This splits the code to allocate root dentry into a separate routine
for convenience in successive changes.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Snapshots of nilfs are read-only.
After super block instances (sb) will be unified, nilfs will need to
check write access by a way other than implicit test with
IS_RDONLY(inode). This is because IS_RDONLY() refers to MS_RDONLY bit
of inode->i_sb->s_flags and it will become inaccurate after the
unification of sb.
To prepare for the issue, this uses i_op->permission to deny write
access to inodes in snapshots.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This rewrites nilfs_checkpoint_is_mounted() function so that it
decides whether a checkpoint is mounted by whether the corresponding
root object is found in checkpoint tree.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This rewrites functions using ifile so that they get ifile from
nilfs_root object, and will remove sbi->s_ifile. Some functions that
don't know the root object are extended to receive it from caller.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
The previous export operations cannot handle multiple versions of
a filesystem if they belong to the same sb instance.
This adds a new type of file handle and extends export operations so
that they can get the inode specified by a checkpoint number as well
as an inode number and a generation number.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This puts a pointer to nilfs_root object in the private part of
on-memory inode, and makes nilfs_iget function pick up the inode with
the same root object.
Non-root inodes inherit its nilfs_root object from parent inode. That
of the root inode is allocated through nilfs_attach_checkpoint()
function.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To hold multiple versions of a filesystem in one sb instance, a new
on-memory structure is necessary to handle one or more checkpoints.
This adds a red-black tree of checkpoints to nilfs object, and adds
lookup and create functions for them.
Each checkpoint is represented by "nilfs_root" structure, and this
structure has rb_node to configure the rb-tree.
The nilfs_root object is identified with a checkpoint number. For
each snapshot, a nilfs_root object is allocated and the checkpoint
number of snapshot is assigned to it. For a regular mount
(i.e. current mode mount), NILFS_CPTREE_CURRENT_CNO constant is
assigned to the corresponding nilfs_root object.
Each nilfs_root object has an ifile inode and some counters. These
items will displace those of nilfs_sb_info structure in successive
patches.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This uses inode hash function that vfs provides instead of the own
hash table for caching gc inodes. This finally removes the own inode
hash from nilfs.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This separates a part of initialization code of metadata file inode,
and makes it available from the nilfs iget function that a later patch
will add to.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This uses iget5_locked instead of iget_locked so that gc cache can
look up inodes with an inode number and an optional checkpoint number.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
On-memory inode structures of nilfs have a member "i_cno" which stores
a checkpoint number related to the inode. For gc-inodes, this field
indicates version of data each gc-inode caches for GC. Log writer
temporarily uses "i_cno" to transfer the latest checkpoint number.
This stops the latter use and lets only gc-inodes use it.
The purpose of this patch is to allow the successive change use
"i_cno" for inode lookup.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This allows sop->dirty_inode callback function (nilfs_dirty_inode) to
handle metadata file inodes.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
The current nilfs_destroy_inode() doesn't handle metadata file inodes
including gc inodes (dummy inodes used for garbage collection).
This allows nilfs_destroy_inode() to destroy inodes of metadata files.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Compatibility of nilfs partitions is now managed with three feature
sets. This changes old compatibility check with revision number so
that it can accept future revisions.
Note that we can stop support of experimental versions of nilfs that
doesn't know the feature sets by incrementing NILFS_CURRENT_REV. We
don't have to do it soon, but it would be a possible option whenever
the need arises.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: remove in_workqueue_context()
workqueue: Clarify that schedule_on_each_cpu is synchronous
memory_hotplug: drop spurious calls to flush_scheduled_work()
shpchp: update workqueue usage
pciehp: update workqueue usage
isdn/eicon: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from diva_os_remove_soft_isr()
workqueue: add and use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag
workqueue: fix HIGHPRI handling in keep_working()
workqueue: add queue_work and activate_work trace points
workqueue: prepare for more tracepoints
workqueue: implement flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
workqueue: factor out start_flush_work()
workqueue: cleanup flush/cancel functions
workqueue: implement alloc_ordered_workqueue()
Fix up trivial conflict in fs/gfs2/main.c as per Tejun
* 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (46 commits)
xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support
Added blk-lib.c and blk-barrier.c was renamed to blk-flush.c
block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
aic7xxx_old: removed unused 'req' variable
block: remove the BH_Eopnotsupp flag
block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag
block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag
swap: do not send discards as barriers
fat: do not send discards as barriers
ext4: do not send discards as barriers
jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrier
jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
nilfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
reiserfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
gfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
btrfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
block: pass gfp_mask and flags to sb_issue_discard
dm: convey that all flushes are processed as empty
...
* 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (39 commits)
cfq-iosched: Fix a gcc 4.5 warning and put some comments
block: Turn bvec_k{un,}map_irq() into static inline functions
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
block: Make the integrity mapped property a bio flag
block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister
block: Ensure physical block size is unsigned int
blkio-throttle: Fix possible multiplication overflow in iops calculations
blkio-throttle: limit max iops value to UINT_MAX
blkio-throttle: There is no need to convert jiffies to milli seconds
blkio-throttle: Fix link failure failure on i386
blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit change
blkio: Add root group to td->tg_list
blkio: deletion of a cgroup was causes oops
blkio: Do not export throttle files if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=n
block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory
block: revert bad fix for memory hotplug causing bounces
Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK
block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory
block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O
cfq: improve fsync performance for small files
...
Fix up trivial conflicts due to __rcu sparse annotation in include/linux/genhd.h
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
UBIFS: do not allocate unneeded scan buffer
UBIFS: do not forget to cancel timers
UBIFS: remove a bit of unneeded code
UBIFS: add a commentary about log recovery
UBIFS: avoid kernel error if ubifs superblock read fails
UBIFS: introduce new flags for RO mounts
UBIFS: introduce new flag for RO due to errors
UBIFS: check return code of pnode_lookup
UBIFS: check return code of ubifs_lpt_lookup
UBIFS: improve error reporting when reading bad node
UBIFS: introduce list sorting debugging checks
UBIFS: fix assertion warnings in comparison function
UBIFS: mark unused key objects as invalid
UBIFS: do not write rubbish into truncation scanning node
UBIFS: improve assertion in node comparison functions
UBIFS: do not use key type in list_sort
UBIFS: do not look up truncation nodes
UBIFS: fix assertion warning
UBIFS: do not treat ENOSPC specially
UBIFS: switch to RO mode after synchronizing
* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
vfs: make no_llseek the default
vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
lirc: make chardev nonseekable
viotape: use noop_llseek
raw: use explicit llseek file operations
ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
spufs: use llseek in all file operations
arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
drm: use noop_llseek
* 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl: (30 commits)
BKL: remove BKL from freevxfs
BKL: remove BKL from qnx4
autofs4: Only declare function when CONFIG_COMPAT is defined
autofs: Only declare function when CONFIG_COMPAT is defined
ncpfs: Lock socket in ncpfs while setting its callbacks
fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal
BKL: Remove BKL from ncpfs
BKL: Remove BKL from OCFS2
BKL: Remove BKL from squashfs
BKL: Remove BKL from jffs2
BKL: Remove BKL from ecryptfs
BKL: Remove BKL from afs
BKL: Remove BKL from USB gadgetfs
BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4
BKL: Remove BKL from isofs
BKL: Remove BKL from fat
BKL: Remove BKL from ext2 filesystem
BKL: Remove BKL from do_new_mount()
BKL: Remove BKL from cgroup
BKL: Remove BKL from NTFS
...
* 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL.
dabusb: remove the BKL
sunrpc: remove the big kernel lock
init/main.c: remove BKL notations
blktrace: remove the big kernel lock
rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL
dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock
dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock
tlclk: remove big kernel lock
fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic
uml: kill big kernel lock
parisc: remove big kernel lock
cris: autoconvert trivial BKL users
alpha: kill big kernel lock
isapnp: BKL removal
s390/block: kill the big kernel lock
hpet: kill BKL, add compat_ioctl
Add a new file /proc/tty/consoles to be able to determine the registered
system console lines. If the reading process holds /dev/console open at
the regular standard input stream the active device will be marked by an
asterisk. Show possible operations and also decode the used flags of
the listed console lines.
Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
bb->vm_ops is a cached copy of the vm_ops of the underlying
sysfs bin file, which means that after sysfs_bin_remove_file
completes it is only longer valid to deference bb->vm_ops.
So move all of the tests of bb->vm_ops inside of where
we hold the sysfs active lock.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
It is not reasonably possible to wrap vma->close(). To correctly
wrap close would imply calling close on any vmas that remain when
sysfs_remove_bin_file is called. Finding the proper lists walking
them getting the locking right etc, requires deep knowledge of the
mm subsystem and as such would require assistence from the mm
subsystem to implement. That assistence does not currently exist.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are
making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another
directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.
This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option
that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way
the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option
on the command line.
The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set
the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing
config files.
Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes
care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code
look nicer.
v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only
handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems
and that seems to work.
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: (48 commits)
ocfs2: Avoid to evaluate xattr block flags again.
ocfs2/cluster: Release debugfs file elapsed_time_in_ms
ocfs2: Add a mount option "coherency=*" to handle cluster coherency for O_DIRECT writes.
Initialize max_slots early
When I tried to compile I got the following warning: fs/ocfs2/slot_map.c: In function ‘ocfs2_init_slot_info’: fs/ocfs2/slot_map.c:360: warning: ‘bytes’ may be used uninitialized in this function fs/ocfs2/slot_map.c:360: note: ‘bytes’ was declared here Compiler: gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC) on Mandriva I'm not sure why this warning occurs, I think compiler don't know that variable "bytes" is initialized when it is sent by reference to ocfs2_slot_map_physical_size and it throws that ugly warning. However, a simple initialization of "bytes" variable with 0 will fix it.
ocfs2: validate bg_free_bits_count after update
ocfs2/cluster: Bump up dlm protocol to version 1.1
ocfs2/cluster: Show per region heartbeat elapsed time
ocfs2/cluster: Add mlogs for heartbeat up/down events
ocfs2/cluster: Create debugfs dir/files for each region
ocfs2/cluster: Create debugfs files for live, quorum and failed region bitmaps
ocfs2/cluster: Maintain bitmap of failed regions
ocfs2/cluster: Maintain bitmap of quorum regions
ocfs2/cluster: Track bitmap of live heartbeat regions
ocfs2/cluster: Track number of global heartbeat regions
ocfs2/cluster: Maintain live node bitmap per heartbeat region
ocfs2/cluster: Reorganize o2hb debugfs init
ocfs2/cluster: Check slots for unconfigured live nodes
ocfs2/cluster: Print messages when adding/removing nodes
ocfs2/cluster: Print messages when adding/removing heartbeat regions
...
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (278 commits)
arm: remove machine_desc.io_pg_offst and .phys_io
arm: use addruart macro to establish debug mappings
arm: return both physical and virtual addresses from addruart
arm/debug: consolidate addruart macros for CONFIG_DEBUG_ICEDCC
ARM: make struct machine_desc definition coherent with its comment
eukrea_mbimxsd-baseboard: Pass the correct GPIO to gpio_free
cpuimx27: fix compile when ULPI is selected
mach-pcm037_eet: fix compile errors
Fixing ethernet driver compilation error for i.MX31 ADS board
cpuimx51: update board support
mx5: add cpuimx51sd module and its baseboard
iomux-mx51: fix GPIO_1_xx 's IOMUX configuration
imx-esdhc: update devices registration
mx51: add resources for SD/MMC on i.MX51
iomux-mx51: fix SD1 and SD2's iomux configuration
clock-mx51: rename CLOCK1 to CLOCK_CCGR for better readability
clock-mx51: factorize clk_set_parent and clk_get_rate
eukrea_mbimxsd: add support for DVI displays
cpuimx25 & cpuimx35: fix OTG port registration in host mode
i.MX31 and i.MX35 : fix errate TLSbo65953 and ENGcm09472
...
Now that it's feasible for a cifsFileInfo to outlive the filp under
which it was created, move the close processing into cifsFileInfo_put.
This means that the last user of the filehandle always does the actual
on the wire close call. This also allows us to get rid of the closePend
flag from cifsFileInfo. If we have an active reference to the file
then it's never going to have a close pending.
cifs_close is converted to simply put the filehandle.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: Check the depth of subclass
lockdep: Add improved subclass caching
affs: Use sema_init instead of init_MUTEX
hfs: Convert tree_lock to mutex
arm: Bcmring: semaphore cleanup
printk: Make console_sem a semaphore not a pseudo mutex
drivers/macintosh/adb: Do not claim that the semaphore is a mutex
parport: Semaphore cleanup
irda: Semaphore cleanup
net: Wan/cosa.c: Convert "mutex" to semaphore
net: Ppp_async: semaphore cleanup
hamradio: Mkiss: semaphore cleanup
hamradio: 6pack: semaphore cleanup
net: 3c527: semaphore cleanup
input: Serio/hp_sdc: semaphore cleanup
input: Serio/hil_mlc: semaphore cleanup
input: Misc/hp_sdc_rtc: semaphore cleanup
lockup_detector: Make callback function static
lockup detector: Fix grammar by adding a missing "to" in the comments
lockdep: Remove __debug_show_held_locks
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (22 commits)
GFS2: fixed typo
GFS2: Fix type mapping for demote_rq interface
GFS2 fatal: filesystem consistency error on rename
GFS2: Improve journal allocation via sysfs
GFS2: Add "norecovery" mount option as a synonym for "spectator"
GFS2: Fix spectator umount issue
GFS2: Fix compiler warning from previous patch
GFS2: reserve more blocks for transactions
GFS2: Fix journal check for spectator mounts
GFS2: Remove upgrade mount option
GFS2: Remove localcaching mount option
GFS2: Remove ignore_local_fs mount argument
GFS2: Make . and .. qstrs constant
GFS2: Use new workqueue scheme
GFS2: Update handling of DLM return codes to match reality
GFS2: Don't enforce min hold time when two demotes occur in rapid succession
GFS2: Fix whitespace in previous patch
GFS2: fallocate support
GFS2: Add a bug trap in allocation code
GFS2: No longer experimental
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (22 commits)
ceph: do not carry i_lock for readdir from dcache
fs/ceph/xattr.c: Use kmemdup
rbd: passing wrong variable to bvec_kunmap_irq()
rbd: null vs ERR_PTR
ceph: fix num_pages_free accounting in pagelist
ceph: add CEPH_MDS_OP_SETDIRLAYOUT and associated ioctl.
ceph: don't crash when passed bad mount options
ceph: fix debugfs warnings
block: rbd: removing unnecessary test
block: rbd: fixed may leaks
ceph: switch from BKL to lock_flocks()
ceph: preallocate flock state without locks held
ceph: add pagelist_reserve, pagelist_truncate, pagelist_set_cursor
ceph: use mapping->nrpages to determine if mapping is empty
ceph: only invalidate on check_caps if we actually have pages
ceph: do not hide .snap in root directory
rbd: introduce rados block device (rbd), based on libceph
ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system
ceph-rbd: osdc support for osd call and rollback operations
ceph: messenger and osdc changes for rbd
...
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hch/hfsplus: (29 commits)
hfsplus: fix getxattr return value
hfsplus: remove the unused hfsplus_kmap/hfsplus_kunmap helpers
hfsplus: create correct initial catalog entries for device files
hfsplus: remove superflous rootflags field in hfsplus_inode_info
hfsplus: fix link corruption
hfsplus: validate btree flags
hfsplus: handle more on-disk corruptions without oopsing
hfsplus: hfs_bnode_find() can fail, resulting in hfs_bnode_split() breakage
hfsplus: fix oops on mount with corrupted btree extent records
hfsplus: fix rename over directories
hfsplus: convert tree_lock to mutex
hfsplus: add missing extent locking in hfsplus_write_inode
hfsplus: protect readdir against removals from open_dir_list
hfsplus: use atomic bitops for the superblock flags
hfsplus: add per-superblock lock for volume header updates
hfsplus: remove the rsrc_inodes list
hfsplus: do not cache and write next_alloc
hfsplus: fix error handling in hfsplus_symlink
hfsplus: merge mknod/mkdir/creat
hfsplus: clean up hfsplus_write_inode
...
All uses of the BKL in freevxfs were the result of a pushdown into
code that doesn't really need it. As Christoph points out, this
is a read-only file system, which eliminates most of the races in
readdir/lookup.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
All uses of the BKL in qnx4 were the result of a pushdown into
code that doesn't really need it. As Christoph points out, this
is a read-only file system, which eliminates most of the races in
readdir/lookup.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
With all the patches we have queued in the BKL removal tree, only a
few dozen modules are left that actually rely on the BKL, and even
there are lots of low-hanging fruit. We need to decide what to do
about them, this patch illustrates one of the options:
Every user of the BKL is marked as 'depends on BKL' in Kconfig,
and the CONFIG_BKL becomes a user-visible option. If it gets
disabled, no BKL using module can be built any more and the BKL
code itself is compiled out.
The one exception is file locking, which is practically always
enabled and does a 'select BKL' instead. This effectively forces
CONFIG_BKL to be enabled until we have solved the fs/lockd
mess and can apply the patch that removes the BKL from fs/locks.c.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
cifs_tcp_ses_lock is a rwlock with protects the cifs_tcp_ses_list,
server->smb_ses_list and the ses->tcon_list. It also protects a few
ref counters in server, ses and tcon. In most cases the critical section
doesn't seem to be large, in a few cases where it is slightly large, there
seem to be really no benefit from concurrent access. I briefly considered RCU
mechanism but it appears to me that there is no real need.
Replace it with a spinlock and get rid of the last rwlock in the cifs code.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
The arguments were transposed, we want to assign the error code to
'ret', which is being returned.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
In 'ubifs_replay_journal()' we allocate 'sbuf' for scanning the log.
However, we already have 'c->sbuf' for these purposes, so do not
allocate yet another one. This reduces UBIFS memory consumption while
recovering.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This is a bug-fix: when we unmount, and we are currently in R/O
mode because of an error - we do not sync write-buffers, which
means we also do not cancel write-buffer timers we may possibly
have armed. This patch fixes the issue.
The issue can easily be reproduced by enabling UBIFS failure debug
mode (echo 4 > /sys/module/ubifs/parameters/debug_tsts) and
unmounting as soon as a failure happen. At some point the system
oopses because we have an armed hrtimer but UBIFS is unmounted
already.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This is a clean-up patch which:
1. Removes explicite 'hrtimer_cancel()' after 'ubifs_wbuf_sync()' in
'ubifs_remount_ro()', because the timers will be canceled by
'ubifs_wbuf_sync()', no need to cancel them for the second time.
2. Remove "if (c->jheads)" check from 'ubifs_put_super()', because
at journal heads must always be allocated there, since we checked
earlier that we were mounted R/W, and the olny situation when
journal heads are not allocated is when mounter or re-mounted R/O.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
We were taking dcache_lock inside of i_lock, which introduces a dependency
not found elsewhere in the kernel, complicationg the vfs locking
scalability work. Since we don't actually need it here anyway, remove
it.
We only need i_lock to test for the I_COMPLETE flag, so be careful to do
so without dcache_lock held.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Convert a sequence of kmalloc and memcpy to use kmemdup.
The semantic patch that performs this transformation is:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression a,flag,len;
expression arg,e1,e2;
statement S;
@@
a =
- \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(len,flag)
+ kmemdup(arg,len,flag)
<... when != a
if (a == NULL || ...) S
...>
- memcpy(a,arg,len+1);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Include "super.h" outside of CONFIG_DEBUG_FS to eliminate a compiler warning:
fs/ceph/debugfs.c:266: warning: 'struct ceph_fs_client' declared inside parameter list
fs/ceph/debugfs.c:266: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
fs/ceph/debugfs.c:271: warning: 'struct ceph_fs_client' declared inside parameter list
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Switch from using the BKL explicitly to the new lock_flocks() interface.
Eventually this will turn into a spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
When the lock_kernel() turns into lock_flocks() and a spinlock, we won't
be able to do allocations with the lock held. Preallocate space without
the lock, and retry if the lock state changes out from underneath us.
Signed-off-by: Greg Farnum <gregf@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
The i_rdcache_gen value only implies we MAY have cached pages; actually
check the mapping to see if it's worth bothering with an invalidate.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
This factors out protocol and low-level storage parts of ceph into a
separate libceph module living in net/ceph and include/linux/ceph. This
is mostly a matter of moving files around. However, a few key pieces
of the interface change as well:
- ceph_client becomes ceph_fs_client and ceph_client, where the latter
captures the mon and osd clients, and the fs_client gets the mds client
and file system specific pieces.
- Mount option parsing and debugfs setup is correspondingly broken into
two pieces.
- The mon client gets a generic handler callback for otherwise unknown
messages (mds map, in this case).
- The basic supported/required feature bits can be expanded (and are by
ceph_fs_client).
No functional change, aside from some subtle error handling cases that got
cleaned up in the refactoring process.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Allow the messenger to send/receive data in a bio. This is added
so that we wouldn't need to copy the data into pages or some other buffer
when doing IO for an rbd block device.
We can now have trailing variable sized data for osd
ops. Also osd ops encoding is more modular.
Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
The osd requests creation are being decoupled from the
vino parameter, allowing clients using the osd to use
other arbitrary object names that are not necessarily
vino based. Also, calc_raw_layout now takes a snap id.
Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Implement a pool lookup by name. This will be used by rbd.
Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
flush_scheduled_work() is going away.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
- Eliminate double declaration of variable blob_len
- Modify function build_ntlmssp_auth_blob to return error code
as well as length of the blob.
Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
RAW_SETBIND and RAW_GETBIND 32bit versions are fscked in interesting ways.
1) fs/compat_ioctl.c has COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(RAW_SETBIND) followed by
HANDLE_IOCTL(RAW_SETBIND, raw_ioctl). The latter is ignored.
2) on amd64 (and itanic) the damn thing is broken - we have int + u64 + u64
and layouts on i386 and amd64 are _not_ the same. raw_ioctl() would
work there, but it's never called due to (1). As it is, i386 /sbin/raw
definitely doesn't work on amd64 boxen.
3) switching to raw_ioctl() as is would *not* work on e.g. sparc64 and ppc64,
which would be rather sad, seeing that normal userland there is 32bit.
The thing is, slapping __packed on the struct in question does not DTRT -
it eliminates *all* padding. The real solution is to use compat_u64.
4) of course, all that stuff has no business being outside of raw.c in the
first place - there should be ->compat_ioctl() for /dev/rawctl instead of
messing with compat_ioctl.c.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[arnd@arndb.de: port to 2.6.36]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
/proc/diskstats would display a strange output as follows.
$ cat /proc/diskstats |grep sda
8 0 sda 90524 7579 102154 20464 0 0 0 0 0 14096 20089
8 1 sda1 19085 1352 21841 4209 0 0 0 0 4294967064 15689 4293424691
~~~~~~~~~~
8 2 sda2 71252 3624 74891 15950 0 0 0 0 232 23995 1562390
8 3 sda3 54 487 2188 92 0 0 0 0 0 88 92
8 4 sda4 4 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 5 sda5 81 2027 2130 138 0 0 0 0 0 87 137
Its reason is the wrong way of accounting hd_struct->in_flight. When a bio is
merged into a request belongs to different partition by ELEVATOR_FRONT_MERGE.
The detailed root cause is as follows.
Assuming that there are two partition, sda1 and sda2.
1. A request for sda2 is in request_queue. Hence sda1's hd_struct->in_flight
is 0 and sda2's one is 1.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | 0
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
2. A bio belongs to sda1 is issued and is merged into the request mentioned on
step1 by ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE. The first sector of the request is changed
from sda2 region to sda1 region. However the two partition's
hd_struct->in_flight are not changed.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | 0
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
3. The request is finished and blk_account_io_done() is called. In this case,
sda2's hd_struct->in_flight, not a sda1's one, is decremented.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | -1
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
The patch fixes the problem by caching the partition lookup
inside the request structure, hence making sure that the increment
and decrement will always happen on the same partition struct. This
also speeds up IO with accounting enabled, since it cuts down on
the number of lookups we have to do.
When reloading partition tables, quiesce IO to ensure that no
request references to the partition struct exists. When it is safe
to free the partition table, the IO for that device is restarted
again.
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Get rid of init_MUTEX[_LOCKED]() and use sema_init() instead.
(Ported to current XFS code by <aelder@sgi.com>.)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
This patch adds support for 32bit project quota identifiers.
On disk format is backward compatible with 16bit projid numbers. projid
on disk is now kept in two 16bit values - di_projid_lo (which holds the
same position as old 16bit projid value) and new di_projid_hi (takes
existing padding) and converts from/to 32bit value on the fly.
xfs_admin (for existing fs), mkfs.xfs (for new fs) needs to be used
to enable PROJID32BIT support.
Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Stop having two different names for many buffer functions and use
the more descriptive xfs_buf_* names directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
We're not actually passing around credentials inside XFS for a while
now, so remove all xfs_cred.h with it's cred_t typedef and all
instances of it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
This header only provides one extern that isn't actually declared
anywhere, and shadowed by a macro.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
It used to have a place when it contained an automatically generated
CVS version, but these days it's entirely superflous.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Use the correct prototype for xfs_trans_committed instead of casting it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
These days inode64 should only control which AGs we allocate new
inodes from, while we still try to support reading all existing
inodes. To make this actually work the check ontop of xfs_iget
needs to be relaxed to allow inodes in all allocation groups instead
of just those that we allow allocating inodes from. Note that we
can't simply remove the check - it prevents us from accessing
invalid data when fed invalid inode numbers from NFS or bulkstat.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Update the per-cpu counters manually in xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb
and remove support for per-cpu counters from xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch
to simplify it. And added benefit is that we don't have to take
m_sb_lock for transactions that only modify per-cpu counters.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Export xfs_icsb_modify_counters and always use it for modifying
the per-cpu counters. Remove support for per-cpu counters from
xfs_mod_incore_sb to simplify it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Fail the mount if we can't allocate memory for the per-CPU counters.
This is consistent with how we handle everything else in the mount
path and makes the superblock counter modification a lot simpler.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
pahole reports the struct xfs_buf has quite a few holes in it, so
packing the structure better will reduce the size of it by 16 bytes.
Also, move all the fields used in cache lookups into the first
cacheline.
Before on x86_64:
/* size: 320, cachelines: 5 */
/* sum members: 298, holes: 6, sum holes: 22 */
After on x86_64:
/* size: 304, cachelines: 5 */
/* padding: 6 */
/* last cacheline: 48 bytes */
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The buffer cache hash is showing typical hash scalability problems.
In large scale testing the number of cached items growing far larger
than the hash can efficiently handle. Hence we need to move to a
self-scaling cache indexing mechanism.
I have selected rbtrees for indexing becuse they can have O(log n)
search scalability, and insert and remove cost is not excessive,
even on large trees. Hence we should be able to cache large numbers
of buffers without incurring the excessive cache miss search
penalties that the hash is imposing on us.
To ensure we still have parallel access to the cache, we need
multiple trees. Rather than hashing the buffers by disk address to
select a tree, it seems more sensible to separate trees by typical
access patterns. Most operations use buffers from within a single AG
at a time, so rather than searching lots of different lists,
separate the buffer indexes out into per-AG rbtrees. This means that
searches during metadata operation have a much higher chance of
hitting cache resident nodes, and that updates of the tree are less
likely to disturb trees being accessed on other CPUs doing
independent operations.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Memory reclaim via shrinkers has a terrible habit of having N+M
concurrent shrinker executions (N = num CPUs, M = num kswapds) all
trying to shrink the same cache. When the cache they are all working
on is protected by a single spinlock, massive contention an
slowdowns occur.
Wrap the per-ag inode caches with a reclaim mutex to serialise
reclaim access to the AG. This will block concurrent reclaim in each
AG but still allow reclaim to scan multiple AGs concurrently. Allow
shrinkers to move on to the next AG if it can't get the lock, and if
we can't get any AG, then start blocking on locks.
To prevent reclaimers from continually scanning the same inodes in
each AG, add a cursor that tracks where the last reclaim got up to
and start from that point on the next reclaim. This should avoid
only ever scanning a small number of inodes at the satart of each AG
and not making progress. If we have a non-shrinker based reclaim
pass, ignore the cursor and reset it to zero once we are done.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Batch and optimise the per-ag inode lookup for reclaim to minimise
scanning overhead. This involves gang lookups on the radix trees to
get multiple inodes during each tree walk, and tighter validation of
what inodes can be reclaimed without blocking befor we take any
locks.
This is based on ideas suggested in a proof-of-concept patch
posted by Nick Piggin.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
With the reclaim code separated from the generic walking code, it is
simple to implement batched lookups for the generic walk code.
Separate out the inode validation from the execute operations and
modify the tree lookups to get a batch of inodes at a time.
Reclaim operations will be optimised separately.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When doing read side inode cache walks, the code to validate and
grab an inode is common to all callers. Split it out of the execute
callbacks in preparation for batching lookups. Similarly, split out
the inode reference dropping from the execute callbacks into the
main lookup look to be symmetric with the grab.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The reclaim walk requires different locking and has a slightly
different walk algorithm, so separate it out so that it can be
optimised separately.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
For RT and external log devices, we never use hashed buffers on them
now. Remove the buftarg hash tables that are set up for them.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When we are checking we can access the last block of each device, we
do not need to use cached buffers as they will be tossed away
immediately. Use uncached buffers for size checks so that all IO
prior to full in-memory structure initialisation does not use the
buffer cache.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Filesystem level managed buffers are buffers that have their
lifecycle controlled by the filesystem layer, not the buffer cache.
We currently cache these buffers, which makes cleanup and cache
walking somewhat troublesome. Convert the fs managed buffers to
uncached buffers obtained by via xfs_buf_get_uncached(), and remove
the XBF_FS_MANAGED special cases from the buffer cache.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Each buffer contains both a buftarg pointer and a mount pointer. If
we add a mount pointer into the buftarg, we can avoid needing the
b_mount field in every buffer and grab it from the buftarg when
needed instead. This shrinks the xfs_buf by 8 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To avoid the need to use cached buffers for single-shot or buffers
cached at the filesystem level, introduce a new buffer read
primitive that bypasses the cache an reads directly from disk.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() is really used to allocate a buffer that is
uncached. While it is not directly assigned a disk address, the fact
that they are not cached is a more important distinction. With the
upcoming uncached buffer read primitive, we should be consistent
with this disctinction.
While there, make page allocation in xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() safe
against memory reclaim re-entrancy into the filesystem by allowing
a flags parameter to be passed.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Under heavy multi-way parallel create workloads, the VFS struggles
to write back all the inodes that have been changed in age order.
The bdi flusher thread becomes CPU bound, spending 85% of it's time
in the VFS code, mostly traversing the superblock dirty inode list
to separate dirty inodes old enough to flush.
We already keep an index of all metadata changes in age order - in
the AIL - and continued log pressure will do age ordered writeback
without any extra overhead at all. If there is no pressure on the
log, the xfssyncd will periodically write back metadata in ascending
disk address offset order so will be very efficient.
Hence we can stop marking VFS inodes dirty during transaction commit
or when changing timestamps during transactions. This will keep the
inodes in the superblock dirty list to those containing data or
unlogged metadata changes.
However, the timstamp changes are slightly more complex than this -
there are a couple of places that do unlogged updates of the
timestamps, and the VFS need to be informed of these. Hence add a
new function xfs_trans_ichgtime() for transactional changes,
and leave xfs_ichgtime() for the non-transactional changes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
When we start taking a reference to the per-ag for every cached
buffer in the system, kernel lockstat profiling on an 8-way create
workload shows the mp->m_perag_lock has higher acquisition rates
than the inode lock and has significantly more contention. That is,
it becomes the highest contended lock in the system.
The perag lookup is trivial to convert to lock-less RCU lookups
because perag structures never go away. Hence the only thing we need
to protect against is tree structure changes during a grow. This can
be done simply by replacing the locking in xfs_perag_get() with RCU
read locking. This removes the mp->m_perag_lock completely from this
path.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When we start taking references per cached buffer to the the perag
it is cached on, it will blow the current debug maximum reference
count assert out of the water. The assert has never caught a bug,
and we have tracing to track changes if there ever is a problem,
so just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When commiting a transaction, we do a lock CIL state lock round trip
on every single log vector we insert into the CIL. This is resulting
in the lock being as hot as the inode and dcache locks on 8-way
create workloads. Rework the insertion loops to bring the number
of lock round trips to one per transaction for log vectors, and one
more do the busy extents.
Also change the allocation of the log vector buffer not to zero it
as we copy over the entire allocated buffer anyway.
This patch also includes a structural cleanup to the CIL item
insertion provided by Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Ionut Gabriel Popescu <poyo_vl@yahoo.com> submitted a simple change
to eliminate some "may be used uninitialized" warnings when building
XFS. The reported condition seems to be something that GCC did not
used to recognize or report. The warnings were produced by:
gcc version 4.5.0 20100604
[gcc-4_5-branch revision 160292] (SUSE Linux)
Signed-off-by: Ionut Gabriel Popescu <poyo_vl@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The implementation os ->kill_root only differ by either simply
zeroing out the now unused buffer in the btree cursor in the inode
allocation btree or using xfs_btree_setbuf in the allocation btree.
Initially both of them used xfs_btree_setbuf, but the use in the
ialloc btree was removed early on because it interacted badly with
xfs_trans_binval.
In addition to zeroing out the buffer in the cursor xfs_btree_setbuf
updates the bc_ra array in the btree cursor, and calls
xfs_trans_brelse on the buffer previous occupying the slot.
The bc_ra update should be done for the alloc btree updated too,
although the lack of it does not cause serious problems. The
xfs_trans_brelse call on the other hand is effectively a no-op in
the end - it keeps decrementing the bli_recur refcount until it hits
zero, and then just skips out because the buffer will always be
dirty at this point. So removing it for the allocation btree is
just fine.
So unify the code and move it to xfs_btree.c. While we're at it
also replace the call to xfs_btree_setbuf with a NULL bp argument in
xfs_btree_del_cursor with a direct call to xfs_trans_brelse given
that the cursor is beeing freed just after this and the state
updates are superflous. After this xfs_btree_setbuf is only used
with a non-NULL bp argument and can thus be simplified.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
In xfs_qm_dqflush we know that q_blkno must be initialized already from a
previous xfs_qm_dqread. So instead of calling xfs_qm_dqtobp we can
simply read the quota buffer directly. This also saves us from a duplicate
xfs_qm_dqcheck call check and allows xfs_qm_dqtobp to be simplified now
that it is always called for a newly initialized inode. In addition to
that properly unwind all locks in xfs_qm_dqflush when xfs_qm_dqcheck
fails.
This mirrors a similar cleanup in the inode lookup done earlier.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
There is no need to have the users and group/project quota locked at the
same time. Get rid of xfs_qm_dqget_noattach and just do a xfs_qm_dqget
inside xfs_qm_quotacheck_dqadjust for the quota we are operating on
right now. The new version of xfs_qm_quotacheck_dqadjust holds the
inode lock over it's operations, which is not a problem as it simply
increments counters and there is no concern about log contention
during mount time.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE is the equivalent of an atomic XFS_IOC_UNRESVSP/
XFS_IOC_RESVSP call pair. It enabled ranges of written data to be
turned into zeroes without requiring IO or having to free and
reallocate the extents in the range given as would occur if we had
to punch and then preallocate them separately. This enables
applications to zero parts of files very quickly without changing
the layout of the files in any way.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
