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From: Andiry Xu <jix024@eng.ucsd.edu>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, andy.rudoff@intel.com,
	coughlan@redhat.com, swanson@cs.ucsd.edu, david@fromorbit.com,
	jack@suse.com, swhiteho@redhat.com, miklos@szeredi.hu,
	andiry.xu@gmail.com, Andiry Xu <jix024@cs.ucsd.edu>
Subject: [RFC v2 79/83] Normal recovery.
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:19:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1520705944-6723-80-git-send-email-jix024@eng.ucsd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1520705944-6723-1-git-send-email-jix024@eng.ucsd.edu>

From: Andiry Xu <jix024@cs.ucsd.edu>

Upon umount, NOVA stores the allocator information and the inuse
inode list in reserved inodes. During remount, NOVA reads these
information and rebuild the allocator and inuse inode list DRAM
data structures.

Signed-off-by: Andiry Xu <jix024@cs.ucsd.edu>
---
 fs/nova/bbuild.c | 266 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/nova/bbuild.h |   1 +
 fs/nova/super.c  |   3 +
 3 files changed, 270 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/nova/bbuild.c b/fs/nova/bbuild.c
index af1b352..ca51dca 100644
--- a/fs/nova/bbuild.c
+++ b/fs/nova/bbuild.c
@@ -52,6 +52,206 @@ void nova_init_header(struct super_block *sb,
 	init_rwsem(&sih->i_sem);
 }
 
+static inline int get_cpuid(struct nova_sb_info *sbi, unsigned long blocknr)
+{
+	return blocknr / sbi->per_list_blocks;
+}
+
+static void nova_destroy_range_node_tree(struct super_block *sb,
+	struct rb_root *tree)
+{
+	struct nova_range_node *curr;
+	struct rb_node *temp;
+
+	temp = rb_first(tree);
+	while (temp) {
+		curr = container_of(temp, struct nova_range_node, node);
+		temp = rb_next(temp);
+		rb_erase(&curr->node, tree);
+		nova_free_range_node(curr);
+	}
+}
+
+static void nova_destroy_blocknode_tree(struct super_block *sb, int cpu)
+{
+	struct free_list *free_list;
+
+	free_list = nova_get_free_list(sb, cpu);
+	nova_destroy_range_node_tree(sb, &free_list->block_free_tree);
+}
+
+static void nova_destroy_blocknode_trees(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	struct nova_sb_info *sbi = NOVA_SB(sb);
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < sbi->cpus; i++)
+		nova_destroy_blocknode_tree(sb, i);
+
+}
+
+static int nova_init_blockmap_from_inode(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	struct nova_sb_info *sbi = NOVA_SB(sb);
+	struct nova_inode *pi = nova_get_inode_by_ino(sb, NOVA_BLOCKNODE_INO);
+	struct nova_inode_info_header sih;
+	struct free_list *free_list;
+	struct nova_range_node_lowhigh *entry;
+	struct nova_range_node *blknode;
+	size_t size = sizeof(struct nova_range_node_lowhigh);
+	u64 curr_p;
+	u64 cpuid;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	/* FIXME: Backup inode for BLOCKNODE */
+	ret = nova_get_head_tail(sb, pi, &sih);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
+
+	curr_p = sih.log_head;
+	if (curr_p == 0) {
+		nova_dbg("%s: pi head is 0!\n", __func__);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	while (curr_p != sih.log_tail) {
+		if (is_last_entry(curr_p, size))
+			curr_p = next_log_page(sb, curr_p);
+
+		if (curr_p == 0) {
+			nova_dbg("%s: curr_p is NULL!\n", __func__);
+			NOVA_ASSERT(0);
+			ret = -EINVAL;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		entry = (struct nova_range_node_lowhigh *)nova_get_block(sb,
+							curr_p);
+		blknode = nova_alloc_blocknode(sb);
+		if (blknode == NULL)
+			NOVA_ASSERT(0);
+		blknode->range_low = le64_to_cpu(entry->range_low);
+		blknode->range_high = le64_to_cpu(entry->range_high);
+		cpuid = get_cpuid(sbi, blknode->range_low);
+
+		/* FIXME: Assume NR_CPUS not change */
+		free_list = nova_get_free_list(sb, cpuid);
+		ret = nova_insert_blocktree(sbi,
+				&free_list->block_free_tree, blknode);
+		if (ret) {
+			nova_err(sb, "%s failed\n", __func__);
+			nova_free_blocknode(sb, blknode);
+			NOVA_ASSERT(0);
+			nova_destroy_blocknode_trees(sb);
+			goto out;
+		}
+		free_list->num_blocknode++;
+		if (free_list->num_blocknode == 1)
+			free_list->first_node = blknode;
+		free_list->last_node = blknode;
+		free_list->num_free_blocks +=
+			blknode->range_high - blknode->range_low + 1;
+		curr_p += sizeof(struct nova_range_node_lowhigh);
+	}
+out:
+	nova_free_inode_log(sb, pi, &sih);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static void nova_destroy_inode_trees(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	struct nova_sb_info *sbi = NOVA_SB(sb);
+	struct inode_map *inode_map;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < sbi->cpus; i++) {
+		inode_map = &sbi->inode_maps[i];
+		nova_destroy_range_node_tree(sb,
+					&inode_map->inode_inuse_tree);
+	}
+}
+
+#define CPUID_MASK 0xff00000000000000
+
+static int nova_init_inode_list_from_inode(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	struct nova_sb_info *sbi = NOVA_SB(sb);
+	struct nova_inode *pi = nova_get_inode_by_ino(sb, NOVA_INODELIST_INO);
+	struct nova_inode_info_header sih;
+	struct nova_range_node_lowhigh *entry;
+	struct nova_range_node *range_node;
+	struct inode_map *inode_map;
+	size_t size = sizeof(struct nova_range_node_lowhigh);
+	unsigned long num_inode_node = 0;
+	u64 curr_p;
+	unsigned long cpuid;
+	int ret;
+
+	/* FIXME: Backup inode for INODELIST */
+	ret = nova_get_head_tail(sb, pi, &sih);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
+
+	sbi->s_inodes_used_count = 0;
+	curr_p = sih.log_head;
+	if (curr_p == 0) {
+		nova_dbg("%s: pi head is 0!\n", __func__);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	while (curr_p != sih.log_tail) {
+		if (is_last_entry(curr_p, size))
+			curr_p = next_log_page(sb, curr_p);
+
+		if (curr_p == 0) {
+			nova_dbg("%s: curr_p is NULL!\n", __func__);
+			NOVA_ASSERT(0);
+		}
+
+		entry = (struct nova_range_node_lowhigh *)nova_get_block(sb,
+							curr_p);
+		range_node = nova_alloc_inode_node(sb);
+		if (range_node == NULL)
+			NOVA_ASSERT(0);
+
+		cpuid = (entry->range_low & CPUID_MASK) >> 56;
+		if (cpuid >= sbi->cpus) {
+			nova_err(sb, "Invalid cpuid %lu\n", cpuid);
+			nova_free_inode_node(sb, range_node);
+			NOVA_ASSERT(0);
+			nova_destroy_inode_trees(sb);
+			goto out;
+		}
+
+		range_node->range_low = entry->range_low & ~CPUID_MASK;
+		range_node->range_high = entry->range_high;
+		ret = nova_insert_inodetree(sbi, range_node, cpuid);
+		if (ret) {
+			nova_err(sb, "%s failed, %d\n", __func__, cpuid);
+			nova_free_inode_node(sb, range_node);
+			NOVA_ASSERT(0);
+			nova_destroy_inode_trees(sb);
+			goto out;
+		}
+
+		sbi->s_inodes_used_count +=
+			range_node->range_high - range_node->range_low + 1;
+		num_inode_node++;
+
+		inode_map = &sbi->inode_maps[cpuid];
+		inode_map->num_range_node_inode++;
+		if (!inode_map->first_inode_range)
+			inode_map->first_inode_range = range_node;
+
+		curr_p += sizeof(struct nova_range_node_lowhigh);
+	}
+
+	nova_dbg("%s: %lu inode nodes\n", __func__, num_inode_node);
+out:
+	nova_free_inode_log(sb, pi, &sih);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static u64 nova_append_range_node_entry(struct super_block *sb,
 	struct nova_range_node *curr, u64 tail, unsigned long cpuid)
 {
@@ -214,3 +414,69 @@ void nova_save_blocknode_mappings_to_log(struct super_block *sb)
 		  pi->log_head, pi->log_tail);
 }
 
+/*********************** Recovery entrance *************************/
+
+/* Return TRUE if we can do a normal unmount recovery */
+static bool nova_try_normal_recovery(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	struct nova_inode *pi =  nova_get_inode_by_ino(sb, NOVA_BLOCKNODE_INO);
+	int ret;
+
+	if (pi->log_head == 0 || pi->log_tail == 0)
+		return false;
+
+	ret = nova_init_blockmap_from_inode(sb);
+	if (ret) {
+		nova_err(sb, "init blockmap failed, fall back to failure recovery\n");
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	ret = nova_init_inode_list_from_inode(sb);
+	if (ret) {
+		nova_err(sb, "init inode list failed, fall back to failure recovery\n");
+		nova_destroy_blocknode_trees(sb);
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Recovery routine has two tasks:
+ * 1. Restore inuse inode list;
+ * 2. Restore the NVMM allocator.
+ */
+int nova_recovery(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	struct nova_sb_info *sbi = NOVA_SB(sb);
+	struct nova_super_block *super = sbi->nova_sb;
+	unsigned long initsize = le64_to_cpu(super->s_size);
+	bool value = false;
+	int ret = 0;
+	timing_t start, end;
+
+	nova_dbgv("%s\n", __func__);
+
+	/* Always check recovery time */
+	if (measure_timing == 0)
+		getrawmonotonic(&start);
+
+	NOVA_START_TIMING(recovery_t, start);
+	sbi->num_blocks = ((unsigned long)(initsize) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+
+	/* initialize free list info */
+	nova_init_blockmap(sb, 1);
+
+	value = nova_try_normal_recovery(sb);
+
+	NOVA_END_TIMING(recovery_t, start);
+	if (measure_timing == 0) {
+		getrawmonotonic(&end);
+		Timingstats[recovery_t] +=
+			(end.tv_sec - start.tv_sec) * 1000000000 +
+			(end.tv_nsec - start.tv_nsec);
+	}
+
+	sbi->s_epoch_id = le64_to_cpu(super->s_epoch_id);
+	return ret;
+}
diff --git a/fs/nova/bbuild.h b/fs/nova/bbuild.h
index 5d2b5f0..2c3deb0 100644
--- a/fs/nova/bbuild.h
+++ b/fs/nova/bbuild.h
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ void nova_init_header(struct super_block *sb,
 	struct nova_inode_info_header *sih, u16 i_mode);
 void nova_save_inode_list_to_log(struct super_block *sb);
 void nova_save_blocknode_mappings_to_log(struct super_block *sb);
+int nova_recovery(struct super_block *sb);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/fs/nova/super.c b/fs/nova/super.c
index 980b1d7..14b4af6 100644
--- a/fs/nova/super.c
+++ b/fs/nova/super.c
@@ -642,6 +642,9 @@ static int nova_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	sb->s_xattr = NULL;
 	sb->s_flags |= MS_NOSEC;
 
+	if ((sbi->s_mount_opt & NOVA_MOUNT_FORMAT) == 0)
+		nova_recovery(sb);
+
 	root_i = nova_iget(sb, NOVA_ROOT_INO);
 	if (IS_ERR(root_i)) {
 		retval = PTR_ERR(root_i);
-- 
2.7.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-10 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-10 18:17 [RFC v2 00/83] NOVA: a new file system for persistent memory Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 01/83] Introduction and documentation of NOVA filesystem Andiry Xu
2018-03-19 20:43   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-03-19 23:00     ` Andiry Xu
2018-04-22  8:05   ` Pavel Machek
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 02/83] Add nova_def.h Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 03/83] Add super.h Andiry Xu
2018-03-15  4:54   ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-03-15  6:11     ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-15  9:05       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-15 17:51         ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-15 20:04           ` Andreas Dilger
2018-03-15 20:38           ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-16  2:59             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-03-16  6:17               ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-16  6:30                 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-03-16  9:19               ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 04/83] NOVA inode definition Andiry Xu
2018-03-15  5:06   ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-03-15  6:16     ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 05/83] Add NOVA filesystem definitions and useful helper routines Andiry Xu
2018-03-11 12:00   ` Nikolay Borisov
2018-03-11 19:22     ` Eric Biggers
2018-03-11 21:45       ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-19 19:39       ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-19 20:30         ` Eric Biggers
2018-03-19 21:59           ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 06/83] Add inode get/read methods Andiry Xu
2018-04-23  6:12   ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-04-23 15:55     ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 07/83] Initialize inode_info and rebuild inode information in nova_iget() Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 08/83] NOVA superblock operations Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 09/83] Add Kconfig and Makefile Andiry Xu
2018-03-11 12:15   ` Nikolay Borisov
2018-03-11 21:32     ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 10/83] Add superblock integrity check Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 11/83] Add timing and I/O statistics for performance analysis and profiling Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 12/83] Add timing for mount and init Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 13/83] Add remount_fs and show_options methods Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 14/83] Add range node kmem cache Andiry Xu
2018-03-11 11:55   ` Nikolay Borisov
2018-03-11 21:31     ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 15/83] Add free list data structure Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 16/83] Initialize block map and free lists in nova_init() Andiry Xu
2018-03-11 12:12   ` Nikolay Borisov
2018-03-11 21:30     ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 17/83] Add statfs support Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:17 ` [RFC v2 18/83] Add freelist statistics printing Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 19/83] Add pmem block free routines Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 20/83] Pmem block allocation routines Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 21/83] Add log structure Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 22/83] Inode log pages allocation and reclaimation Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 23/83] Save allocator to pmem in put_super Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 24/83] Initialize and allocate inode table Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 25/83] Support get normal inode address and inode table extentsion Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 26/83] Add inode_map to track inuse inodes Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 27/83] Save the inode inuse list to pmem upon umount Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 28/83] Add NOVA address space operations Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 29/83] Add write_inode and dirty_inode routines Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 30/83] New NOVA inode allocation Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 31/83] Add new vfs " Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 32/83] Add log entry definitions Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 33/83] Inode log and entry printing for debug purpose Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 34/83] Journal: NOVA light weight journal definitions Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 35/83] Journal: Lite journal helper routines Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 36/83] Journal: Lite journal recovery Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 37/83] Journal: Lite journal create and commit Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 38/83] Journal: NOVA lite journal initialization Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 39/83] Log operation: dentry append Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 40/83] Log operation: file write entry append Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 41/83] Log operation: setattr " Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 42/83] Log operation: link change append Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 43/83] Log operation: in-place update log entry Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 44/83] Log operation: invalidate log entries Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 45/83] Log operation: file inode log lookup and assign Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 46/83] Dir: Add Directory radix tree insert/remove methods Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 47/83] Dir: Add initial dentries when initializing a directory inode log Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 48/83] Dir: Readdir operation Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 49/83] Dir: Append create/remove dentry Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 50/83] Inode: Add nova_evict_inode Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 51/83] Rebuild: directory inode Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 52/83] Rebuild: file inode Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 53/83] Namei: lookup Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 54/83] Namei: create and mknod Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 55/83] Namei: mkdir Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 56/83] Namei: link and unlink Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 57/83] Namei: rmdir Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 58/83] Namei: rename Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 59/83] Namei: setattr Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 60/83] Add special inode operations Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 61/83] Super: Add nova_export_ops Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 62/83] File: getattr and file inode operations Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 63/83] File operation: llseek Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 64/83] File operation: open, fsync, flush Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 65/83] File operation: read Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 66/83] Super: Add file write item cache Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 67/83] Dax: commit list of file write items to log Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 68/83] File operation: copy-on-write write Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 69/83] Super: Add module param inplace_data_updates Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 70/83] File operation: Inplace write Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 71/83] Symlink support Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 72/83] File operation: fallocate Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 73/83] Dax: Add iomap operations Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 74/83] File operation: Mmap Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 75/83] File operation: read/write iter Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 76/83] Ioctl support Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 77/83] GC: Fast garbage collection Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:18 ` [RFC v2 78/83] GC: Thorough " Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:19 ` Andiry Xu [this message]
2018-03-10 18:19 ` [RFC v2 80/83] Failure recovery: bitmap operations Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:19 ` [RFC v2 81/83] Failure recovery: Inode pages recovery routines Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:19 ` [RFC v2 82/83] Failure recovery: Per-CPU recovery Andiry Xu
2018-03-10 18:19 ` [RFC v2 83/83] Sysfs support Andiry Xu
2018-03-15  0:33   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-03-15  6:07     ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-22 15:00   ` David Sterba
2018-03-23  0:31     ` Andiry Xu
2018-03-11  2:14 ` [RFC v2 00/83] NOVA: a new file system for persistent memory Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-03-11  4:58   ` Andiry Xu

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