The packet information does not reset after packet transmit, this
may cause some problems such as following DATA chunk be sent without
AUTH chunk, even if the authentication of DATA chunk has been
requested by the peer.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Add-IP feature allows users to delete an active transport. If that
transport has chunks in flight, those chunks need to be moved to another
transport or association may get into unrecoverable state.
Reported-by: Rafael Laufer <rlaufer@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
We had a bug that we never stored the user-defined value for
MAXSEG when setting the value on an association. Thus future
PMTU events ended up re-writing the frag point and increasing
it past user limit. Additionally, when setting the option on
the socket/endpoint, we effect all current associations, which
is against spec.
Now, we store the user 'maxseg' value along with the computed
'frag_point'. We inherit 'maxseg' from the socket at association
creation and use it as an upper limit for 'frag_point' when its
set.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
SCTP will delay the last part of a large write due to NAGLE, if that
part is smaller then MTU. Since we are doing large writes, we might
as well send the last portion now instead of waiting untill the next
large write happens. The small portion will be sent as is regardless,
so it's better to not delay it.
This is a result of much discussions with Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
and Doug Graham <dgraham@nortel.com>. Many thanks go out to them.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
The decision to delay due to Nagle should be based on the path mtu
and future packet size. We currently incorrectly base it on
'frag_point' which is the SCTP DATA segment size, and also we do
not count DATA chunk header overhead in the computation. This
actuall allows situations where a user can set low 'frag_point',
and then send small messages without delay.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
We currently set a_rwnd to 0 when faking a SACK from SHUTDOWN.
This results in an hung association if the remote only uses
SHUTDOWNs (which it's allowed to do) to acknowlege DATA when
closing. The reason for that is that we simply honor the a_rwnd
from the sack, but since we faked it to be 0, we enter 0-window
probing. The fix is to use the peers old rwnd and add our flight
size to it.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
SCTP has a problem that when small chunks are used, it is possible
to exhaust the receiver buffer without fully closing receive window.
This happens due to all overhead that we have account for with small
messages. To fix this, when receive buffer is exceeded, we'll drop
the window to 0 and save the 'drop' portion. When application starts
reading data and freeing up recevie buffer space, we'll wait until
we've reached the 'drop' window and then add back this 'drop' one
mtu at a time. This worked well in testing and under stress produced
rather even recovery.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
If T3 timer expires, we are retransmitting data due to timeout any
any fast recovery is null and void. We can clear the fast recovery
flag.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
SCTP RFC 4960 states that unacknowledged HEARTBEATS count as
errors agains a given transport or endpoint. As such, we
should increment the error counts for only for unacknowledged
HB, otherwise we detect failure too soon. This goes for both
the overall error count and the path error count.
Now, there is a difference in how the detection is done
between the two. The path error detection is done after
the increment, so to detect it properly, we actually need
to exceed the path threshold. The overall error detection
is done _BEFORE_ the increment. Thus to detect the failure,
it's enough for the error count to match the threshold.
This is why all the state functions use '>=' to detect failure,
while path detection uses '>'.
Thanks goes to Chunbo Luo <chunbo.luo@windriver.com> who first
proposed patches to fix this issue and made me re-read the spec
and the code to figure out how this cruft really works.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
The receiver of the HEARTBEAT should respond with a HEARTBEAT ACK
that contains the Heartbeat Information field copied from the
received HEARTBEAT chunk. So the received HEARTBEAT-ACK chunk
must have a length of:
sizeof(sctp_chunkhdr_t) + sizeof(sctp_sender_hb_info_t)
A badly formatted HB-ACK chunk, it is possible that we may access
invalid memory. We should really make sure that the chunk format
is what we expect, before attempting to touch the data.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
If Cumulative TSN Ack field of SHUTDOWN chunk is less than the
Cumulative TSN Ack Point then drop the SHUTDOWN chunk.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Currenlty, sctp breaks up user messages into fragments and
sends each fragment to the lower layer by itself. This means
that for each fragment we go all the way down the stack
and back up. This also discourages bundling of multiple
fragments when they can fit into a sigle packet (ex: due
to user setting a low fragmentation threashold).
We introduce a new command SCTP_CMD_SND_MSG and hand the
whole message down state machine. The state machine and
the side-effect parser will cork the queue, add all chunks
from the message to the queue, and then un-cork the queue
thus causing the chunks to get transmitted.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
If the association has a SACK timer pending and now DATA queued
to be send, we'll try to bundle the SACK with the next application send.
As such, try encourage bundling by accounting for SACK in the size
of the first chunk fragment.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
We are now trying to bundle SACKs when we have outbound
DATA to send. However, there are situations where this
outbound DATA will not be sent (due to congestion or
available window). In such cases it's ok to wait for the
timer to expire. This patch refactors the sending code
so that betfore attempting to bundle the SACK we check
to see if the DATA will actually be transmitted.
Based on eirlier works for Doug Graham <dgraham@nortel.com> and
Wei Youngjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Since an application may specify the maximum SCTP fragment size
that all data should be fragmented to, we need to fix how
we do segmentation. Right now, if a user specifies a small
fragment size, the segment size can go negative in the presence
of AUTH or COOKIE_ECHO bundling.
What we need to do is track the largest possbile DATA chunk that
can fit into the mtu. Then if the fragment size specified is
bigger then this maximum length, we'll shrink it down. Otherwise,
we just use the smaller segment size without changing it further.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
If a socket has a lot of association that are in the process of
of being closed/aborted, it is possible for a remote to establish
new associations during the time period that the old ones are shutting
down. If this was a result of a close() call, there will be no socket
and will cause a memory leak. We'll prevent this by setting the
socket state to CLOSING and disallow new associations when in this state.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
This patch corrects the conditions under which a SACK will be piggybacked
on a DATA packet. The previous condition was incorrect due to a
misinterpretation of RFC 4960 and/or RFC 2960. Specifically, the
following paragraph from section 6.2 had not been implemented correctly:
Before an endpoint transmits a DATA chunk, if any received DATA
chunks have not been acknowledged (e.g., due to delayed ack), the
sender should create a SACK and bundle it with the outbound DATA
chunk, as long as the size of the final SCTP packet does not exceed
the current MTU. See Section 6.2.
When about to send a DATA chunk, the code now checks to see if the SACK
timer is running. If it is, we know we have a SACK to send to the
peer, so we append the SACK (assuming available space in the packet)
and turn off the timer. For a simple request-response scenario, this
will result in the SACK being bundled with the response, meaning the
the SACK is received quickly by the client, and also meaning that no
separate SACK packet needs to be sent by the server to acknowledge the
request. Prior to this patch, a separate SACK packet would have been
sent by the server SCTP only after its delayed-ACK timer had expired
(usually 200ms). This is wasteful of bandwidth, and can also have a
major negative impact on performance due the interaction of delayed ACKs
with the Nagle algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Doug Graham <dgraham@nortel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
This patch removes an unused union definition (sctp_cmsg_data_t)
from include/net/sctp/user.h.
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <rosenrami@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
When the sctp transport is marked down, we can release the
cached route and force a new lookup when attempting to use
this transport for anything. This way, if a better route
or source address is available, we'll try to use it.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Update the route and saddr entries for the non-active transports as some
of the added addresses can be used as better source addresses, or may
be there is a better route.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
This patch fix to check the unrecognized ASCONF parameter before
access it.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
The return value of sctp_process_asconf_ack() may be
overwritten while process parameters with no error.
This patch fixed the problem.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
The latency_trace file got removed a while back by commit
886b5b73d7 and has been replaced
by the latency-format option.
This patch fixes the documentation by reflecting this change.
Changes since v1:
- mention that the trace format is configurable through the
latency-format option
- Fix a couple mistakes related to the timestamps
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090831204007.GE4237@pc-ras4041.res.insa>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Bug introduced by mainline commit e7432675f8
The bug causes ocfs2_write_begin_nolock() to oops when len=0.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
The predicates of an event and their filter structure are allocated
when we create an event filter for the first time.
These objects must be created once but each time we come with a new
filter, we overwrite such pre-existing allocation, if any.
Thus, this patch checks if the filter has already been allocated
before going ahead.
Spotted-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A9CB1BA.3060402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
This patch improves some (common) inefficiencies in the
handling of directory lookups:
- not using the d_type information returned by the kernel
- constructing (absolute) paths for file operation even though
directory-relative operations using the *at functions is
possible
There are more places to fix but this is a start.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20090904193951.GB6186@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix some problems seen in the chunk size processing when activating a
pre-existing snapshot.
For a new snapshot, the chunk size can either be supplied by the creator
or a default value can be used. For an existing snapshot, the
chunk size in the snapshot header on disk should always be used.
If someone attempts to load an existing snapshot and has the 'default
chunk size' option set, the kernel uses its default value even when it
is incorrect for the snapshot being loaded. This patch ensures the
correct on-disk value is always used.
Secondly, when the code does use the chunk size stored on the disk it is
prudent to revalidate it, so the code can exit cleanly if it got
corrupted as happened in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461506 .
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Break the function set_chunk_size to two functions in preparation for
the fix in the following patch.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If a persistent snapshot fills up, a race can corrupt the on-disk header
which causes a crash on any future attempt to activate the snapshot
(typically while booting). This patch fixes the race.
When the snapshot overflows, __invalidate_snapshot is called, which calls
snapshot store method drop_snapshot. It goes to persistent_drop_snapshot that
calls write_header. write_header constructs the new header in the "area"
location.
Concurrently, an existing kcopyd job may finish, call copy_callback
and commit_exception method, that goes to persistent_commit_exception.
persistent_commit_exception doesn't do locking, relying on the fact that
callbacks are single-threaded, but it can race with snapshot invalidation and
overwrite the header that is just being written while the snapshot is being
invalidated.
The result of this race is a corrupted header being written that can
lead to a crash on further reactivation (if chunk_size is zero in the
corrupted header).
The fix is to use separate memory areas for each.
See the bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461506
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Refactor chunk_io to prepare for the fix in the following patch.
Pass an area pointer to chunk_io and simplify zero_disk_area to use
chunk_io. No functional change.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Device-mapper userspace logs (like the clustered log) are
identified by a universally unique identifier (UUID). This
identifier is used to associate requests from the kernel to
a specific log in userspace. The UUID must be unique everywhere,
since multiple machines may use this identifier when communicating
about a particular log, as is the case for cluster logs.
Sometimes, device-mapper/LVM may re-use a UUID. This is the
case during pvmoves, when moving from one segment of an LV
to another, or when resizing a mirror, etc. In these cases,
a new log is created with the same UUID and loaded in the
"inactive" slot. When a device-mapper "resume" is issued,
the "live" table is deactivated and the new "inactive" table
becomes "live". (The "inactive" table can also be removed
via a device-mapper 'clear' command.)
The above two issues were colliding. More than one log was being
created with the same UUID, and there was no way to distinguish
between them. So, sometimes the wrong log would be swapped
out during the exchange.
The solution is to create a locally unique identifier,
'luid', to go along with the UUID. This new identifier is used
to determine exactly which log is being referenced by the kernel
when the log exchange is made. The identifier is not
universally safe, but it does not need to be, since
create/destroy/suspend/resume operations are bound to a specific
machine; and these are the operations that make up the exchange.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a bug which was triggering a case where the primary leg
could not be changed on failure even when the mirror was in-sync.
The case involves the failure of the primary device along with
the transient failure of the log device. The problem is that
bios can be put on the 'failures' list (due to log failure)
before 'fail_mirror' is called due to the primary device failure.
Normally, this is fine, but if the log device failure is transient,
a subsequent iteration of the work thread, 'do_mirror', will
reset 'log_failure'. The 'do_failures' function then resets
the 'in_sync' variable when processing bios on the failures list.
The 'in_sync' variable is what is used to determine if the
primary device can be switched in the event of a failure. Since
this has been reset, the primary device is incorrectly assumed
to be not switchable.
The case has been seen in the cluster mirror context, where one
machine realizes the log device is dead before the other machines.
As the responsibilities of the server migrate from one node to
another (because the mirror is being reconfigured due to the failure),
the new server may think for a moment that the log device is fine -
thus resetting the 'log_failure' variable.
In any case, it is inappropiate for us to reset the 'log_failure'
variable. The above bug simply illustrates that it can actually
hurt us.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The output of 'dmsetup table' includes an internal field that should not
be there. This patch removes it. To make the fix simpler, we first
reorder a constructor argument
The 'device size' argument is generated internally. Currently it is
placed as the last space-separated word of the constructor string.
However, we need to use a version of the string without this word, so we
move it to the beginning instead so it is trivial to skip past it.
We keep a copy of the arguments passed to userspace for creating a log,
just in case we need to resend them. These are the same arguments that
are desired in the STATUSTYPE_TABLE request, except for one. When
creating the userspace log, the userspace daemon must know the size of
the mirror, so that is added to the arguments given in the constructor
table. We were printing this extra argument out as well, which is a
mistake.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Fix 'dmsetup table' output.
There is a missing ' ' at the end of the string causing two
words to run together.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Set sensible I/O hints for striped DM devices in the topology
infrastructure added for 2.6.31 for userspace tools to
obtain via sysfs.
Add .io_hints to 'struct target_type' to allow the I/O hints portion
(io_min and io_opt) of the 'struct queue_limits' to be set by each
target and implement this for dm-stripe.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
A couple of recent warning messages make it difficult for the reader to
determine exactly what is wrong. This patch adds more information to
those messages.
The messages were added by these commits:
5dea271b6d ("dm table: pass correct dev area size
to device_area_is_valid")
ea9df47cc9 ("dm table: fix blk_stack_limits arg
to use bytes not sectors")
The patch also corrects references to logical_block_size in printk format
strings from %hu to %u.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The logic to check for valid device areas is inverted relative to proper
use with iterate_devices.
The iterate_devices method calls its callback for every underlying
device in the target. If any callback returns non-zero, iterate_devices
exits immediately. But the callback device_area_is_valid() returns 0 on
error and 1 on success. The overall effect without is that an error is
issued only if every device is invalid.
This patch renames device_area_is_valid to device_area_is_invalid and
inverts the logic so that one invalid device is sufficient to raise
an error.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Implement the .iterate_devices for the origin and snapshot targets.
dm-snapshot's lack of .iterate_devices resulted in the inability to
properly establish queue_limits for both targets.
With 4K sector drives: an unfortunate side-effect of not establishing
proper limits in either targets' DM device was that IO to the devices
would fail even though both had been created without error.
Commit af4874e03e ("dm target:s introduce
iterate devices fn") in 2.6.31-rc1 should have implemented .iterate_devices
for dm-snap.c's origin and snapshot targets.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Today's linux-next fails to build with
sound/arm/pxa2xx-ac97.c: In function 'pxa2xx_ac97_probe':
sound/arm/pxa2xx-ac97.c:211: error: 'pxa2xx_audio_ops_t' has no member named 'codec_data'
make[2]: *** [sound/arm/pxa2xx-ac97.o] Error 1
It looks like commit e2365bf313 has
introduced this; patch below.
Signed-off-by: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Remove some, now useless, global storage.
Don't calculate the stddev when not needed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Let's suppose a highmem page is kmap'd with kmap(). A pkmap entry is
used, the page mapped to it, and the virtual cache is dirtied. Then
kunmap() is used which does virtually nothing except for decrementing a
usage count.
Then, let's suppose the _same_ page gets mapped using kmap_atomic().
It is therefore mapped onto a fixmap entry instead, which has a
different virtual address unaware of the dirty cache data for that page
sitting in the pkmap mapping.
Fortunately it is easy to know if a pkmap mapping still exists for that
page and use it directly with kmap_atomic(), thanks to kmap_high_get().
And actual testing with a printk in the added code path shows that this
condition is actually met *extremely* frequently. Seems that we've been
quite lucky that things have worked so well with highmem so far.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Change msr-reg.o to obj-y (it will be included in virtually every
kernel since it is used by the initialization code for AMD processors)
and add a separate C file to export its symbols to modules, so that
msr.ko can use them; on uniprocessors we bypass the helper functions
in msr.o and use the accessor functions directly via inlines.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090904140834.GA15789@elte.hu>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
The function tracing_reset is deprecated for outside use of trace.c.
The new function to reset the the buffers is tracing_reset_online_cpus.
The reason for this is that resetting the buffers while the event
trace points are active can corrupt the buffers, because they may
be writing at the time of reset. The tracing_reset_online_cpus disables
writes and waits for current writers to finish.
This patch replaces all users of tracing_reset except for the latency
tracers. Those changes require more work and will be removed in the
following patches.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Resetting the ring buffers while traces are happening can corrupt
the ring buffer and disable it (no kernel crash to worry about).
The safest thing to do is disable the ring buffers, call synchronize_sched()
to wait for all current writers to finish and then reset the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When reading the tracer from the trace file, updating the max latency
may corrupt the output. This patch disables the tracing of the max
latency while reading the trace file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
During development of the tracer, we would copy information from
the live tracer to the max tracer with one memcpy. Since then we
added a generic ring buffer and we handle the copies differently now.
Unfortunately, we never copied the critical section information, and
we lost the output:
# => started at: kmem_cache_alloc
# => ended at: kmem_cache_alloc
This patch adds back the critical start and end copying as well as
removes the unused "trace_idx" and "overrun" fields of the
trace_array_cpu structure.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the way RB_WARN_ON works, is to disable either the current
CPU buffer or all CPU buffers, depending on whether a ring_buffer or
ring_buffer_per_cpu struct was passed into the macro.
Most users of the RB_WARN_ON pass in the CPU buffer, so only the one
CPU buffer gets disabled but the rest are still active. This may
confuse users even though a warning is sent to the console.
This patch changes the macro to disable the entire buffer even if
the CPU buffer is passed in.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The latency tracers report the number of items in the trace buffer.
This uses the ring buffer data to calculate this. Because discarded
events are also counted, the numbers do not match the number of items
that are printed. The ring buffer also adds a "padding" item to the
end of each buffer page which also gets counted as a discarded item.
This patch decrements the counter to the page entries on a discard.
This allows us to ignore discarded entries while reading the buffer.
Decrementing the counter is still safe since it can only happen while
the committing flag is still set.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
