[Devel] [RFC][PATCH 2/3][cr][v2]: Checkpoint/restart file leases

Sukadev Bhattiprolu sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue May 25 18:07:42 PDT 2010


Build upon the C/R of file-locks to C/R file-leases. C/R of a lease that is
not being broken is almost identical to C/R of file-locks.  i.e save the type
of lease for the file in the checkpoint image and when restarting, restore
the lease by calling do_setlease().

C/R of file-lease gets complicated (I think), if a process is checkpointed
when its lease was being revoked. i.e if P1 has a F_WRLCK lease on file F1
and P2 opens F1 for write, P2's open is blocked for lease_break_time (45 secs).
P1's lease is revoked (i.e set to F_UNLCK) and P1 is notified via a SIGIO to
flush any dirty data.

This brings up two issues:

First, if P1 is checkpointed during this lease_break_time, we need to remember
to that P1 originally had a F_WRLCK lease which is now revoked to F_UNLCK.
Checkpointing the "current lease type" would wrongly save the lease-type as
F_UNLCK.

Secondly, if P1 was checkpointed 40 seconds into the lease_break_time,(i.e.
it had 5 seconds remaining in the lease), we want to ensure that after restart,
P1 gets at least 5 more seconds in the lease (no ?). (i.e P1 could be in the
its SIGIO handler when it was checkpointed and may be about to start a new
write(). If P1 does not gets its 5 seconds and P2's open and a read()
completes, we would have a data corruption).

This patch addresses the first issue above by adding file_lock->fl_type_prev
field. When a lease is downgraded/revoked, the original lease type is saved
in ->fl_type_prev and is also checkpointed. When the process P1 is restarted,
the kernel temporarily restores the original (F_WRLCK) lease.  When process
P2 is restarted, the open() would fail with -ERESTARTSYS and the open() would
be repeated. This open() would initiate the lease-break protocol again on P1.

To address the second issue above, this patch saves the remaining-lease in
the checkpoint image, but does not (yet) use this value. The plan is to use
this remaining-lease period when P1/P2 are restarted so that P2 is blocked
only for the remaining-lease rather than entire lease_break_time. I want to
check if there are better ways to address this.

Changelog[v2]:
	- Added [PATCH 3/3] to remove the TODOs that were listed in this patch

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 fs/checkpoint.c                |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 fs/locks.c                     |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/checkpoint_hdr.h |    2 ++
 include/linux/fs.h             |    1 +
 4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/checkpoint.c
index 64809db..2baeb32 100644
--- a/fs/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/checkpoint.c
@@ -280,8 +280,14 @@ static int checkpoint_one_file_lock(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, struct file *file,
 	if (lock) {
 		h->fl_start = lock->fl_start;
 		h->fl_end = lock->fl_end;
+		/* checkpoint F_INPROGRESS if set for now */
 		h->fl_type = lock->fl_type;
+		h->fl_type_prev = lock->fl_type_prev;
 		h->fl_flags = lock->fl_flags;
+		if (h->fl_type & F_INPROGRESS && 
+					(lock->fl_break_time > jiffies))
+			h->fl_rem_lease = (lock->fl_break_time - jiffies) / HZ;
+
 	} else {
 		/* Checkpoint a dummy lock as a marker */
 		h->fl_start = -1;
@@ -315,7 +321,7 @@ checkpoint_file_locks(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, struct files_struct *files,
 			continue;
 
 		rc = -EBADF;
-		if (IS_POSIX(lockp))
+		if (IS_POSIX(lockp) || IS_LEASE(lockp))
 			rc = checkpoint_one_file_lock(ctx, file, lockp);
 
 		if (rc < 0) {
@@ -1055,8 +1061,10 @@ static int restore_file_locks(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, struct file *file, int fd)
 		if (IS_ERR(h))
 			return PTR_ERR(h);
 
-		ckpt_debug("Lock [%lld, %lld, %d, 0x%x]\n", h->fl_start,
-				h->fl_end, (int)h->fl_type, h->fl_flags);
+		ckpt_debug("Lock [%lld, %lld, %d, 0x%x], rem-lease %lus, "
+				"fl-type-prev %d\n", h->fl_start, h->fl_end,
+				(int)h->fl_type, h->fl_flags, h->fl_rem_lease,
+				h->fl_type_prev);
 
 		/*
 		 * If it is a dummy-lock, we are done with this fd.
@@ -1070,6 +1078,17 @@ static int restore_file_locks(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, struct file *file, int fd)
 		if (h->fl_flags & FL_POSIX)
 			ret = restore_one_file_lock(ctx, file, fd, h); 
 
+		else if (h->fl_flags & FL_LEASE) {
+			int type;
+
+			type = h->fl_type;
+			if (h->fl_type & F_INPROGRESS)
+				type = h->fl_type_prev;
+			ret = do_setlease(fd, file, type, h->fl_rem_lease);
+			if (ret)
+				ckpt_err(ctx, ret, "do_setlease(): %d\n", type);
+		}
+
 		if (ret < 0)
 			ckpt_err(ctx, ret, "%(T) fl_flags 0x%x\n", h->fl_flags);
 	}
diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
index 4107295..7a80278 100644
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ void locks_init_lock(struct file_lock *fl)
 	fl->fl_file = NULL;
 	fl->fl_flags = 0;
 	fl->fl_type = 0;
+	fl->fl_type_prev = 0;
+	fl->fl_break_time = 0UL;
 	fl->fl_start = fl->fl_end = 0;
 	fl->fl_ops = NULL;
 	fl->fl_lmops = NULL;
@@ -291,6 +293,13 @@ static int assign_type(struct file_lock *fl, int type)
 	case F_WRLCK:
 	case F_UNLCK:
 		fl->fl_type = type;
+		/*
+		 * Clear fl_type_prev since we now have a new lease-type.
+		 * That way, break_lease() will know to save the new lease-type
+		 * in case of a checkpoint. (non-lease file-locks don't use
+		 * ->fl_type_prev).  
+		 */
+		fl->fl_type_prev = 0;
 		break;
 	default:
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -1211,6 +1220,16 @@ int __break_lease(struct inode *inode, unsigned int mode)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * TODO: Checkpoint/restart. Suppose lease_break_time was 45 seonds and
+	 * 	 we were checkpointed when we had 35 seconds remaining in our
+	 * 	 lease. When we are restarted, should we get only 35 seconds
+	 * 	 of the lease and not the full lease_break_time ?
+	 *
+	 * 	 We checkpoint ->fl_break_time in the hope that we can use it
+	 * 	 to calculate the remaining lease, but for now, give the
+	 * 	 restarted process the full 'lease_break_time'.
+	 */
 	break_time = 0;
 	if (lease_break_time > 0) {
 		break_time = jiffies + lease_break_time * HZ;
@@ -1220,8 +1239,29 @@ int __break_lease(struct inode *inode, unsigned int mode)
 
 	for (fl = flock; fl && IS_LEASE(fl); fl = fl->fl_next) {
 		if (fl->fl_type != future) {
+			/*
+			 * CHECK:
+			 *
+			 * If fl_type_prev is already set, we could be in a
+			 * recursive checkpoint-restart i.e we were checkpointed
+			 * once when our lease was being broken. We were then
+			 * restarted from the checkpoint and checkpointed
+			 * again before the restored lease expired. In this
+			 * case, we want to restore the lease to the original
+			 * type. So don't overwrite fl_type_prev if its already
+			 * set.
+			 */
+			if (!fl->fl_type_prev)
+				fl->fl_type_prev = fl->fl_type;
 			fl->fl_type = future;
 			fl->fl_break_time = break_time;
+
+			/*
+			 * TODO: ->fl_break() sends the SIGIO to lease-holder.
+			 *       If lease-holder was checkpointed/restarted and
+			 *       this is a restarted lease, we should not
+			 *       re-send the SIGIO ?
+			 */
 			/* lease must have lmops break callback */
 			fl->fl_lmops->fl_break(fl);
 		}
diff --git a/include/linux/checkpoint_hdr.h b/include/linux/checkpoint_hdr.h
index 4509016..ddad73f 100644
--- a/include/linux/checkpoint_hdr.h
+++ b/include/linux/checkpoint_hdr.h
@@ -588,7 +588,9 @@ struct ckpt_hdr_file_lock {
        __s64 fl_start;
        __s64 fl_end;
        __u8 fl_type;
+       __u8 fl_type_prev;
        __u8 fl_flags;
+       unsigned long fl_rem_lease;
 };
 
 struct ckpt_hdr_file_pipe {
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 700317a..54b2a7b 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1066,6 +1066,7 @@ struct file_lock {
 	fl_owner_t fl_owner;
 	unsigned char fl_flags;
 	unsigned char fl_type;
+	unsigned char fl_type_prev;
 	unsigned int fl_pid;
 	struct pid *fl_nspid;
 	wait_queue_head_t fl_wait;
-- 
1.6.0.4

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