly utilized the spl logging
  infrastructure.

* Remove the __dprintf() function from zfs_ioctl.c.  This is
  dead code, the dprintf() functionality in the kernel relies
  on the spl log support.

* Remove dprintf() from hdr_recl().  This wasn't particularly
  useful and was missing the required format specifier anyway.

* Subsequent patches should unify the dprintf() and zfs_dbgmsg()
  functions.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-02 11:24:30 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 0c5dde492f Allow multiple values per directory entry
When using zfs to back a Lustre filesystem it's advantageous to
to store a fid with the object id in the directory zap.  The only
technical impediment to doing this is that the zpl code expects
a single value in the zap per directory entry.

This change relaxes that requirement such that multiple entries
are allowed provided the first one is the object id.  The zpl
code will just ignore additional entries.  This allows the ZoL
count to mount datasets which are being used as Lustre server
backends.

Once the upstream feature flags support is merged in this change
should be updated to a read-only feature.  Until this occurs
other zfs implementations will not be able to read the zfs
filesystems created by Lustre.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-02 11:22:08 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf e29be02e46 Export symbol zfs_attr_table
Export the zfs_attr_table symbol so it may be used by non-zpl
consumers which are still interested in writing a zpl compatible
dataset (e.g. Lustre).

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-01-27 09:23:36 -08:00
Prakash Surya ff998d804f Ignore dataset if the dds_type is DMU_OST_OTHER
Since the zpios and potentially other ZFS tests use the
DMU_OST_OTHER type to label their datasets, the zpool and
zfs commands should gracefully handle this type when it is
encountered.  This patch modifies the commands' behavior
to ignore any datasets with a dds_type of DMU_OST_OTHER.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #536
2012-01-19 09:29:48 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf b4b599d250 Fix rpm dependencies
This change updates the rpm spec files to have strictly correct
package dependencies.  That means a few things:

* The zfs-modules package is now tied to a specific build of
  the spl-modules packages based on the kernel version.  This
  ensures that the correct spl-modules packages will always get
  installed and not just the newest.

* The zfs package now requires both the zfs-modules and spl
  packages.  Thus a 'yum install zfs' will pull in the minimal
  set of packages required for a functional system.

* The zfs-devel packages now require the zfs package to be
  installed which is normal behavior for -devel packages.

* Remove the redundant distribution release extension.  This
  is already added once because it is part of the kernel package
  release name.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-01-18 12:19:52 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf b40a77aefc Add the release component to headers
When the original build system code was added the release
component was accidentally omited from the development header
install path.  This patch adds the missing path component so
it's always clear exactly what release your compiling against.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-01-18 12:19:47 -08:00
Darik Horn f783130a1f Allow GPT+EFI vdev replacement in boot pools.
Commit zfsonlinux/zfs@57a4eddc4d
allows the bootfs property to be set on any pool, but does not
accommodate subsequent vdev changes. For example:

	# zpool replace rpool /dev/sda /dev/sdb
	operation not supported on this type of pool
	property 'bootfs' is not supported on EFI labeled devices

For non-Solaris builds, disable the check that emits this error.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-01-18 11:05:24 -08:00
Darik Horn 750562833f Combine libraries: spl, avl, efi, share, unicode.
These libraries, which are an artifact of the ZoL development
process, conflict with packages that are already in distribution:

  * libspl: SPL Programming Language
  * libavl: AVL for Linux
  * libefi: GRUB

And these libraries are potential conflicts:

  * libshare: the Linux Mount Manager
  * libunicode: Perl and Python

Recompose these five ZoL components into the four libraries that are
conventionally provided by Solaris and FreeBSD systems:

  + libnvpair
  + libuutil
  + libzpool
  + libzfs

This change resolves the name conflict, makes ZoL more compatible
with existing software that uses autotools to detect ZFS, and allows
pkg-zfs to better reflect the official Debian kFreeBSD packaging.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes: #430
2012-01-17 15:19:50 -08:00
Richard Laager 57a4eddc4d Allow setting bootfs on any pool
The vdev_is_bootable() restrictions are no longer necessary
with recent GRUB2 code.  FreeBSD has implemented the same
change, except that I moved the Solaris comment to be inside
the #ifdef __sun__ block.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #317
2012-01-17 13:49:07 -08:00
Ned Bass 08d08ebba2 Reduce number of zio free threads
As described in Issue #458 and #258, unlinking large amounts of data
can cause the threads in the zio free wait queue to start spinning.
Reducing the number of z_fr_iss threads from a fixed value of 100 to 1
per cpu signficantly reduces contention on the taskq spinlock and
improves throughput.

Instrumenting the taskq code showed that __taskq_dispatch() can spend
a long time holding tq->tq_lock if there are a large number of threads
in the queue.  It turns out the time spent in wake_up() scales
linearly with the number of threads in the queue.  When a large number
of short work items are dispatched, as seems to be the case with
unlink, the worker threads drain the queue faster than the dispatcher
can fill it.  They then all pile into the work wait queue to wait for
new work items.  So if 100 threads are in the queue, wake_up() takes
about 100 times as long, and the woken threads have to spin until the
dispatcher releases the lock.

Reducing the number of threads helps with the symptoms, but doesn't
get to the root of the problem.  It would seem that wake_up()
shouldn't scale linearly in time with queue depth, particularly if we
are only trying to wake up one thread.  In that vein, I tried making
all of the waiting processes exclusive to prevent the scheduler from
iterating over the entire list, but I still saw the linear time
scaling.  So further investigation is needed, but in the meantime
reducing the thread count is an easy workaround.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #258
Issue #458
2012-01-17 08:54:00 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf a8783adf24 Increase link count limit to 2^31-1
Originally, the per-file link limit was set to 65536 because the
exact Linux VFS limit was unclear.  Internally ZFS is able to
support 64-bit link counts.  After a more careful investigation
the limit can be safely raised to 2^31-1.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #514
2012-01-13 11:43:59 -08:00
Prakash Surya 58d956b085 Run ZFS_AC_PACMAN only if $VENDOR is "arch"
Unfortunately, Arch's package manager `pacman` shares it's name with a
popular arcade video game. Thus, in order to refrain from executing the
video game when we mean to execute the package manager, ZFS_AC_PACMAN is
now only run when $VENDOR is determined to be "arch".

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #517
2012-01-13 09:03:11 -08:00
Suman Chakravartula e18be9a637 Add overlay(-O) mount option support
Linux supports mounting over non-empty directories by default.
In Solaris this is not the case and -O option is required for
zfs mount to mount a zfs filesystem over a non-empty directory.

For compatibility, I've added support for -O option to mount
zfs filesystems over non-empty directories if the user wants
to, just like in Solaris.

I've defined MS_OVERLAY to record it in the flags variable if
the -O option is supplied.  The flags variable passes through
a few functions and its checked before performing the empty
directory check in zfs_mount function.  If -O is given, the
check is not performed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #473
2012-01-12 15:49:38 -08:00
Darik Horn 96b91ef0d6 Apply the ZoL coding standard to zpl_xattr.c
Make the indenting in the zpl_xattr.c file consistent with the Sun
coding standard by removing soft tabs.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-01-12 15:12:03 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 166dd49de0 Linux 3.2 compat, security_inode_init_security()
The security_inode_init_security() API has been changed to include
a filesystem specific callback to write security extended attributes.
This was done to support the initialization of multiple LSM xattrs
and the EVM xattr.

This change updates the code to use the new API when it's available.
Otherwise it falls back to the previous implementation.

In addition, the ZFS_AC_KERNEL_6ARGS_SECURITY_INODE_INIT_SECURITY
autoconf test has been made more rigerous by passing the expected
types.  This is done to ensure we always properly the detect the
correct form for the security_inode_init_security() API.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #516
2012-01-12 15:06:39 -08:00
Richard Laager 2932b6a800 Treat /dev/vd* as whole disks
Correctly detect /dev/vd devices as whole disks and attempt to
create an EFI partition table.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-01-11 16:44:54 -08:00
Darik Horn b97f368d04 Avoid using awk in the zpool_id script.
Some implementations of `awk` incorrectly parse the \< and \> regex
symbols, so use a `while read` loop and regular globbing instead.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes: #259
2012-01-11 11:56:56 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf ab26409db7 Linux 3.1 compat, super_block->s_shrink
The Linux 3.1 kernel has introduced the concept of per-filesystem
shrinkers which are directly assoicated with a super block.  Prior
to this change there was one shared global shrinker.

The zfs code relied on being able to call the global shrinker when
the arc_meta_limit was exceeded.  This would cause the VFS to drop
references on a fraction of the dentries in the dcache.  The ARC
could then safely reclaim the memory used by these entries and
honor the arc_meta_limit.  Unfortunately, when per-filesystem
shrinkers were added the old interfaces were made unavailable.

This change adds support to use the new per-filesystem shrinker
interface so we can continue to honor the arc_meta_limit.  The
major benefit of the new interface is that we can now target
only the zfs filesystem for dentry and inode pruning.  Thus we
can minimize any impact on the caching of other filesystems.

In the context of making this change several other important
issues related to managing the ARC were addressed, they include:

* The dnlc_reduce_cache() function which was called by the ARC
to drop dentries for the Posix layer was replaced with a generic
zfs_prune_t callback.  The ZPL layer now registers a callback to
drop these dentries removing a layering violation which dates
back to the Solaris code.  This callback can also be used by
other ARC consumers such as Lustre.

  arc_add_prune_callback()
  arc_remove_prune_callback()

* The arc_reduce_dnlc_percent module option has been changed to
arc_meta_prune for clarity.  The dnlc functions are specific to
Solaris's VFS and have already been largely eliminated already.
The replacement tunable now represents the number of bytes the
prune callback will request when invoked.

* Less aggressively invoke the prune callback.  We used to call
this whenever we exceeded the arc_meta_limit however that's not
strictly correct since it results in over zeleous reclaim of
dentries and inodes.  It is now only called once the arc_meta_limit
is exceeded and every effort has been made to evict other data from
the ARC cache.

* More promptly manage exceeding the arc_meta_limit.  When reading
meta data in to the cache if a buffer was unable to be recycled
notify the arc_reclaim thread to invoke the required prune.

* Added arcstat_prune kstat which is incremented when the ARC
is forced to request that a consumer prune its cache.  Remember
this will only occur when the ARC has no other choice.  If it
can evict buffers safely without invoking the prune callback
it will.

* This change is also expected to resolve the unexpect collapses
of the ARC cache.  This would occur because when exceeded just the
arc_meta_limit reclaim presure would be excerted on the arc_c
value via arc_shrink().  This effectively shrunk the entire cache
when really we just needed to reclaim meta data.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #466
Closes #292
2012-01-11 11:46:02 -08:00
Prakash Surya 8eaa020b46 Move Arch Linux's VENDOR check above Ubuntu's
If the lsb-release package is installed on an Arch Linux distribution,
the configure step will incorrectly detect the running distribution as
Ubuntu. This is a result of both distributions providing an
/etc/lsb-release file, and the Ubuntu VENDOR check being performed
first.

Since the Arch Linux test check's for a file more specific to the Arch
Linux distribution, moving Arch Linux's VENDOR check above Unbuntu's
check provides a quick and easy solution.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-12-19 12:05:10 -08:00
Darik Horn afd7da0ce7 Add LIBSELINUX to mount_zfs_LDFLAGS.
Regenerating the autotools configuration on Debian and Ubuntu systems
causes compilation to fail with this error message:

  cmd/mount_zfs/../../cmd/mount_zfs/mount_zfs.c:403:
    undefined reference to `is_selinux_enabled'

In the automake template, set "mount_zfs_LDFLAGS = ... $(LIBSELINUX)"
so that the /sbin/mount.zfs utility is linked to libselinux.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-12-16 20:04:42 -08:00
Darik Horn 28eb9213d8 Linux 3.2 compat: set_nlink()
Directly changing inode->i_nlink is deprecated in Linux 3.2 by commit

  SHA: bfe8684869601dacfcb2cd69ef8cfd9045f62170

Use the new set_nlink() kernel function instead.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes: #462
2011-12-16 20:02:52 -08:00