12 Jun, 2009
38 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.
[build fixes folded]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
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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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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
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
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
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
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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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This patch adds an -oexpose_privroot option to allow access to the privroot.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney
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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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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
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig -
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
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig -
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
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig -
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
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig -
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 -
inotify needs to do asyc notification in which event information is stored
on a queue until the listener is ready to receive it. This patch
implements a generic notification queue for inotify (and later fanotify) to
store events to be sent at a later time.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig -
Reimplement dnotify using fsnotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig -
inotify and dnotify both use a similar parent notification mechanism. We
add a generic parent notification mechanism to fsnotify for both of these
to use. This new machanism also adds the dentry flag optimization which
exists for inotify to dnotify.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig -
This patch creates a way for fsnotify groups to attach marks to inodes.
These marks have little meaning to the generic fsnotify infrastructure
and thus their meaning should be interpreted by the group that attached
them to the inode's list.dnotify and inotify will make use of these markings to indicate which
inodes are of interest to their respective groups. But this implementation
has the useful property that in the future other listeners could actually
use the marks for the exact opposite reason, aka to indicate which inodes
it had NO interest in.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig -
fsnotify is a backend for filesystem notification. fsnotify does
not provide any userspace interface but does provide the basis
needed for other notification schemes such as dnotify. fsnotify
can be extended to be the backend for inotify or the upcoming
fanotify. fsnotify provides a mechanism for "groups" to register for
some set of filesystem events and to then deliver those events to
those groups for processing.fsnotify has a number of benefits, the first being actually shrinking the size
of an inode. Before fsnotify to support both dnotify and inotify an inode hadunsigned long i_dnotify_mask; /* Directory notify events */
struct dnotify_struct *i_dnotify; /* for directory notifications */
struct list_head inotify_watches; /* watches on this inode */
struct mutex inotify_mutex; /* protects the watches listBut with fsnotify this same functionallity (and more) is done with just
__u32 i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events for this inode */
struct hlist_head i_fsnotify_mark_entries; /* marks on this inode */That's right, inotify, dnotify, and fanotify all in 64 bits. We used that
much space just in inotify_watches alone, before this patch set.fsnotify object lifetime and locking is MUCH better than what we have today.
inotify locking is incredibly complex. See 8f7b0ba1c8539 as an example of
what's been busted since inception. inotify needs to know internal semantics
of superblock destruction and unmounting to function. The inode pinning and
vfs contortions are horrible.no fsnotify implementers do allocation under locks. This means things like
f04b30de3 which (due to an overabundance of caution) changes GFP_KERNEL to
GFP_NOFS can be reverted. There are no longer any allocation rules when using
or implementing your own fsnotify listener.fsnotify paves the way for fanotify. In brief fanotify is a notification
mechanism that delivers the lisener both an 'event' and an open file descriptor
to the object in question. This means that fanotify is pathname agnostic.
Some on lkml may not care for the original companies or users that pushed for
TALPA, but fanotify was designed with flexibility and input for other users in
mind. The readahead group expressed interest in fanotify as it could be used
to profile disk access on boot without breaking the audit system. The desktop
search groups have also expressed interest in fanotify as it solves a number
of the race conditions and problems present with managing inotify when more
than a limited number of specific files are of interest. fanotify can provide
for a userspace access control system which makes it a clean interface for AV
vendors to hook without trying to do binary patching on the syscall table,
LSM, and everywhere else they do their things today. With this patch series
fanotify can be implemented in less than 1200 lines of easy to review code.
Almost all of which is the socket based user interface.This patch series builds fsnotify to the point that it can implement
dnotify and inotify_user. Patches exist and will be sent soon after
acceptance to finish the in kernel inotify conversion (audit) and implement
fanotify.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
Acked-by: Al Viro
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* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
block: add request clone interface (v2)
floppy: fix hibernation
ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
...Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
block/blk-sysfs.c
drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (266 commits)
sh: Tie sparseirq in to Kconfig.
sh: Wire up sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo.
sh: Fix sys_pwritev() syscall table entry for sh32.
sh: Fix sh4a llsc-based cmpxchg()
sh: sh7724: Add JPU support
sh: sh7724: INTC setting update
sh: sh7722 clock framework rewrite
sh: sh7366 clock framework rewrite
sh: sh7343 clock framework rewrite
sh: sh7724 clock framework rewrite V3
sh: sh7723 clock framework rewrite V2
sh: add enable()/disable()/set_rate() to div6 code
sh: add AP325RXA mode pin configuration
sh: add Migo-R mode pin configuration
sh: sh7722 mode pin definitions
sh: sh7724 mode pin comments
sh: sh7723 mode pin V2
sh: rework mode pin code
sh: clock div6 helper code
sh: clock div4 frequency table offset fix
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits)
KVM: Prevent overflow in largepages calculation
KVM: Disable large pages on misaligned memory slots
KVM: Add VT-x machine check support
KVM: VMX: Rename rmode.active to rmode.vm86_active
KVM: Move "exit due to NMI" handling into vmx_complete_interrupts()
KVM: Disable CR8 intercept if tpr patching is active
KVM: Do not migrate pending software interrupts.
KVM: inject NMI after IRET from a previous NMI, not before.
KVM: Always request IRQ/NMI window if an interrupt is pending
KVM: Do not re-execute INTn instruction.
KVM: skip_emulated_instruction() decode instruction if size is not known
KVM: Remove irq_pending bitmap
KVM: Do not allow interrupt injection from userspace if there is a pending event.
KVM: Unprotect a page if #PF happens during NMI injection.
KVM: s390: Verify memory in kvm run
KVM: s390: Sanity check on validity intercept
KVM: s390: Unlink vcpu on destroy - v2
KVM: s390: optimize float int lock: spin_lock_bh --> spin_lock
KVM: s390: use hrtimer for clock wakeup from idle - v2
KVM: s390: Fix memory slot versus run - v3
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (44 commits)
nommu: Provide mmap_min_addr definition.
TOMOYO: Add description of lists and structures.
TOMOYO: Remove unused field.
integrity: ima audit dentry_open failure
TOMOYO: Remove unused parameter.
security: use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security models
TOMOYO: Simplify policy reader.
TOMOYO: Remove redundant markers.
SELinux: define audit permissions for audit tree netlink messages
TOMOYO: Remove unused mutex.
tomoyo: avoid get+put of task_struct
smack: Remove redundant initialization.
integrity: nfsd imbalance bug fix
rootplug: Remove redundant initialization.
smack: do not beyond ARRAY_SIZE of data
integrity: move ima_counts_get
integrity: path_check update
IMA: Add __init notation to ima functions
IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policy
selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool
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* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (28 commits)
ide-tape: fix debug call
alim15x3: Remove historical hacks, re-enable init_hwif for PowerPC
ide-dma: don't reset request fields on dma_timeout_retry()
ide: drop rq->data handling from ide_map_sg()
ide-atapi: kill unused fields and callbacks
ide-tape: simplify read/write functions
ide-tape: use byte size instead of sectors on rw issue functions
ide-tape: unify r/w init paths
ide-tape: kill idetape_bh
ide-tape: use standard data transfer mechanism
ide-tape: use single continuous buffer
ide-atapi,tape,floppy: allow ->pc_callback() to change rq->data_len
ide-tape,floppy: fix failed command completion after request sense
ide-pm: don't abuse rq->data
ide-cd,atapi: use bio for internal commands
ide-atapi: convert ide-{floppy,tape} to using preallocated sense buffer
ide-cd: convert to using generic sense request
ide: add helpers for preparing sense requests
ide-cd: don't abuse rq->buffer
ide-atapi: don't abuse rq->buffer
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Now that we set up the slab allocator earlier, we can get rid of some
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() calls in boot code.Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu
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There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but
they are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them. For more
information on false positives, see Documentation/kmemleak.txt.Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
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This patch adds the callbacks to kmemleak_(alloc|free) functions from
the slab allocator. The patch also adds the SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE flag to
avoid recursive calls to kmemleak when it allocates its own data
structures.Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
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This patch adds the base support for the kernel memory leak
detector. It traces the memory allocation/freeing in a way similar to
the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that
the unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
overhead to memory allocations.Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney
11 Jun, 2009
2 commits
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* serial-from-alan: (79 commits)
moxa: prevent opening unavailable ports
imx: serial: use tty_encode_baud_rate to set true rate
imx: serial: add IrDA support to serial driver
imx: serial: use rational library function
lib: isolate rational fractions helper function
imx: serial: handle initialisation failure correctly
imx: serial: be sure to stop xmit upon shutdown
imx: serial: notify higher layers in case xmit IRQ was not called
imx: serial: fix one bit field type
imx: serial: fix whitespaces (no changes in functionality)
tty: use prepare/finish_wait
tty: remove sleep_on
sierra: driver interface blacklisting
sierra: driver urb handling improvements
tty: resolve some sierra breakage
timbuart: Fix the termios logic
serial: Added Timberdale UART driver
tty: Add URL for ttydev queue
devpts: unregister the file system on error
tty: Untangle termios and mm mutex dependencies
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
arch/x86/mm/fault.c
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/exit.c
