12 Jun, 2009
40 commits
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It is unnecessarily fragile to have two places (fsync_super() and do_sync())
doing data integrity sync of the filesystem. Alter __fsync_super() to
accommodate needs of both callers and use it. So after this patch
__fsync_super() is the only place where we gather all the calls needed to
properly send all data on a filesystem to disk.Nice bonus is that we get a complete livelock avoidance and write_supers()
is now only used for periodic writeback of superblocks.sync_blockdevs() introduced a couple of patches ago is gone now.
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__fsync_super() does the same thing as fsync_super(). So change the only
caller to use fsync_super() and make __fsync_super() static. This removes
unnecessarily duplicated call to sync_blockdev() and prepares ground
for the changes to __fsync_super() in the following patches.Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
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sync_filesystems() has a condition that if wait == 0 and s_dirt == 0, then
->sync_fs() isn't called. This does not really make much sence since s_dirt is
generally used by a filesystem to mean that ->write_super() needs to be called.
But ->sync_fs() does different things. I even suspect that some filesystems
(btrfs?) sets s_dirt just to fool this logic.Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
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So far, do_sync() called:
sync_inodes(0);
sync_supers();
sync_filesystems(0);
sync_filesystems(1);
sync_inodes(1);This ordering makes it kind of hard for filesystems as sync_inodes(0) need not
submit all the IO (for example it skips inodes with I_SYNC set) so e.g. forcing
transaction to disk in ->sync_fs() is not really enough. Therefore sys_sync has
not been completely reliable on some filesystems (ext3, ext4, reiserfs, ocfs2
and others are hit by this) when racing e.g. with background writeback. A
similar problem hits also other filesystems (e.g. ext2) because of
write_supers() being called before the sync_inodes(1).Change the ordering of calls in do_sync() - this requires a new function
sync_blockdevs() to preserve the property that block devices are always synced
after write_super() / sync_fs() call.The same issue is fixed in __fsync_super() function used on umount /
remount read-only.[AV: build fixes]
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Remove the unused s_async_list in the superblock, a leftover of the
broken async inode deletion code that leaked into mainline. Having this
in the middle of the sync/unmount path is not helpful for the following
cleanups.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
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This function walks the s_files lock, and operates primarily on the
files in a superblock, so it better belongs here (eg. see also
fs_may_remount_ro).[AV: ... and it shouldn't be static after that move]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
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This patch speeds up lmbench lat_mmap test by about another 2% after the
first patch.Before:
avg = 462.286
std = 5.46106After:
avg = 453.12
std = 9.58257(50 runs of each, stddev gives a reasonable confidence)
It does this by introducing mnt_clone_write, which avoids some heavyweight
operations of mnt_want_write if called on a vfsmount which we know already
has a write count; and mnt_want_write_file, which can call mnt_clone_write
if the file is open for write.After these two patches, mnt_want_write and mnt_drop_write go from 7% on
the profile down to 1.3% (including mnt_clone_write).[AV: mnt_want_write_file() should take file alone and derive mnt from it;
not only all callers have that form, but that's the only mnt about which
we know that it's already held for write if file is opened for write]Cc: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
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This patch speeds up lmbench lat_mmap test by about 8%. lat_mmap is set up
basically to mmap a 64MB file on tmpfs, fault in its pages, then unmap it.
A microbenchmark yes, but it exercises some important paths in the mm.Before:
avg = 501.9
std = 14.7773After:
avg = 462.286
std = 5.46106(50 runs of each, stddev gives a reasonable confidence, but there is quite
a bit of variation there still)It does this by removing the complex per-cpu locking and counter-cache and
replaces it with a percpu counter in struct vfsmount. This makes the code
much simpler, and avoids spinlocks (although the msync is still pretty
costly, unfortunately). It results in about 900 bytes smaller code too. It
does increase the size of a vfsmount, however.It should also give a speedup on large systems if CPUs are frequently operating
on different mounts (because the existing scheme has to operate on an atomic in
the struct vfsmount when switching between mounts). But I'm most interested in
the single threaded path performance for the moment.[AV: minor cleanup]
Cc: Dave Hansen
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... and lose the always-NULL last argument (non-NULL case had been
split off a while ago).Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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These guys are what we add as submounts; checks for "is that attached in
our namespace" are simply irrelevant for those and counterproductive for
use of private vfsmount trees a-la what NFS folks want.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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New field: nd->root. When pathname resolution wants to know the root,
check if nd->root.mnt is non-NULL; use nd->root if it is, otherwise
copy current->fs->root there. After path_walk() is finished, we check
if we'd got a cached value in nd->root and drop it. Before calling
path_walk() we should either set nd->root.mnt to NULL *or* copy (and
pin down) some path to nd->root. In the latter case we won't be
looking at current->fs->root at all.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Split do_path_lookup(), opencode the call from do_filp_open()
do_filp_open() is the only caller of do_path_lookup() that
cares about root afterwards (it keeps resolving symlinks on
O_CREAT path after it'd done LOOKUP_PARENT walk). So when
we start caching fs->root in path_walk(), it'll need a different
treatment.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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This patch adds an -oexpose_privroot option to allow access to the privroot.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (23 commits)
Btrfs: fix extent_buffer leak during tree log replay
Btrfs: fix oops when btrfs_inherit_iflags called with a NULL dir
Btrfs: fix -o nodatasum printk spelling
Btrfs: check duplicate backrefs for both data and metadata
Btrfs: init worker struct fields before kthread-run
Btrfs: pin buffers during write_dev_supers
Btrfs: avoid races between super writeout and device list updates
Fix btrfs when ACLs are configured out
Btrfs: fdatasync should skip metadata writeout
Btrfs: remove crc32c.h and use libcrc32c directly.
Btrfs: implement FS_IOC_GETFLAGS/SETFLAGS/GETVERSION
Btrfs: autodetect SSD devices
Btrfs: add mount -o ssd_spread to spread allocations out
Btrfs: avoid allocation clusters that are too spread out
Btrfs: Add mount -o nossd
Btrfs: avoid IO stalls behind congested devices in a multi-device FS
Btrfs: don't allow WRITE_SYNC bios to starve out regular writes
Btrfs: fix metadata dirty throttling limits
Btrfs: reduce mount -o ssd CPU usage
Btrfs: balance btree more often
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
fsnotify: allow groups to set freeing_mark to null
inotify/dnotify: should_send_event shouldn't match on FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD
dnotify: do not bother to lock entry->lock when reading mask
dnotify: do not use ?true:false when assigning to a bool
fsnotify: move events should indicate the event was on a child
inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify
fsnotify: handle filesystem unmounts with fsnotify marks
fsnotify: fsnotify marks on inodes pin them in core
fsnotify: allow groups to add private data to events
fsnotify: add correlations between events
fsnotify: include pathnames with entries when possible
fsnotify: generic notification queue and waitq
dnotify: reimplement dnotify using fsnotify
fsnotify: parent event notification
fsnotify: add marks to inodes so groups can interpret how to handle those inodes
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* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry
kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
kmemleak: Add modules support
kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash
kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
kmemleak: Add the base supportManual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in:
drivers/char/vt.c
init/main.c
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* 'perfcounters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (574 commits)
perf_counter: Turn off by default
perf_counter: Add counter->id to the throttle event
perf_counter: Better align code
perf_counter: Rename L2 to LL cache
perf_counter: Standardize event names
perf_counter: Rename enums
perf_counter tools: Clean up u64 usage
perf_counter: Rename perf_counter_limit sysctl
perf_counter: More paranoia settings
perf_counter: powerpc: Implement generalized cache events for POWER processors
perf_counters: powerpc: Add support for POWER7 processors
perf_counter: Accurate period data
perf_counter: Introduce struct for sample data
perf_counter tools: Normalize data using per sample period data
perf_counter: Annotate exit ctx recursion
perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly
perf_counter tools: Small frequency related fixes
perf_counter: More aggressive frequency adjustment
perf_counter/x86: Fix the model number of Intel Core2 processors
perf_counter, x86: Correct some event and umask values for Intel processors
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* 'topic/slab/earlyboot' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
vgacon: use slab allocator instead of the bootmem allocator
irq: use kcalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator
sched: use slab in cpupri_init()
sched: use alloc_cpumask_var() instead of alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var()
memcg: don't use bootmem allocator in setup code
irq/cpumask: make memoryless node zero happy
x86: remove some alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var calling
vt: use kzalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator
sched: use kzalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator
init: introduce mm_init()
vmalloc: use kzalloc() instead of alloc_bootmem()
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence
bootmem: fix slab fallback on numa
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Most fsnotify listeners (all but inotify) do not care about marks being
freed. Allow groups to set freeing_mark to null and do not call any
function if it is set that way.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
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inotify and dnotify will both indicate that they want any event which came
from a child inode. The fix is to mask off FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD when deciding
if inotify or dnotify is interested in a given event.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
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entry->lock is needed to make sure entry->mask does not change while
manipulating it. In dnotify_should_send_event() we don't care if we get an
old or a new mask value out of this entry so there is no point it taking
the lock.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
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dnotify_should send event assigned a bool using ?true:false when computing
a bit operation. This is poitless and the bool type does this for us.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
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fsnotify tells its listeners explicitly when an event happened on the given
inode verses on the child of the given inode. (see __fsnotify_parent)
However, the semantics of fsnotify_move() are such that we deliver events
directly to the two parent directories in question (old_dir and new_dir)
directly without using the __fsnotify_parent() call. fsnotify should be
adding FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD for the notifications to these parents.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
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Reimplement inotify_user using fsnotify. This should be feature for feature
exactly the same as the original inotify_user. This does not make any changes
to the in kernel inotify feature used by audit. Those patches (and the eventual
removal of in kernel inotify) will come after the new inotify_user proves to be
working correctly.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
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When an fs is unmounted with an fsnotify mark entry attached to one of its
inodes we need to destroy that mark entry and we also (like inotify) send
an unmount event.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
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This patch pins any inodes with an fsnotify mark in core. The idea is that
as soon as the mark is removed from the inode->fsnotify_mark_entries list
the inode will be iput. In reality is doesn't quite work exactly this way.
The igrab will happen when the mark is added to an inode, but the iput will
happen when the inode pointer is NULL'd inside the mark.It's possible that 2 racing things will try to remove the mark from
different directions. One may try to remove the mark because of an
explicit request and one might try to remove it because the inode was
deleted. It's possible that the removal because of inode deletion will
remove the mark from the inode's list, but the removal by explicit request
will actually set entry->inode == NULL; and call the iput. This is safe.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
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inotify needs per group information attached to events. This patch allows
groups to attach private information and implements a callback so that
information can be freed when an event is being destroyed.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
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As part of the standard inotify events it includes a correlation cookie
between two dentry move operations. This patch includes the same behaviour
in fsnotify events. It is needed so that inotify userspace can be
implemented on top of fsnotify.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
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When inotify wants to send events to a directory about a child it includes
the name of the original file. This patch collects that filename and makes
it available for notification.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
