This patch makes UFS stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.
The way we implement this is that we schedule a delay job instead relying on
's_dirt' and '->write_super()'.
The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.
Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch does not do any functional changes. It only moves 3 functions
in fs/ufs/super.c a little bit up in order to prepare for further changes
where I'll need this new arrangement to avoid forward declarations.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
UFS calls 'ufs_write_super()' from 'ufs_put_super()' in order to write the
superblocks to the media. However, it is not needed because VFS calls
'->sync_fs()' before calling '->put_super()' - so by the time we are in
'ufs_write_super()', the superblocks are already synchronized.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
It does not look like sysv FS needs 'write_super()' at all, because all it
does is a timestamp update. I cannot test this patch, because this
file-system is so old and probably has not been used by anyone for years,
so there are no tools to create it in Linux. But from the code I see that
marking the superblock as dirty is basically marking the superblock buffers as
drity and then setting the s_dirt flag. And when 'write_super()' is executed to
handle the s_dirt flag, we just update the timestamp and again mark the
superblock buffer as dirty. Seems pointless.
It looks like we can update the timestamp more opprtunistically - on unmount
or remount of sync, and nothing should change.
Thus, this patch removes 'sysv_write_super()' and 's_dirt'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We do not need to call 'sysv_write_super()' from 'sysv_remount()',
because VFS has called 'sysv_sync_fs()' before calling '->remount()'.
So remove it. Remove also '(un)lock_super()' which obvioulsy is becoming
useless in this function.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We do not need to call 'sysv_write_super()' from 'sysv_put_super()',
because VFS has called 'sysv_sync_fs()' before calling '->put_super()'.
So remove it.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch makes hfs stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.
The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.
Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an 'sb' VFS superblock back-reference to the 'struct hfs_sb_info' data
structure - we will need to find the VFS superblock from a
'struct hfs_sb_info' object in the next patch, so this change is jut a
preparation.
Remove few useless newlines while on it.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
HFS calls 'hfs_write_super()' from 'hfs_put_super()' in order to write the MDB
to the media. However, it is not needed because VFS calls '->sync_fs()' before
calling '->put_super()' - so by the time we are in 'hfs_write_super()', the MDB
is already synchronized.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
HFS uses 'lock_super()'/'unlock_super()' around 'hfs_mdb_commit()' in order
to serialize MDB (Master Directory Block) changes. Push it down to
'hfs_mdb_commit()' in order to simplify the code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch makes hfsplus stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.
The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.
Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro [Sun, 24 Jun 2012 05:56:45 +0000 (09:56 +0400)]
switch fput to task_work_add
... and schedule_work() for interrupt/kernel_thread callers
(and yes, now it *is* OK to call from interrupt).
We are guaranteed that __fput() will be done before we return
to userland (or exit). Note that for fput() from a kernel
thread we get an async behaviour; it's almost always OK, but
sometimes you might need to have __fput() completed before
you do anything else. There are two mechanisms for that -
a general barrier (flush_delayed_fput()) and explicit
__fput_sync(). Both should be used with care (as was the
case for fput() from kernel threads all along). See comments
in fs/file_table.c for details.
Al Viro [Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:33:29 +0000 (11:33 +0400)]
deal with task_work callbacks adding more work
It doesn't matter on normal return to userland path (we'll recheck the
NOTIFY_RESUME flag anyway), but in case of exit_task_work() we'll
need that as soon as we get callbacks capable of triggering more
task_work_add().
Al Viro [Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:07:19 +0000 (11:07 +0400)]
merge task_work and rcu_head, get rid of separate allocation for keyring case
task_work and rcu_head are identical now; merge them (calling the result
struct callback_head, rcu_head #define'd to it), kill separate allocation
in security/keys since we can just use cred->rcu now.
Al Viro [Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:24:13 +0000 (09:24 +0400)]
trim task_work: get rid of hlist
layout based on Oleg's suggestion; single-linked list,
task->task_works points to the last element, forward pointer
from said last element points to head. I'd still prefer
much more regular scheme with two pointers in task_work,
but...
Al Viro [Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:10:04 +0000 (22:10 +0400)]
trimming task_work: kill ->data
get rid of the only user of ->data; this is _not_ the final variant - in the
end we'll have task_work and rcu_head identical and just use cred->rcu,
at which point the separate allocation will be gone completely.
David Howells [Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:55:46 +0000 (12:55 +0100)]
VFS: Split inode_permission()
Split inode_permission() into inode- and superblock-dependent parts.
This is aimed at unionmounts where the superblock from the upper layer has to
be checked rather than the superblock from the lower layer as the upper layer
may be writable, thus allowing an unwritable file from the lower layer to be
copied up and modified.
Original-author: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (Further development) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
David Howells [Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:55:37 +0000 (12:55 +0100)]
VFS: Pass mount flags to sget()
Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new
superblock before the set function is called. They could also be passed to the
compare function.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
David Howells [Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:55:18 +0000 (12:55 +0100)]
VFS: Make clone_mnt()/copy_tree()/collect_mounts() return errors
copy_tree() can theoretically fail in a case other than ENOMEM, but always
returns NULL which is interpreted by callers as -ENOMEM. Change it to return
an explicit error.
Also change clone_mnt() for consistency and because union mounts will add new
error cases.
Thanks to Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> for a bug fix.
[AV: folded braino fix by Dan Carpenter]
Original-author: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Valerie Aurora <valerie.aurora@gmail.com> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add a helper that abstracts out the jump to an already parsed struct path
from ->follow_link operation from procfs. Not only does this clean up
the code by moving the two sides of this game into a single helper, but
it also prepares for making struct nameidata private to namei.c
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Currently the non-nd_set_link based versions of ->follow_link are expected
to do a path_put(&nd->path) on failure. This calling convention is unexpected,
undocumented and doesn't match what the nd_set_link-based instances do.
Move the path_put out of the only non-nd_set_link based ->follow_link
instance into the caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:01:42 +0000 (03:01 +0400)]
get rid of kern_path_parent()
all callers want the same thing, actually - a kinda-sorta analog of
kern_path_create(). I.e. they want parent vfsmount/dentry (with
->i_mutex held, to make sure the child dentry is still their child)
+ the child dentry.
David Howells [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:13:46 +0000 (16:13 +0100)]
VFS: Fix the banner comment on lookup_open()
Since commit 197e37d9, the banner comment on lookup_open() no longer matches
what the function returns. It used to return a struct file pointer or NULL and
now it returns an integer and is passed the struct file pointer it is to use
amongst its arguments. Update the comment to reflect this.
Also add a banner comment to atomic_open().
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro [Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:13:09 +0000 (17:13 -0400)]
stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...
Al Viro [Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:40:19 +0000 (12:40 +0400)]
kill struct opendata
Just pass struct file *. Methods are happier that way...
There's no need to return struct file * from finish_open() now,
so let it return int. Next: saner prototypes for parts in
namei.c
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:10:21 +0000 (15:10 +0200)]
nfs: don't use intents for checking atomic open
is_atomic_open() is now only used by nfs4_lookup_revalidate() to check whether
it's okay to skip normal revalidation.
It does a racy check for mount read-onlyness and falls back to normal
revalidation if the open would fail. This makes little sense now that this
function isn't used for determining whether to actually open the file or not.
The d_mountpoint() check still makes sense since it is an indication that we
might be following a mount and so open may not revalidate the dentry.
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:10:19 +0000 (15:10 +0200)]
nfs: clean up ->create in nfs_rpc_ops
Don't pass nfs_open_context() to ->create(). Only the NFS4 implementation
needed that and only because it wanted to return an open file using open
intents. That task has been replaced by ->atomic_open so it is not necessary
anymore to pass the context to the create rpc operation.
Despite nfs4_proc_create apparently being okay with a NULL context it Oopses
somewhere down the call chain. So allocate a context here.
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:10:17 +0000 (15:10 +0200)]
vfs: add i_op->atomic_open()
Add a new inode operation which is called on the last component of an open.
Using this the filesystem can look up, possibly create and open the file in one
atomic operation. If it cannot perform this (e.g. the file type turned out to
be wrong) it may signal this by returning NULL instead of an open struct file
pointer.
i_op->atomic_open() is only called if the last component is negative or needs
lookup. Handling cached positive dentries here doesn't add much value: these
can be opened using f_op->open(). If the cached file turns out to be invalid,
the open can be retried, this time using ->atomic_open() with a fresh dentry.
For now leave the old way of using open intents in lookup and revalidate in
place. This will be removed once all the users are converted.
David Howells noticed that if ->atomic_open() opens the file but does not create
it, handle_truncate() will be called on it even if it is not a regular file.
Fix this by checking the file type in this case too.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro [Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:15:17 +0000 (04:15 -0400)]
namei.c: let follow_link() do put_link() on failure
no need for kludgy "set cookie to ERR_PTR(...) because we failed
before we did actual ->follow_link() and want to suppress put_link()",
no pointless check in put_link() itself.
Callers checked if follow_link() has failed anyway; might as well
break out of their loops if that happened, without bothering
to call put_link() first.
Al Viro [Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:55:20 +0000 (11:55 -0400)]
vfs: update documentation on ->i_dentry handling
we used to need to clean it in RCU callback freeing an inode;
in 3.2 that requirement went away. Unfortunately, it hadn't
been reflected in Documentation/filesystems/porting.
Al Viro [Sat, 9 Jun 2012 05:16:59 +0000 (01:16 -0400)]
get rid of magic in proc_namespace.c
don't rely on proc_mounts->m being the first field; container_of()
is there for purpose. No need to bother with ->private, while
we are at it - the same container_of will do nicely.
Al Viro [Sat, 9 Jun 2012 04:59:08 +0000 (00:59 -0400)]
get rid of ->mnt_longterm
it's enough to set ->mnt_ns of internal vfsmounts to something
distinct from all struct mnt_namespace out there; then we can
just use the check for ->mnt_ns != NULL in the fast path of
mntput_no_expire()
Julia Lawall [Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:45:00 +0000 (15:45 -0700)]
fs/direct-io.c: adjust suspicious bit operation
READ is 0, so the result of the bit-and operation is 0. Rewrite with == as
done elsewhere in the same file.
This problem was found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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