From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 16:38:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90A11065673 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pho@holm.cc) Received: from relay00.pair.com (relay00.pair.com [209.68.5.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BC878FC1B for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:38:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 39388 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2012 16:38:48 -0000 Received: from 87.58.144.241 (HELO x2.osted.lan) (87.58.144.241) by relay00.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2012 16:38:48 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 87.58.144.241 Received: from x2.osted.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by x2.osted.lan (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q23Gcihs076119; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:38:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pho@x2.osted.lan) Received: (from pho@localhost) by x2.osted.lan (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q23Gci1I076118; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:38:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pho) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:38:43 +0100 From: Peter Holm To: Rick Macklem Message-ID: <20120303163843.GA72020@x2.osted.lan> References: <201203021153.06614.jhb@freebsd.org> <1978600220.298005.1330754492306.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1978600220.298005.1330754492306.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: svn commit: r226967 - head/sys/ufs/ufs X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:38:56 -0000 On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 01:01:32AM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday, March 02, 2012 8:29:21 am Peter Holm wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 04:47:41PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Monday, October 31, 2011 11:01:47 am Peter Holm wrote: > > > > > Author: pho > > > > > Date: Mon Oct 31 15:01:47 2011 > > > > > New Revision: 226967 > > > > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/226967 > > > > > > > > > > Log: > > > > > The kern_renameat() looks up the fvp using the DELETE flag, > > > > > which causes > > > > > the removal of the name cache entry for fvp. > > > > > > > > > > Reported by: Anton Yuzhaninov > > > > > In collaboration with: kib > > > > > MFC after: 1 week > > > > > > > > > > Modified: > > > > > head/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c > > > > > > > > So I ran into this at work recently, and even this fix applied I > > > > was still > > > > seeing rename()'s that were seemingly not taking effect. After > > > > getting some > > > > extra KTR traces, I figured out that the same purge needs to be > > > > applied to the > > > > destination vnode. Specifically, the issue I ran into was that was > > > > renaming > > > > 'foo' to 'bar', but lookups for 'bar' were still returning the old > > > > file. The > > > > reason was that a lookup after the namei(RENAME) of the > > > > destination while > > > > ufs_rename() had its locks dropped was readding the name cache > > > > entry for > > > > 'bar', and then a cache_lookup() of 'bar' would return the old > > > > vnode as long > > > > as that vnode was valid (e.g. if it had a link in another > > > > location, or other > > > > processes had an open file descriptor for it). I'm currently > > > > testing the > > > > patch below: > > > > > > > > > > I now have a scenario that fails, but not quite the same way you > > > describe. > > > > > > It looks like this: > > > > > > touch file1 > > > echo xxx > file2 > > > rename(file1, file2) > > > > > > A different process performs stat() on both files in a tight loop. > > > > > > Once in a while I observe that a stat() of file2, after the rename, > > > returns a link count of zero. Size is zero as expected, but the > > > inode > > > number of file2 is unchanged. > > > Peter, were you doing a stat() using the file name, or an fstat()? > (Using stat() with afile name might explain it, maybe??) > Yes. Switching to open()/fstat() of the "from" file in the loop, makes the cache problem go away. - Peter