GFS2: Support generation of discard requests

This patch allows GFS2 to generate discard requests for blocks which are
no longer useful to the filesystem (i.e. those which have been freed as
the result of an unlink operation). The requests are generated at the
time which those blocks become available for reuse in the filesystem.

In order to use this new feature, you have to specify the "discard"
mount option. The code coalesces adjacent blocks into a single extent
when generating the discard requests, thus generating the minimum
number.

If an error occurs when the request has been sent to the block device,
then it will print a message and turn off the requests for that
filesystem. If the problem is temporary, then you can use remount to
turn the option back on again. There is also a nodiscard mount option
so that you can use remount to turn discard requests off, if required.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
index ba5a021..789953a 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/gfs2_ondisk.h>
 #include <linux/prefetch.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 
 #include "gfs2.h"
 #include "incore.h"
@@ -830,6 +831,58 @@ void gfs2_rgrp_bh_put(struct gfs2_rgrpd *rgd)
 	spin_unlock(&sdp->sd_rindex_spin);
 }
 
+static void gfs2_rgrp_send_discards(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, u64 offset,
+				    const struct gfs2_bitmap *bi)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb = sdp->sd_vfs;
+	struct block_device *bdev = sb->s_bdev;
+	const unsigned int sects_per_blk = sdp->sd_sb.sb_bsize /
+					   bdev_hardsect_size(sb->s_bdev);
+	u64 blk;
+	sector_t start;
+	sector_t nr_sects = 0;
+	int rv;
+	unsigned int x;
+
+	for (x = 0; x < bi->bi_len; x++) {
+		const u8 *orig = bi->bi_bh->b_data + bi->bi_offset + x;
+		const u8 *clone = bi->bi_clone + bi->bi_offset + x;
+		u8 diff = ~(*orig | (*orig >> 1)) & (*clone | (*clone >> 1));
+		diff &= 0x55;
+		if (diff == 0)
+			continue;
+		blk = offset + ((bi->bi_start + x) * GFS2_NBBY);
+		blk *= sects_per_blk; /* convert to sectors */
+		while(diff) {
+			if (diff & 1) {
+				if (nr_sects == 0)
+					goto start_new_extent;
+				if ((start + nr_sects) != blk) {
+					rv = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, start,
+							    nr_sects, GFP_NOFS);
+					if (rv)
+						goto fail;
+					nr_sects = 0;
+start_new_extent:
+					start = blk;
+				}
+				nr_sects += sects_per_blk;
+			}
+			diff >>= 2;
+			blk += sects_per_blk;
+		}
+	}
+	if (nr_sects) {
+		rv = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, start, nr_sects, GFP_NOFS);
+		if (rv)
+			goto fail;
+	}
+	return;
+fail:
+	fs_warn(sdp, "error %d on discard request, turning discards off for this filesystem", rv);
+	sdp->sd_args.ar_discard = 0;
+}
+
 void gfs2_rgrp_repolish_clones(struct gfs2_rgrpd *rgd)
 {
 	struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = rgd->rd_sbd;
@@ -840,6 +893,8 @@ void gfs2_rgrp_repolish_clones(struct gfs2_rgrpd *rgd)
 		struct gfs2_bitmap *bi = rgd->rd_bits + x;
 		if (!bi->bi_clone)
 			continue;
+		if (sdp->sd_args.ar_discard)
+			gfs2_rgrp_send_discards(sdp, rgd->rd_data0, bi);
 		memcpy(bi->bi_clone + bi->bi_offset,
 		       bi->bi_bh->b_data + bi->bi_offset, bi->bi_len);
 	}