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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-07-17 22:23:33 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-07-17 22:23:33 +0300
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Merge tag 'gfs2-v6.10-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2
Pull gfs2 updates from Andreas Gruenbacher: "Fixes and cleanups: - Revise the glock reference counting model and LRU list handling to be more sensible - Several quota related fixes: clean up the quota code, add some missing locking, and work around the on-disk corruption that the reverted patch "gfs2: ignore negated quota changes" causes - Clean up the glock demote logic in glock_work_func()" * tag 'gfs2-v6.10-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2: (29 commits) gfs2: Clean up glock demote logic gfs2: Revert "check for no eligible quota changes" gfs2: Be more careful with the quota sync generation gfs2: Get rid of some unnecessary quota locking gfs2: Add some missing quota locking gfs2: Fold qd_fish into gfs2_quota_sync gfs2: quota need_sync cleanup gfs2: Fix and clean up function do_qc gfs2: Revert "Add quota_change type" gfs2: Revert "ignore negated quota changes" gfs2: qd_check_sync cleanups gfs2: Revert "introduce qd_bh_get_or_undo" gfs2: Check quota consistency on mount gfs2: Minor gfs2_quota_init error path cleanup gfs2: Get rid of demote_ok checks Revert "GFS2: Don't add all glocks to the lru" gfs2: Revise glock reference counting model gfs2: Switch to a per-filesystem glock workqueue gfs2: Report when glocks cannot be freed for a long time gfs2: gfs2_glock_get cleanup ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.rst55
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.rst
index 8a5842929b60..adc0d4c4d979 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.rst
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ shared lock mode, SH. In GFS2 the DF mode is used exclusively for direct I/O
operations. The glocks are basically a lock plus some routines which deal
with cache management. The following rules apply for the cache:
-========== ========== ============== ========== ==============
-Glock mode Cache data Cache Metadata Dirty Data Dirty Metadata
-========== ========== ============== ========== ==============
- UN No No No No
- SH Yes Yes No No
- DF No Yes No No
- EX Yes Yes Yes Yes
-========== ========== ============== ========== ==============
+========== ============== ========== ========== ==============
+Glock mode Cache Metadata Cache data Dirty Data Dirty Metadata
+========== ============== ========== ========== ==============
+ UN No No No No
+ DF Yes No No No
+ SH Yes Yes No No
+ EX Yes Yes Yes Yes
+========== ============== ========== ========== ==============
These rules are implemented using the various glock operations which
are defined for each type of glock. Not all types of glocks use
@@ -55,23 +55,22 @@ all the modes. Only inode glocks use the DF mode for example.
Table of glock operations and per type constants:
-============= =============================================================
+============== =============================================================
Field Purpose
-============= =============================================================
-go_xmote_th Called before remote state change (e.g. to sync dirty data)
+============== =============================================================
+go_sync Called before remote state change (e.g. to sync dirty data)
go_xmote_bh Called after remote state change (e.g. to refill cache)
go_inval Called if remote state change requires invalidating the cache
-go_demote_ok Returns boolean value of whether its ok to demote a glock
- (e.g. checks timeout, and that there is no cached data)
-go_lock Called for the first local holder of a lock
-go_unlock Called on the final local unlock of a lock
+go_instantiate Called when a glock has been acquired
+go_held Called every time a glock holder is acquired
go_dump Called to print content of object for debugfs file, or on
error to dump glock to the log.
-go_type The type of the glock, ``LM_TYPE_*``
go_callback Called if the DLM sends a callback to drop this lock
+go_unlocked Called when a glock is unlocked (dlm_unlock())
+go_type The type of the glock, ``LM_TYPE_*``
go_flags GLOF_ASPACE is set, if the glock has an address space
associated with it
-============= =============================================================
+============== =============================================================
The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock
grant for which we ignore remote demote requests. This is in order to
@@ -82,26 +81,24 @@ to by multiple nodes. By delaying the demotion in response to a
remote callback, that gives the userspace program time to make
some progress before the pages are unmapped.
-There is a plan to try and remove the go_lock and go_unlock callbacks
-if possible, in order to try and speed up the fast path though the locking.
-Also, eventually we hope to make the glock "EX" mode locally shared
-such that any local locking will be done with the i_mutex as required
-rather than via the glock.
+Eventually, we hope to make the glock "EX" mode locally shared such that any
+local locking will be done with the i_mutex as required rather than via the
+glock.
Locking rules for glock operations:
-============= ====================== =============================
+============== ====================== =============================
Operation GLF_LOCK bit lock held gl_lockref.lock spinlock held
-============= ====================== =============================
-go_xmote_th Yes No
+============== ====================== =============================
+go_sync Yes No
go_xmote_bh Yes No
go_inval Yes No
-go_demote_ok Sometimes Yes
-go_lock Yes No
-go_unlock Yes No
+go_instantiate No No
+go_held No No
go_dump Sometimes Yes
go_callback Sometimes (N/A) Yes
-============= ====================== =============================
+go_unlocked Yes No
+============== ====================== =============================
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