Pull vfs pile 2 (of many) from Al Viro:
"Mostly Miklos' series this time"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
constify dcache.c inlined helpers where possible
fuse: drop dentry on failed revalidate
fuse: clean up return in fuse_dentry_revalidate()
fuse: use d_materialise_unique()
sysfs: use check_submounts_and_drop()
nfs: use check_submounts_and_drop()
gfs2: use check_submounts_and_drop()
afs: use check_submounts_and_drop()
vfs: check unlinked ancestors before mount
vfs: check submounts and drop atomically
vfs: add d_walk()
vfs: restructure d_genocide()
Pull namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
"This is an assorted mishmash of small cleanups, enhancements and bug
fixes.
The major theme is user namespace mount restrictions. nsown_capable
is killed as it encourages not thinking about details that need to be
considered. A very hard to hit pid namespace exiting bug was finally
tracked and fixed. A couple of cleanups to the basic namespace
infrastructure.
Finally there is an enhancement that makes per user namespace
capabilities usable as capabilities, and an enhancement that allows
the per userns root to nice other processes in the user namespace"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy
capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged
pidns: Don't have unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) imply CLONE_THREAD
userns: Allow PR_CAPBSET_DROP in a user namespace.
namespaces: Simplify copy_namespaces so it is clear what is going on.
pidns: Fix hang in zap_pid_ns_processes by sending a potentially extra wakeup
sysfs: Restrict mounting sysfs
userns: Better restrictions on when proc and sysfs can be mounted
vfs: Don't copy mount bind mounts of /proc/<pid>/ns/mnt between namespaces
kernel/nsproxy.c: Improving a snippet of code.
proc: Restrict mounting the proc filesystem
vfs: Lock in place mounts from more privileged users
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"Nothing major for this kernel, just maintenance updates"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (21 commits)
apparmor: add the ability to report a sha1 hash of loaded policy
apparmor: export set of capabilities supported by the apparmor module
apparmor: add the profile introspection file to interface
apparmor: add an optional profile attachment string for profiles
apparmor: add interface files for profiles and namespaces
apparmor: allow setting any profile into the unconfined state
apparmor: make free_profile available outside of policy.c
apparmor: rework namespace free path
apparmor: update how unconfined is handled
apparmor: change how profile replacement update is done
apparmor: convert profile lists to RCU based locking
apparmor: provide base for multiple profiles to be replaced at once
apparmor: add a features/policy dir to interface
apparmor: enable users to query whether apparmor is enabled
apparmor: remove minimum size check for vmalloc()
Smack: parse multiple rules per write to load2, up to PAGE_SIZE-1 bytes
Smack: network label match fix
security: smack: add a hash table to quicken smk_find_entry()
security: smack: fix memleak in smk_write_rules_list()
xattr: Constify ->name member of "struct xattr".
...
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"The usual trivial updates all over the tree -- mostly typo fixes and
documentation updates"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (52 commits)
doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo
treewide: Convert retrun typos to return
Fix comment typo for init_cma_reserved_pageblock
Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation
mm/hotplug: fix a typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
power: Documentation: Update s2ram link
doc: fix a typo in Documentation/00-INDEX
Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64
doc: Fix typo "is is" in Documentations
treewide: Fix printks with 0x%#
zram: doc fixes
Documentation/kmemcheck: update kmemcheck documentation
doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo
PM / Hibernate: add section for resume options
doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems
scsi/megaraid fixed several typos in comments
ppc: init_32: Fix error typo "CONFIG_START_KERNEL"
treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks
page_isolation: Fix a comment typo in test_pages_isolated()
doc: fix a typo about irq affinity
...
Pull ext3, reiserfs, udf & isofs fixes from Jan Kara:
"The contains a bunch of ext3 cleanups and minor improvements, major
reiserfs locking changes which should hopefully fix deadlocks
introduced by BKL removal, and udf/isofs changes to refuse mounting fs
rw instead of mounting it ro automatically which makes eject button
work as expected for all media (see the changelog for why userspace
should be ok with this change)"
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
jbd: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
reiserfs: locking, release lock around quota operations
reiserfs: locking, handle nested locks properly
reiserfs: locking, push write lock out of xattr code
jbd: relocate assert after state lock in journal_commit_transaction()
udf: Refuse RW mount of the filesystem instead of making it RO
udf: Standardize return values in mount sequence
isofs: Refuse RW mount of the filesystem instead of making it RO
ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
jbd: remove unneeded semicolon
This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
o support inline xattrs
o add sysfs support to control GCs explicitly
o add proc entry to show the current segment usage information
o improve the GC/SSR performance
The other bug fixes are as follows.
o avoid the overflow on status calculation
o fix some error handling routines
o fix inconsistent xattr states after power-off-recovery
o fix incorrect xattr node offset definition
o fix deadlock condition in fsync
o fix the fdatasync routine for power-off-recovery
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Merge tag 'for-f2fs-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches:
- support inline xattrs
- add sysfs support to control GCs explicitly
- add proc entry to show the current segment usage information
- improve the GC/SSR performance
The other bug fixes are as follows:
- avoid the overflow on status calculation
- fix some error handling routines
- fix inconsistent xattr states after power-off-recovery
- fix incorrect xattr node offset definition
- fix deadlock condition in fsync
- fix the fdatasync routine for power-off-recovery"
* tag 'for-f2fs-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (40 commits)
f2fs: optimize gc for better performance
f2fs: merge more bios of node block writes
f2fs: avoid an overflow during utilization calculation
f2fs: trigger GC when there are prefree segments
f2fs: use strncasecmp() simplify the string comparison
f2fs: fix omitting to update inode page
f2fs: support the inline xattrs
f2fs: add the truncate_xattr_node function
f2fs: introduce __find_xattr for readability
f2fs: reserve the xattr space dynamically
f2fs: add flags for inline xattrs
f2fs: fix error return code in init_f2fs_fs()
f2fs: fix wrong BUG_ON condition
f2fs: fix memory leak when init f2fs filesystem fail
f2fs: fix a compound statement label error
f2fs: avoid writing inode redundantly when creating a file
f2fs: alloc_page() doesn't return an ERR_PTR
f2fs: should cover i_xattr_nid with its xattr node page lock
f2fs: check the free space first in new_node_page
f2fs: clean up the needless end 'return' of void function
...
Pull sparc changes from David Miller:
"Several bug fixes (from Kirill Tkhai, Geery Uytterhoeven, and Alexey
Dobriyan) and some support for Fujitsu sparc64x chips (from Allen
Pais)"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
sparc64: Export flush_ptrace_access() (needed by lustre)
sparc: fix PCI device proc file mmap(2)
sparc64: Remove RWSEM export leftovers
sparc64: Fix off by one in trampoline TLB mapping installation loop.
sparc64: Fix ITLB handler of null page
esp_scsi: Fix tag state corruption when autosensing.
sparc64: Fix not SRA'ed %o5 in 32-bit traced syscall
sparc64: cleanup: Rename ret_from_syscall to ret_from_fork
sparc32: Fix exit flag passed from traced sys_sigreturn
sparc64: Fix wrong syscall return value passed to trace_sys_exit()
support sparc64x chip type in cpumap.c
cpu hw caps support for sparc64x
Drop a subtree when we find that it has moved or been delated. This can be
done as long as there are no submounts under this location.
If the directory was moved and we come across the same directory in a
future lookup it will be reconnected by d_materialise_unique().
Signed-off-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
On errors unrelated to the filesystem's state (ENOMEM, ENOTCONN) return the
error itself from ->d_revalidate() insted of returning zero (invalid).
Also make a common label for invalidating the dentry. This will be used by
the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Use d_materialise_unique() instead of d_splice_alias(). This allows dentry
subtrees to be moved to a new place if there moved, even if something is
referencing a dentry in the subtree (open fd, cwd, etc..).
This will also allow us to drop a subtree if it is found to be replaced by
something else. In this case the disconnected subtree can later be
reconnected to its new location.
d_materialise_unique() ensures that a directory entry only ever has one
alias. We keep fc->inst_mutex around the calls for d_materialise_unique()
on directories to prevent a race with mkdir "stealing" the inode.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Do have_submounts(), shrink_dcache_parent() and d_drop() atomically.
check_submounts_and_drop() can deal with negative dentries and
non-directories as well.
Non-directories can also be mounted on. And just like directories we don't
want these to disappear with invalidation.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Do have_submounts(), shrink_dcache_parent() and d_drop() atomically.
check_submounts_and_drop() can deal with negative dentries and
non-directories as well.
Non-directories can also be mounted on. And just like directories we don't
want these to disappear with invalidation.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Do have_submounts(), shrink_dcache_parent() and d_drop() atomically.
check_submounts_and_drop() can deal with negative dentries and
non-directories as well.
Non-directories can also be mounted on. And just like directories we don't
want these to disappear with invalidation.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Do have_submounts(), shrink_dcache_parent() and d_drop() atomically.
check_submounts_and_drop() can deal with negative dentries as well.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We check submounts before doing d_drop() on a non-empty directory dentry in
NFS (have_submounts()), but we do not exclude a racing mount. Nor do we
prevent mounts to be added to the disconnected subtree using relative paths
after the d_drop().
This patch fixes these issues by checking for unlinked (unhashed, non-root)
ancestors before proceeding with the mount. This is done with rename
seqlock taken for write and with ->d_lock grabbed on each ancestor in turn,
including our dentry itself. This ensures that the only one of
check_submounts_and_drop() or has_unlinked_ancestor() can succeed.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We check submounts before doing d_drop() on a non-empty directory dentry in
NFS (have_submounts()), but we do not exclude a racing mount.
Process A: have_submounts() -> returns false
Process B: mount() -> success
Process A: d_drop()
This patch prepares the ground for the fix by doing the following
operations all under the same rename lock:
have_submounts()
shrink_dcache_parent()
d_drop()
This is actually an optimization since have_submounts() and
shrink_dcache_parent() both traverse the same dentry tree separately.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
CC: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This one replaces three instances open coded tree walking (have_submounts,
select_parent, d_genocide) with a common helper.
In addition to slightly reducing the kernel size, this simplifies the
callers and makes them less bug prone.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
It shouldn't matter when we decrement the refcount during the walk as long
as we do it exactly once.
Restructure d_genocide() to do the killing on entering the dentry instead
of when leaving it. This helps creating a common helper for tree walking.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Commit 786d7e1612 "Fix rmmod/read/write races in /proc entries"
must have broken mmapping of PCI device proc files on Sparc.
Notice how it adds wrapper around ->mmap but doesn't do it around ->get_unmapped_area.
Add wrapper around ->get_unmapped_area.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
"Unfortunately, this merge window it'll have a be a lot of small piles -
my fault, actually, for not keeping #for-next in anything that would
resemble a sane shape ;-/
This pile: assorted fixes (the first 3 are -stable fodder, IMO) and
cleanups + %pd/%pD formats (dentry/file pathname, up to 4 last
components) + several long-standing patches from various folks.
There definitely will be a lot more (starting with Miklos'
check_submount_and_drop() series)"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (26 commits)
direct-io: Handle O_(D)SYNC AIO
direct-io: Implement generic deferred AIO completions
add formats for dentry/file pathnames
kvm eventfd: switch to fdget
powerpc kvm: use fdget
switch fchmod() to fdget
switch epoll_ctl() to fdget
switch copy_module_from_fd() to fdget
git simplify nilfs check for busy subtree
ibmasmfs: don't bother passing superblock when not needed
don't pass superblock to hypfs_{mkdir,create*}
don't pass superblock to hypfs_diag_create_files
don't pass superblock to hypfs_vm_create_files()
oprofile: get rid of pointless forward declarations of struct super_block
oprofilefs_create_...() do not need superblock argument
oprofilefs_mkdir() doesn't need superblock argument
don't bother with passing superblock to oprofile_create_stats_files()
oprofile: don't bother with passing superblock to ->create_files()
don't bother passing sb to oprofile_create_files()
coh901318: don't open-code simple_read_from_buffer()
...
This patch improves the gc efficiency by optimizing the victim
selection policy. With this optimization, the random re-write
performance could increase up to 20%.
For f2fs, when disk is in shortage of free spaces, gc will selects
dirty segments and moves valid blocks around for making more space
available. The gc cost of a segment is determined by the valid blocks
in the segment. The less the valid blocks, the higher the efficiency.
The ideal victim segment is the one that has the most garbage blocks.
Currently, it searches up to 20 dirty segments for a victim segment.
The selected victim is not likely the best victim for gc when there
are much more dirty segments. Why not searching more dirty segments
for a better victim? The cost of searching dirty segments is
negligible in comparison to moving blocks.
In this patch, it enlarges the MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH to 4096 to make
the search more aggressively for a possible better victim. Since
it also applies to victim selection for SSR, it will likely improve
the SSR efficiency as well.
The test case is simple. It creates as many files until the disk full.
The size for each file is 32KB. Then it writes as many as 100000
records of 4KB size to random offsets of random files in sync mode.
The testing was done on a 2GB partition of a SDHC card. Let's see the
test result of f2fs without and with the patch.
---------------------------------------
2GB partition, SDHC
create 52023 files of size 32768 bytes
random re-write 100000 records of 4KB
---------------------------------------
| file creation (s) | rewrite time (s) | gc count | gc garbage blocks |
[no patch] 341 4227 1174 174840
[patched] 324 2958 645 106682
It's obvious that, with the patch, f2fs finishes the test in 20+% less
time than without the patch. And internally it does much less gc with
higher efficiency than before.
Since the performance improvement is related to gc, it might not be so
obvious for other tests that do not trigger gc as often as this one (
This is because f2fs selects dirty segments for SSR use most of the
time when free space is in shortage). The well-known iozone test tool
was not used for benchmarking the patch becuase it seems do not have
a test case that performs random re-write on a full disk.
This patch is the revised version based on the suggestion from
Jaegeuk Kim.
Signed-off-by: Jin Xu <jinuxstyle@gmail.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: suggested simpler solution]
Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, we experience bio traces as follows when running simple sequential
write test.
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500104928, size = 4K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 499922208, size = 368K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 499914752, size = 140K
-> total 512K
The first one is to write an indirect node block, and the others are to write
direct node blocks.
The reason why there are two separate bios for direct node blocks is:
0. initial state
------------------ ------------------
| | |xxxxxxxx |
------------------ ------------------
1. write 368K
------------------ ------------------
| | |xxxxxxxxWWWWWWWW|
------------------ ------------------
2. write 140K
------------------ ------------------
|WWWWWWW | |xxxxxxxxWWWWWWWW|
------------------ ------------------
This is because f2fs_write_node_pages tries to write just 512K totally, so that
we can lose the chance to merge more bios nicely.
After this patch is applied, we can get the following bio traces.
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500103168, size = 8K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500111368, size = 4K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500107272, size = 512K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500108296, size = 512K
f2fs_do_submit_bio: type = NODE, io = no sync, sector = 500109320, size = 500K
And finally, we can improve the sequential write performance,
from 458.775 MB/s to 479.945 MB/s on SSD.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
up with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(), and replacing or fixing all the usages.
This has been sitting in linux-next for a whole cycle.
Thanks,
Rusty.
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Merge tag 'PTR_RET-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull PTR_RET() removal patches from Rusty Russell:
"PTR_RET() is a weird name, and led to some confusing usage. We ended
up with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(), and replacing or fixing all the usages.
This has been sitting in linux-next for a whole cycle"
[ There are still some PTR_RET users scattered about, with some of them
possibly being new, but most of them existing in Rusty's tree too. We
have that
#define PTR_RET(p) PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(p)
thing in <linux/err.h>, so they continue to work for now - Linus ]
* tag 'PTR_RET-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
GFS2: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
Btrfs: volume: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
drm/cma: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
sh_veu: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
dma-buf: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
drivers/rtc: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
mm/oom_kill: remove weird use of ERR_PTR()/PTR_ERR().
staging/zcache: don't use PTR_RET().
remoteproc: don't use PTR_RET().
pinctrl: don't use PTR_RET().
acpi: Replace weird use of PTR_RET.
s390: Replace weird use of PTR_RET.
PTR_RET is now PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(): Replace most.
PTR_RET is now PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
This set includes a workqueue cleanup and the removal
of incorrect and unneeded signal blocking.
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Merge tag 'dlm-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm
Pull dlm updates from David Teigland:
"This set includes a workqueue cleanup and the removal of incorrect and
unneeded signal blocking"
* tag 'dlm-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm:
dlm: remove signal blocking
dlm: WQ_NON_REENTRANT is meaningless and going away
* Added aggressive extent caching using the extent status tree. This
can actually decrease memory usage in read-mostly workloads since
the information is much more compactly stored in the extent status
tree than if we had to keep the extent tree metadata blocks in the
buffer cache. This also improves Asynchronous I/O since it is it
makes much less likely that we need to do metadata I/O to lookup the
extent tree information.
* Improve the recovery after corrupted allocation bitmaps are found
when running in errors=ignore mode.
Also fixed some writeback vs. truncate races when using a blocksize
less than the page size.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"New features for 3.12:
- Added aggressive extent caching using the extent status tree. This
can actually decrease memory usage in read-mostly workloads since
the information is much more compactly stored in the extent status
tree than if we had to keep the extent tree metadata blocks in the
buffer cache. This also improves Asynchronous I/O since it is it
makes much less likely that we need to do metadata I/O to lookup
the extent tree information.
- Improve the recovery after corrupted allocation bitmaps are found
when running in errors=ignore mode.
Also fixed some writeback vs truncate races when using a blocksize
less than the page size"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
ext4: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
ext4: mark group corrupt on group descriptor checksum
ext4: mark block group as corrupt on inode bitmap error
ext4: mark block group as corrupt on block bitmap error
ext4: fix type declaration of ext4_validate_block_bitmap
ext4: error out if verifying the block bitmap fails
jbd2: Fix endian mixing problems in the checksumming code
ext4: isolate ext4_extents.h file
ext4: Fix misspellings using 'codespell' tool
ext4: convert write_begin methods to stable_page_writes semantics
ext4: fix use of potentially uninitialized variables in debugging code
ext4: fix lost truncate due to race with writeback
ext4: simplify truncation code in ext4_setattr()
ext4: fix ext4_writepages() in presence of truncate
ext4: move test whether extent to map can be extended to one place
ext4: fix warning in ext4_da_update_reserve_space()
quota: provide interface for readding allocated space into reserved space
ext4: avoid reusing recently deleted inodes in no journal mode
ext4: allocate delayed allocation blocks before rename
ext4: start handle at least possible moment when renaming files
...
Call generic_write_sync() from the deferred I/O completion handler if
O_DSYNC is set for a write request. Also make sure various callers
don't call generic_write_sync if the direct I/O code returns
-EIOCBQUEUED.
Based on an earlier patch from Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> with updates from
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> and Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add support to the core direct-io code to defer AIO completions to user
context using a workqueue. This replaces opencoded and less efficient
code in XFS and ext4 (we save a memory allocation for each direct IO)
and will be needed to properly support O_(D)SYNC for AIO.
The communication between the filesystem and the direct I/O code requires
a new buffer head flag, which is a bit ugly but not avoidable until the
direct I/O code stops abusing the buffer_head structure for communicating
with the filesystems.
Currently this creates a per-superblock unbound workqueue for these
completions, which is taken from an earlier patch by Jan Kara. I'm
not really convinced about this use and would prefer a "normal" global
workqueue with a high concurrency limit, but this needs further discussion.
JK: Fixed ext4 part, dynamic allocation of the workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
generic pstore layer so that all backends can use the
pitiful amounts of storage they control more effectively.
Three other small fixes/cleanups too.
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Merge tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux
Pull pstore changes from Tony Luck:
"A big part of this is the addition of compression to the generic
pstore layer so that all backends can use the pitiful amounts of
storage they control more effectively. Three other small
fixes/cleanups too.
* tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
pstore/ram: (really) fix undefined usage of rounddown_pow_of_two
pstore/ram: Read and write to the 'compressed' flag of pstore
efi-pstore: Read and write to the 'compressed' flag of pstore
erst: Read and write to the 'compressed' flag of pstore
powerpc/pseries: Read and write to the 'compressed' flag of pstore
pstore: Add file extension to pstore file if compressed
pstore: Add decompression support to pstore
pstore: Introduce new argument 'compressed' in the read callback
pstore: Add compression support to pstore
pstore/Kconfig: Select ZLIB_DEFLATE and ZLIB_INFLATE when PSTORE is selected
pstore: Add new argument 'compressed' in pstore write callback
powerpc/pseries: Remove (de)compression in nvram with pstore enabled
pstore: d_alloc_name() doesn't return an ERR_PTR
acpi/apei/erst: Add missing iounmap() on error in erst_exec_move_data()
Christopher reported a regression where he was unable to unmount a NFS
filesystem where the root had gone stale. The problem is that
d_revalidate handles the root of the filesystem differently from other
dentries, but d_weak_revalidate does not. We could simply fix this by
making d_weak_revalidate return success on IS_ROOT dentries, but there
are cases where we do want to revalidate the root of the fs.
A umount is really a special case. We generally aren't interested in
anything but the dentry and vfsmount that's attached at that point. If
the inode turns out to be stale we just don't care since the intent is
to stop using it anyway.
Try to handle this situation better by treating umount as a special
case in the lookup code. Have it resolve the parent using normal
means, and then do a lookup of the final dentry without revalidating
it. In most cases, the final lookup will come out of the dcache, but
the case where there's a trailing symlink or !LAST_NORM entry on the
end complicates things a bit.
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: Christopher T Vogan <cvogan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The d_prune dentry operation is used to notify filesystem when VFS
about to prune a hashed dentry from the dcache. There are three
code paths that prune dentries: shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree(),
prune_dcache_sb() and d_prune_aliases(). For the d_prune_aliases()
case, VFS unhashes the dentry first, then call the d_prune dentry
operation. This confuses ceph_d_prune() (ceph uses the d_prune
dentry operation to maintain a flag indicating whether the complete
contents of a directory are in the dcache, pruning unhashed dentry
does not affect dir's completeness)
This patch fixes the issue by calling the d_prune dentry operation
in d_prune_aliases(), before unhashing the dentry. Also make VFS
only call the d_prune dentry operation for hashed dentry, to avoid
calling the d_prune dentry operation twice when dentry is pruned
by d_prune_aliases().
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of activities on the cgroup front. Most changes aren't visible
to userland at all at this point and are laying foundation for the
planned unified hierarchy.
- The biggest change is decoupling the lifetime management of css
(cgroup_subsys_state) from that of cgroup's. Because controllers
(cpu, memory, block and so on) will need to be dynamically enabled
and disabled, css which is the association point between a cgroup
and a controller may come and go dynamically across the lifetime of
a cgroup. Till now, css's were created when the associated cgroup
was created and stayed till the cgroup got destroyed.
Assumptions around this tight coupling permeated through cgroup
core and controllers. These assumptions are gradually removed,
which consists bulk of patches, and css destruction path is
completely decoupled from cgroup destruction path. Note that
decoupling of creation path is relatively easy on top of these
changes and the patchset is pending for the next window.
- cgroup has its own event mechanism cgroup.event_control, which is
only used by memcg. It is overly complex trying to achieve high
flexibility whose benefits seem dubious at best. Going forward,
new events will simply generate file modified event and the
existing mechanism is being made specific to memcg. This pull
request contains prepatory patches for such change.
- Various fixes and cleanups"
Fixed up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c as per Tejun.
* 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (69 commits)
cgroup: fix cgroup_css() invocation in css_from_id()
cgroup: make cgroup_write_event_control() use css_from_dir() instead of __d_cgrp()
cgroup: make cgroup_event hold onto cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup
cgroup: implement CFTYPE_NO_PREFIX
cgroup: make cgroup_css() take cgroup_subsys * instead and allow NULL subsys
cgroup: rename cgroup_css_from_dir() to css_from_dir() and update its syntax
cgroup: fix cgroup_write_event_control()
cgroup: fix subsystem file accesses on the root cgroup
cgroup: change cgroup_from_id() to css_from_id()
cgroup: use css_get() in cgroup_create() to check CSS_ROOT
cpuset: remove an unncessary forward declaration
cgroup: RCU protect each cgroup_subsys_state release
cgroup: move subsys file removal to kill_css()
cgroup: factor out kill_css()
cgroup: decouple cgroup_subsys_state destruction from cgroup destruction
cgroup: replace cgroup->css_kill_cnt with ->nr_css
cgroup: bounce cgroup_subsys_state ref kill confirmation to a work item
cgroup: move cgroup->subsys[] assignment to online_css()
cgroup: reorganize css init / exit paths
cgroup: add __rcu modifier to cgroup->subsys[]
...
Here's the big driver core pull request for 3.12-rc1.
Lots of tiny changes here fixing up the way sysfs attributes are
created, to try to make drivers simpler, and fix a whole class race
conditions with creations of device attributes after the device was
announced to userspace.
All the various pieces are acked by the different subsystem maintainers.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core patches from Greg KH:
"Here's the big driver core pull request for 3.12-rc1.
Lots of tiny changes here fixing up the way sysfs attributes are
created, to try to make drivers simpler, and fix a whole class race
conditions with creations of device attributes after the device was
announced to userspace.
All the various pieces are acked by the different subsystem
maintainers"
* tag 'driver-core-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (119 commits)
firmware loader: fix pending_fw_head list corruption
drivers/base/memory.c: introduce help macro to_memory_block
dynamic debug: line queries failing due to uninitialized local variable
sysfs: sysfs_create_groups returns a value.
debugfs: provide debugfs_create_x64() when disabled
rbd: convert bus code to use bus_groups
firmware: dcdbas: use binary attribute groups
sysfs: add sysfs_create/remove_groups for when SYSFS is not enabled
driver core: add #include <linux/sysfs.h> to core files.
HID: convert bus code to use dev_groups
Input: serio: convert bus code to use drv_groups
Input: gameport: convert bus code to use drv_groups
driver core: firmware: use __ATTR_RW()
driver core: core: use DEVICE_ATTR_RO
driver core: bus: use DRIVER_ATTR_WO()
driver core: create write-only attribute macros for devices and drivers
sysfs: create __ATTR_WO()
driver-core: platform: convert bus code to use dev_groups
workqueue: convert bus code to use dev_groups
MEI: convert bus code to use dev_groups
...
Merge lockref infrastructure code by me and Waiman Long.
I already merged some of the preparatory patches that didn't actually do
any semantic changes earlier, but this merges the actual _reason_ for
those preparatory patches.
The "lockref" structure is a combination "spinlock and reference count"
that allows optimized reference count accesses. In particular, it
guarantees that the reference count will be updated AS IF the spinlock
was held, but using atomic accesses that cover both the reference count
and the spinlock words, we can often do the update without actually
having to take the lock.
This allows us to avoid the nastiest cases of spinlock contention on
large machines under heavy pathname lookup loads. When updating the
dentry reference counts on a large system, we'll still end up with the
cache line bouncing around, but that's much less noticeable than
actually having to spin waiting for the lock.
* lockref:
lockref: implement lockless reference count updates using cmpxchg()
lockref: uninline lockref helper functions
vfs: reimplement d_rcu_to_refcount() using lockref_get_or_lock()
vfs: use lockref_get_not_zero() for optimistic lockless dget_parent()
lockref: add 'lockref_get_or_lock() helper
The current f2fs uses all the block counts with 32 bit numbers, which is able to
cover about 15TB volume.
But in calculation of utilization, f2fs multiplies the count by 100 which can
induce overflow.
This patch fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Previously, f2fs conducts SSR when free_sections() < overprovision_sections.
But, even though there are a lot of prefree segments, it can consider SSR only.
So, let's consider the number of prefree segments too for triggering SSR.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
This moves __d_rcu_to_refcount() from <linux/dcache.h> into fs/namei.c
and re-implements it using the lockref infrastructure instead. It also
adds a lot of comments about what is actually going on, because turning
a dentry that was looked up using RCU into a long-lived reference
counted entry is one of the more subtle parts of the rcu walk.
We also used to be _particularly_ subtle in unlazy_walk() where we
re-validate both the dentry and its parent using the same sequence
count. We used to do it by nesting the locks and then verifying the
sequence count just once.
That was silly, because nested locking is expensive, but the sequence
count check is not. So this just re-validates the dentry and the parent
separately, avoiding the nested locking, and making the lockref lookup
possible.
Acked-by: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A valid parent pointer is always going to have a non-zero reference
count, but if we look up the parent optimistically without locking, we
have to protect against the (very unlikely) race against renaming
changing the parent from under us.
We do that by using lockref_get_not_zero(), and then re-checking the
parent pointer after getting a valid reference.
[ This is a re-implementation of a chunk from the original patch by
Waiman Long: "dcache: Enable lockless update of dentry's refcount".
I've completely rewritten the patch-series and split it up, but I'm
attributing this part to Waiman as it's close enough to his earlier
patch - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
nsown_capable is a special case of ns_capable essentially for just CAP_SETUID and
CAP_SETGID. For the existing users it doesn't noticably simplify things and
from the suggested patches I have seen it encourages people to do the wrong
thing. So remove nsown_capable.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Previous attempt to fix was b042e47491
Suggested use of is_power_of_2() was bogus because is_power_of_2(0) is
false (documented behaviour).
Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Don't allow mounting sysfs unless the caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights
over the net namespace. The principle here is if you create or have
capabilities over it you can mount it, otherwise you get to live with
what other people have mounted.
Instead of testing this with a straight forward ns_capable call,
perform this check the long and torturous way with kobject helpers,
this keeps direct knowledge of namespaces out of sysfs, and preserves
the existing sysfs abstractions.
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton:
"Five fixes.
err, make that six. let me try again"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
fs/ocfs2/super.c: Use bigger nodestr to accomodate 32-bit node numbers
memcg: check that kmem_cache has memcg_params before accessing it
drivers/base/memory.c: fix show_mem_removable() to handle missing sections
IPC: bugfix for msgrcv with msgtyp < 0
Omnikey Cardman 4000: pull in ioctl.h in user header
timer_list: correct the iterator for timer_list
While using pacemaker/corosync, the node numbers are generated using IP
address as opposed to serial node number generation. This may not fit
in a 8-byte string. Use a bigger string to print the complete node
number.
Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This just replaces the dentry count/lock combination with the lockref
structure that contains both a count and a spinlock, and does the
mechanical conversion to use the lockref infrastructure.
There are no semantic changes here, it's purely syntactic. The
reference lockref implementation uses the spinlock exactly the same way
that the old dcache code did, and the bulk of this patch is just
expanding the internal "d_count" use in the dcache code to use
"d_lockref.count" instead.
This is purely preparation for the real change to make the reference
count updates be lockless during the 3.12 merge window.
[ As with the previous commit, this is a rewritten version of a concept
originally from Waiman, so credit goes to him, blame for any errors
goes to me.
Waiman's patch had some semantic differences for taking advantage of
the lockless update in dget_parent(), while this patch is
intentionally a pure search-and-replace change with no semantic
changes. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's
device number changes, the filesystem won't mount.
And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number
changes aren't unusual.
The current mechanism to update the journal location is by
passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle;
it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact.
Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would
help, since then we can do i.e.
# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ...
and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here:
# losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile
# mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0
# mkfs.ext4 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1
Change the journal device number:
# losetup -d /dev/loop0
# losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile
And today it will fail:
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
# dmesg | tail -n 1
[17343.240702] EXT4-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal
But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path:
# mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#
(which does update the encoded device number, incidentally):
# umount /dev/sdb1
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device"
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Journal device: 0x0701
But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and
it'll always work:
# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#
So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as
the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID),
we can mount.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
