03 Oct, 2012

1 commit

  • 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
    Cc: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Kirill A. Shutemov
     

27 Sep, 2012

2 commits


14 Jul, 2012

4 commits


06 May, 2012

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu

    Jan Kara
     

29 Mar, 2012

1 commit


21 Mar, 2012

2 commits


11 Jan, 2012

2 commits


04 Jan, 2012

3 commits

  • 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

    Al Viro
     
  • 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

    Al Viro
     
  • 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

    Al Viro
     

02 Nov, 2011

2 commits


15 Sep, 2011

1 commit


21 Jul, 2011

3 commits


20 Jul, 2011

1 commit


20 Jun, 2011

1 commit


28 May, 2011

1 commit


26 May, 2011

2 commits


26 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • Commit 0bc825d240ab ("codafs: fix compile warning when CONFIG_SYSCTL=n")
    introduces build breakage, when CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=n and
    CONFIG_CODA_FS=y:

    fs/built-in.o: In function `init_coda':
    psdev.c:(.init.text+0xc02): undefined reference to `coda_sysctl_init'
    psdev.c:(.init.text+0xc7c): undefined reference to `coda_sysctl_clean'
    fs/built-in.o: In function `exit_coda':
    psdev.c:(.exit.text+0xa9): undefined reference to `coda_sysctl_clean'
    make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

    Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick
    Reported-by: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Rakib Mullick
     

23 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • When CONFIG_SYSCTL=n, we get the following warning:

    fs/coda/sysctl.c:18: warning: `coda_tabl' defined but not used

    Fix the warning by making sure coda_table and it's callee function are in
    the same context. Also clean up the code by removing extra #ifdef.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded stub macros]
    Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick
    Cc: Jan Harkes
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Rakib Mullick
     

17 Mar, 2011

1 commit


14 Jan, 2011

2 commits

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (41 commits)
    fs: add documentation on fallocate hole punching
    Gfs2: fail if we try to use hole punch
    Btrfs: fail if we try to use hole punch
    Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch
    Ocfs2: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
    XFS: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
    fs: add hole punching to fallocate
    vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens (try #2)
    fix signedness mess in rw_verify_area() on 64bit architectures
    fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::prepend_path
    fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::d_validate
    sanitize ecryptfs ->mount()
    switch afs
    move internal-only parts of ncpfs headers to fs/ncpfs
    switch ncpfs
    switch 9p
    pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()
    switch hostfs
    switch affs
    switch configfs
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
    Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
    writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
    ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
    drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
    m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
    wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
    media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
    remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
    remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
    Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
    Fix spelling mistakes in comments
    Revert conflicting V4L changes
    i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
    mm/rmap.c: fix comment
    sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
    hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
    init/Kconfig: fix typo
    anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
    fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
    poll: fix a typo in comment
    ...

    Fix up trivial conflicts in:
    - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
    - fs/ext4/ext4.h

    Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.

    Linus Torvalds
     

13 Jan, 2011

2 commits


07 Jan, 2011

6 commits

  • Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     
  • Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk
    mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning
    -ECHILD from all implementations.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     
  • Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
    flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
    This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
    situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
    have d_op but not the particular operation.

    Patched with:

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

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     
  • 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

    Nick Piggin
     
  • dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     
  • Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't
    using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex).

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

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin