Package: release.debian.org
User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
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Severity: normal
Dear SRM,
would you consider the attached patches for a squeeze point release for eglibc?
The reason behind this request is: on systems with a lot of mounts,
statvfs64() libc function takes a huge amount of times since it needs
to parse /proc/mounts. With the proposed patches, and with a kernel
from bpo (it's needed >= 2.6.36 where there's a syscall to get what
libc needs) we can fix this behavior.
Thanks for considering,
Sandro & Aurelien
PS: resent as a bug.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 15:50, Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:30:17AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> Hi Aurelien,
>> thanks for your reply and sorry for mine being so late
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 21:56, Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> wrote:
>> > As always, when the libc doesn't have the information from a kernel
>> > syscall, it needs to get it another way, and it often ends up using
>> > /proc or /sys as the source of information. In some cases it can't take
>> > huge amount of time, but the problem is not that the libc doesn't parse
>> > the pseudo file inefficiently, just that the kernel has to generate
>> > insane amount of useless data.
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation!
>>
>> > In your case of statvfs(), the problem has been solved a bit more than
>> > one year ago, by exporting the missing data directly through the
>> > syscall. For that you need a libc >= 2.13 and a kernel >= 2.6.36. I
>> > guess in your case you are using Squeeze, which doesn't meet these
>> > requirements.
>>
>> Yep, I'm on squeeze.
>>
>> > The libc patch is trivial to backport, having it in squeeze is mostly
>> > about convincing the release managers that it's useful and safe. On the
>>
>> Can you point me to that relevant patch? I can try to talk to RM but I
>> guess we won't get that far: given it won't solve the problem at hand
>> just by itself, because it requires an updated kernel, it would
>> probably get rejected - but worth a try.
>
> Please find attached the two patches, one for the libc and one for the
> architectures in ports. Even if they might look big at the first place,
> they are actually quite trivail.
>
>> > kernel side, it seems a bit more complicated, as the change has been
>> > followed by a lot of small bug fixes.
>>
>> I see. What would you suggest as a better approach to solve our
>> problem? is backporting libc a feasable solution? bpo already have
>> 2.6.38 (or now even later) kernel version, so we can probably use
>> that.
>>
>
> I don't think having a libc in backports.org is really a good idea,
> especially with all the current multiarch changes, it would also mean
> that plenty of other packages would have to be backported (most of the
> toolchain for example). Given that backports is now an official Debian
> service, it looks like the best is to get the needed changes in
> eglibc/stable and use a kernel from backports.org.
>
> Cheers,
> Aurelien
>
> --
> Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
> aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
>
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
commit 3cdaa6adb113a088fdfb87aa6d7747557eccc58d
Author: Ulrich Drepper <drep...@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Aug 11 14:07:28 2010 -0700
f_flags in Linux statfs implementation.
The 2.6.36 kernel provides an additional field in the statfs results.
Use this value in the statvfs emulation to avoid filling in f_flag
the hard way.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1d12009..250eaf9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
2010-08-11 Ulrich Drepper <drep...@redhat.com>
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/statfs.h (struct statfs): Add f_flags
+ field.
+ (struct statfs64): Likewise.
+ (_STATFS_F_FLAGS): Define.
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/bits/statfs.h: Likewise.
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/internal_statvfs.c (__statvfs_getflags):
+ Don't define if __ASSUME_STATFS_F_FLAGS is defined.
+ (ST_VALID): Define locally.
+ (INTERNAL_STATVFS): If f_flags has ST_VALID set don't call
+ __statvfs_getflags, use the provided value.
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h: Define
+ __ASSUME_STATFS_F_FLAGS.
+
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/inotify.h (IN_EXCL_UNLINK): Define.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile [subdir=misc] (sysdep_headers):
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/statfs.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/statfs.h
index 0e27865..7bd90d0 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/statfs.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/statfs.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1997,1998,2000,2002,2003,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ struct statfs
__fsid_t f_fsid;
__SWORD_TYPE f_namelen;
__SWORD_TYPE f_frsize;
- __SWORD_TYPE f_spare[5];
+ __SWORD_TYPE f_flags;
+ __SWORD_TYPE f_spare[4];
};
#ifdef __USE_LARGEFILE64
@@ -58,10 +59,12 @@ struct statfs64
__fsid_t f_fsid;
__SWORD_TYPE f_namelen;
__SWORD_TYPE f_frsize;
- __SWORD_TYPE f_spare[5];
+ __SWORD_TYPE f_flags;
+ __SWORD_TYPE f_spare[4];
};
#endif
/* Tell code we have these members. */
#define _STATFS_F_NAMELEN
#define _STATFS_F_FRSIZE
+#define _STATFS_F_FLAGS
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/internal_statvfs.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/internal_statvfs.c
index 59b173e..0169ae3 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/internal_statvfs.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/internal_statvfs.c
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@
#include <sys/statfs.h>
#include <sys/statvfs.h>
#include "linux_fsinfo.h"
+#include "kernel-features.h"
+
+
+/* Special internal-only bit value. */
+#define ST_VALID 0x0020
#ifndef STATFS
@@ -37,6 +42,7 @@
# define INTERNAL_STATVFS __internal_statvfs
+# ifndef __ASSUME_STATFS_F_FLAGS
int
__statvfs_getflags (const char *name, int fstype, struct stat64 *st)
{
@@ -200,6 +206,7 @@ __statvfs_getflags (const char *name, int fstype, struct stat64 *st)
return result;
}
+# endif
#else
extern int __statvfs_getflags (const char *name, int fstype,
struct stat64 *st);
@@ -240,9 +247,14 @@ INTERNAL_STATVFS (const char *name, struct STATVFS *buf,
/* XXX I have no idea how to compute f_favail. Any idea??? */
buf->f_favail = buf->f_ffree;
- /* Determining the flags is tricky. We have to read /proc/mounts or
- the /etc/mtab file and search for the entry which matches the given
- file. The way we can test for matching filesystem is using the
- device number. */
- buf->f_flag = __statvfs_getflags (name, fsbuf->f_type, st);
+#ifndef __ASSUME_STATFS_F_FLAGS
+ if ((fsbuf->f_flags & ST_VALID) == 0)
+ /* Determining the flags is tricky. We have to read /proc/mounts or
+ the /etc/mtab file and search for the entry which matches the given
+ file. The way we can test for matching filesystem is using the
+ device number. */
+ buf->f_flag = __statvfs_getflags (name, fsbuf->f_type, st);
+ else
+#endif
+ buf->f_flag = fsbuf->f_flags ^ ST_VALID;
}
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h
index b3f2456..838b310 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h
@@ -530,3 +530,8 @@
#if __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION >= 0x020621
# define __ASSUME_RECVMMSG 1
#endif
+
+/* statfs fills in f_flags since 2.6.36. */
+#if __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION >= 0x020624
+# define __ASSUME_STATFS_F_FLAGS 1
+#endif
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/bits/statfs.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/bits/statfs.h
index d838e6b..956150b 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/bits/statfs.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/bits/statfs.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ struct statfs
__fsid_t f_fsid;
int f_namelen;
int f_frsize;
- int f_spare[5];
+ int f_flags;
+ int f_spare[4];
};
#ifdef __USE_LARGEFILE64
@@ -58,10 +59,12 @@ struct statfs64
__fsid_t f_fsid;
int f_namelen;
int f_frsize;
- int f_spare[5];
+ int f_flags;
+ int f_spare[4];
};
#endif
/* Tell code we have this member. */
#define _STATFS_F_NAMELEN
#define _STATFS_F_FRSIZE
+#define _STATFS_F_FLAGS
commit 09551806132f732bfe966b516c54f1f006b17d18
Author: Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>
Date: Thu Aug 12 22:18:00 2010 +0000
Add f_flags to struct statfs for MIPS.
diff --git a/ChangeLog.mips b/ChangeLog.mips
index 5623642..2dbed6f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.mips
+++ b/ChangeLog.mips
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2010-08-12 Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/bits/statfs.h (struct statfs,
+ struct statfs64): Add f_flags field.
+
+2010-08-12 Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>
+
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/sys/inotify.h (IN_EXCL_UNLINK):
Define.
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/bits/statfs.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/bits/statfs.h
index 2f9bd54..22a9dde 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/bits/statfs.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/bits/statfs.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1997, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1997, 2000, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ struct statfs
/* Linux specials */
__fsid_t f_fsid;
long int f_namelen;
- long int f_spare[6];
+ long int f_flags;
+ long int f_spare[5];
};
#ifdef __USE_LARGEFILE64
@@ -64,7 +65,8 @@ struct statfs64
/* Linux specials */
__fsid_t f_fsid;
long int f_namelen;
- long int f_spare[6];
+ long int f_flags;
+ long int f_spare[5];
};
#endif
