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Corentin Chary
27c136c873 eeepc-wmi: rework eeepc_wmi_init and eeepc_wmi_exit
The old code was using platform_driver.probe to initialize
eeepc_wmi context. That's a mistake because if probe fail,
eeepc_platform_register() won't tell anyone, and chaos will happen.

Wrap add and remove code inside eeepc_wmi_add() / eeepc_wmi_remove(),
and try to use the static platform_device only in eeepc_wmi_init()
and eeepc_wmi_exit()

The code is now very similar to eeepc-laptop, except eeepc_laptop_add
and eeepc_laptop_remove are called from acpi_driver, not module
init/exit functions, but WMI doesn't provide such functionalities (yet ?).

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:42 -05:00
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
72135d21b5 classmate-laptop: add missing input_sync call
Add missing input_sync call in cmpc_keys_handler function.

Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:41 -05:00
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
698e1641a3 classmate-laptop: little optimization for cmpc_rfkill_block
We don't need to call bios/acpi (cmpc_set_rfkill_wlan) if the blocked
state is already set to the same value (little optimization). This can
happen for example if we initialize the module with same initial
hardware state (rfkill core always call cmpc_rfkill_block on
initialization here).

Also GWRI method only accepts 0 or 1 for setting rfkill block, as can be
seen on AML code from acpidump->DSDT from a classmate sample I have, so
should be fine setting state only to 0 or 1 directly.

Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:41 -05:00
Colin King
58f6425eb9 WMI: Cater for multiple events with same GUID
WMI data blocks can contain WMI events with the same GUID but with
different notifiy_ids, for example volume up/down hotkeys.
This patch enables a single event handler to be registered and
unregistered against all events with same GUID but different
notify_ids.  Since an event handler is passed the notify_id of
an event it can can differentiate between the different events.

The patch also ensures we only register and unregister a device per
unique GUID.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:41 -05:00
Joe Perches
3098064d3b drivers/platform/x86: Remove unnecessary semicolons
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:40 -05:00
Sreedhara DS
5369c02d95 intel_scu_ipc: Utility driver for intel scu ipc
This driver implements ioctl and interfaces with intel scu ipc driver. It
is used to access pmic/msic registers from user space and firmware update
utility.

Signed-off-by: Sreedhara DS <sreedhara.ds@intel.com>
[Extensive clean up and debug]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:40 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
3e5b08cbbf Merge branch 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (144 commits)
  USB: add support for Dream Cheeky DL100B Webmail Notifier (1d34:0004)
  USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add support for TIOCSERGETLSR
  USB: ehci-mxc: Setup portsc register prior to accessing OTG viewport
  USB: atmel_usba_udc: fix freeing irq in usba_udc_remove()
  usb: ehci-omap: fix tll channel enable mask
  usb: ohci-omap3: fix trivial typo
  USB: gadget: ci13xxx: don't assume that PAGE_SIZE is 4096
  USB: gadget: ci13xxx: fix complete() callback for no_interrupt rq's
  USB: gadget: update ci13xxx to work with g_ether
  USB: gadgets: ci13xxx: fix probing of compiled-in gadget drivers
  Revert "USB: musb: pm: don't rely fully on clock support"
  Revert "USB: musb: blackfin: pm: make it work"
  USB: uas: Use GFP_NOIO instead of GFP_KERNEL in I/O submission path
  USB: uas: Ensure we only bind to a UAS interface
  USB: uas: Rename sense pipe and sense urb to status pipe and status urb
  USB: uas: Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc
  USB: uas: Fix up the Sense IU
  usb: musb: core: kill unneeded #include's
  DA8xx: assign name to MUSB IRQ resource
  usb: gadget: g_ncm added
  ...

Manually fix up trivial conflicts in USB Kconfig changes in:
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig
	arch/sh/Kconfig
	drivers/usb/Kconfig
	drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
and annoying chip clock data conflicts in:
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/clock3xxx_data.c
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/clock44xx_data.c
2011-01-07 13:16:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
da40d036fd Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (147 commits)
  [SCSI] arcmsr: fix write to device check
  [SCSI] lpfc: lower stack use in lpfc_fc_frame_check
  [SCSI] eliminate an unnecessary local variable from scsi_remove_target()
  [SCSI] libiscsi: use bh locking instead of irq with session lock
  [SCSI] libiscsi: do not take host lock in queuecommand
  [SCSI] be2iscsi: fix null ptr when accessing task hdr
  [SCSI] be2iscsi: fix gfp use in alloc_pdu
  [SCSI] libiscsi: add more informative failure message during iscsi scsi eh
  [SCSI] gdth: Add missing call to gdth_ioctl_free
  [SCSI] bfa: remove unused defintions and misc cleanups
  [SCSI] bfa: remove inactive functions
  [SCSI] bfa: replace bfa_assert with WARN_ON
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Use sg_next to fetch next sg element while walking sg list.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix to avoid recursive lock failure during BSG timeout.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Remove code to not reset ISP82xx on failure.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Display mailbox register 4 during 8012 AEN for ISP82XX parts.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't perform a BIG_HAMMER if Get-ID (0x20) mailbox command fails on CNAs.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Remove redundant module parameter permission bits
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add sysfs node for displaying board temperature.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Code cleanup to remove unwanted comments and code.
  ...
2011-01-07 12:47:02 -08:00
Dan Carpenter
aa58abc20f input/tc3589x: fix compile error
There was a semi-colon missing and it broke the compile.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-07 12:44:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b4a45f5fe8 Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin
* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin: (57 commits)
  fs: scale mntget/mntput
  fs: rename vfsmount counter helpers
  fs: implement faster dentry memcmp
  fs: prefetch inode data in dcache lookup
  fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems
  fs: dcache per-inode inode alias locking
  fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking
  bit_spinlock: add required includes
  kernel: add bl_list
  xfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
  btrfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
  ext2,3,4: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
  fs: provide simple rcu-walk generic_check_acl implementation
  fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
  fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method
  fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walk
  fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
  fs: dcache remove d_mounted
  fs: fs_struct use seqlock
  fs: rcu-walk for path lookup
  ...
2011-01-07 08:56:33 -08:00
Nick Piggin
b3e19d924b fs: scale mntget/mntput
The problem that this patch aims to fix is vfsmount refcounting scalability.
We need to take a reference on the vfsmount for every successful path lookup,
which often go to the same mount point.

The fundamental difficulty is that a "simple" reference count can never be made
scalable, because any time a reference is dropped, we must check whether that
was the last reference. To do that requires communication with all other CPUs
that may have taken a reference count.

We can make refcounts more scalable in a couple of ways, involving keeping
distributed counters, and checking for the global-zero condition less
frequently.

- check the global sum once every interval (this will delay zero detection
  for some interval, so it's probably a showstopper for vfsmounts).

- keep a local count and only taking the global sum when local reaches 0 (this
  is difficult for vfsmounts, because we can't hold preempt off for the life of
  a reference, so a counter would need to be per-thread or tied strongly to a
  particular CPU which requires more locking).

- keep a local difference of increments and decrements, which allows us to sum
  the total difference and hence find the refcount when summing all CPUs. Then,
  keep a single integer "long" refcount for slow and long lasting references,
  and only take the global sum of local counters when the long refcount is 0.

This last scheme is what I implemented here. Attached mounts and process root
and working directory references are "long" references, and everything else is
a short reference.

This allows scalable vfsmount references during path walking over mounted
subtrees and unattached (lazy umounted) mounts with processes still running
in them.

This results in one fewer atomic op in the fastpath: mntget is now just a
per-CPU inc, rather than an atomic inc; and mntput just requires a spinlock
and non-atomic decrement in the common case. However code is otherwise bigger
and heavier, so single threaded performance is basically a wash.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:33 +11:00
Nick Piggin
c6653a838b fs: rename vfsmount counter helpers
Suggested by Andreas, mnt_ prefix is clearer namespace, follows kernel
conventions better, and is easier for tab complete. I introduced these
names so I'll admit they were not good choices.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:33 +11:00
Nick Piggin
9d55c369bb fs: implement faster dentry memcmp
The standard memcmp function on a Westmere system shows up hot in
profiles in the `git diff` workload (both parallel and single threaded),
and it is likely due to the costs associated with trapping into
microcode, and little opportunity to improve memory access (dentry
name is not likely to take up more than a cacheline).

So replace it with an open-coded byte comparison. This increases code
size by 8 bytes in the critical __d_lookup_rcu function, but the
speedup is huge, averaging 10 runs of each:

git diff st   user   sys   elapsed  CPU
before        1.15   2.57  3.82      97.1
after         1.14   2.35  3.61      96.8

git diff mt   user   sys   elapsed  CPU
before        1.27   3.85  1.46     349
after         1.26   3.54  1.43     333

Elapsed time for single threaded git diff at 95.0% confidence:
        -0.21  +/- 0.01
        -5.45% +/- 0.24%

It's -0.66% +/- 0.06% elapsed time on my Opteron, so rep cmp costs on the
fam10h seem to be relatively smaller, but there is still a win.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:32 +11:00
Nick Piggin
e1bb578263 fs: prefetch inode data in dcache lookup
This makes single threaded git diff -1.25% +/- 0.05% elapsed time on my
2s12c24t Westmere system, and -0.86% +/- 0.05% on my 2s8c Barcelona, by
prefetching the important first cacheline of the inode in while we do the
actual name compare and other operations on the dentry.

There was no measurable slowdown in the single file stat case, or the creat
case (where negative dentries would be common).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:32 +11:00
Nick Piggin
4b936885ab fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems
Regardless of how much we possibly try to scale dcache, there is likely
always going to be some fundamental contention when adding or removing children
under the same parent. Pseudo filesystems do not seem need to have connected
dentries because by definition they are disconnected.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:32 +11:00
Nick Piggin
873feea09e fs: dcache per-inode inode alias locking
dcache_inode_lock can be replaced with per-inode locking. Use existing
inode->i_lock for this. This is slightly non-trivial because we sometimes
need to find the inode from the dentry, which requires d_inode to be
stabilised (either with refcount or d_lock).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:31 +11:00
Nick Piggin
ceb5bdc2d2 fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking
We can turn the dcache hash locking from a global dcache_hash_lock into
per-bucket locking.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:31 +11:00
Nick Piggin
626d607435 bit_spinlock: add required includes
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:31 +11:00
Nick Piggin
4e35e6070b kernel: add bl_list
Introduce a type of hlist that can support the use of the lowest bit in the
hlist_head. This will be subsequently used to implement per-bucket bit spinlock
for inode and dentry hashes, and may be useful in other cases such as network
hashes.

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:31 +11:00
Nick Piggin
880566e17c xfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
This simple implementation just checks for no ACLs on the inode, and
if so, then the rcu-walk may proceed, otherwise fail it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:30 +11:00
Nick Piggin
258a5aa8df btrfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
This simple implementation just checks for no ACLs on the inode, and
if so, then the rcu-walk may proceed, otherwise fail it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:30 +11:00
Nick Piggin
73598611ad ext2,3,4: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
This simple implementation just checks for no ACLs on the inode, and
if so, then the rcu-walk may proceed, otherwise fail it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:30 +11:00
Nick Piggin
1e1743ebe3 fs: provide simple rcu-walk generic_check_acl implementation
This simple implementation just checks for no ACLs on the inode, and
if so, then the rcu-walk may proceed, otherwise fail it.

This could easily be extended to put acls under RCU and check them
under seqlock, if need be. But this implementation is enough to show
the rcu-walk aware permissions code for path lookups is working, and
will handle cases where there are no ACLs or ACLs in just the final
element.

This patch implicity converts tmpfs to rcu-aware permission check.
Subsequent patches onvert ext*, xfs, and, btrfs. Each of these uses
acl/permission code in a different way, so convert them all to provide
templates and proof of concept.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b74c79e993 fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Nick Piggin
34286d6662 fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method
Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk
mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning
-ECHILD from all implementations.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Nick Piggin
44a7d7a878 fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walk
Put dentry and inode fields into top of data structure.  This allows RCU path
traversal to perform an RCU dentry lookup in a path walk by touching only the
first 56 bytes of the dentry.

We also fit in 8 bytes of inline name in the first 64 bytes, so for short
names, only 64 bytes needs to be touched to perform the lookup. We should
get rid of the hash->prev pointer from the first 64 bytes, and fit 16 bytes
of name in there, which will take care of 81% rather than 32% of the kernel
tree.

inode is also rearranged so that RCU lookup will only touch a single cacheline
in the inode, plus one in the i_ops structure.

This is important for directory component lookups in RCU path walking. In the
kernel source, directory names average is around 6 chars, so this works.

When we reach the last element of the lookup, we need to lock it and take its
refcount which requires another cacheline access.

Align dentry and inode operations structs, so members will be at predictable
offsets and we can group common operations into head of structure.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin
fb045adb99 fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin
5f57cbcc02 fs: dcache remove d_mounted
Rather than keep a d_mounted count in the dentry, set a dentry flag instead.
The flag can be cleared by checking the hash table to see if there are any
mounts left, which is not time critical because it is performed at detach time.

The mounted state of a dentry is only used to speculatively take a look in the
mount hash table if it is set -- before following the mount, vfsmount lock is
taken and mount re-checked without races.

This saves 4 bytes on 32-bit, nothing on 64-bit but it does provide a hole I
might use later (and some configs have larger than 32-bit spinlocks which might
make use of the hole).

Autofs4 conversion and changelog by Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>:
In autofs4, when expring direct (or offset) mounts we need to ensure that we
block user path walks into the autofs mount, which is covered by another mount.
To do this we clear the mounted status so that follows stop before walking into
the mount and are essentially blocked until the expire is completed. The
automount daemon still finds the correct dentry for the umount due to the
follow mount logic in fs/autofs4/root.c:autofs4_follow_link(), which is set as
an inode operation for direct and offset mounts only and is called following
the lookup that stopped at the covered mount.

At the end of the expire the covering mount probably has gone away so the
mounted status need not be restored. But we need to check this and only restore
the mounted status if the expire failed.

XXX: autofs may not work right if we have other mounts go over the top of it?

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin
c28cc36469 fs: fs_struct use seqlock
Use a seqlock in the fs_struct to enable us to take an atomic copy of the
complete cwd and root paths. Use this in the RCU lookup path to avoid a
thread-shared spinlock in RCU lookup operations.

Multi-threaded apps may now perform path lookups with scalability matching
multi-process apps. Operations such as stat(2) become very scalable for
multi-threaded workload.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:27 +11:00
Nick Piggin
31e6b01f41 fs: rcu-walk for path lookup
Perform common cases of path lookups without any stores or locking in the
ancestor dentry elements. This is called rcu-walk, as opposed to the current
algorithm which is a refcount based walk, or ref-walk.

This results in far fewer atomic operations on every path element,
significantly improving path lookup performance. It also avoids cacheline
bouncing on common dentries, significantly improving scalability.

The overall design is like this:
* LOOKUP_RCU is set in nd->flags, which distinguishes rcu-walk from ref-walk.
* Take the RCU lock for the entire path walk, starting with the acquiring
  of the starting path (eg. root/cwd/fd-path). So now dentry refcounts are
  not required for dentry persistence.
* synchronize_rcu is called when unregistering a filesystem, so we can
  access d_ops and i_ops during rcu-walk.
* Similarly take the vfsmount lock for the entire path walk. So now mnt
  refcounts are not required for persistence. Also we are free to perform mount
  lookups, and to assume dentry mount points and mount roots are stable up and
  down the path.
* Have a per-dentry seqlock to protect the dentry name, parent, and inode,
  so we can load this tuple atomically, and also check whether any of its
  members have changed.
* Dentry lookups (based on parent, candidate string tuple) recheck the parent
  sequence after the child is found in case anything changed in the parent
  during the path walk.
* inode is also RCU protected so we can load d_inode and use the inode for
  limited things.
* i_mode, i_uid, i_gid can be tested for exec permissions during path walk.
* i_op can be loaded.

When we reach the destination dentry, we lock it, recheck lookup sequence,
and increment its refcount and mountpoint refcount. RCU and vfsmount locks
are dropped. This is termed "dropping rcu-walk". If the dentry refcount does
not match, we can not drop rcu-walk gracefully at the current point in the
lokup, so instead return -ECHILD (for want of a better errno). This signals the
path walking code to re-do the entire lookup with a ref-walk.

Aside from the final dentry, there are other situations that may be encounted
where we cannot continue rcu-walk. In that case, we drop rcu-walk (ie. take
a reference on the last good dentry) and continue with a ref-walk. Again, if
we can drop rcu-walk gracefully, we return -ECHILD and do the whole lookup
using ref-walk. But it is very important that we can continue with ref-walk
for most cases, particularly to avoid the overhead of double lookups, and to
gain the scalability advantages on common path elements (like cwd and root).

The cases where rcu-walk cannot continue are:
* NULL dentry (ie. any uncached path element)
* parent with d_inode->i_op->permission or ACLs
* dentries with d_revalidate
* Following links

In future patches, permission checks and d_revalidate become rcu-walk aware. It
may be possible eventually to make following links rcu-walk aware.

Uncached path elements will always require dropping to ref-walk mode, at the
very least because i_mutex needs to be grabbed, and objects allocated.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:27 +11:00
Nick Piggin
3c22cd5709 kernel: optimise seqlock
Add branch annotations for seqlock read fastpath, and introduce
__read_seqcount_begin and __read_seqcount_end functions, that can avoid the
smp_rmb() if used carefully. These will be used by store-free path walking
algorithm performance is critical and seqlocks are in use.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:27 +11:00
Nick Piggin
ff0c7d15f9 fs: avoid inode RCU freeing for pseudo fs
Pseudo filesystems that don't put inode on RCU list or reachable by
rcu-walk dentries do not need to RCU free their inodes.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
Nick Piggin
fa0d7e3de6 fs: icache RCU free inodes
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
  permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
  to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
  the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
  page lock to follow page->mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
Nick Piggin
77812a1ef1 fs: consolidate dentry kill sequence
The tricky locking for disposing of a dentry is duplicated 3 times in the
dcache (dput, pruning a dentry from the LRU, and pruning its ancestors).
Consolidate them all into a single function dentry_kill.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:25 +11:00
Nick Piggin
ec33679d78 fs: use RCU in shrink_dentry_list to reduce lock nesting
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:25 +11:00
Nick Piggin
be182bff72 fs: reduce dcache_inode_lock width in lru scanning
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:25 +11:00
Nick Piggin
89e6054836 fs: dcache reduce prune_one_dentry locking
prune_one_dentry can avoid quite a bit of locking in the common case where
ancestors have an elevated refcount. Alternatively, we could have gone the
other way and made fewer trylocks in the case where d_count goes to zero, but
is probably less common.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:25 +11:00
Nick Piggin
a734eb458a fs: dcache reduce d_parent locking
Use RCU to simplify locking in dget_parent.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:24 +11:00
Nick Piggin
dc0474be3e fs: dcache rationalise dget variants
dget_locked was a shortcut to avoid the lazy lru manipulation when we already
held dcache_lock (lru manipulation was relatively cheap at that point).
However, how that the lru lock is an innermost one, we never hold it at any
caller, so the lock cost can now be avoided. We already have well working lazy
dcache LRU, so it should be fine to defer LRU manipulations to scan time.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:24 +11:00
Nick Piggin
357f8e658b fs: dcache reduce dcache_inode_lock
dcache_inode_lock can be avoided in d_delete() and d_materialise_unique()
in cases where it is not required.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:24 +11:00
Nick Piggin
89ad485f01 fs: dcache reduce locking in d_alloc
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:24 +11:00
Nick Piggin
61f3dee4af fs: dcache reduce dput locking
It is possible to run dput without taking data structure locks up-front. In
many cases where we don't kill the dentry anyway, these locks are not required.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin
58db63d086 fs: dcache avoid starvation in dcache multi-step operations
Long lived dcache "multi-step" operations which retry on rename seq can
be starved with a lot of rename activity. If they fail after the 1st pass,
take the rename_lock for writing to avoid further starvation.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b5c84bf6f6 fs: dcache remove dcache_lock
dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin
949854d024 fs: Use rename lock and RCU for multi-step operations
The remaining usages for dcache_lock is to allow atomic, multi-step read-side
operations over the directory tree by excluding modifications to the tree.
Also, to walk in the leaf->root direction in the tree where we don't have
a natural d_lock ordering.

This could be accomplished by taking every d_lock, but this would mean a
huge number of locks and actually gets very tricky.

Solve this instead by using the rename seqlock for multi-step read-side
operations, retry in case of a rename so we don't walk up the wrong parent.
Concurrent dentry insertions are not serialised against.  Concurrent deletes
are tricky when walking up the directory: our parent might have been deleted
when dropping locks so also need to check and retry for that.

We can also use the rename lock in cases where livelock is a worry (and it
is introduced in subsequent patch).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:22 +11:00
Nick Piggin
9abca36087 fs: increase d_name lock coverage
Cover d_name with d_lock in more cases, where there may be concurrent
modification to it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:22 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b23fb0a603 fs: scale inode alias list
Add a new lock, dcache_inode_lock, to protect the inode's i_dentry list
from concurrent modification. d_alias is also protected by d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:22 +11:00
Nick Piggin
2fd6b7f507 fs: dcache scale subdirs
Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't
using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex).

Note: if we change the locking rule in future so that ->d_child protection is
provided only with ->d_parent->d_lock, it may allow us to reduce some locking.
But it would be an exception to an otherwise regular locking scheme, so we'd
have to see some good results. Probably not worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Nick Piggin
da5029563a fs: dcache scale d_unhashed
Protect d_unhashed(dentry) condition with d_lock. This means keeping
DCACHE_UNHASHED bit in synch with hash manipulations.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b7ab39f631 fs: dcache scale dentry refcount
Make d_count non-atomic and protect it with d_lock. This allows us to ensure a
0 refcount dentry remains 0 without dcache_lock. It is also fairly natural when
we start protecting many other dentry members with d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00