04 Jan, 2012
4 commits
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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 methodSigned-off-by: Al Viro
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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
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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
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
02 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
21 Jul, 2011
2 commits
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Fix silly characters in a comment in AFS code (some weird characters replaced
the word 'flag' some point way back).Reported-by: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: David Howells
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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
20 Jul, 2011
3 commits
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not used by the instances anymore.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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redundant; all callers get it duplicated in mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK and none of
them removes that bit.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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its value depends only on inode and does not change; we might as
well store it in ->i_op->check_acl and be done with that.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
16 Jun, 2011
3 commits
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Store the AFS vnode uniquifier in the i_generation field, not the i_version
field of the inode struct. i_version can then be given the AFS data version
number.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Set s_id in the superblock to the name of the AFS volume that this superblock
corresponds to.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
afs_fill_page should read the page that is about to be written but
the current implementation has a number of issues. If we aren't
extending the file we always read PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at offset 0. If we
are extending the file we try to read the entire file.Change afs_fill_page to read PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at the right offset,
clamped to i_size.While here, avoid calling afs_fill_page when we are doing a
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE write.Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
13 Jun, 2011
1 commit
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* set ->s_fs_info in set() callback passed to sget()
* allocate the thing and set it up enough for afs_test_super() before
making it visible
* have it freed in ->kill_sb() (current tree simply leaks it)
* have ->put_super() leave ->s_fs_info->volume alone; it's too early for
dropping it; do that from ->kill_sb() after having called kill_anon_super().Signed-off-by: Al Viro
28 May, 2011
1 commit
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afs has no problems with references to unlinked directories.
CC: David Howells
CC: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
26 May, 2011
2 commits
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Only a few file systems need this. Start by pushing it down into each
rename method (except gfs2 and xfs) so that it can be dealt with on a
per-fs basis.Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Only a few file systems need this. Start by pushing it down into each
fs rmdir method (except gfs2 and xfs) so it can be dealt with on a per-fs
basis.This does not change behavior for any in-tree file systems.
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
31 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi
26 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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I'm seeing the following oops when testing afs:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000008
...
NIP [c0000000003393b0] .afs_unlink_writeback+0x38/0xc0
LR [c00000000033987c] .afs_put_writeback+0x98/0xec
Call Trace:
[c00000000345f600] [c00000000033987c] .afs_put_writeback+0x98/0xec
[c00000000345f690] [c00000000033ae80] .afs_write_begin+0x6a4/0x75c
[c00000000345f790] [c00000000012b77c] .generic_file_buffered_write+0x148/0x320
[c00000000345f8d0] [c00000000012e1b8] .__generic_file_aio_write+0x37c/0x3e4
[c00000000345f9d0] [c00000000012e2a8] .generic_file_aio_write+0x88/0xfc
[c00000000345fa90] [c0000000003390a8] .afs_file_write+0x10c/0x178
[c00000000345fb40] [c000000000188788] .do_sync_write+0xc4/0x128
[c00000000345fcc0] [c000000000189658] .vfs_write+0xe8/0x1d8
[c00000000345fd70] [c000000000189884] .SyS_write+0x68/0xb0
[c00000000345fe30] [c000000000008564] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40afs_write_begin hits an error and calls afs_unlink_writeback. In there
we do list_del_init on an uninitialised list.The patch below initialises ->link when creating the afs_writeback struct.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Jan, 2011
3 commits
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Unexport do_add_mount() and make ->d_automount() return the vfsmount to be
added rather than calling do_add_mount() itself. follow_automount() will then
do the addition.This slightly complicates things as ->d_automount() normally wants to add the
new vfsmount to an expiration list and start an expiration timer. The problem
with that is that the vfsmount will be deleted if it has a refcount of 1 and
the timer will not repeat if the expiration list is empty.To this end, we require the vfsmount to be returned from d_automount() with a
refcount of (at least) 2. One of these refs will be dropped unconditionally.
In addition, follow_automount() must get a 3rd ref around the call to
do_add_mount() lest it eat a ref and return an error, leaving the mount we
have open to being expired as we would otherwise have only 1 ref on it.d_automount() should also add the the vfsmount to the expiration list (by
calling mnt_set_expiry()) and start the expiration timer before returning, if
this mechanism is to be used. The vfsmount will be unlinked from the
expiration list by follow_automount() if do_add_mount() fails.This patch also fixes the call to do_add_mount() for AFS to propagate the mount
flags from the parent vfsmount.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Make AFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
follow_link() on directories.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Add a dentry op (d_manage) to permit a filesystem to hold a process and make it
sleep when it tries to transit away from one of that filesystem's directories
during a pathwalk. The operation is keyed off a new dentry flag
(DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT).The filesystem is allowed to be selective about which processes it holds and
which it permits to continue on or prohibits from transiting from each flagged
directory. This will allow autofs to hold up client processes whilst letting
its userspace daemon through to maintain the directory or the stuff behind it
or mounted upon it.The ->d_manage() dentry operation:
int (*d_manage)(struct path *path, bool mounting_here);
takes a pointer to the directory about to be transited away from and a flag
indicating whether the transit is undertaken by do_add_mount() or
do_move_mount() skipping through a pile of filesystems mounted on a mountpoint.It should return 0 if successful and to let the process continue on its way;
-EISDIR to prohibit the caller from skipping to overmounted filesystems or
automounting, and to use this directory; or some other error code to return to
the user.->d_manage() is called with namespace_sem writelocked if mounting_here is true
and no other locks held, so it may sleep. However, if mounting_here is true,
it may not initiate or wait for a mount or unmount upon the parameter
directory, even if the act is actually performed by userspace.Within fs/namei.c, follow_managed() is extended to check with d_manage() first
on each managed directory, before transiting away from it or attempting to
automount upon it.follow_down() is renamed follow_down_one() and should only be used where the
filesystem deliberately intends to avoid management steps (e.g. autofs).A new follow_down() is added that incorporates the loop done by all other
callers of follow_down() (do_add/move_mount(), autofs and NFSD; whilst AFS, NFS
and CIFS do use it, their use is removed by converting them to use
d_automount()). The new follow_down() calls d_manage() as appropriate. It
also takes an extra parameter to indicate if it is being called from mount code
(with namespace_sem writelocked) which it passes to d_manage(). follow_down()
ignores automount points so that it can be used to mount on them.__follow_mount_rcu() is made to abort rcu-walk mode if it hits a directory with
DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT set on the basis that we're probably going to have to
sleep. It would be possible to enter d_manage() in rcu-walk mode too, and have
that determine whether to abort or not itself. That would allow the autofs
daemon to continue on in rcu-walk mode.Note that DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT on a directory should be cleared when it isn't
required as every tranist from that directory will cause d_manage() to be
invoked. It can always be set again when necessary.==========================
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR AUTOFS
==========================Autofs currently uses the lookup() inode op and the d_revalidate() dentry op to
trigger the automounting of indirect mounts, and both of these can be called
with i_mutex held.autofs knows that the i_mutex will be held by the caller in lookup(), and so
can drop it before invoking the daemon - but this isn't so for d_revalidate(),
since the lock is only held on _some_ of the code paths that call it. This
means that autofs can't risk dropping i_mutex from its d_revalidate() function
before it calls the daemon.The bug could manifest itself as, for example, a process that's trying to
validate an automount dentry that gets made to wait because that dentry is
expired and needs cleaning up:mkdir S ffffffff8014e05a 0 32580 24956
Call Trace:
[] :autofs4:autofs4_wait+0x674/0x897
[] avc_has_perm+0x46/0x58
[] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[] :autofs4:autofs4_expire_wait+0x41/0x6b
[] :autofs4:autofs4_revalidate+0x91/0x149
[] __lookup_hash+0xa0/0x12f
[] lookup_create+0x46/0x80
[] sys_mkdirat+0x56/0xe4versus the automount daemon which wants to remove that dentry, but can't
because the normal process is holding the i_mutex lock:automount D ffffffff8014e05a 0 32581 1 32561
Call Trace:
[] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x60/0x9b
[] do_path_lookup+0x2ca/0x2f1
[] .text.lock.mutex+0xf/0x14
[] do_rmdir+0x77/0xde
[] tracesys+0x71/0xe0
[] tracesys+0xd5/0xe0which means that the system is deadlocked.
This patch allows autofs to hold up normal processes whilst the daemon goes
ahead and does things to the dentry tree behind the automouter point without
risking a deadlock as almost no locks are held in d_manage() and none in
d_automount().Signed-off-by: David Howells
Was-Acked-by: Ian Kent
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
15 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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flush_scheduled_work() is going away. afs needs to make sure all the
works it has queued have finished before being unloaded and there can
be arbitrary number of pending works. Add afs_wq and use it as the
flush domain instead of the system workqueue.Also, convert cancel_delayed_work() + flush_scheduled_work() to
cancel_delayed_work_sync() in afs_mntpt_kill_timer().Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
07 Jan, 2011
5 commits
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Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
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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
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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
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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
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Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching
advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent,
and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback
anyway.This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning
much simpler.Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
29 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
27 Oct, 2010
2 commits
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
split invalidate_inodes()
fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
fsnotify: use dget_parent
smbfs: use dget_parent
exportfs: use dget_parent
fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
fs: clean up dentry lru modification
fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
fs: simplify __d_free
fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
new helper: ihold()
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This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efef
(writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks). There are
no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the
ext4 tracing interface.The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the
flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on
IO congestion. The latter will lead to more seeky IO.The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's
redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check.We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because
a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code
b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior:
that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which
is unfair in terms of LRU age.Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Theodore Ts'o
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Sage Weil
Cc: Steve French
Cc: Chris Mason
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
23 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
vfs: make no_llseek the default
vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
lirc: make chardev nonseekable
viotape: use noop_llseek
raw: use explicit llseek file operations
ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
spufs: use llseek in all file operations
arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
drm: use noop_llseek
15 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{}
@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{}
@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{}
@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{}
@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Julia Lawall
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
05 Oct, 2010
3 commits
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This prepares the removal of the big kernel lock from the
file locking code. We still use the BKL as long as fs/lockd
uses it and ceph might sleep, but we can flip the definition
to a private spinlock as soon as that's done.
All users outside of fs/lockd get converted to use
lock_flocks() instead of lock_kernel() where appropriate.Based on an earlier patch to use a spinlock from Matthew
Wilcox, who has attempted this a few times before, the
earliest patch from over 10 years ago turned it into
a semaphore, which ended up being slower than the BKL
and was subsequently reverted.Someone should do some serious performance testing when
this becomes a spinlock, since this has caused problems
before. Using a spinlock should be at least as good
as the BKL in theory, but who knows...Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Miklos Szeredi
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: John Kacur
Cc: Sage Weil
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org -
The BKL is only used in put_super and fill_super, which are both protected
by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove
the BKL entirely.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: David Howells -
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
14 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
[NFS] Set CONFIG_KEYS when CONFIG_NFS_USE_KERNEL_DNS is set
AFS: Implement an autocell mount capability [ver #2]
DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached [ver #2]
NFS: Use kernel DNS resolver [ver #2]
cifs: update README to include details about 'fsc' option
13 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc
format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds