04 Jan, 2012

4 commits


02 Nov, 2011

2 commits


21 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Josef Bacik
     

28 May, 2011

1 commit


26 May, 2011

2 commits


25 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • * '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}

    Linus Torvalds
     

17 Mar, 2011

1 commit


10 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • 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

    Jens Axboe
     

13 Jan, 2011

1 commit


07 Jan, 2011

7 commits

  • dcache_inode_lock can be replaced with per-inode locking. Use existing
    inode->i_lock for this. This is slightly non-trivial because we sometimes
    need to find the inode from the dentry, which requires d_inode to be
    stabilised (either with refcount or d_lock).

    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
     
  • Add a new lock, dcache_inode_lock, to protect the inode's i_dentry list
    from concurrent modification. d_alias is also protected by d_lock.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     
  • Change d_hash so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. See similar
    patch for d_compare for details.

    For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     
  • Change d_compare so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. This
    does put significant restrictions on what may be done from the callback,
    however there don't seem to have been any problems with in-tree fses.
    If some strange use case pops up that _really_ cannot cope with the
    rcu-walk rules, we can just add new rcu-unaware callbacks, which would
    cause name lookup to drop out of rcu-walk mode.

    For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

    Nick Piggin
     

29 Oct, 2010

1 commit


26 Oct, 2010

2 commits


23 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • * 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl: (30 commits)
    BKL: remove BKL from freevxfs
    BKL: remove BKL from qnx4
    autofs4: Only declare function when CONFIG_COMPAT is defined
    autofs: Only declare function when CONFIG_COMPAT is defined
    ncpfs: Lock socket in ncpfs while setting its callbacks
    fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal
    BKL: Remove BKL from ncpfs
    BKL: Remove BKL from OCFS2
    BKL: Remove BKL from squashfs
    BKL: Remove BKL from jffs2
    BKL: Remove BKL from ecryptfs
    BKL: Remove BKL from afs
    BKL: Remove BKL from USB gadgetfs
    BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4
    BKL: Remove BKL from isofs
    BKL: Remove BKL from fat
    BKL: Remove BKL from ext2 filesystem
    BKL: Remove BKL from do_new_mount()
    BKL: Remove BKL from cgroup
    BKL: Remove BKL from NTFS
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

12 Oct, 2010

1 commit


05 Oct, 2010

2 commits

  • The BKL is only used in put_super, fill_super and remount_fs that are all
    three protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is
    safe to remove the BKL entirely.

    Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

    Jan Blunck
     
  • This patch is a preparation necessary to remove the BKL from do_new_mount().
    It explicitly adds calls to lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around
    get_sb/fill_super operations for filesystems that still uses the BKL.

    I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside
    do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL
    any more.

    do_kern_mount() is already called without the BKL when mounting the rootfs
    and in nfsctl. do_kern_mount() calls vfs_kern_mount(), which is called
    from various places without BKL: simple_pin_fs(), nfs_do_clone_mount()
    through nfs_follow_mountpoint(), afs_mntpt_do_automount() through
    afs_mntpt_follow_link(). Both later functions are actually the filesystems
    follow_link inode operation. vfs_kern_mount() is calling the specified
    get_sb function and lets the filesystem do its job by calling the given
    fill_super function.

    Therefore I think it is safe to push down the BKL from the VFS to the
    low-level filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation.

    [arnd: do not add the BKL to those file systems that already
    don't use it elsewhere]

    Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig

    Jan Blunck
     

10 Aug, 2010

5 commits

  • AFFS does not ever wait for superblock synchronization in
    ->put_super(), ->write_super, and ->sync_fs().

    However, it should wait for synchronization in ->put_super() because
    it is about to be unmounted, in ->write_super() because this is
    periodic SB synchronization performed from a separate kernel thread,
    and in ->sync_fs() it should respect the 'wait' flag. This patch fixes
    the situation.

    Also, in ->put_super(), do not write the SB if it is not dirty.

    Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy
    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Artem Bityutskiy
     
  • In 'affs_write_super()': remove ancient and wrong commented code,
    remove unneeded 'clean' variable, so the function becomes a bit
    cleaner and simpler.

    In 'affs_remount(): remove unnecessary SB dirty flag changes.

    Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy
    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Artem Bityutskiy
     
  • Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro
     
  • Replace inode_setattr with opencoded variants of it in all callers. This
    moves the remaining call to vmtruncate into the filesystem methods where it
    can be replaced with the proper truncate sequence.

    In a few cases it was obvious that we would never end up calling vmtruncate
    so it was left out in the opencoded variant:

    spufs: explicitly checks for ATTR_SIZE earlier
    btrfs,hugetlbfs,logfs,dlmfs: explicitly clears ATTR_SIZE earlier
    ufs: contains an opencoded simple_seattr + truncate that sets the filesize just above

    In addition to that ncpfs called inode_setattr with handcrafted iattrs,
    which allowed to trim down the opencoded variant.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Christoph Hellwig
     
  • Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
    in preparation of the new truncate sequence and rename the non-truncating
    version to cont_write_begin.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Christoph Hellwig
     

28 May, 2010

2 commits

  • Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Christoph Hellwig
     
  • Use ERR_CAST(x) rather than ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x)). The former makes more
    clear what is the purpose of the operation, which otherwise looks like a
    no-op.

    The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
    (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

    //
    @@
    type T;
    T x;
    identifier f;
    @@

    T f (...) { }

    @@
    expression x;
    @@

    - ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
    + ERR_CAST(x)
    //

    Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Julia Lawall
     

30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

08 Mar, 2010

1 commit


06 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
    is happening. Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
    and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to
    distinguish between the different callers in more detail.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Christoph Hellwig
     

09 Feb, 2010

1 commit

  • In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
    'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
    'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.

    Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack
    Cc: Joe Perches
    Cc: Junio C Hamano
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    Daniel Mack
     

27 Jan, 2010

1 commit

  • Error handling in that sucker got broken back in 2003. If function
    returns 0 on failure, it's not nice to add return -EINVAL into it.
    Adding return 1 on other failure exits is also not a good thing (and
    yes, original success exits with 1 and some of failure exits with 0
    are still there; so's the original logics in callers).

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro