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    GFS2: Non-recursive delete · d552a2b9
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    Implement truncate/delete as a non-recursive algorithm. The older
    algorithm was implemented with recursion to strip off each layer
    at a time (going by height, starting with the maximum height.
    This version tries to do the same thing but without recursion,
    and without needing to allocate new structures or lists in memory.
    
    For example, say you want to truncate a very large file to 1 byte,
    and its end-of-file metapath is: 0.505.463.428. The starting
    metapath would be 0.0.0.0. Since it's a truncate to non-zero, it
    needs to preserve that byte, and all metadata pointing to it.
    So it would start at 0.0.0.0, look up all its metadata buffers,
    then free all data blocks pointed to at the highest level.
    After that buffer is "swept", it moves on to 0.0.0.1, then
    0.0.0.2, etc., reading in buffers and sweeping them clean.
    When it gets to the end of the 0.0.0 metadata buffer (for 4K
    blocks the last valid one is 0.0.0.508), it backs up to the
    previous height and starts working on 0.0.1.0, then 0.0.1.1,
    and so forth. After it reaches the end and sweeps 0.0.1.508,
    it continues with 0.0.2.0, and so on. When that height is
    exhausted, and it reaches 0.0.508.508 it backs up another level,
    to 0.1.0.0, then 0.1.0.1, through 0.1.0.508. So it has to keep
    marching backwards and forwards through the metadata until it's
    all swept clean. Once it has all the data blocks freed, it
    lowers the strip height, and begins the process all over again,
    but with one less height. This time it sweeps 0.0.0 through
    0.505.463. When that's clean, it lowers the strip height again
    and works to free 0.505. Eventually it strips the lowest height, 0.
    For a delete or truncate to 0, all metadata for all heights of
    0.0.0.0 would be freed. For a truncate to 1 byte, 0.0.0.0 would
    be preserved.
    
    This isn't much different from normal integer incrementing,
    where an integer gets incremented from 0000 (0.0.0.0) to 3021
    (3.0.2.1). So 0000 gets increments to 0001, 0002, up to 0009,
    then on to 0010, 0011 up to 0099, then 0100 and so forth. It's
    just that each "digit" goes from 0 to 508 (for a total of 509
    pointers) rather than from 0 to 9.
    
    Note that the dinode will only have 483 pointers due to the
    dinode structure itself.
    
    Also note: this is just an example. These numbers (509 and 483)
    are based on a standard 4K block size. Smaller block sizes will
    yield smaller numbers of indirect pointers accordingly.
    
    The truncation process is accomplished with the help of two
    major functions and a few helper functions.
    
    Functions do_strip and recursive_scan are obsolete, so removed.
    
    New function sweep_bh_for_rgrps cleans a buffer_head pointed to
    by the given metapath and height. By cleaning, I mean it frees
    all blocks starting at the offset passed in metapath. It starts
    at the first block in the buffer pointed to by the metapath and
    identifies its resource group (rgrp). From there it frees all
    subsequent block pointers that lie within that rgrp. If it's
    already inside a transaction, it stays within it as long as it
    can. In other words, it doesn't close a transaction until it knows
    it's freed what it can from the resource group. In this way,
    multiple buffers may be cleaned in a single transaction, as long
    as those blocks in the buffer all lie within the same rgrp.
    
    If it's not in a transaction, it starts one. If the buffer_head
    has references to blocks within multiple rgrps, it frees all the
    blocks inside the first rgrp it finds, then closes the
    transaction. Then it repeats the cycle: identifies the next
    unfreed block, uses it to find its rgrp, then starts a new
    transaction for that set. It repeats this process repeatedly
    until the buffer_head contains no more references to any blocks
    past the given metapath.
    
    Function trunc_dealloc has been reworked into a finite state
    automaton. It has basically 3 active states:
    DEALLOC_MP_FULL, DEALLOC_MP_LOWER, and DEALLOC_FILL_MP:
    
    The DEALLOC_MP_FULL state implies the metapath has a full set
    of buffers out to the "shrink height", and therefore, it can
    call function sweep_bh_for_rgrps to free the blocks within the
    highest height of the metapath. If it's just swept the lowest
    level (or an error has occurred) the state machine is ended.
    Otherwise it proceeds to the DEALLOC_MP_LOWER state.
    
    The DEALLOC_MP_LOWER state implies we are finished with a given
    buffer_head, which may now be released, and therefore we are
    then missing some buffer information from the metapath. So we
    need to find more buffers to read in. In most cases, this is
    just a matter of releasing the buffer_head and moving to the
    next pointer from the previous height, so it may be read in and
    swept as well. If it can't find another non-null pointer to
    process, it checks whether it's reached the end of a height
    and needs to lower the strip height, or whether it still needs
    move forward through the previous height's metadata. In this
    state, all zero-pointers are skipped. From this state, it can
    only loop around (once more backing up another height) or,
    once a valid metapath is found (one that has non-zero
    pointers), proceed to state DEALLOC_FILL_MP.
    
    The DEALLOC_FILL_MP state implies that we have a metapath
    but not all its buffers are read in. So we must proceed to read
    in buffer_heads until the metapath has a valid buffer for every
    height. If the previous state backed us up 3 heights, we may
    need to read in a buffer, increment the height, then repeat the
    process until buffers have been read in for all required heights.
    If it's successful reading a buffer, and it's at the highest
    height we need, it proceeds back to the DEALLOC_MP_FULL state.
    If it's unable to fill in a buffer, (encounters a hole, etc.)
    it tries to find another non-zero block pointer. If they're all
    zero, it lowers the height and returns to the DEALLOC_MP_LOWER
    state. If it finds a good non-null pointer, it loops around and
    reads it in, while keeping the metapath in lock-step with the
    pointers it examines.
    
    The state machine runs until the truncation request is
    satisfied. Then any transactions are ended, the quota and
    statfs data are updated, and the function is complete.
    
    Helper function metaptr1 was introduced to be an easy way to
    determine the start of a buffer_head's indirect pointers.
    
    Helper function lookup_mp_height was introduced to find a
    metapath index and read in the buffer that corresponds to it.
    In this way, function lookup_metapath becomes a simple loop to
    call it for every height.
    
    Helper function fillup_metapath is similar to lookup_metapath
    except it can do partial lookups. If the state machine
    backed up multiple levels (like 2999 wrapping to 3000) it
    needs to find out the next starting point and start issuing
    metadata reads at that point.
    
    Helper function hptrs is a shortcut to determine how many
    pointers should be expected in a buffer. Height 0 is the dinode
    which has fewer pointers than the others.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
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