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Idan Kedar
af402ab2b0 exofs: clean up the correct page collection on write error
if ore_write() fails, we would unlock the pages of pcol, which is now
empty, rather than pcol_copy which owns the pages when ore_write() is
called. this means that no pages will actually be unlocked
(pcol.nr_pages == 0) and the writing process (more accurately, the
syncing process) will hang waiting for a writeback notification that
never comes.

moreover, if ore_write() fails, pcol_free() is called for pcol, whereas
pcol_copy is the object owning the ore_io_state, thus leaking the
ore_io_state.

[Boaz]
I have simplified Idan's original patch a bit, everything else still
holds

Signed-off-by: Idan Kedar <idank@tonian.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-12-11 18:56:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
79360ddd73 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull pile 2 of vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Stuff in this one - assorted fixes, lglock tidy-up, death to
  lock_super().

  There'll be a VFS pile tomorrow (with patches from Jeff Layton,
  sanitizing getname() and related parts of audit and preparing for
  ESTALE fixes), but I'd rather push the stuff in this one ASAP - some
  of the bugs closed here are quite unpleasant."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  vfs: bogus warnings in fs/namei.c
  consitify do_mount() arguments
  lglock: add DEFINE_STATIC_LGLOCK()
  lglock: make the per_cpu locks static
  lglock: remove unused DEFINE_LGLOCK_LOCKDEP()
  MAX_LFS_FILESIZE definition for 64bit needs LL...
  tmpfs,ceph,gfs2,isofs,reiserfs,xfs: fix fh_len checking
  vfs: drop lock/unlock super
  ufs: drop lock/unlock super
  sysv: drop lock/unlock super
  hpfs: drop lock/unlock super
  fat: drop lock/unlock super
  ext3: drop lock/unlock super
  exofs: drop lock/unlock super
  dup3: Return an error when oldfd == newfd.
  fs: handle failed audit_log_start properly
  fs: prevent use after free in auditing when symlink following was denied
2012-10-12 10:52:03 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
ce40be7a82 Merge branch 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block IO update from Jens Axboe:
 "Core block IO bits for 3.7.  Not a huge round this time, it contains:

   - First series from Kent cleaning up and generalizing bio allocation
     and freeing.

   - WRITE_SAME support from Martin.

   - Mikulas patches to prevent O_DIRECT crashes when someone changes
     the block size of a device.

   - Make bio_split() work on data-less bio's (like trim/discards).

   - A few other minor fixups."

Fixed up silent semantic mis-merge as per Mikulas Patocka and Andrew
Morton.  It is due to the VM no longer using a prio-tree (see commit
6b2dbba8b6: "mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree").

So make set_blocksize() use mapping_mapped() instead of open-coding the
internal VM knowledge that has changed.

* 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  block: makes bio_split support bio without data
  scatterlist: refactor the sg_nents
  scatterlist: add sg_nents
  fs: fix include/percpu-rwsem.h export error
  percpu-rw-semaphore: fix documentation typos
  fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared
  blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore
  Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time
  block: fix request_queue->flags initialization
  block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of blk_init_allocated_queue()
  block: ioctl to zero block ranges
  block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME
  block: Implement support for WRITE SAME
  block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges
  block: Clean up special command handling logic
  block/blk-tag.c: Remove useless kfree
  block: remove the duplicated setting for congestion_threshold
  block: reject invalid queue attribute values
  block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()
  block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc()
  ...
2012-10-11 09:04:23 +09:00
Marco Stornelli
4f7754c889 exofs: drop lock/unlock super
Removed lock/unlock super.

Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-09 23:33:38 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8711798772 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd
Pull exofs update from Boaz Harrosh:
 "Just three one liners"

* 'linux-next' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
  pnfs_osd_xdr: Remove unused #include from pnfs_osd_xdr.h
  ore: signedness bug in _sp2d_min_pg()
  exofs: check for allocation failure in uri_store()
2012-10-09 15:54:27 +09:00
Dan Carpenter
74b217d0d3 ore: signedness bug in _sp2d_min_pg()
This for loop doesn't work correctly when "p" is unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
2012-10-03 13:51:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
aab174f0df Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs update from Al Viro:

 - big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of
   that is moved to fs/file.c

   (BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c.  As it is,
   we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct
   file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons
   are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of
   struct file we used to have way back).

   A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives,
   disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least
   doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore.  A bunch of
   relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file
   leak.

 - related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in
   there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have).

 - also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs stuff that got entangled into
   that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and
   switch of fdinfo to seq_file.

 - Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to
   take that commit than mess with conflicts.  The rest is a separate
   pile, this was just a mechanical code movement.

 - a few misc patches all over the place.  Not all for this cycle,
   there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)."

Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly
simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file()
interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers"
vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of
/proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits)
  MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t
  compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation
  fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems
  btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount
  coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file
  coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper
  usb/gadget: fix misannotations
  fcntl: fix misannotations
  ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits
  hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative
  vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check
  switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
  new helpers: fdget()/fdput()
  switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light()
  proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files
  make get_file() return its argument
  vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool
  switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light()
  switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light()
  switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light()
  ...
2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
8c0a853770 fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems
There's no reason to call rcu_barrier() on every
deactivate_locked_super().  We only need to make sure that all delayed rcu
free inodes are flushed before we destroy related cache.

Removing rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() affects some fast
paths.  E.g.  on my machine exit_group() of a last process in IPC
namespace takes 0.07538s.  rcu_barrier() takes 0.05188s of that time.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.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>
2012-10-02 21:35:55 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
437589a74b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
  support.  This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
  enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
  namespace.  Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
  filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
  nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.

  The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
  subsystems and filesystems as reasonable.  Leaving the make_kuid and
  from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
  come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
  Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
  namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.

  The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
  union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
  Those places were converted into explicit unions.  I made certain to
  handle those places with simple trivial patches.

  Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
  quota by projid.  I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
  Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
  for most of the code size growth in my git tree.

  Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
  "capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
  root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
  non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.

  While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
  I made a few other cleanups.  I capitalized on the fact we process
  netlink messages in the context of the message sender.  I removed
  usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty.

  Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
  problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
  linux-next.

  After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
  win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."

Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
  userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
  userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
  userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
  userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
  userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
  userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
  userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
  userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
  userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
  userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
  ...
2012-10-02 11:11:09 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
d001b05365 userns: Convert exofs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-09-21 03:13:10 -07:00
Kent Overstreet
bf800ef181 block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()
Previously, there was bio_clone() but it only allocated from the fs bio
set; as a result various users were open coding it and using
__bio_clone().

This changes bio_clone() to become bio_clone_bioset(), and then we add
bio_clone() and bio_clone_kmalloc() as wrappers around it, making use of
the functionality the last patch adedd.

This will also help in a later patch changing how bio cloning works.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
CC: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-09 10:35:39 +02:00
Alexey Khoroshilov
b8017d2957 exofs: check for allocation failure in uri_store()
There is no memory allocation failure check in uri_store().
That can lead to NULL pointer dereference.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-08-12 21:54:44 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
d42d1dabf3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd
Pull exofs update from Boaz Harrosh:
 "They are all mostly fixes, except the most important patch by Artem
  Bityutskiy which removes the use of s_dirt.  After this patch s_dirt
  can be completely removed from the tree."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
  ore: Fix out-of-bounds access in _ios_obj()
  exofs: Use proper max_IO calculations from ore
  exofs: Fix __r4w_get_page when offset is beyond i_size
  exofs: stop using s_dirt
  exofs: readpage_strip: Add a BUG_ON to check for PageLocked(page)
2012-08-03 13:24:07 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
9e62bb4458 ore: Fix out-of-bounds access in _ios_obj()
_ios_obj() is accessed by group_index not device_table index.

The oc->comps array is only a group_full of devices at a time
it is not like ore_comp_dev() which is indexed by a global
device_table index.

This did not BUG until now because exofs only uses a single
COMP for all devices. But with other FSs like PanFS this is
not true.

This bug was only in the write_path, all other users were
using it correctly

[This is a bug since 3.2 Kernel]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-08-02 16:41:56 +03:00
Boaz Harrosh
be388f3d9a exofs: Use proper max_IO calculations from ore
exofs_max_io_pages should just use the ORE's
calculated layout->max_io_length,

And avoid unnecessary BUGs, calculations made here were
also a layering violation.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-08-02 16:39:17 +03:00
Boaz Harrosh
4b74f6ea84 exofs: Fix __r4w_get_page when offset is beyond i_size
It is very common for the end of the file to be unaligned on
stripe size. But since we know it's beyond file's end then
the XOR should be preformed with all zeros.

Old code used to just read zeros out of the OSD devices, which is a great
waist. But what scares me more about this situation is that, we now have
pages attached to the file's mapping that are beyond i_size. I don't
like the kind of bugs this calls for.

Fix both birds, by returning a global ZERO_PAGE, if offset is beyond
i_size.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-08-02 14:58:22 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
66153f6e0f exofs: stop using s_dirt
Exofs has the '->write_super()' handler and makes some use of the '->s_dirt'
superblock flag, but it really needs neither of them because it never sets
's_dirt' to one which means the VFS never calls its '->write_super()' handler.
Thus, remove both.

Note, I am trying to remove both 's_dirt' and 'write_super()' from VFS
altogether once all users are gone.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-08-02 14:52:13 +03:00
Kautuk Consul
0e8d96dd2c exofs: readpage_strip: Add a BUG_ON to check for PageLocked(page)
readpage_strip can be called from several code paths all of which
require that the page be locked before any operations are carried
out.

Since we export the exofs_readpage callback to the VFS, add a
BUG_ON to check for PageLocked(page) to make sure that this
understanding is never compromised.

Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-08-02 14:52:12 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
a66d2c8f7e Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull the big VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "This one is *big* and changes quite a few things around VFS.  What's in there:

   - the first of two really major architecture changes - death to open
     intents.

     The former is finally there; it was very long in making, but with
     Miklos getting through really hard and messy final push in
     fs/namei.c, we finally have it.  Unlike his variant, this one
     doesn't introduce struct opendata; what we have instead is
     ->atomic_open() taking preallocated struct file * and passing
     everything via its fields.

     Instead of returning struct file *, it returns -E...  on error, 0
     on success and 1 in "deal with it yourself" case (e.g.  symlink
     found on server, etc.).

     See comments before fs/namei.c:atomic_open().  That made a lot of
     goodies finally possible and quite a few are in that pile:
     ->lookup(), ->d_revalidate() and ->create() do not get struct
     nameidata * anymore; ->lookup() and ->d_revalidate() get lookup
     flags instead, ->create() gets "do we want it exclusive" flag.

     With the introduction of new helper (kern_path_locked()) we are rid
     of all struct nameidata instances outside of fs/namei.c; it's still
     visible in namei.h, but not for long.  Come the next cycle,
     declaration will move either to fs/internal.h or to fs/namei.c
     itself.  [me, miklos, hch]

   - The second major change: behaviour of final fput().  Now we have
     __fput() done without any locks held by caller *and* not from deep
     in call stack.

     That obviously lifts a lot of constraints on the locking in there.
     Moreover, it's legal now to call fput() from atomic contexts (which
     has immediately simplified life for aio.c).  We also don't need
     anti-recursion logics in __scm_destroy() anymore.

     There is a price, though - the damn thing has become partially
     asynchronous.  For fput() from normal process we are guaranteed
     that pending __fput() will be done before the caller returns to
     userland, exits or gets stopped for ptrace.

     For kernel threads and atomic contexts it's done via
     schedule_work(), so theoretically we might need a way to make sure
     it's finished; so far only one such place had been found, but there
     might be more.

     There's flush_delayed_fput() (do all pending __fput()) and there's
     __fput_sync() (fput() analog doing __fput() immediately).  I hope
     we won't need them often; see warnings in fs/file_table.c for
     details.  [me, based on task_work series from Oleg merged last
     cycle]

   - sync series from Jan

   - large part of "death to sync_supers()" work from Artem; the only
     bits missing here are exofs and ext4 ones.  As far as I understand,
     those are going via the exofs and ext4 trees resp.; once they are
     in, we can put ->write_super() to the rest, along with the thread
     calling it.

   - preparatory bits from unionmount series (from dhowells).

   - assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place, as usual.

  This is not the last pile for this cycle; there's at least jlayton's
  ESTALE work and fsfreeze series (the latter - in dire need of fixes,
  so I'm not sure it'll make the cut this cycle).  I'll probably throw
  symlink/hardlink restrictions stuff from Kees into the next pile, too.
  Plus there's a lot of misc patches I hadn't thrown into that one -
  it's large enough as it is..."

* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (127 commits)
  ext4: switch EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS to mnt_want_write_file()
  btrfs: switch btrfs_ioctl_balance() to mnt_want_write_file()
  switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself
  spufs: shift dget/mntget towards dentry_open()
  zoran: don't bother with struct file * in zoran_map
  ecryptfs: don't reinvent the wheels, please - use struct completion
  don't expose I_NEW inodes via dentry->d_inode
  tidy up namei.c a bit
  unobfuscate follow_up() a bit
  ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size()
  ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks
  vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code
  vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sys_sync and reorder sync passes
  vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices
  vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes
  vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices
  vfs: Reorder operations during sys_sync
  quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs method
  quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part
  vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback
  ...
2012-07-23 12:27:27 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
537632e0a5 ore: Unlock r4w pages in exact reverse order of locking
The read-4-write pages are locked in address ascending order.
But where unlocked in a way easiest for coding. Fix that,
locks should be released in opposite order of locking, .i.e
descending address order.

I have not hit this dead-lock. It was found by inspecting the
dbug print-outs. I suspect there is an higher lock at caller that
protects us, but fix it regardless.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-07-20 11:49:25 +03:00
Boaz Harrosh
62b62ad873 ore: Remove support of partial IO request (NFS crash)
Do to OOM situations the ore might fail to allocate all resources
needed for IO of the full request. If some progress was possible
it would proceed with a partial/short request, for the sake of
forward progress.

Since this crashes NFS-core and exofs is just fine without it just
remove this contraption, and fail.

TODO:
	Support real forward progress with some reserved allocations
	of resources, such as mem pools and/or bio_sets

[Bug since 3.2 Kernel]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
CC: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-07-20 11:47:43 +03:00
Boaz Harrosh
9ff19309a9 ore: Fix NFS crash by supporting any unaligned RAID IO
In RAID_5/6 We used to not permit an IO that it's end
byte is not stripe_size aligned and spans more than one stripe.
.i.e the caller must check if after submission the actual
transferred bytes is shorter, and would need to resubmit
a new IO with the remainder.

Exofs supports this, and NFS was supposed to support this
as well with it's short write mechanism. But late testing has
exposed a CRASH when this is used with none-RPC layout-drivers.

The change at NFS is deep and risky, in it's place the fix
at ORE to lift the limitation is actually clean and simple.
So here it is below.

The principal here is that in the case of unaligned IO on
both ends, beginning and end, we will send two read requests
one like old code, before the calculation of the first stripe,
and also a new site, before the calculation of the last stripe.
If any "boundary" is aligned or the complete IO is within a single
stripe. we do a single read like before.

The code is clean and simple by splitting the old _read_4_write
into 3 even parts:
1._read_4_write_first_stripe
2. _read_4_write_last_stripe
3. _read_4_write_execute

And calling 1+3 at the same place as before. 2+3 before last
stripe, and in the case of all in a single stripe then 1+2+3
is preformed additively.

Why did I not think of it before. Well I had a strike of
genius because I have stared at this code for 2 years, and did
not find this simple solution, til today. Not that I did not try.

This solution is much better for NFS than the previous supposedly
solution because the short write was dealt  with out-of-band after
IO_done, which would cause for a seeky IO pattern where as in here
we execute in order. At both solutions we do 2 separate reads, only
here we do it within a single IO request. (And actually combine two
writes into a single submission)

NFS/exofs code need not change since the ORE API communicates the new
shorter length on return, what will happen is that this case would not
occur anymore.

hurray!!

[Stable this is an NFS bug since 3.2 Kernel should apply cleanly]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-07-20 11:45:28 +03:00
Al Viro
ebfc3b49a7 don't pass nameidata to ->create()
boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:34:47 +04:00
Al Viro
00cd8dd3bf 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...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:34:32 +04:00
Randy Dunlap
b84297197c exofs: fix sparse non-ANSI function warning
Fix sparse non-ANSI function warning:

  fs/exofs/sys.c:112:28: warning: non-ANSI function declaration of function 'exofs_sysfs_dbg_print'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-12 06:33:22 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
a01ee165a1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd
Pull exofs updates from Boaz Harrosh:
 "Just a couple of patches.  The first is a BUG fix destined for stable
  which missed the 3.4-rc7 Kernel.  The second is just a fixture
  addition so exofs is able to be better exported as a cluster file
  system via pNFS."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
  exofs: Add SYSFS info for autologin/pNFS export
  exofs: Fix CRASH on very early IO errors.
2012-05-28 13:10:41 -07:00
Sachin Bhamare
8b56a30caa exofs: Add SYSFS info for autologin/pNFS export
Introduce sysfs infrastructure for exofs cluster filesystem.

Each OSD target shows up as below in the sysfs hierarchy:
	/sys/fs/exofs/<osdname>_<partition_id>/devX

Where <osdname>_<partition_id> is the unique identification
of a Superblock.

Where devX: 0 <= X < device_table_size. They are ordered
in device-table order as specified to the mkfs.exofs command

Each OSD device  devX has following attributes :
	osdname - ReadOnly
	systemid - ReadOnly
	uri - Read/Write

It is up to user-mode to update devX/uri for support of
autologin.

These sysfs information are used both for autologin as well
as support for exporting exofs via a pNFSD server in user-mode.
(.eg NFS-Ganesha)

Signed-off-by: Sachin Bhamare <sbhamare@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-05-21 12:24:01 +03:00
Boaz Harrosh
6abe4a87f7 exofs: Fix CRASH on very early IO errors.
If at exofs_fill_super() we had an early termination
do to any error, like an IO error while reading the
super-block. We would crash inside exofs_free_sbi().

This is because sbi->oc.numdevs was set to 1, before
we actually have a device table at all.

Fix it by moving the sbi->oc.numdevs = 1 to after the
allocation of the device table.

Reported-by: Johannes Schild <JSchild@gmx.de>

Stable: This is a bug since v3.2.0
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-05-20 19:42:41 +03:00
Jan Kara
dbd5768f87 vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06 13:43:41 +08:00
Linus Torvalds
afb9bd704c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd
Pull trivial exofs changes from Boaz Harrosh:
 "Just nothingness really.  The big exofs changes are reserved for the
  next merge window."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
  exofs: Cap on the memcpy() size
  exofs: (trivial) Fix typo in super.c
  exofs: fix endian conversion in exofs_sync_fs()
2012-03-28 20:04:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e2a0883e40 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
 "This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there
  yet."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
  ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier
  debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole
  hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files
  hfsplus: change finder_info to u32
  hfsplus: initialise userflags
  qnx4: new helper - try_extent()
  qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk
  take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec()
  trim includes in inode.c
  um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on ->mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it
  um: embed ->stub_pages[] into mmu_context
  gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse
  ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init
  ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit
  ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure
  logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
  jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
  make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success
  configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry->d_parent
  configfs: sanitize configfs_create()
  ...
2012-03-21 13:36:41 -07:00
Al Viro
48fde701af switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helper
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:35 -04:00
Al Viro
8de5277879 vfs: check i_nlink limits in vfs_{mkdir,rename_dir,link}
New field of struct super_block - ->s_max_links.  Maximal allowed
value of ->i_nlink or 0; in the latter case all checks still need
to be done in ->link/->mkdir/->rename instances.  Note that this
limit applies both to directoris and to non-directories.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:32 -04:00
Cong Wang
bf7014b67f exofs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
Ack-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20 21:48:22 +08:00
Dan Carpenter
72749a270b exofs: Cap on the memcpy() size
This data comes from the device, so probably it's fairly trustworthy but
it makes the static checkers happy if we check it.

[Boaz]
  the system_id_len is zero, if not present, or always OSD_SYSTEMID_LEN.
  So always copy OSD_SYSTEMID_LEN bytes.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-03-19 13:39:12 -07:00
Masanari Iida
3e57638bb1 exofs: (trivial) Fix typo in super.c
Correct spelling "faild" to "failed" in
fs/exofs/super.c

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-03-19 13:39:12 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
b6d1f2dd61 exofs: fix endian conversion in exofs_sync_fs()
fscb->s_numfiles is an __le64 field so we need to use cpu_to_le64()
to get a little endian 64 bit on big endian systems.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-03-19 13:39:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9e203936ea Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
  ore: Must support none-PAGE-aligned IO
  ore: fix BUG_ON, too few sgs when reading
  ore: Fix crash in case of an IO error.
  ore: FIX breakage when MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not set
2012-01-09 12:51:01 -08:00
Al Viro
da01636a65 exofs: oops after late failure in mount
We have already set ->s_root, so ->put_super() is going to be called.
Freeing ->s_fs_info is a bloody bad idea when it's going to be
dereferenced very shortly...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-08 20:19:12 -05:00
Boaz Harrosh
724577ca35 ore: Must support none-PAGE-aligned IO
NFS might send us offsets that are not PAGE aligned. So
we must read in the reminder of the first/last pages, in cases
we need it for Parity calculations.

We only add an sg segments to read the partial page. But
we don't mark it as read=true because it is a lock-for-write
page.

TODO: In some cases (IO spans a single unit) we can just
adjust the raid_unit offset/length, but this is left for
later Kernels.

[Bug in 3.2.0 Kernel]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-01-08 10:43:13 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
361aba569f ore: fix BUG_ON, too few sgs when reading
When reading RAID5 files, in rare cases, we calculated too
few sg segments. There should be two extra for the beginning
and end partial units.

Also "too few sg segments" should not be a BUG_ON there is
all the mechanics in place to handle it, as a short read.
So just return -ENOMEM and the rest of the code will gracefully
split the IO.

[Bug in 3.2.0 Kernel]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-01-06 16:49:07 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
ffefb8eaa3 ore: Fix crash in case of an IO error.
The users of ore_check_io() expect the reported device
(In case of error) to be indexed relative to the passed-in
ore_components table, and not the logical dev index.

This causes a crash inside objlayoutdriver in case of
an IO error.

[Bug in 3.2.0 Kernel]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-01-06 16:49:06 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
831c2dc5f4 ore: FIX breakage when MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not set
As Reported by Randy Dunlap

When MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not enabled and NFS4.1 is:

fs/built-in.o: In function `objio_alloc_io_state':
objio_osd.c:(.text+0xcb525): undefined reference to `ore_get_rw_state'
fs/built-in.o: In function `_write_done':
objio_osd.c:(.text+0xcb58d): undefined reference to `ore_check_io'
fs/built-in.o: In function `_read_done':
...

When MISC_FILESYSTEMS, which is more of a GUI thing then anything else,
is not selected. exofs/Kconfig is never examined during Kconfig,
and it can not do it's magic stuff to automatically select everything
needed.

We must split exofs/Kconfig in two. The ore one is always included.
And the exofs one is left in it's old place in the menu.

[Needed for the 3.2.0 Kernel]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2012-01-06 16:48:14 +02:00
Al Viro
bef41c267e exofs: propagate umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:55:05 -05:00
Al Viro
1a67aafb5f switch ->mknod() to umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:54 -05:00
Al Viro
4acdaf27eb switch ->create() to umode_t
vfs_create() ignores everything outside of 16bit subset of its
mode argument; switching it to umode_t is obviously equivalent
and it's the only caller of the method

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:53 -05:00
Al Viro
18bb1db3e7 switch vfs_mkdir() and ->mkdir() to umode_t
vfs_mkdir() gets int, but immediately drops everything that might not
fit into umode_t and that's the only caller of ->mkdir()...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:53 -05:00
Al Viro
6b520e0565 vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors
Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else.  Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:52:40 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
32aaeffbd4 Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6736c04799 Merge branch 'nfs-for-3.2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
* 'nfs-for-3.2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (25 commits)
  nfs: set vs_hidden on nfs4_callback_version4 (try #2)
  pnfs-obj: Support for RAID5 read-4-write interface.
  pnfs-obj: move to ore 03: Remove old raid engine
  pnfs-obj: move to ore 02: move to ORE
  pnfs-obj: move to ore 01: ore_layout & ore_components
  pnfs-obj: Rename objlayout_io_state => objlayout_io_res
  pnfs-obj: Get rid of objlayout_{alloc,free}_io_state
  pnfs-obj: Return PNFS_NOT_ATTEMPTED in case of read/write_pagelist
  pnfs-obj: Remove redundant EOF from objlayout_io_state
  nfs: Remove unused variable from write.c
  nfs: Fix unused variable warning from file.c
  NFS: Remove no-op less-than-zero checks on unsigned variables.
  NFS: Clean up nfs4_xdr_dec_secinfo()
  NFS: Fix documenting comment for nfs_create_request()
  NFS4: fix cb_recallany decode error
  nfs4: serialize layoutcommit
  SUNRPC: remove rpcbind clients destruction on module cleanup
  SUNRPC: remove rpcbind clients creation during service registering
  NFSd: call svc rpcbind cleanup explicitly
  SUNRPC: cleanup service destruction
  ...
2011-11-04 12:27:43 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
eecfc6312a pnfs-obj: move to ore 02: move to ORE
In this patch we are actually moving to the ORE.
(Object Raid Engine).

objio_state holds a pointer to an ore_io_state. Once
we have an ore_io_state at hand we can call the ore
for reading/writing. We register on the done path
to kick off the nfs io_done mechanism.

Again for Ease of reviewing the old code is "#if 0"
but is not removed so the diff command works better.
The old code will be removed in the next patch.

fs/exofs/Kconfig::ORE is modified to also be auto-included
if PNFS_OBJLAYOUT is set. Since we now depend on ORE.
(See comments in fs/exofs/Kconfig)

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-11-02 23:56:08 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
bfe8684869 filesystems: add set_nlink()
Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-11-02 12:53:43 +01:00
Paul Gortmaker
143cb494cb fs: add module.h to files that were implicitly using it
Some files were using the complete module.h infrastructure without
actually including the header at all.  Fix them up in advance so
once the implicit presence is removed, we won't get failures like this:

  CC [M]  fs/nfsd/nfssvc.o
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c: In function 'nfsd_create_serv':
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:335: error: 'THIS_MODULE' undeclared (first use in this function)
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:335: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:335: error: for each function it appears in.)
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c: In function 'nfsd':
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:555: error: implicit declaration of function 'module_put_and_exit'
make[3]: *** [fs/nfsd/nfssvc.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:31 -04:00
Boaz Harrosh
44231e686b ore: Enable RAID5 mounts
Now that we support raid5 Enable it at mount. Raid6 will come next
raid4 is not demanded for so it will probably not be enabled.
(Until some one wants it)

NOTE: That mkfs.exofs had support for raid5/6 since long time
ago. (Making an empty raidX FS is just as easy as raid0 ;-} )

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-24 17:22:29 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
dd29661997 exofs: Support for RAID5 read-4-write interface.
The ore need suplied a r4w_get_page/r4w_put_page API
from Filesystem so it can get cache pages to read-into when
writing parial stripes.

Also I commented out and NULLed the .writepage (singular)
vector. Because it gives terrible write pattern to raid
and is apparently not needed. Even in OOM conditions the
system copes (even better) with out it.

TODO: How to specify to write_cache_pages() to start
      or include a certain page?

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-24 17:22:28 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
769ba8d920 ore: RAID5 Write
This is finally the RAID5 Write support.

The bigger part of this patch is not the XOR engine itself, But the
read4write logic, which is a complete mini prepare_for_striping
reading engine that can read scattered pages of a stripe into cache
so it can be used for XOR calculation. That is, if the write was not
stripe aligned.

The main algorithm behind the XOR engine is the 2 dimensional array:
	struct __stripe_pages_2d.
A drawing might save 1000 words
---

__stripe_pages_2d
       |
 n = pages_in_stripe_unit;
 w = group_width - parity;
       |                            pages array presented to the XOR lib
       |                                                |
       V                                                |
 __1_page_stripe[0].pages --> [c0][c1]..[cw][c_par] <---|
       |                                                |
 __1_page_stripe[1].pages --> [c0][c1]..[cw][c_par] <---
       |
...    |                         ...
       |
 __1_page_stripe[n].pages --> [c0][c1]..[cw][c_par]
                               ^
                               |
           data added columns first then row

---
The pages are put on this array columns first. .i.e:
	p0-of-c0, p1-of-c0, ... pn-of-c0, p0-of-c1, ...
So we are doing a corner turn of the pages.

Note that pages will zigzag down and left. but are put sequentially
in growing order. So when the time comes to XOR the stripe, only the
beginning and end of the array need be checked. We scan the array
and any NULL spot will be field by pages-to-be-read.

The FS that wants to support RAID5 needs to supply an
operations-vector that searches a given page in cache, and specifies
if the page is uptodate or need reading. All these pages to be read
are put on a slave ore_io_state and synchronously read. All the pages
of a stripe are read in one IO, using the scatter gather mechanism.

In write we constrain our IO to only be incomplete on a single
stripe. Meaning either the complete IO is within a single stripe so
we might have pages to read from both beginning  or end of the
strip. Or we have some reading to do at beginning but end at strip
boundary. The left over pages are pushed to the next IO by the API
already established by previous work, where an IO offset/length
combination presented to the ORE might get the length truncated and
the user must re-submit the leftover pages. (Both exofs and NFS
support this)

But any ORE user should make it's best effort to align it's IO
before hand and avoid complications. A cached ore_layout->stripe_size
member can be used for that calculation. (NOTE: that ORE demands
that stripe_size may not be bigger then 32bit)

What else? Well read it and tell me.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-24 17:15:33 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
a1fec1dbbc ore: RAID5 read
This patch introduces the first stage of RAID5 support
mainly the skip-over-raid-units when reading. For
writes it inserts BLANK units, into where XOR blocks
should be calculated and written to.

It introduces the new "general raid maths", and the main
additional parameters and components needed for raid5.

Since at this stage it could corrupt future version that
actually do support raid5. The enablement of raid5
mounting and setting of parity-count > 0 is disabled. So
the raid5 code will never be used. Mounting of raid5 is
only enabled later once the basic XOR write is also in.
But if the patch "enable RAID5" is applied this code has
been tested to be able to properly read raid5 volumes
and is according to standard.

Also it has been tested that the new maths still properly
supports RAID0 and grouping code just as before.
(BTW: I have found more bugs in the pnfs-obj RAID math
 fixed here)

The ore.c file is getting too big, so new ore_raid.[hc]
files are added that will include the special raid stuff
that are not used in striping and mirrors. In future write
support these will get bigger.
When adding the ore_raid.c to Kbuild file I was forced to
rename ore.ko to libore.ko. Is it possible to keep source
file, say ore.c and module file ore.ko the same even if there
are multiple files inside ore.ko?

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-24 16:55:36 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
611d7a5dc6 ore: Make ore_calc_stripe_info EXPORT_SYMBOL
ore_calc_stripe_info is needed by exofs::export.c
for the layout calculations. Make it exportable

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-24 16:30:08 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
4b46c9f5cf ore/exofs: Change ore_check_io API
Current ore_check_io API receives a residual
pointer, to report partial IO. But it is actually
not used, because in a multiple devices IO there
is never a linearity in the IO failure.

On the other hand if every failing device is reported
through a received callback measures can be taken to
handle only failed devices. One at a time.

This will also be needed by the objects-layout-driver
for it's error reporting facility.

Exofs is not currently using the new information and
keeps the old behaviour of failing the complete IO in
case of an error. (No partial completion)

TODO: Use an ore_check_io callback to set_page_error only
the failing pages. And re-dirty write pages.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-14 18:54:42 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
5a51c0c7e9 ore/exofs: Define new ore_verify_layout
All users of the ore will need to check if current code
supports the given layout. For example RAID5/6 is not
currently supported.

So move all the checks from exofs/super.c to a new
ore_verify_layout() to be used by ore users.

Note that any new layout should be passed through the
ore_verify_layout() because the ore engine will prepare
and verify some internal members of ore_layout, and
assumes it's called.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-14 18:54:41 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
3bd9856857 ore: Support for partial component table
Users like the objlayout-driver would like to only pass
a partial device table that covers the IO in question.
For example exofs divides the file into raid-group-sized
chunks and only serves group_width number of devices at
a time.

The partiality is communicated by setting
ore_componets->first_dev and the array covers all logical
devices from oc->first_dev upto (oc->first_dev + oc->numdevs)

The ore_comp_dev() API receives a logical device index
and returns the actual present device in the table.
An out-of-range dev_index will BUG.

Logical device index is the theoretical device index as if
all the devices of a file are present. .i.e:
	total_devs = group_width * mirror_p1 * group_count
	0 <= dev_index < total_devs

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-14 18:54:41 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
bbf9a31bba ore: Support for short read/writes
Memory conditions and max_bio constraints might cause us to
not comply to the full length of the requested IO. Instead of
failing the complete IO we can issue a shorter read/write and
report how much was actually executed in the ios->length
member.

All users must check ios->length at IO_done or upon return of
ore_read/write and re-issue the reminder of the bytes. Because
other wise there is no error returned like before.

This is part of the effort to support the pnfs-obj layout driver.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-14 18:54:40 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
154a9300cd exofs: Support for short read/writes
If at read/write_done the actual IO was shorter then requested,
reported in returned ios->length. It is not an error. The reminder
of the pages should just be unlocked but not marked uptodate or
end_page_writeback. They will be re issued later by the VFS.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-14 18:54:39 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
6851a5e5c1 ore: Remove check for ios->kern_buff in _prepare_for_striping to later
Move the check and preparation of the ios->kern_buff case to
later inside _write_mirror().

Since read was never used with ios->kern_buff its support is removed
instead of fixed.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-14 18:53:55 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
9826075404 ore: cleanup: Embed an ore_striping_info inside ore_io_state
Now that each ore_io_state covers only a single raid group.
A single striping_info math is needed. Embed one inside
ore_io_state to cache the calculation results and eliminate
an extra call.

Also the outer _prepare_for_striping is removed since it does nothing.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-14 18:53:54 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
b916c5cd4d ore: Only IO one group at a time (API change)
Usually a single IO is confined to one group of devices
(group_width) and at the boundary of a raid group it can
spill into a second group. Current code would allocate a
full device_table size array at each io_state so it can
comply to requests that span two groups. Needless to say
that is very wasteful, specially when device_table count
can get very large (hundreds even thousands), while a
group_width is usually 8 or 10.

* Change ore API to trim on IO that spans two raid groups.
  The user passes offset+length to ore_get_rw_state, the
  ore might trim on that length if spanning a group boundary.
  The user must check ios->length or ios->nrpages to see
  how much IO will be preformed. It is the responsibility
  of the user to re-issue the reminder of the IO.

* Modify exofs To copy spilled pages on to the next IO.
  This means one last kick is needed after all coalescing
  of pages is done.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-14 18:52:50 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
d866d875f6 ore/exofs: Change the type of the devices array (API change)
In the pNFS obj-LD the device table at the layout level needs
to point to a device_cache node, where it is possible and likely
that many layouts will point to the same device-nodes.

In Exofs we have a more orderly structure where we have a single
array of devices that repeats twice for a round-robin view of the
device table

This patch moves to a model that can be used by the pNFS obj-LD
where struct ore_components holds an array of ore_dev-pointers.
(ore_dev is newly defined and contains a struct osd_dev *od
 member)

Each pointer in the array of pointers will point to a bigger
user-defined dev_struct. That can be accessed by use of the
container_of macro.

In Exofs an __alloc_dev_table() function allocates the
ore_dev-pointers array as well as an exofs_dev array, in one
allocation and does the addresses dance to set everything pointing
correctly. It still keeps the double allocation trick for the
inodes round-robin view of the table.

The device table is always allocated dynamically, also for the
single device case. So it is unconditionally freed at umount.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-04 12:13:59 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
eb507bc189 ore: Make ore_striping_info and ore_calc_stripe_info public
The struct ore_striping_info will be used later in other
structures. And ore_calc_stripe_info as well. Rename them
make struct ore_striping_info public. ore_calc_stripe_info
is still static, will be made public on first use.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-03 17:07:51 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
8d2d83a835 exofs: Remove unused data_map member from exofs_sb_info
The struct pnfs_osd_data_map data_map member of exofs_sb_info was
never used after mount. In fact all it's members were duplicated
by the ore_layout structure. So just remove the duplicated information.

Also removed some stupid, but perfectly supported, restrictions on
layout parameters. The case where num_devices is not divisible by
mirror_count+1 is perfectly fine since the rotating device view
will eventually use all the devices it can get.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
2011-10-03 17:07:51 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
5bf696dad4 exofs: Rename struct ore_components comps => oc
ore_components already has a comps member so this leads
to things like comps->comps which is annoying. the name oc
was already used in new code. So rename all old usage of
ore_components comps => ore_components oc.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-03 17:07:50 +02:00
H Hartley Sweeten
de74b05ace exofs/super.c: local functions should be static
This quiets the following sparse noise:

warning: symbol 'exofs_sync_fs' was not declared. Should it be static?
warning: symbol 'exofs_free_sbi' was not declared. Should it be static?
warning: symbol 'exofs_get_parent' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-03 17:07:29 +02:00
H Hartley Sweeten
1958c7c284 exofs/ore.c: local functions should be static
This quiets the sparse noise:

warning: symbol '_calc_trunk_info' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-10-03 17:06:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c2f340a69c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
  ore: Make ore its own module
  exofs: Rename raid engine from exofs/ios.c => ore
  exofs: ios: Move to a per inode components & device-table
  exofs: Move exofs specific osd operations out of ios.c
  exofs: Add offset/length to exofs_get_io_state
  exofs: Fix truncate for the raid-groups case
  exofs: Small cleanup of exofs_fill_super
  exofs: BUG: Avoid sbi realloc
  exofs: Remove pnfs-osd private definitions
  nfs_xdr: Move nfs4_string definition out of #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_V4
2011-08-06 22:56:03 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
cf283ade08 ore: Make ore its own module
Export everything from ore need exporting. Change Kbuild and Kconfig
to build ore.ko as an independent module. Import ore from exofs

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-08-06 19:36:19 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
8ff660ab85 exofs: Rename raid engine from exofs/ios.c => ore
ORE stands for "Objects Raid Engine"

This patch is a mechanical rename of everything that was in ios.c
and its API declaration to an ore.c and an osd_ore.h header. The ore
engine will later be used by the pnfs objects layout driver.

* File ios.c => ore.c

* Declaration of types and API are moved from exofs.h to a new
  osd_ore.h

* All used types are prefixed by ore_ from their exofs_ name.

* Shift includes from exofs.h to osd_ore.h so osd_ore.h is
  independent, include it from exofs.h.

Other than a pure rename there are no other changes. Next patch
will move the ore into it's own module and will export the API
to be used by exofs and later the layout driver

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-08-06 19:36:18 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
9e9db45649 exofs: ios: Move to a per inode components & device-table
Exofs raid engine was saving on memory space by having a single layout-info,
single pid, and a single device-table, global to the filesystem. Then passing
a credential and object_id info at the io_state level, private for each
inode. It would also devise this contraption of rotating the device table
view for each inode->ino to spread out the device usage.

This is not compatible with the pnfs-objects standard, demanding that
each inode can have it's own layout-info, device-table, and each object
component it's own pid, oid and creds.

So: Bring exofs raid engine to be usable for generic pnfs-objects use by:

* Define an exofs_comp structure that holds obj_id and credential info.

* Break up exofs_layout struct to an exofs_components structure that holds a
  possible array of exofs_comp and the array of devices + the size of the
  arrays.

* Add a "comps" parameter to get_io_state() that specifies the ids creds
  and device array to use for each IO.

  This enables to keep the layout global, but the device-table view, creds
  and IDs at the inode level. It only adds two 64bit to each inode, since
  some of these members already existed in another form.

* ios raid engine now access layout-info and comps-info through the passed
  pointers. Everything is pre-prepared by caller for generic access of
  these structures and arrays.

At the exofs Level:

* Super block holds an exofs_components struct that holds the device
  array, previously in layout. The devices there are in device-table
  order. The device-array is twice bigger and repeats the device-table
  twice so now each inode's device array can point to a random device
  and have a round-robin view of the table, making it compatible to
  previous exofs versions.

* Each inode has an exofs_components struct that is initialized at
  load time, with it's own view of the device table IDs and creds.
  When doing IO this gets passed to the io_state together with the
  layout.

While preforming this change. Bugs where found where credentials with the
wrong IDs where used to access the different SB objects (super.c). As well
as some dead code. It was never noticed because the target we use does not
check the credentials.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-08-06 19:35:32 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
85e44df474 exofs: Move exofs specific osd operations out of ios.c
ios.c will be moving to an external library, for use by the
objects-layout-driver. Remove from it some exofs specific functions.

Also g_attr_logical_length is used both by inode.c and ios.c
move definition to the later, to keep it independent

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-08-06 19:35:31 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
e1042ba099 exofs: Add offset/length to exofs_get_io_state
In future raid code we will need to know the IO offset/length
and if it's a read or write to determine some of the array
sizes we'll need.

So add a new exofs_get_rw_state() API for use when
writeing/reading. All other simple cases are left using the
old way.

The major change to this is that now we need to call
exofs_get_io_state later at inode.c::read_exec and
inode.c::write_exec when we actually know these things. So this
patch is kept separate so I can test things apart from other
changes.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-08-06 19:35:31 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
16f75bb35d exofs: Fix truncate for the raid-groups case
In the general raid-group case the truncate was wrong in that
it did not also fix the object length of the neighboring groups.

There are two bad cases in the old code:
1. Space that should be freed was not.
2. If a file That was big is truncated small, then made bigger
   again, the holes would not contain zeros but could expose old data.
   (If the growing of the file expands to more than a full
    groups cycle + group size (> S + T))

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-08-04 12:35:25 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
9ce730475e exofs: Small cleanup of exofs_fill_super
Small cleanup that unifies duplicated code used in both the
error and success cases

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-08-04 12:35:23 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
6d4073e881 exofs: BUG: Avoid sbi realloc
Since the beginning we realloced the sbi structure when a bigger
then one device table was specified. (I know that was really stupid).

Then much later when "register bdi" was added (By Jens) it was
registering the pointer to sbi->bdi before the realloc.

We never saw this problem because up till now the realloc did not
do anything since the device table was small enough to fit in the
original allocation. But once we starting testing with large device
tables (Bigger then 28) we noticed the crash of writeback operating
on a deallocated pointer.

* Avoid the all mess by allocating the device-table as a second array
  and get rid of the variable-sized structure and the rest of this
  mess.
* Take the chance to clean near by structures and comments.
* Add a needed dprint on startup to indicate the loaded layout.
* Also move the bdi registration to the very end because it will
  only fail in a low memory, which will probably fail before hand.
  There are many more likely causes to not load before that. This
  way the error handling is made simpler. (Just doing this would be
  enough to fix the BUG)

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-08-04 12:35:20 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
26ae93c2dc exofs: Remove pnfs-osd private definitions
Now that pnfs-osd has hit mainline we can remove exofs's
private header. (And the FIXME comment)

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-08-04 12:35:18 -07:00
Josef Bacik
02c24a8218 fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers
Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers.  Some
file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
ocfs2.  For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
Thanks,

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:59 -04:00
Al Viro
a9049376ee make d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err)
... and simplify the living hell out of callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:26 -04:00
Al Viro
a803b8067e fix exofs ->get_parent()
NULL is not a possible return value for that method, TYVM...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-17 23:20:29 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Linus Torvalds
6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
a49fb4c3d0 exofs: deprecate the commands pending counter
One leftover from the days of IBM's original code, is an SB counter
that counts in-flight asynchronous commands. And a piece of code that
waits for the counter to reach zero at unmount. I guess it might have
been needed then, cause of some reference missing or something.

I'm not removing it yet but am putting a warning message if ever this
counter triggers at unmount. If I'll never see it triggers or reported
I'll remove the counter for good.
(I had this print as a debug output for a long time and never had it
 trigger)

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-03-15 15:02:52 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
1cea312ad4 exofs: Write sbi->s_nextid as part of the Create command
Before when creating a new inode, we'd set the sb->s_dirt flag,
and sometime later the system would write out s_nextid as part
of the sb_info. Also on inode sync we would force the sb sync
as well.

Define the s_nextid as a new partition attribute and set it
every time we create a new object.
At mount we read it from it's new place.

We now never set sb->s_dirt anywhere in exofs. write_super
is actually never called. The call to exofs_write_super from
exofs_put_super is also removed because the VFS always calls
->sync_fs before calling ->put_super twice.

To stay backward-and-forward compatible we also write the old
s_nextid in the super_block object at unmount, and support zero
length attribute on mount.

This also fixes a BUG where in layouts when group_width was not
a divisor of EXOFS_SUPER_ID (0x10000) the s_nextid was not read
from the device it was written to. Because of the sliding window
layout trick, and because the read was always done from the 0
device but the write was done via the raid engine that might slide
the device view. Now we read and write through the raid engine.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-03-15 15:02:51 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
9ed9648431 exofs: Add option to mount by osdname
If /dev/osd* devices are shuffled because more devices
where added, and/or login order has changed. It is hard to
mount the FS you want.

Add an option to mount by osdname. osdname is any osd-device's
osdname as specified to the mkfs.exofs command when formatting
the osd-devices.
The new mount format is:
	OPT="osdname=$UUID0,pid=$PID,_netdev"
	mount -t exofs -o $OPT $DEV_OSD0 $MOUNTDIR

if "osdname=" is specified in options above $DEV_OSD0 is
ignored and can be empty.

Also while at it: Removed some old unused Opt_* enums.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-03-15 15:02:51 +02:00
bharrosh@panasas.com
66cd6cad49 exofs: Override read-ahead to align on stripe_size
* Set all inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info to point to
  the per super-block sb->s_bdi.

* Calculating a read_ahead that is:
  - preferable 2 stripes long
    (Future patch will add a mount option to override this)
  - Minimum 128K aligned up to stripe-size
  - Caped to maximum-IO-sizes round down to stripe_size.
    (Max sizes are governed by max bio-size that fits in a page
     times number-of-devices)

CC: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-03-15 15:02:50 +02:00
Nick Piggin
97178b7b6c exofs: simple fsync race fix
It is incorrect to test inode dirty bits without participating in the inode
writeback protocol. Inode writeback sets I_SYNC and clears I_DIRTY_?, then
writes out the particular bits, then clears I_SYNC when it is done. BTW. it
may not completely write all pages out, so I_DIRTY_PAGES would get set
again.

This is a standard pattern used throughout the kernel's writeback caches
(I_SYNC ~= I_WRITEBACK, if that makes it clearer).

And so it is not possible to determine an inode's dirty status just by
checking I_DIRTY bits. Especially not for the purpose of data integrity
syncs.

Missing the check for these bits means that fsync can complete while
writeback to the inode is underway. Inode writeback functions get this
right, so call into them rather than try to shortcut things by testing
dirty state improperly.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-03-15 15:02:50 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
a8f1418f9e exofs: Optimize read_4_write
Don't attempt a read passed i_size, just zero the page and be
done with it.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-03-15 15:02:49 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
0a935519cc exofs: Trivial: fix some indentation and debug prints
I stumbled on some of these prints in log files so, might
just submit the fixes.

* All i_ino prints in exofs should be hex
* All OSD_ERR prints should end with a "\n"

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2011-03-15 15:00:27 +02:00
Tobias Klauser
2c722c9a47 exofs: Remove redundant unlikely()
IS_ERR() already implies unlikely(), so it can be omitted here.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
2011-03-15 12:33:42 +02:00
Jens Axboe
7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Al Viro
babfe56046 exofs: i_nlink races in rename()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-03 01:28:17 -05:00
Boaz Harrosh
0b0abeaf3d Revert "exofs: Set i_mapping->backing_dev_info anyway"
This reverts commit 115e19c535.

Apparently setting inode->bdi to one's own sb->s_bdi stops VFS from
sending *read-aheads*.  This problem was bisected to this commit.  A
revert fixes it.  I'll investigate farther why is this happening for the
next Kernel, but for now a revert.

I'm sending to stable@kernel.org as well, since it exists also in
2.6.37.  2.6.36 is good and does not have this patch.

CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02 17:53:27 -08:00
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
Al Viro
3c26ff6e49 convert get_sb_nodev() users
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29 04:16:31 -04:00